Guild Wars 1

[Black]

So it seemed for AB

They said AB is happening on Fridays.

Hey nigs, how about some koordinated kodexian GW this evening?

Maybe we could do some vanquishes or zaishen stuff, you got a guild?

 

[Black]

If you're gonna play you might add me: Real Communism

 

[Darth Roxor]

Maybe we could do some vanquishes or zaishen stuff

I wanna kill people, not mobs

you got a guild?

Yeah, my very own one made exclusively for 2 people :D

I'm Darth Roxor in GW as well btw.

american servers appear to be tightly packed actually, 2 Kamadan districts lmao

P. sure the majority of these are bots?

 

[luj1]

Spamadan

 

[Darth Roxor]

lol, I go into RA, get repeatedly matched with the same tardo rager who keeps declaring me a leecher for whatever reasons, suddenly I become dishonoraburu and get blocked from PVP



so this is what it has come to

 

[Black]

You shouldn't leech, bro.

 

[Darth Roxor]

went into a few rounds of fort aspenwood with Hoaxmetal and nigger

FA used to be my least favourite pvp mode i think, but beggars can't be choosers

now the shakes have returned

the guild wars shakes

and the pain that follows

goddamn

 

[Alphard]

just bought my first elite armor piece ( ancient chest for my ranger) and burned all my money. what do you think is the best looking ranger armor?
also why almost all mesmer armors look like dogshit?

 

[biggestboss]

just bought my first elite armor piece ( ancient chest for my ranger) and burned all my money. what do you think is the best looking ranger armor?
also why almost all mesmer armors look like dogshit?

Best ranger armor is the bikini armor

 

[biggestboss]

SerratedBiz [citation needed]

 

[biggestboss]

Similarly, the best Warrior armor is also the bikini armor.

 

[Alphard]

why you assume i play a female char?

 

[Alphard]

also those armors look bad, warrior especial


best looking (imo) female armor, from a quick view on the wiki

ranger

 

[Alphard]

Warrior
( do not look at helmets)

 

[Darth Roxor]

why you assume i play a female char?

why wouldn't you

you some kind of a homo?

 

[Alphard]

why you assume i play a female char?

why wouldn't you

you some kind of a homo?

that's the same question i would ask to whoever is male and plays female chars

 

[luj1]

Do RA and TA still exist?

 

[Darth Roxor]

RA does, TA was changed into something called 'codex arena' very long ago (before gw1 was abandoned) that has a daily rotation of permissible skills. Needless to say, it was dead on arrival, and the tards at anet never rolled it back or tried to improve it in any way because they are cretins.

 

[Black]

codex arena

 

[what am i doing]

GW1 was some top tier shit. I can't think of another action / MMO / RPG game where the combat revolves around working your way through an enemy's defenses rather than being principally focused on just killing the enemy faster (it is present in some RTS games, though, in a different form, and in some tabletop games like MtG or various tile games). What I mean by this is that in a typical action / RPG game the combat is about killing the enemy faster than he kills you. Things like debilitating conditions or resource depletion are generally a waste because you're better off just killing the enemy faster. In Guild Wars, the defensive capabilities are so powerful that just going for straight up "kill faster" doesn't work (not to say there aren't pressure oriented team builds, or concepts like spiking, but these rely on more than just raw damage); if you just try to attack an enemy then their team's Monk is going to be able to counter your attacks without much issue; in a straight conflict of "how much damage can I deal nuking this guy" vs "how much damage can an average prot / hybrid monk counter" you'll never win.

Accordingly we have tools like interrupts, hexes that slow casting speed or disable specific skills, conditions that can be used to divert a Monk's attention or overwhelm their resources, energy loss (since energy is actually very powerful and losing it is a big deal, if an enemy stalls out on energy that's a huge advantage for you), enchantment removal, etc - and some of these are also defensive tools in turn, like inflicting Blindness to reduce an enemy Warrior's offensive capability, or using interrupts to shut down an enemy Elementalist's nukes. In turn there are some defensive measures that counter their own counters, like the concept of a cover enchantment to counteract removal, or Holy Veil to drop a hex that would otherwise have prohibitive consequences when trying to remove it (or to prevent a cover hex from working). There are offensive concepts like the spike (massive concentrated damage aimed at killing a target so quickly that the enemy can't get defenses or healing on him in time) and tools to counter that, like the Infuse skill or the human ability to notice that several enemy casters are facing one particular party member while doing a casting animation and drop Spirit Bond on him, expecting a large and abrupt amount of damage.

So in Guild Wars, at least for PvP, the game is more about outmaneuvering the enemy's defenses or forcing them into a condition of low resources (energy loss, too many skills recharging or players taken out of commission by amount of hexes, loss of health and energy to death penalty, used up their hard resses, etc) that gives you enough of an advantage that you can actually kill members of their party consistently, rather than just trying to deal more damage than the enemy.

This overall pattern of gameplay is, in my opinion, what made Guild Wars so great and involved, and I've never played another action or RPG type game that had this same kind of focus.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

I can't think of another action / MMO / RPG game where the combat revolves around working your way through an enemy's defenses rather than being principally focused on just killing the enemy faster

only tabula rasa.

 

[Riel]

GW1 was some top tier shit. I can't think of another action / MMO / RPG game where the combat revolves around working your way through an enemy's defenses rather than being principally focused on just killing the enemy faster (it is present in some RTS games, though, in a different form, and in some tabletop games like MtG or various tile games). What I mean by this is that in a typical action / RPG game the combat is about killing the enemy faster than he kills you. Things like debilitating conditions or resource depletion are generally a waste because you're better off just killing the enemy faster. In Guild Wars, the defensive capabilities are so powerful that just going for straight up "kill faster" doesn't work (not to say there aren't pressure oriented team builds, or concepts like spiking, but these rely on more than just raw damage); if you just try to attack an enemy then their team's Monk is going to be able to counter your attacks without much issue; in a straight conflict of "how much damage can I deal nuking this guy" vs "how much damage can an average prot / hybrid monk counter" you'll never win.

Accordingly we have tools like interrupts, hexes that slow casting speed or disable specific skills, conditions that can be used to divert a Monk's attention or overwhelm their resources, energy loss (since energy is actually very powerful and losing it is a big deal, if an enemy stalls out on energy that's a huge advantage for you), enchantment removal, etc - and some of these are also defensive tools in turn, like inflicting Blindness to reduce an enemy Warrior's offensive capability, or using interrupts to shut down an enemy Elementalist's nukes. In turn there are some defensive measures that counter their own counters, like the concept of a cover enchantment to counteract removal, or Holy Veil to drop a hex that would otherwise have prohibitive consequences when trying to remove it (or to prevent a cover hex from working). There are offensive concepts like the spike (massive concentrated damage aimed at killing a target so quickly that the enemy can't get defenses or healing on him in time) and tools to counter that, like the Infuse skill or the human ability to notice that several enemy casters are facing one particular party member while doing a casting animation and drop Spirit Bond on him, expecting a large and abrupt amount of damage.

So in Guild Wars, at least for PvP, the game is more about outmaneuvering the enemy's defenses or forcing them into a condition of low resources (energy loss, too many skills recharging or players taken out of commission by amount of hexes, loss of health and energy to death penalty, used up their hard resses, etc) that gives you enough of an advantage that you can actually kill members of their party consistently, rather than just trying to deal more damage than the enemy.

This overall pattern of gameplay is, in my opinion, what made Guild Wars so great and involved, and I've never played another action or RPG type game that had this same kind of focus.

What about GW2, that must be great too?? Right??

 

[what am i doing]

What about GW2

Absolute trash, but I'm not sure which was worse: removal of bar building, or removal of the monk.

 

[Alphard]

What about GW2

Absolute trash, but I'm not sure which was worse: removal of bar building, or removal of the monk.

removal of Guild Wars game in all but name

 

[Riel]

I think it was all of the following:

Removal of monk
Removal of hexes
Removal of skill set customization
Nerfing of elite skills
Huge reduction in skill variety

All of that in exchange of a reflex based dodge mechanic.... seriously what could go wrong... lol.