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Yeah I know this game ain't everquest or wow, but jesus why can't people get a clue and realise that you can't "live" in this game?Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
What I also hate are those groups that say they'll get you someplace, but for a small fee. Those nubs need to go.
I've had the same problem off an on. Always make sure you are in American District 1 first. If no one is there due to time or what-not, try International District 1. Watch out for Korean cooties though.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
I agree with all of these, though I am not grasping what you mean by the armor system line. Are you talking about gathering the materials to upgrade?Quote:
So far:
+very great graphics, and great technology
+lots of skills for lots of options
+very good enemy AI, probably thanks to the instancing, its way better than any MMO I've played.
-hard to find a group
-need more TNLers on.
-armor system seems somewhat daunting.
On a positive note, I completed my Protector of Tyria title last night, beating all 25 missions and bonuses for the storyline. I'm interested in unlocking the rest of the map now (somehow I am only at ~55%), so if any lower level chars need a hand, let me know. I'll do your mission and try to uncover my map.
I'm ready for my copy of Factions tomorrow. :D
I want us to ahve at least an arranged arena team going.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Yes. We're missing out on a lot of draw of GW without participating in the team arena. I'm game. My brother and I were trying to find a pick-up pair to fight with last night, but the monk we found sucked, and we got stomped.
sure it was the monk ;)
Well I doubt I can do much, Im only level 8. I wanted to play some yesterday but I got caught up with Deus Ex (will post about it later).
Yea. Like I got a shitload of fragment X (say, Chitin fragments) but it seems like the armorers in town don't need it. Maybe they use it in another town down the road? OR my chick doesn't use armor made from chitin? Please clarify.Quote:
Are you talking about gathering the materials to upgrade?
Funny thing, this guy wanted to buy 28 fragments for 280gp (10 apiece). I pm'd him and told him I would sell him 10 for 200. He was like HELL NO. Then I told him the vendor was buying them for 19gp apiece, I didn't read his name in the text box again.
Diff, if you are post-Searing, I'd be happy to team up. I have a level 10 E/N that is pretty good. Anyone that wants to do some of the earlier missions (Piken Square and others) can meet me tonight after 6:30 CT. My E/N's name is Wren the Infidel and I'm going to try to make a go of it with Air magic.
I'm thinking of getting this game, and I'm just wondering if there is anything amazingly stupid I should know about before I start playing. I am just going to get the original, since buying Factions alone seems retarded unless you have gone through quite a bit of the original content.
So hopefully I will be on and need in some schooling and/or twinking in a couple of days.
-Dippy
I got bored and bought us a guild hall. I went with the Isle of Jade style, which lines up with the Luxon faction from Factions. If you want to bitch about my choice, bring platinum. :p
This is the guild hall:
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...id=19280&stc=1
Certain classes use certain materials for their armor. My Mesmer stuff was heavy on cloth and leather for instance.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Can us suckers with just the original access it?
Umm.. don't expect an MMO. It really is a Diablo clone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dipstick
Diff, ranger armor typically uses cloth, leather and fur squares and leather squares. Cloth and leather is easy as hell to get on factions. I could easily spot you some.
not like it was hard in prophecies i had atleast two full stacks of each in storage.
Yes. I don't have Factions yet. Just go to your guild window and hit the Guild Hall button.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Just got done playing three games of PVP Kurzick vs. Luxon with my R/A. Won two, lost one.
It's pretty cool, the Luxons (Yay!) assault a Kurzick (Emos! Boooo!) outpost with giant turltes with frickin' laser, er...cannons strapped to their back. The third match I found a skill set I really like.
Bestial Wrath (attack speed up) Desperate Strike (dagger attack with plus damage when low on health) Jungle Strike (dagger attack with plus damage and removes a stance from your foe if it hits) Repeating Strikes (ann offhand dagger attack that can be spammed)
Then Master Trapper (or something like that, makes it so your traps aren't easily interrupted) Barbed Trap, Flame Trap, and a 75% chance to block stance.
I'm leaning A/R with my first Factions char. Is there any specific reason you went Ranger primary?
Yeah. Primarily because 13 points in expertise makes a five energy skill (the energy cost for most dagger attacks) a TWO energy skill. Expertise also governs the master trapper skill and the 75 chance to block talents I like. Critical Strikes, which increases chance to crit by one percent each rank and gives you energy for crits didn't have many skills that appealed to me.
Ranger armor has one less strike of energy regen, but expertise more than makes up for that and ranger armor has 30 more armor aganst elemental attacks. Aesthetically, Assassins are just too scrawny for my tastes.
Lastly, Assassins are spit upon since they're typically so squishy and extremely overpopulated.
I haven't lost to an assassin in PvP with my Illusionary Warrior build yet. I could take them one-on-one all day.
Plus most don't know enough about using a spell for speed and teleporting back. That's a great trick for leading some away from the fight.Quote:
Originally Posted by alan_fatima
Do assassins attack faster with their daggers than warriors do with swords? If so, maybe my IW build should become and Illusionary Assassin.
I just bought Factions a week before finals. Probably a bad idea, but the urge finally got to me. I'm studying as it's downloading.
I really wish I had my Prophecies character, still. What's the guild name?
I think it's SOB: Secular Order of Brigands.
... :( that name makes me sad.
This all untested observations, but daggers don't seem to attack much faster than swords, unless you're proccing a lot of dual strikes (something like 2% chance per rank of dagger mastery). I don't believe assassin has a natural attack speed increasing skill, but they do have an ability that increases dual strike chance in Critical Strikes, the assassin primary.
Sooo...I guess it' pretty much flurry versus double attack, if double attack procs for IW. Now, it might be interesting to take a Me/W and use daggers instead of a sword.
Lots of tests will have to be run. I'm sure someone at guildwarsguru.com has already run them.
I suspect flurry will come out on top, though.
Who says you have to be a warrior? just go Me/R and use Tigers Fury.Quote:
Originally Posted by alan_fatima
Someone send me an invite to Rich Ma.
you're not gonna up and sell this account are you? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Rich
Maybe at the end of the summer when school starts again; but like the last account, I'd leave the guild first. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Genki
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
BTW what class is Rich Ma so i can update the first page?
Done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
I just started, but it's going to be a Mo/(whatever the hell the new one is...spiritualist?)Quote:
Originally Posted by Genki
I really don't like being a monk, but it makes life easier when going on missions...unless by myself.
Thanks, Yoshi.
Got the game a couple of days ago (Gamestop had it for 35, wtf? -- whatever); so could someone send a guild invite to Elly Kumuboda? (Before Genki asks, that's a E/Mo character).
Still haven't gotten out of the first set of zones. -_-;; So if anyone wants to show my noobular ass what's what they're more than welcome.
-Dippy
Done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dipstick
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3150806
Next expansion to be a sort of North African-styled thing. Could be neat.
Yeah, I'm excited already, even though it's about six months out. I can't wait for screens.
Yea sounds pretty awesome, looks to be shaping up like WWII with the settings like Europe, Asia, and North Africa :sweat: . I'm enjoying Factions so far for the most part. I have started moving some of my Prophecies characters that have beat that part of the adventure into Cantha, along with my Factions characters that are, of coarse, already there. It's quite fun with all the new stuff.
a possible martial arts class and a possible polearm class? :D thats great news for me. im glad that they added a little more weapon veriety, since really for non mages all we really had was rangers, warriors and now assasins, it was really too mage centric(and this coming from a ele/mes) so im glad they are adding this. only downside is im probably going to have to reroll my warrior again, i took her form war/monk to war assasin, but now im interested in a war/polearm class. maybe respeccing my monk/undecided too into a monk/martial artist. its funny because the monk /dance command already looks like a kata, so it will be interesting to see.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
I'm back!
Anyone wanna do some noob regent valley quests? I want to get a better bow and it is offered as a quest there (or, alternatively, get me some singed gargoyle skulls).
Also our guild hall is all rundown and shit, do you pay more money to make it look better or something?
Jade Island kinda sucks, I like the warrior one myself, once you get to Lion's Arch you'll be able to tour them all. I would pay for some fixtures and ameneties but honestly, we're not doing shit together and we're not that big, so I don't want to sink money into it yet.
We definitely need to get people working together. Alan is on 24/7, but I rarely see anyone else. Frostwolf did kick in some coin for the guild hall the last time I saw him, so that was cool.
Put your money where your mouth is, give me some fucking singed gargoyle skulls.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarsKitten
Also that list Genki is keeping up is very incomplete, add me, josephine mardeaux.
singed skulls? ill see what i can do tonight.
I don't have much money - I just bought some expensive armor for two characters and I always travel with the maximum number in my party. Once I get some more cash coming in, I will definitely contribute to sprucing up the hall.
I'll be on tonight at 6 Central Time. I was planning to go back and get the bonus in D'Alessio Seaboard then go on the quest to get Air Attunement, but if anyone needs help with something else, let me know.
Like I said, I'm always up for anything anytime. I have characters everywhere in Tyria and in a few places in Cantha. I'd b up for helping anyone. Name: Iluvatar Undomir
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Originally Posted by diffusionx
diffx's character is a new, hidden class: French/Bitch
She's hot, though.
Yeah, but she's only ready for action once a week or so.
Blame Deus Ex, I was just on for a bit and will probably hop on later.
I spent some time with the Jade Quarry faction vs. faction player vs. player competitive mission (department of redundancy department, I know, but I want to make it clear). We won once but got absolutely whooped all the other times.
The mission itself is a resource controlling battle similar to Arathi Basin in WoW. There are two Quarries, the most important resources in the mission, on opposite sides of the field, and I believe one is closer to the Luxon base, while one closer to the Kurzick base. Capturing these quarries will spawn a siege turtle for luxons or a Juggernaut (plant-like superhuman looking thing) that attempt to carry some jade back to your base. If a carrier makes it to base from the quarry it spawned from, you score a point. It's a race to score ten points first.
Between and beside the quarries there are a multitude of guard posts. Capturing a guard post will have archers of your faction spawn, which will fire upon the enemy, and most importantly, the enemy's carrier. The two guard posts on the middle of the map are most important, since a carrier will always cross in front of them back to a base.
So you could capture both quarries and deny the enemy a chance to score, but they could control the middle and make sure none of your turtles make it through.
When we get more people that far along in Factions, I'll probably post strategy suggestions.
Buy Factions, people.
I just spent 35 platinum and a black dye on a sword and shield because I switched from hammer to sword, but these babies are fucking sweet:
(25 plat for the sword, 10 plat and a black dye for the shield)
Yeah spathas are nice...but fellblades are hands down the coolest swords...
I think I might have a better shield than that. You shoulda asked.
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Originally Posted by Nick
I dunno man, it's max armor, 1 health below max health, and strength instead of tactics.
I'm ready for the next storyline mission after Closer to the Stars. You bitches need to wake up and get online.
If you don't have Factions, it's $35 today from GoGamer.
Luxon fo lifeQuote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
I joined the Luxon and got my first green drop today. Now I have a green weapon with a green off hand for my monk.
One of my quests ended next to the dragon's gullet and I decided to check out the place with the guy I was hooked up with. I'm just not equipped to handle that place.
I left the guild, no PvP, if you wanna chill with me, friend me and talk :p
I'm getting irritated with the lack of PvP too. I got to the random arenas every day, but we really need to get a team together.
SOB 4 Life.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarsKitten
For reals, it's all about PvP.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
I'm almost done with the game with my monk, but work has been taking up all my time. :(
my new pc isnt gonna be ready 4 a long long time... :cry:
I beat the game with my monk tonight. Are their any underworld-like places in Factions?
I bought a prophecies account from some guy in game for 100k today, which I bought on eBay for $4.39
Is there anyway to combine existing prophecies and factions accounts?
I suspect if you call customer service, they can link them.
Yoshi and I have just discussed this, and it is past time we really start getting some PvP and Alliance battles going on, since that's the best part of this game.
Let's go ahead and figure out what night(s) would be best for all of us to get together say, once a week, teamspeak/ventrillo channels, all that.
Also, all you Rampant Fronting bitches need to come over and start playing a game that doesn't suck. SOB > RF. Plz believe.
If we're going to do this shit on a weekday, i don't get home and finish dinner until around 8.
That would be impressive if the winning bidder didn't have a -1 feedback.
I'd prefer we not PvP Monday or Wednesday, BTW.
Any night of the week will work for me right now, but that will likely change once school starts back.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Guild-Wars-Accou...QQcmdZViewItemQuote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Holy shit. I need to play (even) more Guild Wars.
:lol: There are 16 recently completed auctions that have closed over $300
I just fucking hate that as a Factions player, I don't have access to the elite missions cuz i'm not in a crazy guild.
Yeah, that was shit design of the highest order.
Apparently they're going to fix it after some petitions, but have said it will take several months. Teh gay. I've often thought about switch\ing guilds, but it's not worth it.
Any weeknight besides Monday is fine with me. Weekends are out.
Would Thursday at 9pm EST work for everyone?
Okay.
Works for me. Also, I have PvPed a lot with my Illusionary Warrior (Me/W) and my Critical Strike Barrager (A/R). I have zero experience with any other classes in PvP, so keep that in mind.
My W/E needs more skills. I've only captured two elites so far and haven't even gotten the second set of 15 attribute points. But at least Conjure Phantasm doesn't make me panic anymore. :)
I'm kind of trying an experimental build Rit/N based on chaining and buffing spawns/bone fiends. It needs some work, but is doing okay so far. I'm still only at 12th lvl now though.
By the way, if anyone wants to help me get the bonuses in Dunes of Despair and the Dragon's Lair, I would love to have you along sometime.
I need dragon's lair too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick
I <3 the fuckers who control Cavalon. Free ferries to the deep ftw.
Are we doing this tonight? I'll be there if others will be. We need a monk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vasteel
Im the best monk to every play the game. Best believe.
Gonna run to the store real quick, and I'll see you cats on soon!
where you fools at?
Edit: alright, I'm gonna go out since none of you suckas showed up.
I feel asleep at 830. :lol: Sorry
I finally made it to yaks bend. First thing I did after that was go back to the town offering trips and told them all to "go fuck themselves!"
Tomorrow, bitches. No excuses. Vasteel, call my ass if I forget.
Hey. Bitches.
I'm on now, but you and Alan logged just a few minutes ago.
Ill be on in a few.
Ain't noone on. Vags.
PS--winning 10 straight randoms is impossible, even though i'm the best monk ever.
It's fucking 9:30, not 10. We're not going to stand around waiting when we don't know (or think) you're coming.
:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
heal or prot?
Heal, naturally. I hate prot monks. 90% worthless.
Yes yoshi, you explicitely said 930. :rolleyes:
Oops. Make that9. :sweat:Quote:
Originally Posted by Vasteel
That was like a week and a half ago, and it was bust then. I didn't expect that to carry over.
I left and joined the alliance that owns Zos Shivros. I've done nothing but pvp this last week and needing a shitload of actives.
But, alas, I will join the guild with my Proph account hwen I start it up.