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i just got back into it recently as well since it's a childhood favorite of mine. The real great thing about this is you get to customize an entire squad of 8 with weapons, armor, runes, armor styles, accessories, and most importantly the skills! So it's like a fantasy within a fantasy game to create your own dream team, making the grinds worth it as you face real danger in hard mode in end game content. To me, one of the biggest things that separates this from other MMOs mainly is the health bar. The skills make you feel powerful when you know what you're doing and you can see instant effects of it on enemies. The regen/degen pip bars for your health also creates what I call [entertainment anxiety] when your character's life drains away and is barely kept alive by healers in your party, but yet you keep fighting on!
GW1 will always have a huge place in my heart, its the game I met my fiance in. She was a Monk I was a Warrior. Today majority of players are playing to finish "God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals" Which is a title given when you max 30 titles ~300-400 hours. This title also transfers into GW2. Showing that you "Beat" GW1. For most players, GW1 is just that, a game to beat to gain bragging rights in the game that is being currently being supported. For better or worse the game is solved. Guides and Builds have been min-maxed so much that as a player you will not innovate something that has not already been tested. PvP is filled with bots that WILL mass report you, resulting in a ban. With little to no customer support you'll be unlikely to get it fixed. These bots farm things to sell for real money. The game is a wonderful, one of a kind gem. No other game is like it. Its unfortunate today its just used as a stepping stone
STOP. You met your fiance through GW?? That is so EPIC!! that is such a cool story honestly unfortunate to hear about some of the negative things that have happened to the game. But thanks for leaving a comment! I appreciate it! :D
I'm one of those who didn't move to GW2 based on what I heard (so never played). There are ways to self-impose restrictions to keep things fresh. For instance, I'm watching another playthrough that restricts skills to those that would have only been available to the player on a new account, when the campaigns dropped, and in order. No heroes until Nightfall. Most is just henchmen, which really forces the player to abandon now normal builds and tactics.
I just got back into the game myself. Couldn’t recover my old account unfortunately, but made a new one and just beat nightfall. Sure, the nostalgia is real, but I forgot how much strategy to takes to beat those last three missions on a fresh account without all the op skills unlocked.
Just got the game on the sale and man its a blast. I love both gw1 and 2 in different ways and I cannot compare saying whats better since gw1 is more of a strategy co op rpg. And gw2 is a tab target action mmorpg. IMO I do prefer the tab target action combat of gw2 to gw1 but 1 thing I love to see implimented into gw2 is the party henchmin hero system.
For me, Factions came with a new computer and I had never played this type of game. The most nostalgic thing for my is hearing Kisai's attunement even though I then had no clue what that was. I'm currently following a "nostalgic rules" playthrough, which has made me see the game from a broader design perspective. Lots of reasonable improvement possibilities in the initial skills available and the henchmen options.
True. I’d argue it’s probably 10x better for returning players. I don’t know if brand new players would enjoy the game nearly as much as us “old timers” 😂
