Guild Wars

Graeme Dice · Post by **Graeme Dice** » 2005-04-30 04:20pm

How many of you people out there have picked this one up. I'm enjoying it greatly, and am wondering if there are any of the old ASVS regulars who'd be interested in running a few missions or some PVP action. Look me up on Marcus Bane or Delak Mcbeath and I'll get you an invite into the Lump Club.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2005-04-30 09:19pm

I want to get it. But I'll have to wait. But it would be fun.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-05-01 03:18am

I'm on the US server; Tychon Katashar, level 7Ele/nec. Sadly, my early access key ran out yesterday, so I have to wait till monday to pick up the retail version.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-05-01 04:20am

I'm slowly grinding my way through the missions with my W/Mo main and getting the occasional point of fame (makes Guild Halls cheaper) with my Me/W and W/Mo PvP characters.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2005-05-03 12:57pm

Just picked this up because I was tired of not knowing what this 'Online RPG' thing was all about. Okay...so it's the lite version of an online RPG.

Although I'll admit I'm lost. And a little despondent; I'm surrounded by people with names like "Jenna Jameson" and "Tank Buttkicker" and not one of them capitalizes text. And the worst part is, I'm surprised by this.

Getting out of the mix of lurching zombines yelling 'u want prty?' at me and into the actual play areas, however, is fun. All I need now is to find the 'guild of adults who spell correctly' and I'm off to the races.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-05-03 01:00pm

Such guilds are few and far between in my experience, though they are there. I kick around with my guild of three right now because I'd rather have a small, intelligent guild than a medium-sized kiddie guild.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-05-03 01:16pm

How about we create a SDN guild? I'll be picking up Gunbound next week.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-05-03 01:37pm

Ace Pace wrote:How about we create a SDN guild? I'll be picking up Gunbound next week.

I'm all for it. We could also use a Teamspeak server...

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-05-03 02:45pm

Captain tycho wrote:
Ace Pace wrote:How about we create a SDN guild? I'll be picking up Gunbound next week.
I'm all for it. We could also use a Teamspeak server...

Vent is more fun, and we can either open up our own 16 man server, or piggy back on my clans server.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-05-04 01:55am

Lagmonster wrote:I'm surrounded by people with names like "Jenna Jameson" and "Tank Buttkicker" a

The developers never heard of name filters or something?

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2005-05-04 09:04am

InnocentBystander wrote:
Lagmonster wrote:I'm surrounded by people with names like "Jenna Jameson" and "Tank Buttkicker" a
The developers never heard of name filters or something?

I suppose not. I don't necessarily *care* what people call themselves, but I can't really play with people whose intelligence is suspect. Unless they're on the other team and I'm kicking their ass, of course.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-05-04 09:10am

Lagmonster wrote:
InnocentBystander wrote:
Lagmonster wrote:I'm surrounded by people with names like "Jenna Jameson" and "Tank Buttkicker" a
The developers never heard of name filters or something?
I suppose not. I don't necessarily *care* what people call themselves, but I can't really play with people whose intelligence is suspect. Unless they're on the other team and I'm kicking their ass, of course.

Which makes it all the sweeter.

On another topic, I'm having trouble finding some more elementalist skills.

If you guys have any tips, I'd appreciate em.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-05-04 09:19am

They've made it so the majority of your skills are gained from quests throughout the whole game. Only a small handful come from the skill trainers now, and elite skills have to be grabbed off of bosses with the Signet, which is now gained from a quest in Lion's Arch.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2005-05-04 05:03pm

JediNeophyte wrote:They've made it so the majority of your skills are gained from quests throughout the whole game. Only a small handful come from the skill trainers now, and elite skills have to be grabbed off of bosses with the Signet, which is now gained from a quest in Lion's Arch.

Bosses? Lion's Arch? Signet?

Crap, I have a lot of exploring to do. I'm still wandering around outside the kingdom where you start off, killing little things for cash and occasionally trying to complete the quests you get at the beginning. There's only one or two I haven't done, but the one I can think of is this guy who tells me that once I take his quest I can't come back to this area and I keep worrying I'll miss something if I leave before I find everything.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-05-04 05:20pm

Lagmonster wrote:Bosses? Lion's Arch? Signet?

Crap, I have a lot of exploring to do. I'm still wandering around outside the kingdom where you start off, killing little things for cash and occasionally trying to complete the quests you get at the beginning. There's only one or two I haven't done, but the one I can think of is this guy who tells me that once I take his quest I can't come back to this area and I keep worrying I'll miss something if I leave before I find everything.

You've probably run into bosses before, they're just the guys with color-coded auras (orange = Warrior, purple = Mesmer, etc). I wouldn't worry too much about tutorial-Ascalon stuff, there's not much there once you have your main skills. The cash is much, much better in Ascalon proper anyways.