“Skritt, I’m hit!"
I'd play GW1 but....
No you don’t the whole game is perfectly solo-able. I never partied with anyone unless I was playing PvP and I managed to beat all expansions or whatever you want to call them.
Since when did this business of being a hero become being a business?
I can’t get past the first wall.
Apparently I need to be in a group? Top plan there…
/sigh
That’s just for some optional quests you don’t need to go past the wall for the main plot.
Just abandon the quest and move on. The only place I remember having to be in a group is in the beginning area in Ascalon where there was one “form a Party” quest and to get the gate open to go fight Charr in the north. Just work up to the level needed to trigger the NPC that lets you join the army and prepare to be “Seared”.
(It’s nice to have a alternate character to stay in Pre-Searing Ascalon without moving on to the main part of the game. I actually made it to level 20 on a character there but only after they did away with the death-leveling method of leveling up.)
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Outside of Presearing there are Henchmen and Heroes that you can use as party members. Except for a few missions that the AI can’t easily do, you can solo the whole game.
Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.
ANet may give it to you.
The group quest in pre only gives you the Res Signet anyway, which you can buy from a skill trainer once you’re out of the introductory area. I played through the vast majority of GW1 solo only grabbing groups for content that I had a tough time with alone.
Oh you meant going past “the northern wall”. Yeah that is just for daily missions when you are a certain level or for a few optional missions. As others have said you don’t have to do that at all. But if you want to, press “B” to open the party screen and hire a “GM” (gate monkey). This person will open the gate for you, you pay them and then they leave the party.
Good luck!
If you plan on getting lvl 20 in pre-searing I would advise buying the Fire Imp summoning stone if they still sell it, it helped me out a ton.
Since when did this business of being a hero become being a business?
If you click the search button in the party menu you can add NPC henchman, and later NPC heroes that you can customize with new gear, new spell loadouts, and custom stat weights. You build your own parties, GW1 is all about learning how to synergize NPC helpers.
Oh, yah. The gate monkeys lol. Just advertise in map chat, need gm X gold.
Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.
ANet may give it to you.
Just abandon the quest and move on. The only place I remember having to be in a group is in the beginning area in Ascalon where there was one “form a Party” quest and to get the gate open to go fight Charr in the north. Just work up to the level needed to trigger the NPC that lets you join the army and prepare to be “Seared”.
This gate you speak of is the problem. I shall try to give it a shot and work around it…. Cheers
“Skritt, I’m hit!"
Just abandon the quest and move on. The only place I remember having to be in a group is in the beginning area in Ascalon where there was one “form a Party” quest and to get the gate open to go fight Charr in the north. Just work up to the level needed to trigger the NPC that lets you join the army and prepare to be “Seared”.
This gate you speak of is the problem. I shall try to give it a shot and work around it…. Cheers
You do not have to do any of the quests north of the gate to move on to the core game. I was too cheap to pay a gate monkey to open the gate and the only item you can get there worth anything is a Charr bag for storage. Not much else you can collect is worth taking with you and will be quickly replaced by better items.
I’m sure some people will open the gate for free, no need to pay.
I’m sure some people will open the gate for free, no need to pay.
This. I used to GM for free, although people would generally still shove money at you for helping anyway.
LOL. It’s been a long time (3yrs) since I rolled a new character in GW1. I only visit Arborstone to vanquish the area in HM for Kurzick faction. Still chasing that elusive GWAMM. 2.5 million more Kurzick will give me two more titles of the 3 I need.
I might have visited Pre-Searing Ascalon once in all that time and there were still GM hawking for GM service.
You can always find someone to open that gate for you. First, make sure you are in the American district, that’s where most players are these days. Then just write “New to the game, could someone help me with the gate?” and you’re undoubtedly going to get some help. Outside of this first tutorial area, you are not reliant on anyone for mostly anything, as you can use Henchmen and Heroes to get through the entire game. Even some of the harder content can be done with heroes.
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Seafarer’s Rest
Seafarer’s Rest
It’s not even necessary to go in there. After my first Presearing character, my other Prophesies chars left that map as soon as they got a few levels and free skills and headed off to PostSearing and the rest of the game.
Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.
ANet may give it to you.
If you are talking about the gate in pre-searing…. you’ve tried politely asking all chat in Ascalon City for a gate opener… and all else fails…. you can type in all chat in Ascalon City, “looking for gate monkey 100g”, and people will be scrambling to invite you to the party.
(100g in GW1 is like 1 silver in gw2)
Just make sure you pay the man after for helping you out.
If I recall correctly, you can also abandon that quest since it isn’t needed to progress through the game.
When you make it to post-searing you get heroes and henchmen to replace real people if you are truly that anti-social… but you are still in the tutorial area of the game, and you are supposed to learn how to party up with other players.
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Even some of the harder content can be done with heroes.
You can change that to practically all, once you get them properly skilled and equipped. One of the main reasons the game is still very playable even with the population being lower these days.
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Assassins’s Promise on my Ele made me happy… with a Discord Hero team, Sabway Team and a Paragon thrown in for 8 I did almost everything in HM but Shiro which uses a special build. (and people complain that builds in GW2 are OP… )
Assassins’s Promise on my Ele made me happy… with a Discord Hero team, Sabway Team and a Paragon thrown in for 8 I did almost everything in HM but Shiro which uses a special build. (and people complain that builds in GW2 are OP… )
You spammed the celestial skill on your ele.
Assassins’s Promise on my Ele made me happy… with a Discord Hero team, Sabway Team and a Paragon thrown in for 8 I did almost everything in HM but Shiro which uses a special build. (and people complain that builds in GW2 are OP… )
You spammed the celestial skill on your ele.
Of course, but you did need the correct build to solo it (with just one NPC in your party in etiher normal or hard mode). At least GW1 required you to think about how to spam a skill instead of mindlessly button mashing.