As I talked about final week, ArenaNet popped up on Thursday with some new stuff, together with the power to declare your self as a “reforged” character.
Guild Wars Reforged
This sudden rule change provides you some particular advantages, particularly within the Prophecies marketing campaign, which I collect is a spot the place most new gamers land. It’s actually the route we selected. Here’s what you get:
- Activate Reforged Mode (Alpha) throughout character creation.
- For multiplayer events, all gamers need to be in Reforged Mode to expertise Reforged Mode content material and stability modifications. Blended events will see the usual content material.
- That is an alpha characteristic we’re sharing early to collect suggestions. It’s only introduced in English.
Sounds good. I need all of that. The secret’s that you must CHECK THE BOX on the display the place you title your character.
The checkboxes
And, in fact, you can’t return and verify the field as soon as the character is on this planet… which implies each character created earlier than the Thursday replace can not have the choice. So none of our group had the choice. And we wished the choice. A lot of individuals wished the choice.
So I went forward to check it out, rolling up a brand new warrior, and I chosen Reforged Mode.
I didn’t choose Dhumm’s Covenant, which is a pseudo-lite hardcore mode, the place you retain the badge till you die… after which no extra badge. However lots of people did choose each, and after I landed again in pre-searing Ascalon Metropolis, the place was overrun by new characters with each badges.
I do know, that is truly Ashford Abby
And reforged mode appeared to ship. I’m not certain I might actually spot a 5% improve in gold or xp at these low ranges, the place the payouts had been sufficiently small for five% to not make a unique… you’ll be able to’t get a proportion of two gold cash, you simply get the identical two gold cash as earlier than… however the promise of getting far sufficient alongside for this stuff to matter was a draw.
However we ALL needed to be reforged for it to work if we had been all going to group up.
Happily we had not gotten very far alongside. Holden had already been speaking about attempting a brand new career and Potshot and I had already made a few experimental reforged characters by the point Saturday rolled round and we had been all capable of get on collectively.
All of us created new characters. I had already gotten fairly far down the highway with my warrior so I rolled up an elementalist with a view to strive that out. Nonetheless, I’ll most likely keep on with the warrior, it being the one melee class in Prophecies. I don’t thoughts the ranger, however all the pieces else makes you a caster, and outdoors of a monk as a healer, that doesn’t attraction to me. I prefer to go toe to toe.
We ended up with my elementalist, a monk, and two rangers. Then we obtained all people by means of the primary quests to get to the one about becoming a member of up with a bunch. This was hampered a bit by every career having its personal distinctive first quest together with Gwen standing there and after I couldn’t keep in mind the title of Lana the Healer individuals getting the misplaced flute quest however not having the grouping quest… however we persevered and ultimately obtained all people on the town, in the identical occasion of Asclalon Metropolis, and into a bunch.
At that time I might simply yoink the lot of us into Lakeside County, a typically startling but additionally helpful characteristic of the sport. Have you ever fallen behind? Don’t fear, I’ll catch you proper up right here on the zone line!
Op success! Not solely had we gotten 4 reforged characters made and in the identical level within the quest chain, however due to the reforged modifications, we had been all capable of group up.
Our reforged group
There we had been, all 4 of us collectively, all stage one, every of us having needed to choose a brand new title as soon as extra.
Then we had been off.
We couldn’t stand nonetheless lengthy sufficient for a display shot!
By that time Potshot and I had accomplished the pre-searing kick-off quests sufficient instances that we had opinions as to order and tips on how to most effectively get by means of them. There are, for instance, two Denova quests that you just wish to maintain onto till you get the bear cloak quest so you’ll be able to carry all three alongside in a single run.
And there are particular checkpoints… like all people getting sufficient Skale fins to get the belt pouch for that crucial 5 extra stock slots. This was doubly crucial with Wintersday having landed on Friday, which implies we had been all getting eggnog and fruitcake drops… and occasional helpful or attention-grabbing objects… that take up simply that rather more bag area.
River Skale are a precedence goal early on… additionally Gwen
Any individual additionally had Gwen in observe mode… however I’m informed that all the pieces she says finally ends up being related post-searing, so we let her babble on.
Being out with 4 individuals introduced up just a few questions… or observations.
First up, Ula was the one one with the misplaced flute quest nonetheless to do. And we discovered the misplaced flute, as we all the time do, however all of us might see it and Holden truly picked it up, as a result of he couldn’t keep in mind if he had accomplished it or not. He had, to then commerce it to Ula, so we realized tips on how to do trades.
That was truly fairly straightforward as soon as any person noticed the commerce button. And it got here in useful after we needed to stability out the Skale fins so all of us had 5.
This being an alpha characteristic, not all elements of the sport had been up on the most recent modifications.
The identical tip as earlier than the replace
Additionally on our agenda; get the hunters their pets. Having accomplished that just a few instances now… my warriors all have ranger because the second career… that was not a troublesome process. We obtained that accomplished after which, as soon as the naming command was understood (each “/namepet” and “/petname” work, however you must have the title in there too) we had a reasonably feisty group rolling round pre-searing.
Pets acquired and named
We rolled on for a bit extra, obtained all people to stage 4, then broke up for some time.
There was nonetheless the matter of second professions. Potshot went Monk/Ele and, simply to show that round, I went Ele/Monk. Holden went Ranger/Necro. And Ula nonetheless has to choose. However we’ve got a while for that as individuals will seemingly be busy for the vacations.
In the meantime, after tiring a little bit of pre-searing, I rolled my warrior by means of the occasion to verify on the henchman scenario. Positive sufficient, they do appear higher… or a minimum of they’re stage 6 versus stage 3 now.
Henchmen submit searing
Nicely, a minimum of the default henchmen are. The Wintersday Enchanted Snowman are nonetheless stage 3. However I suppose that’s to be anticipated.
Anyway, we’ve got reformed our group with reforged characters. Now to get on to enterprise I suppose. Additionally, it is likely to be time to strip and delete the characters I rolled up earlier than Thursday. I’m not certain there’s any benefit to holding them.
