Guild Wars.

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Does anyone here still play this worthless pile of dung? Because I'm really starting to regret buying it. The pathfinding AI is one of the most horrid implementations I have ever seen in a game. The target selection (be it NPC, mob, or whatever) is atrocious. The monsters are horridly imbalanced (from the laughably easy to the rediculously, mind-numbingly impossible), and the "henchmen" that you can sign on are just pathetic. Retarded 3-year-olds with ADHD play better than them (I guess some things haven't changed since Beta, huh?). Some skills are pathetically weak, while others are so out of whack that mobs 5 levels below you are impossible to kill by yourself (even with a pet and high-damage spells, AND physical damage!) because of massive heals, as just one example. The list goes on and on.

To put it bluntly: this game sucks.

ANYTHING enjoyable about this game is immediately dumped into a steaming cesspool of aggravation and just bad design. The only enjoyable aspect of this game is the one thing it's lauded for: the PvP aspect. Problem? You have to play with your "Roleplaying" characters just to even USE the PvP aspect, or risk being so horrendously crippled that you might as well not even try.

Imagine, if you will, that you didn't earn skills via skill points in Diablo 2. Imagine you had to earn them by questing. Imagine then, that if you did not do every single quest in your log, you'd be missing out on some very important skills. Don't want to do all those optional quests in Act III? Oops, so sorry, no Firewall or Whirlwind for you. Now try playing the game like that, in PvE or PvP. You'll get an idea of what it's like. Oh, sure, they provide you with a handful of "pre-built" characters, but they are pretty pathetic in terms of skills, and the items available to you are, equally, pathetic. And oh, you don't unlock only skills, but items and item upgrades as well. Despite Arena.Net insisting that "items do not affect the game nearly as much as skill (and skills)", the statement is thin when you see the difference between a well-equipped PvP character, and a stock "pre-built" one.

You know, I'm really trying to enjoy this game, if only because I just spend $50 that I shouldn't have on it. But it's so fist-poundingly difficult that I'm just about to give up on it. I get enough aggravation from my work. I don't need to come home to it, too, when I'm trying to relax and unwind. I've tried asking for help in-game from other players, but unfortunately, everyone there seems to think the game is perfect, so their "advice" consists of "party" or "it must just be you". Right... So when I get stuck on every little bump in the road, "it's just me". Or when I get my butt handed to me by a mob 5 levels below me, who kills me in 3 hits, "it's just me". Or the fact that they have a -60% Health / Energy Death Penalty cap (that's right boys and girls; you don't lose gold, exp, or items - you just because as weak as a wet paper bag in a hurricane; each time you die, you lose 15% to your stats) is "just me". Uh-huh. Whatever. Don't waste my time.

So, I come here in search of anyone who has this game and, more importantly, still plays. I know some of you bit the bullet when the game came out and played it for at least awhile, but I also remember a LOT of DS comments. Frankly, I think this is far worse than DS could ever hope to achieve. :P But in the vain hope that SOMEONE here still plays, I would love some company for the early levels. And if it comes down to me needing to start a new character to join you, so be it. Anything to alleviate the horrendous migraines this game is giving me.

And even if none of you still play, any advice would be appreciated as well. Just keep in mind I don't know where ANYTHING is, so keep references to Ascalon City and the like. :P Seriously though, this game is pushing me to my last vesiges of patience. I'm gonna need a Valium before long if I don't get someone other than these stupid, STUPID Henchmen to play with, or at least someone to tell me "Don't worry, it gets better before long", cause this is just... well, like pulling teeth without any novacaine. :P
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The game is nice for 2-3 weeks. However, it gets old real fast. It looks nice though. However, a piece of crap in gold wrapping is still a piece of crap.

I predicted in May on a GW forum that without drastic changes this game will be dying within 3 month and dead within 6. I still stand by that prediction.
I loved it when all the GW fanboys kept screaming about it being a game that is "all about skill, not items and levels" and then several weeks later would complain about this game needing changes.

Nice looking POS.



-A