Heroes Ruined Guild Wars?

Originally Posted by GreatLich

It's the other way around really. Ever played a monk? Logging in, going to an outpost and within seconds you'd have 3 party-invites. None of them would even ask or talk to you save for the occasional "join plz". I'd wager that most poeple who enjoy playing with others are actually in a guild already and play with their guildies. It's the people left with PUGs that are the unsocial people, the clampers, the ragequitters, the horrid skillsbars that, when called on them, cry "n00b", the people who-are -so-funny-let's-draw-penises-on-the-minimap or ping it for the duration of the mission. It's those people unwilling to learn the game, unwilling to improve...
Heroes, the henches before them, saved the average and above average players from those people, when no guildies happen to be around.

It's about enjoying the game and those of you who say "heroes killed pugs and thus gw", I'm sorry to say, you probably suck; thus killing the enjoyment of the game for others. Are you seriously telling people they must PUG because the aforementioned "bad apples" are somehow entitled to a group? fine, you do it then. I'll stick with guildies, friends and hero/hench, to preserve my fun...

Originally Posted by Tactical-Dillusions

Heroes gave people the option of avoiding stupid players and gave the chance for casuals to get through missions in their own time.

The biggest downfall IMO is loot scaling and the gradual destruction of solo play. This just made it harder for casuals to get gold, who then look to shifty merchants for their money.

I do occasionally team with people for missions, often when i'm not in a hurry to complete it, or maybe just for laughs.
Fine example being the A/R in Naphui who took a lvl15 pet but no comfort animal (wasted slot on charm!) and who liked taking serious damage.

Another example would be the lvl17 mesmer in Vizunah foreign who charged ahead throughout the mission and kept dying and aggroing. Little did he know that i disabled my monk heroes res skills eventually, lol.

Originally Posted by WinterSnowblind

Heroes are the only reason I came back, and am still playing today.

The great thing about Guild Wars is that it doesn't force you to team with other people. I enjoy playing the game with a friend or two, but I do not want to team up with other people, and in my opinion, there's nothing worse in an online game than when you're forced to team up with people.

For one thing, most random people you team up with, suck at the game. They won't listen, they won't co-ordinate, they don't know how to play, etc. Most of the time it is just easier to take henchmen/heroes along with you, because actual people will only drag you down.

Originally Posted by Navaros

Nope. Heroes saved Guild Wars.

Horrible players ruined Guild Wars and then Heroes came along and saved it. Guild Wars is simply too complex for the average person to play properly; sad but true.

Originally Posted by Swift Thief

Your average PUG:



By the way, find out where these pics were taken.

Originally Posted by WinterSnowblind

Heroes are the only reason I came back, and am still playing today.

The great thing about Guild Wars is that it doesn't force you to team with other people. I enjoy playing the game with a friend or two, but I do not want to team up with other people, and in my opinion, there's nothing worse in an online game than when you're forced to team up with people.

For one thing, most random people you team up with, suck at the game. They won't listen, they won't co-ordinate, they don't know how to play, etc. Most of the time it is just easier to take henchmen/heroes along with you, because actual people will only drag you down. Sorry if that sounds arrogant, but I can't count the amount of times I failed Thunderhead Keep because people were running around like headless chickens, or you get a Monk that tries to tank, or a Ranger that can't grasp the concept of luring over enemies.

With the massive amount of areas we have now, finding team mates in certain areas is very difficult. Many of the Factions missions inparticular are deserted. With Eye of the North coming out soon, this will only get worse. Heroes are needed to fill in these gaps, sometimes you just can't find people, and henchmen just aren't good enough to complete some missions. Not to mention how time consuming it can be just to find a single Monk for a mission, it's much easier just to take along Dunkoro, who can do just as good a job as most human monks out there.

If you enjoy only playing with other humans, then continue to do so, but at this point in Guild Wars' life, Heroes are needed, and most of us who play the game only using heroes/mostly using heroes, would never team up with others anyway. Heroes haven't stopped people from teaming up, they've only given us people who don't like to, a reason to continue playing the game.

Originally Posted by Deadly Eyezz

being a monk with heroes is awfull,boring and hard, because you are not actually attacking a group, you have to select mobs everytime and ctrl+space, then select the other.

Originally Posted by 6am3 Fana71c

Well, if you are so un-social, dont like to party with others, like to solo everything... then go play a single player game, ffs! And dont let the door hit you, like somebody said before

Originally Posted by Deadly Eyezz

I wish there was no heroes on henchies in this game just like WoW, you actually need a group to get somethings done. Guilds are way more usefull in PvE there.Untill now i can't find 1 good reason to join a guild instead of a chat room.