Guild Wars: Prophecies Any% Speedrun in

[@kraterkop]

This takes me back to much more simpler times. You know....before having a job, having a wife and having kids. Hours upon hours of playing this beautiful game

[@BlackSkyZ2]

It’s never too late to leave prison my friend. You could always become a monk

[@kraterkop]

@@BlackSkyZ2 in game or real life?

[@Milan_1389]

I am back to the game again, kids are now older and do not need much of attention. Now I have to chase them to study for school :D

[@Ant-gu6vz]

That's why I'm not having kids. More time for gaming :D (and other passions)

[@AlmarWinfield]

@@Ant-gu6vzI hope you find meaning and purpose with something in your life. It's ok to not have kids, but substituting something that gives your life TONS of meaning and purpose and allows you to grow as a person more than really anything else can -- with something as meaningless and as much of a waste of time as video games... You gotta fill that hole with something. This is coming from someone without kids as well, but I work with games - 12hrs a day and I can tell you 100% this does NOT give your life purpose and every single person I know who works then comes home and plays games is miserable in their life. Please dont take this as I am telling you that you're making the wrong choice or insulting your choice. Just giving you something to think about.

[@TuSevun]

Still my favorite game of all time. Just got back into it too, glad to see people still playing.

[@TheDrummaBen]

Same. Nothing has been able to scratch the itch...nothing. masterful worldbuilding

[@Kamasillvia]

@@TheDrummaBen can you please suggest, how to approach game as a completely new player? Tried to start a few times, heard a lot of good stuff about it, but never really could get into it, maybe there are some thing to look for while playing?

[@TheDrummaBen]

@@Kamasillvia Additionally there is still a pretty vibrant pvp community but...i never got into that personally, my favorite was always co op content

[@peaceworld5393]

@@Kamasillvia depends on when you want to go to post if ever ; getting to 20 is extremely easy now that the vanguard quest were introduced. I’m dragons teardrop plus others in pre. Holler at me sometime. Been playing over 17 years. Have many ldoa old school and many survivors in pre.

[@bren9386]

It's hilarious to me that this route uses a very newbie-looking wammo build with symbol of wrath nuking, but it was actually the result of meticulous routing and careful planning

[@baum7275]

Wammo got more hate than it deserved!! Not all the builds were garbage.

[@icastmoustache9387]

excuse me, but wammo was one of the better farming builds before 600/smite (other than 55hp monking GoK). And once again it was a very solid choice once HM came out, as it had some unique places it was uniquely suited to annihilate.

[@TheATOMICGOBLIN]

When I was a noob my friends caught me in Magumma with a RoJ Vekk hahaha

[@justinlowery6767]

Can't believe this can be done in 5 hours. Very impressive, good job.

[@bryansmith7238]

Lol I just got done spending 5 hours in pre

[@2nd3rd1st]

Three years later and still loving watching someone speed running my fav teenage years game, seeing the Droknar's run still gives me anxiety xD, well done

[@Sientir]

This was really cool! Also crazy to see someone finish Prophecies below level 20.

[@nickgordon5329]

I have spent like 8000h in this game and I didnt know you could skip all those missions before lions arch :D Takes me back to the good old days, ty!

[@JMGaming1288]

Watching your runs has made me want to replay this game so bad!

[@marco6993]

thanks for keeping this masterpiece alive!

[@coreykouns3538]

Absolutely love this. Huge rush of nostalgia. Can't believe you did in 5 hours what I could only manage to do in ohhhh about 100 back in the day lol. Great run!

[@Salz1usTox1cus]

Insane. I love this game and still play it till this very day! To see a speedrun of this jewel makes me very happy!

[@NadeUp]

Impressive. I could not believe you did it it only 5 hours. It took me weeks to get through it. Bravo!

[@NadeUp]

I was surprised to see my comment here... totally forgot I watched this video before. Impressive.

[@sarahnachtrose]

Simply impressive. Just running from fire posts down to the high level area. I got through it not so long ago with a friend and hero. It took us 3-4 hours for the run down to the forge town of the dwarves. Really impressive.

[@TheHjkkkl]

Plenty of time to improove in the Droknar run ! I remember carrying tons of people as my hobby back in the day. Much nostalgia from seeing this. Big up

[@DeathlyZerg]

Same! That is how I would earn my gold in the game, running people through and I remember my group getting full every single time. It was heavily populated back then.

[@eRochMedia]

Thanks making this video!!! So nice to re-live the nostalgia, and see that it’s possible to beat the game quick these days using henchmen. You must be a master !

[@alexpop854]

Honestly, great job on this. Didn't even use the storage box! Nostalgia.

[@eroku5209]

Thank you for still play this amazing game

[@vatovindicator]

what a hero

[@omgwat]

I fucking love this game.

[@Jalex964]

Truly nostalgic! But damn... defy pain seems utterly broken to me. Good old days, when multiple things were unbalanced, but without the all-knowning internet most players never noticed or questioned it, me included. I was always wondering how some players managed to carry other players solo through the lothars pass to droknar's forge, but never looked it up ~15 years ago.

[@Juk3n]

The mission at Thunderhead Keep was always my favourite.

[@inordirectional]

It's pretty hilarious to imagine seeing a level 3 wammo advertising runs from Ascalon to LA for tips back in the day and them actually being able to do it. You would 100% be a legend of the game, lol. Also that trick with flagging henchies out of the zone to warp them to you was pretty cool, does that still work if there are other players in the party?

[@VincentoSR]

Haha thank you! And yes the flagging trick works with other players in the party too

[@dragonmaster391]

there used to be a more broken method of teleport but I do believe it is patched now, but there used to be a method to run heros through the map by flagging them through the map. I believe that because you had not entered range foes would not spawn so your hero could run through without fighting. Then once they got to the end of the zone, they somehow could res you and you would be teleported to your hero who was now by the portal to the next zone. then you just run through the portal and skip the zone without fighting.

[@jareduribe-sullivan643]

@@dragonmaster391 I used that a few times. You used Unyielding Aura on your heroes. Before it was nerfed it had an unlimited resurrection range whenever the spell ended so if your character died and your heroes used the spell and then ended it you would rez next to them no matter how far away they were. Made the droks run completely broken. A few years after I capped it in Whitmans folly south of droks it became an extremely common monk elite in FoW speed clears. Never imagined that because when I capped it it was never used for anything because it sucked other than a super rez. When they changed it to have a res range equal to only your bubble but with a big steroid to your other monk abilities it became pretty useful

[@imstealing]

@@jareduribe-sullivan643 before Unyielding Aura was a no range teleport resurrection, it was a bond enchantment that resurrected your party member and when you dropped the bond they died again. It was being used by scammers to convince noobies (like me) to drop their gold/items on the ground and then get unbonded and fall dead. Then the scammer would walk over to your goods pick them up and leave the instance. I find it ironic that they never found a way to make this skill effective without making it overpowered or useless. (2008-2009)

[@ReadyDaddy]

@@imstealing how is it a scam if you literally drop items xD it's not about being a noob, it's about - sorry, being stupid xD and it's not a scam, he literally milked you like a cow

[@wwld9823]

the virgin hero vs the CHAD henchman

[@garrickkthegreat5762]

so nice watching this run whilst im grinding legendary defender of ascalon

[@peaceworld5393]

Been playing over 17 years, still playing. One of my toons is Dragons Teardrop. Perma pre

[@AnkhOfAscalon]

Just started watching this! Excited to see how it goes.

[@nmnml5602]

Awesome vid, I want to go back and play Prophecies but I’m afraid to see it empty and don’t want to ruin the good memories of full servers

[@Oregano1337]

Still many people play it

[@Brock871]

it is not empty at all, you can find players in most outposts and runs for elite dungeons are forming lots of times

[@TheLaughingMax]

yes I do enjoy this run nevertheless :-). would like to see a run with updated strats. I hope you find the motivation and time to do such a run in the future.

[@Fankine78]

You done in 5 hours what took me like 5 years lol. As a kid i started playing before faction got out but killed the lich after GW:EN was out lol

[@yoancarlove7383]

I remember selling Yak runs for Gold and having lots of fun doing it, despite the different nerfs they tried implementing, If I remember correctly W was best for yak runs until dervish came along. I also remember getting ran by a friend on my Mo and achieve M55 with low level so like Mo33 basically ahaha, good memories.

[@pwnagenuss]

You done the last mission with 1 monk!? Amazing

[@7186B]

he is seriously running to lions arch. What a Mad Men

[@Skipmunk85]

people beating the game in under a day while I've played for my whole life and just got past the half way point in prophecies 4 hours ago

[@Steph1]

Have you finished it by now?

[@Skipmunk85]

@@Steph1 yeah I beat all the campaigns on Normal mode. Just working in hard mode stuff based on the Zaishen quests and trying to get titles

[@Steph1]

@@Skipmunk85 nice! 😃

[@Grouff1]

I didn't even know you could enter in Lion's Arch without doing the Gates of Krytra mission ^^'

[@ich307]

I just saw your pb run in pokemon 6 years ago and IT WAS AWESOME LMAO

[@yayahaha4969]

You are definitely GWAMM.💪

[@aaronyeh3652]

a 100% run might add about 1000 hours xD

[@erikoberndorfer6790]

Man wish this had commentary

[@VincentoSR]

It’s something I had considered doing!

[@Tinyviel]

Originally bought GW1 for my child, who grew up and doesn't play anymore, so I'll continue hahaha. I still love this game❤. Now I have a new one GW2

[@pencilbender]

I wonder what 100% quests would look like in terms of hours

[@cActUsjUiCe92]

Could speed up Pre-Searing considerably if you use dialog IDs to instantly get secondary profession instead of doing quest

[@leshnikmacora]

I miss this game so much

[@JV-hn2zb]

This is awesome dude!

[@Eldorante]

Crazy stuff, love it

[@SuperCosmicSpaceMagnet]

I haven't watched this yet, just the first 20 minutes or so to figure out if you were going to use elite tomes/existing cash/non-Proph skills. You have not. This might be the most awe-inspiring speedrun I have ever seen outside of TAS. o_o

[@tomoldy160]

I'd love a GW1 Remastered! Would play the hell out of that

[@rokmedves8503]

You are crazy! Great work

[@FrankStellmacher]

Very well thought out run. Well done. Allow me one question. How do you manage to keep setting the flag for the henchmen without having to re-click the icon on the compass?

[@VincentoSR]

You can set it as a hotkey!

[@FrankStellmacher]

@@VincentoSR Thanks, I'll have a look

[@xcolonel]

Thanks for making this. Too bad only 6k views

[@Subaru_God]

64^^

[@hkwsome]

Best game I've ever played from far....

[@moon_nick]

Maybe this wasn't the case in 2018, but if you had bought an expert salvage kit and salvaged that Prodigy insignia you get around the 2 hour mark, you probably would have been done with farming as far as money goes. They sell to the trader for a lot.

[@BazGwhen]

Good Job Man !

[@Ander01SE]

As someone who did Legendary Survivor on every class by doing story + missions + mission books, these deaths still hurts my soul. :p

[@fernandocabrera346]

The part where u kept 1 health before going through the portal, I was sweating lol

[@liamnissanS2K]

Second best mmo of all time other than vanilla FFXI

[@kaloyanivanov8311]

Have you considered starting in NF and jumping to LA, or is that in another category?

[@dridri6452]

This game is better than Guild Wars 2 , curse you Arenanet to made Gw2, curse you !!!!!!!!

[@lucasf.8268]

LF taxi to LS / LA .... gosh, those were the times...

[@ryanu3708]

Do you think the developers intentionally made Alesia weak? It's always been a blocking factor getting stuff done. She always dies pretty much immediately and then multiple times on top of that, especially in missions where it counts the most lol.

[@michielankersmit8656]

no, just dogshit ai

[@inordirectional]

She's usually the first to drop just because the ai prioritizes going after monks in your party. Alesia slander, lul

[@Kaimmen]

Alesiad pretty bad early game. Giving her a touch res was probably the worst thing to give to a starter monk henchmen, it wouldve been easier to slap a res sig in her. Besides that, if you can figure out the ai Patterns, she's not too bad. I still do henchmen only runs for proph/factions and it's not bad, hard as hell some times but not crazy bad

[@milztempelrowski9281]

peak entertainment

[@felixmikolai7375]

crazy 2 call a 5hour run still a speedrun but wow .. gj bud

[@RonGyver1337]

Great video. Whats the reason for the district changes @ 1:41:00?

[@VincentoSR]

If you mean at 1:45:00 it's because it causes a reload, which got me closer to Jiaju Tai. The timer pauses in loading, but essentially it saves time because it is a long way to run from the first place I spawned. It's the same reason why after speaking to her, I reload to get closer to the LA exit. Hope that makes sense :)

[@RonGyver1337]

@@VincentoSR Thanks for the reply. I myself don't speed run but do use these video's to see how to get to certain areas. Great Video, Subscribed.

[@MagicDonut00]

😢so many memories

[@bradnjaa8578]

Whoa whoa wait-you can skip maguuma and crystal desert?! Sign me up!!!

[@dragonmaster391]

is there some kind of unlimited any% category? like having a new character that needs to complete the final mission and beat the campaign but you can use another account (only controlled by you) to boost the character through content faster. Have maxed out characters in pre and post to boost you through content faster, run you through stuff to see just how fast one can actually get through content. nothing like teleport exploits to map to areas you shouldnt, but just have a character that can run you through content as fast as possible. Yes this strategy would likely mean that the new character would mostly sit afk while the maxed one runs them through all the content, but how fast could it be done? This category idea sounds dumb from a competitive standpoint, since much of the fun and challenge comes from having a new character make it through content and overcoming those challenges, though many players in this game have had someone run them through content, and this category would essentially be maxing how fast you can rush a new character through content.

[@imstealing]

I've thought about this run before. Prophecies, you've got to ascend vs the doppleganger which is only soloable before you can get to the fire islands. Factions you can rush pretty far down the luxon side and only do a handful of missions. Shing jea island can be ran but then as you said, main would just be an afk. Nightfall, foreign characters can skip most of noob island but progression in NF is pretty locked down via quests. Idk how much you can skip with toolbox dialog codes but even then there's still the torment area end game which is going to require your super alt to carry you. Personally, I'm trying to get the level 3 Fow armor. It used to be possible level 2 and even older level 1 but since factions is the fastest ascension and I cant seem to sneak my level 2 into closer to the stars to get to the mission I'm stuck. Level 10 is lowest for chaos gloves by joining a team doing DD and you end up in final eotn town but need r5 delver title too. I pushed 5 accounts through to ascension, max armor, full shadow form farming build and eotn pve skills and have a good farming team but that was quite a multibox mission. I can see the speed record being a similar setup but the likelihood anyone else would compete or agree upon terms are where I quit.

[@mugetz696]

Do you use a mod for the timers?

[@sebeng4711]

I like that droks run!

[@andreyg7381]

Dude its nice video. I skip 2 hour u farm. But it was soooo cool.

[@jdspetersgaming]

anyone know if the expansions are going on sale?

[@F4xP4s]

Defy Pain was..... Painful!

[@ray5330]

4:26:25 1 hp LOL

[@kaidenstorm1]

....damn... well done

[@anikaticz6470]

Exelent. Nice video :D

[@RK4000]

I haven't played in years, how'd you get the summoning stone?

[@nightcaller92]

There's a bonus pack that you can obtain that'll give you a bunch of items when you type the command /bonus. The summoning stone is one of those items, along with an array of weapons that the runner arranged and equipped in his weapon sets

[@RK4000]

@@nightcaller92 bonus pack is paid? Or earned?

[@VincentoSR]

It comes with any edition of guild wars purchased today, but older accounts may need to buy it as an add on

[@driftwoods2229]

Whats the build? Warrior/Necro?

[@slayrval1733]

What do you use for a speedrun timer? I would like to setup one for LDOA title in presearing that would be pretty cool :P

[@VincentoSR]

The timer is called LiveSplit :) it’s free to download/use!

[@DBZVelena]

Is there a speedrunning leaderboard for this game?

[@montanawhite5699]

Very impressive, I enjoyed the run to drinks?

[@ReadyDaddy]

drinks :D

[@dust2k13]

Of course it's a W/Mo! :D

[@TonyMontana30cm]

i remember waiting gw2 but it was disapointing

[@Steph1]

Amazing

[@Steph1]

3:13:03 what is that blue buff you get here? (See top left corner)

[@Steph1]

And at 3:18:45

[@VincentoSR]

It's the cooldown 'buff' from using the Summoning Stone@@Steph1

[@Mursaat100]

Extremely impressive.. However this is not really Any% is it (since it refers to completing the game as fast as possible, without restrictions)? I ask because you are not allowing yourself to: * Go to Kaineng Center - where you can: ** Get a whole bunch of skills from the skill trainer, which would allow you to skip several of the early game quests since the skill is offered there, e.g Holy Veil The Undead Hordes. ** Get the armor from Seitung Harbor, since it is has the same cost and rating as the armor outsice Sanctum Kay ** Optionally Get Enraged Smash from "the afflicted guardsman" quest. * Go to eye of the north - where you can get Ogden and Vekk (and optionally Gwen by spending another 5 minutes) to help with the initial quests, since they are way better than the level 10-15 henchmen. This would help in many of the early missions, especially capturing Defy Pain. While they would have bad skills, their starting skills + the monk skills you have available for unlocking would make them way better than the lvl 10-15 henchmen. Going to EoTN or Cantha would of course also allow leveling up much faster, but I understand there is a good deliberate reason not to do this, since you use the imp to the very end.

[@VincentoSR]

The rules for this speedrun (at least at the time) did not allow for travel to other campaigns. Essentially the rules make the run play like you've only purchased Prophecies, and no other campaigns.

[@peaceworld5393]

Not gathering flowers?

[@nesovsky1474]

how do u have such a good items at the start of the game?

[@sacrefice_8753]

Complete edition comes with bonus items if you type /bonus when you're in an outpost or city

[@alvarosanz4554]

4:26:24 Amazing

[@haizeok]

nice

[@Steph1]

3:05:30 start of Droknars run

[@Steph1]

3:04:30 getting that elite skill was some work 😁

[@VincentoSR]

It relies quite heavily on obstructing projectiles :D

[@akiro3232]

No need to get through Cristal desert ??!

[@VincentoSR]

Not required!

[@yoancarlove7383]

Taking a detour to finish the Droknar's run pointless because no gold to buy the top armor?

[@VincentoSR]

Correct :) and you need to purchase armor before the run or it's near impossible to complete. Getting more money is too slow.

[@PCDisciple]

Wammo ftw

[@vargtel]

Great

[@SamSam-bg6ok]

4:21:22 what ?? how ? (x

[@Volky_Volk]

29:48 wut

[@VincentoSR]

By flagging henchman that are far away through a portal, they teleport to where you are! That way I can run safely without them dying and then bring them later to rez me :)

[@Volky_Volk]

crazy useful and wicked awesome run, great job! @@VincentoSR

[@jord6614]

Gg !!!!!

[@drake4884]

looks like a ghost town not many players to spot, and i remember these npc's you can get with you,, what is up with that green flag its ages since i played guild wars

[@inordirectional]

added during nightfall along with heroes I think, but made it's way into hench only parties too

[@peaceworld5393]

Weird way of playing here.

[@omfgacceptmyname]

nice

[@synt4x.93]

nice