Back.... After 6 months..

Hello everyone...
My name.. Is Darth Lasings Clone, I have a story to tell.
I thought, I quit Guild Wars. I quit it right before Nightfall came out. The reason?




Prepare for it



I quit it for WoW. Yes, I did, and I never thought I would.
In this game, I was very successful.
Darth Lasings Clone 20 W/X 15k Luxon, had almost all builds warriors could use.
Decius Painkiller 20 Mo/X Healing PvE,
Arathorn of Elonia R/X 15k Druids Barrage/Pet, Interrupt
Emo Hellspawn N/X 15k Luxon SS/MM/Blood
I forgot many of the builds I had. But yes, to me, I had alot of things in this game.
Why'd I quit?
The game itself felt so boring at the time, and a new $60 expansion collectors set didn't feel like it deserved it. What other choice but to simply quit the game? And that was the only choice, I bought WoW, pre ordered BC. Why WoW? Large community, many of my RL friends play it, and many of the reviews I've seen of it said it was great. But believe me, it was hard to quit. I literally lied to my guildes so I could play. I told many of my close friends I've gained in Guild Wars the same lie.
Time passed on, and WoW well.
For the time being was simply a great experience leveling a UD rogue to 40 for the time being. But by that time, it got boring and boring. I made many friends, and played on a PvP server to try to keep the fun up raiding starting areas. So time passed on and then..
BC came out, and as the others, I was greatly disappointed with the expansion, as other reviewers. The only way you could have fun with it is if you're 58. I leveled to 58, and when I finally was able to hit outlands.
The same repetitive quest happened. I just couldn't take it. Still nothing could take me back to guild wars...

Until,

"GUILD WARS 2". I saw the PC Gamer magazine and swiped off the shelf. Bought it and read the whole article within 10 minutes.
So now I just bought Nightfall, and about to log in. I learned a lesson though, and many differences between the games. I now respect WoW, and will never bad mouth it again.
Though..
Guild Wars
- No overpowered class
- Greater PvP system
- Graphics engine is mind blowing
- Short term debuffs and fast attacks will make small battles look huge
- In depth, more and more skills to come.
- Economy can be turned into a "little depression" depending on runes for builds
- Nerfing classes can destroy loved builds
- PvE can get way too repetitive.
- Getting into and winning in high end PvP = bad community, and to reliant on exact builds and items

World of Warcraft
- Huge lore, basically a universe.
- Dozens of quest, very in depth.
- Economy is very balanced
- PvP IS THE SHIT, but not that great of a system
- GM's (Game Masters) can easily ban you for no reason what so ever, or just by saying a joke.
- Turned into a huge addiction.
WoW player = zOMG can't wait to play WoW tonight
Guild Wars player = I don't know, 300 or Borat?
Guild wars players don't talk about it.
- PvE and PvP can get, way, way, way too repetitive.
- Professions leveling requires to much time.
- Gaining money for "mounts" again requires to much time.
- Hard to level for casual players.
Hands down
Guild Wars will stay a CORPG or a "MMORPG for the rest of us"
World of Warcraft will stay a classic style MMORPG
If this doesn't belong on this forum, I apologize. But I learned I missed so many events, and nerfs . If you could ever inform me on events, please whisper any of my characters.
It may not be a sad story, but I just wanted to know a few people I was back.
I know many who read ^^.

I have come and gone, tried several of them over the years and in the end I think GW and hopefully GW2 has something over all the rest. The variety in how I can play and that using the right tactics and skills>grinding xp to get to the tougher areas.
I just hope GW2 doesn't focus on grinding xp to level up to get to new areas, but on experimentation and exploration.
I still play EQ2 and WoW to this day, but it's not as often as I play GW. I just love making builds and using them. It really doesn't matter where and why, it's just experimenting with and exploring the skills.

WoW may have a more interesting PvE but fails miserably in PvP. It's system is extremely unpractical.

For example, in a 1vs1 match, you basically have two guys running in circles, attacking at the same time, with no penalty for it. You hit exactly the same if you attack while running. It's frustrating and, the worst of it, it's irritating. Like you're trying to run behind your opponent to back stab him, and the guy is running and jumping around you like a drunken bee while hitting, and, wins the match, simply because you get confused with how unrealistic that erratic movement looks. If you're looking for a good looking fight, forget it. You have to surrender to what it really is, and start using the "erratic movement" strategy while PvPing if you want to win something.

Some classes are so, stupidly overpowered while others are weak as hell. Shaman/Hunter anyone? If you manage to win a Shaman or a Hunter with any other class, your opponent was either a noob, or you were lucky. A Hunter will simply send his (overpowered too) pet after you, and keep shooting with his shotgun, WHILE walking backwards. Until you get near him, you are dead. Warrior vs Hunter? It's a match to laugh about.

The ONLY thing I like about WoW, are the Battlegrounds. Imagine having, in Guild Wars, GvG with 20 vs 20 people or even 40 vs 40.

And, of course, raiding an enemy town is always fun. It's not worth what they ask for it though.

Dont forget Guild Wars is MUCH more expansive and the enemy's come in pairs most of the time.Not ones.

Welcome back
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The only other MMORPG Ive tried is Everquest 1 and 2... though I'd love to see what all the fuss is with WoW, but from what I've seen of it to me IMO Guild Wars just looks so much prettier. And pretty wins ;D


Welcome back ^^

Welcome back.

I actually got WoW for christmas, and 2 of those Prepaid cards......played for a few weeks....but ultimatly the difference in the games was too much to handle.

^ Has never played WoW...or hasnt played past lvl 10

Both WoW and GW are great games...and yes they both get old just like any other game

The most awesome fight in Everquest 2 I had was against another cleric, inquisitor vs. inquisitor.
Lasted so long we both said 'enough!' and quit.
It last for more than 30 minutes. A 1 on 1 fight.

I played guild wars for about a year and quit for warcraft.
Warcraft lasted about 3 weeks and a lvl 22, it SUCKS balls.
totally wasted SO much money....

the thing about wow is that.....the quests are all the same
kill 5 spiders
find 8 berries under the trees
kill 10 birds
new area~
kill 10 bigger spiders than the previous area

...repeat for 70 lvls

so in my opinion guild wars > wow

I still dislike "you know who" and its repetitiveness; Blizzard had the option to take up the offer of a free streaming server system and said “nah, we want to be lazy.” Ever since then Blizzard has yet to make another decent game that has not gone into development hell. GW still works fine with me.

Welcome to WoW, the Prequel...

I just cancelled my account from WoW after thinking it was the end all be all game. I did just get bored of it. The reality was that I knew so many of the quests were boring (kill 10 spiders, etc.) but it didn't matter because I was becoming more powerful. Well, I got to level 70 as a warlock, got geared up as much as I could without raiding (don't have the time) and thought, "What now?" I quickly got bored with battlegrounds and was sick of paying 15 bucks every month, so I quit.

Long and short of it - I love rpg's and read about guild wars. Honestly, so far, this game seems much better than WoW. Graphically, Guild Wars pisses all over WoW. Trees and grass that actually move, what a concept? I realize that Guild Wars came out after WoW, but I honestly don't see why WoW became as popular as it did. There is always someone in a group of people I meet that plays WoW.

What do I like better about GW so far?

1. No frickin' flight paths. I mean, really, what's the point? I know I need to get from one town to the next. It's instant with GW. No more 5 minute Gryphon flights.
2. When I leave town, I have the countryside all to myself. No more times where I see other people are trying to complete a kill quest so I have to wait 10 minutes for the buggers to respawn.
3. Graphics are way better - much more organic-like. Such a nice change.
I'm sure there's more, but w/e.

I don't like how long it takes to decompress files before getting into a new area. Once it's decompressed it's instant the next time, but holy crap it fragments the game sometimes.

WoW = mundane and a waste of money

GW= Build wars and mundane pve that has no replay value except to get new characters new armor and skills.

On the flipside.

WoW= highly complex RPG based system with a larger, more interactive world.

GW= Very strong PvP system with a different approach to PvE that can be exciting the first time through each area. Unique classes such as the dervish and mesmer make for interesting concept builds.

Well for me...everytime I get down on GW because of boredom I try other RPG's or new MMO's ....problem is that they never seem to be as good as GW so I always come back.

Last ones I tried:

Neverwinter nights 2
Last Chaos
Lord of the Rings Online
Archlord

Graphics are sucky and the controls tend to be more cumbersome and the gameplay is slower.
Archlord was probably the most playable...but I could hardly play it because the camera would either zoom in completely or zoom out completely so you could rarely see where you where goin...

So for variation I still grab back to Diablo 2 and Neverwinter Nights 1

It is kinda sad that new games seem to fail miserably, in my eyes at least.

OR

1) from a roleplaying aspect (if you play on an RP server and are a die-hard rp'er), it's more about immersion. You don't just 'warp' to another place like Mario, unless you're a mage or are summoned.
2) You don't meet new people as much adventuring or have some nice fellow come along when you're getting your ass handed to you and help you out. I quite frequently help people I see having trouble as I'm going to the place I need to be. It depends on server/type though as I'm always playing on an RP server.
3) The first time I saw Orgrimmar and Stormwind after playing GW my jaw dropped. They are huge. The graphics may be cartoony, but it doesn't detract from their immense beauty. Also at 1920x1200 WoW gets a bit of a better framerate than GW.

Both have their merits. If you just look at the end results of any quest then you're going to get bored. What is interesting is finding out why so and so wants those spiders (or Wardens) dead and how he reacts afterwards.

Some people may be better off with a leveling first-person shooter than an RPG.

Besides, Oblivion beats them all where RPG graphics is concerned.

Here's a tip that I'm surprised most people don't know by now that will help you out greatly.

Create a Shortcut icon to GW. Right click it. Go to Properties. In the Shortcut Tab you'll see a bar called Target. Inside that bar it should say something along these lines: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe". Put a space after the quotation mark and type -image. So now it should look like this... "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -image.

The next time you run the game it will download all files that need to be downloaded. This way you'll never have to load at a town again. Be warned though, if you are pretty new and havn't downloaded much yet it can take quite a bit of time depending on your connection and how many Campeigns you have. Hours possibly. Hope that helps. Oh and remember that if you want to use that shortcut to load the game you must remove the -image tag or else it will just close. I suggest you use the -image command after every new build of Guild Wars.

I tried Diablo2, WoW, Lineage2 and GW.

I played daiblo2 before I knew of GW and it was an okay game.

Then I went over to Lineage 2 and it was way too slow for me. Slower grinding than wow :s

Then I went over to GW, first I found it kinda boring, but then I made it to LA and joined a new guild - with some cool people. After that I was in love with GW - and still is after nearly two years.

Sometimes I get tired and bored of GW, and one time it was so bad that I bought the biggest MMORPG ever - WoW !

The was a wast of my good money, after 1½ months with WoW I went back to GW. WoW was boring to me.

Didn't like WoW myself that much, only tried a 10 day free trial and it just felt like a NWN ripoff ala 3 towns style.

GW has one of the better MMORPG ideas IMO, limit people to focus on their build and not level or uber gear, but not resticting to get that expensive gear :P
And so now and then i'm playing Oblivion on the side it's a nice change.
Currently waiting for the GW expansion and gonna see how Soul of the ultimate nation, chronicles of spellborn and AOIN work out

Heh, imagine that... most people on a GW website prefer GW over WoW.

What disturbs me is the religious zeal of the Guildwars Playerbase. Both games have their strengthes and weaknesses, otherwise no one would play them. Yet every suggestion in the GW Community is bombarded with a constant volley of harsh Anti WoW comments.
Just mention WoW on a GW board and you're in for one hell of a ride. Why the hate? Both games are good in their own way, not like they're stealing players from each other as they cater to different things. And just because something is in WoW doesn't mean its the most rubbish thing ever to be implemented into a game. Despite, WoW most likely wasn't even the first game to have it.
Seriously, why the hate?