Beta.
I think I was in beta, or was it just released? Can't remember. Some time in May 2005. Back when Sissy Boys [sB] ruled the pvp.
Yeah, I remember doing Tomb runs. Bunch of rangers with pets who'd res them constantly to give you tons of corpses. You could easily get 20-30 minions.This thread hurts quite a bit.
I remember playing Necro MM in Prophecies before they limited the number of minions you could have at any one time.
It does, in fact it works too well and makes most areas a bit too easy (though I'd only do 2 MMs, otherwise the sacrifice cost of BotM gets out of control).
The sound of Olias' death cries sustain me. Gotta let the man throw on a My Chemical Romance CD and cut all the pain away.
I have Picnic on one of my mes heroes and feel like adding more than one is redundant, I like running something that combines with Mind Wreck (and Aneurysm).
I've not played in years, but is that Fissure of Woe armor? I never got it.Since we were talking armor, this is my Warrior's usual set.
And my alternate:
The top pic is Norn, the bottom pic is Elite Kurzick.
It is, what I said is what I take for general romp and stomp. If I know I'm gonna be fighting lots of eles (drakes etc) I'm gonna take Technobabble and so on. That build has like 2 "disposable" skill slots if you need to put something in there.
Every single GW2 screenshot I see looks like a visual downgrade. It also felt like a visual downgrade when I tried the beta. Like, there might be some fancy new shaders or something, I dunno, but even putting aside issues of visual design / art direction, GW2 looks like the lighting isn't right. Characters look plastic and at the same time, often oddly flat / low detail. It's like they took GW and were like "oh, we can use this shader to make them shiny! it's more advanced so it's better, right?" and the result is bad. It's kind of hard to describe. But compare GW2 to GW1:
They all have that kind of semi-reflective metallic/plastic look, even if their clothing doesn't appear intended to be metallic (ie, leftmost character).
Compare with GW1 where cloth clothing actually looks like cloth ie there's no shiny reflective shit except for the metallic gold trim on Kwayama's clothing and his iridescent cape (which doesn't show well here, but you can see it if you go ingame and move around) where it makes sense; otherwise the effects of lighting on characters are (realistically) very muted and you only really notice illumination on character model if you watch your character closely while spinning around.
I don't have any good gif recording software but the metallic effect on armour that's actually metal (eg, Warrior Elite Kurzick) is very subtle and doesn't really show in a stationary screenshot, it's not a massive glare of light.
Yeah, the graphics are not as fancy, but in my opinion they look much better ie not plastic.
Why? Isn't it basically misleading to describe it as an MMO anyway? Compared to WoW, Everquest, FFXI et al. at least. Anything popular seems to endure as long as people can actually play it, which is the usual obstacle with many old MMOs (where if it is still available, it's often not the same game that people loved when they were younger).
A lot of people seem to like it while never wanting to play subscription-based MMOs, but while that's definitely a reason many people avoid modern MMOs, it also lacks the motivating factors of most MMOs, i.e. the socially driven, transmog/fashion accessorised gameplay. I'm sure someone has elaborated on this better than I can, since I'm pretty new to GW1, but I just wonder if one would rush to call an RPG with always online features and multiplayer hubs built into the world an 'MMO' were it to be released today. Kinda the same way Path of Exile isn't really considered one by the typical definition.
No traditional transmog system though, right?
The Guild Wars 2 thread is that way, sir.
