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PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:29 pm

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I have been assimilated . . . resistance was futile.

I am so lost, however. I can run around and kill stuff (I think), but I have Quests I do not know how to complete and I don't know where to go to sell the stuff that drops from kills.

Any help I could get would be greatly appreciated.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:37 pm

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You start in Pre-Ascalon (aka Pre-Seering). In the main town, quests are noted in your quest log and if you click on the individual quest, a green star will be put on your radar (min-map) pointing you in a general direction of where the quest objective is.

Items can be sold at the merchants in each town (in future towns, there will always been a merchant + storage NPC).

Hope that helps a little. I'm sure the guys playing in game can help you more with it. :thumb:

PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:00 am

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Grats getting GW's :cool:

PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:50 pm

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Guild invite issued.
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Thank You

PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 7:37 pm

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Thank you, Inquisitor. My puter is right now in the shop . . . finally got around to getting it fixed after I bought "Guild Wars." :p So after I get it back, I will accept, of course.

Maybe then I can start getting the hang of the game, so to speak.

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Necro Nikita, lvl 4 Necromancer
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 2:03 am

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Otay, if I have the time and it also fits your schedule I can help you through pre- and post-searing. My only suggestion to you would be to make either your ranger part necro, or your necro part ranger, and then delete one of them, so your third PvE slot is either a Mo/War, or a War/Mo. This will be your farming build and the primary source of income once you find some good farming locales. An E/War or an E/Mo might work because of the inherent nuking(Area of Effect) abilities, but I doubt it would work quite as well.
Other then that, jsut play the game you'll pick up the rest you need from there.
bah my forums is dead, so it is removed from my sig...

Btw, I'm making a game, it will be awesome, you will look forward to it.[/hype]

PostPosted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 12:48 pm

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Lemme know when u get your puter back, will try and help out also ;D

PostPosted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:41 pm

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I'd help too.....but I haven't had permanant internet access in like 2 weeks....so needless to say logging onto GW is out of the question for now......but yeah with me and pad in there....we could tear up every mission :P double monk power :thumb: Not to mention double charges..... :lol:
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:48 pm

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Hail Monkers!

Monks for the win.
bah my forums is dead, so it is removed from my sig...

Btw, I'm making a game, it will be awesome, you will look forward to it.[/hype]

PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:12 pm

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Heckyeah! Monks and Double charges FTW! :cool:

See if we can break some landspeed records... hehe

PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:40 pm

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well I can already run the whole entire map other than the south shiverpeaks so its definitely possible :P
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:46 pm

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I see ya logged on Meth,
that mean you got ur puter fixed or you browsing wit someone else's?

Uhm

PostPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:51 pm

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I've been using Kerry's puter, the same one he bought at Wal-Mart that can (mostly) run CoH . . . I think I'm going through withdrawals from puter time.

I get paid tomorrow; should be able to pick it up then. It should have a brand-spank-me-new vid card and they quadrupled the memory. I have to get it ready for CoV Beta, after all.

Need to discuss . . . things . . . with you.

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Re: Uhm

PostPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 3:16 pm

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Awesome awesome :cool:
Been thinking of snagging the preorder box, so I can auto play in the CoV beta....hmm....
MethysRaven wrote:...brand-spank-me-new....
:lol:
MethysRaven wrote:Need to discuss . . . things . . . with you.
Should have....called...meh, already ;D
If its an emerg, PM meh and we can yap on TS (if you can on Kerry's puter).
Can talk on phone anytime after 9(your time)/10(my time) tonight if your round.


Now to figure out what to do with my day, found myself oddly free. Finished a big workload with a client early; school just started so no mad amounts of homework yet; both of my 'responsibilities' are off touring Chicago at the moment....

what to do withmyself.....

could play some GW, or WoW, or SB, or AC, or DungeonSeigeII (bit early in day yet tho and its nice out).
could just.... upgrade my puter....
kinda itching to finally let my AMD XP system go and step upto 64.
or I spose I could walk a couple blocks and mingle with all 11,000 of the new students joining state (yeah 11k new ones this year :sweat: ), thats always fun but not much in the 'socialize with the whole planet' mindset today.. hmm..

the peace and quiet here today is kinda niiiice.

Like said in the PM, maybe I should go and buy a nice armband MP3 player to jog with....
hmm....
sounds like a plan.

Yay

PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:48 am

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All right, so I got my puter back, and my techie friend came down to help me set it up, right?

I forgot to save my Favorites! :shake: That SO sucks; I think I had at least 150 links in there.

At any rate, we got things backed up and purged and now I have WinXP, for better or for worse. A little over 1G of memory, which isn't that much to ppl here, but to me, hey, it's awesome.

I also got the vid card CoV asked for, so everything is very clean and very nice now. I am very happy with the upgrades, and I can finally play CoH on my own puter and GW, too.

*sigh*

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:04 am

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Nice to know you're finally up and kicking :thumb: (not like me, who wasted ~$45 on a DOWNGRADE ). :smack: :smack: :smack:

Hmm

PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 7:55 am

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I'm not sure whether to :lol: or :( .

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Re: Hmm

PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 7:13 pm

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MethysRaven wrote:I'm not sure whether to :lol: or :( .

MethysRaven :shake:
Current CPU - AMD XP 2500+ (1.8ghz, 512kb L2cache)
"New" CPU - AMD Sempron 2800+ (1.6ghz, 256kbcache)

The only difference is the Sempron supports 64bit, but does anyone care? Nooooo...

So anyway, sent the Sempron back so that's $11 restocking fee and $4 shipping (but keeping the Socket 754 mobo since it was only $30 refurb) and bought an Asus 939 mobo and a AMD64 939 3000+ (Venice core).

PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:14 pm

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yea so i brought the game yesterday...so i'll post my name for an invite....am still lost......

now, does everyone start off on a pve server????
i mean i started as a pve char.....is that the norm???


i have a nec/monk right now...what's the best armor for that??? i don't plan on using the monk to heal as much as using it to deal damage......any suggestions?? and where do you get armor??

thanks...

:)

PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:02 pm

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Starting a PvE char is the best thing to do right off the bat even if you plan on being a PvP hound. Simply because you can learn to play, plus you unlock skills faster 'initially' in PvE.

Unlock? you might ask....

The game works like this m8. The majority of the PvE side of the game is like Diablo/DiabloII EXCEPT all towns are full of live people. When you leave town you either go solo, with a party of NPC, with a party of real people or a mix of players and NPC's (and pets).
When you start the game as a PvE char you actually start in the intro or prequel to the game. This intro is called presearing because it is before the world is seared by the Charr and before the great war with them has begun. So the land is covered is lush green fields and the sun is shining birds are singing, etc etc.....
Other then unlocking skills, doing quests, exploring... you don't really have to worry about best armor, weps, storage, ascending, etc. until you leave the intro. When you do goto leave, then and only then is your only 'forced' PvP battle. Its just a taste, doesn't matter if you win or lose. The game refers to it as bootcamp. You have 1 timed quick 4 vs 4 battle (technically you could just stand there and lose if you like it really doesn't matter).

Ok Pad, you still havn't aswered the unlock question..... So what is unlocking things? As you quest throughout the PvE portion of GuildWars, every special weapon, rune and skill you obtain for your character unlocks that skill permanently for PvP chars. So anytime you make a PvP character, that character will automatically be able to use it.
Being successful at PvP awards you faction points. You can use these points to unlock skills and items also, but it can be somewhat slow to get lots of faction till you understand the game a little more.
At first, in PvE, skills and skill quests come quickly so it almost bahooves you to play at least a little PvE first. Later when you are comfortable playing and skills are coming alot slower or you are simply trying to get those rare elites, you can sometimes PvP to get them unlocked faster.

PvP has many forms in GW's:
Random Arena's - there are various 4 vs 4 lvl restricted random arena's that let you fight for faction. No penaties for losing, so this is your best place to start learning to pvp.
Hall of Heroes(HoH) - This is where you gain fame and help unlock the underworld in this game.
You get together with 8 other people and enter this tourney. Once you do you have to pass a quick NPC trial battle to make sure you can handle what is to come. Once you pass the trial, there are a series of ladder matches with different scenario's you must fight thru to get to the Hall of Hereos (the finale). These scenario's range from single 8vs8 battles, 3 team king of the hill type battles, capture the flag like battles, to 8vs8vs8vs8 free for alls.
Winning matches and even halls grants you lots of faction (to unlock things), fame: which builds up to grant you 'ranks', which can be displayed to others after you reach rank 3. Halls takes time and teamwork, so some groups will only roll with you after you are a certain rank.
If you win halls, you get something else also, the game diplays to the world that your group won and a few sig crests drop random to players. These things are worth quite a bit of money since they are needed for guilds to get a guild hall (yes we have our own guild hall).
To onlock the underworld, your server has to win Halls 3 times in a row. The underworld is a PvE area of the game that has PHAT loot and exp to be quested for.....
Guild vs Guild battles - Once you are able and pick a guild hall you can fight other guilds. These fights ARE PERMANENT, or at least for 6 months at a time or so hehe (which just had a ladder rest). What I am saying is: these battles are recorded and rank your guild. Random and Hall PvP if you lose you just start over, there is no record of how many times you have won/lost, no record displaying to the world if you suck or not heh... etc.
Every guild starts the game at rank 1000 and a clean 0 won 0 lost record. From then on every guild you beat or lost against moves up and down by what rank they are and how many wins/losses they have. This list is permanently displayed HERE.
GvG battles are set up like a battlefield. To win: you inflitrate the opposing guildhall and kill there NPC Guildleader. All the while you are battling for a flagstand that grants morale, trying not to get insta-killed by catapults, killing or being killed by opposing guildmembers and even fighting NPC guards.

Welp, this may have been more then you asked for heh. But I hope it helps ya understand the ins and outs of GuildWars ;).
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SO Dissed

PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:10 pm

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See, when I first posted, you never explained anything to me, Padishar! Soooo dissed! :,(
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:18 pm

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Er, because you already commented on my many many explanations of this same info. This isn't the first time I have posted this stuff :rolleyes:

Tho I am getting better at compacting it all, instead of my book report length posts :lol:

Maybe I should make a sticky explaining GW for those just getting it or thinking of getting it... hmm...

hehe

PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:24 pm

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Yes, that would be great!
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:55 pm

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nice...that's for those info....that's why people start a pve char first..never really understood why...nice.....i noticed that quests are either done by urself or with people.....hmmmm.....i gotta get hooked with u guys....so i finally get to play with people from EUROPE!!! yea!!!!

:)

okay so i am a bit excited....just a tad....

:P

PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:04 pm

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heh np, just lemme know your chars name so I can send you a guild invite m8 ;)

We don't have to be on at the same time. I get your chars name (yes spelling must be exact) and send you a invite. Then once you get the invite just press G or goto menu > Guild and accept.... then viola ur in :thumb: Once one of your char gets invited all are auto added, so you don't have to bother with getting each character added (like in WOW heh) :cool:

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