Archive for August 2007

Guild Wars

As a result of no “krewe” to hang with ( :P ) I decided to return to Guild Wars. My old  guild are fantastic bunch of chaps who I have known for quite a while. We got together from the Egosoft community and went on to play Enemy Territory and moved onto Guild Wars.

Its nice to be back, GW differs from WoW, its more plot based, there is a storyline and you get to watch cutscenes… its more like a Co-operative RPG… but it works. I can take out 8 henchmen (NPCs) with me and struggle, or I can get together with a group of people and not struggle so much :P

 I decided that instead of playing the Warrior all the time I am going to see if I can focus on healing so I am playing my Monk at the moment and to say I am not struggling is an understatement. But, once I can get into the midset that such a class requires… I think I can take those skills into other games in the future. My basis for this is that everyone always needs a healers, and healers in WoW were practically treated like royalty.

 So Ive also picked up the new campaign and expansion since I started playing it again and there are so many parallels between GW and WoW.
GW has something called Hard Mode… this is the same as going into an instance in WoW in Heroic Mode.
They have some new classes called the Paragon, that to me seem alot like Paladins in WoW
err ok that was many but I cant think of any more. There is the odd thing I miss, like being able to link items into the chat.

What I do like is that they have the ability in GW to save a template of your set of skills and attributes… thats nice, you can quickly switch between builds.

But I am so far behind the pack now that i am doing my old routine of trying to do everything myself, so i dont encumber everyone else and slow them down.
Ill get there I guess… so much I have forgetton.

Bye bye WoW

Its pretty much official now… I have cancelled my World of Warcraft subscription and in 8 more days… my character will be cryogenically (sp?) frozen…

Its sad, as the game and its people were all special and they will be missed but like X and ET before… it must come to an end. In fact I had got a bit fed up with it over 6 months ago, the expansion was the only thing that kept me playing. But a mix of friends and good guild members leaving and all the bickering that came out of it… just got fed up.

 Bit miffed… as I bought the guild website and put alot of time into where it might now become defunct.

Left with a bit of a hole… bored, its back to BF2… just waiting for Quake Wars to come out… might revive some of the ET glory days ^^

 It surprised me somewhat that I could spend more than 6 months on a game… when single players are lucky if they last a week with me before i complete thier content or get fed up of them (*cough* STALKER *cough*)

Just over a year! i spent playing world of warcraft… and then i realise that I should have had XFire running as it doesn’t show on my profile… ¬_¬ bugger

 Life is generally good, thats all im gonna tell ya ;)