Motivation

talisk3

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2008

[YUM]

R/

Where do you guys find your motivation to do HM vanqs or missions?
JW, I do it cause I want the cash :P

ryan__ryan

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2008

Canada

Vanquished Memories [VM]

Mo/

for the title

Lord Of Blame

Lord Of Blame

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2008

USA

Marked Souls [MkS]

E/N

I still do not have to motivation to do it yet. When I do it will be for the title.

Nightow

Nightow

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2006

Kindred Order of Souls [KOS]

I did it for the titles (Got my r3 KoaBD from L. Vanquisher. ) and the drops helped just a tad.

NoXiFy

NoXiFy

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2007

★☆٭Ńēŵ~ŶờЯК٭☆★

The Benecia Renovatio [RenO]

Mo/Me

anyways, my motivation is for the title.

Nessar

Nessar

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2008

West Siiiiiiiiiiiiiide

Gwen Has A Thing For [Pyre]

Back when I was grinding for r3 koabd, I did it to be better then the snobs I knew. Now I don't see the point anymore. Well until anet lets us know what the hom is exactly for...

Gun Pierson

Gun Pierson

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2006

Belgium

PIMP

Mo/

I wanted legendary vanquisher.

Switch button in head, brain on zero. Use fast team setup (raybagon) and use cons to save time.

After each area tell yourself:
- I will never have to do this area again

Take breaks at regular times to prevent throwing pc through window.

Eragon Zarroc

Eragon Zarroc

Atra estern?? ono thelduin

Join Date: Jan 2008

Madness Incarnate

[Duo]

W/P

titles, plain and simple. do it once and don't have to do it again. not to mention it's a hafl-decent challenge =)...i suppose

talisk3

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2008

[YUM]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gun Pierson View Post
I wanted legendary vanquisher.

Switch button in head, brain on zero. Use fast team setup (raybagon) and use cons to save time.

After each area tell yourself:
- I will never have to do this area again

Take breaks at regular times to prevent throwing pc through window.
Accept for your other 7+ characters :P

Yawgmoth

Yawgmoth

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

Titles aren't enough of a motivation for me, I just can't stand doing it solo... if only there was a way to find teams for that stuff it would be completely different.

Darcy

Darcy

Never Too Old

Join Date: Jul 2006

Rhode Island where there are no GW contests

Order of First

W/R

I breakup the boredom by alternating campaigns and target. That way I don't spend day after day killing the same foes. One day a mission in Tyria and a vanquish in Nightfall, the next day a dungeon in EotN and a vanquish in Factions.

Why am I doing it? Because, I can. It gives me a sense of satisfaction to see more areas completed.

I pwnd U

I pwnd U

God of Spammers

Join Date: Oct 2005

in the middle of a burning cornfield...

Scars Meadows [SMS] (Officer)

Used to do them because the Guild did them. Then GW died and so I stopped. I do a VQ once in a blue moon but that is just because either I get bored or a friend wants to play.

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

Vanquishes are fun first, title second.

Missions were title....and that's it. They sucked.

RED ENGINE GO

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Sep 2008

Currently looking for it.

jonnieboi05

jonnieboi05

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mableton, Georgia

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

i did legendary vanquisher because i was tired of noobs having this title and me not having it when i am an extremely exp'ed player. to this very day i don't give a damn about titles but i juat HATE the fact when someone lesser than my own skills has something i do not have. anyways, this isn't to be worried about anymore as i have 35 maxed title atm (only missing cursed by fate (at 269,652 points) and max chest (at 6,246 chests) and once i max those 2 i will have obtained every "obtainable" maxed title in GW.

w00t e-peen? :>

cataphract

cataphract

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2005

Ashford Abbey

Hey Mallyx [icU]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by talisk3 View Post
Where do you guys find your motivation to do HM vanqs or missions?
JW, I do it cause I want the cash :P
I find little motivation to go through that again after making two gwamm chars. Slowly farming luxon faction is what I do now.

Amnel Ithtirsol

Amnel Ithtirsol

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2008

AU

League Of The Fallen

Mo/

for fun.

lol, k I lied, for the title also

maraxusofk

maraxusofk

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

San Francisco, UC Berkeley

International District [id多], In Soviet Russia Altar Caps You [CCCP], LOL at [eF]

W/

Is there anyone who isn't doing it for the title?

Chocobo1

Chocobo1

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2007

New Zealand

CoA

N/

Titles are the worst thing to happen in this game. If the game is going to literally support e-peen I at least demand that there is some indicator on how hard a title is so R10 Luxons/Kurzicks can't continually spam how great they are while they run there flare warrior builds.

Kook~NBK~

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2005

A little chalet outside Drok's

Natural Born Killaz

Why do the hard mode stuff? Hmmm...

Well, I guess I'm doing the whole "title thing" for the fame and fortune. But ultimately, I'm in it for the hot chicks that flock around GWAMMS.

xron

xron

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2008

Denbigh, Wales

Zero Zero

R/

Firstly, I never do it solo.... I always vq with a friend.

Secondly, when I first started vqing it was for the title but I found that I enjoyed it and it gave some decent drops and a bit of money.

As I only play on weekends vq'ing is one of the things we do for a bit of fun and I guess eventually I'll have the leg vq on a few more chars.

fb2000

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

Ive never vanquished a single area, dont plan to either. Seems incredibly dull to me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Chocobo1 View Post
Titles are the worst thing to happen in this game. If the game is going to literally support e-peen I at least demand that there is some indicator on how hard a title is so R10 Luxons/Kurzicks can't continually spam how great they are while they run there flare warrior builds.
Anyone who is paying too much attention to titles is very likely to be average at best ingame imo. Titles dont mean much, take a look at HA :x. At least before, I (with my puny r3) was constantly surprised by the weird useless crap high ranked players do ( r10-r11, at the time r12 or maybe 13 was highest I think :x). Why does any title have to be different

Bowman Artemis

Bowman Artemis

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

Gold Coast, Australia.

Overclockers Australia [OCAU]

Because it was something fun to do with a guild. Social aspect was awesome.

Lourens

Lourens

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gun Pierson View Post
I wanted legendary vanquisher.

Switch button in head, brain on zero. Use fast team setup (raybagon) and use cons to save time.

After each area tell yourself:
- I will never have to do this area again

Take breaks at regular times to prevent throwing pc through window.
lol ^

Anyways drops help and title ofc

yarddog

yarddog

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Philadelphia-Go Eagles

Raptor Five [Five]

W/

achieved legendary on one toon, now i vanquish to help guild/alliance members only, i dont care for ever doing it again

also my motivation is the social aspect, proud to say we have an active alliance

glacialphoenix

glacialphoenix

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2008

Singapore

Royal Order of Flying Lemmings [ROFL]

Mo/

Titles, I guess - it goes well with Cartographer, and recently I've taken to being very touristy. VQing has become a case of spell, shield, and screenshot.

DreamWind

DreamWind

Forge Runner

Join Date: Oct 2006

E/Mo

Titles is not an answer. I question what the motivation for titles is.

kostolomac

kostolomac

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2008

Serbia

Me/

Killing 150+ monsters that have at least 50% more numbers than you gives a gigantic boost to my E-peen. I feel like I could bitchslap the whole margonite horde.
Vanquishing with other people is really awesome, double as awesome as the experience above. This time I feel like I could bitchslap the margonite hordes, take a dump in front of Mallyx and ask for toilet paper.

hurric

hurric

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2006

BC

I don't have motivation hence only 2 maxed titles after +2 years (recently maxed LB).

Maybe when I find out what HoM will be good for, I'll have a reason but nothing now.

Reverend Dr

Reverend Dr

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2005

Super Fans Of Gaile [ban]

W/

Motivation isn't a very good attribute line. It has a couple of strong skills, but the majority of them are lackluster and just not worth the slot or the character.

Bowman Artemis

Bowman Artemis

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

Gold Coast, Australia.

Overclockers Australia [OCAU]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Reverend Dr View Post
Motivation isn't a very good attribute line. It has a couple of strong skills, but the majority of them are lackluster and just not worth the slot or the character.
Well played, sir.

kazjun

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

HoVa

W/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by Reverend Dr View Post
Motivation isn't a very good attribute line. It has a couple of strong skills, but the majority of them are lackluster and just not worth the slot or the character.
Lol, best answer

But yeah, titles for the sake of the title would be the motivation. Got my rainbow phoenix, so not really motivated to max titles anymore. But if I was gonna, it'd be just to have the title. And yes, the relief that you'd never have to go through it again. Don't know whether to be impressed or to pity those mad few who go around maxing titles on more than just their main...

Cursed One

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2008

E/Mo

id have to say for cash, i hate doing vanq is so boring

Zahr Dalsk

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2007

Canada

Quote:
Originally Posted by DreamWind View Post
Titles is not an answer. I question what the motivation for titles is.
e-penis

That's really all it is.

And by it I mean Guild Wars.

And by Guild Wars I mean every online game, ever.

Buster

Buster

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

Elona

Clan Eternal Legion

D/W

I finished all of my HOM that was required but the only thing I did not finish was maxing out my titles which I have only 7 maxed. Perhaps I can grind out a few more for 10 but right now there is no motivation to do so.

draxynnic

draxynnic

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2005

[CRFH]

Fun, money, and rep titles - I got a Legendary Spearmarshal by vanquishing Istan and Kourna. Getting closer to the vanquisher title itself is an added bonus that I won't be too fussed if I don't complete... but hey, every zone I vanquish is one zone closer to that title.

What actually triggers me to go ahead and do it, though, are double vanq reward weekends or double reputation reward weekends in the appropriate region. I'll sometimes do it just for the heck of it without a double weekend, but I still have plenty of other things to be doing.

distilledwill

distilledwill

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2006

Blighty

The Legion of the Blue Blade

R/Mo

The titles, the money and the faction points (but only really for the luxon areas!). Ive just reached Canthan Vanquisher on my ranger, only 2 to go till Tyrian Vanquisher aswell, then Ive a fair number till Elonian.

Hugh Manatee

Hugh Manatee

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2007

Nice But Deadly[nice]

N/

Well at first I wanted the shiny phoenix on my ranger, I figured if I went vanquishing in Elona I'd get like 3-5 titles at once, didn't quite work out tha tway. I got sunspear, cartographer, skill hunter, canthan cartographer(it's a small continent) and the protecter titles(i generally got masters first run through) and that was it for titles on that one. I never finished squishing elona, I got like 2-3 zones left, the dasha vestibule, and some balthazar blasted wate in the desolation. I couldn't deal with the Djin spiking my heroes down and lacked the consets to muscle through joko's domain, the hereoes get too much DP in wurms and get chewed up by undead out of the wurm. I had my birdie and enough loot for FoW so I just called it quits.

Then I started on my warrior, at first it was just the luxon zones, then during an AB weekend the luxons pushed the kurz waaaay deep so I went through those zones(this was before they upped the faction cap and upped the vanq reward... like right before it...) eat the hel out of southern cantha. Then I noticed that there wasn't much left of cantha to squish so I went htrough the city areas with sabway and pretty much steamrolled them(I hada buddy going through factions the first time with the emporer quest in tanaki to, so that was good).

Then I realized, in the 4 man areas outside shing jea, I got stupid rich, 100ish gold split 4 ways is a lot better then 100 split 8 ways so I started knocking out the ascalonian and northern shiver peak areas, and the krytan and maguuma jungle areas, a couple times went on a ToA caravan in the black curtain and nearby areas. Before I knew it I was 1/2 way to the tyrian title. I was also seeing sights I had never seen in the game, I thing cartographers must stare at the compass and map, but sometime, pull the camera out or go into first person view and pan it around, A-Net made some cool lookin stuff out there.

I've got like 5 zones left in tyria. all south shiverpeaks. about half the EotN zones and a lot of elona on my warrior. I tell you what the Snake dance>Dreadnought's>Lornar's caravan was freaking epic.

To quell boredom I pop in a DVD(my TV is near my PC and I can see it easily from here) and watch like a Firefly marathon or put on some music, metallica or something with like 5-8 minute long tracks and just go rampaging. If I get bored I try and roll with odd or new builds, like an enraged smash warrior or try and get the assassin's a good build(like my A/Ps with Inspirational speech and an easy quick recharging combo, they rock with it).

Moloch Vein

Moloch Vein

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2007

Reactive Hexing Sucks

[Thay]

N/

My motivation has shrunk to a very low value since I completed my Legendary Guardian title.