Guild Wars Ranking/Ratings

The guild system was advertised as a way of global competition. I'm looking right now at my box.

And if you've played halo, you'd understand something about balance. It's why the pistol from H1 was absent in 2, nerfed to hell in updates in H2, and rebalanced out in H3. But, nice memory there.

What the hell are you talking about?

Completely agree. I am still mad they changed the text on gold items from rare *insert item* to the name of item just being in gold. Sad thing is the bulk of the damage done to this game was from Anet's Jihad against the Chinese farmer. Someone there should have paused and said shouldnt there be a fine line between trying to drive them out and pushing away our customerbase.

Your right, globle competition was avertized, but no warning was given to skill balance, they could of mention that in the manual. A last they did not.

Anyway, only played H1 on PC, don't own 360.

Well my ratings for the games, when not considering skill balance are

Prophetcies= 9.5
Factions= 8.0, too short and did not live up to name, but professions good
Nightfall= 8.5, heros were a nice change, but with the parigon nerfs so early, only one real profession came out of it.
GW:EN= 8.5, did not deliver on what they avertised, as far as how dungons work.

I wish you could score a KILLTACULAR in GW PvP.

GW PVP isn't about killtacular.. well actually, spikes. lol good idea? >>

I personally am glad we don't have as much imbalance in Guild Wars as what would have happened with version 1 of every skill in GW. Original skills from Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall, and Eyes of the North were very imba, especially Nightfall. Obviously, there's room for improvement still.

The biggest reason I see that the ratings have been lower in each successive release is that essentially regardless of what has been added, it is "more of the same". There hasn't been any change to the basic engine mechanics since Prophecies and after two and a half years, the engine is simply showing its age.

I see so many complaints.. about how this or that sucks compared to another chapter.. For me, the ONLY issue I've had, going from Prophecies into each chapter as it was released and into GW:EN, was that there were NO skill quests in Factions and NF. We had to buy everything past the first few skills. That took some of the joy of doing quests out of the game for me. Happily they re-added that aspect a bit in GW:EN with the PVE skills.

Otherwise I have enjoyed all four releases the same.. Each one had something different to offer, a different way to get through the game that kept if from always being the same as what came before. Sure the locked gates in Factions made a huge change from what some had gotten used to in Proph, but I never ever noticed it really as being a problem.. I bought the game to play through ALL of it and had no intention of skipping parts anyhow.

Same with NF. It changed things up again to balance between the play of the first two. SO what if they added a bit of a requirement in the SS ranks.. That actually made sense. You wouldn't put a no talent, unknown scrub in charge of saving your world. You'd entrust that responsibility to someone who have proven their worth. And the "grind" was so minimal that the only time you noticed it was if you were trying to once again rush through the game or brought in a foreign born character (at first).

GW:EN introduced some very very cool things, regardless of the fact that some of the artwork was rehashed or copy and pasted.. so what. Granted I love the beautiful scenery, but I don't go around looking at it to the point where I'm going to gripe and complain incessantly if it happens to come around again every so often in the course of the game. They've already dealt with the major grind issues in GW:EN as well, so that isn't a big deal. Wasn't a huge deal in the first place really.

As for all the balances, monster behavior changes, and the addition of loot scaling... not a single one of these things has ever dampened my enjoyment of the game.

What always strikes me as funny is the fact that Humans are the top dog on the planet because we have been one of the most adaptable species ever to evolve. But I've never seen so much howling over something as simple and meaningless as changes in a video game. It's really a wonder we've made it this far.

Right in the EULA. "A.net reserves the rights to alter or shut down their property at any time." - or something to that affect.

You signed it right when you installed the game. *gasp* didn't actually read it? Shame on you. Court of law says you are supposed to (though ignorance of the contract can be used as an excuse succesfully, it isn't the true letter of the law).

Most games that have any pretense of there being fair competition have continual skill balances, in the form of patches. Any online game changes drastically as it goes on - changes don't have to be 'warned', they're a given. In a game where there are new skills being added, skills need to be tweaked to be on an even standing not only with each other but in the potential combinations they can be used in (which leads to problems like MoR/Diversion where Diversion is nerfed to make it fairer under MoR).

Considering the Paragon is one of the most powerful PvP and PvE classes in the game, I think it's due for a few more. Anet put two classes into the game with completely broken mechanics (Mysticism, Energizing Finale and other skills) that had to be repeatedly toned down once they realized how stupid they were.


Skill balances were essential, but on that note, adding so many new skills and classes played hell with the balance of the game. Every one of the new classes has had some class-specific broken mechanic which has arisen to make the gameplay of a previously very level PvP setting far less enjoyable.

this topic is a great example of how when 1 person says somthing negative it spreads into 30+ complainers. when people say i dont like guildwars anymore, then why are you on one of its fansites... just dont post its a waste of our time (including yours)

lol gl understanding what i said

Heheh I love it if GW put in stuff like that for killin in PVP I would have never turned off all the sound.

UNREAL FTW (HEAD SHOT!!!!!),mmmMEGAKILL