question about GW purchase

Hey again, me and my buddy bought GW trilogy from steam 2day and it didn't contain Eye of the North or something like that, so if we bought it not on the steam but a serial from an other person will it work? And where we need to enter that serial? |||I'd recommend not buying a code from someone, you have no way of knowing if it's been used or not. You can buy EotN from a store and add the code to the account, there's a link in the login/char selection screen for that (account management). Or if you don't mind paying a couple dollars more, you can just buy it from the in-game store (accessible form char selection), and it will be added to your account automatically, without you having to add the key at all.|||If you buy it from a reputable seller on ebay or amazon's marketplace, you'll probably be fine. Just don't try to get it from someone in game.

If the key has already been used then it will tell you when you enter it. You will want them to send you the actual physical printed code though, as Anet will want this if you have account problems in the future.

Once you are at the character selection screen, at the bottom will be a button or link saying Edit Account. Just click that and the rest is pretty self explanatory. You want to apply the code to an existing account if it asks. If it says you have an invalid code (as opposed to one that has already been used) then be sure to check that you have entered it correctly. A few of the characters are easily miisread.

Welcome to the game and hope you guys have fun/|||thanks, everything is working now

What's with the funky npc names?

|||They're named after the winners of the Henchman Skillbar Contest.|||that's uhhhhmm.........sad.|||What exactly makes this sad?|||I like the dialogue of the Raging Henchman.

-Still sad I didn't win; the world needs a Druhl Dolyaktipper [Hammer Henchman].

heya a lil more questions

Hey, so we are in the game, everything is working. Now we started with Prophecies and when you get the profession quest you kinda spit with your mate, am I right? We went to different locations to do our Main and off profession quests, and there we noticed some other quest, but we didn't take them because we want to play 2gether and we thought that we will stick to the main quest... So we did. And we ware level 2 at that time and we started the main quest event and we ware taken to the mission on our owns not in the party, we ware pissed. We did it on our own and the lands changed we ware level 2, missed a lot of quests, mobs ware tough to kill and the game seems pretty messed up right now, we think that we will remake the chars and do you guys can give any tips? and should we take the non main quests? and with what weapon should i level up a warrior? I started with a hammer then picked up a sword shield and my damage sucked : D so yea i made a pretty stupid, dumb and long post, hope someone will reply, thanks.|||The pretty place you started out in, with the grass and the tress and stuff, is called pre-searing. It's merely a tutorial area and nothing you missed there was of any importance. Unless you just liked to play in that scenery, there's no reason to remake your characters - and you will have to leave the place eventually, anyway, to advance the storyline.

You are now in post-searing. The areas here are made for parties consisting of 4 players. That means that you will have to add henchmen to fill up your party. From hereon you can play the entire game together.

You complete main quest to advance in the story and through areas, and all other quests are completely optional. It may be a good idea to do the ones in proph as a lot of them give you skills for free.

Hammers are pretty meh in early proph. You'll probably do best with a sword in the early areas because the skills you get for sword are more useful. Also make sure that you meet the requirement of your weapon, otherwise your damage will drop significantly.|||Quote:








Hey, so we are in the game, everything is working. Now we started with Prophecies and when you get the profession quest you kinda spit with your mate, am I right? We went to different locations to do our Main and off profession quests, and there we noticed some other quest, but we didn't take them because we want to play 2gether and we thought that we will stick to the main quest... So we did. And we ware level 2 at that time and we started the main quest event and we ware taken to the mission on our owns not in the party, we ware pissed. We did it on our own and the lands changed we ware level 2, missed a lot of quests, mobs ware tough to kill and the game seems pretty messed up right now, we think that we will remake the chars and do you guys can give any tips? and should we take the non main quests? and with what weapon should i level up a warrior? I started with a hammer then picked up a sword shield and my damage sucked : D so yea i made a pretty stupid, dumb and long post, hope someone will reply, thanks.




Yes, I would make new characters and stay longer in pre-searing (the nice time before the mission.) Run around in presearing for a while, do those silly side quests, find the other skill trainers (there are a lot of them), learn these skills, and when you're level 5-8, then go and do that mission.

As a warrior, you can learn the following skills in presearing:

Frenzy

Healing Signet

Sever Artery

Gash

Cyclone Axe

Executioner's Strike

Hammer Bash

Other professions have a similar amount of available skills. I wouldn't leave presearing until I had learned the lot of these, at the very least.



As for the pathetic damage output of your weapon... welcome to the world of GW PvE. However, keep in mind that your sword is probably of the 1-3 damage variety, ideal for cutting up Aloe Seeds in presearing but not for much outside of that. It gets better later on, until the monsters start to be lvl 30 and to be clad in massive amounts of armor.|||thank you guys, Lytha and what are the ranger skills that you can learn pre-searing? |||Charm Animal

Comfort Animal

Power Shot

Troll Unguent

Dual Shot

Point blank shot

Ignite arrows

Read the wind

Also, if your damage dropped when you switched to a different weapon type, did you remember to switch your attribute points from hammer mastery to swordmanship?|||omg dude you saved me : D all my points ware on hammers|||Sorry for double post bus guys from witch chapter should we start? Is our choice good, that we picked prophecies? I heard that people recommend to begin from nightfall?|||Prophecies is the first one, so if you want to get absolutely the most out of the story, you should start there. But it also progresses very slowly.

Factions progresses very quick, and can be a bit quick for a new player.

Nightfall is usually recommended because it's nicely in the middle. It's not horribly slow, but it still has enough time to learn most of the stuff. And Nightfall introduces you to heroes. Otherwise you'd have to wait until you get to a port town to go to EotN (Kamadan/Lions Arch/Kaineng Center). Heroes are like henchmen, but you can pick their skills and equipment, and also control their actions a bit (set a location for them to stay at, and pick between aggressive/defensive/avoid combat and lock a specific target). Heroes are very useful to have, as they practically always perform better than normal henchmen.

Also, you can edit your post, there's a nice red button with edges that have just been rounded, so no sharp corners or anything.|||Here is the list of all skills that you can learn in presearing:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/List_...Searing_skills

I wouldn't start in Factions as a new player, because you're getting thrown nasty foes into your face very early on (on the very first map already, to be precise - lvl 12 necromancer critter against lvl 2 characters? What madness is this?).

But both Nightfall and Prophecies are fine. Personally, I'd start in Prophecies, too, because that's the first. Nightfall has some spoilers about the first two games.|||I started out in Prophecies. The learning curve is nice and gentle but you still feel like you're doing something. Factions is a mad bumrush, and Nightfall can be a little irritating with its Sunspear Rank quests. I'd pick Prophecies because there's a ton more quests that reward skills, which saves you money on buying said skills.

Confused About What to Do

I am playing Factions and purchased the pet pack add on. My character is a level 14 Ritualist/Monk. If I am understanding correctly, I need to use the ranger charm skill in the Zaishen Menagerie to get my pet. The problem I have is how to get the ranger charm skill. How do I get the charm skill at this point and from who? Is there another way to get this character a pet that i am not aware of? Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.|||It's a ranger skill. You must be a ranger (in your case, secondary or Ritualist/Ranger.) After you complete I think its the 4th mission, there will be an NPC called "Profession Changer" that will let you change your secondary profession at will.|||For starters, to have a pet you need to be either primary or secondary ranger. Since your character already seems to have secondary profession, you won't be able to change your secondary via the secondary profession quests on the starter island.

However, you will be able to change your secondary to any core profession and the professions specific to the chapters you have access to on your account, once you "ascend." The ascention in Factions is also called Weh No Su, and is achieved by beating the Nahpui Quarter mission on mainland Cantha (it's the second mission in mainland Cantha and 4th in all of Factions). Once you beat the mission, you will be able to change your secondary profession through Senji in Senji's Corner (which conveniently is the outpost you spawn in when you beat Nahpui Quarter) or Profession Changer in Great Temple of Balthasar (GToB).

Also, while you are able to reach the Profession Changer in GToB once you reach Kaineng Center and before beating Nahpui Quarter, he won't change your secondary until you are ascended.

Eotn rep qstn

Hey so I plan on working on the 4 eotn rep titles. What is the fastest way to max them out?|||Book farming|||Quote:








Book farming




What do you mean by this? Do i fill the entire book or only minimum which is more efficient?|||Translation: Fill out entire hero books and turn them in for max rep - watch your total reputation points, once you hit rank 8 exactly, you won't get more rep from hero books, but if you turn in a full book while you're still a few points from rank 8, you will get the full amount from the book.

Anyway, once you hit rank 8, repeat, but in hard mode.

Or do what I did, spice it up with a bit of vanquishing to avoid going raving mad from repeating the same missions over and over.|||There is also speedbooking.

http://pvx.wikia.com/wiki/Build:A/any_GW:EN_Speedbooker

Basically abusing a few main quests to repeatedly get your books to a minimum amount filled and turn them in.|||It depends on the title:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guide...ldrimor_points suggests Snowmen lair.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guide...utation_points suggests raptor farming

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guide...utation_points suggests the quest Path to Revelations (not repeatable, so make sure you don't accept the reward)

And there's no good way to farm Ebon aside from books.

Of course, I prefer books because it's more fun... but I also do MotN first, so that there's not much left to do in terms of farming after.|||Actually Ebon was the one title I maxed without using books. Repeated vanquishing of Sacnoth Valley, saving the charr bosses for last just seemed a lot faster.

But maybe that was just because I was sick of filling out books at the time.|||You vanquished repeatedly Sacnoth? |||I have to admit, it worked for me. The sacnoth valley vanquish.

Mainly I took the siege devourer and took point, while heros and hench backed me up.

I got major lucky at and the boss bounty kicked in JUST as I was coming up the hill to where the 3 charr bosses were. Just from those 3 bosses alone I got near 1k rep points. I went from level 3 to level 5 in one go.|||Yeah, you can rack up thousands of points in one go if you get lucky with the bounties. I got over 9000 points in one vanquish (note, this was BEFORE you got additional bonus rep points for vanquishing an area...) due to being at 4x hunt bonus, rampage and hitting the charr bosses after about 250 kills.

Haven't tried it lately but I believe it's still quite worthwile. That was on my necro - haven't really wanted to max vanguard rep on any of my other characters.

Though maybe I should do so on the assassin for an extra second of blindness from Sneak Attack (she's at Rank 8 at the moment, so technically I only need to get to rank 9 for that extra second I guess.)

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Couldn't sleep so I decided to see if it was still worthwile to vanquish Sacnoth. Got 11400 rep points in one go with my assassin. That includes the 2240 bonus points for vanquishing the area. Was at hunt rank 3 when I finished and blew a couple of boss bonuses and a time attack, so I could have got more if luck had been with me.

Takes roughly an hour and a half to vanquish the valley (well, less if you remember to bring a daze skill for Blisterbark. And if you remember to turn on the vanguard title when fighting the charr.) - so it's a decent way to get vanguard points if you are bored with the books.

Yeah, I sort of forgot to plan for Borrguus Blisterbark though so it could have been faster if I hadn't spent so much time on burning to a crisp and being resurrected. Or if I had remembered to bring a morale boosting consumable or two...

Cant get Quest to Trigger

Hi,

I am playing GW Factions. I just completed the quest "A formal Introduction" and after I successfully completed the mission, I got a cut scene that went into the next quest Minister Cho's estate. The problem is after the cut scene I was dropped off in the Minister Cho's commons area with no one to trigger a quest. Master Togo is in Shing Jea Monestary but is no where to be found in Minister Cho's estate. I dont have any quests to do and no one to talk to to give me any more quests. I have been wandering around for about 3 hours now and have a few areas blocked by red gates. There is no one to talk to by any of these closed red gates. I am at level 8 almost to level 9. Am I missing something here? Is this a glitch? My understanding is that I should have been able to talk to Master Togo somewhere in Minister Cho's estate to trigger the next mission. When I talk to him in Shing Jea Monestary he says nothing about the quest. Please help.|||Did you click on that Start Mission button just below your party list? Once you can enter Minister Cho's estate, there is no need to talk to anyone. In GW, there is a difference between missions and quests: quests need an NPC to trigger, missions in Factions can be done once you are allowed into the area.|||On your party menu, there should be an 'Enter Mission' button. Click that to begin the mission. This is the same for all Prophecies and Factions missions.|||You hand the quest in to a guard who is close to the gate that you enter through in the cut-scene. After that, form a group and click "Enter Mission" and you'll be on your way :)|||"Takes foot out of bum"

I am definately not smarter than a 5th grader. Thanks for the quick responses. I never saw the button.|||Don't forget to add 3 henchmen to your team before you press the "enter mission" button. If you die during a mission, you will have to do the whole thing all over from the start. A full team will make it easier to finish the mission.|||You're not alone in this one... I bumbled around there myself, looking for the mission starter. Finally someone in my Alliance said "Click the button..." I started in Nightfall, you see... yah, excuses, excuses. :)|||Quote:








"Takes foot out of bum"

I am definately not smarter than a 5th grader. Thanks for the quick responses. I never saw the button.




Common mistake.

Don't worry about it.|||Quote:








"Takes foot out of bum"

I am definately not smarter than a 5th grader. Thanks for the quick responses. I never saw the button.




Don't feel too badly about it. At least you didn't delete two characters over it. I had only been playing for about a month and I figured I screwed something up, so, like I said, I deleted two characters. Since they were Prophecies characters, it took me forever to get back to that point, and I had to relive the searing all over again...

A couple quick questions..

I used to play awhile back, and with GW2 coming, I was thinking about getting back into the game.

I'm trying to get my old account back. I forgot the username and pw. I'm waiting on the customer support to email me back, so I figured I'd ask a few questions here in the mean time.

I had some items from the original gw on my account. Did GW change too much so now these items are useless, or would some of them still be worth something (or more?)

http://guildwars.incgamers.com/showthread.php?t=365579

That's the old price list I requested awhile back. I'm sure I still have the same items on my guy. Also, not that it means much, but I want to say thanks to Keydet for the price check. I just realized I never thanked him -- four years ago. ;/

anyway thanks!|||Quote:








Did GW change too much so now these items are useless




Yes. They have added a system called inscriptions rendering your items useless.

Erasculio|||Quote:








I had some items from the original gw on my account. Did GW change too much so now these items are useless, or would some of them still be worth something (or more?)




GW has changed quite a bit, and while I wouldn't go so far as to call all those items "useless" (they still work just as well as they did before...) they're certainly not worth any considerable amount. They weren't worth very much to begin with (judging by the PC) but you'd have trouble selling most of them at all, now.|||This thread really should be in the PC forum, not here.

You can sell unid golds ~500g each to someone who's going for that title (I usually pick up unid golds 7 for 4k or less).

You might be able to salvage some of the mods off those things, but for the most part, its all merchant.