I'm interested in buying the game, can anyone please list in a nice manner the pluses/minuses they find in the game. I read that how good you are doesnt deppend on your level, but on skill, how so?

Also, if i buy the expansion do i get more gameplay with it as opposed to just buying the original, or is it two seperate games?

i', just telling u now that everyone will have a different view of what is good and what isn't. i personly like the way u get your own world when you leave a town. that way, no noobs can steal the stuff you get after u kill something really hard lol

both games are "stand-alone games" you can buy either factions or the origonal and be able to play the one u bought, or u can buy both and get more areas/ quests for your characters

I read that how good you are doesnt deppend on your level, but on skill, how so?

A Lv15 can beat a Lv20 if the Lv20 is incompetent and brings the wrong skills, or brings all the skills that the Lv15 is designed to counter. You can learn over 800 skills, but only bring 8 of them to a single battle, which adds a level of strategy to the game.

Skill and experience also play in, two monks can be set up exactly the same, but one monk might be slower or not used to the skills he's using or the party he's working with and not be as able to save his party from slaughter as the other can. At the upper level of GvG and Tournament play, you'll see that some teams run exactly the same 8-man team build, and then it's up to whichever team is better at running that build.

A problem with PvP though is that Guild Wars suffers a bit from Rock, Paper, Scissors... it's exactly what it sounds like. Tournament and GvG also tend to have flavors of the week, where one team build completely dominates and becomes used by almost everyone because it's counter build is hardly in use or simply because it's overpowered, and then A.Net steps in and does something to discourage that... often involves making key skills in that build weaker or making skills that counter that build even better.

And anyway, blackbelt is right. What one person considers good might be bad to someone else. I'd just suggest going to the Guild Wars website and looking around there, maybe check out some forums/websites that are devoted completely to Guild Wars.

I have a Question too , can you Mine and fish in guildwars???

Answer: No mining or fishing, sorry. But there is a farming quest in Guild Wars:Factions.

Pros
There is an element of crafting, as all items bought from NPCs require you to have certain items, like a sword might need 8 iron ingots and 2 tanned leather, etc.

However, you don't have to craft weapons from NPCs. The best weapons are found as drops from monsters and you can trade quest reward items, called Monastery Credits for weapons.

A HUGE plus to this game is that you can have 2 professions per character. For instance, at the moment I am enjoying a Necromancer/Monk. This allows for greater customization of characters and with Guild Wars factions allows 56 different class combinations. (8 classes x 7 secondary professions = 56). Each of these has their own pro's and con's.

The fact that the game brings an element of tactics rather than just hack'N'slash plus a fireball or two, gives it an edge on most RPGs. I was with a friend on a tough mission and he wanted me to run into a tunnel where there were some enemies, I disobeyed him and waited back, because I knew he was going to get trapped between two armies of enemy :p. It was funny watching him die.

The fact that you can draw on the map to draw the direction you want to go, or to point out specific things is fun, but when you get a complete noob in your party it can get a bit annoying when they're drawing penises all over it, or covering it in squiggles. this adds to the tactical side of the game (not the penises, but the ability to draw arrows on the map without having to type "Go left and I'll go right").

The graphics are awesome. Your money is definately well spent with the graphics :p.

I bought this game at the end of a set of exams as a "treat" for myself and it most definately is a treat. Guild Wars is a joy to play as well as it being eye candy.

Cons
You'll find yourself needing real people to help you on some quests, as the henchman, however useful in earlier missions become morons when facing an army of plagued creatures, even when totally outnumbered, and you being dead, they stand there until they're dead too and you're normally dead because the DAMN HEALER HENCHMAN!!! didn't heal you :p. However you may find real people just as moronic.

Otherwise I can't find much wrong with the game.

they stand there until they're dead too and you're normally dead because the DAMN HEALER HENCHMAN!!! didn't heal you :p. However you may find real people just as moronic.

Funking healer henchy. D:
Sorry, that's about all my input right now. XD

*Falls asleeps*

Funking healer henchy. D:


agreed >.>