Recently back to guild wars and man... every day is a blessing playing the game. No ADHD combat, no jumping from zerg to zerg no insane power creep every patch, slower more methodical gameplay ..heroes people that actually talk to each other man its like being back in 200X.
MoP causes scatter, which can be a problem sometimes buuuuuut, if you get the combo off quickly enough and the dervs shadowstep in, everything blows up and by the time they do scatter, it's just buying you time to barbs something and clean up. Melonni was hovering death pen a lot that run, those vampiric skills just chewed thrrough her a lot. Also it sucks in hex removal areas like with jade brotherhood mesmers, but it's fun when it works.
I haven't thought about this game for YEARS, let alone played it. Amazing to see such an active community as we near the 20th anniversary, may have to download it again soon.
This game was my childhood. Good to see it get some love ❤ I used to wake up at night and play secretly so my parents wouldn't know 😂 Walking through this world, to imo the greatest soundtrack ever made (I love especialy Factions and Proph)... Honestly probably among the 5 most cherrished memories of my life. Had to delete all my computer games when I was around 20 'cause I just got too addicted 😅 I walked over all maps chatting people up and holding minigames or quizzes for prizes. It was epic and I'm so thankful to been have a part of this. 🌟 Thanks for giving me a little flashback to the good ol' times with your wonderful description. Someday I'll see y'all in Kamadan my friends
I recently just purchased the game to begin playing because I missed playing an enjoying game, GW2 just never got me like the first one and all the expansions.
You really should. Just hearing the login music will hit you hard. The content is still the same but feels so good to play through and with so much content you could spend so long playing the game again without having to do the same thing over and over. 100% worth hopping back on. I even bought a new account just so I could experience starting fresh with no skills unlocked starting afirst character playing through all campaigns. It's been the best
Definitely worth a go, they're often on sale anyway. It's a very different experience to GW2 and the time it takes to build up a character and a set of heroes to a comfortable point WILL take ages, despite online advice saying it won't. But if you get past the slower pacing then there's tons to play.
Shouldn't be too tough, just do a few traveler gift farms, buy the consumable titles for 3, do the missions for 4 and like, a couple of EoTN titles or skill capture ones for the last few? No time like the present.
I have been having a lot of fun with a “Together as One!” Sword/pet ranger, it may not be meta but it has been fun to play. I have been running it with a typical 3 Mes, 3 Nec and one Rit team build. I want to make a hero comp with all pets and “together as One!” And see how that goes I just haven’t did it yet.
I swap weapon builds on my ranger the most and that elite basically works for anything you like. It's both amazingly versatile and a bit of a shame that it's such a good pick over most anything else. It actually applies to all allied pets too, which makes that idea of a petway comp much stronger than it seems at first.
@@MagicalMike2 that is true. I feel like that about seven weapon stance for a warrior too. It makes basically any weapon usable for a warrior but then it’s hard to choose another elite over it. Only weapon I haven’t really been able to make work with it is a bow and that’s just because of energy management. SWS knockdown hammer is amazing.
@@MagicalMike2 it’s a blast with a stonefist rune and renewing smash, solid single target DPS with lockdown. Spear is pretty fun too with SWS when you just want to kick back and throw things.
There is one flying pig build I saw online somewhere, it uses some rangers conditions build and a skill that has the pet teleport directly on an enemy to hit for a massive damage spike if it has certain conditions. The flying pigs has all the hero’s using pigs and is a play on ‘when pigs fly’ I’m guessing
@@MagicalMike2 Well mostly just hope it will be. But next year we have 20 year anniversary celebration, and we got things added for 10 and 15 year, so maybe :) Also someone in game told me, Anet now have 1 dev working full time on gw1. Then again just to be fair i would not expect much... Dont want to have to high expectations and be disappointed, but even if they add something small to this old game, it would be awesome!!!
There is that, yeah some mild amount of hope I guess lol. Those new elite skills changed a ton of builds and opened up so much stuff, so even small things could have massive unforseen changes.
Feels amazing to see a MagicalMike GW1 video! Been playing a lot of GW1 again as well and have really enjoyed myself completing some story mode on newly created characters. Good to hear that you are playing a lot with GuildWarsBuddy, brings a tear to my nostalgic eye! Does he plan on posting video’s also?
Sorry I don't recognise your username. Here's what Gwbuddy said when I asked: "if I am part of videos, it is yours or Flail's - no more videos for me :P". So, looks like an unlikely prospect I'm afraid, lol.
on the selling part: theres a website that logs kama trade chat, so if youre not in a hurry you can just write it once in ae trade chat and if you listed a decent price someones probably gonna whisper you in the next hours/days. although a lot of the trading that happens is also very high volume since pretty much all of it is botted at this point
I use the site to price check things here and there, so yeah I do know about it. But I haven't been whispered like, a bunch of time later for any of the things I've tried to sell. Like it's taken several hours to sell Gifts of the Traveler for 8e each, and that's not an unreasonable price so I'm not really sure. There's also GW Legacy forums as well, just in case anyone else sees this comment - I'd just prefer a better system in-game. Thanks for mentioning kamadan.gwtoolbox.com though.
@@MagicalMike2 Gifts aren't as much in demand as they used to be for the last year. Some months ago you could easily unload all Gifts you have every monday for 10e/ea no problem. Currently a bit of a rough patch due to the crash of the Armbrace price. (100e -> 50e)
@@TM-lm1gn Oh really? I dont understand the economy at all, so idk what caused such a massive crash for arms. It's already weird to me that gifts are so expensive, but yeah it's all over my head tbh.
You need an item to be able to find it, which can only be obtained during the anniversary, but works all year round. If you go to kamadan and ask for help, someone might have time to spare.
Are there any UK/Europe guilds that still play? I have been playing recently, but the guild I used to be in was never active. It hurts my soul seeing the place empty.
I have no idea, but there's still massive alliances out there that are playing all the time and I assume most people are just absorbed in to those at this point. I see the same guild tags all over the place in Kamadan and ZMission outposts. My guild is dead but I'm in the lucky position of being able to solo/hero all the content I want, so it's not a problem for me.
[OgdUkyFzy/Q4OKRUDLROD0kPDqiA] The first link to Yung Rocks's fun builds in the description; look at his elementalist Ebon Dragon build, and it's a variant at the bottom of his pvx page.
Damn my experience with Secrets of the Obscure was exactly the same - didn't buy it, stopped logging in. The latter was probably more due to the login rewards revamp that dropped with the expansion, but still...
I thought about this some more and the login reward change was definitely a part of what caused me to stop finally logging in. Tbh though, it was a waste of time to log in/log out for the stuff anyway since I wasn't actually using it for anything, so I've ended up just saving myself the time doing that and patching the game every so often.
Played since release day and never stopped, 18 or 19 years or however long its been. Best game ever made and its not close. Glad theres been a resurgence of older players coming back. Even on a random Wednesday at like 5pm it doesnt take more than a few minutes to get parties for Fissure or Mallyx or Duncan or anything of the sort, population still booming. (almsot like GW2 is the biggest disappointment in the history of video games or soemthing)
@@MagicalMike2 I know there are peop;le that like it, and Im glad they do, both for their enjoyment and my own (ArenaNet said GW1 is staying online as long as GW2 is profitable.) Just didnt feel like GW to me. Its been like 10 years or however long Im still mad I pre-ordered the physical collector's edition lol. Im not telling people to not have fun with it if they like it, just really, really wasnt for me.
Been playing gw1 again recently and really do miss it , my good old curse necro that non existence in gw2... not interested in new gw2 expansion myself so far,,,
It has it's uses if you can position well and scythes have always felt super satisfying. Death blossom from dagger spam is great when you hit a bunch of mobs and you can't argue with a fat AoE Earthshaker. But I do agree that running around after mobs is a little annoying if they move a lot lol.
@@jackmurphy8696 Same tbh, it's just impatience really. If you wait for the mobs to re-ball themselves (which happens often) or if you have a wall to your right side, it's easy enough to get ahead and aggro. It's just not fun to wait and do that setup every time, so I hardly ever bother.
@@MagicalMike2 I guess that's the thinking behind the FoW 100 blades builds. At the time it was above my understanding as a 14 year old how the whole thing worked.
I've been back on gw1 for about a month now. With the goal of achieving maxed HoM. All the minis are all done.. just need some money to get those weapons and vabbian armor left. But man... gw2's latest expansion was absolute dogshit. I can't even care about the characters in the wizards faction because they dont let them cook long enough. The narrative lead for gw2 needs to be removed or something. He's not a good writer at all.. Seriously a shame amazon managed to poach the gw1's lead writer.
Destroyer weapons are probably the cheaper option to max out, but wait until the wayfarer's reverie event and you can get a tormented weapon from that. Or just do nick gifts and sell those every week, should be done in no time if you just sell off those ecto.
I stopped logging in completely shortly after finishing EoD on launch. The game is dead in terms of interesting content, and all the original talent are gone. They gave up on the game years ago and started developing other things, and got fucked by it. Now they will abandon this game in hopes of GW3 bringing them money and players, but they will make the same mistakes every game company is doing now. They'll get to ambitious and not deliver and good product especially since they are not a AAA Dev with all the money that comes with. AAA Devs atm can't even finish a game before launch due to shareholders. This game series will die, and gaming will continue to suffer.
Doom. But I won't lie, I'm in the GW2 hatewatch camp at this point. I've no care left for the sequel. Maybe something could change in the future and I'll look back at this comment and think I'm an edgelord idiot for saying as much, but I think GW2 is just in a particular spot and isn't changing for the better any time soon.
@@MagicalMike2 I think they miss the mark. I can do old school farming to make a niche build that fulfils a purpose. But when you tell me this basically mandatory mount is gated behind 3 months of grocery shopping lists of chores, no thanks.
Recently back to guild wars and man... every day is a blessing playing the game. No ADHD combat, no jumping from zerg to zerg no insane power creep every patch, slower more methodical gameplay ..heroes people that actually talk to each other man its like being back in 200X.
I've always enjoyed that about the game, the slower pace of combat and general gameplay.
That's because the game is super balanced. Max damage for each weapon type is the same.
I hope guildwars 3 will be more like GW1 go back to the roots that made them known. GW2 is good but not near GW1 and all expansions.
@@tkraft1442They probably wont't give up the action combat 😢
just a shame the game isnt as busy as it used to be.
The mark of pain EVASS combo looking really nice honestly, never really used that!
MoP causes scatter, which can be a problem sometimes buuuuuut, if you get the combo off quickly enough and the dervs shadowstep in, everything blows up and by the time they do scatter, it's just buying you time to barbs something and clean up. Melonni was hovering death pen a lot that run, those vampiric skills just chewed thrrough her a lot.
Also it sucks in hex removal areas like with jade brotherhood mesmers, but it's fun when it works.
Playing guildwars in our 30s is almost like being back in a time machine in the 200s
Great vid matey. My favourite PC game of all time! 6000+ hours played 😃
I haven't thought about this game for YEARS, let alone played it. Amazing to see such an active community as we near the 20th anniversary, may have to download it again soon.
This game was my childhood. Good to see it get some love ❤
I used to wake up at night and play secretly so my parents wouldn't know 😂
Walking through this world, to imo the greatest soundtrack ever made (I love especialy Factions and Proph)... Honestly probably among the 5 most cherrished memories of my life.
Had to delete all my computer games when I was around 20 'cause I just got too addicted 😅
I walked over all maps chatting people up and holding minigames or quizzes for prizes.
It was epic and I'm so thankful to been have a part of this. 🌟
Thanks for giving me a little flashback to the good ol' times with your wonderful description.
Someday I'll see y'all in Kamadan my friends
That takes me back, seeing people doing general knowledge questions with prizes in LA. Especially around this time of year with Halloween!
I recently just purchased the game to begin playing because I missed playing an enjoying game, GW2 just never got me like the first one and all the expansions.
Damn, this makes me want to come back so much!
Good ol' reliable GW1, always there, always ready.
You really should. Just hearing the login music will hit you hard. The content is still the same but feels so good to play through and with so much content you could spend so long playing the game again without having to do the same thing over and over. 100% worth hopping back on. I even bought a new account just so I could experience starting fresh with no skills unlocked starting afirst character playing through all campaigns. It's been the best
I’ve never played the first one and after watching this I think I’m gonna give it a go!
Definitely worth a go, they're often on sale anyway. It's a very different experience to GW2 and the time it takes to build up a character and a set of heroes to a comfortable point WILL take ages, despite online advice saying it won't.
But if you get past the slower pacing then there's tons to play.
if you can get past the graphics you have 1 amazing game to play my friend with so much content your brain can't even comprehend
guild wars and guild wars 2 are superb mmo's , i played both of them , gw a long time ago and gw2 when it came out , subbed
Guild wars 2 is nothing compared to the skill level of gw1. No monks lol fy
Still think about this game all the time, never got my phoenix, kind of regrret that
Shouldn't be too tough, just do a few traveler gift farms, buy the consumable titles for 3, do the missions for 4 and like, a couple of EoTN titles or skill capture ones for the last few? No time like the present.
Myy goddd seeing guild wars! Hearing the music! Soooo good!
I love seeing those wacky builds work. That clip of you whirlwinding those raptors is peak gw1 video content for me
55 monk videos were what got me in to farming and buildcraft in the first place, so nostalgic.
I have been having a lot of fun with a “Together as One!” Sword/pet ranger, it may not be meta but it has been fun to play. I have been running it with a typical 3 Mes, 3 Nec and one Rit team build. I want to make a hero comp with all pets and “together as One!” And see how that goes I just haven’t did it yet.
I swap weapon builds on my ranger the most and that elite basically works for anything you like. It's both amazingly versatile and a bit of a shame that it's such a good pick over most anything else.
It actually applies to all allied pets too, which makes that idea of a petway comp much stronger than it seems at first.
@@MagicalMike2 that is true. I feel like that about seven weapon stance for a warrior too. It makes basically any weapon usable for a warrior but then it’s hard to choose another elite over it. Only weapon I haven’t really been able to make work with it is a bow and that’s just because of energy management. SWS knockdown hammer is amazing.
I'll have to find an excuse to try the hammer version.
@@MagicalMike2 it’s a blast with a stonefist rune and renewing smash, solid single target DPS with lockdown. Spear is pretty fun too with SWS when you just want to kick back and throw things.
There is one flying pig build I saw online somewhere, it uses some rangers conditions build and a skill that has the pet teleport directly on an enemy to hit for a massive damage spike if it has certain conditions. The flying pigs has all the hero’s using pigs and is a play on ‘when pigs fly’ I’m guessing
I can try a lot of games, but I always come back to GW1, for me it's a certainty since 2007 hehe
Turns out old games can still be good games :P
Got my GWAMM in 2011 too and I'm back in aged 50. LFG!
I also started playing again shortly before the anniversary event and its been so great
Just wait. Next year will be HUGE for GW1!!!
I'll believe it when I see it, but I wonder what makes you say that?
@@MagicalMike2 Well mostly just hope it will be. But next year we have 20 year anniversary celebration, and we got things added for 10 and 15 year, so maybe :) Also someone in game told me, Anet now have 1 dev working full time on gw1. Then again just to be fair i would not expect much... Dont want to have to high expectations and be disappointed, but even if they add something small to this old game, it would be awesome!!!
There is that, yeah some mild amount of hope I guess lol. Those new elite skills changed a ton of builds and opened up so much stuff, so even small things could have massive unforseen changes.
love the builds, been running a all hero team pet build lately
I've sort of moved away from it for efficiency's sake since making this video, it's a bit slow vs anything that blocks.
I would absolutely love to watch a fresh account built up from the start and reliving the nostalgia of the first time you completed the game?
I've no incentive to do such a lengthy task but @UberOfficer1 is most of the way through a series on that.
@@MagicalMike2 Ah what a shame, thought nostalgia and content would have been incentive. Oh well, thanks for the signposting.
Feels amazing to see a MagicalMike GW1 video! Been playing a lot of GW1 again as well and have really enjoyed myself completing some story mode on newly created characters. Good to hear that you are playing a lot with GuildWarsBuddy, brings a tear to my nostalgic eye! Does he plan on posting video’s also?
Sorry I don't recognise your username. Here's what Gwbuddy said when I asked: "if I am part of videos, it is yours or Flail's - no more videos for me :P". So, looks like an unlikely prospect I'm afraid, lol.
@@MagicalMike2 I means we need to make a video.
on the selling part: theres a website that logs kama trade chat, so if youre not in a hurry you can just write it once in ae trade chat and if you listed a decent price someones probably gonna whisper you in the next hours/days. although a lot of the trading that happens is also very high volume since pretty much all of it is botted at this point
I use the site to price check things here and there, so yeah I do know about it. But I haven't been whispered like, a bunch of time later for any of the things I've tried to sell. Like it's taken several hours to sell Gifts of the Traveler for 8e each, and that's not an unreasonable price so I'm not really sure.
There's also GW Legacy forums as well, just in case anyone else sees this comment - I'd just prefer a better system in-game. Thanks for mentioning kamadan.gwtoolbox.com though.
@@MagicalMike2 Gifts aren't as much in demand as they used to be for the last year. Some months ago you could easily unload all Gifts you have every monday for 10e/ea no problem. Currently a bit of a rough patch due to the crash of the Armbrace price. (100e -> 50e)
@@TM-lm1gn Oh really? I dont understand the economy at all, so idk what caused such a massive crash for arms. It's already weird to me that gifts are so expensive, but yeah it's all over my head tbh.
Good video man. Together as one elite skill, is it only captureable during ani event?
You need an item to be able to find it, which can only be obtained during the anniversary, but works all year round. If you go to kamadan and ask for help, someone might have time to spare.
Are there any UK/Europe guilds that still play? I have been playing recently, but the guild I used to be in was never active.
It hurts my soul seeing the place empty.
I have no idea, but there's still massive alliances out there that are playing all the time and I assume most people are just absorbed in to those at this point. I see the same guild tags all over the place in Kamadan and ZMission outposts.
My guild is dead but I'm in the lucky position of being able to solo/hero all the content I want, so it's not a problem for me.
@@MagicalMike2 Biggest Guild is LGIT, there always some active players online and its free to join.
best game ever made...........and we ar in 2024>>>>>>>>>>
Do you happen to have that Ele Axe Build from around @2:30 ? Cheers for the great vid!
[OgdUkyFzy/Q4OKRUDLROD0kPDqiA]
The first link to Yung Rocks's fun builds in the description; look at his elementalist Ebon Dragon build, and it's a variant at the bottom of his pvx page.
@@MagicalMike2 Thanks! Excuses for my laziness to scroll all the way through *smh* Looks fun :)
Damn my experience with Secrets of the Obscure was exactly the same - didn't buy it, stopped logging in. The latter was probably more due to the login rewards revamp that dropped with the expansion, but still...
I thought about this some more and the login reward change was definitely a part of what caused me to stop finally logging in. Tbh though, it was a waste of time to log in/log out for the stuff anyway since I wasn't actually using it for anything, so I've ended up just saving myself the time doing that and patching the game every so often.
Played since release day and never stopped, 18 or 19 years or however long its been. Best game ever made and its not close. Glad theres been a resurgence of older players coming back. Even on a random Wednesday at like 5pm it doesnt take more than a few minutes to get parties for Fissure or Mallyx or Duncan or anything of the sort, population still booming. (almsot like GW2 is the biggest disappointment in the history of video games or soemthing)
Bit harsh on GW2, it's not that bad.
@@MagicalMike2 I know there are peop;le that like it, and Im glad they do, both for their enjoyment and my own (ArenaNet said GW1 is staying online as long as GW2 is profitable.)
Just didnt feel like GW to me. Its been like 10 years or however long Im still mad I pre-ordered the physical collector's edition lol.
Im not telling people to not have fun with it if they like it, just really, really wasnt for me.
Nice I may have to jump in GW 1 again this sounds motivating been a long time
Never a bad time for it, it seems!
How do we see the front of our characters? I forgot. lol
I can't remember the keybind by default but I press Z, or y'know, just rotate the camera.
You know what's crazy is I just played some guild wars 2 last night and considered that pretty nostalgic too.
I remember getting us to LA in GW1 and then we never logged back in, lol.
@@MagicalMike2 classic 😆
Been playing gw1 again recently and really do miss it , my good old curse necro that non existence in gw2... not interested in new gw2 expansion myself so far,,,
Do love a good curse necro build. Enjoyable to see all those numbers flying because of the physicals triggering them.
Miss gw1 so much, if only it wasnt dead i dont want to play a single player online game with bots
Pay attention to zaishen mission dailies and you'll find players there every day!
Mikey! Impious Reverence still loves your vids!
FUBR and paragon teams are hard dead by now though :P
@@MagicalMike2 Yeah, makes sense. Are there still all human PvE groups?
@@jk6346 Yeah, like I said, go to any outpost for Z missions and you'll find them.
So many new GW videos from different people recently...
I see this as an absolute win!
melee was always kinda shitty in gw1 at least in pve
It has it's uses if you can position well and scythes have always felt super satisfying. Death blossom from dagger spam is great when you hit a bunch of mobs and you can't argue with a fat AoE Earthshaker. But I do agree that running around after mobs is a little annoying if they move a lot lol.
@@MagicalMike2 I was never good at the positioning but warrior was my main somehow
@@jackmurphy8696 Same tbh, it's just impatience really. If you wait for the mobs to re-ball themselves (which happens often) or if you have a wall to your right side, it's easy enough to get ahead and aggro. It's just not fun to wait and do that setup every time, so I hardly ever bother.
@@MagicalMike2 I guess that's the thinking behind the FoW 100 blades builds. At the time it was above my understanding as a 14 year old how the whole thing worked.
yea soto wasn't great. especially if you don't care for legendary armor.
I already have a set of raid armor, so yeah. The prospect of grinding rifts or the same events for many more hours wasn't doing it for me.
I've been back on gw1 for about a month now. With the goal of achieving maxed HoM. All the minis are all done.. just need some money to get those weapons and vabbian armor left.
But man... gw2's latest expansion was absolute dogshit. I can't even care about the characters in the wizards faction because they dont let them cook long enough.
The narrative lead for gw2 needs to be removed or something. He's not a good writer at all.. Seriously a shame amazon managed to poach the gw1's lead writer.
Destroyer weapons are probably the cheaper option to max out, but wait until the wayfarer's reverie event and you can get a tormented weapon from that. Or just do nick gifts and sell those every week, should be done in no time if you just sell off those ecto.
I stopped logging in completely shortly after finishing EoD on launch. The game is dead in terms of interesting content, and all the original talent are gone. They gave up on the game years ago and started developing other things, and got fucked by it. Now they will abandon this game in hopes of GW3 bringing them money and players, but they will make the same mistakes every game company is doing now. They'll get to ambitious and not deliver and good product especially since they are not a AAA Dev with all the money that comes with. AAA Devs atm can't even finish a game before launch due to shareholders. This game series will die, and gaming will continue to suffer.
Doom. But I won't lie, I'm in the GW2 hatewatch camp at this point. I've no care left for the sequel. Maybe something could change in the future and I'll look back at this comment and think I'm an edgelord idiot for saying as much, but I think GW2 is just in a particular spot and isn't changing for the better any time soon.
@@MagicalMike2 I think they miss the mark. I can do old school farming to make a niche build that fulfils a purpose. But when you tell me this basically mandatory mount is gated behind 3 months of grocery shopping lists of chores, no thanks.
stop fucking clicking
I'll have you know I'm typing this with an on screen keyboard and I've clicked every letter.
Please, just "Guild Wars" drop the "1" suffix, you just cheapen a classic game by linking it to that second game.