Am I doing something wrong? Will the skills or the heroes from the other campaigns make my life easier? Any and all tips are welcome...except those telling me to go play something else

CirdanValen
cosyfiep
lemming
Steps_Descending
KPEATOP
Skyy High
drunknzelda
LifeInfusion
Ah, how challenging the fire isles were, back in 2005.
When the only fire elite eles had was Mind Burn and the only earth one, Obsidian Flesh. It's all about tactics like KPEATOP said, pulling is very important, analyzing situations before you rush in. Of course, some of the proph hench bars changed which has made it easier over the years. |
Captain Bulldozer
KingCrab
wilebill
Karate Jesus
CirdanValen
1) What class are you playing?
2) What henchies are you using? (protip: melee henchies are almost always a bad idea, since you can't flag them individually and they tend to aggro way too much, particularly in the missions you're stuck on right now). 3) Do you have a guild or friends you can ask for help? The game is called Guild Wars for a reason. |
Roen
StormDragonZ
CirdanValen
Wammo! There's your problem. (I keed!)
![]() Kick the monk skills, change secondary prof to something more useful for a warrior or just use warrior skills. Bring monk henchies for heal/prot. Are you doing the missions normal mode? Do you have access to heroes? Is your armor max level? Any elite skills? What's the rest of your build? Are you fully runed? Also, if you like, this evening I can help you finish the ring of fire islands missions. |
Clobimon
Lasai
FoxBat
LordDragon
... particularly rodgort's invocation which those fire imps love. .
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LifeInfusion
Kunder
Re: Spark of the Titans .... Mesmers and Rangers and YMLAD (You move like a dwarf). "Stand your ground!" if you have a Paragon on your team. "Save Yourselves!" if the paragon is a human.
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aelesia
Cool Name
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Seeing how I was bored to tears even with my epic PvE skills and OP minion masters and spirit spammers, yea, I'm not surprised that I quit it before I was even halfway through the game. It's no surprise either why all my friends quit it too and ended up playing WoW. ... |
Kunder
I think you've missed the point that the challenge was what made it fun (for lots of people, anyway). When power creep allows you to steam roll a level, of course it's boring. Also, it isn't meant to be played from start to finish as a level 20 character. If you play through it with a prophecies character from the beginning, you will most likely only reach level 20 when you reach the desert.
So it isn't despite the fact that it is incredibly easy that you found it boring, it is because of that. |
Boogz
CirdanValen
Aeronwen
and I had a friend take me through Hell's Precipice...so I've completed all the prophesies campaign for the first time! What I want to do now is work on getting elite armor(primarily for HoM), complete all the bonus missions (currently at 12/25), and try to get 100% of Tyria explored (currently at 52%).
Now, since those goals are probably going to bore me to tears for the most part, should I start the factions campaign and just switch between the characters when I want to do something different? Should I go ahead and do EotN? |
dancing gnome
So tonight I finished Abaddon's Mouth on my second try, and I had a friend take me through Hell's Precipice...so I've completed all the prophesies campaign for the first time! What I want to do now is work on getting elite armor(primarily for HoM), complete all the bonus missions (currently at 12/25), and try to get 100% of Tyria explored (currently at 52%).
Now, since those goals are probably going to bore me to tears for the most part, should I start the factions campaign and just switch between the characters when I want to do something different? Should I go ahead and do EotN? |
aspi
Skyy High
Voodoo Rage
chuckles79
Painbringer
LordDragon
The Ring of Fire mission absolutely kicked my ass my first run through the game. Going as a touch ranger didn't help matters either.
Hells Precipice was my first ever experience with a pug that was absolutely legendary. We couldn't find a monk, so we just said, "Everyone bring some sort of self heal". We literally did not even make it off the first bridge. I did not go back to that mission for almost a year. |
aelesia
I think you've missed the point that the challenge was what made it fun (for lots of people, anyway). When power creep allows you to steam roll a level, of course it's boring. Also, it isn't meant to be played from start to finish as a level 20 character. If you play through it with a prophecies character from the beginning, you will most likely only reach level 20 when you reach the desert.
So it isn't despite the fact that it is incredibly easy that you found it boring, it is because of that. |
Cool Name
I'm inclined to believe that the number of people who got frustrated and quit GW is more than the people who enjoyed the challenge, but there'll never be any way to prove it either way so let's just forget about it.
And yes, I know it's not meant to be played from the start till the end with a level 20 character, or with heroes, or for it to even be completed with just henchmen. I did buy the game in 2005 and I have a level 19 Ranger still in the Crystal Desert. That character has clocked 50 hours of gameplay and still isn't level 20 yet. With 50 hours of gameplay, I could finish the entire Nightfall campaign. And no, I did not find it boring because it was easy. I found it boring because it is boring. Playing through Prophecies missions was like walking from the start to the end in a hedge maze which takes about 30 minutes, because that's how the levels were designed - to make you walk as much as possible before reaching the end. Doing this in 2005 would have been like crawling through the maze without any clue where you're going. On top of that, you would have had to spend 20 minutes before entering the maze to look for 7 other players who want to crawl through the maze with you. Oh, and one of them must be a monk. Defending a point in missions is like staring at an hourglass for 20 minutes straight. Missions where you have to escort people is like balancing a glass of water on your head trying your best not to spill it or that it doesn't explode by itself. |
Kunder
And no, I did not find it boring because it was easy. I found it boring because it is boring. Playing through Prophecies missions was like walking from the start to the end in a hedge maze which takes about 30 minutes, because that's how the levels were designed - to make you walk as much as possible before reaching the end. Doing this in 2005 would have been like crawling through the maze without any clue where you're going. On top of that, you would have had to spend 20 minutes before entering the maze to look for 7 other players who want to crawl through the maze with you. Oh, and one of them must be a monk. |
Defending a point in missions is like staring at an hourglass for 20 minutes straight. Missions where you have to escort people is like balancing a glass of water on your head trying your best not to spill it or that it doesn't explode by itself. |
I'm inclined to believe that the number of people who got frustrated and quit GW is more than the people who enjoyed the challenge, but there'll never be any way to prove it either way so let's just forget about it. |
Age
I ran air+earth in 2005. I even dabbled with Deep Freeze and Maelstrom.
Glyph of energy/Glyph of renewal meteor shower is too slow for my tastes. Dug up screen: http://i52.tinypic.com/nflny8.jpg Before Monks had UA + Healer's Boon the only options for party heals was heal party. Divine healing/Heaven's delight were 60 cooldown and neabry range or something. No Light of Deliverance either. So in PvP you had Heal party on a Ether prodigy ele. There was no scatter. For a short time there was ER smite, reminiscent of today's ER infuse. |
Ellix Cantero