2006/06/30

Guild Wars

I played this game for about a week before I gave it up. Let me clarify: I really liked this game, then one monumental experience completely wrecked it for me. I was being my usual Mesmer/Necromantic self, having fun in the arenas at around level 9 or so. At the time I really had no idea why some of my teams had a long streak and some didn't, besides sticking together and reviving and all that, until someone mentioned something about droks armor.

Now, this was about a month or two ago, just after Factions (although I didn't have that installed), so they might have balanced this already, but I cannot go back. Anyway, I'm in a group with a W/Mo 6, and she is breezing through opponents all by herself. We won almost every match flawlessly, until we faced this other group, who had a W/Mo 9 with droks.

The fight went something like:
We killed 3 of their party once while they killed 3 of us twice. Game over, right? Nope. My W/Mo goes and re-kills the 3 of their party members (no joke, they couldn't kill her 4 on 1) after some chain-ressurection, and thus armies of good and evil began their eternal battle. Fifteen minutes of sword swinging and healing later, the W/Mo 9 finally wins. Why? Because our teammate had to go. They could've just sat there fighting forever.

Thus, my conclusion that this game is absolutely retarded (which sucks, cause I liked it a lot initially). I can't think of another PvP game where there is just no way to win unless your opponent leaves. And I've played some really long DoTa games.

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