A couple of things....

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We are one mission away from the end of the original GuildWars game (I've completed all of the others with at least one character, and columbina has finished two of the three), but the last mission - well, it's called Hell's Precipice, and it's hard and pretty tedious, and at one point Col said, "You know, they don't give you anything for finishing this anyway." And after a while we gave up on it. So now... it only took them three years, but they are fixing that. As part of the third anniversary festivities, they are introducing prizes for finishing Prophecies. And I guess now we have no excuse.

(Neither one of us has been playing for three years, incidentally. Col started in early 2006 and I was a few months behind.)

Via iko: Guillermo del Toro to direct 'Hobbit' - that in itself is interesting, but look at what they say about the 2nd movie. What are they gonna do, make that part up out of whole cloth? I can't think that Tolkien wrote enough about the "in between" part of Bilbo's life to make a movie out of. Well, we'll see.

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PS - You can totally play with just two IF (this is the BIG IF) you pick good classes that balance each other out. Mike and I? Prot-specced warrior and fire mage = AWESOME for 60 to 70 leveling. Not necessarily awesome for other things, but pretty good for that 60 to 70 leveling.

Instancing is a big part of the game, but it really isn't necessary TO enjoy the game. If you're the type to feel "left out" because there is instanced content that you really need a group to experience, then... I'm not sure what to say about that. Getting five people of a somewhat good balance to make it through the instance is important because the fights are designed to take maximize what the individual classes bring to the table. But do you need to instance to move forward? Nope! (But the fights ARE fun, even if you're high leveled and the fights are easy. They are really scripted events that are pretty cool.)