Guild Wars

Bit of a special guild outing this week, as the Tuesday Noob Club hit Nightfall's Treasure Trail. We alternate PvP and PvE nights of a Tuesdays, and as a leader of sorts, I'm always on the look out for interesting and novel things to do each week. Back to PvP next week!

In general, I'm starting to notice that while the initial basic 'Prophecies' Guild Wars game has a very designed-in-from-scratch dual-class interdependency, with the basic six professions tending to mingle quite freely, the later added professions seem to be much more self-contai...

Next week looks like another twin eventer, with Survivor Pt2, where the epic struggle for the fabulous prize one of my Minipets (All White Rarity, sorry!) will continue, or for the Unsurvivors (Or the Survivors that just want a change), a night spent trying to get on the daily high-score t...

Each of the Guild Wars offerings has an area like this. When you've beaten the story, and won, you're still not quite done yet; there's still the Elite Missions; the Endgame. In Prophecies, it's The Underworld and Fissure of Woe, Nightfall has the Domain of Anguish, Eye of the North has the Sl...

Other professions should look to see what Stances you get. Most professions have something that qualifies, although Rangers and Warriors will do well here. Look for durations in particular - the longer the better, as once transformed you won't be able to reapply it until the rampage is ove...

Guild Wars: 49 Posts. A staggering victory for Arenanet's quirky offering, one which many people wouldn't call an MMO at all. The huge number of posts here are mostly down to my adventures with the Tuesday N00b Club, a variable but select group with which I've worked my way through all of Nigh...

And then you hit a Eye of the North Dungeon, and discover that there is in fact only one team configuration that will get the job done, and all that goes out of the window. If you're really lucky, that team build will actually require one of your class at all! Lately it seems to me that the unique a...

I came up with an average of 262ms in 5 tries - longer than 0.25s. And that's just 'Click Now!' Interruptions in Guild Wars also involve decision-making; What type of skill is this? Is it a Spell or a Signet or a Stance, or what? Will this one kill us all, or should I hold my interrupt in reserve for...

Many of these quests give out entirely new skills, in new tracks that any profession can use, and which work of reputation rankings, rather than attribute levels, a bit like the Sunspear skills. My own Cry of Pain is now prodigiously powerful, due to my PvE grinding of bounties during Night...

I don't know if its the less formalised pacing of the thing, without the Missions looming every five hours or so, but the whole thing seems a lot more easy-going than the previous campaigns, with lots of meandering and working on faction points, side questing and missions, some of which ar...

Hello all! Its Choose your Own Adventure Van Hemlock today. Well, choose your own Adventurer to be more precise. The Tuesday N00b Club has faced trials, tribulations, adversity, drama, and all that stuff, and now, after a three-film epic much like Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, only wi...

This mission takes place in a cloned-off sub-instance copy of the actual PTS, out in the city zone, a technique used often and well throughout the game. Our job here was to find the attack force leader and kill him, (mostly out of principle, I think), and also to find, rescue and then grill, th...

So, another one down! All in all, I'd rate Factions somewhat above Prophecies, but not by much, and significantly below Nightfall, an all-together more polished experience. Pretending 'The Shiro Fight' never happened, there's still a lot of nice touches and interesting ideas, peopl...

I spent years in EQ and AO and never saw Fironia Whatserface or Phillip Ross once, in their respective games! On the other hand, I've actually done quests for Warchief Thrall, I regularly party with Devona, Cynn, Mhenlo, Eve and the other Guild Wars Poster-Boys-and-Girls, and have now s...