What is there to do?

FatalSpirit

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2007

FINE

E/W

Hi, I am just here to clarify some things. I have heard that on Roleplaying in prophecies there is nothing to do once you reach level 20 besides get new gear and do quests/missions. Is that correct?

Biostem

Biostem

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Oct 2007

Level 20 is only where the game really starts to get interesting. Anyway, what more would you want from the game other than more quests, armor, items, enemies, etc?

Winston

Winston

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2006

Melbourne, Australia

Correct for the most part. There are several 'Elite' areas that you can do at higher levels though.

FatalSpirit

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2007

FINE

E/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by Biostem
Level 20 is only where the game really starts to get interesting. Anyway, what more would you want from the game other than more quests, armor, items, enemies, etc?
Interesting as in how? What can I do at level 20 besides quests/missions/getting best gear?

is there any runs you have to do with a guild or something and get good at. any achievements of some sort to do? anything?

Biostem

Biostem

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Oct 2007

PvE is not where you do guild battles - the battle isles are where you do that sort of thing. Join a guild if you want to do that kind of stuff.

PvE follows a plot and story. At level 20 you finally start to get access to the best armor, and the game ceases to pull any punches. While certain builds can stroll through the PvE game w/ ease, most have to actually start strategizing a bit. In general, a team consisting of other human players will outperform an all henchman team, so that's another big plus. You'll also start being able to capture elite skills, and you can join parties for the fissure of woe or the underworld, which are 2 elite areas.

I don't know how else to answer you, though - the game is about fighting enemies, completing quests, and getting stuff...

Heavenly Messanger

Heavenly Messanger

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2007

Looking for one >.>

Mo/

The elite areas are the Underworld and the Fissure of Woe, (and Sorrow's Furnace, if it's considered elite). These have provided hundreds of hours of entertainment (for me), and i repeat them even if i've beaten it. And don't assume that completeing all of the quests is easy. There's so many, it's near innumerable to me. And you're given hundreds of skills, with a crazy amount of combinations (of professions and their skills), so you can make your own builds, explore...Guild Wars really isn't that limited; the quests and missions just provide a simple storyline that you're supposed to follow. Many people even skip a large part of the story (in Prophecies), the Maguuma Jungle.

If you do get bored with Prophecies, which i still haven't after over 2k hours, then i suggest buying GWEN, as it's only $30 instead of 50 and provides heroes, 11 dungeons, and so on.

Best of luck.

October Jade

October Jade

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

drifting between Indiana and NorCal

It seems to me that oh-so-many players here are digging for ways to sink countless hours into a game in return for ph4t l3wtz and e-peen. GW isn't really made for that.

Hanging one's self-worth on something so trivial is pretty dumb, no matter what game is in question. Even the most 'prestigious' instances are a matter of copying a build that someone else created and then pressing buttons in response to AI that cannot adapt.

I usually suggest cutting down on computer time and replacing it with physical activity. Try it for two weeks and you'll wonder why you ever cared about titles or fissure armor.

Whirlwind

Whirlwind

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2007

Wolven Empire

D/

Quote:
Originally Posted by October Jade
It seems to me that oh-so-many players here are digging for ways to sink countless hours into a game in return for ph4t l3wtz and e-peen. GW isn't really made for that.

Hanging one's self-worth on something so trivial is pretty dumb, no matter what game is in question. Even the most 'prestigious' instances are a matter of copying a build that someone else created and then pressing buttons in response to AI that cannot adapt.

I usually suggest cutting down on computer time and replacing it with physical activity. Try it for two weeks and you'll wonder why you ever cared about titles or fissure armor.
A lot of people play the game because they already tried real life and for the most part it blows. Then again it depends on your personal situations but in my experience they are both over rated anyway. For example when i take a break from GW i usually find that i don't have anything else to do anyway so i go back to it, or another game for a while. Guess it just depends how much you have going on in your life or have access to...

There are the people who grind titles and quest because they truely want to even tho they have other opportunitys and miss out on real life stuff because of it.

Then theres people who have nothing else to do so do that simply to pass the time half way enjoyably.

For that reason, its very rude to assume the OP or anyone else is in search of phat lewts or e-peen. Or to assume that they are "digging" for it.

October Jade

October Jade

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

drifting between Indiana and NorCal

I'm gonna work backward on this one.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Whirlwind
its very rude to assume the OP or anyone else is in search of phat lewts or e-peen.
I make that assumption because more often than not, it's true. New players pick up Guild Wars after tiring of Generic MMO #812 and expect it to be nearly the same game minus a subscription cost. In a majority of games, character development is vertical; the overarching theme is the drive to make numbers bigger than they were before. GW, in contrast, expands horizontally. It is this plateau effect that some players will never grasp: "WTF, you mean that's it? I made the max level in three days; this game's retarded" et al.

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There are the people who grind titles and quest because they truely want to even tho they have other opportunitys and miss out on real life stuff because of it.
Bolded for emphasis. This is precisely the audience to whom I speak. No one on earth ever faces the twilight of his life and thinks, "You know, I wish I had watched more television." It won't happen for games either.

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A lot of people play the game because they already tried real life and for the most part it blows. Then again it depends on your personal situations but in my experience they are both over rated anyway.
Life is overrated? Seriously...what are you, some kind of emo kid? I'm sorry your experience thus far has been so traumatic.

Wish Swiftdeath

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2007

Mo/W

unless you get bullied id say that real life > games.

I would drop GW to go out with friends as soon as the phone rings(unless im in a GvG where i'd try to help my team win before going). Even if we're supposed to do top 100gvg(which im too noob to do) i would still go.

Iuris

Iuris

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

Crazy ducks from the Forest

W/

Quote:
Hi, I am just here to clarify some things. I have heard that on Roleplaying in prophecies there is nothing to do once you reach level 20 besides get new gear and do quests/missions. Is that correct?
The only thing that STOPS at lvl 20 is gaining more levels. You can do everything else.
-the game is balanced to provide a challenge to lvl 20 characters - you never get overpowered. You do, however, get so good at using the character that you can do most of the content with one hand tied behind your back.
-You get more proficient by acquiring more skills and adapting them to the situation at hand.
-You get "Elite" areas, where more skill is needed from full player parties (Fissure of Woe, Underworld, Urgroz warren, Kanaxai's lair, Domain of Anguish).

ShadowsRequiem

ShadowsRequiem

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2005

Inde is Smoking [Hawt] *ToA*

W/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by October Jade
It seems to me that oh-so-many players here are digging for ways to sink countless hours into a game in return for ph4t l3wtz and e-peen. GW isn't really made for that.

Hanging one's self-worth on something so trivial is pretty dumb, no matter what game is in question. Even the most 'prestigious' instances are a matter of copying a build that someone else created and then pressing buttons in response to AI that cannot adapt.

I usually suggest cutting down on computer time and replacing it with physical activity. Try it for two weeks and you'll wonder why you ever cared about titles or fissure armor.
sorry mastrubation doesnt count as physical activity.

October Jade

October Jade

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

drifting between Indiana and NorCal

Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowsRequiem
sorry mastrubation doesnt count as physical activity.
Clever and classy. I bet your parents are proud.

Also, flaming is more effective when you bother to spell correctly. Thanks for trying though; it was an admirable attempt. You'll get there one of these days.

quickmonty

quickmonty

Ancient Windbreaker

Join Date: May 2005

Playing GW beats clicking the TV remote for hours.

DarkNecrid

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by quickmonty
Playing GW beats clicking the TV remote for hours.
It's still 1-2-3 either way.

Fried Tech

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2007

[Yeti]

E/

lol. so true.

quickmonty

quickmonty

Ancient Windbreaker

Join Date: May 2005

GW requires one to be somewhat mentally active. Watching TV hardly requires a pulse.

Shadow Spirit

Shadow Spirit

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2006

Chicago

your cat eats dog food [pup]

N/E

There is plenty to do after lvl 20. Reaching max lvl isn't the point of GW anyway. There is so much to explore and you're probably only half finished with a campaign if you're just reaching lvl 20.

Finish the game's storyline.

Join a good Guild.

Invent Hero builds and vanquish.

Try another proffession or secondary proffession.

Lots to do.

Yanman.be

Yanman.be

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

Belgium

[ROSE]

A/

I've said to myself often: I wish I played more videogames, then I would be able to achieve something at ESL....

Alex Morningstar

Alex Morningstar

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

Team Asshat [Hat] leader - [GR] Alliance

Mo/

Levelling isn't the point.

It's to goof with your builds in new areas even though a cookie cutter build will probably work fine and then get abused by pugs. When you get tired of that, you join a guild and probably subject yourself to 14 year olds talking about the 5 different ways they tried to achieve auto-fellatio and failed.

Hey, at least they tried though.

Quaker

Quaker

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

Quote:
Originally Posted by FatalSpirit
Hi, I am just here to clarify some things. I have heard that on Roleplaying in prophecies there is nothing to do once you reach level 20 besides get new gear and do quests/missions. Is that correct?
Um whuh?! What else IS there to do in any RPG besides getting new gear and doing quests/missions? (Well, I suppose there's PvP, but...)
Unless you consider grinding out levels to be "something to do". Even in RPGs like WoW that have more "levels", you still basically do quests/missions and get new gear. And if you want to grind, you can grind out titles in GW - which in many ways acts like getting higher levels.

FatalSpirit

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2007

FINE

E/W

To all you smart asses trying to give me a life lesson. Go stfu and find something better to do. I didn't ask for you to tell me that I am playing a video game because there is something wrong with my life. Never asked anyone how to allocate my computer time. I feel sorry for you that told me this because obviously you cannot read and respond to questions correctly. To all of you that gave me answers having to do with my question and the game, thank you very much and thanks for your time