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Old 01-25-2005, 09:20 AM   #8
TheCrimsomBlade
Lord Ao
 

Join Date: August 25, 2001
Location: Winchester ,Virginia , United States
Age: 71
Posts: 2,081
So you ask

1. a game where everyone isn't level 900 and there is a wide spectrum of abilities/monsters and things to do = Guild Wars

2. where u can relax or fight monsters and everyone isn't rushing to kill each other. = Guild Wars

3. where it is vaguely D&D like without being too different = Guild Wars


You Discribe Guild Wars in your three statements yet you say "Not Guild Wars"

Guild Wars takes the best elements of today's massively multiplayer online games and combines them with a new mission-based design that eliminates the tedium of those games. You can meet new friends in towns or outposts, form a party, and then go tackle a quest together. Your party always has its own unique copy of the quest map, so camping, kill-stealing, and long lines to complete quests are all things of the past. Within a quest you have unprecedented freedom and power to manipulate the world around you: your magic can build bridges and open up new pathways, or it can burn down forests and tear the ground asunder.

You don't have to spend countless hours on a leveling treadmill to get to the interesting parts of the game, because combat is designed to be strategically interesting and challenging right from the beginning. You don't have to spend hours running around the world to prepare for a quest, because Guild Wars allows you to instantly travel to the beginning of any quest that you've previously unlocked. You'll never spend days playing only to discover that choices you made early on have left you with a permanently uncompetitive character, because the unique skill system in Guild Wars allows infinite experimentation but doesn't allow bad decisions to ruin a character. And you'll never meet new players only to discover that you can't play with them or compete against them because their characters are on a different server than yours; in Guild Wars, all characters live in one seamless world.

So,"I say don't knock it until you try it". From what you have written as to what you want and need in a MMORPG then Guild Wars is everything you looking for.
Avatar I really think you would love Guild wars. Over the past 4 years I have read most everything you have posted and I think you would make a perfect addition to the world of Guild Wars. I believe you are a true RPG Gamer.

Guild Wars is a competitive online role-playing game. Players can engage in cooperative group combat, in single player adventures, or in large head-to-head guild battles. Guild Wars is a mission-based game set in a stunning 3D fantasy world that offers full, integrated support for guilds. Because the team that is developing Guild Wars has had experience creating successful online game series such as Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo, the members are familiar with the complex issues surrounding online games, and are creating a game that's both easy to learn and compelling to play long term, and yet doesn’t require players to spend hundreds of hours slogging through the preparation just to get to the fun bits.
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