After a brief hiatus, the Photics electronic magazine returns. With the release of Guild Wars: Nightfall, Issue #32 could only be one thing - THE ULTIMATE GUILD WARS: NIGHTFALL REVIEW! Nightfall is critiqued and contents of the collector's edition is exposed. What is a Varesh Mini Pet? What's in the Black Bag? Is the third chapter of Guild Wars good or is it bad? Find out in the Fall 2006 issue of Photics - The Guild Wars Edition.

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Michael Garofalo
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I am guessing that you did not get the preorder box. You should get it. The weapons are good for the heroes.

I guess I'll have to read over it, especially since I beat Nightfall on Sunday, 8:30AM EST with Jaz and a few puggers

I would have beat it waaay before then, but first there was a bug where there was no primary or mission you could do (stuck, impossible to progress. Don't question that we were stuck, we searched every town, NPC, and some of the zones. A few other people did too), then the update that fixed that came out about 10 hours before I woke up

Then there was a bug where you couldn't load a town, so me and Jaz were both stuck for another few hours.

After those few bugs though, it went fairly smoothly. Dawnspire came back and helped us get to the last mission (he had beat the game the night before. That crazy freak )

Anyway, I've been hunting for the elite missions and mapping. Dawn has been helping me, and so far we found a cool spot where you can teleport between the Arid Sea in Tyria and the Crystal something (forget the name right now) in Elona. There even is a quest that crosses over (I won't give away the quest, it is a nice sidetrack )

Current ranks:

Sunspear Castellan Rank 8, required 7,500 Sunspear points.

Adept Lightbringer Rank 2, required 300 Lightbringer points.

Now time to read the magazine and edit this post after I'm done...

Pre-reading edit:

I think that Prophecies was the best-done chapter, but Nightfall had the best storyline (you really need Prophecies and Nightfall to appreciate it)

Post-reading edit:

Erm, I kinda paraphrased the last few pages, it was kinda droning (sorry)

What I picked up, is apparently you weren't reading the primaries and stuff. If you try to blow through the game like that, it is a heck of a lot harder.

Even for me, blasting through Nightfall as fast as possible, I found reading the quest text carefully on every primary helped a heck of a lot. If there was a quest arrow pointing in one direction, but going in another was actually faster (if you unlocked another town closer, the quest doesn't know that). There also were times when the quest arrow was bugged, and reading the quest text and NPC text led me to the right places.

Dunkoro may be an old annoying geezer, but he makes a great healer if you give him a good build. He was in my group when we beat the game. Don't ask me to spoil it for you, unless you really distrust me (don't think I beat the game) and want the end ruined for you. It was really cool : )

Well, time to finish my homeschoolwork then get back to elite mission hunting....

(I just tried to submit this, and it complained that the limit to a post is four images. This thing (vBulletin) counts it's own smilies as images? Wierd)

You have beaten the game already! I have had the first one for over a year have still have not beaten it. I have beaten Factions thought. By the way have you beaten nightfall with an old or new char? I am trying with an my Preview event char and in the pe I only got to the second mission.

In my oipion Factions is the worst title in the series I like how Guild Wars takes half the game to complete.

Great issue Michael.

I figured I would stop by and say hello.

I plan to get nightfall sometime soon.

I went with a foreign character, my first one Illidan Icerage.

I wasn't the first one. Someone in my guild beat the game at least 12 hours before I did, a few others in my alliance too.

I heard from a member of XoO that someone beat the game in the first 24 hours (Euro servers never had the bugs that stopped me )

Nicely written and well-balanced review of Nightfall. I, too, think it might have been called Guild Wars:Heroes. The Heroes add a tremendous element to the game particularly for those who have unlocked all the skills and have loads of gear to equip them with. I am really taking my time playing this chapter of Guild Wars. It will be quite a while before I beat it as I explore the nooks and crannies and savor this new world.

If it was called Guild Wars: Heroes, that would make it sound like no other chapters would have heroes. We don't want that! Heroes own!

I've been told I should look in to the Hall of Heroes observer mode, apparently a bunch of Heroes/Henchies teams are owning. All the PvPers are off in Nightfall :P

I saw at least three or four Te members, and yes, they had their shiney silver trim.

Also, from what I've found, if you see an XoO member, they make good puggers. I went in a group with four of them going for masters, and it was one of the easiest missions I ever had (the mission was blocking me before)

IllidanIcerage,

XoO appreciates your kind words! A Fair majority of the alliance is always willing to help out others with the harder missions / quests.

-Ron
IGN: Zhao Guangyi