The Farstrider Scout

In our efforts to find something to play yet again, we bounced back to Guild Wars to pick up on the Prophecies campaign again…  And a short time later, before we knew it, we had finished it!

Unfortunately, this is actually a bad thing.  With GW2 in the works, ArenaNet isn’t working on any new content for Guild Wars, so the more we do, the less there for the future.

Granted, there’s still the Factions and Nightfall campaigns, plus the Eye of the North content, but Gina doesn’t feel that it’s worth it…  And at the moment, there are other games that I would rather play by myself.

Guild Wars recently celebrated it’s three-year anniversary…  And three years ago, my wife and I started the Prophecies campaign with our characters – Rudi Caldera, a Mesmer/Ranger, and Inina Silkenthorn*, a Necromancer/Ranger.  In those 3 years, 3 more expansion packs have been released – Factions and Nightfall, both stand-alone expansion packs, and Eye of the North.  We’ve played a multitude of characters, always falling short of completing even one of the campaigns.

In Prophecies, one of the biggest steps is completing the trials of Ascension…  And now, after THREE FLIPPING YEARS, we’ve done it. 

Maybe not with our original characters, as I was playing Eran Caldera, a Ranger/Paragon.  It’s been a long, rough road for us, and it probably won’t be any easier as we push towards the goal of completing that campain, but that’s one HUGE roadblock out of our way.

*(Note:  While Rudi was the character that I started out with, and remained my main character for a long time, Inina may not actually have been the first of my wife’s characters… But out of those characters, if memory serves me correctly, it is the only one left that was started when the game came out.)