Games. Tech. Musings.: Guild Wars Nightfall Preview Weekend

Friday, September 29, 2006

Guild Wars Nightfall Preview Weekend

Well, this is a lot later than I'd planned. Deadlines suck.

Anyway, some of my quick impressions from the Nightfall preview. My guild was PvEing the whole time so I don't really have any PvP comments. Apparently it was just as well because there was a bug in one skill which caused Guild Lords to just die - no, really, they ended up rolling back the guild ladder - so PvP over the weekend was a little lacking.

Heroes (customizable henchmen) are going to be great. I'm all about build tweaking and this just adds that much more. The only downside - as it was, the average pick-up group (PUG) member was worse than a henchman. I may never play in a PUG in PvE again.
Artwork was gorgeous as usual.
Dervishes are going to just rip up PvE. Area-of-effect default attacks are going to be great. I expect there will be an absolute sea of Dervishes in every outpost.
Paragons definitely have a lot of useful and interesting skills.
Lots of the previewed skills look strong in both PvE and PvP. The overall power level appears higher than Factions.
It appears that the levelling speed is somewhere between Prophecies and Factions.

After the preview, I put in my Nightfall pre-order and picked up the "bonus pack" this week.

2 Comments:

Brinstar said...: What I am worried about is related to the Heroes. I noticed that when a guildmate equipped his Hero in our party, it leveled up and everything was great. And when, at one point, I decided that we should use my Hero because I had more Warrior Skills unlocked, my Hero was at level 1, because we hadn't been using him. This isn't a huge problem because of the level cap, but I can see it causing some irritation if I am playing with people who want to use their Heros.; 10/02/2006 11:59:00 AM
Clamatius said...: The heroes level up really fast if they're lower level than you - so I don't think it'll be a huge problem.; 10/02/2006 12:12:00 PM