Do you play for fun? (regarding titles, ursan, pvp, farming)

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Omnidragon42
Krytan Explorer
#41
Been playing 29 months, over 2700 hours.

I play for fun.

Farming? Awesome! I love finding new ways to crack tough areas, and nothing beats the thrill of wiping out 20 mobs within a matter of seconds. And the money is nice too

Ursan? Helps with those tough areas. A friend of mine called me a "Bring Ursan but don't use it" warrior - I only buff up when it's that or wipe. Other people can use it if they want though, they don't affect me.

Titles? I love collecting things, and titles are no different. I've got 16 maxed titles on my warrior, and after the short break I'm on now, I'm vanquishing and mapping tyria for the next 4 (legendaries >_>)

PvP? Even with all the sway in halls, I still have fun playing, although once I hit my next rank I probably won't HA again unless invited. Other forms of PvP are great fun too, so long as you don't take it too seriously.

If you don't play for fun, why play at all?

Two and half years and loving it every day ^_^
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Malice Black
Site Legend
#42
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Originally Posted by Clarissa F
Mmmm.....Conan....

I play for fun. This means that I'm being drawn to PvP, as the asshat quotient is just too much for me in PvE.

That said, I'll be uninstalling in May. Skipping a few lattes a month is worth it to play Conan. You can see where the money goes with that game.
Indeed Sign up for the Conan board if you haven't already. I'm using the same name.
beanerman_99
beanerman_99
Wilds Pathfinder
#43
I play for fun. I usually do somthing different each time I log in. One night its AB. next night farm. next night try to get into elite missions. next night jsut mess around.
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Zahr Dalsk
Grotto Attendant
#44
I play for fun. Conan... may be good, I'm keeping an eye on it, but my main targets are the BioWare MMO (Because it's made by BioWare and will therefor be of higher quality than other games as per the company policy) and the 40K MMO by Vigil and THQ, because it's 40K.

(By the way, as to Malice Black, I'm not sure how you think changing online games will free you from the carebears... the little buggers are everywhere. And they're so much fun to assault.)
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Malice Black
Site Legend
#45
But there will be no hand holding in AoC. Lose in PvP and you drop gold (blood money) which can then be used to purchase items for PvP.

The who thing about battling for control of keeps sounds good. I hope it's better worked then the shambles that was Factions. HFFF sucks...badly

PvE will be a distraction this time around. I plan on being king of the castle
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Zahr Dalsk
Grotto Attendant
#46
Define hand holding in this case, please; I'm a bit confused as to what it's referring to, though anything that punishes the weak and the incompetent is great in my book
Spirit Of Azrael
Spirit Of Azrael
Echo-mending Master
#47
755 hours, almost three years. I don't play much, lol.

I enjoy solo farming, but never do it in a "hardcore" way. Just an hour or two of Vermin on event weekends, then back to whatever I was planning on doing at the time.
Jetdoc
Jetdoc
Hell's Protector
#48
I don't have any max titles other than protector, guardian or vanquisher titles, as I view "fun" as playing the main storyline and all of its quests.

I'm a completionist at heart, and my goal is to solo every possible mission, quest and area in the game. Checking off that "box" as completed is what keeps me going.

As a result, titles (other than Level 1 Drunkard, since that is what I am in real life) and virtual wealth (and everything that goes with those two) are meaningless as long as I can be functional in my completionist pursuits.
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Destro Maniak
Jungle Guide
#49
HOW ABOUT THIS!
I grind, ursan, rep titles, lb/ss FOR FUN!
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Destro Maniak
Jungle Guide
#50
HOW ABOUT THIS!
I grind, ursan, rep titles, lb/ss FOR FUN!
and ursan owns imo.
ursan made me able to do doa I owe alot to it
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Malice Black
Site Legend
#51
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Originally Posted by Zahr Dalsk
Define hand holding in this case, please; I'm a bit confused as to what it's referring to, though anything that punishes the weak and the incompetent is great in my book
Heroes
Inscriptions
Greens
Normal Mode
Nefing missions/quests due to QQ (poor THK )
Adding PvE skills

and so forth.

Prob get a flame or 10, but oh well. I haz tough intraweb skin
bpphantom
bpphantom
Lion's Arch Merchant
#52
I'm all PvE (barring the costume brawl which was awesome), and pretty much just fun.

However, I do want the bennies that the HoM will give us in GW2, so I do try and grind out some things. The weapons are going to be the hardest part honestly. Those things are stupid expensive.
bpphantom
bpphantom
Lion's Arch Merchant
#53
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Originally Posted by Malice Black
Indeed Sign up for the Conan board if you haven't already. I'm using the same name.
Not into development
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Malice Black
Site Legend
#54
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Originally Posted by bpphantom
Not into development
Not the offical one, but the one on the main site will be closed and everyone who has posted moved over to the offical forums (hope that makes sense)
Trub
Trub
Jungle Guide
#55
PvE Challenge ladder ftw..
But, FoW/Urgoz....sooooooooo fun!
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Ouchie
Krytan Explorer
#56
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Originally Posted by hurric
This thread is more directed for people who've played the game for at least 8 months or more.
That's me and yes I play for fun with my family (4 of us) and a few friends usually
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Titles
The benefit you get in PvE Skills is just as good in lvl 9 compared to level 10 but the grind it requires is a lot more. If you enjoy maxing titles, it's all good but after 1.5 years of gameplay I have 0 maxed titles.
my alternative: play every (elite) area in game at least once or try crazy builds rather than fill in HM books (same quests over and over). Where's the fun in that? (but if having a maxed title is fun for you, then it's all good)
I can't stand grind and am having trouble finishing my grind based titles - but mapping and a few others weren't too bad (14 maxed right now) - to max the grind based ones I take my main to help my fiends and family newer characters but it's taking mucho time to get there.
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Ursan
The whole creativity of making a 8-man team disappears. Play want to play to clear an area as fast as possible to get the maximum reward.

I can understand if the game was new or for newer players who want cash fast but shouldn't people be inclined to do more creative stuff rather than stick to ursan after almost 3 years the game has been out? I personally take my paragon to UW and people call me n00b or paras suck or leave group when i say this is a non-ursan group.
I don't do URSAN - don't get me wrong I don't mind having an Ursan player in my group (my hubby likes his necro to go Bear). I just don't like being one. However for the sake of argument and to be a team player, if everyone insisted and I couldn't be my monk I would grudgingly have to consent to join in the group as an Ursan and mumble among friends about how much I dislike it. (lol) This has never happened yet.

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PvP
There's an abundance of R/D Sway. Again this is all good for newer players but higher ranked players are running this.
People will play whatever they want to play - we are all free to do the same so it doesn't bother me either way. Yes people are do well with a FoM build but people have always done well with FoM (iway - vimway- Starburster.....)

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Farming
this is where the most creativity comes into play and kudos to all people who come up with builds.
This is everything we do really farming is playing and is most rewarding when you get the most rewards. I do only a few places solo though

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On the other hand, I really enjoy it when people play something creative like all mesmer team fow or even time challenges in UW/FoW (even with ursan) because that promotes some thinking.

So if you really play for fun, shouldn't we see "MOAR" creative clear of elite areas rather than less. (esp. after enough game play where you'd have more than enough money/armor/etc.)
After you have done an area enough times using an odd build shouldn't hurt your chances of finishing. It's only when you haven't done an area before or have only been there once or twice that things seem to be difficult. (I am not talking about sheer volume of critters either)

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so do you play for fun?
Yup definately for fun
C R A F T
C R A F T
Frost Gate Guardian
#57
I play for fun!!

I don't like pugs/PVP/GVG/AB because the build I use is the one I'm comfortable using. Making me change to fill a niche just throws off my balance/timing and keystrokes.

I have no Maxed titles.

My weapons are ones that look good with the character more than give me the best stats.

It's only a game!
Itokaru
Itokaru
Academy Page
#58
Yeah, I play for fun. I haven't PvE'd in months o.o

It's too bad that ANet had to ruin RA by implementing titles =(
RA has changed from casual PvP to a hardcore elitist flamefest. I think I've met a total of three people that actually have a measure of gamesmanship.


Q_Q
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Zahr Dalsk
Grotto Attendant
#59
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Originally Posted by Malice Black
Heroes
Inscriptions
Greens
Normal Mode
Nefing missions/quests due to QQ (poor THK )
Adding PvE skills
Ah, fair enough. (I find heroes useful because my personality tends to conflict with most guilds, except Video Game Junkies [METH] who were awesome, but I left them anyways on account of too much Ventrilo and too little ingame chat. I don't think heroes have a place in PvP though.).

If AoC does not have the worthless title-RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO styled stuff from Gw or the monotonous genocide quests from WoW, I'll need to acquire a copy upon release

What I'd like to see in a PvP oriented game is something similar to Dark Messiah but without the balance issues, the shitty engine (Source or whatever, that one made by the clowns at Valve), etc.
Fear Me!
Fear Me!
Frost Gate Guardian
#60
I always play for fun, regardless of what I'm doing atm.