GOD TIER >Elementalist >Monk >Mesmer HIGH TIER >Ranger

>>385201953
>ywn play guild wars for the first time ever again
why live???

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>>385201953
Really depends on game mode and even specific missions.
In the end it gw wasn't about which class is the best, but about party composition and the synergy between the members.

>>385201953
Elementalist is high variance, I only liked earth and water.

Monk was the least interesting class outside of the original low health protection memery.

Mesmer was the best profession in the game.

Ranger and Necromancer were kinda middle of the road. Good and simple with a few interesting points sticking off. Ritualist was superb though.

Warrior and Assassin are the two other best professions in the game and provide the most interesting stuff cross-profession.

Dervish was a bit too simple but the visual and play style was really good.

Paragon was really well designed and up there with the other four I've praised, the only issue that it had was that it was too strong a lot of the time.

>>385201953
Paragon was my favourite and main class.

You could pull off some massive AoE damage reduction with the right build pretty much constantly, and it was just the most fun to play out of all the classes.

Mesmer was my second favourite, such a well-designed class.

>>385202429
>>385202858
>what is this stage actor class shit?
>fuck that bull has a lot of health and I don't do any direct damage
oh

>>385202765
55 hp monk soloing was a thing of beauty, great example of how creative people got with builds in that game.

Fuck you guys paragon was goat

Earth ele best

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>>385203628
>that Monk or Elementalist that went into Alliance Battles with a 55HP or Stone/Obsidianflesh build

>played Trap Ranger

>played Illusionary Weapon Mesmer

It was fun

Fuck I miss my NecroMes
DoTs for days man. A whole hotbar of them

>>385203441
you made me nostalgia

>saving that one of a kind -HP item from pre-searing

>>385203692
>Illusionary Weapon Mesmer

that reminds me, my friend really liked playing a particular ritualist build that used a sword and enchanted his own weapon. I dont recall it being good but ritualists had the wonkiest looking sword attack animations so it was always a laugh to watch him go in there swinging.

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>tfw no more guild wars

>you will never play a touch ranger in RA as enemy teams went mad with butt hurt again

Why live

But seriously, GW had such amazing potential for creative and interesting build composition. I had a paragon sword build that worked by applying burning to everything in the area.
I have no idea why they got rid of cross classes and choosing skills in GW2. Like I can't imagine why they did it. It makes me feel a little sick to be honest. RIP GW

>>385202716
>Hall of Heroes
>enemy has six rangers
>traps literally everywhere

Low cost high use elite skills > big ones
Water trident or blinding surge were so much more satisfying than say, savannah heat

I never played the original GW - is it pretty pointless to buy it nowadays because I assume the servers are all dead?

>>385201953
Actually it's

GOD TIER
>Mesmer
>Paragon

GOOD TIER
>Necro
>Ranger

MID TIER
>War
>Monk
>Rit
>Ele

BORING TIER
>sin
>dervish

Problem was with sins and dervishes was their special stat wasn't that good. They had a couple fun gimmick builds and that's it. Rits also had a boring special stat, but were original and were interesting to play because positioning was so important. Cool animations too. Monks were fun when playing prot/smiting, zealots and RC builds were dope, plus some interesting stuff like that enchantment Rez they had. Not a good cross class though, unlike warriors who are the best cross class in the game with the incredible Tactics tree. Shame the other trees were a bit limited in scope. Eles have a lot of build variety, but I felt often anything that wasn't SF or Savannah heat was just underpowered.

Necros and rangers are both great in that there are tons of ways to play them, minion master, beast master, touch ranger, BiP battery, trapper, and both their skills were really versatile

Mes are unparalleled in the right hands, nearly unstoppable if you are prepared and know your opponent, while paragons are just incredible again for their ability to build a skillbar around a specific situation, not only their own skill at but making the entire team complement it. and as long as they are in charge they can make great things happen.

>>385204571
But savanah heat was fucking great, unlike those other 2 you mentioned. With some slowdown it could fucking melt.

However, I agree with the principle, I generally love high use elites like restore condition,

>>385204586
You're right on Dervish being pretty one-dimensional, but Assassin was super fun.

Also as great as the profession is, that praise for mesmer is pretty silly. Of fucking course they can kick anything's ass if they know what they're facing ahead of time. You can do a full build to fuck up a specific type. That was what they did.

Always wondered how many ppl here even played gw1 pls answer the poll

http://www.strawpoll.me/13537224

>>385204819
You can probably just go by the unique IPs in the thread which is currently 16.

>>385204864
lurkers

also just booted up the ol' gw1 and realised i still got a lvl 19 necro i started on the factions campaign and havent finished. still got a fair way to go. not sure if want... MAYBE i should buy another chracter slot and make a paragon or dervish.. maybe mesmer

Why did they fuck up GW2 so badly? Why did they have to take away one of the best parts of my childhood? How could they not recognize the best parts of GW- instanced world for small teams to keep things balanced, customizable skill bar are second profession for fantastic build variety, etc.
This isn't rhetorical. I'm searching for answers but I can't find any. Why did they destroy their own game?

>>385204956
sub-level 20 in factions is still the starting area, so yeah.

And what do you mean lurkers? Lurkers typically have a reason to go into a thread and I don't see many people ignorant to the topic wandering into this one.

>>385204956
IMO nightfall has a great campaign. Although all the trilogy campaigns are great. But nightfall had heroes which makes things much more fun solo

>>385205095
I'm here just lurking because I'm grinding in F/GO. But here is a (You)

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>>385205095
sometimes they just read got nothin to say

>>385205102
i never rly played the nightfall campaign more than once. liked the prophecies campaign was pre nice n the eotn was okayish, but factions just felt so clasutrophobic at time.

gw1 had pre nice armor for its time

>>385205046
>Why did they fuck up GW2 so badly?
it's a mystery. They had a nice unique game with GW1, then they threw it all away. I guess someone in charge really liked world of warcraft and wanted to copy it.

>>385205046
I don't know man, they could have kept at least a few of the things that set GW1 apart like secondary classes, unique resource management, skill build customization, etc. But instead they made the most sterile, bland world with some of the worst combat I've seen in any mmo. And they took a giant dump on the lore too.

>>385205214
>>385205236
Don't matter if they're participating or posting, you asked how many people here played it, and I'd argue that everyone here did, or they wouldn't even be here lurking.

>tfw warrior was better at paragon's best offensive build than paragon due to armor penetration from strength

>>385205294
i was just curious how many ppl on /v/ played gw1 not how many ppl posting in this thread, thats y i made the poll. not everyone that plays will definiteively post in this thread they might not even use the poll. i dont understand all the fuss

also wintersday in gw1 rn

https://www.guildwars.com/en/events/wintersday-july

>>385205239

What the hell does GW2 have to do with WoW? In any way?

>>385205046
>Why did they destroy their own game?
it wasn't their game
none of the people who made GW2 worked on GW1
I'd bet none of them even played it

>>385205365
>tfw paragon was better than every other class because of leadership scaling and GFTE!, so much so that they had to be nerfed hundereds of times to stop HA/HoH being overrun by Paras

>>385205431
GW2 is much more of a WoW clone than a GW1 clone

>>385205379
>i was just curious how many ppl on /v/ played gw1 not how many ppl posting in this thread
I repeat that those two numbers are probably the same, at least of the people on /v/ right now.

>>385205464
just like iway

rip

>>385205474

By that logic it's much more of a Runescape clone than a GW1 clone so it must have been aiming to copy Runescape.

>>385205451
So they just made a WoW clone? They didn't even look at what made the first game unique, and what kept it alive in that era of samey MMOs. GW had some of the best PvP I've ever seen in any game, let alone an MMO (it had best MMO PvP by a mile) as well as really fun instanced PvE. I'm actually so fucking mad about GW2, more mad about it than anything else gaming related

>>385205551
it's more similar to WoW than Runescape

>>385205582
Top anger picks:
GW2
VTM:B
Command & Conquer
That DayZ made money

>>385205513
i disagree i think there could be somewhere around even 50% of ppl that played gw1 here and not even opened the thread or posted or looked thru the first few posts, i know i do that sometimes

http://www.strawpoll.me/13537224/r

>>385205582

Man, you people are so retarded sometimes it just hurts the brain to read your shit.

>>385205514
>you will never come home after school excited to participate in IWAY teams from heroes ascent.

Someone kill me I can't handle this feel

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>>385204582
The servers are still up and running. You'll even come across players from time to time.

The game aged rather poorly though. Graphics wise it still looks good due to a solid art style. But the mechanical and gameplay side of things might feel a bit wooden. You can't jump, navigating terrain can sometimes be a bit awkward, clunky UI (which you can completely customize though), that sorta stuff.
Still, if you can get past that rudimentary 3D game feel the game has a lot going for it. You can beat all the story missions solo if you have no friends to play with just fine. The soundtrack and general atmosphere of the world is still superb.

>>385205667
What about my post made you think I was retarded

>>385205661
Man you must be fucked in the head.

>>385201953
>tfw main character has a silly name
>tfw it's been over ten years and you can't bring yourself to change it

Does anyone else know this feel?

>>385205745
why cos i played gw1 and dont participate in literally every thread? rofl

not everyone that played will post in this thread i personally believe its ignorant to even think that

>>385205702
Honestly I would, but I can't handle the feels of seeing what were once bustling cities just as hollow husks of their former selves. It just feels dead, and that is too depressing to me.

>>385204586
fuck you dervish was great
i still remember saving up enough money to buy my primeval gear after killing abbadon, then i dyed it black
Pure Distilled Edge.

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>>385205793
This
The worst thing is listening to the musics

>>385205785
No, the going into random threads thing.

And your reading comprehension is truly fucked. Not everyone that played GW will be in this thread. But everyone in this thread will have played GW. So unless you're going to shove that strawpoll over the entire board in dozens of threads over a seven day period actually coming up some some realistic number of "how many people on /v/ played GW",(of which people being annoyed enough to fuck with the poll will disguise anyway), then all your poll can hope to measure is the number of people in this thread who played Guild Wars. and the answer to that question is probably all of them, considering this is a guild wars thread.

>>385205793
This is pretty much the problem. There's nothing new to see in the game anymore. There's no one else around to team up with for missions and the game's gradually bleeding more players every year. We can't go back, sadly.

>>385205972
no u dont get it, not even everyone in this thread will have posted, some ppl may enter and not post at all, leaving no trace of a presence but they may still have been

>>385201953
NEVER GONNA KNOW TIER
>Chronomancer
>Summoner

>>385205793
>load into LA expecting massive crowds, people dancing and emoting, spamming trade chat, offering runs etc
>there's no one there...

>>385206116
Fuck whatever they would do with another summoner. Necromancer and Ritualist were practically the only interesting such examples of the archetype that was ever interesting. The fuck could they do for a third?

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>that's a nice Master Architect Gunther our team got there
>it would be a shame if something happened to it

>>385206182
Make it like the Asura summons, I guess? Or make it like Polymock, where you can take on the forms of certain creatures?

>>385206438
I loved EoE bombs
That and ranger spirit spam in tombs before they removed body blocking

anyone feel like gettin together n syncin up some RA teams? for fun? i havent played in ages dont expect to win but just so not queuein for ages

>traps
>beastmaster
>dota outta the ass
>max burst
I liked me some ranger

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>>385207037
Best rangers are not-rangers though
>touchers
>bunnythumpers
>evasion stance daggers
>scythespammer
Amazing how the best rangers builds were the ones not using bows

BARRAGER LFG

>>385207237
Yeah they were all mediocre but I enjoyed making them work in PvE
I'd spend hours of my time creating a build to farm shitty Icy Dragon Swords from those imps at a glacial pace

>>385201953
>Gw1 was my first and probably favorite mmo.

>Years later gw2 comes out. It's trash

I'm not exaggerating when I say I almost cried when I realized that they had completely ruined gw2.

>>385207748
>Mesmer was the best profession in the game.
>Ranger and Necromancer were kinda middle of the road. Good and simple with a few interesting points sticking off. Ritualist was superb though.
It's incredible how common that sentiment is
GW1 spiritual successor when
What would such a game even need
For me it's the instances will well-designed encounters, dual class system with its endless skills, early capped characters in terms of levels and items, and a satisfying cosmetics/title/whatever grind to put that skillsystem to use

>>385207897
Where the fuck did that quote come from
meant to quote
>I'm not exaggerating when I say I almost cried when I realized that they had completely ruined gw2.

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Guys help
I'm seeking for the music that plays in the catacombs beneath Ashford's abbey but I can't seem to find it in the prophecy soundtrack

>>385207897
don't forget GW1's excellent combat system. It was less spammy and more deliberate than WoW-style MMOs. Skills generally took a while to cast, so could be observed and interrupted. Capturing skills from special enemies was cool too.

>>385208590
gettin onto me pre searin character now dw m8 i got u

>>385208590
>The background music is "Ascension Song" from the Guild Wars: Prophecies soundtrack. There's another background music which is a hidden track that can only be heard in-game.

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>>385208590

>>385207897
GW1 is one of the few MMOs I can think of that didn't have grinding. There was farming, but it wasn't a mindless death fest where you had to just walk forward and attack. You needed specialised builds and to think carefully about every encounter. Even stuff like 55 monk needed you to pilot the build at least slightly competently. That's what made it so satisfying when you were rewarded with cool stuff like torment gemstones.

>ritualist not higher than god tier
Trashed

>tfw met best friend in gw1
>used to bring 600/smite buddy monk builds into AB and try to be viable
>people get mad

i miss this shit

>>385209074
i miss 600/smite CoF runs

>this game died for microtransaction infested gw2

still infuriates me how pathetically small inventory and bank storage is in gw2 unless you pay for gems to upgrade storage. so much jew shit in that "game"

also i couldnt find the music for catacombs either

>>385208961
It had an excellent loot system. Just by playing the game you found all kinds of stuff that you'd either use for yourself or or your heroes, or be able to sell for stuff you'd want. Stuff like rare colours, keys and unids kept even basic gameplay exciting. Then there was farming, which really inspired the community to great lengths. You could farm everything, from pure gold to unids to rare mats to rare skins and so on. Enemies were challenging, so you'd have to cook up very specific builds to farm stuff.

The title system naturally played into this, because many of them were huge goldsinks to keep the economy sane. I fondly remember dumping all my gold into keys and doing chest runs over and over, and enjoying it.

>>385205863
I think literally every dervish did thins me too

>>385202858
You can easily get the same damage reduction on a dagger spammer warrior while not doing completely worthless damage.

I really miss this game.

>>385205451
>http://www.strawpoll.me/13537224
Anyone knows where those devs that worked on GW1 are now? Maybe we'll one day get a spirtual sequel to GW1.... oh how I wish it will be in this timeline.

>>385209530

Some Devs that left, made State of decay, i think.


>the feels

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bury my heart in Ascalon

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>this thread

Never forget.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMUdPF260Uk

>>385209243
this is why I quit playing GW2. I filled up the few bank slots and couldn't stash my loot anymore, so I closed the game and never went back

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>>385210274
They're all gone...

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>>385210193
Y-yamerou...

https://youtu.be/ZUQFBzUoQxY

>>385202429
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKJSC_mteIg

>>385210324
This is one of my favorite songs, I never knew it was called this. Thank you so much.

Someone is developing a private server, for when Anet pulls the cords.

I had a quick Talk with them. They're looking for cobtributers/developers that can help.

https://github.com/entice

I forgot Paragons existed, and then I remembered the old W/P spearchucker build. God that was fun.

Holy fuck you could build so many crazy things in Guild Wars 1. It's so depressing there's never been another game like that. Not even close.

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>>385210193
I always muted the music. Can't stand the style.

I miss pre-searing charr runs =/

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>>385204586
The build variety is why Necromancer remained my favorite class through all my years of playing GW.
>that time a necromancer could come out of the gates of a GvG with 30+ minions

Tell me /v/, what was your first build like?

I had a shitty wells necro. I was only helpful half the time since I needed corpses for some mediocre support.

>>385205239
Well, ANet was made up of former Blizzard employees, originally. Of course, by the time GW2 rolled around they had all abandoned their own company and moved on. That's why Eye of the North was so fucking meme heavy and obsessed with titles and stupid MMO shit. You could tell dumbasses were moving in and taking over by then.

>>385210479
Ranger/Mesmer on a friends account, deleted it when I got the game myself and redid it as Ranger/Warrior.

>>385210415
No problem, anon.

Have another
https://youtu.be/_Mc0OSVrhoE

>>385210439
When I was playing the game I didn't have the taste to appreciate the music, thought it was bad, and a lot of other anons did too. Now it's one of my all time favorite soundtracks, definitely one of Jeremy Soule's greatest works.

>tfw wasn't around for GW1
>really don't mind GW2 at all

i feel like i missed out, bros

this is the worst thread on my feels. Fuck you.

I still remember when the Monks went on strike, that was fun.

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>>385210664
You'll never know just how much you missed.

Legitimately one of my top 3 favorite games of all time and one of the greatest MMOs (if you can call it that) ever made.

GW2 is just a hollow husk

>>385205046
That's what you essentially don't get. GW1 was never balanced. It's was a nightmare to balance all of those skills. People kept coming with more and more OP builds with time. The devs were laze though.

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>>385210479
MM necromancer
I was a filthy noob and wasted a signet of capture on a boss hidden deep in the beach area before Lion's Arch to get the Bone Fiends spell because the skill master didn't sell it yet in LA and I thought it was a super rare elite spell that you had to capture on bosses
Everything happened when Prophecy wasn't Prophecy yet and there weren't tomes
I miss running the vilainy of galrath quest as a 4 noobs party, now that was a fucking adventure

>>385210879
I didn't do that quest for so many years, when I finally did it was a really good quest, awesome environments.

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>>385210274
get on my level

>>385210879
I miss running to Droknar's Forge on my warrior in the Prophecy days.
I miss making some random's day by bringing them on a guild run of the Southern Shiverpeaks and Ring of Fire missions.

"If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place." t. Wiseau

Let's just go play it again and pretend GW2 never happened.

GW2 EXPAC HYPE

CRYSTALIZED DESERT!

>>385210479
Warrior/Ranger where I just went pure warrior.


What zones did you cunts like the best. I was a Kurzick lad but the Jade Sea always struck me as far more interesting.

I like Nightfall the most overall though. But then I've always like arid environments.

>random stupid RA builds

>rapid fire 1/4 cast ranger that overpowered enemies with energy stance elite
>W/N plague touch headbutt warrior that chased monks around perpetually dazing them
>E/A teleport knockdown into earthquake/aftershock assassin
>N/Me oppressive gaze necro + extend conditions, doing nothing but spreading conditions
>Painful Bond Rt attack spirit spammer that would plant 5-6 bound spirits in a pile
>only moderately effective smite healer that was still fun but worked pretty well if you got another monk or Rt
>IAS Dervish that did nothing but max out attack speed to delivery on-hit effects: "the lawnmower"
>Ranger BM with a staff that put everything into maxing out pet damage, causing it to hit nearly twice as hard as a normal build would

>GW2 builds
>guess I'll stack a bunch of passives on myself...

>>385212261
GW2 combat feels like you're punching a concrete wall.

>>385203692
Trap ranger wasn't super effective in AB, but it was fun as shit just for the salt.
>lay cripple, knockdown, and burning traps in popular lanes for running
>see enemy limping around at half health

>>385207237
apply poison + hunters shot all day bro
>applying bleeding and poison to the whole damn enemy team