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IGN: Multiple Entendre, if anyone gives a poop.
Also, why am I getting the urge to start a PvE ele? Not just that, why am I thinking of starting in Prophecies?
I don't know about you, but while Nightfall had so much better stuff in it (better pacing, Heros, etc.), I like Prophecies the most. I love the setting and storyline more than Factions and Nightfall. Though I like them too, I'm just saying.
Every fights a food fight when you're a cannibal.
What is your IGN dude?
I feel ya on that. The Tyria storyline is great... Factions seemed so pointless and lame that I never even bothered finishing it... the one character I started in Factions that I kept... well, he caught the first boat to Lion's Arch and got himself a "Protector of Tyria" title. Never even bought Nightfall because the classes looked unappealing and Factions was such a disappointing campaign.
Love GW, but am kinda burned out on it at the moment... I'll definitely be back for Eye of the North, maybe sooner if I start to miss it.
However, what classes are available if you ONLY have Nightfall. I know it comes with the Dervish and Paragon, but do you have access to the ones in Prophecies as well - or are those not specific to it?
but if you're going to buy nightfall you'll already have prophecies if you add them to the same account
OH GOD! THAT WAS ONLY THIS WEEKEND!?!?!?! I PASSED ON $20 CE FFXII AND $14 new KINGDOM HEARTS 2? (wasn't too interested to pick them up right away)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Oh well, Half Price books its is.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
They seem to have this roster where they GvG at these times every day which happens to be at about 7:30 in the morning for me...
To be honest, for the amount of questioning and interviewing they do they're not exactly that highly ranked (1070...) hell i could probably easily get into the core of a GvG team with a rank higher than their top ranked GvG team (600 or so)
I think those prices are supposed to be good for 3 weeks after that weekend. Check their website, the prices were good there as well.
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The only issue is that I'm having a hard time deciding on a class. One thing that I'm drawn to is rare classes. Anyone know what are the rarest classes?
Also, any advice on things to absolutely not miss on your first playthrough of Nightfall (like Rez signet in prophecies)?
I do have to say that the Mesmer is one of the coolest classes of any game ever to be designed. Their whole purpose is to make your life not have one, what's not to love?
Sadly with my Me/Mo I'd really end up having to do more Mo'ing then Me'ing.
I thought the Prophecies storyline was terrible myself. It was nice to see an MMO other than FFXI have cutscenes but the plot was poorly communicated and, sometimes, barely coherent.
However, my biggest problem with the writing concerned those damn Flameseeker Prophecies. By the end I was still confused about exactly why the prophecies were even necessary to the storyline. They also seemed to be revealed in as confusing a way as possible.
No argument from me about the Factions story. It is indeed lame and by far the worst of the three. Nightfall has the best storyline. It's not going to win any awards but it is coherent and occasionally interesting. Paragon and Dervish aren't my favorite classes either but the new skills introduced by Nightfall and the heroes made it the best campaign overall.
But yeah, Prophecies storyline was crap. SO many loose ends. And such a crappy ending.
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The worst part of Prophecies is that there are no real rewards after the final mission. Extra quests don't really count if all they give is more XP (does anyone ever really need more XP by the time they hit that point?).
http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=4607
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That really is the worst thing. I'm like, "Wow, I have a quest that gives 10,000xp, and one that gives 20,000 xp that I can do. Too bad I reached level 20 in the middle of the goddamn desert. How about some real rewards, like some Elite skills? You're offering to pay me in wooden nickels for about 10 hours of tedium."
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The real reward is playing the game.
PVP was a seperate matter of fun.
A significant amount of that dungeon looks like Sorrow's Furnace, and the rest looks like the underground portions of Factions with portals shipped in from Nightfall. Hopefully the story will be good.
Not disagreeing with you there but by that point PvE was getting old for me ny that point and I needed a little more of a carrot. I do like PvP (especially as a Mesmer) but I wish Hall of Heroes wasn't so dependent on being in a well-oiled guild or a very specifically built team. I would love it if Arenanet made it like Hero Battles where there was a choice between playing for a reward and playing just for the fun of it. Most times, pick-up groups have no chance of getting anywhere. I don't really care so much about the Guild Hall token as much as getting a chance to battle on some of the later HoH maps.
I am sorta feeling a little better about the expansion after seeing the trailer. The areas look varied enough and are quite impressive. The portals look very Stargate but I guess I can live with that.
My favorite part of the games is the art design actually. Anyone else share that?
Yep. I secretly hope the art team leaves and go to other games that I would rather play, but that's not gonna happen.
you get skill points with xp instead of levels; so it helps, yes.
I hope the new armor sets that are coming with the expansion aren't all 15k sets. I know it's sad but none of my characters are very rich.
Im getting closer to leaving Newb Isle!
Citrine Trakand (necro/ranger - prophesy) lvl 15
Mayene Trakand (warrior/monk - prophesy) lvl 15
Solaria Trakand (sorcerer/mesmer - prophesy) lvl 17
Sayyadina Trakand (dervish - nightfall) lvl 3
Yes i know I'm not very creative.
I just bought Nightfall. This is the only version of the game I have ever bought - so I should only have access to the Nightfall content right?
However, I played in some of the open beta and the free play weekends, so I used the same account I had created for those, and added my Nightfall key to it. It looks however, that now, I have access to both Nightfall and Prophecies, as I was able to create a character in Prophecies and run around and do quests, with no mention of a trial - plus the trial for Prophecies and Factions were a separate key I'd need to add to the account.
So by some glitch did me playing in the beta and free weekends unlock prophecies for me, despite only purchasing and owning Nightfall? Because it appears that way.
I think the character you made from prophecies beta still exists, but can't be used to play with unless you buy the retail version. While the Nightfall character can do everything in Nightfall, and only Nightfall until you buy the other chapters.
The one complaint I had was the community focused on rank if you wanted to get into a good pub for HoH which brought a Catch 22 dilemma if you didn't do HoH with your guild. "So I'm rank 3, I get a higher rank if I do HoH..." "Aren't rank 6? Go fuck yourself." "Well shit, how do I get to rank 6 then, dick?"
Well, actually, when I logged on, my beta character did still exist. I deleted him, then created another character on Prophecies and ran around a bit. I haven't touched a character class or anything from Nightfall yet.
Yeah, it didn't used to be like that long ago. Some idiots started thinking that rank matters, and I'll agree it does some but you'll still get a whole lot of jerks with a high rank. Which is why it's better to do it with guilds... but the problem there is finding an active guild.
toss some dirt in their eyes and they run off though.