First off, I have just been playing Guild Wars for a little over a week. The good thing about guild wars is that the levelling is fast. In a little over a week, I have managed to get my “main” up to level 17. The level cap is 20, ie level 20s are the highest level there.
Secondly, their “magic items” have a colouring scheme which I think is pretty darn unique to them. “Normal” magic items are cyan, ie give you bonuses to some attributes or skills. Then there are the purple ones, where as far as I can see, are more powerful than the normal ones. They give bonuses which are more than what the cyan ones will give, but in addition, they also have a “negative bonus”, so something of yours will be lowered, be it movement speed, or armour, or even a skill. I have seen a gold-coloured item too, where the bonuses and the negatives are even more than the purple ones.
Then again, I have only been in-world for a week. I am still a newbie.
But a high-level one 🙂
Thirdly, the world of Guild Wars appear to be an Asian-influenced one, where the names of places and people are supposed to sound “oriental”. Well, at least to ang mo people they sound oriental. To me, some names of places sound damn weird, and most of the time the names are meaningless if I were to pronounce them in proper Mandarin or Cantonese.
My assassin char, Aleric, is my “main”. He is the one that is lvl 17 now, and about 80% of the way to 18. As of this writing, his travels have brought him to Kainen City. The thing is, once you cross over from the Shing Jea Island to the mainland, suddenly you are thrust into zones that have level 20 mobs wandering around. At the time when you get booted here from the island, you’re only about level 14 or 15. Survivability is not that great 🙂
The thing about Kainen City is that it reminded me alot of Maj’Dul, the city in EQ2. Mobs that wander around are high levels, they will kill you if you are not careful. Even getting a full group of lvl 20 henchmen is not a guarantee of survival if you decide to run through the streets of Kainen City.
Unlike Maj’Dul though, Kainen City is huge! The city itself is broken down into “subzones” where you may run across citizens who are in need of help (and hence you earn xps for their side-quests).
So far, this all still seems fun to me. Especially running around with my old pal from City of Heroes 🙂
