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kupp

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2008

The Shiverpeaks

[KISS]

W/

10 Jul 2008 at 16:34 - 1

Hello you guild wars guru's!

I need some opinions from you guys, i've always loved mmorpg's, and guild wars was my favorite on the short list of those i've played. Until 4 months ago when my computer broke, i was playing it, and now i'm itching to get back on an mmo, and installed guild wars right after!

But like 4 months ago, i found out that i have nothing else to do in the game, and nothing to keep me on it!

And this is where i need you guys, i've finished the prophecies campaign 3 times, and the EoTN and Nightfall once... I've maxed out all my characters, got elite armor on them, done pretty much everything i can remember, but right now i don't know what to do. I thought of buying Factions wich i don't have, but i'm not about to spend money on a game that i'll probably not even finish.
I'm just tired of continously killing mobs alone, with a henchmen party only, for an online game i feel awefully lonely. I don't have a guild at the moment, and even tough i like the pvp side of the game, that alone isn't enough for me.

I hope you see my problem, i still love guild wars, pretty much everything about this game but i just don't know what to do next, for a week all i've been doing is giving away some of my weapons for newbies in ascalon. I very much want to keep playing, but honestly don't know how.

SO - i'd like to know what keeps you in this game. Is it the titles (wich i'm not into at all), the guild teamwork, simply grinding... Whatever it is really, please share your thoughts opinions and ideas, what do you do after finishing the campaigns, and what can i do next?

Cheers!

ps: sorry for the long post xD

Kusandaa

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

N/Mo

10 Jul 2008 at 16:40 - 2

I'd suggest to find a good guild, if you're guildless. They may take you on runs, or you can help them as well - sometimes teaming up with people or meeting new ones help you in keeping into the game.

I focused on titles for a while but I got bored of it, so now I'm spread on 3 different online games, plus console stuff I'm trying to play on again.

And when it gets really boring and nothing sounds interesting, IMO it's time to move on. Not everyone plays GW for the same reasons.

JONO51

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2006

P/

10 Jul 2008 at 16:43 - 3

Titles (do them in random spurts though lol), trying new builds and talking to/helping friends etc.

Mister_Smiley

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

10 Jul 2008 at 16:47 - 4

Well its the Guildmates and the Friends that i've made that keep me here, as well as getting titles and items that i want, of course i do takes breaks here and and there, but i'm not gone a long time. The one thing i love about Guild Wars is that you can leave, come back, leave and come back.

P.S. Of course my Main goal is to get GWAMM

RavagerOfDreams

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2007

somewhere over the rainbow....

A/

10 Jul 2008 at 16:48 - 5

PvP

121212121212

Steboy93

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Feb 2007

Trinity of the Ascended [ToA] | Ex-Officer [TAM]

W/

10 Jul 2008 at 16:50 - 6

Having nothing else to do.

Snow Bunny

Alcoholic From Yale

Join Date: Jul 2007

Strong Foreign Policy [sFp]

10 Jul 2008 at 16:52 - 7

G
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zzzzzzzzzz

korcan

noobalicious

Join Date: Jun 2006

10 Jul 2008 at 16:53 - 8

What keeps me in guildwars you ask?

Mild addiction and boredom.

DarkNecrid

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2006

10 Jul 2008 at 16:54 - 9

PvP.
Waiting for updates like the one today.
the drama

Thizzle

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2008

10 Jul 2008 at 16:54 - 10

I would say PvP and the fact that there's nothing better to play. It's definitely my favorite MMO.

Ctb

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

W/

10 Jul 2008 at 16:57 - 11

If you don't care for PvP, then nothing. Guild Wars has no end game content unless you think hitting the 1-8 keys on your keyboard is "end game content".

If you've done everything in the campaigns, and you don't care for PvP, just find something else to do, you've gotten your money's worth.

As far as what keeps ME in the game: nothing. I stopped logging in weeks ago, except to torment stupid people in LA every now and then when I'm bored.

kupp

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2008

The Shiverpeaks

[KISS]

W/

10 Jul 2008 at 16:57 - 12

Kusandaa i play a few other games too, but i played guild wars for over 6 months, and even today i still have the urge to jump on my warrior or monk and get into some mob killing. Few other games struck me the way Guild Wars did. But after 10 minutes of gameplay, i quit in absolute boredom, that's why i'm want to hear opinions, even tough i play other games i'd rather try to find something else to do in GW than to move away from it. :P

Ctb that is very true... I was thinking into getting into another MMO, thought of trying on wow for a month, not more, i'd rather avoid the subscription fees... All i am is giving this game one last change before it's left on the shelf permenantly.

Shadowhaze

Nothing, tra la la?

Join Date: Oct 2007

10 Jul 2008 at 16:58 - 13

Quote:

Originally Posted by korcan

What keeps me in guildwars you ask?

Mild addiction and boredom.

Haha, that sums it up nicely.

Sometimes I'll work on my other neglected chars if I get bored of my main and stuff.

pfaile

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2007

Orlando

Divine Order of Heroes

P/R

10 Jul 2008 at 16:59 - 14

I found myself asking this a little over a month ago while I was "playing" grinding out Kurzick faction for a few hours, realizing that I am now just wasting time, figured it was time to take a chance and try something else. Will I come back? Most likely, its just once you get to a point in this game, it is like hitting a wall.

Orange Milk

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

Ganking, USA

Retired

R/

10 Jul 2008 at 17:03 - 15

PvP as in GvG and TA

Oh, and the occasional creation of solo farm builds.

N1ghtstalker

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2007

E/

10 Jul 2008 at 17:10 - 16

the laughs
i love saying i reported someone for trade spam in local chat and when he flames me i can report him again for abusive language, so funny to watch ppl work their way down the pit
also just randomness
i run around in spamadan saying everything is epic and have some lulz with ppl who join me in my epic quest of epicness through spamadan

Kanyatta

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2006

Guildless, pm me

R/Mo

10 Jul 2008 at 17:11 - 17

GvG

12charlimit

Ate of DK

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

Netherlands

None but Fools [nuts]

10 Jul 2008 at 17:12 - 18

I've been playing PvP since the beginning.
That's what keeps me playing GW.
PvE is boring and easy, especially when you have a GWAMM.

IlikeGW

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

10 Jul 2008 at 17:15 - 19

I uninstalled a couple of months ago. What have I missed? An event mask? Yeah, that's what keeps me not playing.

I suppose they added some skill stuff but I don't care, it amounts to GW2 pre-tests anyway. They're just too transparent these days.

Mr. Mystica

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2007

hmm..domain of anguish?

Me/N

10 Jul 2008 at 17:16 - 20

ummm my guild keeps me in guild wars (oh yeah love the politics lol) But seriously I can't leve my baby alone :P that and keeping in contact with my friends

Nowadays what keeps me in game is vanquishing and hard mode dungeon running

aaje vhanli

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2006

10 Jul 2008 at 17:19 - 21

Knowing that, after ~2 years, I've still only seen 70% of what the entire game has to offer.

Jetdoc

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Jul 2005

The Eyes of Texas [BEVO]

D/A

10 Jul 2008 at 17:20 - 22

My playstyle.

I personally attempt to do everything in the game (i.e. missions, quests, areas) solo without heroes or henchmen on each of my five characters. The challenge in doing this is immense but extremely gratifying.

In addition, I play one character solely through a campaign beginning to end (with all quests and elite skill caps in between) before I think about touching another character. That gets me fully immersed in the intricacies of that character without going ADHD on all my other guys. It's almost a new game experience whenever I start a campaign with one of my characters as I need to "relearn" many of the techniques that I had developed for that character the last time I played with them (sometimes it's over 9 months before I touch one again).

Those two factors keep Guild Wars almost as fresh as the day I bought the game over 3 years ago.

Rocky Raccoon

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

Massachusetts, USA

Guardians of the Cosmos

R/Mo

10 Jul 2008 at 17:28 - 23

Seeing as I have taken my time, I still have much to do. Also, my guild mates who have become my friends. So "what the heket" I keep playing because it is fun.

romeus petrus

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2006

Urgoz Warren

Legion of Doom [LOD] Home of PWNZILLA http://PWNZILLA.guildlaunch.com

10 Jul 2008 at 17:28 - 24

My guild. If it weren't for LOD I would have stopped playing over a year ago.

Sir Earl Lionheart

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2008

Ohio, USA

Elite Farming Specialist

R/

10 Jul 2008 at 17:44 - 25

I like running with guildies and I also like helping out newbies... Not that i am the most experienced player... I don't help beggers and people like that. But if i see someone who really wants to work for their own i will help them with their builds, attribute point placement (really common issue for newbies). I don't give em money, but i will show them how to make some. Or give them stuff to clear out my inventory that i just don't feel like taking the time to sell myself.

A Leprechaun

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

10 Jul 2008 at 17:47 - 26

I live in the middle of nowhere so the social contact with my guild keeps me playing, that and having nothing better to do.

~A Leprechaun~

Tyla

Emo Goth Italics

Join Date: Sep 2006

10 Jul 2008 at 17:48 - 27

I have nothing better to do.

BlackSephir

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

A/N

10 Jul 2008 at 17:53 - 28

My guild. There's nothing interesting left to do in gw.

Accursed

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2007

10 Jul 2008 at 17:57 - 29

Desepiration for GWAMM. Addiction. Boredom.

Top 3 things in the game that keep me in-game.

Wanda X

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2008

Texas

Summer of [LOVE]

Rt/

10 Jul 2008 at 18:03 - 30

I've been playing ~2yrs now and have hit that brick wall a few times myself. What helped me is finding the right mix of people to keep me motivated to play. I am in a great guild and one person in particular always has this and that crazy idea in her head about some new idea or some new title she wants, of course I get sucked into and have a ball with it. I've also met a few non guild people who are on my friends list now and even though I may have nothing to work on at the moment I'll go help them and have some laughs and some fun along the way.

I use to go guildless because the few I had been in were rather tedious to say the least. But once I found the right one, the game felt all new again. Even if it was something I had already done, going back to Vizunah to help a guildie through it became a treat, or getting a group up to go kill Rotscale "just because" really added to it, and I think the companionship helped a lot. I never believed it until it happened, but I do think it is the human side of the game that kept me in it.

Scarn

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2007

10 Jul 2008 at 18:08 - 31

My guild.
12 chars

ReZDoGG

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2007

Indian Township, ME

Nativ War Party (NWP)

Rt/Mo

10 Jul 2008 at 18:08 - 32

The only thing keeping any long time GW player is titles at the moment, and working on your own Hall of Monuments... or the occassional farming to make money. But all that eventually gets boring.

Personally, I am getting to the point where everything is getting boring, and I don't even play all that much to begin with. Sometimes I log into Guild Wars just because there is nothing else to do, and end up logging back out with in 10 minutes because there is nothing that I would really have fun doing at the moment. I really think that people are going to start falling out of Guild Wars rather fast, knowing there is 2 years until GW2. If there is no more Campaigns or Expansions to hold us out until then, I don't know what will. Little in-game changes and festivals will not be enough to hold all the players around until then. Eventually Guild Wars will be a huge ghost town. Knowing all this, and for some reason, I am expecting them to give us another suprise Expansion to keep us playing, otherwise they will fail at keeping players around.

No more expansions or campaigns = death of GW.

Krill

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

America

10 Jul 2008 at 18:08 - 33

Lack of interest in learning a new game. When I started playing GW I was mixed up in 3 games, Unreal Tournament, Day of Defeat and Guild Wars (GG time!) but UT and DoD have totally died in the interim, leaving GW as the only game I have to play.

Pleikki

WTB q8 15^50 Weapons!

Join Date: Nov 2006

???oo ???ugs ???lan [?????????]

10 Jul 2008 at 18:17 - 34

Friends, fun to do everything with em

Michiganfootballfan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2008

Michigan

Mystics Of Relic

W/Mo

10 Jul 2008 at 18:25 - 35

Ive beat prophecies and factions, with a warrior and assassin. Im still working on Nightfall with my Dervish, so that keeps me busy. Right now im in the desolation. But if im not playing my ranger on prophecies, I do runs with my warrior and farm most of the time just to keep me entertained.

evilseabass

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2007

10 Jul 2008 at 19:04 - 36

I've been playing since day 1 of Prophecies release. The only reason I'm still playing is because there are no other games out that interest me right now.

That will change when Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 come out, at which point, GW2 better be damn good if it wants to get equal share of my gaming time...

Abedeus

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Jan 2007

Niflheim

R/

10 Jul 2008 at 19:08 - 37

Meh. I play only for lulz on RA. Other than that:

PvE - Ragnarok Online/Diablo 2.
PvP - RO/Enemy Territory
Thinking - Sometimes Starcraft/Warhammer.
Epic Lulz - Overlord/Simpsons H'n'R.

SunrayVenus

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2007

GMT-4

Fellows of Mythgar [FOM] and part of the Wizardry Players [WPG] Alliance

P/

10 Jul 2008 at 19:48 - 38

I didn’t play GW until several months after Factions came out and I am not much of a gamer.

Then I became addicted, and bought all the GW when they came out. But with minimal time to spend, I am still slowly progressing through GW missions and quests. I initially enjoyed making new characters, getting them to level 20, and playing the missions with heros and henchies.

Well, I still wanted to do the quests and missions by myself, but I was lonely and wanted to be around nice folks. So went looking for a guild that seemed to fit my style.

So to answer your question, my Guild is what has kept me in the game.

My guild leader is a gentle spirit that keeps every one respectful of each other. I play PvE on my own but the folks are still around to add spice to the game. We have a good mix of young and not so young and we enjoy each other’s company.

I have even thought I might ask for help on those missions were I am stuck, maybe as a celebration for my birthday…………but not just yet, I enjoy the challenge of trying to figure out why I can’t beat a mission.

MrGuildBoi

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2006

A/

10 Jul 2008 at 19:49 - 39

Motivation to keep going and get all titles for HoM for Guild Wars 2 since it's gonna be account based soon. (On 1 char of course :P)

I MP I

Hustler

Join Date: Nov 2006

in between GW2 servers

Mo/

10 Jul 2008 at 19:53 - 40

The people in my guild are pretty much the only reason I bother logging in anymore.