Guild Wars: Classic Mode

Getting bored ?
Starting to find Guild Wars a drag ?
Want a challenge ?

Well, recently I felt the same feelings. Yes, it has been like this for awhile, I understand. But, I discovered a new gameplay that can take your mind's off of whining on GWG about how dead this game is, or how ectos are going in price, and of course, the impending SF-nerf.

If you have the character slot and need a new profession to play try doing this: Playing prophecies. BUT!!! to make it more fun play it as it was before the other games out.

RULES

* You must buy your skills, no tomes, no elite tomes. Nothing.
* Any armor, weapon, etc you want to buy must come from the gold you get from your character.
* Try making it interesting, do not unlock your xunlai storage.
* Any drop you get you can use, as long it didn't come from anything out of Prophecies.
* No leaving prophecies until you complete it!
* You must not be ran to any other outpost/city/or mission. Play it through!

Anyways, in all seriousness, I have been trying this and it has gotten my mind off of whining or trolling. Also, it is quite a challenge, good for those who do enjoy such things. Also, to make it less lonely, try bringing your friend along, just do it to have fun and enjoy Guild Wars.

How about doing something fun instead? Like PvP, Factions, Nightfall, posting on Guru, or indeed, most anything else.

PvP is fun ? Since when ? Sorry I'm too busy raging at the stagnant meta to bother. Factions and Nightfall is drag. (Not to mention I rather not grind in NF.) I also rather play the game than complain about it on a forum. : >

Compared to Prophecies, they're all massive fun, full of excitement and happiness.

I would like to agree, sir. But unfortunately none of these can scale up to playing like this in prophecies (MAYBE playing Factions, but hell, that gets boring right after the third quest).

Self imposed restrictions have been around forever, nothing new, nothing exciting. Emphasis on "nothing exciting."

True, but how many players *actually* do it ?

I have to say I had actually thought about doing this

I think this is why pre-searing is so much fun. Most of those restrictions are already in place.

I'm actually in the process of doing this with a secondary account I happened upon, namely because I'm too lazy to deal with GWx2. I'm taking my time though, I haven't played it very far past pre.

Now if only I could use the skills I used back then.

You should just try making yourself blind and join Paralympic.

I heard it's fun and different.

i actually like prophecies the best of the campaigns.

Play through the campaign that I've played through to the umpteenth time, except this time, I gimp myself!

No thanks.

I did this and found it fun a while back.

Then I went to factions and started to get skills as if I just bought it and played through, Then NF, Then Gwen.

I still skipped the maguma jungle like I did in the past though also. I still hate that place. So beautiful, but the missions are meh.

Quoted for truth.

Also, if you're bored with gw and have to resort to playing the most dull, long tedious campaign to have something to do, you should probably just find another game to play.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/n...06#post5010406

I said this exact thing 2 days ago in this thread......

I'd absolutely love if there was a *separate server* running only Prophecies and would play that instead of normal GW. I'm sure many players who played since the beginning would also like that, including many who quit GW entirely.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/g...tml?t=10420183

If this takes off, having a prophecies only server wouldn't be too far off into fantasy thinking.

Prophecies is great for nostalgia, lousy for actual playing.

We remember "The good old days of Thunderhead Keep being insane, trying to PUG through Hell, getting excited over finding Fireball, that time Rurik bought the farm, the open areas of the desert," etc.

But we forget all the boring bits; the stagnant monsters that are all the same, the endless walking while fighting jungle critters or forest critters or swamp critters all of which have nothing to do with the mission we're fighting, the ridiculous bonus missions that contradict or run completely tangent to the mission, and the mobs of dull enemies composed of 100% the same class, which fail completely.

Which, I suppose, is what makes GW2 so exciting; all the magic of the original campaign, but with the lessons learned from all the years of game design.

I might try that challenge. Sounds challenging.

Buying everything is not so fun.