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Can you be hardcore and play this game?
nickman1993
Member Posts: 287
in Guild Wars
I was just wondering if its possible to do hardcore for this gme......Can i play w/o having the xpansions our is it like an all our nothing type thing?
Can someone please reply fast thanks!
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well , tht's kinda hard question
first of all depends it depends WHAT campaign you got
you can be hardcore and play the game , you just won't have acces to most of the skills in pvp so you won't be very " good " at that and pve will be kinda hard.
So i guess it's kinda all or nothing game
Well, over 6,000 hours in the game so far, so yeah,in a good guild, you can hardcore it
You might want to do the PvE story though in order to learn your character as there are some great pvp'ers and they won't really have the patience while you flounder around not knowing what you are doing. keep in mind though that getting to top lvl is not hard and this is not really a gear based game. Sure, certain things will help you but it is not out of the reach of any player.
So don't expect to strut out there with your sword of uber death and your armor of damage mitigation and wail on your enemies. They will have what you have and if they don't they might be good enough that it doesn't matter.
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Every game can be played hardcore, the way you are benefited for doing it varies though and Guild Wars is, this may be sad for you, not the best option if you want to become much better than everyone else at the game thanks to the time you spend in it; Guild Wars is mainly about your own skills. There are no "über" weapons or armors thus making you equally good to a fairly causal player as me.
Now to answer your "real" question. First off you didn't specify if you wanted to play PvP or PvE mostly. Guild Wars is mainly hardcore when it comes to the PvP aspect; here you will be able to get famous if you're truly hardcore and in a good guild, this is where the hardcore players go simply. PvE on the other hand isn't equally hardcore but it does indeed offer many challenges, such as getting all titles maxed out to get the title "God Walking Amongst Mere Men".
So if PvP is what you're aiming for I will quote myself from a previous post.
In this case you only have access to one of the campaigns meaning you will encounter problems should you decide to try out GvG or HA as you'll lack access to Nightfall, Factions and EoTN skills. Additionally you are a new player meaning you will have to unlock the most new skills, either by buying the skill packs or PvEing. Basically for you to hardcore PvP you need at least one more campaign and you also need to unlock the skills provided in these two campaigns.
Should you on the other hand decide that PvE is the way to go you'll be much better off here. First of you got lots of stuff to do in only the first campaign, just beating the mission in normal and Hard Mode will take a lot of time and so does vanquishing (killing all mobs in one area in Hard Mode) and seeing 100% of the map. However you won't be able to max out very many titles as the most of them are connected to the other campaigns. If you want to PvE you can postpone buying another campaign by maybe a month or so.
Conclusion: To take full advantage of Guild Wars and truly reap the benefits of your hardcore playing you will further or later be forced to buy another campaign, when that is necessary is up to you though.
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PvP, nope, in order to get competitive, you need to have all the skills at game, so you would need to have all the xpansions
my advice, if you are willing to try out GW, start for first chapter, prophecies
Old-school gamers tend to recommend Prophecies (being the first game come out), but really I think Nightfall is the richest one of the 3 installments.
imo, Being a hardcore PvEer is not really welcome in this game as PvE content is rather limited (short storyline for each game, and very few elite missions), compared to big-time PvE MMOs. However the quality of the PvE is very high.
Being a hardcore PvPer used to be easier but, now, being new to the game, you probably won't be able to join a guild with a good GvG or HoH rank, and so will end up playing mostly in random or team arena, or 1v1...
The game is very well-polished though. There are no bad surprises. You'll understand what the game has to offer very quickly and can be confident in the continuous quality of it.
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Although I have my best memories from the original game (Prophecies), I would definately recommend Nightfall for a new player. Nightfall feels like Prophecies, but then greatly improved.
If you want to play PVE hardcore, get Nightfall and Eye of the North and try to finish those in hard mode. This wont be easy for a new GW player.
For PVP you could do without Factions and Prophecies, but if you want to be competitive in Guild vs Guild or Heroes Ascent, your teammates will expect you to have all skills available. Even though you can only bring 8 at once. And expect having to practice a lot! No ubergear in this pvp.
Professions in GW are not as static as in gearbased MMO's, so you will have to learn to recognise loads of skills and play in a lot of different ways.
It's simple, hardcore in Guild Wars is Guild versus Guild battles. Until you not from top 100 rated guild, I don't think it is hardcore. And no, I'm not a hardcore player.
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