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I bought Nightfall online, cheaper than buying from Amazon, and no wait.. It was worth it.. The addition of "heroes" that are like henchman paper-dolls you can buff up with spells, insignias and primary runes, weapons.. Even better, the ability to rip off runes without losing armor and availability of spells for secondary professions from all characters on the account. It's actually better to start in chronological order to some degree than doing Guild Wars backward, as it makes you a stronger fighter, whereas working backward is too easy, I'd think..
Anyhow in this video I demonstrate that playing guild wars is a bit more than just pressing buttons, but can be a bit more complex.
Note, probably my biggest weakness, is I don't use the typical tank approach, which is too slow for me.. I'm a bit more aggressive, so I'm not someone you want to play with in a group, but I will eventually learn to fool the AI, but in hard mode it seems the AI eventually pinpoints your weakness, so its best to keep changing the approach to the fight..
Like today I decided to try a number of monks, it worked until I got some Gargoyles with "soul barbs" which deal damage when hexes and enchantments are added or removed from a foe (me), which really made having more monks a problem.. Luckily I had a mesmer and necromancer among the group..
Also I show my current set of spells and my working builds for my heroes.. Until I can get some key spells for common builds (from PvX wiki website) Being a level 20, it is hard to get spells cheaply.. Bingo.. I just figured something out right now, start off with other primary professions, from scratch and obtain all the other missing spells? \8^|
Anyhow, I'm finding I'm going to have to buy Eye of the North.. Keep in mind that you will have to get all 4 packages to really play the game, so its like paying 120 dollars for a game on lay away, only you can play it as you come to each part.. Beats paying 14 dollars a month for online fee, but if you only intend on getting one guild wars, or two, get Nightfall and Eye of the North.. They have more of the key spells and they benefit from the wisdom of the previous campaigns.
BTW, Eye of the North is just an add-on of additional quests and territory, it augments the other three packs by expanding territory in the north of each pack.. It also adds more spells, but it is not a new Campaign, Nightfall is the last "campaign".. So Eye of the North doesn't offer a new story but elaborates on the existing ones.
There is still stuff I haven't learned about the campaigns I own, so its not one of those games you master and then put away.. It will take you a year or more to really explore it.
Mostly I'm playing the game because I'm serriously addicted to it, but I prefer playing it in Linux as I prefer to be in Linux than to use Windows, which carries a set of burdens that outweight those of Windows, like dealing with security holes in Windows and the progressive corruption of the environment due to each vendors perception of how to fix the Windows environment for you. Linux takes a different approach to getting things done that is more unified and less guesswork, help is easier to find too..
This would be counter-intuitive, considering everyone has Windows, but as diverse are the number of applications available for Windows, many of the packages just replicate the technology of the others with no cross-pollination, so each has its own idiosyncrasies that over time make it harder to find help, leading to the dreaded "I'm sorry but you will probably need to reinstall windows".
Linux avoids this by saying "yes you can", in this case, if you ever have to reinstall linux, you have the choice of separating your home from your root partition, permitting you to install linux without affecting your personal data and maintaining your accounts across upgrades, something I've found to be rather difficult to do on Windows..
See some of my other videos to see just how easy Ubuntu is to use.. It's like driving a hot rod, it's fast and customizable, but you have to be willing to get your fingers dirty to tune it.
Even if you prefer to keep Windows in the cases where Linux doesn't shine, you at least aren't burdened by the need to upgrade just because Microsoft is going to drop support for your favorite release of Windows.
All in All Linux gives you a different perspective on using computers that in the long run is better for you than being locked into the same choices everyone has on the Windows platform.