After making it by means of the searing, Potshot and I bummed round within the opening parts of the Prophecies marketing campaign, fiddling about with mercenaries and blissful to have the ability to allowed teams bigger than two individuals.
Guild Wars Reforged
One of many issues I used to be eager to do was kind a guild. All the time in a rush, I do know… however that is GUILD Wars in any case.
Essentially the most troublesome factor right here was, as all the time, the identify. However I received tentative approval for Crag Boars Reforged, so payed the 100 gold and a guild was shaped.
Then there was the difficulty of including Potshot to the guild, which prices 100 gold as nicely. Nicely, the sport isn’t too stingy with gold.
A quirk of the sport is that guild membership is account vast, the way in which your pals checklist is. Because of this at the very least we don’t must give you 100 gold for each alt. However within the guild member checklist, it solely reveals the character that persons are at the moment logged on with… which I get, and has a logic to it, but it surely does appear a bit odd at instances. I’m possible simply used to the WoW or EQII guilds the place each character has their very own line entry always.
The actual cause I needed a guild was to have a guild chat channel somewhat than having to whisper everyone immediately.
Although, truthfully, that’s Potshot more often than not, so perhaps not a difficulty that wanted to be solved immediately.
It does additionally open up the potential of us having a spiffy guild cloak, one of many perks of a guild. The guild cloak designer even has a boar as an choice, so we’ve a future on that entrance.
Look, we’ve a boar! Higher than WoW already!
Granted, we won’t be utilizing that design. We’ll let Ula drive that design as. My sense of style is usually in my mouth.
Additionally, I learn one thing about guild halls and needing to go to Lions Arch for that kind of factor, which led us to see if we may stroll there at stage 6. That didn’t finish nicely.
Sure, we wiped… a few instances
We did study just a few classes. First, that we would want just a few extra ranges… or be higher at avoiding the locals somewhat than working straight at them.
Second, for those who drag hostile mobs shut sufficient, they are going to completely camp the respawn and kill you again and again. Luckily, the resurrect factors are typically on the zone strains, so I used to be in a position to drag us by means of earlier than that grew to become a behavior.
Potshot requested how we received right here
So we put that mission on maintain for a bit.
Again on the town, I took a little bit of my gold to the supplies dealer to get some iron ingots as a result of I used to be already sick of the noob Ascalon armor I used to be carrying. I traded it in for the complete charr pores and skin outfit.
Going full Charr
Now I most likely seem like a barely completely different sort of whole noob… however not the starter gear variety at the very least!
All of which was high quality and dandy and we had been slowly making our method into the sport… after which ArenaNet threw us a curve ball with the sport replace that dropped on Thursday.
Updates for 20 yr previous video games are a factor!
One of many key points of which was a brand new “reforged mode” character choice. That’s at the moment mapped out with the next options, copied from the wiki:
- Activate Reforged Mode (Alpha) throughout character creation.
- For multiplayer events, all gamers must be in Reforged Mode to expertise Reforged Mode content material and stability modifications. Combined events will see the usual content material.
- That is an alpha function we’re sharing early to collect suggestions. It is just introduced in English.
So that’s sort of neat. Unsure I care by hook or by crook in regards to the badge, however getting some bennies to hurry issues up and make a bit extra gold… that may’t be dangerous. And higher henchmen sounds good. Our little healer was fairly taxes by our journey.
The issue is, we’re now just a few characters into the lineup and, because the replace say, reforged and non-reforged characters can group, however when grouped there is no such thing as a reforged buff.
So there may be the query of whether or not or not a reforged character is value doing a little new re-rolls and beginning pre-searing once more. I imply, we’re not that far in… however simply far sufficient to make it a little bit of a chore.
We’ll must take up the concept of a re-roll on the subsequent normal assembly of Crag Boars Reforged.
In different information, additionally they now permit 4 individual events in pre-searing Ascalon, so if we DO re-roll group characters, we will all group as much as do the pre-searing stuff.
The replace additionally included one thing referred to as Dhuum’s Covenant, which is a pseudo hardcore or ironman problem. If you choose this you get a badge in your character that you just maintain until you might be slain. However, not like issues like WoW Hardcore, you’ll be able to keep on taking part in your character, you simply lose the badge… which is sort of an good compromise.
Anyway, we now have to determine tips on how to transfer ahead and if re-rolls are value it. The function is simply in alpha, so the bennies may change… for higher or for worse. However I sort of need higher henchies, so will at the very least roll an alt in that mode this weekend.
