Guild Wars Factions
A Guide by Amrita Pureheart and Mandy Candy version 0.815
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This guide covers the starter Isalnd of Guild Wars Factions, and will cover
all of Nightfall.
First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Justin, or in game my
main Character (A Monk/Warrior) is Amrita Pureheart. I have been playing
Guild Wars since the World Preview Event for the original Guild Wars game
back in October 2004. I currently have five level 20 characters in the
game world of varying professions. My friend and fellow player Mandy,
who's in game main is Mandy Candy (Elem/Monk), has also been playing
Guild Wars for a long time. She currently has five Level 20 characters
in the game world as well. Together, we hope to bring the reader, the
most complete guide to Guild Wars Factions/Nightfall available. As you
read this guide, a few things to note: 1) The game world is always changing:
any information is this guide is current and correct at the time of writing,
but my change in the future. Efforts will be made to update the game as
time goes along, but something might be missed. 2) As you read the guide,
we will refer to the various panels that give the players information
about their characters. The default keyboard assignment to pop-up that panel
in game will be given after the name of the panel in parentheses.
For example: To access your skills, use the Skills/Attribute Panel (K).
By default, pressing the K key on your keyboard will bring up the Skills List.
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Updates:
May 23- Added in a new Ritulist Guide by Taka
April 29- Added in a new Warrior GUide by Taka
April- Sorry Finally time to play this again!
November 4-11- Updates adding content to Nightfall Walkthrough sections.
November 3- Added more of the walkthrough and quests
October 27- Back from the death or depths of unknown places with Nightfall
Beginnings!
May 26- Added more quests to Section 13, and added info on Zen Daijun
mission.
May 22- New Section Started 11d- Advanced Training on the starter Island
Updated section 11c with Assassin training quests. Added new quests in
Section 12 as well.
May 20- Completed most of the Primary quests on the island beyond
picking your Professions. Monk quests are completed for this as well.
Added Captured Son quest information in Section 12b.
May 18- Started the Walkthrough and added about 25 quests
May 17- Added around 50 skills to the Skills Section, more to come
May 12- This guide was born with Sections 1-8.
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Contents:
(Each section can be accessed using the Find feature in Notepad/your web
browser.)
Preface- How Guild Wars Works
1. Basics
2. Guild Wars Attribute System
2a. Leveling
2b. Skills as Related to Attributes
3. Professions
3a. Warrior- Written by Taka Good Guide!
I. Introduction 3a.1
II.Contact Information 3a.2
General Information 3a.G~
III.Axe Mastery 3a.3
IV. Hammer Mastery 3a.4
V. Strength 3a.5
VI. Swordsmanship 3a.6
VII. Tactics 3a.7
VIII. Secondary Profession Choices 3a.8
VIV. Your Job 3a.9
X. Some Crazy Ideas and Battle Tactics 3a.10
XI. Glossary of Terms used In this Guide 3a.11
XII. Version History and Credits 3a.12
3b. Monk
3c. Necromancer
3d. Mesmer
3e. Elementalist
3f. Ranger
3g. Assassin (on GW Wiki)
3h. Ritualist
I. Your Role 3h.1
II. On your Mark, Get Set, Go! 3h.2
III. Secondaries 3h.3
IV. Build Ideas for Ritualist 3h.4
3i. Dervish (on GW Wiki)
3j. Paragon (on GW Wiki)
4. All about your Character and Conditions
4a. Conditions
5. Weapons
6. Runes
7. Armor
8. Upgrades
9. Items
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Section I- Factions
10. Skills
11. Obtaining your Primary and Secondary Class
11a) Introduction
11b) New Mission Structure
11c) Training Quest Walkthroughs for each Profession
a. Monk
b. Assassin
11d) Advanced Skills Quests
12. Primary Quests and Missions for all Professions
13. Non-Primary Island Quests
14. The Factions Attribute Quests
15. Non-Primary Side Quests on the Mainland
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Section II- Nightfall
16. Nightfall Beginnings
16a) Chahbek Village
17. Primary Training
17a) Dervish
18. Nightfall Mechanics
19. Kamadan- Jewel of Istan Quests and Getting to Level Five
20. Secondary Training
21. Leaving a Legacy- The Quest to Jokanur Diggings
22. The Path to the Mission of Jokanor Diggings
23. Misson at Jokanor Diggings
24. The Path to Blacktide Den
25. Mission at Blacktide Den
26. The Path to Consolate Docks
27. Mission at Consolate Docks
28. Koss is Captured!
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Section III- Nightfall from Previous Games
A. Nightfall from Cantha (Factions)
B. Nightfall from Tyrna (Orginial GW)
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Section IV- Hard Mode
X. Legal Stuff
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1. Basics
Guild Wars Factions is a game developed by ArenaNet based in
Washington State USA. This game is an online role playing game. The
player must have a connection to the Internet at all times while playing
the game. This game is friendly to dial-up users, but having a broadband
connection will greatly enhance the gaming experience. The game is
Chapter 2 in the Guild Wars series. The player need not own Chapter 1 of
the series to play this game. Guild Wars Factions is completely a self
contained adventure. It is not an expansion pack for Guild Wars; however
the two games are closely related. When a player installs Guild Wars
Factions and creates an account using an email account and entering their
access key, they will have full access to the game, and the ability to
create four Factions characters. Note, if you own Chapter 1 as well, you
have the choice of linking your account or keeping them separate. Linking
the account gives you two extra character slots, so a total of 6
characters have full access (almost) to both games.
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2. Guild Wars Attribute System
Guild Wars' skills (think of them as spells) are mostly based on
its attribute system. Each profession has around 150 skills available for
use; however you can only use eight at one time. Each Profession is
described in Section 3. This section describes the attribute system used
in Guild Wars Factions.
2a. Leveling
When you create a character, you start a Level 1 with zero
attribute points available to you. As your level increases, you gain
attribute points to spend on your attributes. Your attributes are
determined by the professions you choose for your Primary and Secondary
Class. Your character will gain attribute points as follows:
Levels 2-10: 5 points per level
Levels 11-15: 10 points per level
Levels 16-20: 15 points per level
There are total of 200 attribute points in the game. When your character
reaches Level 20, he/she will have 170 of these points. The other 30 are
available in quests. See the Walkthrough Section for more details on
these two quests.
As you gain levels, your character will earn attribute points as noted in
the list above. These points can be spent as soon as you earn them, and
reallocated anyway you wish thereafter as long as you are in a Town or
Outpost. Points may not be changed in missions or in explorable areas.
Attribute points are changed in the Attribute tab of the Hero's Panel
(H).
2b. Skills as Related to Attributes
Almost all skills in Guild Wars Factions have a related attribute.
When pointing to the skill description either on your Skills and Attirbutes
Panel or your skill bar at the bottom of the screen the attribute that skill is
tied to is shown in parenthesis after the skill description. Also, in
your skills list, skills are grouped by their attribute (default- this
can be changed using the dropdown at the upper-right corner of the
window). For example: The Elementalist skill Fireball says: Spell. Target
foe and all adjacent foes are struck for (7..112) fire damage. (Attrib:
Fire Magic). This skill is tied to the attribute of Fire Magic and
becomes more effective as points are spent on raising your level in Fire
Magic. Any green number in a skill (in this example 7..112) are increased
as attribute points are placed into related skill. Some skills are
listed with no attribute: their effects do not change based on an
attribute, and they are available to everyone of the profession the skill
is tied to. An example of this is the Monk skill Resurrect. Any monk may
use this skill and its effects are always the same, target party member
is brought back to life.
There are twelve attribute levels (or ranks) for each attribute. However,
an attribute can be raised beyond twelve using runes, armor, and skills
themselves. See the Upgrades Section for more information on runes, and
the Armor section for armor information. The list below lists the amount
of attribute points required for each level of an attribute:
Level Points Required Total Invested
1 1 1
2 2 3
3 3 6
4 4 10
5 5 15
6 6 21
7 7 28
8 9 37
9 11 48
10 13 61
11 16 77
12 20 97
As noted, any green numbers in a skill description are raised when the
related attribute for that skill is raised in the Skills and Attirbutes
Panel (K).
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3. Classes/Professions
There are eight classes or professions available to players in Guild Wars
Factions. To experience the best of Factions (if you are a Chapter 1
player) create a Factions character. On the character select screen,
click Create. You have two options here: Role-playing character or Player
vs. Player Character. Section 10 covers PVP characters, for now click
Role-playing character. You will be asked to pick one of the eight
professions as your Primary class. All characters have a primary class
and a secondary class. Each class has primary attribute that only a
primary user of this class can access. The Professions are: Warrior,
Monk, Necromancer, Elementalist, Mesmer, Ranger, Assassin, and Ritualist.
Assassin and Ritualist were introduced with Guild Wars Factions are not
available in the original Guild Wars game. Each profession is described
below. In these descriptions example Skills will be gives. The ranges
given in the skills are based on the attribute the skill is related to
being between 1 and 15. For example: Do damage (9..18) to target. The
skill would inflict nine damage if your attribute is level 1, or 18
damage if its level 15.
3a. Warrior
I am replacing what I included about the warrior class with an
excellent guide by my good friend Taka Ragranok. Hope you enjoy this!
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