Guild Wars 2

So, yeah.

Have you played Lunatic Inquisition? If you haven’t, you should. The longer I play it, the more I realize the genius that went into every little part of the minigame: the skills, the items, the map, the balancing, the events, Mad King Says.

For those of you who haven’t played Inquisition or just don’t understand it, here are some basic pointers.

The Top Ten Rules of The Lunatic Inquisition

Rule #1: Don’t die.
Rule #2: Run, hide, and use your stealth skill to avoid death.
Rule #3: Items give you skills; use them to avoid death.
Rule #4: Bring items to npc collectors to get bonuses and allies.
Rule #5: If you die, you become a ghost.
Rule #6: Ghosts kill villagers.
Rule #7: Use your fear skills to scare villagers out of hiding.
Rule #8: Use your ‘Mad King Says’ skills to force a villager to do an emote.
Rule #9: If all villagers die, ghosts win.
Rule #10: If any villagers survive the time limit, the village wins.

There are many different ways to avoid dying. In the early game, running away is easy, since there are only a few ghosts (who are also pretty slow). A good way to get easy points is to grab a hammer and wail on the first ghost; just don’t die.

Teamwork is great, but not necessary. Well organized villagers should try to keep tabs on the ghosts’ locations, at least in the early game. Ghosts could try trapping the villagers, flanking around their backs to cut off escape routes.

As the game progresses, more and more villagers are converted into ghosts (who are now much faster). This makes it harder and harder to survive as a villager, and also harder to find prey as a ghost. This is when hunkering down in a nice hiding spot is a good idea. There are all kinds of secret spots around the map, but you’ll have to find them yourself. I ain’t giving away trade secrets .

A few other things:
-The red faces on the walls? They ping the map whenever a villager gets too close. Don’t seem to be really important, but in the late game this could be deadly.
-Your score, the highest score, and the time remaining are at the top of the screen
-The first ghost will be chosen randomly from among the players; if the poor ghost is getting bullied by villagers, another ghost may be chosen to help
-Every item gives you different skills, and are good in different situations; the torch is my personal favorite
-Ghosts can use items (except hammers) to set traps for villagers; not mega-useful, but it does keep the items out of enemy hands
-The last villager alive gets a chainsaw

Suggestions for the Inquisition? My only one is that this game mode, or something like it, will be added to the permanent game. It’s just too good to waste.

What do you guys think? What are your strategies, suggestions, questions, or favorite Inquisition moments?

Personally as town, I prefer bones.
3 bones leaves a ghost without enough health to even register any red, but more importantly they stun – so if you are like me and so to Prince Ewan and build a pile of 10+ bones before ghosts come…its an easy 2-3 kills at least. I advise having a hammer handy to finish them though, as wasting a bone for the last hit isn’t very productive. If you can’t hit with hammer, throw a torch first for the burning effect.

As ghosts, by far the best gap closer is scarecrow bombing – not only is it a fear, it has a large radius and you can port directly to it. 4->4->1->2 will probably kill a villager. If not you can finish with more 1’ing or 3’ing.

Mad king says emotes – they make villagers drop whatever their holding. Always emote if they have a torch or bone, those things can stop you. I don’t know if its me or a bug or what not, but even the correct emote causes villagers to get rooted. Very useful also as a delayed gap closer.

Villagers – do NOT get hit by eviscerate (ghost 2). It does a ridiculous amount of damage, learn its animation and dodge roll it. (Yes, dodging is enabled).

Pick up all items, even junk – otherwise new items won’t spawn. You can always throw it away or drop it.

And finally..strength in numbers! unless your a ghost, in which case you should be more than able to solo a villager, you want to spread out to find all those pesky hiders.

This is a very good game, I’m kind of addicted to it :P