The Scoop with M.O.X.

Omega Precept

Omega Precept

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2007

San Francisco, CA

Graduates of Berkeley

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Closed until update goes live

As many of you know tomorrow during the update a new hero will become available named M.O.X. The Golem. I was wondering if anyone has uncovered any details as how to obtain this hero besides that you have to have all three campaigns.

For a bit more limited information check out wiki:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/M.O.X.

Cheers

~Mega

Sorn Xarann

Sorn Xarann

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

Us Are Not [leet]

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incredibly limited information

slowerpoke

slowerpoke

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2007

Cuba

no, wait till tomorrow

Jumping Is Uselss

Jumping Is Uselss

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

-... . .... .. -. -.. / -.-- --- ..-

nothing on the link OP

DarkNecrid

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2006

He's coming tomorrow.

That's the scoop.

R.Shayne

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2007

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/MOX

Try this link

Nightow

Nightow

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2006

Kindred Order of Souls [KOS]

Wait for tomorrow's update notes I guess.

*Prays to Grenth that Linsey was able to make another cross-campaign quest*

EroChrono

EroChrono

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Netherlands

[WitB]

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There's not much to know about it I guess.
Name is MOX, looks like a Golem, is Dervish and can be obtained through a fairly easy quest that is most likely a cross-campaign quest, and after completing that quest MOX can start collecting dust

However what I do wonder is if MOX can be added to HOM, and if so, is it able to get a diffirent armor, like all the other heroes.

Aeon221

Aeon221

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

[TEW]

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Well hell, that looks pretty cool.

Nightow

Nightow

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2006

Kindred Order of Souls [KOS]

Quote:
Originally Posted by EroChrono
However what I do wonder is if MOX can be added to HOM, and if so, is it able to get a diffirent armor, like all the other heroes.
Thinking it will most likely be different paint jobs, like a car. Then again, it could be totally different! lol, we'll just have to wait to see.

fgarvin

fgarvin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

Would knowing today what you will find out tomorrow really change anything?

Xsiriss

Xsiriss

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2008

Yes because another derv hero is exactly what we wanted, I mean who needs the other 2 when you've got this new one, i'm so going to start using derv heroes now!11!1 Seriously with all the effort of making a hero they coulda done something different...like give us a minipet so we can flog for 100k+xxe's or hell just give us money.

Snoes

Snoes

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2006

Belgium

Damn he's Fancy !


*worried about 3 D/A in hero battles =/*

MagicalHobo

MagicalHobo

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2007

Kindred Order of Souls [KOS]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Snoes
Damn he's Fancy !


*worried about 3 D/A in hero battles =/*
Stop worrying, M.O.X. is PvE only.

ReZDoGG

ReZDoGG

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2007

Indian Township, ME

Nativ War Party (NWP)

Rt/Mo

Another Hero, especially a Dervish is useless and waste of content if you ask me. It is nice they are addin something else, but why a hero? Most people use Triple Necro's anyways... and most rarely ever use Dervish, like me. Only good reason to have Golem hero would be to add him to HoM, but big wow! A few minutes of excitement just to look at another hero, and then put him away to rust...

Anet seems very desperate in coming up with ideas to keep people lookin forward, but so far nothing worth while. If it ain't another expansion or added elite mission, then it will most likely fail to keep people playing... If anet cannot see that, then we should all pray for them and GW.

But,I guess this is all we can get/expect from having only 2 Anet people dedicated to GW1. We might have to start planning a Funeral for GW

N1ghtstalker

N1ghtstalker

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2007

E/

instead of a new hero, how bout some changes to more unused skills?
or some new content like new area's in eotn or something
you can go through all of eotn in a week or two
and if you do give a hero
give one that has a proffession that can be used like ele, monk, necro, ritualist or something
but i never use dervs

Lishy

Lishy

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

They were working on Mox for a few months? And it is just a Dervish hero?
My Tenagg Flametroller senses are tingling.
Tenagg Flametroller will be amused if there is some cool twist update
If he really is a "...the ultimate in magic, mechanised party protection." I can say an honest: "GGAnet

FengShuiDove

FengShuiDove

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2007

Trinity of the Ascended [ToA]

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Meanwhile, I'm willing to bet M.O.X. will have the ability to use a few unique skills either to him or unique to other heroes i.e. PvE only skills. They're not going to spend all sorts of time and effort on a special new hero just to have him collect dust.

Two factors to consider:

1. M.O.X. was marketed as the ultimate in mechanized party protection or whatever. Realistically, I don't think ANet would just spew this garbage to increase the appeal.

2. M.O.X. will be PvE only. While in their secrecy ANet may have given (valid) reasons such as distraction, weapon visibility, etc., I'm not so sure M.O.X. won't have some kind of inherent effect on allies.

Lastly, I'm pretty excited about the release tomorrow and hope that I get time to get him and see what he can do. If those who are flaming have a problem, go ahead and leave the forums and don't get the dang hero when it's released.

Xsiriss

Xsiriss

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2008

Fistly i was just expressing my disappointment at anet, secondly 'virtually spit' at me all you want, welcome to the internet.

Even if anet let the derv use pve skills that's not very helpful, they should have just skipped the hero and worked on letting all heroes be able to use pve skills and/or 7hero usage.

jonnieboi05

jonnieboi05

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mableton, Georgia

Guild Ancestors Reunited [?????????]

hate to pop everyone's bubble... but... does THIS particular description sound familiar?

Origin: The Mists
Age: Inapplicable
Profession: Variable

it had EVERYONE thinking you could have him (Razah) as any primary you wanted.

Zahr Dalsk

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2007

Canada

Quote:
Originally Posted by FengShuiDove
Realistically, I don't think ANet would just spew this garbage to increase the appeal.
But that's what ArenaNet does, it's their style.

AnbuAdam

AnbuAdam

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2008

New York

The Pro Squad of Death and Doom [LEET]

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I dont see why people are complaining about getting a new hero. You're getting something for free, so there is no reason to complain. Sure, you may want something else, but you'll just have to deal with it.
And maybe the hero isnt exactly what everybody thinks. It could be a special type of dervish, or possibly a variable primary hero(which would be pretty awesome). Just wait one day and find out

Tarkin

Tarkin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

W/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by EroChrono
There's not much to know about it I guess.
Name is MOX, looks like a Golem, is Dervish and can be obtained through a fairly easy quest that is most likely a cross-campaign quest, and after completing that quest MOX can start collecting dust

However what I do wonder is if MOX can be added to HOM, and if so, is it able to get a diffirent armor, like all the other heroes.
Maybe only Maybe... ehhehe you need 100 diamonds to "build" mox lol i getting tons of it in duncan chests...

And maybe... a great quest... like get horns from kanaxi, roots from urgoz... claws of mallyx... skin of rotscale lol...

FengShuiDove

FengShuiDove

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2007

Trinity of the Ascended [ToA]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tarkin
And maybe... a great quest... like get horns from kanaxi, roots from urgoz... claws of mallyx... skin of rotscale lol...
Fun lives again. No reason why not... had to go through Sorrow's Furnace for Black Moa.

Lishy

Lishy

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

The Suspense Is Killing Me

Rhamia Darigaz

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by AnbuAdam
I dont see why people are complaining about getting a new hero. You're getting something for free, so there is no reason to complain. Sure, you may want something else, but you'll just have to deal with it.
And maybe the hero isnt exactly what everybody thinks. It could be a special type of dervish, or possibly a variable primary hero(which would be pretty awesome). Just wait one day and find out
according to regina (i think it was her that said it) mox is just a regular dervish hero. the only special thing about him is that he's pve only becuase of how big he is.

BenjZee

BenjZee

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2006

The Overacheivers [Club]

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by JonnieBoi05
hate to pop everyone's bubble... but... does THIS particular description sound familiar?

Origin: The Mists
Age: Inapplicable
Profession: Variable

it had EVERYONE thinking you could have him (Razah) as any primary you wanted.
your point being? Actually at this point i believe Anet hadn't decided and were thinking of going multi-profssional but it would just be too complex. We got told pretty much straight away that this was going to be a dervish.
By the way how come the MOX topic got closed yet this is basically the same.

Avarre

Avarre

Bubblegum Patrol

Join Date: Dec 2005

Singapore Armed Forces

This topic is open as long as some form of functional discussion takes place. It can be used to discuss MOX when the update goes through, since there'll be other stuff to discuss in the update thread.

Unless the update itself is small, in which case everyone can just move in there.

slowerpoke

slowerpoke

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2007

Cuba

this hero addition is quite strange. they should have done something different with it than simply add another generic choice (and a dervish of all things). even stranger is that its pve only, surely a good design process could have avoided such a limitation. will his pve only status mean he has other unique attributes not found elsewhere, like special skills? i doubt it.

now a variable primary profession hero would have been something special.

Crunk N Monkey

Crunk N Monkey

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2007

Bellevue Nebraska

The Mystic Tokers

R/D

Quote:
Originally Posted by EroChrono
There's not much to know about it I guess.
Name is MOX, looks like a Golem, is Dervish and can be obtained through a fairly easy quest that is most likely a cross-campaign quest, and after completing that quest MOX can start collecting dust

However what I do wonder is if MOX can be added to HOM, and if so, is it able to get a diffirent armor, like all the other heroes.
i dont think they have thought out that far yet, lmao

Grunntar

Grunntar

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Some people are complaining that this new content is a "waste" since it's just a Dervish. I think that you are missing the point.

It's a marketing mechanism for the new edition - Guild Wars: the Complete Collection. It was not meant for you (directly). It's a marketing device to get new players into the game, by buying the new edition. But since Anet anticipated the "QQ fest" (i.e. sh*tstorm) from the community, they decided to kindly let everyone (with all 3 campaigns) have it as well.

The only failure on ANet's part, in my opinion, is the monotone, uninspired position they took while offering us about the new hero: "Hey, new hero in a couple weeks..."

I think this should have been their message:

"Hey, we are coming out with a new edition of the game, boosting sales and attracting new players. Would you like to share in one of the new in-game goodies that we are offering? If there's interest, we will release details soon..."

This position would have generated a positive-to-neutral reaction. Instead, by just saying "we're giving you a new hero," without any context for the reason to create the hero itself, it spawned a negative-to-neutral reaction. People speculated as to why, and how they can waste resources on this, especially when other issues need attention, etc.

Good intentions. Poor execution.

(They *really* need some good marketing people in all aspects of customer-facing communications! This has always been a point of failure for this company.)

Woop Shotty

Woop Shotty

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2006

Ruthless Mafia [RM]

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Well put Grunntar. Good thing I'm not going to be a QQer. I like dervish heroes a lot.. especially against undead !

Tarkin

Tarkin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

W/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by Grunntar
It's a marketing mechanism for the new edition - Guild Wars: the Complete Collection. It was not meant for you (directly). It's a marketing device to get new players into the game, by buying the new edition. But since Anet anticipated the "QQ fest" (i.e. sh*tstorm) from the community, they decided to kindly let everyone (with all 3 campaigns) have it as well.

The only failure on ANet's part, in my opinion, is the monotone, uninspired position they took while offering us about the new hero: "Hey, new hero in a couple weeks..."
3 campaigns + gwen? i think...

if they make some good quest... or some new area its be great and reverse the "dervish" disappointment...

personaly i dont have anything against dervish... but... why not a any profession hero this will be wonderfull... you can make a 3 mesmer team, 3 paragorns, 3 rit...

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

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All of this information was already on the earlier Mox thread, with many posts made by Regina (which is why I think it was a dumb idea to close that thread).
No, Mox will not be a variable profession, he is a dervish.
No, Mox can not be used in PvP.
Yes (according to regina) he will have different avatar forms.
Yes it will be released Thursday (again, was on another thread, we knew that weeks ago since they announced the MAT points would be given the week after that)

Moonlit Azure

Moonlit Azure

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2007

R/

They made it a dervish?!

Apok Omen

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Commence Aggro [BaMf]

Mo/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by Moonlit Azure
They made it a dervish?!

You didn't know? Why, robots are one of the most pious and religious of all creatures.

Seriously, I hope it's able to do something useful, like curbstomp enemies or pull a lever...

Bluefeather

Bluefeather

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2005

Philippines

[PNOY]

W/R

What so special about MOX? He is the only Golem that bleeds. So, i guess I'll do the quest as soon as we get the upgrade.

I need good laugh. and looking at a robot that bleeds is a good one

Lishy

Lishy

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluefeather
What so special about MOX? He is the only Golem that bleeds. So, i guess I'll do the quest as soon as we get the upgrade.

I need good laugh. and looking at a robot that bleeds is a good one
What about Clanker from Banjo Kazooie? He was a robot fish with blood and fleshy innards..

FengShuiDove

FengShuiDove

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2007

Trinity of the Ascended [ToA]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Apok Omen
You didn't know? Why, robots are one of the most pious and religious of all creatures.

Seriously, I hope it's able to do something useful, like curbstomp enemies or pull a lever...
Quite.

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Sweet Mystery

Sweet Mystery

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2007

Shadow Hunters Of Light [SHOL]

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I think that we may get a quest to gather parts of a Golem from the 3 lands... like B-4 in Star Trek:Nemesis... then we assemble him and have to get something to activate him.... lots of hidden parts all over that then we get a quest to complete him...

Just a thought...