PC Gamer Gives GW:EN a 68%

Mordakai

Mordakai

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Kyhlo

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kashrlyyk
Great! One time through per race and character. So I only need to finish it 32 times.
??? Why do you "need" every armor for every character?

And how is this different than finishing Nightfall to get the Elite armor there, or having to max out both Kurzick and Luxon faction to access their Elite armors?

Or, if you wanna go back to Prophecies, collecting all the ecto and shards and completing the quest in FoW to get Obsidian armor...

"Grind" for Elite armor is nothing new... but I quess complaining about it is

Bryant Again

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mordakai
??? Why do you "need" every armor for every character?

And how is this different than finishing Nightfall to get the Elite armor there, or having to max out both Kurzick and Luxon faction to access their Elite armors?

Or, if you wanna go back to Prophecies, collecting all the ecto and shards and competing the quest in FoW to get Obsidian armor...

"Grind" for Elite armor is nothing new... but I quess complaining about it is
I'd say that f you put the armor crafters at the end of the game that it'd take the same amount of time as if you had to earn the reputation for said armor.

fowlero

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

England, UK

We Are The One And Only [rR]

i'd be guessing this is about the american edition of PC Gamer??

My copy of the english one gave it 82% o.O

The only real bad thing they said was it still had no jump feature, then decided it didn't need one.

Only problem was the testers build imo anyway, which was as follows (same in all screenshots):

Well of Blood
Death Nova
Vile Touch
Animate Bone Minions
Mind Blast
Fire Storm
Signet of Capture (in every single place he went to, could be justifed but i'm skepticle)
Ressurection Signet

Maybe he's employed by anet.

Mordakai

Mordakai

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Kyhlo

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by fowlero
i'd be guessing this is about the american edition of PC Gamer??

My copy of the english one gave it 82% o.O
Yah, American version gave it 68%.

I'd have to look at it again to see if the reviewers build was shown...

VitisVinifera

VitisVinifera

Banned

Join Date: Nov 2005

Northern California

HoTR

N/Me

wow that's almost the exact same build (except mind blast and well of blood) i used on my necro 1 week after Proph launched and I was going through Kryta for the first time

Bryant Again

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

I will say that their builds are pretty histarical. In the Ultime Guild Wars Guide they recommended giving Jora Hundred Blades, Healing Breeze, and Orison. If you didn't have HB, then they recommended Pure Strike or Frenzy.

Good stuff.

Fitz Rinley

Fitz Rinley

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

The Rusty Rose

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kashrlyyk
Great! One time through per race and character. So I only need to finish it 32 times.
You get off easy. For me it is only 40 times, and rank 5 isnt enough for HoM - so how many decades is that?

Kashrlyyk

Kashrlyyk

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mordakai
??? Why do you "need" every armor for every character?
Only thing I want for the characters. I don´t care for weapons skins etc.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mordakai
And how is this different than finishing Nightfall to get the Elite armor there, or having to max out both Kurzick and Luxon faction to access their Elite armors?
I have to finish it ONCE, not FOUR times with every character. The same goes for the Kurzick or Luxon armor. 10000 points, move all your characters to Haus zu Heltzer or Cavalon. Finished.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mordakai
Or, if you wanna go back to Prophecies, collecting all the ecto and shards and completing the quest in FoW to get Obsidian armor...
Grinding for ONE armor in Prophecies, but ALL in GWEN!!! Huge difference.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Fitz Rinley
You get off easy. For me it is only 40 times, and rank 5 isnt enough for HoM - so how many decades is that?
Autsch! I think it is weird that getting armors is not restricted by materials, but by the time and repetition it needs to get to the places selling them.

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sparda
What am i then i play like 6/8 hours a day every day in the weekends almost 16 hours did GW:EN in 14 hours first 2 days it whas released.
I do not consider myself hardcore i hate grind i dislike dungeon crawling and i have 4 titels maxed on my main char after 17 months of play
not a criticism but for clarification

is that 16 hours on saturday plus an additional 16 hours on sunday 32 hours or 16 hours total for the weekend?

it sounds like 32 but i wanted to be sure

Sparda

Sparda

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2006

The Netherlands

N/

[QUOTE=Loviatar]
Quote:

not a criticism but for clarification

is that 16 hours on saturday plus an additional 16 hours on sunday 32 hours or 16 hours total for the weekend?

it sounds like 32 but i wanted to be sure
+/-16 Hours on saturday and +/-16 sunday where of +/-4/5 hours afk for some things.
Some times i'm like 10 hours afk for social things

Fitz Rinley

Fitz Rinley

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

The Rusty Rose

W/Mo

[QUOTE=Sparda]
Quote:
Originally Posted by Loviatar

+/-16 Hours on saturday and +/-16 sunday where of +/-4/5 hours afk for some things.
Some times i'm like 10 hours afk for social things
Wait, I thought the Ghost of Emperor Norton passed a universal law that all social life was to be conducted at the keyboard and thru the web...

You can do it someplace else?

Hyper Cutter

Hyper Cutter

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Knights of the White Eye [HINA]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kashrlyyk
Grinding for ONE armor in Prophecies, but ALL in GWEN!!! Huge difference.
You need to "grind" for all elite armor, period. You need materials and 60-75k, at the very least...

Sparda

Sparda

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2006

The Netherlands

N/

[QUOTE=Fitz Rinley]
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sparda

Wait, I thought the Ghost of Emperor Norton passed a universal law that all social life was to be conducted at the keyboard and thru the web...

You can do it someplace else?
lol ^^ you make me laugh

Mordakai

Mordakai

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Kyhlo

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kashrlyyk
Autsch! I think it is weird that getting armors is not restricted by materials, but by the time and repetition it needs to get to the places selling them.
I will say this: I think the double reputation points should happen more frequently. It helped me a lot.

That said, keep in mind the armor costs 50k vs 75k total. And getting rank 5 is a lot faster than finishing Nightfall.

Phoenix Tears

Phoenix Tears

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2007

i would also rate EoTN much lower, then PCG did ...

this add on isn't even 20% worth ...its imo one of the biggest disappointments of the whole game series, not forgetting, that this Add on should open us the gates to GW2 as GW veteran players...


- the freaking Add On wasn#t even really completed, when it was released, it was only like 50% complete junk, junk, that had cost as much as like a whole complete CAMPAIGN !!!, but the content was muhc lesser then an own Stand Alone Game... and worser, compared to what we could expect with new Campaigns ...

It was imo an absolute crap false decision, to kick GW Utopia for EoTN ...

The Hall of Monuments ius a joke. Its the biggest thing of the whole add on, what made out the big dissapointments together with certain other facts, like crap dungeon drops, crap balance for casual gamers and and and... the list is long

this add on was absolutely not its money worth !!!

I#ve for example expected, that the HoM is ONE big account wide feature and not, that this shit gets spkitted for every single character of our account...
WTF have we to collect hundreds of the same minipets, when collceting them all ONCE is ENOUGH WORK/EFFORT.
WTF collecting hundreds of the same odd destroyer Weapons, WTF buy for heroes hundreds of times elite armors, when it is ONCE enough per hero ...

this is all only absolute unneccessary Gold Sink³ ... and absolute annoying, nethe increases anyhow the factor of long term motivation, because it simple *ucks the players only off and annoys them, to repeat such unneccescary stuff douzens of times per character


When I put a Minipet into my HoM, then it should be shown in ALL Hom#s of my Characters... when I reached certain goals in the game, like beating the games, then the HoM-titles should be shown in all HoM's of my characters, becauses ist absolute *ucking regardless, with which character i made it..i made it for my Account, not for any special dumb character of my account !!!

Then when I have to make the effort to collect special items, only to be able to put statues of my heroes on a Monument, then are such slightly dumb things also disappointing, like when your heroes get shown then in their dumb non elite armors, instead of their elite-armors, which u've chosen for them, they should wear ...

The HoM has so much potential to solve certain other problems of the game, like pet stora,ge armor storage and so on...nothing of this simple solutions has been thought over for the HoM....

Lol ..HM for EoTN, weeks and months after EoTN has released, where the Add On, should have had "normally" the HM from the start on to be considered as "complete" ...
Alone the fact that anet sells us 50% complete junk surely don't makes the image of Anet better ...no, it worsens it and lets this firm look like, as if they don't care for their quality of their products they want to sell with the developer's philosophy "what we don't create successful now, can we still implement months after release, but before we do that, we can still sell our stuff as "complete" and sell our lie for big money"

EoTN is also one big disappoint cause of the so good promotioned 40 "new" armors, before release *cough* ...we they call reskins "new"...
But NAet has so or so a bad understandment of words ...

for them are even green weapons, that can have millions of players
"unique weapons" oO

such said unique weapoins, which use also weapon reskins -___-

For me an unique weapon is only unique, when it exists really only ONCE in the whole game and when it really looks like no other weapon in the WHOLE game ..
THAT's UNIQUE !!...

but the only thing in what Anet was unique succesful in with EotN, was in creating an unique disappointment !!


I really wished me, anet would have release a 4th Chapter instead of an Add On ... A next campaign, which would have brought another 2 new Classes, which would improve further the game by implementing another new weapon kinds and fight styles. an campaign ,which would then implement beneath the Dungeons further new gameplay systems maybe, like a Combo-System...

A campaign, which would bring another new continent, but jut without a dumb tutorial ...theres no need that a new campaign must have ever tutorials, only cause of implemented new classes, thats bullshit...
theres even no need for tutorials at all, wtf gives it for this manuals, that can describe everything and the rest learns the player alone by just playing the game, making quests that automatically explain stuff by normal playing, while playing and doing things.


A shit personally on such crap add ons like EoTN, when we miss through such stuff then 2 new awesome possible classes, like the Chronomancer and the Corsair or whatever (Bard and so on, which would be absolutely alone more innovative, then the whole EoTN itself ....

Imo EoTn and the plans on GW2 are too rushed ...

Dante the Warlord

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2006

W/R

Well, at least we get the consolation of Guild Wars Bonus Mission Pack...

Martin Firestorm

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

Louisiana

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Phoenix Tears
this is all only absolute unneccessary Gold Sink³ ...
Where's the footnote?