Is there anyone else out there like me?

I could spend weeks just in Pre-sear Ascalon area exploring, trading, learning how to manoever, changing characters and starting over to compare. (Actually I kinda like to start all over again gaining a bit more insight each time)
When I finally enter the academy I will probably take my time as well. I don't know much about different armor and weapons and which is best for my character. I just want to take my time and enjoy the game. I also am disabled and can not sit in this chair for too long at a time and have to keep getting up and moving around or take care of household mundane things. I was wondering if there were any others like me to add to my Buddy list.

i will leave 1 character permanently in presear just to return for vacations

i will probably be one of the last preorders to reach level 20 but have fun getting there

Same goes with Half-Life 2, and any good game.


If you take your time its 4x better.

puts on asbestos jammies

after all

*its only a game*

I would say most people go at their own pace - that pace just usually happens to be trying to get to lvl 20 as fast as they possibly can. However, with the way GW is, I think we will see less of that. You don't gain any terrible advantage at a higher level, like in many other RPGs. Items are great, but are much less signifigant and aren't needed to have a good time. For me, I like to take my time completing things, and mixing in a little bit a role play. In march, I spent many times departing from Piken Square trying to make it to Grendich. I would even go back to Ascalon and offer my service as a guide to take people to Piken, only to get more people to come up to Grendich with me. I didn't have to go back to Ascalon, but it was fun. I learned the map more and more (along that one path of course) and was still surprised by things along the way. Once I finally made it to Grendich (we gave up fighting as just made a run for it) then I started the same thing there, though I managed to snag a party that I stayed with up into the mountains, so there was less going back. I think the majority of my 'rushing to complete the game' time will be spent filling the map, and aquiring skills and armor, as I'm sure would be the case for most people. It will be hard to avoid leveling up, so you don't really need to try all that hard for it. Just let the game take it's course, it's fast paced enough already.

Being able to relax and enjoy the game is one of the major things I'm looking forward to, once it's released. I plan to spend quite a bit of time in pre-searing Ascalon myself. I'm going to do every single available quest, get absolutely every item that I think I'll need, reach as high a level as possible, explore every inch of the map, and take my sweet time doing all of it. There will probably be a few people who think it's a bit weird that their guild leader is so far behind them, but I can live with that. Ever since E3, I've felt rushed while playing Guild Wars because of the time limit on the events. When those limits are no longer present, you can bet I'm going to allow myself to savor every single second.

Same here. I read on some site (I think it was this one) that you should try to stay in Pre-Sear for as long as you could. Because after entering the Academy, it would be all gone. I'm glad I waited for a long time, before I entered. I had a lot of fun, walking from Ascalon to the Abbey and run through the fields. So many beautiful things to look at and just so little time.

Plus, there's Gwen...oh wait everyone wants to kill her .

I have to agree with all of you who have posted before me in this thread. It's easy to get the impression that I must be strange when I enjoy exploring every nook & cranny of the landscape, or want to complete every quest & mission before moving on to the next area, or to start over with new character combos frequently, but I think that there are MANY in GW that approach it just that way. My sons get exhasperated with me when we're adventuring together in the same party, and I'm always the one bringing up the rear, checking everything out along the way. I just laugh and try to point out some of the sights and points of interest their hurry-up style of play caused them to miss. GW is a HUGE game and I'd like to show my appreciation to the developers by enjoying as much of it as I can find. GW will be around for awhile, so there's really no need to hurry. I'll be better prepared for the advanced challenges ahead when I reach them.

I'm curious....how old are all of us here? I'm 51. If we're all a bit older than the norm, do you think that contributes to our "stop & smell the roses" approach to the game?

i have you beat by a few but there are many down to 12-13 as well every body seems in a bit of a hurry for the most part

For my first character, I will try to complete as many quests as possible (even the million pre-searing ones). This way I will have a good base of what to do for my other characters. I think its important to take your time on the quests in a game where leveling isn't a big deal. However, after my first character I will be rushing through just so I can get enough skill points and money to buy the skills needed for my PvP character...

the skills you get from any roleplay character are automatically available for any pvp you create

use the first one and dont duplicate efforts on following ones

Yea, but If I am a R/Ele on my first character and I need Mesmer skills for my PvP won't I need to make a Mesmer roleplay so I can buy the Mesmer skills?

there will be a secondary profession change ability for the retail

change secondary and collect /? skills

repeat as necessary

I am 56
In Pre-sear Ascalon I love it when I come out of the city and the enemy is back again! I like to see all the trainers, use their skills temporarily while I do their quests, then relinquish the other skills when I return to the trainer of my chosen profession and commit. I will probably leave one character in Pre-sear but I really want to at least try all the different combinations to find which I am comfortable with. I am loving my Ranger/Monk and my Warrior/Monk a lot but don't want to feel I must get locked into only the Monk second profession. I don't feel I know how to play well enough to try a Mesmer or Elementalist yet. It just would be nice to have someone like me to play with. Gwen is not the greatest conversationalist.

Nah, personally I won't think it strange. I'll probably be right there beside yer with me healin spells at the ready.

Bunny Master, I have a friend in Holland. Will the game be released there too at the end of the month?

I'm gonna be taking my time and seeing as much as I can as well. Occasionally I get the urge to level, but I really do enjoy the social/exploration aspect of games such as Guild Wars. By the way, I'm 20... and I don't think it's an age thing... I think it's just a state of mind.

I'm 21 and of a similar opinion as you too. I plan to spend a lot of time exploring.
MY favourite game is Morrowind, and I have spent countless hours wandering around in that and not worrying about my level at all. With the way the world looks in Guild Wars I can imagine I'm going to be spending a lot of time sight-seeing here too.

The pre-sear Ascalon was the best area in any game I have played as of yet. I beat every quest, spent a whole BWE there, explored it all, and I sure as hell had fun.

Same date everywhere in Europe and America/Canada

I've never gone through the academy at any level less than 8-10.
I plan on keeping it that way (even though at level 10 I still had a couple things I could've done before leaving. That will probably be done after release..spending time making SURE every nook is found.

As far as relative age or mindset? PvE most definitely. Age? well lets just say I'm somewhere in the middle of all of you, with a mindset of a man on vacation (would be nice to be on one )..
" You want me do what? move around?"

I am 30. The only reason I went to the acadame at lvl 8 was the person I was with had never seen the Searing. I plan on spending as much time as I can there and might keep a char there permanet too. The view is Great and I am sure A-net will add new things to do for the new character types. Plus you can kill Gwen..... Oh you can't Oh well I still like it there.

Ren

Kaiwyn. I have to disagree with you there. Gwen is a phenomenal conversationalist... with herself. All I saw last time at the end of the BWE, when she spoke to anyone, was yelling at people to not touch her just before they combusted and broke out into "flaming" rashes! Damn! What a good time that was!

I'm 27 and love to consider myself a "man on vacation" as was stated above. State of mind is all it is... unless you're just dying to get to the end and wait for months before the expansion comes out. Not my style. During the limited time BWEs it is/was certainly my style but once we have all the time in the world I will be just as excited as the next guy to take my dear sweet time and enjoy the game as its meant to be!

I was thinking of taking along time doing as many quest and getting to learn the area of pre-ascalon when the games comes out too.... i would definately join u. im 13 =) hmm this is sorta awkward right now.. darn school tomarrow....

Kaiwyn count me in! My in game name and other info is in the Unofficial GWG Member "Phone book" link below. Some of the other posters to this thread are in it so you might post yourself there too

Kaiwyn, I along with the rest of my Guildmates will be playing along the same lines, we will be running the quests and the missions exclusively for the next Beta and the first several months after the release.

Please feel free to contact me or my Guild at any time if you would like some company! There are 8 of us in the Guild at the moment and we range in age from 17 to 50 something....

You can find me as:

Kron of Amn
or
Tobruk The Red

and My Guild is Hero's of Oakhurst [Hoak]

Hope to see you at the next beta!

I checked out the phone book and being a noob to this game I was wondering where you got your weapons and armor?

Yes, it's the same date everywhere. Unfortunately, I've planned a small holiday the first two weeks of May, but since they are pre-releasing it, I'll still be able to play a lot.

Btw, I'm 27 and somewhat part of a Guild/Game Clan, that focuses on the PvP, but some of the members actually like to stroll around the pre-sear Asc. So if you wanna hook up during next BWE, just whisper Bunny Master and we'll have a picnic at the nice meadow next to the Abbey I'll be online 24/7 (almost), so no chance in missing me

Thanks Guys, so far I am Kaiwyn Briarthorne, Kaiwyn Frostfire, Naima Windbourne (Kaiwyn's baby sister) and Naima Briarthorne. The last 2 are very new and I haven't even started them yet...just wanted to reserve the names.

Kaiwyn, in reply to your question...

Weapon
My shocking flat bow I "customized" by drops. What I am about to say is probably elsewhere on the site in some manner but haven't a clue where so here goes, and pardon any redundancy as it obviously isn't intended.

I chose to identify everything if possible. Sure it's more expensive but sometimes even the white lettered those bows, hammers, axes, or swords had some feature that upped their value and also would be salvaged out with an expert salvage kit. I noticed too that many times there's a higher value for the item identified than when unidentified when sold to an NPC.

So to make my bow took two bow drops, one had the bow grip of warding, the other had a shocking bow string. As a side note, what is horrible but good for the game, is if I were to get say one of those rumoured 30+ damage bows (I have never seen one yet ) and its just a plain jane flatbow. Of course I want to apply the "upgrades" from my current bow...well, which one of them I get to apply is decided for me. See have to expert salvage my customized bow and, so far, I only get one of the "customized pieces" (grip or string) back from that salvage.


Armour
Now drops that are "salvage items" my rule is to always always ALWAYS identify first. If there is a rune inside it is unlocked. Once unlocked I was using the expert salvage kit to make sure to salvage that rune out.

The Armour I got at one of the later outposts. Surely someone else better knows it's name "Blahblah Retreat" or "Refuge." The runes tell you to double click them to apply them to an item when you put your cursor over them so applied them to my armour. It also appears you can only apply one rune at a time as the new one cancels out the old one. You get fair warning when you go to apply it. When upgrading armour I salvage the old armour, and the rune so far has salvaged out for the 2 upgrades since first applied. Don't know if that is just my random good luck or not. A side note about runes is there were a few recieved that weren't my profession, as I am sure we all have received. Those are good for player-to-player trades.


At least this all is what I remember from the last BWE. And if anyone is wondering the odds of some of this stuff, it's my understanding from reading some other posts that Ensign is a math guru extaordinaire, if i am not mistaken, so search this site for his articles or posts. Hope this post was helpful.

So far I've seen people express two views about the game. The first is madly rushing through the game to try to reach level 20 and outdo everyone else, and the second is just take your time and go at your own pace. Personally, I'm looking forward to Guild Wars for the challenge it presents. After having played Everyquest for quite a few years as a necromancer, I find the most joy in taking on the fights that no one else thinks can be won. During the last BWE I came across a group of 5 Stone Elementals in Searing near the abbey on my necromancer and they nearly stomped me. It was very touch and go but I did kill all five of them without dieing and with a bit of manuevering. That is the kind of thing I enjoy about this game because you can get into fights like that all of the time. It's a real rush =) As for rushing to 20, nah, no point really since, as someone said earlier on this thread, you really can't avoid leveling on this game. If you take your time and have fun you'll get to 20 on down the line and you won't be penalized for not being level 20 at a certain point in the game. So if there are any out there that share my sense of adventure, (Or stupidity, however you choose to look at it) my character names thus far are Kierra Kiamora, Kiege Kiamora, Kienna Kiamora. I'm always up for some exploring and near death experiences =)

according to GW most of the game is post level 20 anyway

from an interview

Guild Wars, in contrast, is based around your skill as a player. Our maximum level is twenty, and you hit that very quickly, after about 20-30 hours of play. We call that 'The Point of Ascension'. Almost all of the content in the game and in the future Chapters is only available to Ascended characters, which means we don't have to worry about providing different levels of content. All the good stuff will be available to everyone. It's not our intent to force people onto the levelling up treadmill, so the level cap in Guild Wars is almost meaningless.

Thats nice, thanks for telling me. You really are the Ministry of Knowledge.

I'm a PvE player so far, mostly because I don't like rushing through areas. Every game I've ever played has found me killing every monster, exploring every map all the way to the borders, completing every available quest, and letting the leveling come to me during the process.

Once I get my chars leveled up and get a good group of friends in-game I'll get into the PvP. Feel free to add me to friends lists if you want, and look me up in the game: Vai Demine and Captain Teancum are my two characters right now.

Ciao,
Vai

There is a link to an Unofficial GWG Member "Phone Book" in my signature. Just to have one singe thread reference we can bookmark and easily go to with the game minimized in the Next BWE. Maybe some of you wanna post your in-game main character name and whatever else similar to what others have posted into this "Phone Book" thread?

It could come in handy for people staying in pre-searing to find others focusing on pre-searing ascalon, as an example.

Sin, I got a bit lost but as far as dropped armour goes,(note the Canadian spelling...are you in Canada too?) I am still in Pre-sear and haven't found any yet. I thought you were having it crafted or getting it from a collector.

I don't seem capable of making enough money to warrant buying an identification kit and the kit that renders stuff down, so I dumped the identify kit. Could I get a decent weapon crafted in Pre-Sear Ascalon?

You can only insert one rune into armour? Bummer.

one rune EACH of 5 pieces

5 different runes

Runes are the armor upgrades of Guild Wars. Each piece of crafted armor can hold a single rune, for a total of five runes per character. These runes must be either general runes, usable by all characters, or specific to your primary class - runes cannot upgrade armor for a different class. In addition, multiple runes of the same type do not stack; if more than one is equipped, only one will function. At the moment there are relatively few runes available for each class.

the fiance is rather into exploring, just a little bit. i like the exploring, but not the repetition that can come from going through certain areas over and over.

How do you come by the Runes? I've been playing GW now since the first BWE, and have yet to figure out how to find/buy/craft runes, or how they work. (Yes, I know, I'm rather slow, but I smile alot, so people aren't offended.) And all of my 4 characters are level 10 or above; none are above level 14, though. I've got one to Lion's Arch, but not sure how that happened.