Curse

Scythe Co · Sep 01, 2011, 08:44 PM // 20:44

well compared to my guildies im still fairly new at like 1400 hours played. a few hundred was spent in pvp and i really enjoy messing around with builds on that. sure ive never made any of the 'meta' game builds but i have occasionally come across skills that could deal with various scenarios well.

with pve ive just worked thru all the storylines at my own pace, working on finishing off hm atm. done all the vanquishes which i really quite, particularly the couple that forced me to change the builds of my heros and test out new combinations. im also enjoying doing some dungeons

and with farming .... i actually ENJOY it. yes enjoy it, not just because it gets me money. sure thats the bonus at the end cos it can buy me some useful things, only 15 titles short of 50/50. until before this year i actually never farmed but i started off with my assassin learning to vaettir farm, then i taught my monk and my dervish. this now means i can change it up a bit. then i did a few feather farms, taught my dervish VoS in fowsc, now ive just got my monk ready to do UA, and ive created a necro to do MoP. I also still have to finish tyria carto and all the skill hunters.

still thoroughly enjoying the game =3

Man W/ Club · Sep 02, 2011, 12:22 AM // 00:22

17 hour HoH double fame weekend, some dude falls asleep on vent in the middle of a match.
Several hours later he wakes up and says ' guys i fell asleep'.

First time guild vs guild, I'm running E/Mo Ether renewal smiter. Run in, put up renewal, balth aura, and zealots, and spam divine boon.
Guildie then explains I'm supposed to use draw conditions on the warrior. Rofl.

First winning halls. Random ass pug (this is summer prophecies was released). We go in. I'm on a monk with arcane echo+healing hands and inspired hex. Our ghostly is capping altar, someone sticks lingering curse on it (back then it was insane). I inspired hax it off, stick it on their ghostly, and he goes down. First HoH win was the best imo.

Edge bomb variants. Man this was some crazy build-brewing. We came up with all kinds of ridiculous stuff. My 2 favorites were the Edge-bomb disguised as minion factory, and edge bomb disguised as IWAY. Basically you pretend your that build and then drop edge and blow them up out of nowhere. funnest shit ever

Oh and pve? yea pve gets boring i dont want to talk about it. Monsters are brainless neways, they dont think or feel or anything, how do you get gratification killing monsters?

mage767 · Sep 02, 2011, 07:42 AM // 07:42

These days, I trade most of the time, because I have loads of junk to sell.

I also chest-run in Factions for demonic shields, and other rare items. I mostly do this while watching a movie or something because even chest-running can get boring.

After 4 GWAMMs (Ele, Nec, War, Mes), I'm honestly too tired of GW. In the past, I was addicted to making optimal team bars for many areas of GW, but this too doesn't interest me anymore. Plus, I haven't seen any new out-of-the-box team builds in a while now.

Only in a blue-moon do I go for dungeons HM (like Frostmaw, Vloxen, SoO etc). I do with heroes or take friends if they are online. I rarely pug unless I feel mischievous (not to be confused with troll) which can sometimes be an interesting experience.

Chocobo1 · Sep 02, 2011, 07:44 AM // 07:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by sthpaw

yeh brohan!!
i thought u dont come on these forums anymore and playing Street Fighta lol.

This was my once every 3 months check. It's like fate <3.

I enjoyed this game by socializing. I played this game with just one guy from release up to about the 4th-5th year. Then I found my guild of bros and still talk to them even though Guild Wars is long gone <3. This is also why the thing I am most looking forward too is non-instanced areas. I want more interaction with people, games are no fun alone.

ruk1a · Sep 02, 2011, 10:25 AM // 10:25

I've only farmed a few times, the rest is PuGing or running with friends because for me this game isn't the same unless you are actually playing with other people. Pvp got me into the game but nowadays I do both pve and pvp simply for the HoM and I never thought I'd actually enjoy pve as much as I do. I've been playing 10% of the game for years and only recently starting last year did I even play pve beyond getting an assassin through all the campaigns.

I think this happened because when I first started gw it wasn't like any game I'd played before and I got slaughtered quite a few times during some missions and just said screw it made a pvp char and that was that. I LOVE gvg it is even still by far the best pvp format I've ever seen in ANY game.

Axes · Sep 02, 2011, 12:09 PM // 12:09

Hi

Nice posts.
Well so much I could say about Guildwars …hmmm. First off I love the game I have had tons of fun and made a lot of good online friends. The best part for myself is having fun within the community. I enjoyed pugs even if it failed, I always had a good laugh and made new friends. The mission/quests are not going anywhere so in the end if you had a laugh it was a success

. My motto in GW has always been "it’s a game have fun"

. I have my 50/50 HoM and now I just help out my allies/guild members/random players and play JQ for a laugh, to provide Z keys to my friends

. I have pretty much done everything there is to do in GW PVE/PVP. Some of my likes and highlights

-Following the storyline and the lore of GW. I would run a weekly ally event with guildwars lore questions for prizies for a laugh.
-Taking the time to helping other players learn the game
-Just messing around and having fun with team builds for laughs
-Minor role-playing for giggles in AB. It seemed to get a lot of laughs from both faction alliance teams

good fun haaa
-Running a FFF alliance of 900+ mbrs and taken HZH with good friends was fun but like a full time job lol
- Playing all the events my fav {Canthan New Year} Last 3 years I have sponsored a district for the whole event with some help from my NZ/Aussie friends in the late hours

Silly chef’s haaaa

So many things you could say about GW and the laughs it can generate but mostly I enjoyed the game by making friends, helping out other players and just playing the game for fun.
Cheers Axe

dudemonkey · Sep 02, 2011, 02:22 PM // 14:22

I'm a goal-oriented person, so I set my sights on something (like a cartographer title or elite armor) and then work towards it. The overall theme, if you will, is to improve my main warrior character.

As for how I enjoy the game, these days it's working on my norn title (because the norn are awesome), farming for Nick the traveller items, and hanging out at the Blade Radio parties. My wife has started getting into vanquishing, so I try to go along with her as often as I can.

Jk Arrow · Sep 06, 2011, 03:07 PM // 15:07

Started off several years ago as a wide eyed noob playing through Proph. I thought that Pre was the whole game...until I went to Post. Ended up playing through the whole campaign on my ranger.

Went out and bought NF, Fact, and Eotn pretty much at the same time. Played through those campaigns and started making new toons as well. Realized that any class can be fun to play.

Started doing more high end stuff, DoA, Fow, Dungeon running. Got into farming and realized it was pretty easy to earn money in this game.

HoM update came out and with little further effort got 50/50 and finished off GWAMM on my ranger.

Lately I have just been finishing some account based titles and trying out some PvP. Still enjoy some PvE but starting to feel like GW2 needs to be released to keep my attention. Mostly still playing to chat with friends and pass the time.

It's been a good 4 years and I wish I would have started sooner. Just couldn't pull myself away from D2 back in the day. :P

RedDog91 · Sep 06, 2011, 03:54 PM // 15:54

Games are meant to be enjoyed.
If you are not enjoying yourself, you are doing something wrong.

^ All you need to know about MMOs (and games in general)

Mireles · Sep 07, 2011, 05:46 PM // 17:46

Game is great in design, but it is really the friends that keep the game alive... been playing since the first pre-order beta and had the requirements for 50/50 long before HoM rewards release... what keeps me playing is the friends i have and the interesting people i meet on a daily basis... because anyone that has been playing as long as i have knows this game is pretty dry compaired to the rain of support it used to get.

RTSFirebat · Sep 07, 2011, 09:23 PM // 21:23

The glory days of when everyone was new and had no idea what they were doing are long gone, but I still enjoy the lore and storyline missions and quests leading up to GW2.

Ayuhmii Shanbwa · Sep 11, 2011, 11:55 AM // 11:55

i kinda quit GW some time ago, but when i played, the most enjoyable thing i had was that a few people who didnt leave GW just yet, could help me sometimes with stuff

i think i explained about my handicaps, (being slow in short) so i could use the help

then i was done with nearly all tyria (proph and eotn) titles, so i was happy to leave the game, then the only friend who really plays these days, wanted to help me with DoA (without me asking), so why not, and we did it a few days ago, so i'm playing other games again

maybe i will try more explore in tyria, and very maybe UW will be done once
so the only thing i really enjoyed were the few friends i had in my GW times who could help and join me

so yea, bit of a story eh, just going further with life, but sometimes i return when i wanna do something again (yay for no fees)

TheRakeman · Sep 12, 2011, 11:18 PM // 23:18

Grinding is really sad, IMO. Real life is enough of a grind, why would anybody want to work for fun? If you like work so much, why not just get a second job and earn real money that earns you things in the real world? A lot of people claim to "enjoy" grinding, but what it comes down to is, you don't see ANYBODY claim to "enjoy" grinding in a game without actual rewards for doing so. You could easily crank up an RTS and grind against level 1 CPU's all day, but nobody does that. You don't get anything for doing that.

If you spend 1,000 hours grinding on Guild Wars, you could have made between 8 and 9 thousand dollars working instead- for minimum wage. Do you really consider the rewards from your grinding worth 8 thousand dollars?

bj91x · Sep 13, 2011, 12:18 AM // 00:18

I don't farm or grind. I like to create builds and just play the game casually doing what I feel like doing, though I do like to try out some hard stuff every once in a while.

During Prophecies, I didn't enjoy this game much. I'd give it a 5 when playing alone and 6 when playing with players. GW doesn't become fun until I'm max level and have all attribute points so I can start creating builds. With limited skills and few max lvl areas, Prophecies wasn't the most fun for me. The only reason I kept playing was because I joined an awesome guild where we played together like a close group of online family.

After i got Factions, the game took off for me. I'd say it went up to 7 alone and 8 when co-oping for me. With more skills and more max lvl areas, I started to really enjoy the game. The only bad thing was that shortly after Factions came out, our guild started to die and it was harder to play with players. I spent more time making due with boring henchies who aren't as fun to play with as real players.

When heroes were introduced for NF, I got so excited. Now, playing alone while waiting for my friends to come online won't be so boring! Unfortunately... NF only allwed 3 heroes. The game went up to about 7.5 solo. Playing with 3 heroes was still almost as boring as playing with just henchies. On the plus side, having 3 heroes really made playing with friends more fun. We were able to do elite areas like UW and FoW we could never do back then since we couldn't get a full group. We also had a blast doing missions together and filling additional spots with heroes. When co-oping, the game became like 9.5. Heroes made this game awesome for co-oping.

EotN didn't change anything. Actually, it did change. By this time, the game got old and many of my friends stopped playing. I spent much more time waiting for my friends to come online than actually playing. By this time, playing alone with h/h was so boring that I stopped playing.

I came back around the time 7 heroes were introduced. Now, playing alone is about 9. Unfortunately, majority of my friends don't play GW any more so I spend majority of my time playing alone or with PUG. However, I'm still enjoying this game. I tried WoW during my downtime in GW but honestly, WoW can't touch GW. Especially since 4.0, WoW's spec got too simplified. There's not much room for creativity in WoW any more and it got old playing the same rotation for hours and hours and hours and hours...

I came back to GW and even after 6 years, I'm still creating new builds and having a blast.

Turkey Baster · Sep 18, 2011, 04:29 AM // 04:29

It was the only game of it's kind, less than true now. Up until Eye of The North, the grind was limited.

KingCrab · Sep 18, 2011, 05:25 AM // 05:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by MithranArkanere

Playing normally and buying the stuff from the Traders, you can get the Obisidan armor in one month without having to farm anything. Just questing and adventuring.
.

Obsidian is one of the cheaper ones needed, especially compared to the cost of drunkard titles, sweets, wisdom, etc. Hats off to you if you really did make enough slowly to churn the costly ones out.

MithranArkanere · Sep 18, 2011, 02:36 PM // 14:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by KingCrab

Obsidian is one of the cheaper ones needed, especially compared to the cost of drunkard titles, sweets, wisdom, etc. Hats off to you if you really did make enough slowly to churn the costly ones out.

I did the drunkard one after the update.
I always refused to make that title beause I beleived that it was really annoying and it should be changed. So I just kept saving the stuff in storage over 4 years.

By the time they finally made the change, I had more than enough to get it.

If they never made the change, I would not have it, and I would still be missing it.

chuckles79 · Sep 19, 2011, 11:51 PM // 23:51

I've found that those who do really well in PvE, are the people who are immune to grindage. The people who can farm the same spots 50x in a row, the same way, the same toon, etc.

The people who are insanely rich, those that farmed UW for years, and farmed armbraces, and so on.

So help me, I pray that GW2 is about character progression over killing rats for a year straight.

Mireles · Sep 20, 2011, 03:02 PM // 15:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by chuckles79

I've found that those who do really well in PvE, are the people who are immune to grindage. The people who can farm the same spots 50x in a row, the same way, the same toon, etc.

The people who are insanely rich, those that farmed UW for years, and farmed armbraces, and so on.

So help me, I pray that GW2 is about character progression over killing rats for a year straight.

You don't have to farm to be insanly rich... the last time i farmed with a 55 monk was before nightmares were added to underworld years ago.. farming is for peasants.... power trading is where its at...

Piippo · Sep 21, 2011, 04:23 PM // 16:23

Always took a slow pace, exploring every area, talking to the NPCs, doing sidequests or just enjoying the scenery. And I did have an awesome time doing it. Savouring the experience. I've always been mainly a PvE player. Never really been intrested (save from occasional JQ or RA games) or particularly good at PvP. To me, PvE=the game.

EotN I played through quite hastily, though. Don't know what changed, maybe I was just getting slightly bored at the game after all the years. Now, I have 23/50 in my HoM. I have done some Vaettirfarming to buy Armors to fill the HoM with, but that's about all the farming I've ever done.