User:Xeeron/Old talk

Past Xeer-talk

 * Hall of Monuments calculator is great, prompted me and some guildies to go back in GW. However, it is a slight disappointment that, after years of steadfast adhereance to "stats over looks" I now need to spend all my money just to raise my valor monument from 0/0 (the honor one is just 2 statues away from being maxed). A bit lame, but Legend of the Mists is too cool not to get. --Xeeron 22:54, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Standing back to back, the only force left to protect Beetletun from the undead hordes. We fight back wave after wave of grawling zombies when ...


 * Necrid Horseman drops cholocate bunny


 * Yes, it does somehow ruin the mood. --Xeeron 22:50, 4 April 2010 (UTC)


 * All online discussions need a healthy mix between productive posts and funny ones. Without the productive posts, nothing gets done, without the funny ones, the discussion gets so boring that most people stop reading. It used to work well here on the wiki when we still had stuff to do (new NPC pages to edits, updates to include, armor image to make). However, the amount of stuff to be done has significantly decreased in the last years, while the amount of discussion has not. The result being that there is too much "funny" discussion (all the 4theLULZ type of posts), turning many talk pages from useful instruments of communication into long repetitions of old internet memes. --Xeeron 14:38, 24 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I noticed by chance that Xeer is the name of the legal system in Somalia. Hmmm. --Xeeron 01:22, 12 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Time travelling = cool. Summer time = uncool. --Xeeron 17:55, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Contrary to some assertions, Anet does listen to players. --Xeeron 12:17, 12 December 2008 (UTC)


 * PvE skills worth getting --Xeeron 20:43, 2 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Something that has interested me for a long time: Whenever I press my right control key in-game, guildwars switches from my standard language English to German, replacing all skill descriptions, etc. When I let go of the key, it switches back. It has been like that since Beta. Question now: Is this a standard feature (and if yes, which other language do you switch to)? Is there a switch hidded somewhere that I never bothered looking up that enables the feature? Could I choose a different language apart from German to switch to? --Xeeron 15:41, 24 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Halloween is fun. --Xeeron 18:22, 25 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Sometimes I can relate to how Cassandra felt. --Xeeron 19:06, 8 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Holidays comming up, so I'll be inactive for a while soon. --Xeeron 09:13, 28 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Is there anything fun about trying to cap all elite skills? Not a lot, but at least you get to visit some of your favorite elementalist bosses again. That reminded me to write down my favorite list of places to get jumped on in guild wars: User:Xeeron/TOP5 death traps --Xeeron 09:14, 2 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Just a minute ago, I had the usual wiki experience of getting an edit conflict on a talk page. Usual, except for the fact that the last and only person to edit the page in the last hours was myself. Edit-conflict with myself due to browser lag? The first signs of schizophrenia? Wiki-software's idea of a joke??? --Xeeron 11:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)


 * So the election discussion finished with the expected result (no consensus in the discussion and a withdrawl), except the person withdrawing was a slight surprise. Now let's see what comes out of the post-election-policy-change drive. --Xeeron 10:11, 5 May 2008 (UTC)


 * After playing Ursan Blessing for a while now, I decided to write an essay explaining why this skill is worse than many other unbalanced skills and does need a nerf, even though I usually tend to be reluctant in calling for nerfs. --Xeeron 13:30, 15 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Some of my guildmates are into doing FoW runs, so yesterday I joined them (mainly for the HoM entry). The last time I played FoW was way back, around the time Factions came out, on my monk. Oh my, the difference. Back then: proceeding carefully, having a dedicated tank, a group that did not know when to take which quests, people that have to leave/are booted after a few hours. Never managed to do all quests in one run (the best was about 3/4th, but I did stop doing FoW quite soon). Tons of fun though. Now: Grab 8, have a party leader who knows everthing, instead of a dedicated tank, an Ursan who mainly wacks stuff, a 1vs1 elly who splits off to kill single objectives and a complete run after about 2 hours, with no wipe and only one situation that was remotely dangerous. Almost felt like farming. Times have changed. --Xeeron 10:56, 12 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Seems I am getting old and soft or I would not even be asking this. Should I stick up for the right thing or should I let it go for the sake of peace and assume it wont matter in the long run? I have always been a fan of those Ultima6 character creation questions ... --Xeeron 01:28, 8 March 2008 (UTC)


 * This night, I dreamt that no less than 189 skills had been updated. Also, auto-attack damage was taken away from warriors and replaced with a system of 5 "mini-skills". Unfortunately, I woke up just as I was opening the wiki to find out more about the changes, so I can not tell whether that was a dream or rather a nightmare. --Xeeron 15:56, 12 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Another weekend spend AFK on rings (apart from the farming for dishes). Given the amount of progress per weekend and the number of weekends per year, it should only take me 3 more years to max the lucky title. --Xeeron 10:57, 11 February 2008 (UTC)


 * So the next election is up and we still don't have a new election policy, despite the attempts. Meaning that another "close" election is quite likely. So let me state outright (and before I know who will fare how) that I will support the candidate with the highest vote count in stage 2. Hopefully there will be more discussion before that stage this time, so we don't get into that mess again. --Xeeron 19:09, 5 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Aiiane shows the NO U crew how to respond to noobish postings in style: "your arguments aren't valid due to a systematic lack of understanding of the intricacies of organized PvP and relative merits/drawbacks of skills." --Xeeron 12:20, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Back from skiing. Isn't it funny how you think that the world would stop turning if you lacked internet access for a day and then after 2 weeks, you notice everything works just fine without? I enjoyed the holidays a lot =) --Xeeron 10:40, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Holidays: I'll be away for skiing and most likely without internet access starting this weekend. If you need to contact a bureaucrat, please speak to User:Dirigible or User:LordBiro. --Xeeron 14:03, 20 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Reasons to like heroes: Having to leave half-way through a dungeon, comming back 3 hours later and finding some minions still alive. --Xeeron 17:43, 15 December 2007 (UTC)


 * This sunday, I used the AB reward weekend to do some alliance battles and up my kurzick title. Yet, after playing some 10 hours at double rewards, I can't help but notice how much of an PvE title this is: I went from rank 1 to rank 3 (halfway to 4), yet in absolute numbers, I made about 2500 faction a match (which is rather above average). With ~4 matches in 1 hour, that is only 10000 faction (advances the title for 20k, or 10k at non-AB-reward weekends) per hour. So to get the max title, this is a wooping 500 hours of alliance battles (or 1000 hours without double rewards) or given that one might have 5 hours of free time to spend each day, 100-200 days of straight alliance battles (no going out, no cinema, no other games, no other GW). That wont happen for me. --Xeeron 13:39, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * After hating the skill for 3 years with a passion and telling thousands of PuG monks to get rid of it, they boost Healing Breeze. I almost don't know what to say. At least Mending is still crap, or my GW universe would have ended. --Xeeron 23:32, 8 November 2007 (UTC)


 * So halloween is over, the usual crowds camping the mad king are gone. I noticed for the first time that you can pick up stuff in outposts when someone dropped Trick or Treat bags due to overflowing inventory. Also beat the mad king for the first time, I swear the last 2 years he was cheating! The costume brawl was fun, like RA, just having the reassurance that your teammates will have ok bars ... except, what happened to that monk bar? --Xeeron 23:37, 1 November 2007 (UTC)


 * The best and the worst are just seconds away in pick up groups. Today, while getting masters in Jennur's Horde, the first person to join my party pinged this as his hero monk skills:
 * Check out the second one. Starting from the left, it goes from bad to horrible to even worse than you can imagine. The third person to join didn't even know how to ping skills, so I had to explain it, only to see this:
 * Check out the second one. Starting from the left, it goes from bad to horrible to even worse than you can imagine. The third person to join didn't even know how to ping skills, so I had to explain it, only to see this:


 * I am not making this up, this just happened half an hour ago. However, there is a silver line at the end. I was STILL not disencouraged totally and kept pug No2 (a mesmer) and No4 (a sin). We sailed through Jennurs to an easy master and after that the sin went and did Ruins of Morah with me, which we beat in 3:52. Thus I got my latest protector title with all pugs in the end. And the moral of the story is: Always ping your build and you shall recognize the good players. --Xeeron 22:50, 22 October 2007 (UTC)


 * "Entries will be accepted only from legal residents of the United States and Canada. (...) (Canadian residents will be required to answer an additional mathematical question in order to claim their prize.)". This made me chuckle. Found here. --Xeeron 12:18, 10 October 2007 (UTC)


 * We've got it so good! But then, having enough lame edit wars to fill a page would be fun too. My favorites: Cow tipping; Franz Liszt; Devil's Lake (North Dakota); Template:User admins ignoring policy; Cat; Invisible Pink Unicorn; Highgate Vampire, Talk:Highgate Vampire; Year 2038 problem. --Xeeron 14:02, 27 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Put my thoughts on guildwiki moving on a separate page because they don't fit in here. --Xeeron 14:09, 14 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Does anyone still remember the time when Factions was compared with the other releases, like Nightfall and everyone concluded that "yeah, factions was the PvP campaign, the PvE is not good"? How everyone rejoiced that Nightfall was to be made by the better "prophecies team"? Sure all of the scorn heaped on Fedex quests is well deserved, but looking back from a perspective of 1 1/2 years on, I can't help by say how the factions team brought us two viable and innovative new classes, while Nightfall has delivered much less. After the initial rage about wammo assasins, that class has carved out its niche. Even better, the ritualist is a unique class with a variety of usefull skills (and, unlike the monk, succeeds at offering both offensive and defensive on one character). Looking at nightfall, the paragon is so gimped that it is little more than a one skill wonder, totally sidelined if not for an overpowered PvE skill riding to the rescue. Dervishes see more use, but fullfill the role of "Warrior B". Sure, I'll play Nightfall over Factions any day of the week, but looking back at all the bashing, one should remark that not everything was bad in Factions and not everything better in Nightfall. --Xeeron 16:48, 10 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Definitely one of the most shameful moments of my guildwars career: Being beaten by alesia's Mo/w healing hands build while trying the one on one skills of my monk. At least I figured out a rather fail-proof monk build for the turney later. --Xeeron 18:23, 26 August 2007 (UTC)


 * You would not believe it (I know I didn't at first), but Jade Quarry is actually being populated again. So PvP'ers, head over there for some long lost treasure, PvE'ers get your explorer title updated (and don't forget to stay and fight, lest the PvP'ers get annoyed with you and Jade Quarry deserted again). This is much more balanced than Fort Aspenwood and, so far, Leech free. --Xeeron 23:13, 25 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Stuff like this really drains my will to help and stand up for other people. Fortunately it does not always end like that. --Xeeron 16:00, 12 July 2007 (UTC)


 * During the first months of the wiki we have, rightfully, concentrated on getting the structures up and running. A few policies still linger as proposals, but most important stuff is done. As is the procedure to select bureaucrats and admins and many formatting guide line. All that is well, but now we need to do some "beautification" as well. Guildwiki's useful host of lists is still unmatched here, many NPCs or items are still lacking an article and quite recently even such basic things as mission descriptions were still very stubbi in many cases. I hope that with the wiki getting more settled, effort will flow in that direction. In other news, I'll be tragic in a minute. Go AFK titles, now I am ready for all ingame occurances! --Xeeron 22:39, 6 July 2007 (UTC)


 * After much pain between me and the wiki code, my character page is now up and running. --Xeeron 20:56, 22 June 2007 (UTC)


 * How wonderful free software and wiki's are: I mentioned that I'd be nice to be able to dismiss the election notice and only a few days later, we got a nifty page describing the needed update to make it work, while everyone had the possibility to join in on discussing it. Such stuff makes me feel that all the trouble (which certainly exists at times) is worth it. --Xeeron 19:46, 18 June 2007 (UTC)


 * There, I got nominated for bureaucratship. Serves me right for making candidates come up with elaborate mission statements I guess ;-) --Xeeron 23:38, 8 June 2007 (UTC)


 * My page finally got some looks and it is only the tiniest bit copied from Biro's. Now I need to do something about populating my userspace to fill those red links. --Xeeron 13:50, 5 June 2007 (UTC)