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August 01, 2006
And I know things now, many valuable things, that I hadn't known before...
So in an intelligent, businesswise, but sort of annoying move, apparently you can pay 10 bucks to add a permanent additional character slot to your Guild Wars account. I did not know this, but that's a great way to squeeze extra revenue out of a game that's free to play. But it does suck, too... with both expansions currently out installed, I only have 6 character slots... seeing as there are... 8 main classes now, and combinations of classes running in like the 30s or something, that's pretty ouch. I'm sure Nightfall (the next Stand-alone Expansion) will add another two, but still.
So Essner and I bought Guild Wars: Factions. The tutorial-land is INFINITELY better than in Prophecies (the original Guild Wars). I'm playing an Assassin, one of the new classes. I like it very much, it plays alot like if you make a Martial Arts Assassin in Diablo II. You have Lead attacks, Off-hand Attacks, and Dual attacks. Offhand attacks must follow a Lead attack, and Dual attacks have to follow both a Lead and an Offhand. I don't have a variety of attacks to choose from, I'm just using the first big combo you get (Unsuspecting Strike -> Fox Fangs -> Twisting Fangs) but it's alot of fun. I rather like Twisting Fangs, too. Bleeding damage is always nice. I also want to like Fox Fangs, just because of the name, but something tells me I'll likely find a more impressive Off-hand move later. Anyway, I have no idea what to pair Assassin up with. All of the combos use alot of mana... I don't know if I can use them with other weapons, or I'd likely go Assassin/Warrior, so I could use some of the Adrenaline moves as well. But I haven't confirmed that's possible yet. I also am thinking about Ranger, just to have a pet. But I dunno. I'm still slogging through every single one of the secondary class missions to grind a little, so I don't have to make a choice quite yet.
I've tried out the Ritualist skills (the other new class in Factions) from the little quests already. I like it too. Its a pet-summoning class mixed with AoE buffs and stuff, if I'm not mistaken. I'll probably make a Ritualist sometime soon, just to try them out. They're likely a class I would like if I had a large, static party to play with, just like a pure-healer Monk, like Alexis Reynard. (I give all my characters the last name "Reynard." My assassin is "Lily Reynard." Lily is what I always named my assassins in Diablo II for whatever reason)
Anyway, I look forward to playing with Essner in t3h fut4r.
Posted by poetfox at August 1, 2006 03:03 AM
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