Prophecies campaign is painful

THK was a great filter at the time it kept most the idiots from getting to the last missions so you could actually find a decent pug for them. Although I've completed them with henchies only. Just be aware of what you're pulling and patrol routes. Also I usually suggest just doing the mission and then going back later to do the bonus. But as others have said heroes will help, but they really aren't needed.

i remember staying up until 4 in the morning trying to complete ring of fire with just the old henchies wow talk about erage. and it was even worse trying it with other people because they were just as clueless as you lol.

Two words: Maguuma jungle.

I have fond memories of no quest markers, vague mission instructions and getting lost in a spider infested swamp.

Well, I got lost a few times, but nothing as infuriating as factions. What makes it even worse was when I did prophecies I was a noob. When I did factions I had already completed prophecies and nightfall, and had 600+ hours of gameplay.

Anyway, they were fond memories right?

I still say Aurora Glade is the worst mission in the game. I don't necessarily mind a "strategic" mission like the Grand Court of Seb or Drzagonar Bastion (sp?) but make them shorter mission where you can try and fail a bunch of times to figure out what you need to do. Aurora Glade makes you slog through an incredibly long and boring walk through a maze of repetitive mobs before you finally get to the actual mission challenge. You shouldn't have to 100% rely on a walkthrough on WIKI for every mission in this game.

Thing is no one HAS to rely on wiki for anything. You do it because you are lazy and don't want to spend time FIGURING it out how to complete that mission or area. I've NEVER used WIKI to help me complete a mission. I've completed the entire game on my own using my own brains and skills. Aurora Glade was a cake walk.

This is accurate on oh so many levels.

Well they did sell 6 million copies of all their releases as a total so it was popular enough to get that many to at least try it. But, none of these online games even WOW keeps everybody forever.

We're all looking for what WE the individual wants anyways. The real draw for me to GW wasn't the world or atmosphere or storyline or gameplay it was the cost per month...NOTHING!

I had already spent 5 years playing Everquest and various others looking for the one I liked best and I found out after throwing away over $1500 into them that NO MONTHYL FEE was what I was really looking for.

I do like the POWERGAME of those others though and GW doesn't offer that. So, I'm hoping and praying they will open that up more in GW2 or some other game that I can play SOLO in will do.

Grinding for just titles isn't fun to me. Staying level 20 for 5 years isn't fun to me. Not being able to get any better weapons of power or at least NEW inscriptions for 5 years isn't fun to me. THe fun has gone pretty much. It's just a game I don't have to pay $15 a month for though that I can play when I feel like just messing around.

Some ask why play a solo game online? For the social aspect of the towns and outposts when I don't feel like battle and just want to talk about my adventures or buy and sell stuff I've found or others have found. So, there's other fun reasons to play an online game than just to be able to group with others. I can play solo all the time and still socialize and that's fun to me.

You have some points, but what kind of level do you like aelesia? I personnally liked most of Proph environment, desert felt old and wild, Mountains felt hostile, vast and cold, ascalon felt empty but had some nice crystals and the Breach is a personnal all-time favorite of mine, i liked Kryta's swamp&jungle feel too. Only Magumaa and Ring of fire (and some of ascalon) felt forced in my opinion.
Most of those were "empty" but they felt BIG!

Kaineng made you feel like a greater than life backwater city. I think that was the point.
I can agree on most of Elona, lots of details, yet tasteless, save for some Vabbi and Istan areas. And most of the desolation.
And the only thing I see that asura lands have more than Proph are more details. But they feel more cramped than proph areas.

Anyway, that's just my view. I want to know what you think.

I didn't really have fun with prophesies, but I didn't hate it either. I'm definitely not considering making another proph char, that's for sure.

Since beating Proph...I've started my journey through EotN. I'm doing the quest chain where I have to recruit asura Gadd. The mobs of dinosaurs are kicking my butt! >.<

It's pretty shallow if you measure the fun you find in a game by how fast you gain levels, or not.

The best CRPG I know doesn't even have levels - just 'attributes' tp spend xp-points in, the next - or maybe third - best takes you to 'level 20' throughout the game, some 40-60 hours playing normally.

Of course Daggerfall is the best CRPG ever to come out. 150,000 square miles of adventerous fun. I personally consider the Elder Scrolls series to be the best of all worlds.

In factions, you can be lvl20 in about 5 hours of playtime, even less if you really try your best. Does this make the game better? No, it just makes it faster..

I like proph. It's not awesome, but it has this great atmosphere behind it.

I personally hate Ascalon though, I always get hopelessly lost there whenever I want to get somewhere.. But I do like the idea behind Ascalon.

Factions is still my alltime favorite, and I despise Nightfall more than I despise Israel.. Ok, not that bad, but I just hate Nightfall.. The story is boring, the landscapes are MEH and the missions are shit. The only good thing bout NF is DoA. Only downside, you gotta play through the entire boring story to get there..

Personally, I still think the Deep and to lesser extent, Urgoz beat DoA, hands down, but there is no more profit to be found there, so DoA is the way. And the Deep is mostly out of nostalgia anyway..

Nightfall is still my alltime favorite, and I despise Factions more than I despise Israel.. Ok, not that bad, but I just hate Factions.. The story is boring, the landscapes are MEH and the missions are shit. Factions is the worst chapter of the entire trilogy + EOTN.