Starting New Characters In This Day and Age

Story Time Kidos.

When I got home from a rainy day of mall shopping in June 05 I hurried up stairs and popped in the Guild Wars installation disc and started one of the most addictive habits I have ever had. My very first character was a dorky looking monk named Random Acces Memory. I played until I got to post sear ascalon then I feel out of the scene for about 2 months. Until I met someone who got me back into the game with stories of his Me/E kicking ass and taking names.

I returned to my addiction and started a fresh new character. An elementalist named Three Two One Go, and I got him a little further than Random, but then I stopped again. I soon went threw a slue of new characters, none getting out of post sear ascalon before they were stripped bear and deleted.

Finally one day I sat down and decided to start a necromancer named Paget Marrow. I loved him and I took him all the way to the Fire Islands before I got stuck on the first mission.

Soon after, putting Paget aside for a moment, I created a monk named Schae the Abbot. I made no mistakes with Schae and I cleared every mission and quest in each area before moving on and by the time factions was released I had but 3 quests left in the Southern Shiverpeaks to finish (never did them) Schae still stands as my main character and most loved GW hero. Paget was later deleted due to me skipping a lot of quests and bonuses I didn't want to go through.

Now onto my point

In playing so much with a monk and being in so many groups, I have gotten to know how all of the other classes work and I have tried many times to create another character of a different class. So far I have only managed to create a Canthan born Ranger with whom I blasted through the Factions campaign (mainly to get the 15k Canthan armor at the end of the game). But other than him, I have not been able to play with any new characters past Ascension in the Factions campaign before I lose interest and I sure as hell don't want to dredge through the Prophecies campaign again so my question is this.

Has anyone else found it hard to keep interest in a new class after playing another for so long?

If you aren't one of those people who buy a game, beat it in 1 day and never touch it again, you should be entertained by the 6 core classes and the 2 Factions classes.

Theres so much variety, and so many ways to work things out (Mesmer Necromancer who fast casts minions, albiet weak ones. Ranger Necromancer who uses blood magic to cause weakness to the enemy via Enfeebling Blood, and then hit them hard with barrage and Power Shot, ect.) And making the game that much funner.

And besides, It cost about $50, don't waste it :P

I don't find the PvE campaign worth playing through more than once, and I'm not sure about keeping interest in a class, but I do know when a certain class's playstyle doesn't appeal to me. A few for example are Warriors, Necromancers, and Elementalists. My favorites are Ranger and Mesmer and I'm currently playing around with an Assassin which I'm undecided about. I know each class has their little nuances, so I'm being very general in the following descriptions of why I didn't like a profession:

My very first character was a Warrior who never got past pre-searing...it was just boring for me sitting there watching him auto-attack and waiting for adrenaline skills to light up. I've tried a couple of wars in PvP but still have that same feeling.

Second character was a monk who I finished Prophecies with. Very engaging but at times very stressful...esp PvP where you easily get blamed and yelled at for your team losing. I did like having to micro the red bars and keep them up and still play my monk from time to time.

Third, was a ranger who I fell in love with. Versatile strategy, wide variety of attacks and skills, and cool looking armor and dances to boot. Mesmer was next class I liked...esp for PvP with all the mayhem you can cause. Fun putting hexes on "dumb" computer AI, even better against human opponents.

I tried going through the game as an Elementalist and Necro just to unlock their skills but they didn't appeal to me. Elementalist seemed kind of like a reverse Warrior where instead of waiting for adrenaline to build to unload your big attacks, you start off with being able to unload your big attacks, then you wait for energy to regenerate. I didn't have the "discipline" required for being a good necro where you have to balance causing yourself and your enemy harm at the same time.

I just bought Factions recently and I'm messing around with the Assassin...seems cool so far...go in, do your damage combo, fallback.

i actualyy enjoyed pve

maby you should try pvp.

What i've done is.. only completed half the game with one character. Monk has done the luxons side, Ele will do Kurzick side >.> .

The answer to being bored about doing pve over and over again is PvP. It is different every time you play, and in my opinion(we are stressing opinion here people) is more fun.

Oddly, I've had troubles with new characters as well.

I tried for a month to make a new character before the release of Factions. I must have tried 10 times to make a new character, and I'd only get to about Ashford Abbey before becoming extremely bored and giving up. I'm not like that, normally, so I was wondering if maybe I had outgrown Pre-Searing or something. I tried again anyway, making a Female Elementalist again (Note: Not for the dance, you perverts), but I didn't think it would last either. On a random chance, I got hooked up with another player for one quest, and we ranged around for a bit before I had to leave. That character made it out of pre and all the way to the Shiverpeaks before I deleted her in favor of a Factions look.

I've determined that this game is approximately 300% more fun with players, even random PUGs and complete strangers, than it is solo. Because of this, I now understand why I've had fun with the game for so long. It's because of the people I'm playing with, not the character that I happened to be playing.

Anymore, I do my best to play with people rather than Henchies, unless i"m doing something so specific that I don't think a random PUG would understand ("Yeah, to the edge of the map so I can take a picture of nothing").

If you rush though without reading dialogs, enjoying the humor that the devs put in, the landscape so meticulously designed, or watching the movies that explain the storyline ...it will be boring.

That is why when I go through with a second character it is still enjoyable, I sometimes miss some bits and pieces of the story the first time around.

P.S. Playing with henches is faster but way more boring.

The trick is this: If you've already played through a campaign once for the story and you want more replayability, set a goal before you make another character.

Goals that I've found fun to go for are:

- strive to acheive a difficult title with your new character. Legendary Survivor, Grandmaster Cartographer, etc, etc.

- Look on the Forums at all the new skined weapons, armor, shields and offhand items. Decide exactly how you want your character to look before you make him/her, and then make progress developing that appearance.

- If you're doing the prophecies campaign, try to become the richest person in Pre-searing. Pre-searing has almost a completely separate economy from post-searing, so things can be a little different.

You'll find quite a bit more fun in the game playing different characters and you won't even care about the story-line. Try it.

I'm not a PvP person so I imagine the game will lose appeal to me once I finish PvE. That said it does seem logical that once you finish the PvE once, you can just build level 20 PvP characters to start and play PvP - as long as you can enjoy that kind of play.

Personally I've gone through quite a few characters. Though here recently I've been much more stable with them

For me if I chose to play an elementalist, ranger, mesmer, or any other profession I got bored. The only two that made it past the desert (most died in Kryta) was a wammo and a smiting monk - the smiting monk mostly died with the AoE AI change (well, she's still there, too close to a mini-pet. Was hopeing that Factions would rebirth the smiter).

I finally realised that, personally, when I played a profession I tended to be unfocused. The wammo was an axe solo farmer and the monk a smiter. They were thier jobs (farmer, smiter) first and professions later. Their secondary, skills, and atttributes changed a lot also. Later I decided to play a nuker, minion master, and a trapper. I've had much more fun, more focused (especially true with the trapper - my old rangers shifted constantly). I've got an open slot still - right now an Assassin but I don't think I'm gonna like it. It's role is a combination and I'm not liking it too much.

As of right now each role I've chosen has a different profession so it appears as if that was my reasoning - it wasn't. Most likely there will be another role catches my eye and I'll duplicate a profession. Each char is thier role, not profession.

For me this also added the RP aspect, the main part I was missing. To play an "elementalist" wasn't fun - she wasn't real, just a min/maxed set of skills I clicked on. To play a fire nuker with earth spells is fun (most of the fire spells are centered on my caster so I need the earth line) - even if it isn't the most effective. Of course, this limits me to henchies and friends for many builds - said ele build being one. Sometimes I do use standard builds - but it is rare.

Don't know how you like to play, but that is me.

not playing PvE or not playing PvP, you are effectively halving the conent you are exposing yourself to.

Try it, you probably will like it. RA is annoying sometimes, but it can also become addictive.

My very first character was an elementalist, got bored of him and made a ranger.
My ranger now has the most hours, and time spent on her with 7 Mill XP 324 skill points.
Made a Monk with a friend, got bored and deleted her, and told myself only use a monk on PVP slot.
Made an necro for SS and MM, got bored, now a mule.
Made a Warrior finished Cantha with him and now he's a mule.
Made an Assassin got bored with him, deleted him, and made a monk.

My monk, new favorite character , using her for GVG and Elite missions. Ironic in the end I prefer a monk after not wanting to use one in the beginning.

Mesmers, Assassins, for PVP slot, also thinking as a maybe using the PVP slot as a PVE Rit.

Sounds like you just don't enjoy some classes. Nothing new, everyone has it. I personally can't stand playing PvE with an Elementalist, and I can't stand playing Necromancer at all.

Ok heres my story. made an ele/monk on my freinds acount. That was so much fun.
So i bought the game, made a new ele/monk and played him tell yaks bend.
Got kinda bored with getting killed and made a war/ranger,(thinking i would become a droks runner and make money). played him thro pre, stayed in pre tell i had a whole inventory of charr purples and stuff lvl 11 i think, got out of pre. Quested to grenditch courthouse, was in ascalon city one day, guy was saying free run to yaks, i had been there before so i joined his group. he ended up running me to beacons and gates of krta, I told him i had to leave, he said just leave your computer on, i will take this whole group as far as i can. When i woke up the next morning i was in Dunes...
lol, so i began to play the warrior and deleted the ele, ended up beating chap 1 with him.
later made a monk for 55 farming.(still needed money) borrowed the gold for the runes, made the 55 build and now thats my favorite guy.(1 million xp in 6 months)(i allso run bonder, and healer, beat factions with this guy)
i allso have 2 eles now, 2 rangers(needed a new one for the endgame cantha bow i got)and 2 necros. the reason i have 2 of each is my wife is playing a warrior on my second account and i cant use the ranger lvl 12, necro lvl 9, and ele lvl 8 much on there. so i am about to lvl 20 with my now 3rd ele, and this time i will finish him. got a open space on both acounts for pvp as well..........me likes the touch ranger at the moment. I allso in these 8 months since getting guilds wars have avaraged about 4 hours a day playing time, and now lead a guild of about 25 in a huge luxon alliance.

I will always stick to my elemental. I have tryed all the other classies but my elemental still rocks.

Started with a Warrior/Ranger, wanting to duplicate the fun i had about 2 years ago playing a beastmaster in EQ. Smash Flat is still my primary character but I also have a MM necro and a ritualist who just finished Factions.

Started a PvP monk and hated it (before i even enjoyed pvp though), started a female necro before my current necro and hated it. I think playing one character a lot definitely gets you in the mode of that profession, making it harder to change habits. Its hard to general some minions after playing my Warrior for an hour or two and smashing my way through everything.

I started out as a W/R thinking I would be able to do tons of damage since I would have a pet, I was really mad when I found out how little damage the pet does. I then deleted him and made a W/ME and unlocked all secondarys and beat the game with him.

I made a ME/E and deleted him after I beat the game.

I made a MO/E and deleted him after I beat the game with all bonuses completed.

I now sometimes play on my Necro that is still over in tyria because I don't want to do all of the missions and primary quests all over again.

I started off with a W/E and beat the game with him. Got around 2 mill exp and most of the skills for him. Still using him at this time.

Made a mesmer after i beat the game, use her till i got bored of beating THK. Haven't touch her since.

Made a elementlist but around that time the AoE nerf happened and i use her as a mule now. But with factions being release, started to use her more. Right now i'm in Yak Bend with her.

Made a Necro, brought her all the way to the desert and haven't beat my dopple yet. Nor got her infused. Will try and actually get her to infused than maybe bring her over to Cantha.

As for factions.. i made an assassin and still at the last mission in the island. Than just recently made a monk.

If I could (don't have the spare character slots ) I'd make a new character and just chill in pre-searing Ascalon all the time. By far my favourite area of the game.

I would take month or two off from GW to rest up then I would even in prophecies.I won't be playing that much this summer as last summer i want to enjoy it.I would of fineshed your Necro and Monk off in prophecies before moving on in to factions.

Don't like competative games. That's why I grew up playing RPGs rather than say, sports or chess.

But for someone who doesn't mind competitive games, sure, switching to PvP after finishing PvE is a logical choice.

Heres my story... made about 200 PvE chars... got about 30 to droks and bought decent armor then deleted them... still got a 55... still got a W/R that im waiting for the Bday present for in a couple days then i will delete him... i go thru chars faster than you could imagine... one day to lvl 20 then get armor get bored and get deleted... i make on average 20 pvp chars a day just because i have to reroll over and over... this game gets boring fast so i have to switch it up but i still enjoy soloing UW and GvG/HA

I went through Prophecies with two characters the regular way. After that, the next two characters went straight to the forge (yes, was run there) to get max armor. I've gone through most of Prophecies with all of them, deleted one or two along the way to try out the other classes (all being ran to the Forge). What made me play through Prophecies again was the fact that you can be run to get the best armor after presearing. The fact that I can go through the early missions feeling pretty powerful made me enjoy it because I really see no point in going through the same game the same way all 6+ times.

Now, the story is different with Factions. After I completed the game the normal way, I did not have any motivation to continue on with my other characters or a new character. Why? Because I can't be run anywhere? Maybe. More like, I do not want to go through the grind in the beginning where there are quests that are all compressed into the same areas for you to gain a lot of experience (enough to get to level 20 with a new character). IMO, the way the quests were laid out in Factions seemed more like GRIND than going through the story. I don't do the quests the same way I did them in Prophecies with Factions. Heck, I don't even want to read what the NPCs had to say.

I'd also like to blame the green arrows that are now implemented to guide you while you're doing quests. These days, I think players tend to follow the arrows rather than read the quest descriptions. I know I do. Hahaha.

I'd like to see things be done differently in the third chapter. I want that Prophecies-feel back.

bought this game last year.
my birthday should be this week

first character was a monk. was pretty fun.
i got 600k xp on him which is pretty good considering how often i play GW.

second character was a W/Me. It was sooo weak and pathetic that i brought him down to thunderhead and deleted him soon after.

my third character was a remade W/Mo. rather skilled.
on its way to get the mission completion title.

fourth character was my ele.
i got it to lvl 14 at riverside province then i quit because it was so boring

fifth character was a ranger/necro.
still lvl 18 as I quit playing GW 3 months before faction release and havent leveled it to this day.

sixth character was a IWAY pvp char. it was boring to play so i gave up and let him rot as a mule and was deleted.

seventh character was when factions came out.
assassin. boring. unliked.
got it to vasburg armoury and i dont want to delete him until i get my amulet

eighth and most favourite character is my necro.
still working on beating the shiverpeak missions to i can get some skills at ELC to go PvPing with him.

ninth character that im working on is another ele.
lvl 11 and I plan to work on it when i finish thunderhead on my necro.

and yeh.
that is 1 year of playing.

I cant say that GW is boring.
I love factions as much as I loved prophecies.

yep.

so i deleted my first warrior, my iway pvp char, and my first ele
and my assassin is gunna be gone to make room for a pvp slot.

so i guess that is 3 successful characters, and 2 of them incomplete.

my first char was a mesmer, and so i find it difficult to ahve fun with anything else =P

jk

i just try to do as shadowstorm says, set goals

my rit is now canthan grandmastercartohrapher

Wow, some great stories and suggestions guys and girls.

I think I may have finally gotten over my slump by working on a Geomancer (the AoE of a Nuker, yet far more fun in my eyes) and I've rekiddled my interest in PvE.

As for the suggestion for PvP, I have tried it before and found I lag far too much to be effective there. :[

It might just be the pve part of the game. I cant play through the pve game without being bored and/or getting run no matter what class i play. I havent even bothered finishing factions I find it so boring. But thats just me.

Lets see.

1st char (and my favorite) is my E/Mo lv20 which has completed Prof and Facitions.

2nd char is my N/Mo lv20 completed prof and 2nd to last level in factions

3rd char is my Mo/Rt (was Mo/E) Lv20 completed Prof and is somewhere in factions (lol can't remember)

4th char is my Rt/Mo which is at the 3rd to last level in factions

5th char is my A/Mo which is at the 3rd to last level in factions

Not sure what I'll make for my 6th slot? Never really liked playing as a warrior so I might try out a ranger and see what this "barrage" is all about, or leave the 6th slot spare ready for GW: Chapter 3.

The problem with Factions I feel is that in Prof you advanced to a new location everytime you advanced in the story line. In factions it doe's happen, but not as much.

I started out in a similar fashion, made a Nec whom I adored, got to post searing, and realised I had made a few mistakes. By then I had made an ele as well. So I ended up re-creating my nec, but first chose to complete the game with the ele. I kinda rushed through the missions, and picked up on a few things which gave me some ideas for new characters. One was people complaining about how bad all monks are.

I took the challenge and made a monk to see what the deal was. I gotto be honest, the idea of playing a monk until then did not appeal. I played my monk and nec side by side, completing all quests and missions at a steady pace. These 2 characters were what ended up giving me my great love for the game. Playing a monk can be very satisfying (and i can energy manage too, so no need for BR ), and I can now say, she is definitely one of my favourites.

Needing ways to make money, I decided to try the warrior class (my least favourite at the time), in the hopes of making money running. I ended up having a blast bludgeoning my way through the campaigns. She also gave the ability to test some stuff out before attempting with my other characters, been a little hardier. Having used my 4 slots, I was gutted that I was unable to try the preview event for factions, so ended up buying a 2nd copy as I did not want to delete any of my beloved characters. This gave me the opportunity to explore the mesmer and ranger.

Playing a mesmer is actually a hell of a lot more fun than I thought it would be, and although she only passed sanctum cay last night, I think this profession is one of the strongest casters. Yes, I am trawling through Tyria again, but that’s just because I didn’t really like the faces for Factions

Last but not lease are my 2 new Factions characters – A ritualist, and a ranger (which ive actually been waiting for a while to play – but again just didn’t fancy the tyrian faces). These are proving interesting, and quite fun too, although they are still babes in terms of hours played.

Bottom line for me is, Ive now got 7 ‘active’ characters, all at different stages, so I always find it interesting to play. Ill be honest and say the ‘upkeep’ part can be tough, having to do it all over and over, but it does make you better at doing things.

well this is my story:

a year ago i started an E/N - finished the game with him

Then made a mo/me - finished everything with him

Then made a W/mo - finished everything with him

Then i thought, i wana make a necro, so i deleted me ele. And ive finished everything with my necro.

Then i thought, hey i dont like the name of my warrior anymore - so i deleted him (even tho he has 15k armor :S) and started him again and finsihed everything with him.

Then i thought - hey actually male monks are kinda ugly, so i deleted my monk and remade a female one which i finished every thing with.

When factions came out, I made a assassin (which i love) and hav now completed the factions campain with and most of prophecies,

And i hav jst started a ritualist (already lvl 20 )

and of course ihav a pvp slot.