Choose my Adventure: Leaving Pre-Searing

When someone else chooses your path, it's unknown to you, right?

Everybody and their brother henched all of Prophecies before it was even called that. Wasn't overly hard then, it certainly wouldn't be now.

The addition of Hard Mode (which you can only access after finishing the campaign) was basically a giant nerf to all non-Hard mode content.

Hmm, I finished Prophecies before the Heroes, so I would not know. As far as I recall the last few missions esp to get Bonuses in Southern Shiverpeaks and the Ember Isles was really tough to get. Henchies AI used to suck big time.
Anyway would be nice to know from the author if he faced any challenging areas(other than villany of galrath which was pretty tough even at level 20). While I appreciate the photo essays , it would be fun to see some bigger write ups regarding areas. Just a suggestion.

I never found henchie AI to be that bad, actually they were pretty impressive for what they were. The big problem with them was the skill choices were deliberately gimped, something that heroes let you get around.

I dunno, maybe I remember it as being easier to do then it was, but I did hench through Prophecies several times, as well as through Cantha once (everything else, heroes ftw), so I know it's doable. The main thing was always who you chose, sometimes you have to try a few combinations for any given area before finding one that worked well, and always, always, always calling your target. The first time I went through the various ascension quests -- and I was always disappointed that became a joke in the later expacs -- it was like hitting a brick wall until I learned to call my targets. Just hadn't had to bother before that.

Calling targets, always having a rez sig (or, better yet, hard rez, except maybe on capping runs), and having a good Long/Flatbow for pulling will get you through most anything, even with just henchies.

You mean he might have to play with other people? *gasp* Good thing he's not playing an MMO or anything. (Technically, it's a CORPG, but whatever.)

The absolute beauty of Guild Wars is that you can move forward (with henches/heroes) rather than get stuck in some kind of "LFG" hell (I'm looking at you, WoW, LotRO, etc.). That's what makes Guild Wars a CORPG, yes, but it is pure genius for many of us who actually want to PLAY rather than waste precious time finding groups for everything.

Grouping should be an *optional* feature -- not a requirement -- for in-game progress or access to fun content, imo.

This series of articles about GW would get very boring if each successive posting indicated "I tried but failed to find a group for XYZ mission or quest."