Guild Wars is my newest hobby…or obsession, depending on how you look at it.
I’d been playing around with a couple of rpg-s that were very dry; facts and figures sorts of things. Then, my boyfriend said he thought I might like Guild Wars, given how much I’d taken to those (probably coupled with his experience of how much I adore Battle for Middle Earth) and I decided to look into it.
I didn’t know much, and I’m still no expert, but I went to the GW website and looked over all the information I could scrounge up on the game, and development. From what I understand, it has much in common with the enormounsly popular WoW. Having a friend that played WoW almost obsessively for a while, I got to see a lot of it on her computer and it seems very similar to GW, but minus the monthly fees and imho, with slightly better graphics.
Anyhoodles, so far I have filled three of my four allotted character slots. (For the curious: a Ranger with Elementalist as a second profession, a Necromancer for which I’m leaning towards Warrior as a second profession, and a Mesmer whose second profession I’m still debating over.) I’ve gotten almost all of my chars to level 3 (yayness) and my first/slightly favorite character has a giant man-eating cat as a pet/fighting companion.
Great fun. I can see where the questing might get old after a while, but right now I’m having tons of fun and I have yet to go on any group quests so that may end up being enjoyable, too – especially since, from what I understand, the game can give you a group without you having to deal with a bunch of people. (I swear, I’ve heard so much drama from WoW players about their Guilds that I could shoot them all just for playing together in the first place.)
And in the end, it’s very therapeutic for me to come home at the end of a stressful day and shoot things with arrows and death.
So, wonderfully nerdy new obsession for “the Nickster”.
^.^