Guild Wars 2

Would i be able to get enough hall of monuments points from trying guild wars 1 for free?(the option to download client and play for i dont know how much in the gw page!)

I think it’s a 1 month period and no you won’t get enough to get all the HoM stuff. Your might get about 10 points, if you’re casual, but there are ways to get more…if you’re willing to give up sleep. There’s a wiki page for it that shows the ways to get the points quickly, relatively speaking

If it’s a full month, with a friend on the inside, a clear plan of action and willingness to work at it like a machine, you could potentially get a decent amount.

But it’s not realistic expectations. As Azrael said, you’ll be lucky to get 10 points in that time.

Does the trial include EotN? Can you link a trial to your GW2 account?

I think the trial contains only vanilla game, so no EOTN, which means no HOM.
Even if it had EOTN inside, I doubt you can link trial account to GW2…..

hmm…1 month is plenty i guess..i dont have a friend there but i think with some guides i can make it..thing is,i want the fire sword and the walking stuff.. one is 10 and the other is 8 Hom points!Think i can manage that?
The other one is 20,the chimeric prism focus(which looks totally awesome) but i guess i will never achieve this far..

Mortifer@ oh…then this means i must buy…:/ f@ck

In some ways it is much more fun than GW2

Mortifer.2946:

In some ways it is much more fun than GW2

Not if you have Nightfall – part of that campaign are real hard and annoying. It seems they purposely made it hard.

Eye of the North is required for the Hall of monuments. And in order to unlock that you need to do some story stuff in Eye of the North. One month won’t get you many points. Some of the stuff you need to do for the unlocks require quite a bit of playing. In honest opinion though its kind of worth it. The first guild wars and all its expansions were quite good. Though trying to go back now would be difficult. I am certain people still play but finding people for missions without the Hero’s unlocked would be a bit of a pain.

Dusty Moon.4382:

Mortifer.2946:

In some ways it is much more fun than GW2

Not if you have Nightfall – part of that campaign are real hard and annoying. It seems they purposely made it hard.

I played all the campaigns. I liked the difficulty. In GW2 everything is totally easy or unbeatable due to lack of raid tools.

The free trial is something like 14 hours over a month, not a month of unlimited play.

The Hall of Monuments rewards were intentionally made hard (or at least time consuming) to get. They were originally intended to reward those who had devoted a lot of time and effort to GW1 – so they could start playing GW2 without feeling like they were throwing away everything they had achieved to start from scratch.

Even if you can link a trial account and it does include Eye of the North a month isn’t very long when you’re starting completely from scratch. Most guides on getting points recommend you start by completing at least one campaign and EOTN.

That’s like completing your whole personal story in GW2, except that no part of GW1 is designed to be played solo. You can use henchmen or heroes (NPC party members) but neither of them has great AI, henchmen don’t have great builds and to get decent builds on your heroes you need to unlock the skills, including at least one elite skill which requires going out to the middle of no where to defeat a specific boss and cap the skill from them.

A lot of HoM points also require grinding, or spending a lot of gold, which you’d have to grind for.

If you have a friend willing to take you through the whole game who can provide heroes and give you some gold that would cut the time down significantly but it would still be time consuming.

I’d still say it’s worth doing. Although I don’t play it much any more I loved GW1 and played it for years so I don’t think playing through it, even just for the HoM rewards, would be a bad thing. But it’s not something you should expect to be able to do quickly.

No idea if this is out-of-date, but here is what the wiki has to say about Guild Wars Free Trial:

Free trial accounts are also available, but are severely limited:

They can only be played for 14 days or 10 hours of playtime, whichever comes first. The remaining time is displayed ingame.
Characters cannot use area-wide chat channels, use party search, trade with other players, or pick up unassigned items. They cannot invite other players to form a party, but they can be invited.
Embark Beach is not accessible.

The page was last updated in March, 2014.