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things the new guilds wars needs or i might quit
merloc555
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ive looked into the new eotn and gw2 a bit and noticed that you soposebly can play as charr and norn. but i havent heard of any new charactor classes in ether of them. ive played all the classes execpt the ones in nightfall and im sorry to say none of them are really my style. so i have envisioned a new class that would be perfect for me and would fit nicely into the game.
Musketeer: option of weilding one or two muskets (the small hand type kinds) and the guns wont have some dumb "funnel" thing on the front. they have metal plates set around there cloths (sorta like the drakeskall armour for rangers or the gladiator armour for warriors, with cloths of course). there ranged attack wouldnt be as long as the ranger or mage but slightly farther than the skills that say "this skill has half the minimum range" i.e. point blank shot. they would be a more defensive type with support as there main use. skills would be enchantments and dmg dealing to foes, with only slight healing skills for others.all skills would be implemented in the guns.
Pikemen: wields a long pike (not spear people PIKE). does not throw the weapon like the paragon but stabs and sweeps with it. wears metal like the warroir only not so heavy. range would be slightly farther than the warroir or assasin but shorter than the "this skill has half the minimum range" i.e. point blank shot. they would offensive and defensive capatable with skills that would let them u8se stances and pike attacks that could hit multiple foes (think swipeing like the dervish ,sorta) though dmg dealing would not be there real purpose.
what do you people think of these? if you have any others then post em here pls, free discusion, if you dont like one, say so. if you do like one, say so. i might add more if i can think of them, and pls! emial arena net so that they can add a few of these ideas! they wont do it with my emial alone.
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the pikeman idea isn't that bad,there could be some good skills in there , but musketeer? This is a fantasy game...what would a musketeer be doing here(and musketeer would be very ineffective...because it normally takes a few minutes to reload a musket).What's next? Minigunner? RPG Trooper? Tricorders and anti-matter guns?
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muskets were first seen somewhere in the medievil times and were the reason knights were brought to an end. so it could fit. and the whole taking a few minutes to reload doesnt have to be there, becuase with assasin there skills let them flip through the air and stuff. assassins did not flip through the air they used poison or darts or hid in shadows and stabed a guy in the neck to kill him. and they wouldnt be wielding a huge musket, more of the smaller types seen in pirates of the caribean (dont comment on that just an example). ive seen some good games that had a musketeer class and it worked quite nicely
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Sword of the New World uses a class called muskateer. I like the idea of a pike wielding class, wouldn't mind a spear wielding class either. Was hoping that Paragon actually wielded the mid range spear type, not the throwing kind but oh well.
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n. A long spear formerly used by infantry.
Sry, tried to figure out what a "pike" was...all i found were spears.
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GE is also a Victorian-esque era fantasy game, so the Musketeer class fits well. WoW was steampunk fantasy, so the dwarven hunters with their rifles fit. Guild Wars is magical high fantasy. Guns or other mechanical projectile weapons would be incredibly out of place.
You are talking from a PVE vision, Guildwars Pve sucks a lot. The only interesting was the first campaing because it was new, because you must get the skills in pve to use them in pvp, when they put in balthazars from pvp and the option to buy the skills from pvp, pve lost everything it gots, so, dont bother looking for new things in gw pve, look for another mmorpg.
Uhm, I might be wrong (though I doubt it, because this was a subject I did my thesis on and got a 98%) Knights were rendered useless because of the invention of the composite long bow that could penetrate their armor long before they could reach their enemy. Knights were long gone before muskets became popular to use. However, canons were used back in the day of knights, but they were strictly a seige engine.
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Uhm, I might be wrong (though I doubt it, because this was a subject I did my thesis on and got a 98%) Knights were rendered useless because of the invention of the composite long bow that could penetrate their armor long before they could reach their enemy. Knights were long gone before muskets became popular to use. However, canons were used back in the day of knights, but they were strictly a seige engine.
Wikipedia: Muskets.
And a quote from the knights section. "the importance of heavy cavalry was reduced by improved pikemen and longbow tactics."
So yes. It seems like knights beame irrelevant because of longbows.
so i messed up :P i play too many games anyways so i get facts wrong. a pike is a spear that has more of a axe blade as a point rather than just a arrow like point. and for the guy that said pve suks, no it doesnt unless your on your own or are around people compleatly unlike you. anyways i like the thought of a musket weailding class. but id be fine with a pike too.
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The ability to unlock skills exclusively through PvP has been there from the start. Just like the possibility to create PvP-only characters.
Guild Wars is a PvP game with PvE content. Not the other way around. So actually, the PvE aspect is extremely well developed in that context.
Yet another uneducated player trying to bash GW for what it's not eh?
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Guild Wars is a PvP game with PvE content. Not the other way around. So actually, the PvE aspect is extremely well developed in that context.
Yet another uneducated player trying to bash GW for what it's not eh? Wrong, i'm a beta player and balth faction and the balth priests were added a little after release...
The reason for adding them was the immense GRIND that PvP players were forced to do to unlock skills for PvP play (although the update notes don't go back before December on the official wiki and I'm not trolling through the old wiki to look for them). This however was still not good enough for some and just after the release of Factions came the PvP unlock packs, enabling PvP players to just buy the PvP side of the game with almost full unlocks (just skills, not runes and mods)
you are bang on correct aboutt he game being PvP with PvE content, thats exactly what it isand anyone who thinks different needs to do some homework... hell, Guild Wars isn't even an MMO, but its been lumped in with MMO's in general and that has actually hurt GW's potential player base and bought around the changes to a more persistant world in GW2
I stand corrected, 1 month after release (Guess that's what I get for having wasted my time in WoW back then... I'll have some ketchup on that foot, thanks)
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Hell, even i'm getting to the point now and trying to remember if things I KNOW where in the game or missing from the game, that were quite big things, I still look back and wonder if it was or wasn't there and have to look it up...
and its even worse being a beta players... some still remember this:
and yes, this is guild wars from three years ago... thank god it changed (Although Dungoen Runners looks very similar now)
Hell, even i'm getting to the point now and trying to remember if things I KNOW where in the game or missing from the game, that were quite big things, I still look back and wonder if it was or wasn't there and have to look it up...
and its even worse being a beta players... some still remember this:
and yes, this is guild wars from three years ago... thank god it changed (Although Dungoen Runners looks very similar now)
I call BS....quit taking screen shots from Dark and Light and trying to pass them of as Guild Wars BetaThe game has evolved a lot since beta. I remember seeing arenas during E3 that were gone when I purchased the game after it released. Most everything has obviously gotten better as you can see from the picture.
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Hell, even i'm getting to the point now and trying to remember if things I KNOW where in the game or missing from the game, that were quite big things, I still look back and wonder if it was or wasn't there and have to look it up...
and its even worse being a beta players... some still remember this:
and yes, this is guild wars from three years ago... thank god it changed (Although Dungoen Runners looks very similar now)
So the quote, everything was better before isn't always correct? Even tho I don't really see what's so terrible with this picture. Sure the armor looks a little funky, but a lot armor in GW looks funky. Some stuff is dyed kind of stupid too, but that's up to the player. The male characters maybe looks a bit broad shouldered, but otherwise?
i just quit or good tonight . the l337 brigade wether pve or pvp have ruined the game for ordinary joe like me that compounded with the disgracefull scenes at marhanns grotto with monk farm bots has convinced me that anet are incapable of producing a game that can keep ordinary dudes like me happy . its near impossible too get gold now through normal play there are two types o player on gw with money now the l337 ive no life brigade or people who buy the gold from various website the game is not fun anymore for the guy who logs in wants too bash a few monsters and see something worthwhile at the end . and im not the only 1 who feels this way
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don't evre mention that word again that is the worst fricken mmo ever
and a skill might be dig a pitfall trap or something it might be fun
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That screenshot is not BS, that is really GW in its alpha/early beta stages.
Actually that Screen Shot is of Guild Wars in the Alpha Stages. I remember it well......
I think te musket won`t be a sucses and the pikeman is more like a warrior but whitout a axe/sword/hammer and a little bit like a derwish, i think it will be more like a warrior and derwish in one clas
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It is obvious that it is from GW and it also shows how much a game can change from Alpha/beta to release.
I really expect to see a shape-shifters in the GW2 campaign. I mean they set the stages for it in making the Dervish Avatars and in GW:EN the Nords can shift into a bear. The next logical step is creating a character that can shift into the different pets available to the Ranger class in game.
Like you could turn into a rat and that would extend poison duration or you could turn into a pheonix and all attack cause burning dmg, stuff like that. Obviously these are very simple ideas, but you could actually put a lot into them.
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You would be able to use 'em as mount, meat shields (they always take damage first), whip them etc. along with a new "Yeeeeehaaaaaw!!" emote.
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