Some newbie questions about prophecies

TehRice

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Feb 2011

01 Feb 2011 at 20:23 - 1

I only own prophecies and I haven't played in a few years, I never finished the game but I was close (got to the ice mountains area droknars forge? I was attempting to get the special skills with the signet but it was too difficult and hard to find a party)

With GW2 coming I figure I should start up some GW1 while I wait, so I read that henchmen can now basically allow you to solo the entire game??

Does this apply to prophecies too or only expansions with heroes. I have no knowledge about anything other than prophecies.

Can I still take advantage of the hall of monuments? I put in my account and I found that I have one achievement or whatever, am I glitched or something because I read that you have to own Eye of the North to gain access to it.

One last question, is it possible to make a strong MM necro with only prophecies, it was a few years ago but I think I was told that MM necro is incredibly terrible compared to someone who owns all the expansions and I shouldn't even bother(or perhaps this applies to all classes).

Marty Silverblade

Administrator

Join Date: Jun 2006

01 Feb 2011 at 21:35 - 2

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Originally Posted by TehRice View Post

With GW2 coming I figure I should start up some GW1 while I wait, so I read that henchmen can now basically allow you to solo the entire game??

Does this apply to prophecies too or only expansions with heroes. I have no knowledge about anything other than prophecies.

It's always been possible to complete the game with henchmen. It's just a lot easier now than it was. The addition of heroes, flags, and power creep makes a lot of PvE fairly trivial. Regarding your second question, it applies to everything. It's definitely possible to complete all the campaigns, do all the vanquishes, clear all the dungeons, etc, in Hard Mode with full AI teams and without the use of consumables.

Quote: Can I still take advantage of the hall of monuments? I put in my account and I found that I have one achievement or whatever, am I glitched or something because I read that you have to own Eye of the North to gain access to it. If you don't have EotN, you can't put anything into the Hall of Monuments. Perhaps you're looking at the wrong thing? Click Me. That'll tell you how much progress you've made on the HoM. If it gives you an error; that would be because you don't have EotN. If you were to buy EotN, there is still plenty of time to fill it before GW2 comes out.

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One last question, is it possible to make a strong MM necro with only prophecies, it was a few years ago but I think I was told that MM necro is incredibly terrible compared to someone who owns all the expansions and I shouldn't even bother(or perhaps this applies to all classes). You'll be definitely missing out on some really good skills like Order of Undeath and Ebon Battle Standard of Honor. People did run MM's in 2005 so it's not like it's not possible with only Prophecies skills. You'll just be less effective (not that it really matters though). If you plan to get back into GW and prepare for GW2; you'll really want to get the other campaigns. They're not expensive, and they'll add a lot.

Annatar11

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jan 2011

W/N

01 Feb 2011 at 21:39 - 3

By now you probably can solo the entire game with henchmen, but people are generally talking about Heroes + Henchmen (commonly referred to as H/H). You get 3 heroes and 4 henchmen. Heroes let you customize their skills and equipment, and if you need to you can manually control their skill use, so very good hero builds have great synergy and allow you to solo even hard mode (after you beat a campaign, you can use hard mode which increases difficulty but also rewards) with enough patience. You should be able to finish Prophecies with only henchmen, but having heroes would make it much, much, much easier.

You do need Eye of The North for the Hall of Monuments. The one achievement you got is most likely the having linked accounts, ANet gave everyone that because they assume that everyone will link their accounts.

If you're going for Minion Master, most of the basic skills are Prophecies/Core, so you can actually get a pretty good build by the looks of it (note: I don't play a primary necro). I would recommend you visit gwpvx.com and look up some Necro builds there. More campaigns add a lot of options to vary your build for the situation, however.