Factions: How long will the new content last?

I`m just wondering. How long will the rush of the new titles, etc last?

If you do some thinking: in Prophecies, you finished the pve part with your first character, maybe made another 2 or 3 and did the same thing. Got 15k armor for all your chars (maybe a fow armor for your preffered char) and maybe some rare skinned weapons.

Than you moved on to pvp (if you were intrested) and the hunt for rank X started. Rank wich in faction is equal to a hero title. And for some people the hunt for a hero title is still on. This is what keeps hero's ascent still in center of attention.

Or you could go and do some GvG. After a while most of the people realised that GvG is useless if you can't make into the first 30 or so. Of course it's another type of PvP experience, but noone cares about anyone who's aint in the first 100 (at least).

If not intrested in pvp, you started farming. That's it.

Now here it is. Factions with all the new titles.
Many people are trying to get one or another title. I give it another 2 weeks and most of the people in the hunt for a title will have what they are craving for.

In one month or so noone will care about the titles because many people will have most of them.

Most of the titles are some silly "show-off" titles wich are only good to impress 11 years old kids (and below), like:
Protector Of Tyria/Cantha
Treasure Hunter
Wisdom titles

And the list can go on.

Seriously. Unless you need to do something that needs a certain amount of skill(drunkards ftw), those titles are just there to have you do something. And if you aren't in the first let's 1000 who get it, it really has no sense. Maybe some personal satisfaction.

Can't hardly wait for the drunkard (2) to be achieved by 10-20 people. Than the rush for it will be over since "some guy already has it ".

I think, there should also be titles like:

"adept observer" - for time spent in observer mode, could be split into 2 separate titles, one for ha and one for gvg observer mode

"adept pvp griefer" - for those who leave pvp at least 1000 times right after the start

"adept whammo", etc

Seriously, if you consider that many of the people playing gw is over 18, you realise how silly most of the titles are.

So after the rush for the titles is over, most of the title hunters will have to go back to the well known Prophecies occupation. Hoarding gold for armor, weapons.


IMO the whole new title stuff is just a lame excuse to keep us occupied for how long? 6 month? Gimme a break.


When I first saw Factions ? I said it was BS. Than i started to like it. Now I`m uterly bored. And it's been only 2 weeks. Where will I be in another 2 weeks?

It sucks that the game forces you to work for the titles or else you can't do anything else in the game. I need to get 4 more titles maxed out before I can enter into House Zu Heltzer.

Um...what? Since when do you need a title to enter HzH? You know, you just have to go to the city immediately outside of it and speak to the guard after you finish the Sunjiang district quest...

What do you mean? I thought anyone can enter HzH with the primary quest.

I really hope they have some new high end PvE area revealed soon, same as SF/ToPK kind..

High end repeatable PvE.. aka farming areas, like it or not it does appeal to me to just go in with a pug, kill mobs, and see what I get at the end of it.

Nobody forces you to work for titles...lol

Titles is just some added fun. It's not what factions is about.

Hiralous post about needing titles to enter House.

I like the idea of the titles because they give you some goals to work toward after you've finished the primary quest and all secondary quests. So I see them as incentives to keep playing older characters. And yes, not to be taken all that seriously.

As far as the content in Factions goes, I haven't finished the main quest yet, but from what I've seen so far, they did a good job of having the secondary quests take you to areas you might have ignored otherwise. There's a reason to explore areas other than just to uncover the map. But since you do cover a lot of ground as you play through the quests, I can't see there being as much to do once you've finished. In Prophecies, there are still quite a number of areas to explore. I'm not saying Factions is bad because of that, just that I think there's more for a character to do in Prophecies once they've completed the main quest.

Note I'm talking PvE only.