Guild Wars

Maybe its just me but im starting to notice that this game dies. Not only graphics become aged (only Eotn is nice but they should've updated the whole game), if you play prophercie or factions there are almost no people to group up with and to do some missions or quest like in the 'good old days'.  The whole game is about grinding for gold last year(s) because everyone has full lvl 20's and want to get the best of the equipment. People that don't play over 2 hours a day had a nice game with guild wars the first 2 years but not anymore.....Maybe it was a mistake to make 3 diffrent campians which has split the people over all continents. If you need missions like 'The wilds' or so there aren't any people to make a party and have fun (if there are they only play HM). Currently I have 8 lvl 20's and stopped playing cause I don't see the fun of creating a new char since there aren't any players to play with and i want to get rit of a game thats all about grinding now....Even PvP becomes boring cause everyone has the same build and HA is only fun if you're high rank, which you never get since you never get invite if you haven't one :P

What do you people think about it?

Made a Poll and want to start a discussion in this forum.

Don't know what world you live in...

never had trouble finding PUGs be it in HM or in NM.

the best of the equipment can be aquired at lvl 15 for about 1 plat each (or less)

but you are right about the pvp and HA that youdo not get considered if you are not high enough rank. which you need to play HA to get...

try maxing out one of those 8 lvl 20s you have, and i dont mean lvl wise, i mean cap all elites, unlock all skills for all classes  with 1 character (even the ones you do not need) get titles, faction rank, (kurzick,luxon, sunspear, lightbringer,azuran,vanguard,norn,dwarven) get the extra 15 atribute points, max out your character

I first played Guild Wars over a year ago.  I stopped playing after a few weeks, for various reason having nothing to do with the game.  Now I have started playing again in just the last few weeks.  Although I haven't got far in the game, I find a healthy population everywhere I go.  I would say I see about a 75% veteren to 25% new player population.  IMHO after all these years and new people are still coming to the game, I think that's pretty healthy.

I don't have a problem finding groups, finding information from players, etc.   Most of the people I run into are great.  Of course the game has it share of elite "I'm too good to even look at you NOOB!" people, and "I'm a NOOB, can I have some gold!" people.

You didn't say if you were in a guild or not.  I can only assume, which is a bad word, that being in a guild would give you someone to play with, to either PVP, quest, or just have fun.   As far as not wanting to grind in games anymore, that's pretty much what any MMO is.  They aren't designed that way, the player base makes it that way.  Everyone wants to have max everything.  Most people just fly through the game, to get to the max level, max armor, weapon, ships, etc...  They miss out on the beauty of the game.

To be honest, the only MMO that I have played that was a true sandbox, and didn't have a grind was EVE Online.  But not everyone likes stars and spaceships.  Now if they would only make a fanasty MMO just like EVE, that would be great!

Originally posted by robby5403

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....Even PvP becomes boring cause everyone has the same build and HA is only fun if you're high rank, which you never get since you never get invite if you haven't one :P

What do you people think about it?

Made a Poll and want to start a discussion in this forum.

I don't think the game is dying. Although at this point I've played the PvE to death, I still have fun from time to time doing some PvP because it's so fast to get into.

The one thing I quoted though is something I agree with you about. HA at this point is ridiculous, then again it's been like this for a while. You can't get a decent group unless you've beaten it 8 times before. But if you're new, you will never find a group that has any organization. So it's impossible to get rank for HA unless you already have it. Which makes no sense if you ask me. The only possible way is to do it with a guild, but no guilds do it on a regular basis except for HA specific guilds... which only recruit you if you have rank... which, again, makes no sense.

 Guild Wars isn't dying. It's simple math really. 

Of course back then there would have been more people in the Prophecies and Factions areas, because those were the only two campaigns that existed. Now people are spread out between four areas, meaning that people are indeed going to be less common in those areas. 

Also, one would find it logical that with time people will level their characters and many would move on to PvP. I am one of those. I don't PvE anymore. I only really log in to PvP as I've done just about everything else. PvP is, however, a different experience each time which keeps me coming back for more. 

Originally posted by Squal'Zell

Don't know what world you live in...

never had trouble finding PUGs be it in HM or in NM.

the best of the equipment can be aquired at lvl 15 for about 1 plat each (or less)

but you are right about the pvp and HA that youdo not get considered if you are not high enough rank. which you need to play HA to get...

try maxing out one of those 8 lvl 20s you have, and i dont mean lvl wise, i mean cap all elites, unlock all skills for all classes  with 1 character (even the ones you do not need) get titles, faction rank, (kurzick,luxon, sunspear, lightbringer,azuran,vanguard,norn,dwarven) get the extra 15 atribute points, max out your character

 

I have a monk with lots max titel, black dyed elite kurzick and black dyed eotn mask. But it costed me 150k to gain a rush trhough all proph missions+bonus till desert which I needed to take cause noone was there to do them with :S And be honest doing the missions with lvl 20's from you guild sucks....there isn't any difficult that way :P Also noone looks for quests anymore and since the perma form the whole gw economie is bad ectos droped over 2k etc......

i was wondering if guild wars or dea dor not too.

i recently purchsed factions about less than 30 days ago. i cant really get into it. i dont even know how to play. i play role play...... didnt finish it. i play pvp.... i jus run up to a group of oposing force and start to whack them... 5sec later... droped on ground.... revived.... 5sec later droped on ground...

i dont know how to play guild wars.

Originally posted by UpskirtPower

i was wondering if guild wars or dea dor not too.

i recently purchsed factions about less than 30 days ago. i cant really get into it. i dont even know how to play. i play role play...... didnt finish it. i play pvp.... i jus run up to a group of oposing force and start to whack them... 5sec later... droped on ground.... revived.... 5sec later droped on ground...

i dont know how to play guild wars.

factions was not the best choice to start in

nightfall or prophecies would have been a much better choice as they will "teach" you how to play, how to get skills, what skills to get, some cool builds, and they ease you into pvp.

as for factions, its centered into pvp. it was made to enhance pvp of prophecies...

now as far as your pvp experience, its not like wow or eq2/eq1 swg aoc war.... you need to focus on your group. you alone are worthless, you need to complete yourself with the others. my sugestion would be to find yourself a nice guild and play with them, pvp with them (in their teams) monkeys will either heal and keep alive or prevent dmg that would be delt. as rangers and mesmers will interupt the casterswho in their turn will try to dish out exessive damage. while the tanks try to get the rangers and mesmers out of their way (tank) necros will help the monkeys ( thats what i call monks) and the eles keep their energy up or debuff the oposing forces while the others can do their jobs. assasins... they do precise strikes like shoadow step to the monk drop him and retreat to safety. and the rit... well he will just support any other class. ( i feel like im missing a class.) oh yeah paragon and dervish... paragon... i still have trouble wondering what they do... and dervish is DPS AOE with tanking capabilities.

oh and each class is not bound by what i just said, ive seen elementalists tank, rangers do over 1200 dmg aoe  ritualists heal and warriors assasinate.