Getting it today.

Hi

I haven't tried this game yet but it has always intrigued me at the stores. I am going to go ahead and buy it today but I have a few questions I hope some of you could answer for me? I know there is an expansion out and I have heard it doesn't require the original. From looking into it, it seems like there is a completely different world to 'Factions' than the original but I may be off in my perspective too. Which leads me to, what should I buy? If it is true they are independant, which should I buy in your opinion and why?

Also, is it true this game has no monthly service charge?

Thanks. Maybe I will see you today.

There are no monthly fees, and I would buy the newest release, in this case Nightfall because thats where most of the action and people will be. Many say prophecies is the best but there will be fewer people there imo as new chapters come out.

Is nightfall out already or soon to come out? I haven't seen anything but factions and prophecies until I found this site today.

27th October is the release date but doesnt mean your local retailer or online supplier will have it with you by then.

Ah, cool thanks for the info. How long do you think people will stay on factions? Also, how often do they patch prophecy nowdays?

I may just hold off until Nightfall, but it sucks I won't be able to play for a while though. I would be willing to buy either of the two out now though if I knew they would continue to get supported. Then get Nightfall later. I don't know though, lol leave it to me to pick a date like this to want to go get it.

How does the PvP system in the game work? As in limitation wise?

EDIT: Oh yeah, how many charactors do you get for each account?

Hehe sorry, I know I haven't done my homework but I never met anyone that has played it. :/

You get 4 character slots for the base account, then another 2 for every expansion you put on. As for PvP, you need to have all campaigns if you wanna be up to date.

Does factions work like city of villains then sort of? Different world and classes for each expansion? That's pretty cool. I may grab Factions today then and pick up Nightfall here pretty soon though. Then grab prophecies at a good discount rate.

1 last thing. Can your charactor jump on this game?

EDIT: Seems it would be wiser for me to get prophecies to learn the game with.

Nope, your character can not jump while moving, typing the /jump command can let your character jump, but it cannot jump over walls and that kinda stuff.

No jumping sorry, and no flying this isn't city of heroes/villains lol, same publisher, different developper.

They don't really "patch", there's regularlishly updating the game for balance and tweaks, and fixing bugs that are brought in on occasion by an update.

Once the team goes on to make a new chapter, the previous chapter is "done". They'll add minor things, like some weapons/armor.

Cool thanks. I hate when you can't jump but this game looks like it is worth more than a glimpse.

EDIT: That is a cool pre-order reward.

I dont know what these guys are sayiing. But u should definately get the original over factions it blows it away, and people will be playing that for a while, as for nightfall I am not sure since it hasnt come out but it will have to be great to beat prophecies. Just like a movie series you wanna see the original before you move on to the sequels right? And in this series the original is so far the better one so why not grab it. One thing I did regret is not getting the special edition of Guild Wars so if you can afford Id say go that route as well.

If you want to be capable in all areas of PvP you will need to get all three chapters, however there's no point getting them all until you're ready for PvP, which will take a while.

If I were you I would skip Factions and grab Prophecies (original) first, then get Nightfall (upcoming) if you intend to stay around. You probably won't want to get into PvP at the beginning because of the highly competitive challenge, and the only reason you would get Factions is if you need some of the exclusive skills.

I highly discourage getting Factions for newcomers, I found the missions excruciatingly dull, unrewarding and as a result I've never bothered trying to finish it. I didn't even bother unlocking any of the skills for the Ritualist profession because it's a useless profession and is not fun to play.

The sneak preview of Nightfall that we all tried a few weeks ago was in my opinion more fun than the last two chapters of GW, but in the end I play this game for PvP.

As for Prophecies, it's still just as playable as it ever was and many people still enjoy taking their characters through that Chapter, so you won't be completely alone.

If you don't want to wait, get Prophecies. factions is not a good place or beginners to learn and it's far inferior in many, many ways to Prophecies in general. Each chapter has its own continent and story-line. They can be played independent of each other or can be linked on the same account. Linking them gives you the ability to take characters from one continent to the others.

There are still lots of people playing Prophecies, so getting into groups of real players won't be a problem. When Nightfall comes out, there won't be a lot of people around in Prophecies of factions for a while, but everything will still be do-able with Henchmen.

Factions PvE is much more easier and reward gold and exp faster. I started from Factions and then goed to Prophecies. Alliance Battles is fast way to make plenty gold currently.

I think you got it mixed up. Prophecies PvE is much easier then Factions.

You have to buy prophecies, even ahead of factions and nightfall in my opinion.

And I own both Proph and Factions, and Nightfall is on preorder.

Proph all the way...

Factions may get empty, but Proph will always be busy and have lots of people playing.

If you want a lot of people to play with, I recommend you hold off and buy Nightfall next week.

There's no such thing as a useless profession in this game. While I can't comment on you personally not having fun playing a Rit, I love my Rit and he's become my most used character. That's most used out of 3 Prophecies and 2 Factions PvE characters.

Something people need to understand is that this game weighs heavily on HOW you play your character, not WHAT your character is.

I would suggest getting the latest version for now Nightfall and then Prophecies and Factions later it is like haveing series of books.

Factions rushes the basics quickly with big exp gains per quest, nightfall and tyria go slower which alows you to learn the game and get used to it