Guild Wars 2

ryston.7640:

I read once that GW1 was inspired heavily by Magic the Gathering, and I saw it. I spent hours theory crafting the skills and making team builds for both GvG and HoH. Arena Net really captured that flavor of fun and brought it to their own game.

Guild Wars 2 doesn’t have that flavor, but then that’s alright. You can’t really fit every thing into just the pvp of a game. (I think some of the jump puzzles are a totally acceptable substitute).

But I’m left wondering, what are the inspirations? What flavors of fun does arenanet try to put into their tPvP? Which games do you look at and say “we want to be like that, but in our own way.”

Just some bragging really… I say I had fun pondering builds.

When a new spirit didn’t kill the old one, I was in ventrilo with Embryo when he read the email from Anet stating it would not be considered an exploit if he used them to wall with. We won that relic run, and i dare say started a trend.

When they wrote the patch that said dropping a new spirit of one type would cause the old one to die, I wrote bloodspike to tap that endless mana battery of justice.

We had our fun with the complex skill system. I’m sad to see it go.

By the way, the part of BS I’m most poud of? The fact that it was a bunch of N/Mo with 1 R/x. Which happens to be almost the same as Edge Bomb.

I will never forget that match when we were holding altar against 2 IWAY teams when Jesus of Suberbia just starts laughing hysterically and won’t say why. So Ghost starts tabbing through and sees a lvl 16 Edge of Extinction.

But that’s all lost here. Doubt any kids on this forum (including Devs) were around back then.

I wasnt there, but I do remember IWAY and EoE bombs. I actualy made the earth eoe bomb (which sucked, but people did play it)

Turbo Whale.1738:

Isn’t it a bit too early to be drunk on nostalgia? Usually it takes a few years.

The game has died 4 years ago.

HERO.2057:

There was a time, not long ago, where a guild was more than being with friends or carrying around a tag. It was pride, dedication and excellence.

A time where competition was fierce, a time that you needed to keep your friends close and your enemies closer, a time where a single mistake could push you back months your chances of reaching the top.

A time where people not only played, but lived, practiced constantly, because to be in the top was not a question of showing how good you were, but how good your guild was.

A time where team-play was everything, a time where people spend countless hours calculating skills and their effects, studying your opponents before every battle.

You would know your team so well, you knew the the sound of their heart beat, move together like souls dancing synchronized, where communication was the river that took you further away, would know when to push harder, or when to fall back so you could push forward.

A time where thousands would stop to watch guilds challenge other guilds, a time where people represented not only their guild but also a nation.

Watching players defend their territory, America vs Korea, Europa vs America, where they would give everything they had till they had no more to give and hope it was enough.

Watching The Last Pride(KOR) vs War Machine kitten , Irresistible Blocks(EU) vs Idiot Savants(US), Esoteric Warriors(EU) vs Cow Level(US).

Every movement was magic, every swing of your weapon meant something, everything was calculated, like a match of chess, where your ability to predict your enemy was crucial.

So many more, that came and went away, like a generation of artists, that some forgot, but they remain unforgotten, because forever they will the ones that made Guild Wars a place where staying united and strong was everything

This time seems to be no more, we have a new game, but we don’t have the old heart.

Michael O’Brien bring us back to live, break the dam, let the river flow, let it bring back a morning spring, flowers blooming, the time for resurrection has come.

Guild Wars, we loved you, and we miss you.

Im getting chills reading this. Man, that PvP is still unmatched by any other MMO, so hectic, so much fun, massive competition in every single form of PvP (and there were a lot). I think I had over 2k hours in the PvP, no other game can even come close to that.

Obviously Jayce:
Has al lot of hammer skills (F1, 4, 1, 2)
Has a rifle.

Vizunah Square will totaly destroy HoD. Ive been in their WvW for the past 2 weeks (as member of Far Shiverpeaks). Now these guys know what they are doing during all times, peak time(French players) and night time(French Canadians). Its not only about the numbers but also about their skill level, they are insanely well co-ordinated, run a certain teamcomp that is unbeatable and it almost seems like they tell every single ‘noob’ to stop playing WvW on their server.