What are your fastest campaign completion times?

ACWhammy

ACWhammy

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2009

Texas

Gold Trim Guild [gtg]

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Hi all,

I'm curious to know how long you guys think it takes to complete each campaign from start to finish, on normal mode. Time spent in hours on each individual campaign: Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall, and also for the Eye of the North expansion.

AC

StormDragonZ

StormDragonZ

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2008

New York

W/R

Prophecies: 2.5 weeks, playing 2-3 hours a day, every day.
Factions: 15 days, playing 2-3 hours, every day.
Nightfall: 4.5 weeks, playing 2-3 hours a day, every other day.
Eye North: 3 weeks, playing 3-4 hours a day, every day.

I take my time.

Aycee

Aycee

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2010

The other side

Prophecies... Deoends if you count being run to thunderhead, if so a couple hours. If not Probably a week just because Proph gets me bored.
Factions less than a day if I'm determined. 3 days max playing sparingly.
Nightfall 2-4 again depending how determined I am at finishing it.
EotN- Under a day, 2 max.

Not sure about hour time.

Bright Star Shine

Bright Star Shine

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2009

Belgium

Club of a Thousand Pandas [LOD???]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by StormDragonZ View Post
Prophecies: 2.5 weeks, playing 2-3 hours a day, every day.
Factions: 15 days, playing 2-3 hours, every day.
Nightfall: 4.5 weeks, playing 2-3 hours a day, every other day.
Eye North: 3 weeks, playing 3-4 hours a day, every day.

I take my time.
You really do...

Factions: 2/3 days 2-3h/day
Nightfall: 4 days 2-3h/day
Eotn: 4 hours?
Proph, no idea tbh...

RedDog91

RedDog91

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2007

Farming for Nick gifts

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Prophecies: never went through whole campaign, always skip to Droks
Factions: 15-hour straight play-through
Nightfall: 2 days, not sure how much i played each day
EotN: 6 hours

Olle

Olle

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Aug 2008

Ign: Miniature Julia

Teh Academy[PhD]

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eotn?3 hours HM (as i do books the quests only take a few min)
proph..id say 4-5 days
NF,3 days
factions takes 2 days

garethporlest18

garethporlest18

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

[HiDe]

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Prop and Factions took me quite a while, but I beat Nightfall when it first came out in 1.5 days. Granted it burned me out so I don't recommend doing that. I'd rather go through things slowly. Seeing as that wasn't entirely start to finish, I'd add another 10 hours which is how long it took me to get a dervish out of pre.

AngelWJedi

AngelWJedi

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2008

orlando,florida

Society of Souls [Argh]

Rt/E

few hours to a week or more depending on if i grind it out or not. xD and its for each campain

_Deals_

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2010

Fort Worth, Tx

[DMNS][HEAT]

Mo/A

eotn-8 hours ish of constant game play (including primary quests before each mission)
tyria-a long and enduring 2 weeks since i dislike it
factions- honestly? took me 11 hours or less of non stop game play, and that's been done a few times
nightfall- 3 days

pan1xx

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2011

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Factions: 5-7 hours with a new char, but i had the 10k faction allready from another char.
Nightfall: ~8 Months, i started to play Gw with a dervish as first char, gained expirience trough that
Proph: played my ranger through it in ~5 days, öaying with friends which also did a new char.

rkubik

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

All of my times are with existing toons. None from scratch.

Proph I can complete two days max playing approx 6 -8 hours a day.
Factions has been done a few times in around 8 hours
Nightfall a week. (My least favorite.)
EOTN I can get thorugh in less than a day if I am really determined two days max of pretty solid gameplay.


Again these are all established toons. To start from scratch is something I don't want to think about. I have 11 toons and have no desire to start another one anytime soon.

Siver

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2011

Rt/E

Prophecies~ 22 hours (through runs)
Factions~ 11 hours
Nightfall~ 2 days
( all from scratch)

ACWhammy

ACWhammy

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2009

Texas

Gold Trim Guild [gtg]

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Ok thanks guys, I'm debating on whether or not to create a level 20 of each profession and getting them all Heroes and PvE skills.

How are you guys doing eotn in 3-6 hours? Are you just making a running build and running through the quests?

AC

MidnightOokami

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2010

North Carolina

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Prophecies - Dunno.
Factions - 10 Hours Hardcore Gameplay + 10k Faction Done.
Nightfall - 15 Hours-20 Hours.
EotN - 7 Hours-9 Hours.

I remake characters ... a LOT. Factions I can actually do in one sitting but Nightfall takes me one sitting + 3 hours the next day. xD I'm so glad I finally found my main though, I'm going through Factions again for my ~20th time and it's taking me four days forcing myself to do missions. ._.

(One sitting as in starting a character at like 7am and plowing through, not counting in the times I have to go get something to eat and drink).

Good luck haha.

Ok Dont Panic

Ok Dont Panic

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2010

UK

We Gat Dis [HRUU]

Mo/

EoTN 3-4 hours
Factions 8hours~
Proph using THK run from ascalon 2hours
NF 4-5 hours

Xenex Xclame

Xenex Xclame

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

DPX

R/

@ACWhammy there is a difference in how long it takes to complete the campaign and how fast you can get lvl 20.

I think factions is still the fastest to get 20.If you want to get to 20 and get all the heroes and pve skills.I would recommend starting in factions blitz trough the beginning as soon as you can run and get the heroes, go back to Cantha finish it.Go to EotN finish it and get the pve unclassed skill.Go to Elona and using the pve skills have a easy time.Finally go to Tyria and do that, you could always not completly finish Tyria nobody will blame you since it's so boring.


Edit @Ok Dont Panic. How the hell do you get a worse time in Cantha then both Tyria and Elona?If it's not your favorite or you don't really try to go fast in it then i can understand.

ACWhammy

ACWhammy

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2009

Texas

Gold Trim Guild [gtg]

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Thanks Xenex that sounds like the fastest way to do it. However I'm trying to be versatile and use characters form each campaign; seeing as how I created them awhile ago and just didnt invest much time in them. You are right about Prophecies, it takes way too long.

So I guess the best way is to create your character in whichever campaign you choose, skip to EotN as fast as possible to get Heroes and PvE skills, then go to NF and complete it. Sounds easy now lol

Then I'm going to do War in Kryta on all of them...I want to have each profession ready to play any new content when it comes out. Am I crazy?

Xenex Xclame

Xenex Xclame

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

DPX

R/

Nope your not crazy,just a little nuts =)

Ok Dont Panic

Ok Dont Panic

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2010

UK

We Gat Dis [HRUU]

Mo/

Mmm well

@Xenex Xclame I should have stated I go by my factions chars.

Making a factions char > the starter island can be slow as hell. So from start to finish takes about 7-8 hours including getting faction (assuming you don't have HM this means AB / FA /JQ

For the others its just a matter of foreign characters skipping most of the long starter bits from NF and Tyria. EoTN i've done so many times its a breeze.

Fall back and strong teams as well as knowing little short cuts make it a lot faster most EoTN missions in NM take what 5-10mins tops so its not that hard in EoTN factions missions you have to wait for NPCs a lot.

NF on native character can be slow as cuz you have to get 2.5k SS faction and without HM thats slow.




IF you are looking at getting 10 chars fully developed all Pve skills is a + getting through Cantha is TOTALLY WORTHLESS unless you are needing to ascend fast. And get to doa asap.

Embark means that you don't have to actually get to Hzh / Cava on all chars same with ToA. Just saying if thats what you are aiming to do.

Our Virus

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2011

The Capital [Para]

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Fastest times all have to be on my paragon (counting going backwards in the games to do the starting missions)
Proph:~4hours
Factions:~3hours
Nightfall:~6hours
Eotn:~3hours

Nightfall is a slow strat but I think it's the best to start from because you get the other 30 attribute points so easily

Xenex Xclame

Xenex Xclame

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

DPX

R/

You posting that all your times have been on your para kinda makes me wonder.
I'm sure there's a difference, though I'm wondering if its anything noticeable.

What class would get the best time finishing a campaign.
Personally I think necro would have an advantage, being able to run minions meaning he could possibly go trough stuff faster.Or would a monk healing mean that there is less downtime and keep the red bars up increase the speed.Or SoS with those powerful spirts. Etc.

Aycee

Aycee

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2010

The other side

I'd say any caster that sufficiently runs Spirits and has the epic skill that is Summon Spirits could rush a campaign pretty fast.

Chrisworld

Chrisworld

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2010

Gameamp Guides [AMP]

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Think i did factions in less than a week

Spiritz

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2007

DMFC

nightfall has pros and cons which can affect times - you easily get your attribute points where both other campaigns you sort of have to hunt for the quests, nf gives you the quests auto.But as a con nf has the annoying part where you need certain ss rank to continue and if you have chosen to rush to lvl 10 then skip to eotn etc suddenly upon return ( as lvl 20 ) you suddenly find if you have no hm access you will struggle to get the attribute ranks.
Actually id say all 3 campaigns in a way have pros and cons but each campaigns is different.