Early Faction Users!

TheOneAndOnlyX

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

The Last Sacrens

N/Me

All You Early Faction Users Show Us Your Pictures! Let Us All Non-preorders See Whats New So We Have Something To Look Forward To Tomorrow

Pharoke

Pharoke

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Washington THE State(Not DC)

W/Mo

Will try but I may be too tired from playing.

refused

refused

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

Alabama ;/

Unknown Warriors[UW]

I will be sure to send you a picture with my Rit wearing a Tengu Mask.

cyberzomby

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2005

Netherlands

The Heroics

N/Me

yea im to tired from collecting all those tengu masks

Maybe ill post a pic or 2

Sereng Amaranth

Sereng Amaranth

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Amazon Basin [AB]

10 minutes

Vilaptca

Vilaptca

Pre-Searing Vanquisher

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

The new Guild Halls are up, talk to the Guild Hall guy in LA.

EndoftheSyringe

EndoftheSyringe

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Apathetic Eaters of Babies

W/Mo

Woot, up!

R A C

R A C

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

In my parent's basement

R/Mo

My first drop:

I guess there are ogres in cantha... Everyone get out your ogre-slaying knives!

refused

refused

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

Alabama ;/

Unknown Warriors[UW]




Not sure why the latter is so small, but you get the idea.

Reks

Reks

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

R/P

Took these quick screenies. ^^;

The first thing you see... in which I immediately created two more characters. =]


First went to scout out the new Guild Halls. Isle of Meditation = the new Warrior Isle.


Bukbuk Bypass... or whatever it's called. It's really hard to lose with a party of 13...


I also got lost on the way to the Monastery, and so here I am in a mission cutscene with Mhenlo. xD



After that I finally found my way to the Monastery, fought some lvl 3 enemies, and called it a night. =)

Asprah

Asprah

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2005

Croatia

Greener Pastures [DVDF]

N/A

Ah,me wants it!! Keep posting pls....

jmj102

jmj102

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2005

W/Mo

Hey is that ranger "reks argyle" wearing factions armour, im not familar with ranger armour.

Sol Faithman

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

WOLF

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by jmj102
Hey is that ranger "reks argyle" wearing factions armour, im not familar with ranger armour.
That looks like fissure armor to me

Rich

Beat_Go_Stick

Beat_Go_Stick

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006



interesting....

fiery

fiery

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

maryland

InYurFace Gaming [IYF]

R/

Bow looks kinda funky.

chessyang

chessyang

Not far from Elite

Join Date: Apr 2006

Florida

W/

here' 1 for now.. afew more after teh upload



silly rabbit



something



my map so far... have to do the quest to in LA for the rest of the map



the real mac dady



when u /kneel



is this right? Gold ? I ID this and it was nothing -) yikes

xxSilhouette

xxSilhouette

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Lost in the sands of time...

Blood Of Orr [BoO]

R/Rt

I'll post mine up as soon as im home and have some

Omega X

Omega X

Ninja Unveiler

Join Date: Jun 2005

Louisiana, USA

Boston Guild[BG]

W/Me

LMAO! @ Cynn's Comment about Canthan girls. Reminds me of anime flings.

Red Sonya

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

A little insight from just my first 8 hours of playing.

Running thru content is going to be very hard in Factions since you have to do "quest" to "unlock" new areas along the as usual linear path.

Anet in it's infinite wisdom put disenchanters/shatters everywhere it seems in this one, I'd love to see a 55 monk just try to solo the first couple of mission/areas.

The missions are ungawdly harder than any of the missions in Tryia ANY of them. The first couple of missions make FOW/UW seem like a toddlers toy, be prepared to do them over an over an over again. Those who wanted more "challenge" in the pve game are certainly going to get it. I counted no less than 25 npc's in one battle of one mission. You can forget what's just inside your agro circle anymore, it's like when you agro one group that group agro's two to three more and they come from every direction. Be sure and take 3 monks with you. <grin>

I'm a bit disappointed in the graphics of the areas to explore, they are drab, very low light and just basically ugly looking to me. The zones appear somewhat bigger and there's some open areas to maneuver in, but, all n all it's still rather linear as before.

The city/outposts aren't too bad and the 1500gp armor sets show up rather quickly and if you want some Faction Tyrian armor for 1500gp there's even an npc in one of the combat areas that sells it.

There's some new collectors items that were harder to get in GW's that are easier to get in Factions I found. A necro focus item +12 energy +1 blood +30hp's is right there at the beginning practically.

The new berserker armor I think is going to become the pvp armor of choice. It's the same armor stats as the gladiators and comes with extra health +15 for the chest, +10 for the legs and +5 for boots/gauntlets. And added +35hps if you buy the complete set. Not sure if the knights/ascalon bug has been fixed now with Factions where you get a global -2 dmg for wearing one piece. The new energy weapons that come with +5 energy but no % dmg modifiers might become popular as well. Just customize them and you have 20% bonus to dmg and the +5 energy to boot. This will be a great combo for those that have been running in gladiators armor for the energy.

The drops, heh, well I hate to tell you this, but, they are as pitiful as before, lots of whites, blues are actually RARE lol and purple and gold are something you still dream about. I played oh at least 5 areas and 2 missions and not a single gold drop in any of them. Even in the 2 missions I played with human players nobody got a gold drop, but, we did find a chest with a gold drop in them, unfortunately I had no key. ;(

My biggest disappointment is that I can't get to the 12v12 arena on the head start program. I specifically bought Factions so I could play 12v12, really don't care about pve anymore, there's not any goals other than capping elites left. Anet is so afraid some people are going to play the first day for free they took out the NPC's in our guilds that used to take us directly to the 12v12 pvp area. So, here I am basically waiting a 2nd day to play what I paid to play the game early for in the first place. Piddling around in pve content......boring actually.

Mtank325

Mtank325

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Crimson Blood Dragons [CBD]

Serenity attempts at making early Canthan history by provoking the second Great Tengu War.