Two of which are mutually exclusive in the storyline, factions are much shorter with only 13 missions. The game may seem longer than it is due to the questing format of Factions. While Prophecies is more straightforward in that it follows a pattern of ¡°Do mission A, follow quest B to arrive at mission C¡±, Factions tends to send players back and forth between towns before allowing a player to move on to the next mission. As a result, a player will see some areas of the game multiple times while attempting to proceed in the story. Factions contain only one real grind¡ªbut it is a big grind indeed about Guild wars gold. At one point mid-game, players must accrue 10,000 unspent factions points for their chosen tribe, the Kurzicks or the Luxons, before moving on in the story. These 10,000 points take quite some time to gain through quests and Alliance Battles¡ªbut factions points are also account-based. The prepared player will take multiple characters to that point in the game, accrue the 10,000 points, and gain access for all characters to the next stage in the story before spending the faction points. Apart from this one grind, replaying Factions on new characters is a relatively quick affair¡ªa fact appreciated by some players, tired of Prophecies drawn out story, while others are unsatisfied by the shortness about Guild wars gold.
Nightfall has 20 missions, almost exactly between the numbers in Factions and Prophecies. Like the pair of mutually exclusive missions in Factions, Nightfall features three pairs of missions in which only one is required to proceed. There is a grind in Nightfall, in that certain levels of ¡°Sunspear points¡± are required to pass beyond certain points in the game. However, most players find that, through normal questing and fighting, their characters are already quite close to the quotas asked of them at these points. Because of this, new characters tend not to experience the same need to grind more points that Factions characters might.