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sweet, I have a few characters: semel militis the warrior is my highest level one. Send me a wisper if you are on!

 

Never played, and I don't know anything about it.
However, I just made an account, so I gues we'll see how it goes...

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Maybe it's because I'm jaded from WoW, but I find this game to be lacking. The equipment system is just terrible, it takes so long to gain the materials needed for a armor which is just a bit better than the one you are equipped with. Some of the weapons dropped by enemies are also just ridiculous. Why would I want a sword that leaches one HP every time I hit a target but constantly drains my health at an even faster rate?

The quests seem to have little story behind them, and are drawn out for way too long. I became tired of killing the constant stream of mobs. Speaking of mobs, they do not vary at all throughout entire quests, which give the constant feeling of daja vu. The only time you see “different” mobs are the "boss" ones, which are actually the same as the mobs you see throughout the quest but their stats are buffed and they glow some random color.

The skills also aren't that impressive either. The warrior gets mostly weapon specific skills, which means after you decide the weapon path to go, you will miss 2/3 of the other weapon skills. The elementalist also suffers from a similar problem, you have to choose what elemental tree you will follow and ignore the rest of the skills. The monk's skills are mostly the same with some small variations. The ranger's animal training tree is just useless. There is no control over the pet at all, and the AI is so terrible that it just randomly engages enemy mobs not even close to you.

Do others see these shortcomings or am I going insane?

 

Guild wars drives me insane.

 

Geewiz, based upon the comments I'm beginning to see here, I'm thinking perhaps that I should avoid this...

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Me too. On the bright side its free anyway, so we won't have to worry about that.