Winds of Change Part 1

Taking longer than I expected, I finally finished the first part of Winds of Change (blaim Guitar Hero for that!).
This post also contains spoilers to the story, just as a heads-up.

Winds of Change features 17 main quests and 3 extra quests. The main quest mostly make you clear out various areas of Afflicted, and the last few pit you against the Am Fah and the Jade Brotherhood. The quests follow up each other nicely, which was one of the things War in Kryta's biggest flaws in my opinion. Unfortunately, clearing areas of Afflicted gets boring after a while. But that might be my fault by almost doing it all at once. What kept me going in the end was the story dialogue giving by your friendly npc, and the occasional joke (That's one big...Afflicted!).

When you're done with the Afflicted, the fun starts, especially story wise. At first sight, you're fighting Am Fah and Jade Brotherhood as usual. But at some point you get something more is going on, and then you get your final mission of this part. Which, and I kinda expected it to happen, leaves me begging for more. Much more!

I'm very satified with some more story about the Am Fah and Jade Brotherhood. They are to easily looked at as "those gangs in Cantha" in the pre Winds of Change story, and I hope they are of meaning towards Guild Wars 2 as well.

As far as gameplay goes, this content is spot on. I never lost the questline like in War in Kryta. I never felt like the mission was neither impossible or to easy.And every quest features a hard mode version, which should be a challenge to all.

Thinking back to the survey they did on War in Kryta, we can safely asume they listened to us. Everything has been taken into account in Winds of Change. And that's a really good thing, especially for MMO's.
For now, I'll be picking a new weapon in Kaineng City!

Until next time!

Winds of Change

Yesterday evening (night for us europeans even) Winds of Change was unleased upon the players. Promising a lot of new story elements in the form of quests, unique weapons (equivalent to the oppressor weapons in War in Kryta), new costumes and more. Winds of Change is going to come in 3 parts, this one being the first. Which is a very good thing, because War in Kryta felt a little to short for me. It also could be that I just couldn't get enough!

First thing I noticed: the huge crowd at night on the european district! Guild Wars 1 is still very much alive, and these kind of things only proves it. Then I found the new npc's. New quests: check, new weapons: check!

Since I haven't played it etirely through yet, I can't comment on the actual content yet, but I'll get to that when I finished it. What interests me the most is how this part is going to relate to Guild Wars 2, since GW2 will only feature Tyria, and not Cantha

Whatever it may be, I'm sure it will be worth playing for, and worth waiting for.


Gevallen Engel

Dragon Festival 2011

This year's Dragon Festival finale is upon us, and I got myself a nice, new mask!


Fear not, you can get your mask as well. There's a collector in Shing Jea Monastery trading the mask for 250 Victory Tokens whole week next week.

Now go and enjoy the mini-games and arena while they last!

Reboot !

Starting next week, I'm getting back to writing for my blog here. However, some things are going to change, since some things were too time-consuming or just not interesting for everyone. I also might change the look of the blog, but I'm no looks wizard, so that might turn out bad.

So the new topics for now are going to be:

• Build of the month
• Comments on updates, events etc on Guild Wars
• Comments on news, reveals etc on Guild Wars 2

Also, it is possible to comment on everything without needing an account or anything. But most probably got a google account anyway, making it even easier! I'd love some feedback, since I know there are readers.

Until next time!
Gevallen Engel