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#4 Factions
Expansion #1
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BEWARE THE HARVEST CEREMONY!!!
Okay, let me get this straight: Shiro starts a plague to build himself an army. Then he summons a better army and adds that to his old army. Then we track down the weapons which first killed Shiro so we can use them again. Then he infects a dragon and we take it out. Then he assaults the emperor's palace and breaks into the throne room. Then eight random dudes take down the Shiro'ken army which just defeated an actual army and occupied the palace. Now here comes the best part. Shiro kills Togo, then resurrects himself on a tiny island hundreds of feet in the air in the the inner sanctum of Raisu Palace. Now mortal, he waits around for eight random dudes (or one good assassin) to come so he can fight them by himself. This is what happens when you don't plan ahead. You waist 200 years of planning, get ressed then die a few minutes later. I mean even if we lost, how does Shiro plan to escape? Nvm this is just ridiculous. I'm gonna go play Nightfall.
Well...
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You'll need to get him all over again in Nightfall... and its a little harder this time around.
Lets hope that he doesn't get ressed again in GW2 :)
Let's hope he does, it'd make a good story addition, though some people might think it's a bit much to have to kill him 3 times before he decides to accept he's dead for good.
Hurray for laziness re-use what you have so you don't actually have to do work.
i voted this one after the bonus mission pack cuz the bonus mission pack was more fun in 1 mission than this entire campaign.
I will say a few things in favor of Factions. It is the shortest campaign and therefore the easiest to get end-game weapons out of. The quests in Kaineng City are very useful for leveling up heroes and characters from other campaigns. The imperial commendations retrieved from in-city quests can be a nice source of income. Shiro is a fun run and a spectacular source of income. Maxing out our faction titles and maintaining Alliance faction are major ingame activities. And some of the best looking armors in the game come from the Kurzicks and Luxons. Kaineng City is also one of my favorite regions in the game. I've never seen a metropolis so well depicted in an MMO. When we visit the ruins of Orr in GW2, I hope to see something similar, especially for Arah. Utility wise, it is one of the most useful campaigns. Reaching Level 20 in Prophesies is hell and leveling heroes is a major waste of time. Also, Many of the major money-making schemes are in Cantha. I guess you could say Cantha is awesome but Factions as a campaign failed in many areas.
Funny, one of the things I hated about factions was that it was way too easy to get to level 20 and there was too much money. While I don't like the grind of other MMOs, having too little grind is problematic as well, IMHO.
Baaaad.
I have to say I love the professions that came out of Factions. However, the look and feel of this expansion was horrible. Graphically you could easily tell it was thrown together and no real passion or pride in ones work was put into environment or story. The little things got the the entire time. Buildings that were poorly designed and the same generic skins all over the place. Clipping all over the world and several buildings that did not even touch the ground.
In my opinion Proph. and Nightfall looked much better. With EotN an amazing step forward. I don't hold the fail this of campaign against GW. After all it was the first expansion. It was good to see how much improvement was made with the others.