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A World of Warcraft player's guide to Guild Wars

by Shawn Schuster Jul 31st 2008 at 10:00AM

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Guild Wars, Business models, Game mechanics, Guides, Guilds, MMO industry, Crafting, Professions, PvP, PvE, Education

Guild Wars and World of Warcraft have been peacefully co-existing for several years now. Considering the fact that the Guild Wars development team over at ArenaNet is made up of ex-Blizzard folks, you're bound to see some similarities between the games. Or, as is more accurately the case, you'll see some vast differences between the games, as ArenaNet's Jeff Strain and Mike O'Brien set out to make an experience that is unlike any they've worked on at Blizzard.

So in this guide, we're going to break down several gameplay elements between the two games, and compare them for those who may only be familiar with World of Warcraft. We'll go through the differences and similarities between questing, combat, graphics and much more.

Follow along to the comparison of Questing in an instanced world>>

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-31-2008 @ 10:21AM

Arkanaloth said...

hmm jump link seems to be broken..

7-31-2008 @ 10:29AM

Shawn Schuster said...

Fixed now. Thanks!

7-31-2008 @ 11:03AM

Arkanaloth said...

yay it's fixed or my browser quit being a dork..

8-01-2008 @ 4:00PM

Vandell said...

These "A World of Warcraft player's guide to.." posts make me come very close to disliking this blog. That one about Age of Conan set me back a solid amount of cash.

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