Guild Wars grouping topic

[Thecla]

Ok, I'm getting to like this better now. Started another character Ash Ockk, and he is a Warrior-Mesmer and I'm enjoying it more. My Warrior-Monk was pathetically weak playing solo and for some reason I could not hire any Henchmmen, bleh. If anyone wants to play together, drop me a line, although I'm only lvl 3 atm.
-A
ps. I saw a char named Xi Blader for a minute today. Is that you Xi?
pps. How do I find the RBD/Lurker Guild?
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I definitely do agree with the Dungeon sSege comparison (unfortunately) -- down to the slow, and rather tedious combat, the endless supply of humanoid types to bore your way through (Charr in GW, and whatever they were in DS, I prefer to forget), and the huge wilderness areas with basically linear paths. But no game ever created reaches the depths of horribleness that DS plumbed.

GW does have more interesting and better balanced combat than DS, it has a much better developed system of mini-quests (all be it often rather buggily and funkily implemented), and missions that basically involve finding the right strategies to complete them.

But, in the end, my guess is that GW will stand or fall on the PvP part (which is not my personal cup of tea, but probably what it was primarily designed for). I don't think the PvE will hold much interest in the long run (even WoW had faster combat -- perhaps because GW is balanced for the PvP aspects -- although it is a relief to have only 8 skill buttons in GW compared with the bar upon bar upon bar of buttons that you seemed to need in WoW).

As for missions, well, the first time through, you don't know what to expect, and usually fail the if there's some trick; the second time through, you know what to expect, and you usually succeed. After that, there's not a lot of replayability, though I suppose they may keep streaming new mission content.

You can't hire henchmen until after the tutorial ("post-searing" as they say -- talk to the guy by the academy to leave the "pre-searing" tutorial, which is actually more confusing than the game itself; like many things in the game, a certain amount of telepathy seems to be assumed). For the most part, the henchmen are great (apart from a tendency to run off sometimes in unfortunate directions); still, if I could replace my own character by a henchman, it would probably improve the party's play. ;)

p.s. I also couldn't figure out how the heck to contact anyone in the game (another area where telepathy seems to be required), but it looks to me like Ash Ock has an RB guild invite already.