Fansite Friday #8 is presented by Guild Wars Mondes Persistants, a French-language Guild Wars fansite. There is both French and English for each question and answer, don't get frightened. How does a character evolve through time? Will there be specific moments in a character's profession, such as a second profession or when he reaches a maximum level? Guild Wars characters evolve over time through an experience point leveling system. With the system, your character acquires a larger number of skills and abilities that, while they do not make the character strictly more powerful, do give you more strategic options. You get experience points primarily by the successful completion of in-game missions and by hunting in the hunting grounds. Your character will level up after you have gotten a certain number of experience points. When you reach the next level, you can usually obtain a new skill, because each level will give you a skill point, and if you have a skill gem which you've gotten as the result of a monster kill or which you've purchased or traded for, you can visit your ringcrafter to make a skill ring. Yes, we do have a specific moment where a character reaches maximum level; we call it "ascension." The rate of ascension in Guild Wars will probably be faster than what you've experienced in other games. At that point, you'll be able to play in the tournament areas and, of course, continue to have access to missions and hunting grounds. During the various stages of the Guild Wars Alpha Test, we've seen many different kinds and configurations of character levels. We started with single-profession characters. After some months, we were able to learn a second profession at the maximum character level. So the ranger that I had started at the beginning was able to learn a second profession and become a ranger/monk. For the E3 for Everyone world event, all characters were set at Level 15 and each of them had dual professions from the outset. At the present time in the alpha test, you can start your character at Level 1, Level 5, Level 15, or Level 20, and each of your characters is created from the outset with two professions. As to what will happen in Guild Wars upon release, it is very likely that you will be able to make a dual-profession character either during character creation (that is, level 1) or you will be able to acquire the second profession quite early in the game. Our dual professions are getting a lot of positive feedback, and we're enjoying adding the skills and abilities to give them ever greater depth and variety. We're looking forward to everyone having a chance to experience Guild Wars in the near future. Read the rest at Guild Wars Mondes Persistants, and then be sure to add any questions of your own to our growing list in the forums here. |
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