User:Jamie/State of the game

Introduction
Hey everyone, this article was created by me so I can convey my feelings on Guild Wars currently. My "state of the game" unlike ANet's official feature which covers PvP & GvG, will look at my personal experience of Guild Wars as well as where I'd like to see things go in the future. I hope to encourage discussion on the topics covered here, don't be shy.

Background
At this point I have six different PvE characters (3 in Tyria & 3 in Cantha), five of which are lvl20 with max AP and one is a newb at lvl11 (I don't like having incomplete character this must be lvl20 soon otherwise i will go crazy).

I have a strong background of varying styles; Healing Prayers Monk, Interrupt Ranger, Axe Warrior to name a few from my tyrian characters and from my Cantha side I possess Domination Magic Mesmer which does a nice line in IW and a Necromancer which has mastered all 3 typical style expected of an aspiring necromancer from Cultist to Spiteful Spirit to Minion Master.

Currently I am working on an Elementalist to complete the six core professions, this is a Fire/Earth right now, but I feel dirty using fire...

My experience of PvE is such that I have completed the Factions campaign twice with two seperate characters, but have never found the time to complete the Prophecies campaign at all, even though I have 3 characters waiting at Ring of Fire.

Guild Wars Redux - 11/06/2006
Having complete Factions twice now, I feel a strange feeling of completion. On the one half, I know I have so much to do and so much to complete with my characters. However on the other half, I find myself doing small tasks for example going to Sorrow's Furnace and capturing Eviscerate from Tanzit Razorstone or going to Mineral Springs to cap another elite] but also exploring an area I had previously not ventured.

As a Guild Wars gamer I find myself too locked into the linearity of the story; objectives become A to B to C to D inorder to gain progress, it is rare we will break the chain of the story to do something different, usually playing characters in long sessions at a time to get things done.

Recently however I have grown bored of this, this has allowed me to do more creative things. For example my Monk has been gathering dust and I've told anyone I know that I hate monking so much, but then I picked up some factions skills and it has made the experience a lot more enjoyable. I proceeded to do Mission & Bonus of Dragon's Lair.

Previous State of the game
None.

Related Links
This section I'd like to link to other GuildWikians state of the games.