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MAD
12-26-2011, 10:28 PM
Well, I am a huge fan of Guild Wars and for that matter I thought I should look for other players here on ETS.

For those who don't know, Guild Wars is a buy-once MMORPG (though CORPG would be better). It's one of the best MMOs competing with WoW, Lineage II, Aion <insert other MMO here>. It has a huge player base with millions of active members and even more accounts.

It has 3 buyable campaigns: Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall and one free ongoing campaign: Beyond (with three main quest lines)
One expansion: Eye of The North

It has 8 professions: Warrior, Ranger, Monk, Necromancer, Mesmer, Elementalist, Assassin, Ritualist, Paragon and Dervish and each can have a secondary profession among the others.
One playable race: human d'oh.

It has multiple events throughout the year where new content is implemented, from hats to quest lines that run deep into the lore.

Being free, you can play it and play it again without having to buy anything from the store and it also doesn't forces you to do so. You can buy some costumes that only look cool, some skills and pets that you can easily get anyway. One of the most interesting thing in the store is the Bonus Mission Pack that fills in the blanks for some early lore. I am a lorewhore so this was a must-have.


http://uphacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/tumblr_kos215TTWb1qze2m9o1_500.png
And it gets better. Guild Wars 2 is in closed beta starting with January and that game looks more than awesome. Not to mention the gameplay. Best part? Still subscription free. More classes, more playable races, lore for every loremongers, live quests and objectives, cross-profession combos and boss battles like never seen before. Seriously, for those who don't know, those things are huge!

PvP in GW2 will be a lot better, with hundreds of people fighting at the same time.

Cool websites:
http://guildwars.com/
http://guildwars2.com/ (http://guildwars.com/)
And each with its wiki.

For those who already know the game, I have a God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals with 50/50 and another secondary account with 30/50. Ex Alliance Leader and Guild Leader of two max guilds (at the same time). I mainly played with my girlfriend and couple of friends and we're going to play Guild Wars 2 when it finally comes out.

I leave you with their MMO Manifesto:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU1JUwPqzQY

and fan made Top 10 Reasons to be interested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBC_ig73aMs

Anyone else?

P.S. No grind.

boosh
12-28-2011, 10:58 PM
Can't wait. I've never been into MMO's but I did like Guild Wars and played it quite a bit back while I was in college. Can't wait to see how this one turns out.

MAD
04-10-2012, 09:06 AM
Prepurchased!

TimA
05-01-2012, 01:30 PM
So did anyone play in the beta weekend just gone?

I did, and I absolutely loved it. Scarily addictive, I just can't wait to play again. This game is going to be massive.

Torgo
06-09-2012, 02:34 AM
Playing one of the beta weekends right now. I've never played it before... but it's... interesting. I'm playing as a Charr necromancer. Not sure if I like this class... I'm also not sure if I'm just derping around or I'm ending up in a lot of sections above my class level that I'm getting stomped in.

Handle: Rummie.9720

MAD
06-11-2012, 03:44 AM
I played too. I managed to get my human guardian up to lvl 37, finish the dungeon Ascalon Catacombs twice. Was awesome from my point of view.

I played on Ring of Fire EU. Barely any lag.

Torgo
07-23-2012, 05:50 PM
Played in the last beta weekend, and really liked every other class and species besides the first one I played with (the Charr campaign is shit and the Necromancer was really weird, and probably a bad decision for me to try first). I really liked the Guardian the best and in terms of play, I liked the Norn campaign the best. In close behind is Mesmer, Thief, and Ranger (although the pets always ​seem to die).

Torgo
08-16-2012, 03:45 PM
I will be rolling an Elementalist Norn on the server 'Sanctum of Rall' Ehmry Bay - I'm so excited for WvW and PvE - both of which have been a blast in beta and stress tests.