When was Guild Wars the best?

When do you think Guild Wars was the best?


I think Guild Wars was the best when it was just Prophecies, without titles, rep grinds, heroes. People played for fun. People developed original builds. People didn't strictly use PvX wiki only builds. People were friendlier. People would take time to explain things to new players. People grouped together.

Those were the good old days....

I think I had the most fun playing in tombs just before factions was released.

When heroes were introduced. Customised hench that we can control.

When i first bought it back in 2004... Best ever.

No loot scaling, ursan and heroes.

I enjoyed a good farm anyday.

Lol, I still use original builds. I don't like many of the high ranking PvX builds. Here's my warrior build without an elite:

[for great justice][power attack][sever artery][gash][body blow][rush][shield stance][healing signet]

You'd probably call it nooby, but I like it. Note: I only have Prophecies and EotN and I have no elite skills.

The singular best thing that they added to PvE was hard mode and yet in the same update they added over the top PvE skills which was the singular worst thing for PvE.

I had the most fun around the release of Hard Mode

tons of new farm spots/builds to try...teaming up for missions that used to be easy...new titles to get...game economy went nuts.

My idea of fun in GW =)

Funny, I think it's a lot better now.

Back in the old days, there just wasn't much to do. Once you beat Hell, defeated the Darkness, and broke the Iron Forgeman, that was it. PvE was over. Go play PvP, or farm, which seems like another form of grinding to me. Nowadays, we have dungeons, we have elite missions, we have oodles of quests, we have hard mode to relive everything, and we have all the old stuff as well, whenever we care to enjoy it.

People grouped together for survival, because the alternative was weak, low level henchmen who would fold in an instant. There has been, still is, and always will be rudeness, belligerence, and poor behavior in pugs. Some weren't bad, others were terrible.

Equipment is finally reasonable to get these days thanks to the inscription system. Trying to find a decent caster weapon that didn't come from a collector was a roulette wheel strapped to a blackjack table on the end of a slot machine. You didn't win much.

It's finally easy to gather a party with heroes. I remember getting my monk to Hell, and being invited by seven different groups within five seconds, because everyone was so desperate for monking. While highly amusing, it was a problem; people couldn't gather the parties they needed. If you were a monk, you were a minority that was always required. If you were a warrior, there were three hundred just like you competing for space. If you were a mesmer.....my sympathies.

Finally, I like having areas that have significance beyond being a passage to the next place. The vast majority of the old maps are slim tunnels of terrain, designed to force you to fight mob after pointless mob for no benefit whatsoever. In later expansions, it's wider spaces, with bonuses for seeking out and destroying enemies, namely titles and their benefits.

But it's not all rosy. There's a lot of grind, there's still rude people, and we still have ridiculously narrow party types, the archetypes that people demand in order to allow you to join. Such is life.

But at least I can pick up a friend, equip our heroes, and go out and conquer the world in a myriad of new and exciting ways.

I truly LOL'ed.


When was GW the best? When I sold gold weapons to the merchant, thinking that I was getting lots of gold for it, when I didn't know any better. When playing GW meant enjoying anything I came across. When elite armor was something far beyond what my little 2k storage deposit could get me. When four friends grouped up every cent we had to buy a guildhall.

Yea, back when I was a newb.

when it first came out

Guild Wars gets better with just about every update - so it's the best now. However, due to my having "been there, done that," I'm bored and no longer play. It happens. When it was most fun for me was when I started playing, just after the introduction of Sorrow's Furnace - but not because of how the game actually was, but because it was new to me. Games like this are always the most fun when they are brand-spankin' new, and even moreso when it's new for everyone.

Sorry guys, GW lost it's cherry back in '05, and it ain't coming back. Deal with it. Wait for GW2 and have your way with her.... uhh I mean it. Yeah. Hot, hot virgin GW2.

Take your pants off! Wooo!

Three moments:

When I beat Prophecies for the first time.
When I beat Factions for the first time.
When I beat Nightfall for the first time.

Eye of the North... could have been better...

When I thought pre was the entire game, and when I got out of pre, it was awesome to get "rich" by selling the salvage kits from yaks to people in ascalon for 50g more.

Yup that's an unoptimized build as you could use the elite Auspicious Parry in place of Shield Stance and use it every two seconds for a complete block not just a 75% chance and 33% movement reduction and no energy cost just adrinilin.

"and he takes his pants off and all the girls start laughing hysterically" <grin>

At beginning of 2005 and so on. Before factions

Exactly that. I'm confidant the itch will come back, in my case, as it always seems to. The nostalgia routine around here gets very old.

When I bought Prophecies way back when with two of my personal friends and had a blast just questin, learning more about the game.

Totally agree. Titles and rep grind are annoying

^ yeh.

proph gvg was good fun too

You may like it and all but... like Master Knightfall said... thats an unoptimized build.
You can very much replace any of your skills for an elite version and you will still play the same style.

As an example:
[Crippling Slash] instead of [Sever Artery]
[Bull's Charge] or [Charge] instead of [Rush]
[Hundred Blades] , [Quivering Blade] or [Dragon Slash] instead of [Power Attack]
[Auspicious parry] or [gladiator's defense] instead of [shield stance]

I really liked GuildWars before Ursan Blessing, you had to THINK at HardMode. Now hard mode is just like normal mode with ursan u.u