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Hi, this is your writer Eric, I know, I haven’t been doing that much writing lately, but still.

      Any who, over the holidays I have just received a very interesting game called Guild Wars, I am sure most of you heard of it. Specifically, I got the original Prophecies Campaign since my computer has very limited system capabilities. The game, though worth only ten dollars now, is still only barely worth the money due to its very loosely used PvP title on it. If you get a PvP game, you expect to face other players constantly, in this case, you do not. Let me talk a little bit about the game though. You are in the land of Tyria, a nice, peaceful place, where the humans are getting by and are having to fight off a group of invaders called the Garr, a monster race of battle hungry creatures. You go through this world in a very straight path, the environment, though it looks big, is very limiting due to no Z axis movement, you are stuck on the plain of the ground. The game is three dimensional though, you just cant jump. There are many quests for you to do, mostly battle oriented, and they offer your basic experience and weapons. During the character creation screen, you get to decide between being a warrior, a ranger, a monk, a mesmer, a necromancer, or an elementalist. Each of these have different pros and cons, but they all can be very effective, though some are easier to use than others. Along with these choices, you will get the option to make a secondary class, any of the ones you didn’t already choose. So as your little adventurer goes around the world of Tyria you gain levels, new skills, money, glory, and much more. There is a slight problem, a level twenty cap, that is the highest you can be, level twenty. Don’t worry, though, it will take longer than you would normally think, though shorter than it could. Very quickly, the sandbox type world of Tyria will change forever during a massive Garr invasion. The real game than begins. Though it takes a while to navigate the landscape, everything seems overly small, and the option to teleport to any city or outpost you have been in doesn’t help that. Where’s the multi player you may ask? It is inside the cities where almost hundreds of players congregate at once, outside the cities there is only you. You can trade with them, and in some cities battle them in team battles. It is very limiting and the only plus to it is that you gain experience for fighting players, without loosing any, and the lag is not there in the battles. Another annoying feature is how little weapons count in this game. The damage dealt with them are so minimal. Skills are really what is used in battle, for everyone except a warrior, and others from the other Campaigns. These skills can kill in seconds though.

     In short, this game, in my opinion, is everything that you can ask for from a MMRPG, games should be able to do more, though. If you want this game, I suggest you either very seriously consider it, or go and buy Morrowind, a great game with less system requirements, pretty good graphics, and an amazing skill system and leveling system. Please note that Morrowind is not a multi player game and should not be frowned down upon for that. It is the non multi player games, or as I like to refer to them PvE, or player versus environment, that usually provide the best in game experience.

This article was written by Eric Feldstein

Hi, this is Eric, and I thought the time was ripe for a new post! As I am sure all of you know, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix just came out in the movies today. I do hope some of you saw it, sadly I couldn’t, and I hope you didn’t meet any oddities who decided to dress up as characters, also I hope you were not the oddities!

On a significantly different note some interesting news came out, some ginormous news. Yes you heard me right, ginormous news. ginormous is now an official word according to the Webster’s Dictionary, along with others.

This concludes this article.

This article was written by Eric Feldstein

I know, to most of you merchanting is not a word, but to people who play runescape it is. Merchanting is the act of buying low and selling high. There is not much to talk about except that there are specific objects that have a big range in prices. Most of them are also high priced things. examples, the abyssal whip, 1.2-1.6 million, the dragon chain, 2.2-2.6 million. dragon medium helmet, 800,000-900,000, and the dark bow, 3.4-3.6 million. There are many more high priced, big ranged items left but most of them are items that show off your money.

Now, for those of you who cant afford those items to merchant, here are some others. Rune Longsword, 11-25 thousand, Guthix platebody, 400-500 thousand, buying halberds in the Elves forest and selling them to players for more, and herbs.

Herbs have there own name for merchanting, herb merchanting. You need to have atleast 36 as your herblore level for this to work. What you do in herb merchanting is buy 11 different types of herbs in bulk, meaning getting lets say 30 of the eleven different types of herbs. Please note that there are 14 types of herbs available, except two of them require a high leveled agility which low levels dont have, more on that later, and you never know which one of the eleven will be switched with the fourteenth. After you buy the herbs put them into your bank next to eachother for organizational use, and withdraw 1 of each herb. remember which one was drawn form which pile and identify each ont in turn. If you cant identify some, it doesnt matter, you are really looking for Ranar Weed which sells for 6-7 thousand. Once you find the Ranar Weed, identify all of them and sell them to a player. Note, I once got 26 of them giving me 156 thousand. After that sell the rest of the unidentified herbs back to a player. You should by the herbs from a low level player to minimize the chance of not getting a Ranar Weed.

That concludes my merchanting guide and, I hope, a Runescape player got to read this.

This Overview was Written by Eric Feldstein