use your existing chars as heroes?

With the new hero system we all noticed the layout has been changed. While playing Nightfall I was fine with it but then I logged back into Factions and noticed there is some empty useless space (unless they plan to add heroes to those chapters.)

Anyway the idea is more of thought rather than a suggestion. BUT I think with the new hero system it would now be possible for us to add a second or third of our characters at once by adding them to your party.

Just think if your Monk can go back to help your Mesmer or Assassin through a mission, it would take out some of the frustration of trying to find a party when you already have the characters and abilities.

Plus with the ability to have litle or a lot of control of the heroes you could play it the same way with your other characters. Why not be able to help yourself? heh anyway.. thoughts?

I thought it was a pretty interesting idea if nothing else.

Interesting idea. I think it would be kind of weird seeing the virtual "me's" running in the same party with me, not to mention my friends/guildies yelling at the NPC me's thinking it's the ME me O.o;;

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Then you could use one character to power lvl another which is just rediculous.

This would be an awesome idea. Unfortunately I can't ever see it happening. When I start to think of the ways that it could be abused I get worried. Nevermind how easy it would be to powerlevel your new character with your level 20 oober pwnage character. If they do decide to impliment this feature, here's some things to consider. Maybe you can't add any of your Tyrian characters to your party unless they have finished the prophecies campaign, and no Factions characters to your party unless they have finished Factions and so on and so forth. Although I would prefer to see better control of the "extra" characters (heroes) before they ever impliment something like this. Imo there's still not as many options for henchmen as there are in other rpgs.

why not be able to powerlevel it's still taking your time to do so. But yeah like Jade said there is ways to change it and the main thing is... it would make use of otherwise unused space in the interface of prophices and factions.

I really like the idea of being able to group with your own characters. Only thing is I think it might get frustrating, as they would never be able to have AI to make the character play like you play it.

Right...so now I can farm for money/mats for droks armor then even run MYSELF to droks AND powerlevel myself, AMAZING!

Yea, no...takes away from a lot of the game


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I love the idea, but it will definitely be exploited way too easily. Maybe cap it off at level 20. Example, I make a new ranger on Shing Jea Island, do all quests/missions on the island, but can't summon one of my other characters until I hit level 20 in game.

As for why Tyrian/Canthan characters have the empty slots, I'm guessing they can pick up hero characters in Elona once they crossover.

How about add heroes to the previous campaigns... for example devona, cynn, aiden, eve, and menlo could be standard heroes for all campaigns, factions would give you a few more for factions only, nightfall would give you a few more for nightfall only, etc.

Henchmen also need to be able to portal for you. Simply because I like to die and control Koss, he needs more user friendly controls, I want to be able to play him like a character when I'm dead and make him into a runner and run me places with all the skills I've unlocked lol.

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Don't like the idea, too many flaws, to easy to farm with.

So you want to have your other characters play NPC mode? Or you control all of them.

And for the smart people out there, having two toons playing isn't impossible

I've always wanted this. Since the first campaign.

It's no different to having guildies party with you, and what about all the lvl 20's coming over to Elona from Tyria or Cantha?

It also beats the hell out of having to buy new weapons for you heros to weild, or have to buy more runes. That stuff costs money, and you dont get your heros drops do you?

Having this option also reduces the lust for illegal bots.

Player should be rewarded by taking the time making PVE characters, and i think having your own heros that you've spend months creating is the ideal way to do so.

Dont know whether it would be possible. but wouldn't it be great if you could use the chars you've already lvl'd up as heroes.
An even better thing would be the abilty to switch to controlling that character during play.

I have a necro that i havn't used in ages and I'd love to see him fight side by side with my some of my newer chars.

Another bonus is you'd be able to lvl up 4 chars at once instead of having to repeat the same missions over and over again.

Also it would be ace for looting. no more hench stealing your loot or having to share with people in UW for example.

I think it's a great idea and if you do too, back me up and arenanet might incorperate it into the game.

1. You can powergame anyway. many lvl20's come back and powergame lower lvl's up and run them around. sometimes for a price. that's why proph was a bit better cos you couldn't go back pre-searing

2. there are already many ways to loot with ease. At least this way would be more honourable than using an invinci monk.

3. you are still lving up your chars. your just doing maybe 4 at once. which is cool seen as it's so annoying doing the missions over and over again. Also maybe they could put a lvl limit. say if a char is 5 lvl's below you, you can't join their group. that would solve a few problems.

OR just make this option for lvl 20's only. something to work towards then.

I think if arenanet implement it right it should not take anything away from the game. it'll more likely add to it.

4 touch rangers running around.

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As said above, you could power level your characters. Also, you'd get all the gold from drops, think about it, you log on and get 102 gold rom a drop, share that between your 4 characters, that's 25.5 gold each, which is all of it to you, just on 4 characters, also green arming would be stupid, as you'd always get them!

let me apply all of you to this suggestion then.

Your characters will be like like the Hero's or IE: Danika. They get drops, but YOU dont get them. They get Xp, but YOU dont see it.

Know where I'm going?

Well, if you dont, I'm saying you dont get anything besides the ability to play with your characters like they are NPC but Hero's you can control at the same time.

You would have it so say if Alistha Freit needed an Elementalist, I would get Neriandal Freit. He would reamin in Kaieng Center, even tho we're currently in Thunderhead Keep or something.

So they're more like a commandable Henchie, why not just make henchies commandable instead.

They could, they might. I wont care personally, but, I would enjoy being able toplay with my other characters.

Well, I for one would like to have my characters running along with me. Uber pwnage leet haxxorz party!