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[edit] November 12. 2008

Ahhhh...

I've beaten two campaigns and an expansion with that scythe. I beat another with an axe. Finally, Nikki has become the first character with every single campaign unlocked with relatively EVERY area in each. I need some Jade Sea exploration but, generally, I have everything. Nikki will be my relative go-to girl when friends or whatever need help in a mission, provided they don't mind a melee-ranger.
Speaking of being a melee ranger... I mentioned on an earlier entry that I did rate the standard Never Rampage Alone axe build, originally I rated it a full 5 because it worked on Istan island, but the vote got killed because I wasn't testing it against level 20's and up. Well, as noted, I've beaten every damn thing with either the axe or scythe.
I've yet to attempt my recently attained hammer builds for her, and I'm a little iffy with it. First, there's no AoE. Second, the hammer elites and hell, the normal skills, require way too much adrenaline for easy spammage. It's unfortunate but I may have to PvP and unlock some hammer skills that are actually to -my- liking, preferably ones more energy based. Sadly, not many decent hammer elite alternatives and I'm currently dealing with Earth Shaker, which requires a whopping 8. Jesus, man. When I need to knockdown something, I generally want to interrupt something at the START of the fight. But, I've yet to play it so I can't really judge. I probably won't for a while, in fear of sacrificing my l33t scythe damage.

I also gained a couple more armors for Nikki, luxon and elite druid. They're for her princess-roleplay... but I'll just put on the Norn for normal stuff. Well, the luxon is runed up so I might use that from time to time.

I was originally thinking about making a list of where each of my characters are in a campaign but really, all I need is to check my character page and read "Completed This" on their achievements and I get an idea of who I got where. If they don't have a campaign completed, I probably don't have them very deep into it.

As for Guild news, attained 2 more members after Wild. Pretty new to RP but as my guild page stated, I don't mind new roleplayers and I can teach of needed. As long as their not bumbling morons. I also had Wild recruit temporarily and she got this one guy who had a large vocabulary but had a problem with spelling. He was in for around 10 minutes, and it was true. His spelling was, to my sight, fine enough to mess with and wasn't moronic. But I don't know what the hell happened. He asked "do you control my movements and all?" And I was like, "No, that's all you..." and continued to explain something. He randomly chimed in, "You keep your assumptions" and promptly left the guild. Extremely confusing. I wish I had kept his username to inquire what exactly happened. But seriously, if he was offended by something during my explanation of guild policies, I don't want someone that volatile in my guild anyway. They got offended by something extremely random, what kind of stuff would they flip out over later?

Anyway, got a LOT of bites from my recruitment spam in Kamadan so I might make that my advertisement center. I want to try Rata Sum as well, it's high-traffic and if they have EoTn, it's a promise they have another campaign or more... Could be a good spot.

[edit] November 7. 2008

In other, less-ranty news;

Other than Elric, now Shadowphoenix built a small story that mends a little with my Vanguard. Should be fun. This is two people now, and this tells me that my Vanguard is thought-out enough for people to branch off of. That's awesome.

That's all for now, practically just woke up so I might have some added thoughts later.

Added:
*sigh*...
tl;dr version: When Shadow had to leave in an RP session, something must have broke in her brainparts. Concluding with an IC comment "I must depart" or OOC "my hubby came back with food, gotta go", would have done just fine but instead she makes her character flip out and stabs my character in the shoulder.
Really shadow, was that necessary?

[edit] November 6. 2008

God damnit. PvP is complete fail. Right when I need to unlock shit, the kurzicks can't AB and builds don't mean shit in RA. I've got the best warrior build for general PvP but I get butchered. No, I don't want to hear this "u suk lolol" because I doubt that's an issue. I'm no pro but I'm a couple steps above the average scrub.

This is bullshit.

When did Random Arenas stop being random? I shit you not, I was PvPing all day to get the damn Focused Anger for an imbagon and I only got a monk approximately three times. But the enemy team almost always had a healer in some form. Almost always a monk, and sometimes a N/Rt or Ritualist healer. I mean, what the fuck. This is not an exaggeration. This is what really happened. On the small chance I did get a monk, we were raped anyway.

Fuck you, PvP.

[edit] November 5. 2008

I totally voted for Obama. No, I'm not one of those white people who like to hide their opinions.
But this was my first year I was able to vote in an election so I'm saving the sticker to put on something that will actually last a little. I know the popular vote doesn't say much (as of last night Obama was only a 2% lead in the pop vote with something like 3.5million ahead of McCain) but it looked like he had almost double the electoral votes. Awesome.

I personally think it's a good shift in America, having a black president. It proves that, by a certain extent, we hurdled over the great obstacle that is racism. Sure it's not gone overnight because of a black president but I think it's a worthy shift in mindset.

Now we'll wait and see if Obama can put his money where his mouth is.

[edit] November 2. 2008

For SOME reason I got my Warrior into prophecies and through a LOT of it. At Thunderhead Keep right now, and I even went through the jungle missions O_O. Even Aurora Glade! INORITE? It's unlike me but I think boredom has it's cold, deathly grip upon me. I want to play Shizuma more but I really have nothing to do. I SHOULD get off my lazy ass and do Nahpui Quarter, to get closer to my Kurzick armor.

Anyway, Might archive at the end of December.

[edit] October 31. 2008

Holy lack of updates, batman! Nothing has been happening!

Well, shit has been happening but it's just been the same shit. So here's some highlights.

Farmed a 4th stack of ToT bags, amazingly enough. And I thought I was done at 3. But it was able to fund my Asuran armor stack for Shizuma. Now, I'm going to hold off on that vabbian and shoot for Kurzick next (which, without runes, will be extremely cheap at around 10-15k, I don't need to farm for that). I also need to start plopping my swords on even my non-melee heroes because I need to save a few spots. Hell, I run sabway on her anyway so it won't hurt. After or during my kurzick armor fund, I really need to try and equip my guild hall a little bit. Buy out all the 10k NPC's just to get them out of the way.

I got a member for my guild on the 28th. That's a hell of a highlight. And they're still with us O_O. They said (claimed) they were really excited about the Vanguard's base storyline. So, hopefully this will be a valued and longterm member. Even then, the Elric dudemanguy mentioned in the last entry, made his own RP guild to join up with the Vanguard. They haven't met ICly but it should make sense if you read what the Vanguard does and his storyline. Should be a good story to come. I wasn't expecting to build an alliance but this is a good basis for people who want to aid the overpowered Vanguard in demon-pwnage.

Speaking of roleplay, finally did some the other day. Not with my ally, but a previos OOK (Or GoD, whatever, some roleplaying alliance I was in before) that I helped a while ago and added because they were cool.
Her, and my member I roleplayed with. My new member is pretty good, they have near-perfect grammar but they just need to work on their clarity and general common sense while roleplaying. (You don't walk up to someone in real life and start spewing random shit... Generally.)

RANT TIME:

I don't like the friends list. I try to use it in it's most literal form and only add friends, y'know, people you talk to. But I've got people on my list that NEVER TALK TO ME. Seriously, why are they going to (allegedly) add me if they don't say one word to me? This might sound kind of Emo but I'm /so/ messaging some of the people as they come online to see if they REALLY have me added.
This is an annoyance that I've had for a while on other games.

However, on WoW I use the friends list a little differently. I use it more as a locater than what it's supposed to be. I'm not terribly popular regardless of how long I've been around and roleplayed (I'm content with simply being "reknown", people know Allein by name generally), but I still add a lot of the popular and not-so roleplayer so I can see where they are. (On WoW, it gives a person's name, level, class, and actual zone they're in). It's a little stalkerish but hey, I gotta go where the RP is these days. (And thanks to the recent update, WoW roleplayers are swimming in the new content more than roleplaying, damnit!)

One final little rant is my mother wanted to drag me to this allegedly haunted road after she gets off work (2am D:) but I was fuckin' mad because I wanted to get this years Halloween masks and stuff. But I was woken up at 3am THIS morning, which HAPPENED to be when Mad King showed up. After wrestling with the normal lag I get after AFKing for too long, I was able to get the Zombie Face Paint, and then the Lupine Mask a couple hours later. Then I slept some more. Came back and I had 3 lupine masks in my inventory, lawl. So I'm content with being dragged out on an (GHOSTS AREN'T FUCKING REAL, MOM) allegedly haunted area of our city. Psh.

That was longer than expected. Enjoy your Halloween, everyone.

[edit] October 27. 2008

Not much happened yesterday even though I was on GW all day.
So far I've farmed about 3 stacks of Trick-or-Treat Bags so far, And within the farms and other items I've made about 200k in all, possible more. Of course, not at one time and it's all been dumped into a guild hall NPC or armor for Shizuma, which she has a couple more sets of. She has Norn and Deldrimor now. I might go back and get the norn helm later but for now, I'm glad I omitted it because it was fucking EXPENSIVE. I had no idea I had to get fangs and claws for the shit.
I've got my eyes on Asuran next, the materials needed aren't so bad. So other than Vabbian, I've got all the expensive stuff. Thank you, permasin farming. I never thought I would have made so many armor sets in a somewhat short amount of time.

And I've spoken to Elric Coy in-game about my game, and the dude is a fucking genius. He doesn't shy away from mentioning that he has above 125 IQ (the top 10% in the country, apparently) but, he proved it easily. We spoke for around 2 hours (we both had to stop our farming because we type so fast and... a lot). And he asked a lot of questions, poking holes and seeing if my ideas still floated correctly. It was like an interview on how I run (or plan to run) my RP guild. I counted 4 different occassions where he helped me refine an aspect of my RP guild, and HE'S NEVER ROLEPLAYED BEFORE, short from building storylines behind his characters. He just never played it out.

Two of the biggest ones are as follows:

He insinuated (he's intelligent, he said this without saying it directly) that he would deserve an officer spot if he did decide to hop in my Vanguard, and I tried to explain how Vanguard Officers are very serious business in my lore. They're often the most badass and reknown soldiers that are promoted to lead squads and be the first one in a battle, and the last one out. Vanguard officers are not the kind that stand in the backlines and point and yell "Kill those! Now go over there!"
But he directed me with a series of questions that A GW officer and a Vanguard officer are seperate, and even though He'd be an officer for the GUILD, he didn't have to necessarily be an officer for my VANGUARD. Holy shit. Brilliant motherfucker, this Elric is. I would never have figured that.

Another Idea I had planned was using GC for OOC banter and organize IC sessions. But he brought upon the simply concept of using Ally chat (as we have no alliance) for the actual IC, and GC for what I already planned. Hot damn. I was planning to ignore ally chat altogether. But with this, I might not ever hop in an alliance, keep the chat all to ourselves O_O

So a public THANK YOU for my buddy Elric, who's helped me (and probably will in the future) with my RP guild. Still no members, but at least it'll be a slightly better place to RP in when I finally do.

[edit] October 25. 2008

Once upon a time, (well, pretty recently actually), I was in this CoF run with a warrior that had the coolest look ever. And with some drive, I mimic'd that look:

Oh yes. Oh yes. Not just for halloween either, FO'EVA.
Too bad it's not her best Roleplaying suit. She's best in her ancients.

And since I'm spoiling the shit out of her I think I might make a "Misc" section on her page instead of just plopping it all on my Misc images page.

[edit] October 24. 2008

Sweet. This is my first real event that I've got a farmer character. Life is sweet. ~120 bags as I type this blog. Another hour or two I will have a full stack.

Added:

Gave my Resignation from Xen of Onslaught and my post went like this;
(and I'm not censoring the leader's username this time because it's not difficult to figure out who it is on your own)

I'll try to keep this short. Noteable word is "try".

Around the time of my rejoining with Boe as our new current leader, he brought up the point "This is a new and different XoO!" Yes. Yes it is. And sadly that's not a compliment. Not completely XoO's or Boe's fault. The alliance they joined is terrible, it's full of idiots, lunatics, and children. And it's really two things that brought me to this brink of quitting XoO:

Boe's contradiction in unfairness. He explained to me over vent that he was on "my side" regarding how I use language (cursing, cussing, foul, dirty, whatever), and more recently he basically stated if he gets ONE whisper about it, he'd kick me.

Don't you all think it's kind of fucked up how he says he's on my side but has his finger on the kick button?

The second point is the alliance, and not JUST because the constant whispers I get about some select words I use over alliance. They're idiots. What brought me to make this post is something that just infuriated me, someone used "rnt" for "aren't", purposefully. I did not adress it because I did not want to tack any more drama to my resignation. But seriously, there is -no- excuse for typing like that.

I'd rather leave peacefully than waiting for the next time I use a curse word over Alliance chat and get reported/kicked.

This -might- not be a permanent quit. Over a year ago when XoO had it's own series of divisions and alliance, I told myself this would be the last guild I'd ever join because it had everything: 18+ people, maturity, helpfulness, and the freedom to say whatever the FUCK I want, within the bounds of common law, obviously.

I still like XoO. I still like Boe even, I just think it was a kick in the nuts. Untill then, I'll go make my own self-placement guild and build upon that untill XoO gets to another, less-shitty alliance.

I hope I'm still allowed to frequent the forums and Vent.

A relatively drama-less, clean leave. The GWO alliance is terrible, which is sad given their reputation.

So my previous backup plans of creating my own goddamn guild are a reality. There's a one thing I fear:

The ability to call for an alliance group for something immediately.

Which will force me to rely on PuGs.

The obvious stuff like merchants (Can go to a city) and human interaction (I always say I H/H most of the game) aren't much of a problem with me. And any problems I do have I hope will be fufilled by getting a future alliance or, hell, MEMBERS.

Yea, so far I got the Xunlai Agent and Canthan Ambassador (Mistake btw, I thought the canthan guy was the one who offered entrance to Alliance battles), more to come since I'm not nearly finished farming the halloween trick or treat bags.

[edit] October 23. 2008

Lulz. 4 days past the day we were supposed to get our 'net cut off and looka me. Still posting. Might have been a bluff or it might have just been postponed so, not getting my hopes up too much. If I suddenly stop editing, you'll know what happened.

In the meantime, trying to muster up my massive boredom into something productive like getting that really annoying quest, An Unwelcome Guest done on my rit but the only help I get is USELESS help. I hate my alliance.

Speaking of which I used "language" again over AC and if my leader gets a whisper about it, just one more, he'll remove me from the guild. lawl. My Vanguard RP guild may come sooner than later. Now I got to decide if I should dump into guild hall NPC's or into my collector character. Will be a tough call. But I'm not kicked yet so, we'll see.

Added:
So I happened to Attain primeval for Shizuma after I looked at where she was in Nightfall (Horde of Darkness) and realized she was THREE missions away from endgame. I quickly hopped to my storage and found 40k, which is only 20k at minimum to get the armor (minus the helmet). So I Pushed her through, and sadly had to pay 6k out of the armor fund to get a run through Gate of Madness because I tried H/Hing it, and died. I tried it with allies, and failed. And I don't trust PuGs so I just paid a runner. It was worth it, because it worked. And got masters, to boot (I often avoid masters due to time wasting. Not in it for the titles, my derv excluded. Getting Protector of Cantha on her was accidental.)

So yea, I cleared my storage of charr carvings, (both kinds), elite assassin tomes, lockpicks, and was able to must around 86k, where I was able to buy the materials and runes easily. (After salvaging her sunspear armor).

That sets me WAY back from her vabbian armor but hey, the event drops haven't started yet and my warrior looks more badass than I've ever had a warrior.

[edit] October 19. 2008

Well, wrapped things up with my homies on Warcraft and posted my impending AFK doom on a thread at my XoO guild forums for Guild Wars. (Read Oct. 18 entry) Wrapped a lot of things up on Gw, minus creating a whole new character, whom I had some decent starting fun with. So, if the balls behind my household are able to keep up to their threats of shutting the internet off, I'm well prepared and mentally seperated. Half of me expects they won't hold up and we'll get an extra week but the other half knows better.
I'll miss this blog for however long I'll be offline.

Current proud that my dumbass finally realized I could shrink my main V symbol and make a signature out of it:
-- anguard 00:11, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Before, I thought I had to go in Paint and make a 19x19 one but no, just resize the shit. Duh.

In other news, Namura has replaced Nisai, and regrettably has a very similar name to Namuen. I've always wanted to recreate my old bow ritualist so I just needed some provokation. (My Oct 16 entry explains my annoyances that my perma-pre wasn't a good boredom reliever anymore). Now, what I need to do is get this ritualist some EoTn armor and that will automatically click in my head that she's too accomplished too delete. (Got all the way to HzH with the last one, NO idea what posessed me to delete her). So far, he damage is so-so. Got a couple different bow builds. The one you see on her page and a splinter/barrage (of course) which does a bit less damage when I'm in areas where enemies have the intelligence not to clusterhug each other. For now, she's at level 15 and will work on her when I come back.

Till then, I'll be at the mercy of movies and xbox 360 games and after that's dried up, I'm going to be an extremely bored asshole. Guess I gotta figure out what I can do different on Half Life 2. Perhaps plowing through levels with a pistol. Finishing the atrocity that is Quake 4? Finally get a damn level 60 on Mass Effect? I dunno. I might finally be able to finish some of these goals now that I've somewhat seperate myself from the addiction that is Guild Wars and WoW, knowing that my internet will be shot in a day.

Coulda come at a better time. I have an entire stack of charr carvings I was planning to sell for Halloween collectors in Ascalon. Damnit. And I was prepared to put my permasin into more use that farming golds and make a killing off of the event drops. Damnit.

So, at least untill internet comes back OR am able to mooch off a friends internet and post again, much everyone.

[edit] October 18. 2008

Guh. Internet will be shut off in a couple days. Not going to go into intricate detail on here because It would sound like "whining" or "emo" to everyone on the internet, where anonimity gives everyone this mindset of saying whatever they want about others. And believe me, I've gone over the scenario in my head and there's no way I can explain my home life without it sounding "whiny" or "emo" to others.
All I'll say is that there's one or two people in my household that doesn't have jobs who should and the brains behind us all have to cut out an amenity to get by (and further down the road "one" will be "many").
So yea. Not a goodbye.

[edit] October 16. 2008

I was going to make this a section on my Misc page, but this works just as well.

Ladies and gentlefags, I give you my own character commentary. Listed from the order that my Character Bar gives it, I will comment on all things about that particular characters. How I feel about them, what I think about them, ect.

Huntress: I can easily say I'm not proud of the name, and would immediately vote for a name change if ever possible. Surely my oldest character to date, debateably my best, before EotN came out and my ranger dethroned her. Now she's kind of collecting dust somewhat, I do odds and ends and would prefer it if I could must up the patience and finish Eye of the North with her (She's got everywhere else, damnit.)
For roleplay, she's gone through some rewrites. She used to be just human, a worshipper of all gods including abaddon. I made her a Margonite later and abolished the name "Huntress" because it's fucking stupid.

Nisai Oril: No real opinion other than I might eventually just delete her again. No patience for a permapre currently.
One neat trivia tidbit, is I got some names mixed up. Technically Nikki should be named Nisai Oril. From my days of Starcraft Roleplaying, I had this runaway princess named Nisai Oril who shortened her name to Nikki to make herself less obvious. It worked, and unlike many of those stories out there she stayed hidden from her previous life, minus some close encounters with land-scouring guards.
So, I will not name another character Nisai Oril and probably vouch for a page delete later, in the event I want to wipe out yet another permapre in room for something more productive.
(Farming on the perma to level isn't even a good boredom reliever anymore.)

Shizuma: A lot of her trivia-based information can be found on her page. She's about my tenth warrior I've made, the reasoning found on an earlier blog entry. But finally, with a collection of swords, three armor sets, rank 2 survivor, over a million experience, a collection of elites at her disposal, I have finally attained a warrior I probably will never delete. She's too accomplished. Before, I would do the same build, the same dumb shit and get bored with the character. But this time, I learned from my mistakes.
I am sort of bored but it's not really Shizuma's fault, more like I'm burned out of guild wars and just waiting for the halloween/christmas events to pass so I can go play something else for a while.

Hasin: Neat little tidbit. She was designed after a build I discovered on PvX, and it was the best damn build I've come across for a PvE assassin.
Hasin is about my third or fourth (and final) attempt at an assassin, I could never get them right. A decent build really fixed that for me.
It wasn't untill recently (~1 month around this post) I finally decided to go permasin and see what all the fuss was about. She jumped from 300k exp to nearly 3 million in a month worth of farming. With breaks in between, of course.
For roleplay, she's a very neat character that I need to flesh out a great deal more.
But with two armor sets and a capability to fill in a PvP assassin slot, she will never be deleted.

Nikki: As mentioned, her name is actually Nisai Oril (A name I recycled on numerous warriors, much to my idiocy) on roleplaying terms. As mentioned above, the final Nisai Oril might be deleted soon and will fix that little split problem.
Nikki was designed from level 1 to be a very serious Eye Of The North character, at first it was because of the armor. (To which I gained easily). Deep down I also knew that after a couple plays through EoTn I'd get extremely bored with it (expressed in previous entries), so I figured I should do the best and first on one character, Nikki was it. I designed her roleplaying story around it, even. Which will be soon fixed because that's really not the history I originally had. She is a runaway from another land, not an abandoned infant.
Overall, I consider her a main, right next to my dervish.

Namuen: A long time ago I created a paragon when they were really badass. When Nightfall came out. For reasons I do not recall, I deleted for something else (I have a bad habit with this), and remade a few months later. The character SUCKED and deleted very shortly after reaching level 20.
I honestly have no idea what I was expecting to do with Namuen when I made her. I think I accepted the fact that I will not be a singer, but rather a spear-chucker and do my own thing. It's worked out fairly well.
She's my most developed storyline-wise, next to my dervish and Nikki. Her trivia section mentions only H, but Nikki's history is currently unwritten. So on GW-wiki terms, Namuen has my longest written history. Very proud of the result and wish I could roleplay her more often.

Theresa: I've had a terrible habit of deleting MM's I've had in the past, too. An odd discovery I've made is that as soon as I get some kind of faction armor, I consider that character too accomplished to delete. Such is the case here. Even though I have done very little with Theresa, she has Norn armor and that immediately shuts off any desire to delete.
Tomes helped get my Flesh Golem back. I do not recall what idiotic thought process led me to delete the necromancer I had that actually cap'd Flesh Golem manually.
Anyway, that's about it. Other than AB and other tidbits I don't play her much.

Alitosh: Guh. Never could get mesmers right. Not sure if it was the lack of elites or my terrible timing that I can't interrupt a damn thing for shit, but I attempted a pure degen mesmer before and it was extremely boring and I was very weak. I got a little better thanks, once again, to PvX.
As roleplaying is concerned I designed her from the start to be based off my WoW-RP character Allein. Sadly I have not been able to roleplay her very much. Her exp is still floating over 150,000 so that proves that not only do I not even play her normally, I don't have that many areas explored to roleplay AT.
I did somehow muster enough patience to get asuran armor for her... But I must admit, it looked better on the wiki armor page than it does on her in-game. I was expecting a trenchcoat type thing but instead I get a huge stiff mass for a dress. It's ew. But tolerable.

General Synopsis:

Huntress: Nightfall/Factions unlocked, my 1st main, but now primarily used for roleplaying.
Nisai Oril: Permapre that is looking at future deletion.
Shizuma: Various collector that I would much prefer to roleplay more. Possibly my 3rd main, and extremely spoiled.
Hasin: Nowadays, my farmer. Has some of Nightfall but would prefer to try and dig deeper into the atrocity that is factions.
Nikki: Eye of the North, 2nd main character. History looking at a rewrite to a more accurate version.
Namuen: Almost pure roleplay, not very deep into anything.
Theresa: Minion Master for AB, possible future SS. Generally just for roleplaying.
Alitosh: Pure roleplay. I don't have much patience for normal mesmer play.

[edit] October 15. 2008

Hopping on WoW for a short amount of time to get myself familiar with the harbor and barbar shop. The shop is genius. One of my characters accidentally had earrings (because they were goddman invisible to me upon character creation. Gold, shiny, next to her white skin and shiny gold hair). But finally was able to remove them. Also, before I deleted Imrein a long time ago her hair was actually black. I have no idea why I made it gold. I was able to dye it as well. Goodie goodie.

Allein is now more cute than she was before, with a ponytail. She just had sexy long hair before but now she's a different level of attractiveness with "cute". Not sure it fits given her story. Oh well, time will tell.

[edit] October 13. 2008

If a tree falls down in the woods but noone is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?

Yes. Whether or not there is a human around, vibrations are still made. Critters, ants, buts, animals, birds, might all still be around to hear and feel the tree falling.

Stop trying to sound intelligent with your philosophical bullshit that's had the same answer for years. People keep trying to look smart by spouting these outdated questions that supposedly have multiple answers when it really doesn't. They ask these things to try and distract people from their hidden idiocy.

[edit] October 12. 2008

Hit a slight snag. Just kind of mumbling around untill event items start dropping for me to farm the shit out of. Doing CoF runs on Shizuma to get her Deldrimor rank up so I can get the armor as soon as I touch down on the Central Transfer Chamber. But getting there is a bitch. EoTn lost it's spark after a couple times. It's just annoying now.

The runs around the place really tune down the annoyance though, gotta admit. It's a bit better when I can just zone to where I need to go when I need to do it as opposed to fighting through ten zones and getting my ass kicked by wacked up raptor patrols and over-aggro.

I need to keep reminding myself of the above fact because I'm still scarred of trying to fight my way to Rata Sum but I DON'T NEED TO ANYMORE.

But yea.

Also was dubbed a semi-judge for Shadow's Create a proffession contest. Wyn was having some troubles or something so I happily stepped in and gave my input and judgements. I wonder if I get paid.

Added:
Okay, I honestly don't know what it is about my warrior this time but I'm just going nuts on the elite skills. Out of ALL I've done, this is a list of elites I capped just because I happened to be in the proper area:

I love this skill. It's a shame I might never use it.

Defy Pain

I hunted this one down because I wanted to see how good it was. It's awesome.

This right here was the first elite skill I ever capped when I began playing guild wars. And hey, it's not bad to boot. Especially if I decide to go all-energy attacks (But I love my Barbarous Slice and Gash Combo too much at the moment.) Still, Warrior's endurance holds a special spot in my heart and list of acheivements as "First elite ever".

Crippling Slash

I think I unlocked this one via tome untill I discovered; It's not that great in PvE.

"Charge!"

Because I think it would just be useful to have.

"You're All Alone!"

I was in the area questing.

I have a theory on why I'm capping these things so much. I believe it's because my build is pretty finalized so I don't need to buy anything else. So I'm mass-capping while cap sigs are still cheap. I guess my mindset figures, "Cheap caps, so what the fuck, let's go use them". I dunno. It's kind of neat to have this arsenal.
But none of my characters (with the possible exception of my dervish) have nearly as many elites as I've gotten on Shizuma. I might as well cap the hammer and axe ones too and call her my elite collector as well as armor and weapons. Haha. We'll see.

[edit] October 10. 2008

1:30am in the morning. I'll consider it the 10th.

Listened into Blade Radio for the second time in my entire life. My bud Secksy was spewing on about it in whispers so I figured, fuck it... All I was doing was farming anyway I figure I'd attend.
All I know of blade radio is what I remember the last time. A dude-DJ and people were QQing and bitching about Jade Isle or some PvP related bullshit that I didn't care about. But the music was good.

Music was still good, because it was upon request. GW people don't have bad taste, excluding my friend who demanding really, really, stupid shit like The Man/Woman song and the Toast song.

Also people. Don't ask DJ Tesla to sing. Just don't.

It was an overall good time. Finally, a reason to use my golem tonics to stick out a little.

I was my usual abrasive self and unexpectedly got called out (an involuntary "shout out", if you will...) and she played a bunch of machinegun and glass-breaking wave sounds on my name. Hilarity. Secksy said I was trolling but I was just being my normal jackass self. The way I spoke to Tesla and people around is the EXACT SAME WAY I talk to my friends, guildies, and allies. So I wasn't doing shit on purpose.

And a personal shout-out to the people of guild wars: Turn your fucking sensors on. Jesus christ.

[edit] October 9. 2008

Grr. GW needs to hurry up and start halloween drops so I have something to farm for.

Anyway, Shizuma. I did a lot in one day with her. Yesterday I went from Istan Island, into SSC, into Vabbi, and up to Gate of Desolation (Not the mission, did that this morning). And I was mapping some of the way o_O. But, finally attained Ancient armor and thought I'd replace the generic armor pics with actual in-game photos of her when I actually get the armor.

My eyes are currently on, either Kurzick armor or hop into EoTn and start that up. Not looking forward to either. They say getting to HzH is easy but you gotta go through some of the most annoying missions on the planet. (I'm looking at you, Vizunah Square. Fuck you.) And Eye of the North was fun the first couple of times and then it becomes a chore. And hell, I want THREE of FOUR EotN armors. That means doing is all at least twice and some partials. (Well, okay, excluding Deldrimor. I can join CoF runs for that.) But that still leaves me with Asuran and Norn that I will need to get.

Since EoTn is slightly more annoying I might haul into factions first.

[edit] October 7. 2008

Holy shit, I was banned from the Guild Wars Guru forums for a sales post violation, early bumping. Damn. I was just replying to what someone said, I only "bumped" it two threads. Coulda Warned me first, jesus christ.

And onto the guild drama. I wanted to reply to this guys massive post on our actual forums but I couldn't say anything nicely. Honestly. So I'm going to post it here and reply to everything in the only way I am able.
I was going to censor "XoO" to keep some anonymous but I've mentioned my guild name too many times before. So I'll just sensor the names. They'll be in "---'s". (The leader is referred to a three-letter shortened version so you'll see 3 --- often).

There is something going on here that I really should talk to all of the officers about. Me and this guy are not getting along and I am trying hard to get away from the guy and apparently the leader of XoO:GW is his bodyguard. I am having continuous run ins with this guy, interjecting rude comments and swearing when speaking to me.....as exampled in this thread and in screenshots of his daily activities in XoO.
A couple times, sure. But recently I had been trying to ask nicely about a conversation he was having in guild chat (PUBLIC) and he fired at me, claiming I was "butting in" (his exact words). I was trying to be nice and he thought it was too late for that. So who's the asshole here? It's not me this time.

I know our awesome leader is gonna leave some huge post with gigantic words and massive spin, but the bottom line is this guy is constantly butting in on things I am doing and being rude. --- [h]as continued to ignore it for some reason and even blame me for it after showing him screenshots. I have no "personal" interest in vanguard except to get him to stop interjecting in my affairs with rude comments.
The leader hasn't ignored it. I've spoken to him on Vent numerous times and he sees it as it's not really me at fault. If he's lieing, well that's on him. I have explained to the leader about the event of me leaving or being kicked, I will not be heartbroken. (My backup plans are in another blog post!). And I'm not "interjecting" in anything, I just wanted to know what he and another guildie were talking about. It was innocent as shit.

There was yet another incidence of me trying to carry on a conversation with someone and he butted in and then blamed me for the situation. I simply tried to carry on my conversation with the person and ignore vanguard.
Yes, I blamed you because you were being FUCKING RUDE. AFTER I was being nice! I sent him a PM to avoid GC-drama, "I am trying to be nice but you're blowing me off?" Which is, in fact, a pretty nice way of saying that especially for me.

--- has now come to the leader of ---- (guild name) to defend Vanguard and come after me.
The leader wasn't coming after him. He was addressing his rudeness.

In my opinion --- has something against me. Maybe my flaws are too much for him. Maybe he just doesn't like me. Maybe something is going on with him and Vanguard. Regardless of the reason. This Vanguard and me situation has gotten to ridiculous proportions.
Something going on with me and the leader, lolwut? Really, was that insinuation necessary? And the situation, in my opinion, isn't that serious. Some apologies would work. Let's start with him, "I'm sorry for saying a lot of really obvious and stupid shit on AC and ignoring you in GC." Yea.

I simply want this kid to shut up and leave me be. I have ignored him in vent, I have ignored him in Guild Wars. I don't see or hear what he says. He took the time to PM me and bother me. I have simply ignored him.
I'm sorry. It's a fucking MMO. People talk. People encounter each other. Ignoring a guildie/alliance makes things confusing. Yes, I PM'd him, trying to figure out WTF. He is a very confused guy, thinking everyone's against him. Well, I feel the same way too because of my abrupt nature. But instead of abrupt, this guy is an idiot.

~~I have also tried to move on in the forums but he keeps at it, as exampled here.~~

~~Yet for some reason, Boe has CONTINUED to allow this harassment and the behavior from this kid........ THE SAME EXACT BEHAVIOR THAT GOT ME DEMOTED.~~
Eh, won't explain this.

My remaining acct will probably be kicked out of XoO for speaking against Boe, whatever, I expect it.
He left first.

In my opinion --- is not doing this guild a service. He is a tyrant and a dictator. He does things without the counsel of the officers. He does things that he alone feels are right. He ignores the officers and members when they speak out against decisions he makes. He treats everyone like they are less intelligent than him.
Haha. No? Counsel of the officers? There's at most, like, two of them online. They get on vent often. He doesn't. The leader probably spoke with them on vent about various topics. And in the month I've been around I have not seen any "decisions" or comments against them. And finally, no, he does not treat everyone like that. He's been extremely diplomatic from what I've seen.

--- is not a leader. He is an administrator. He is a smart guy, who is good at paperwork and organization. When comes to people he is seriously lacking. The officers of this guild should discuss this. I have talked to several of them. To some degree, I won't say completely, but so some degree all of them agree. They just won't say nothing.
Over-net mind-reader are we now? No, that's just the inner hope that he thinks everything will be alright to his favor. World doens't work like that, homie.

If I get kicked for having the balls to say that you run this guild like crap, oh well.
Leader isn't like that. I've been relatively outspoken and he really doesn't mind it. I've said things that would warrant a kick in a non-adult guild. Yes, we're fucking adults, man.

You have done me dirty ---. You have lied to me about everything you have said to me. You have ignored what is going on in this situation, you have continually gone after me since the day that I went off in AC.
For those confused (If I have any readers at all), apparently this guy went off in AC cursing at people "fuck you" "fucking retard" and stuff like that, which is a big no-no in this alliance. He got demoted. And apparently, he's had a target on him because his rudeness surpasses mine, even. Hell, at least I have the capability to be nice at times. Just, not this time because this whole post was nothing but an attack against me. I can't reply nicely to it.

I have done my best to be a more helpful, more involved, more decent member of XoO since the day of that situation. You told me, "oh man I love you. You are a very important member of XoO. This demotion thing is very temporary.....blah blah blah"

Everything you do or say is to make you look good. EVERYTHING you do is for you. You do nothing for the betterment of this guild. You do not deserve to be the leader of this division. You are a two faced liar who is only out for yourself and the people that have you by the balls or the people you want to impress. Everyone else is dispensable.
All that and you want to come back to the guild someday? Are you kidding me?

I am not quitting XoO, so don't manipulate this as me quitting. I am sick of being treated the way you are treating me and I am telling you. I fully plan to be back in XoO on January 1st, 2009, as we agreed and as ----- (an officer) witnessed, unless of course you are lying about that too and don't talk to your officers about it and just don't let me in.

If this gets me kicked.... Good bye XoO. I love this guild and I am sorry if I have to go.
Sounds a lot like a quit to me. Especially after assaulting the leader like that.

I do NOT want to talk to --- or vanguard about this. DO NOT PM ME in game or out. DO NOT EMAIL ME, don't talk to me over AC, nothing.

If any other officers want to talk to me, I will talk to them. Only them.

I am not checking these forums again until this crap gets hashed out. So, talk your heart out.....I ain't listening.
Way to be an adult. It's always better to be diplomatic and diffuse the tension before it becomes a bitter hate. And oddly enough, I'm really not angry about this. (Maybe because it's one of the many occasions where I'm right and one of the rare occasions where someone else sees that I am right).
And he wants to talk only to the officers. Sure, because they certainly know the entire story, amirite? No. Only one of them really does.

The sad part about Vent is people are not as honest as they could be. It is very possible that the leader is lieing about being somewhat on my side, I can feel it in ma' gut. But people are too fucking pussy about hurting people's feelings when they could use a good reality check. Oh well.

The leader hasn't seen this post yet so, we'll see what he has to say to me later.

[edit] October 6. 2008

Okay, so here's the deal and I'm not gonna explain why. My membership with XoO is slightly strained. Some people can't handle my abrupt nature apparently (even in my attempts of improvement). Therefore, I have a backup plan.

I will be creating a roleplaying guild based on my Vanguard theme. I have a semi-website for it. I wish I could just go ahead and make the guild page now, but I have yet to speak to XoO's leader about my recent problems. But anyway, even if it doesn't make it to guild form, I'm just glad I have a fallback in case this extends to other games.

(It's already made a slight leak-in-reference on WoW. The Vanguard Commander was Allein's (my WoW main) mentor.)

Kinda excited about it. Revamped my main page. Cut out my personal info and migrated some of the roleplaying stuff to my main userspot.

Many edits will be made in the future of the extremely minor-variety. Adding sentances, fixing typoes. Etc. Trying to spruce it up. Right now I want to find out (if possible) to get the "V" symbol in a thumbnail, but smack dab in the middle of the first paragraph, newspaper-style. Probably will never be able to.

Added:
Current guild drama averted. My Vanguard Guild creation will have to wait.

[edit] October 4. 2008

Damn. On my last legs with Shizuma's survivor. Might only make it to rank 2. Thing is, I'm just finding excuses to not do the Irontoe's lair for brawling. That's bad. Seriously, I walked up to Kilroy to start it and just minimized to do something else. This blog post included.
Ah well. Rank 2 isn't terrible.

Added:
Ugh, people are terrible. Not game related.

Was reviewing a couple of movies (Might link them later) at Imdb... Afterward, reading some of the "best" and "hated" tiers of reviews. I think it's terrible how people can be so "O.M.G. this is the worst movie I've ever seen!" Apparently they don't watch a whole lot of movies. I just can't stand reading the reviews when people just shoot down the movie without much consideration. I was reading a "hated" review on Disturbia and one review, literally said "I'm 45 minutes in right now and debating whether or not to eject the CD." Fuck me sideways, they didn't even watch the thing. If a line starts with "Worse movie of all time", I skip that review because they obviously don't give anything a chance.

To date, the only movie I could not watch 15 minutes of is Gardfield. All other movies I've sat through, (Excluding "the cable guy", but it was mostly for boredom and and not the quality of the movie) so nobody has an excuse to be entirely too harsh on things.

Though, to date, I've not rated anything a 10 at all. Though, Will Farell's "Stranger than Fiction" just might get my 10.

[edit] October 2. 2008

One hell of a Wishlist.

So, yea, deleted my elementalist because I barely bothered with her except to AB or RA. And I can do any ol' thing in those anyway so I won't miss her too bad. (I'll miss the damage of SH but I will survive.)

Anyway, I was fooling around in character creation and came across this hairstyle, and Shizuma from Strawberry Panic immediately popped in my head. And since that was such a wonderful Anime, I figure I'd pay homage to the character by naming my collector warrior after her. If I ever roleplay her, the personality might be similar as well. (Lesbianism might be included, don't judge). So yea, my previous plans of just collecting armor has expanded to weapons and shields as well. I'm more worried about the armor than anything. The one saving grace is I won't be runing any of it which can save 5-10k immediately. Another good point is I don't care if the weapons are maxed. If storage becomes a problem, I'll start equipping heroes at random. Oh, and one final cool point: I might just omit the helmets overall, except the Templar one. Because it's cool looking. And the Ancients. If I can ever press that far into Nightfall. It's well down the road.

In similar news, got Shizuma from 1 to 20 in a day, thanks to brawling. Gonna start doing more runs and actually use these scrolls I've been getting as drops. I'll miss the 400g profit from one of them but the rewards are totally worth it.
Added:
I will be attempting rank 3 Survivor before I both getting runs to other places where I can get the armors. But, like my paragon, I'm pretty happy with rank 1 so I won't be heartbroken if I lose patience.

[edit] October 1. 2008

Look at me! I'm being all festive!- Vanguard 22:08, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Halloween is my favorite holiday. My plans for the past few years were to dress up darkly and scare people on the streets but they come with their fucking parents, damnit. Well, I did dress in an orange jumpsuit and creep a few people out by pretending to be an escaped inmate or something. A kid even approached me as I dodged behind a trashcan, I was like "fuck off!" It was hilarious.

First time changing my Charbar into a theme, too. I may build a christmas one, too. Even though I hate what the holiday has become.

Anyway, went bankrupt buying a Sabway for my Ranger's heroes. I tear through shit like I've never seen, even did a couple Vanquishes with them. Fun stuff.

I want to Raptor farm a bit more and get my assassin's exp to 2 mil+. That'll be somethin'.

[edit] September 29. 2008

Migrated individual histories of my characters to their respective pages. I also added a PvE only skill template to Nikki and Namuen, because they're really the only two that have enough PvE skills worth listing. I think Theresa to some extent. I'll go check.
Haha. She has Drunken Master and Ursan Blessing. Yea, not worth wasting a near-empty template over her. (I do remember putting her through EoTn only to get the armor).

I also had an entire blog post yesterday but I continually forgot to enter it. I went and watched Heroes with my mother, slept for 12 hours, I come back and to edit it in and it said "data was lost" so I pretty much forgot what I was talking about, EXCEPT THIS:

PvX has the worst wiki community I've ever seen. I had 3 paragraph sdescribing why before the mentioned loss but seriously. They must have no rules governing NPA.
Everyone there seems to have the delusion of grand balance so when they think a skill sucks, it must suck. Comments on EVERY talk page don't vary far from "You suck, your build sucks, fail less, ur doin it rong" and a MOUND of other internet memes. Seriously, not one page there lacks some kind of insult to something.

If anyone frequents this blog (I won't be making blog posts "minor edits" anymore, see if that helps traffic, unless for the obvious stuff like typos) you would know my various melee-ranger builds. Well, my rating was removed at one point because I only used it on the nublar island of Istan. Well, damnit, it still worked deep into both Prophecies and Nightfall. Beat prophecies using a scythe most of the way through, and most of Nightfall with an axe. It's a good build, damnit. And people still state "it has no advantage over warrior". And they won't even explain that arguement. You exploit Expertise which gives a slight advantage, making energy skills spammable.

Anyway. Before I lost the "info", I was talking about something else. Oh well. 'Till next time.

[edit] September 27. 2008

Finally got that fucking Glacial Griffon. I just used my permasin build. Took a while because of the low damage and I don't have as much energy in that area. But, took around, I'd say about 6-8 minutes. Not too bad.

I still Kinda need it on both my Dervish and Ranger... My derv more because I might eventually use the running build I've got for D/A. Which has the "I Am Unstoppable!" skill with it.

But yea. I can't exactly go permasin on non-sins. So, I gotta figure out something. Simply "Running away from the spirits" won't do. He recasts them. Grr.

[edit] September 26. 2008

It's both sad and awesome. Within days, my assassin went from around 300,000 exp to over 1 million exp. Gotta love raptor farming. I mentioned in an earlier entry that I would hold off on the farming untill events but it's a GREAT boredom reliever. Not to mention the whoreish amount of exp I get and random assortment of loot. Not as profitable but it's a good time waster untill the real stuff starts dropping.

In other game news, loaded up Oblivion again to try out an argonian caster. Basically the same shit I did before multiple times, only, a lizard. Like I did with my vampire caster guy, I'm going to try to hold back from leveling as much as I'm able so I can whiz through Shivering Isles without much difficulty. Hopefully. What'll drive me nuts is the lack of profitable loot so I'll be unable to afford better equipment. Unless I level.
On the flip side, my nub-skillz one-shot shit so it's not all bad.

Added:
Running my mesmer to Rata Sum to leech and take advantage of the double rep weekend. Maybe I can get her Asuran armor before she even bothers with actually playing in EotN. I need to get Alitosh to at least 13,000 rep. Doing the missions for the Asura will easily get the rest.
Added:
z0mg moar mezmer stuff. I basially got ranks 1-4 from leaching alone. I planned on doing the missions to make the rest up but I figure I'll continue leaching as my sanity holds up. It's balanced with the concept of "Something for nothing" with "I REALLY hate getting to the Asuran missions." The missions aren't bad but the massive shit you go through to get to them. Seriously, the quests leading up to the missions are harder than the missions themselves. I mean fuck. You find Gadd, and he makes your ass tromp through a Swamp to kill glowing Ettins. You locate Renk only for him to tell your dumbass to go back and get the other guys. Blimm makes you wander around pointlessly. Ugh. Oola is also nuckin' futs.

Added:
Figured out what my problem with warriors was. My problem comprised of two things:

Always used the same build.
Always went for one type of armor.

As soon as I gained that one armor, I was done with that character. I barely played the character. So, I have a new plan:
To Do List. Unless you're blind, clicking that should immediately show you a series of warrior pictures. I plan on creating a warrior for the mere goal of collecting armor.
I only see three problems with this plan:

Gotta be deep into factions to get the kurzick, and deeper for elite kurzick.
It's easy to get rank 5 in one of the Gwen titles. But it's a little more time consuming to get rank 5 in just about all of them.
Vabbian is fucking EXPENSIVE. That'll rip more money out of me than elite armor.

Luckily Droknar's is an Easy run so getting Templar won't be difficult. I'm not entirely worried about some of the elite versions because they're not much different. I might even cross the elite kurzick off my list.
If I'm able to accomplish this, it will be a neat show-off character.

Right now this slot is taken by my brother's level 5 twinked dervish (funded by me, obviously), and he only plays Guild Wars when he's bored with all else so... This is further down the road. I have to wait for him to say absolutely "You can kill my derv". (Which sucks because I sunk 20k in that damn thing). But it eventually payed for itself as I discovered raptor farming soon after I twinked his dervish.

[edit] September 25. 2008

So anyway my original plan was to make an elite ritualist skill like, a "graduation" symbol for Namuen. (This works under the theory that elites signify great accomplishment or rank, like her Cruel Spear signifies that she's a formidable sunspear.) But I found a couple that would be wonderful to have even during roleplay-training. I'm not sure how I will justify her having a powerful ability only 1/4th through her training. (She's only been a student for around a year. Slightly less. I'm also working under the normal 4-year school deal.) I could just fast foreward. I dunno. GW's timeline is so screwy...

I wanted an aggressive spirit but Wanderlust is way out of my reach so I've got my eyes on Preservation and Spirit Light Weapon.

[edit] September 24. 2008

Got Nikki the last few missions of prophecies so if I ever feel the compulsion or boredom to help guildies and friends, I'll actually be able to aid throughout prophecies.

I still hate the campaign. But I feel about proph the same way I do about guilds: Hate them, but believe everyone should have one.
Well, with some rewording.

[edit] September 22. 2008

Gewd. Newz.

I now have at least one character that is able to access pretty much every prophecies mission. Now, I hate prophecies with a passion but I knew deep down I should have at least one of my characters deep into it, in order to help current and future friends, guildies, and allies. Now I generally pass up the option to help others because I'm a lazy-solo-playing-asshole, but I do on occassion help my fellow man. Aurora Glade however can go right on ahead and fuck itself. Hate that goddamn mission. As I do most prophecies ones. Except the early ones. Because they're easy.
But into the jungle and further they just get annoying.

(My Dervish has the ring of fire and some of the shiverpeaks missions but overall she doesn't count because she doesn't have the entire jungle or any of the desert)

Aggression aside, I'm STILL proud of having one character all up in Proph's ass. Still got the last few missions to go (Currently at Iron Mines) but for the most part, I got most of prophecies missions open for future use.
This little spree originally started when I needed to get to the Falls for the MOX quest reward. Turns out it was only around 3 missions away from D'Alessio Seaboard. Took around an hours worth of H/Hing to get to where I needed. Relatively simple. I figured, I was in the jungle already, might as well get her to the desert.

Ugh. The Desert. Those missions suck, too. Terrible.

Moar Aggression aside, can't wait for Halloween. Moar raptor farming.

[edit] September 21. 2008

Turns out Raptor farming really isn't profitable without event items or when your asura rank is high enough to where 50-160 points a run... really doesn't do much. Yes, Grogs are still dropping but I went a few runs without any of them and I only got like, 200g worth of whites. Sure, not a bad bounty for 2-4 minutes worth of work but I'd rather do something else like, Missions.

Winding down with GW again, which sucks. I want to roleplay more but now that I was kicked, I haven't RP'd for a second. And XoO's alliance is getting on my nerves. Everytime I cuss, no matter how innocent, I always get like two whispers "don't cuss plz." So I go, what the fuck, this is an 18+ alliance. Not children. Either there are some prissy bitches or a good few people are lieing about their age.
I was also feeling joyfully juvenile one time after someone said something about penetration and all I typed was "LOL PENETRATION" and nothing else. Soon after, a whisper "no sex content plz". They didn't even say it the proper way like "sexual" so that tells me they're younger... than they would like to be.
I love my XoO and I have said numerous times that it would be the only real guild I'll ever join again. But that promise is looking more and more distant.
I don't think I'll be able to find another adult guild of XoO's Calibur(re?). I might just make a roleplaying guild myself and go from there.

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