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Guild Wars: Factions (PC)

GENERAL INFORMATION

GENRE/STYLE

Role-playing/Third-Person 3D Action RPG

RELEASE DATE

27/APR/06

ESRB RATING

TEEN, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol, Violence

DEVELOPER

ArenaNet, Inc.

PUBLISHER

NC Interactive

ALSO AVAILABLE ON

http://www.gamerdna.com/game/guild-wars--factions-ibm-pc-compatible

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THE SETTING #USES

PLAYING AS #USES

assassin 295
Hero 103
Caster 100

PLAYING AGAINST #USES

HOW IT'S PLAYED #USES

GENERAL TONE #USES

DESCRIPTION

This stand-alone second chapter in the online epic Guild Wars introduces brave gamers to the continent of Cantha, an Asian-inspired land where large parties of allied wizards and warriors do battle for glory and territory. Expanding on the guild structure set in the original game, Factions features four new mission types, which encourage large groups of players to form alliances, in order to complete challenging quests and to wage war against other player groups for control of strategically valuable towns and outposts.

Similar to the first Guild Wars game, Factions offers a hybrid of small-scale cooperative gaming and "massively multiplayer" role-playing. Individual quests are completed in instanced areas, generated exclusively for the players in the party, while public areas, such as cities and towns, are accessible to all and support thriving, player-driven economies.

In addition to the war-torn land of Cantha, this second Guild Wars chapter features 300 new skills, 50 more questing and battle locales, and two additional character professions. The Assassin uses a teleport-like ability to specialize in stealthy attacks and quick kills, making up in efficiency what he may lack in honor. The Ritualist can access a unique set of summoning spells that allow the conjuration of arcane beasts to aid in combat.

As with the initial Guild Wars game — but unlike most persistent-world online role-playing games — no subscription fee is required to play Guild Wars: Factions. A copy of the first Guild Wars game is not required to play Factions, either, although original Guild Wars players can use their existing characters embark on the new adventures featured in the follow-up, or lead their new Assassins and Ritualists back through the adventures presented in the first game. ~ T.J. Deci, All Game Guide

Guild Wars: Factions (PC)

GENRE/STYLE:

Role-playing/Third-Person 3D Action RPG
RELEASE DATE:

27/APR/06
TOP TRAITS:

massive multiplayer, Beautiful landscapes, Fantasy
DESCRIPTION:

This stand-alone second chapter in the online epic Guild Wars introduces brave gamers to the continent of Cantha, an ... more

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Wayfarer's Reverie by: SH4D0WZ0MB1E

“So Anet is hosting one last "festival" to celebrate the release of Guild Wars 2. Four final quests to re-visit some of the memorable parts of the GW1 worlds. Plus if you complete all four...”

created 21/AUG/2012

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“The quest are quite a bit of work. If you know a good runner, you could save some time, as only 1 person in the party has to reach the vista. I'm kinda enjoying them, bringing back a lot of old memories. If you haven't started, better get on with it! The festival ends on the 30th, but early start is this weekend! I still have to do Proof of Mountains and Proof of Winds. This has pretty much dashed my hopes of finishing VQing Cantha before this weekend. In addition to the Quest all weekend event bonuses are active. So it's a good time to do anything on GW even if you don't need the Tormented Weapon.”

SH4D0WZ0MB1E was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“Yeah saw that all bonuses are active. So much to do, and so little time to do it. Looks like I'll be revisiting GW1 after GW2 releases to finish up some stuff.”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“I probably will too. I want to accomplish a few things, and have not decided the fate of my guild in GW1 yet. I'm not sure I can lead in both games effectively.”

LordXenophon was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“Which ones are the Tormented?”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“@LordXenophon They have a purple glowing animation, kinda like that Dragon I posted a pic of. I'm holding my Tormented staff in this pic, but you can't see the animation of course. http://www.gamerdna.com/uimage/o1RRsTs/full/gw422-jpg.jpg

For some reason, I couldn't get it to post inline... Bug?
”

Svoboda was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

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Svoboda was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“I had to guess what width to force it to and it came out too small to see your weapon, but it does link just fine.
”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“@Svoboda I tried it a bunch of times, then gave up, what did you do?”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“I was using 480 as the width, I think that's what I always do...”

Svoboda was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“I used plain html.”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 9 months ago... show previous hide previous

“That's what I did too, I must have had a syntax error I wasn't seeing. thanks for posting it.”

Ala Muki's Lair on Isle of Janthir server in Guild Wars 2. by: TamaraLane

“We will build Ala Muki's Lair on Isle of Janthir server in Guild Wars2.”

created 18/AUG/2012

Mishy was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“Apparantly when I ever get it, I'll be stuck on Maguuma or whatever its called from the beta :P”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“No, you will need to choose a server. They will wipe all the beta stuff. The go live servers won't know anything about the beta.”

Mishy was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“No, my peeps are still going to be on that same server. Even with everything wiped :P”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“OH, I see... You are supposed to be able to "guest" on other servers, though we weren't able to during the beta. I figured you would be an the Aus server if there was one anyway.”

Mishy was the last to comment - 9 months ago...

“GW2 lists Australia as an "Other" country, hell the only major MMOs that have ever done proper aussie servers are Warhammer and TOR, otherwise if we are lucky we get a nice little "Oh shut up and like the fact we calibrated the day/night cycle to your time" server :P”

DistractXfer was the last to comment - 8 months ago...

“see you in W v W? im on yaks bend :/”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 8 months ago... show previous hide previous

“@DistractXfer Maybe you can guest on our server, or vice versa.”

Kneel

“You will show respect”

Added by: SH4D0WZ0MB1E
Date: 16/AUG/2012
Views: 39
Votes: 0

created 16/AUG/2012

gw081

“I swear, it's not what it looks like >_>”

Added by: SH4D0WZ0MB1E
Date: 16/AUG/2012
Views: 41
Votes: 0

created 16/AUG/2012

SH4D0WZ0MB1E played Guild Wars: Factions on 14/AUG/12

“Finished "Act 1" of Winds of Change. Only two more "acts" to go.”

created 16/AUG/2012

Even Worse

“This one is even worse, because the req is for primary att of a Warrior and the bonus is for primary att of a Monk! It's useful for me in "The Deep", or just for show but it's an utterly...”

Added by: TamaraLane
Date: 08/JUL/2012
Views: 25
Votes: 0

created 08/JUL/2012

Really?

“Sometimes I hate Anet...”

Added by: TamaraLane
Date: 07/JUL/2012
Views: 87
Votes: 0

created 07/JUL/2012

Mishy was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“Whats with the hate?”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“it's a rare staff , Death Magic req, with a built in Divine Favor (Monk Primary Attribute) HCT Which means you would have to be a monk for that to be useful. SO basically its a beautiful staff that I would have loved to have anytime in the last 5 years, with a useless attribute on it. I've gotten a lot of these, but this one really struck a chord with me. Because I always kinda wanted one.”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“

This one is even worse, because the req is for primary att of a Warrior and the bonus is for primary att of a Monk! It's useful for me in "The Deep", or just for show but it's an utterly ridiculous shield. It didn't piss me off cause it wasn't something I had been wanting, & it is slightly useful”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“Really? We can't say "piss"?”

MrVista360 was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“No #%^$^$@ you can"t say *&%*, you heathen....8^)”

Mishy was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“The filter is broken for me anyway so it came up normally ^_^”

Wastelander-75 was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“You also can't say $%#@, $%^&, @#$%^ when referring to a $^%^# on a @##%^ which is sometimes confused with a #$%^ or a #$%^ that's on a #$%^@.

At least that's what I'm #$%^ assuming. ”

Wastelander-75 was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“Oh and good luck trying to say %^$ $%$% you $%^ @#$@.

That just gets you in trouble. ”

SH4D0WZ0MB1E was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“What's with those bonuses? One f'ed up item if you ask me.”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“I think it's Anet's idea of a joke...
”

SH4D0WZ0MB1E was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“Might be, but it sure is a cruel one”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“I have gotten some Tactics shields with odd bonuses, Like curses. Those would be useful for PvP, If I PvPed”

Willd was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“I got two zodiac staffs in urgoz with weird built in mods. Tam has the spawning one with built in death magic mod. The other was an ele req with a built in blood magic mod. Odd drops really.”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“That one is actually useful, but not really any more so than a low req Death Magic staff. It's fun because it's only useful for a RT doing Death Magic and using high spawning power... So a explosive growth MM.”

Willd was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“@TamaraLane Glad it works for you. Seriously though, i love the skins but I don't use an explosive growth or a bloody water ele. =p”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“Well I only do explosive growth for fun, not as a really serious build. SoS kinda ruined Rits. Hard to not just do that.
”

QueenOfChult was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“Anything with a recharge boost is not useless and this also has a casting speed boost. It has nothing to do with "fortitude," though.”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago... show previous hide previous

“@QueenOfChult The built in HCT of Divine favor is useless for all classes except monk. The Fortitude & Insight could be stripped and useful on another staff. I suppose if you have a good Death Magic / monk build that relies on Divine favor,(so that you need the HCT on Divine favor), its really cool. I'd love to see the build! You could strip the Insight & put on a HCT head, but then you lose the +5 energy. For a rare skin it's fairly heartbreaking. Merch it or use it on a non essential hero. I have a stack of non-rare weapons with better stats laying around, and get more daily.”

Guild Wars 2 Release date anounced! by: TamaraLane

“Anet has announced a release date! August 28, 2012! The long wait is almost over! I guess this means that we will not be getting the story line in Elona that was promised. I hope everyone is ready!...”

created 28/JUN/2012

SH4D0WZ0MB1E was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“Hmm....got a couple more months to finish my 30 pts. Almost done, but still want to finish WoC first”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“The actual giving of a date will renew my focus on my main!”

Mishy was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“$5 says expansion for Elona.

Also the tieried skil system is still in, two of the races haven't been tested yet and neither has the endgame.

Does not bode well.”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“Yeah the tiered skill system is crap, like we're not smart enough to figure out what the limited number of skills do after dealing with the thousands of combinations possible in GW? IDK w GW2 out they have lost most of the people that would buy an expansion.”

Willd was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“I think they will have a Beyond for Elona eventually... But i don't really care if they do or not. I prefer the tiered system so i don't have to hunt down and find all those dang skills. 400 skills was a bit much, much like WoW. Plus it makes WvW a bit more balanced.”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“I liked how it was in beta 1. I could see & read all the skill descriptions, and buy the high end ones without having to unlock all of the lower tiered skills. Tam was severely nerfed in beta 2 after they put in the tiered skills and took away the higher tiered minion skills I had unlocked. I was forced to unlock skills that made no sense for my build, just to get to the ones I needed. If anything it encouraged me to use skills that weren't complimentary, just because I couldn't get the ones I needed. Sorry, but it is retarded IMHO. ”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“One of the things that attracted me to GW was thinking up builds. It gave me a creative outlet in a game, which I had not really experienced before. I could think about builds when I wasn't playing. I remember when we where struggling to kill Rotty, I thought a lot about what skills as a team we could use to do it. Now it seems easy, but for quite some time Rotty was Sir Flech's arch nemises!”

SH4D0WZ0MB1E was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“On the whole tiered skill discussion, it makes planning out your character very important. Now unless the change it in GW2 where you get a max number of skill points it is pointless. I don't want to waste my time unlocking random skills just to get the ones that I want to use.

On the other hand if you are only given a set amount of skill points ever, it will affect how people plan out their builds.”

Willd was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“I agree Shadow, it takes soem patience, BUT, there is enough Skill point things in the game to get them all, like 144 Skill point givers/events. I kinda liek the idea, i hated hunting down 400 elite skills and countless normal skills. ”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“@SH4D0WZ0MB1E It seemed that their would be plenty of skill point to unlock all of the skills for a given profession, but still I was much happier with my 2 tier 3 skills unlocked earlier than having to unlock tier 2 skills just so I could unlock a tier 3 skill and then needing more skill points to unlock the other one.
@Willd in GW2 there never had any skill trainers, so I'm not sure I get your point about gathering skills, though you have reiterated it This is the change that I object to, quoted from the WIKI
"For utility skills, 5 skills in a tier must be purchased to unlock the next higher tier; for elite skills, 2 skills from the first tier must be purchased to unlock the second tier. "

So even if there is only 1 skill in the tier that makes sense for my build, I still must squander my skill points on skills I do not intend to use in order to unlock the skill I need. It amounted to a nerf of the build I had for Tam in beta 1

The bigger thing to worry about seems to be how you spend Trait points. If you change your mind about your build, there is a charge to reassign your trait points. You only get 70 Trait points, so you will only be able to max 2 trait lines”

SH4D0WZ0MB1E was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“@TamaraLane:
If there's going to be enough skill points to go around, then I find it pointless to make people grind for certain skills.”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“@SH4D0WZ0MB1E It seems similar to what I have seen in other MMQ's where skills are unlocked from atree, and you must progress the lower branches to get to the higher.”

Willd was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“@TamaraLane What i am pointing out to is on the map, it shows how many of the skill point events there are, there's like 144 skill point events to unlock the skills in the tiers. It does remind me of the tier system from other games. Just eans a better chess game tome, to get the skills and make my build work right =)”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“@Willd I had no issue with doing the Quests to get the skill points. Only unlocking skills that I didn't want. A better alternative would be to lock the tier until you reached a certain level. Then it would just be that a level 12 necro can't summon a Flesh Wurm (snicker), rather than say oh ... well u need to learn 4 unrelated skills before you can learn to summon a Flesh Wurm (snicker). It doesn't even make sense”

Willd was the last to comment - 10 months ago... show previous hide previous

“Granted, but a lot of MMORPG's use the tier system now. Granted I'd rather not waste skill points on skills i will not use.”

Happy Dragon Festival! by: TamaraLane

“Happy Dragon Festival everyone! It starts tomorrow, in case you forgot, (like me)! No new hat this year, Frown, but instead we get a token to get a hat from a past festival, Cool. It's bittersweet,...”

created 27/JUN/2012

Mishy was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“I'd have to patch GW from years upon years of non patchedness, no thanks :P”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“Aw =/ It will be fun! Just fire it up before you go to bed, and use the -image command so that it fully updates.”

LordXenophon was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“Funny you should post this just a couple of days after the DM let us find a 16-man parade dragon in a D&D game. I wonder whether he plays GW.”

SH4D0WZ0MB1E was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“Thanks for the reminder. Token for a past hat? Any festival hat or just past Dragon Festival hats?”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“Any past festival hat! even the Tengu one. It's going to be a hard choice. ”

Mishy was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“@TamaraLane you underestimate my download speeds :P”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“@SH4D0WZ0MB1E AHhhh they changed the wording! now it says dragon festival hats!”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“@Mishy 28.8k?”

Mishy was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“@TamaraLane 500kbps on a good day so normally 250kbps so it would take a while :P”

LordXenophon was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“That's fast enough to update overnight. ”

SH4D0WZ0MB1E was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“@TamaraLane
Yeah, caught that wording on the official site. Good thing I'm only missing two hats and the quests given get me pretty close to having enough tokens.”

SH4D0WZ0MB1E was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“Nevermind, wasn't aware that it can only be done once per account. *sad face*

Oh well, I'll be happy to rock the original Dragon Mask. Which is my favorite out of all of them anyways.
”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“they will probably allow unlock of other holiday hats during that holiday, CC shards for winters-day hats etc”

SH4D0WZ0MB1E was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“If that's the case, and with only one unlock per festival, it's going to take me a couple years to unlock them all.”

TamaraLane was the last to comment - 10 months ago...

“@SH4D0WZ0MB1E Hopefully on the events that had 2 hats per year they will let us have 2.”

SH4D0WZ0MB1E was the last to comment - 10 months ago... show previous hide previous

“*crosses fingers*
Here's hoping”

SH4D0WZ0MB1E played Guild Wars: Factions on 23/JUN/12

“Was reading on some forums that an SoS rit and a SoGM rit are good builds to go through Winds of Change. Already hade an SoS build, so I just needed to unlock skills through JQ for the SoGM build....”

created 28/JUN/2012

SH4D0WZ0MB1E played Guild Wars: Factions on 22/JUN/12

“Still working through Winds of Change story arc. Only managed to do one quest, Cleansing Haiju Lagoon. Had a difficult time keeping Tsuriai alive. Eventually had the idea of just bringing a full...”

created 28/JUN/2012

SH4D0WZ0MB1E played Guild Wars: Factions on 20/JUN/12

“Started the Winds of Change quest line and it's by far the most challenging thing I've done in Guild Wars yet. Only got to the Rescue at Minister Cho's Estate quest and it was a pain. I like a...”

created 21/JUN/2012

SH4D0WZ0MB1E played Guild Wars: Factions on 02/JUN/12

“Went back and cleaned up the couple missions I didn't have masters on, which was only Eternal Grove and Tahnnakai Temple. Both of them took me a few tries, especially Tahnnakai Temple where I would...”

created 18/JUN/2012

SH4D0WZ0MB1E played Guild Wars: Factions on 29/MAY/12

“Been working my way through the last few missions I had left the past few days, and I finally finished them all. I have a couple master's rewards I have to go back and do. I also journeyed down to...”

created 31/MAY/2012