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[edit] November 21, 2009
Nothing game related. Quite sadly, my online time is dictated by how tired my brother is. And we've, for once, seemed to have gotten parallel sleep schedules which has basically locked me out of the computer that has GW on it. Sadface.
So here's my newest movie review.
[edit] Obsessed (2009)
*** This comment may contain spoilers *** '
Massive spoiler in this one, I pretty much give away the ending in this review. But frankly, there's not much to give away.
It was 'okay', I guess. In an acting standpoint it was pretty good, especially Idris Elba who played Dereck Charles. I would like to see him in future roles similar to the one he played here. He did very well.
It had decent cinematography, and... that's about where the quality ends.
Overall, it just seems like a movie that tried too hard. The soundtrack was ridden with "quiet quiet BOO" type music, and the creepiness loses it's sting after it does it four times in a row (Specifically, the attic scene. By the gods, by the time Ali Larter's character finally bothered to pop out I was bored to tears).
Most of the movie was slow and not very horror-like. It should have ditched the creepy atmosphere and it might as well have just been a normal movie about an affair.
It failed at trying to be a Horror. What makes horror, well, y'know, horrific, is the Mystery. There was no mystery here. From the very start of the trailers you knew who the Ax-Crazy woman was. But she wasn't dangerous. They could have done something like what "P2" did (Similar concept, excellent execution), but it was all very pointless. P2 had a parking garage worker locking the entire area up tight. However, this Tempgirl was, for the most part, normal. P2 had an excellent finale. All Obsessed gave us was a painfully long chickfight that could have ended if Beyonce had pushed the panic button on her Alarm system.
And yes, that's all they gave us at the end. A chick fight. Good girl prevails. Movie over. Thanks for wasting my time.
[edit] November 14, 2009
Got my Elementalist knee-deep in factions. Once again, I have two characters that need to do the rest of factions from the same spot.
Though, I did get Chamo all of the CM outposts and stuff. Got a PvP build, I essentially just stole from the recent Costume Brawl build for eles. Couldn't find anything I liked on PvX, and I don't have shit unlocked. It works pretty well, I guess. Melee can't touch me, but casters can kick my ass across the map. But they don't attack me as often.
It was hilarious. I was playing luxon-side JQ just to get some luxon faction, and the same assassin kept trying to attack me. Up to 4 times. But kept Blinding him, then nuking him with around ~220 lightning damage in between 2 spells. So 2 or 3 rotations and they were dead. They didn't take a hint, and kept coming back for more. Idiot.
I'm only 21k from rank 4 luxon, might need to do luxon side a few more times just to top the title off.
[edit] November 13, 2009
Well, power went out for ~12 hours where I was. This Nor'Easter storm is kicking my areas ASS.
Got a shit load of writing done, though. Which I have already posted on my Fanfiction page. After Namuen's chapter, I talk about Ichihara. After that, a whole new chapter entirely where I brush up on what all the characters are doing in GW's "present day".
For those paying attention, I've omit 3 characters for having any big part in my story. Hasin, Chamo, and H. I did a blog post on their levels of importance already, and these three got the short end of the stick. H is pretty big, but only in RP. She has a very simple role and doesn't need much of an introduction. When M reels her in it'll be like "Hi. This is H. She gathers information". And it'll be done.
So, ele elites. Going to gun for Master of Magic next, then spend a few plat getting some spells that I like. Low on money though, and I got an art request for a chibi-M. I need moniez :(
[edit] November 12, 2009
Wishlist for my ele, on terms of elite skills;
Double Dragon (It looks fun)
Blinding Surge (PvP?)
Invoke Lightning, 
Lightning Surge, 
Ride the Lightning (They all kinda look the same to me)
Shatterstone
Mind Freeze
Ward Against Harm
Water Trident (For the lulz, mainly)
Elemental Attunement(also for the lulz, unlocking it on account, and wondering what the HELL I could ever do with it)
Energy Boon (Looks fun)
Master of Magic (I might actually use this with some kind of hybrid water/air build)
[edit] November 10, 2009
My elementalist has made some good headway in factions. Trying to play her a bit so I don't have the urge to delete her yet again to make headway for a mesmer. I want to armor collect on a mesmer now :/
My warrior is still graphics-stuck in the CTC. Damnit.
And finally, dealing with some art drama on Guru. Though, drama on that website is as unexpected as the start button on my game controller.
It's truly amazing, it's not like anything I've seen. There's this whole "Client versus Artist" war-type thing going on. Even on Gaia Online, people generally get along very well; even if they get 40 art requests in 2 minutes after thread creation.
On Guru, at artist may get around 10 solid requests to worth with. They take months to do one, a few more months to do another, then they reject or even worse, ignore the rest. People who are well known get art without even asking, and paying customers aren't even spoken to.
Christ. Even I, no stranger to rejection, would at least be formally rejected rather than ignored. And that's all I'm getting from there.
This whole war seemed to spark up a little when I made a small off-comment on this. I was quickly pounced upon by art zealots defending how they act and how my actions are TEHBAD OMG. A few days into it a mod finally mass deletes all posts relating to it. And yet this thread survives. Though, I kind of like that thread.
It's insanity. 12 year old girls are more mature than these adults on Guru. The fuck.
[edit] November 7, 2009
Handwriting my new fanfic from part 1. Looks better, but you peeps won't know yet ^_~
And if you haven't seen already, broke up my Fanfiction page.
[edit] November 6, 2009
Found a new error. For some reason, my computer was able to load Gate of Pain, and Nightfallen Jahai, but for some reason it can't do the Domain of Fear.
I swear, some of this is so retardedly arbitrary, I wonder what kind of schizophrenic graphics cards A.net was using when they made Nightfall, and even more so for Eye of the North.
Well, at least this one doesn't have me permastuck in an outpost.
Added:
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Taken while defending Gunther. The charge was half way and they got to our green gate that quick. We won anyway.
Noone replied to either of my comments. It's amazing on how little people talk during TEAM games.
So, two new things to talk about today.
N/A Bombing for JQ and my new fanfiction.
Bombing is fun, but holds a lot of counters in it's hands. The most obvious one is Pinning down, which esentially damages you because of Contagion+Dark Aura. My ranger was a pro-bomber killer because fire/poison/pindown = Prematurely dead bomber.
The next obvious one is Shatter Enchantment, which some shrine NPCs use. I'm not sure how people get around it. A cover enchant wouldn't always work since I sometimes get hit TWICE with it. And despite the mesmer NPC presence, I've seen people do completely flawless runs again and again. For me, I have a 2:1 win/fail rate with bombing, it seems. MOST of those fails are a result of the NPC's shattering my shit.
A less obvious counter is; What if your team owns? What if you end up getting every shrine that matters, or ALL of them? You're basically left sitting on your hands. I just experienced this before this added section. I felt like I should have chosen a different class.
And my new fanfic brought up another seed of thought: That page is getting really freaking long. But I already feel bad about treating this place as some kind of sub-website and am stingy about creating even more subpages. But everytime I think about that, I always think that I've seen people do so much more. It would also be very healthy for organization, as well as the readers themselves.
I think this because my newest fanfic, I estimate it will be very long. If the individual parts won't be, the total outcome sure as hell will. It's a difficult thing to write. I have to introduce every important character of mine, and write like everyone HASN'T been to my individual character pages and read their histories (Which makes sense, because most really haven't. But sometimes I forget that when writing). After I do all the mass load of introductions, I have to then somehow weave their fates together.
And Nikki's introduction isn't very well written. It's like that because I didn't handwrite it first. I just clicked "edit section" and started writing. I'll handwrite it from now on, it's quality should improve a bit afterward.
I like the style of the actual intro-intro... but it needs a rewrite in itself. Seems to fragmented, confusing. Though I suppose it's supposed to be. Not sure yet.
We'll see how it goes.
[edit] October 31, 2009
So, this is how my day went. Woke up at ~5am, logged on GW. Plopped my Rit (this years halloween character, thanks to her armor. Last year it was my warrior with her primeval+dread mask). I go back to bed and wake up an hour and a half later and I already got the skeleton paint. It doesn't look bad on my rit, her hair covers the sides so you don't see the skin as much. I might use it for her roleplay, at least in the beginning of her resurrection.
The next couple of hours I PvP a bit. I get some amber, and I managed to muster up 32k, a zkey, 48 ToT bags and gave it all to someone who sold me a Chaos Axe. For most of the day afterward, I played my ranger with the axe build, wielding the axe. But could find very little to do.
My one guildie mentions the Menagerie, and it clicks. I'll go pet capping! So I get most of the Ascalon ones, minus the obvious pre-searing ones (some balthazar faction can get them, not a lot. May have to sacrfice a Zkey or two in the process though). I get most of the factions ones too. A few Nightfall pets, and then I go over to my friends house to watch a movie and play some ps3. No candy this year though, money problems. But that's where I'm typing this post right now. Shitty laptop by the way. Or isn't, it's just a bit worn. It's used a lot. My brother is playing LittleBigPlanet with him right now.
Future plans, finish pet capping. It's a little rough, had to retry a few of them because my Charm aggros, and instead of coming at me they charge straight for my FLAGGED Heroes/henchmen, for some reason. Happened with the Dune Lizard. The White Tiger took a couple of attempts too, but managed to get it, even the hard way. I skipped the normal tiger because it'll be pretty easy to get.
I'm also skipping some of the VERY ordinary ones. After I have a Black/White Moa, I don't need a stinking strider or standard Moa Bird. Seriously.
I am however having trouble locating the Lions/Lioness. Right now Nikki is sitting in Jennur's Horde, she needs to get to Basalt Grotto, an outpost I seemed to have missed. The lions are not far outside there. The Mines area is completely unmapped, so another 6% and she might have 70% into Elonian Cartographer. I have a few 60%'s around my characters but those aren't bragworthy. Anything past that though, I might wear.
And now my brother/friend are begging me to watch them play some User made Ninja warrior maps on LBP. Later.
[edit] October 29, 2009
I wonder which one of my many armors would look good pink. I want to try.
About 4 minutes after the above sentance, no dice. Red+White for some reason doesn't make a very good pink, even though it does with real paint (Done it before).
[edit] October 28, 2009
Anyone else notice how useless Warriors are for general gameplay? Sure, they take a lot of hits but nothing else. In PvP they can snare and knockdown... but even casters can take hits, snare, KD, and everything else if not a little bit better. Full caster groups can be more effective as a full warrior group (with monks backing them, of course). Their damage output would be shit.
I don't know, just an observation. I don't see a lot of warriors around anymore except for simple tasks that could be done better by something else.
So, beat the last 2 missions of prophecies with my elementalist, (with a warrior acquaintance of mine, no less), got my ranger the Deldrimor Flatbow. I might get the Maul next.
My Necromancer is one quest away from Eternal Grove, and as such, not far away from beating Factions himself. But that quest is so fucking annoying to mess with. (Mostly because of the confusing areas, can't tell a path from a goddamn rock)
And as per my last post, I -did- beat Factions with my assassin finally.
And if you haven't noticed, I got my ritualist elite canthan armor. Acquired all legit-like, too!
So that marks the end of my armor collection. Other than like, maybe, one more armor set for my assassin and/or ranger, (and obviously the Monument for my warrior, but I don't count that yet), I'm done with armors for any of my characters. Though, a Future mesmer might get a few more. (I'm a fan of elite canthan).
Okay so that's a handful. BUT OTHER THAN THEM; I'm not sure what I'll spend my cash on. Might get some rare weapons directly. Maybe some minis that I actually like. Dunno.
[edit] October 25, 2009
Irony: I gave my old raptor farmer a mini raptor to hang out with.
I say "old" because I can't farm on this computer, Rata Sum crashes me. And the character gets permastuck there until I get a friend to get them out for me.
I tested Central Transfer Chamber with one of my lower-priority characters, my warrior, and now she's permastuck. Sigh.
Random thought: I really wish there was an easier way to farm Ebon Vanguard to rank 5 without books.
Random Note: Just beat Factions on my imbagon. With my assassin, I'm in unwaking waters. And it's completely barren of people.
Due to my previously mentioned graphics issues, I'm pretty much isolated to Prophecies and Factions. And I hate prophecies.
I can do most of Nightfall, but one of the missions plops me in Wehhan, and the permastuck ensues.
No wonder I've been so fucking bored recently. I can't do any of the campaigns I actually like.
[edit] October 24, 2009
My blog has been looking a little bland since my October 13 archive, only one image on the bottom of the page. So here's Shizuma with her newly attained Elite Canthan armor;
With that aside, I have a small idea for this blog post. I'm going to outline SOME my characters and their level of importance in both roleplay value and standard gaming.
This idea comes from my new banner image on my front page, those three are debateably my most important. My rit, less so but she's got the potential to become a powerful woman.
Matthias is the most important in RP terms, as he's the Commander of the entire Vanguard. He functions as a questgiver, meaning anyone who roleplays with me will almost always have to go through him to get to anyone else. His level of importance is obvious.
For general gaming, he's pretty fun. I talk about how awesome my self-built SS build is on his respective page, and I also have a few MM elites to work with. But death nova managing is annoying. But overall, MM's and Spiteful Spirit are both very useful builds.
Nikki seems ordinary at first, but she's gone through more than her history has presented. She's had to deal with friendly (and unfriendly) dragon broods, a cave labyrinth, her hilariously incomptant monk friend, and a bunch of other substories I roleplayed back on Starcraft RP maps. She's one of my oldest character concepts (I call her a "concept" because I've recycled her personality and history, even changed it), and sadly my most unused for her age.
Got off on a tangent there. Why is she so important? Well, provided I can find someone to roleplay her questline, she has the potential to become a powerful link between M and the nation of Vabbi. And given her history, this wouldn't be a difficult feat for her to complete.
In general gaming importance, just read this post.
To end this trio of importance (but by no means this blog post), There is Ichihara. I've had a VERY difficult time finding the proper wording for her history. I do know that I want her to be a powerful witch that lived in Shiro's Era, 200 years ago. But past that simple 1 line, I can't think of anything to flesh it out. I could go on all day about her personality but that would just be saying a lot of nothing. It's the history I need.
But I do have a roleplay session planned, M will want her mummy 'awakened'. Despite her being Canthan, she was shipped off and buried in Elona (due to the harsh conditions and isolation, it was considered unlikely that she'd be released).
For general gaming value, it's only medium-ranged. On one hand, I have a neat spirit spamming build that's rather powerful and vaguely boring to play. Still, I lol everytime I see the machinegun effect some spirits cause.
Caroline, EASILY has the potential to be a power-player. Not just with the Vanguard, but with Canthan politics as a whole. Hell, she might even contribute in helping Ichihara get her bearings back). And aside from Namuen, Caroline has one of the best histories in my recent writing history. Obviously, my older concepts like Nikki and M beat them by a mile but... Namuen and Caroline have brilliant backgrounds. I'd say she's very valueable in RP terms, but I can't realize almost any of this without another roleplayer.
Everyone else is too simple.
Chamo is a simple alchemist. In general gaming, she's a Zaishen Elite farmer.
Hasin is still a student. General gaming, can't farm anymore but partakes in some PvE every now and then.
H, despite being an inherant badass, also is a bit simple in her function. She's essentially a living robot. Interesting to roleplay, but rarely anything past simple conversation. In general gaming terms, I've practically abandoned her, as there's very little to do with her.
Namuen, probably graduated from Shing Jea at this point, still has an entirely too simple of a function. In general gaming, she's an awesome Imbagon (Or spear chucker if need be), but she beat factions and EoTn. Nightfall gives me that graphics roadblock, and I hate prophecies. So she's a bit in the dust along with H.
Shizuma, regrettably, also has a very simple function.
In roleplay terms, she's a recruiter. Barely anything more than M's secretary. She does have her own set of personality querks and will eventually descend into outright madness... and even then she's just a girl who introduces people to other people.
For general gaming; Very little past armor collecting. She's already beaten everything, and I can't find any PvP builds that are far enough away from what I use in PvE to be of any interest to me.
I love the character to death but I can't find anything to do with her anymore. Other than toss more armor at her.
[edit] October 23, 2009
Like the last update that added the Menagerie and Daily quests, here we go; Opinion time.
Before anyone starts claiming I'm bad, I'll have you know I've been doing very little BUT PvP for a while now, since everything else has dried up for me. I'm no professional at it, but I'm a few steps above the average scrub (and the same can be said for me on a lot of other games as well).
Of course, that might not mean much. Many people mentally skip the disclaimers and are quick to just brand someone "TEH BAED". But blog-visitors are sparse so thankfully I may not get that much flak.
Now, for the most part I have the same complains as I do in RA. first and foremost, I can never get a team that can fucking win. The new title gives ONE point per 5 wins, and I can never win more than one at a time. I win one, I lose six games. That's usually the ratio. This happens a lot in RA too, unless I play a monk.
But it's not so simple as just "be the monk" in Codex. Which leads us to a massive load of profession descrimination. If you can avoid those who want gladiator ranks, you still have to deal with those only wanting specific classes with specific builds. Despite it all being random, meta can form in minutes. I can't subscribe to that metagame, and it takes me 30 minutes to find a group. And when I finally do, the above problems arise.
I don't mind the random shuffle. I like fiddling with new skills that I don't often use. What I find infuriating, is people STILL expect specifics. Well we can't fucking do that in this new arena.
On the PvE side, I can't farm ToT bags and noone is buying charr carvings for some reason. Fuck.
Added:
New project!
After I get my warrior's elite canthan armor (can't get her monument for a long time, with how my graphics card doesn't like most of EoTn);
I'm going to get as many res skills on my monk as I can. Join luxon side and watch the lulz ensue.
[edit] October 22, 2009
Halloween event tomorrow. Can't wait, got a stack of normal charr carvings I need to sell.
Anyway, just got the suicide bomber build, and got M past Tahnakai and through the next three missions, and finally... the Competative Missions.
And holy shit it's so fun. It's a bit different on terms of playstyle, as you're TRYING to die. But man, it's so fun. Every now and then something tanks, death nova gets stripped or I die before I get to the goal, whatever. That happens.
I did a JQ game where the yellow shrine was in more conflict than I've ever seen. The entire game was just green/purple capping because we were playing Tug O' War with Yellow. I'd bomb it, then on my way back some AotL (which is beefy in CM's) MM would zerg it. I'd bomb it again, etc. This went on up to ten times, I shit you not.
So I came up with this little one-line poem that I'll recite if something like that happens;
"Back and forth yellow doth go. Where it ends, nary a soul knows."
Teehee.
Added:
I also plan on saving up my gold Zcoins. Instead of getting a Zkey every gold coin I attain, I'm going to get 5 for an equipment pack for my warrior. I have a new armor on her wishlist. Might get it during the Halloween festivities. But ToT bags and Carvings aren't worth as much as Zkeys, so it'll take a bit more work to get this one.
[edit] October 21, 2009
The recent issue of Gameinformer talks about a new horizon of Game-Movie and Movie-Game adaptations. From the way it looks, the relationship and segway between the two are improving. But it's hard to say. Most of them look good at first glance.
Lots of speculation surrounds why it never works, and the GI article didn't mention that both mediums do different things for people. Yes, one is interactive. But it's argueable that Movies seem to dedicate more energy into the storyline, and games tend to focus on the characters. Generally. Obviously, mileage may vary.
But according to GI, game companies and movie producers are going to be working closer together. Before, game people would just be excited that their game is paid attention to, to have a movie and they'd sell every piece of rights they could. And then the movie would tank because everyone involved is an idiot.
But I welcome the new change, if it really is a change. I think it's just that movies ran out of ideas, now that they've milked every popular comic possible. (Though I'm still waiting on the full-on Justice League gathering movie).
[edit] October 20, 2009
So, I've watched Ghost Whisperer. A few episodes. Enough to judge, anyway.
It interested me once I first saw previews for it, I was expecting it to be buffy-ish, with a side of House MD (Or any investigative show like CSI, NCIS). Two shows I love.
But every episode starts the same. The middle is the same. The ending is always the same.
Each episode starts off, not with a person dieing but with the main character seeing a ghost. It does some creepy voices, yelling, or some speedy head twitching. Awesome. At first they seem even hostile. Like most lore paints ghosts, they go mad. All that.
But the very second they find out someone can see them, lo' behold the sanity. Suddenly they can speak clearly. Hell, one episode went as far as the character's burn wounds completely went away by the end of the episode.
So anyway, they find out how they died, their name, and their family. This happens a lot where the protagonist lives, but it only makes sense that ghosts would wander around where they actually lived. (And to be fair, we do see her travel out of town a bit.) So this particular point I cannot blame them too much for. It makes sense.
What doesn't however, is how they're able to find everything about the victim and family from a quick google search.
I'm going to propose an experiment to myself. A year after anyone I know dies (Hell, just a month or two), I'm going to do an internet search on them and see if the media even bothered to give them an ENTIRE news article on it. My skepticism says no.
Because, y'see... House is a doctor. He also has a team working for him. The CSI people, are part of the police force. Obviously they have connections to find out what they need. Buffy and her gang had tomes and old books, and they OFTEN showed us some kind of research montage to show us that it did indeed take them a while to identify whatever they were looking for.
Ghost Whisperer has none of that. You see "Melinda" (I think I spelled it right) at her computer once and within 1 minute she's rattling off her findings to her husband/friend.
I wouldn't mind this so much if they give a psuedo-sciency explanation. Might be fake but at least psuedo-science is still entertaining.
So she uses these findings to interview and interrogate the people being haunted or local loved ones. Obviously they are skeptical at first but a few correct words that Melinda relays from the ghost, and lo! We have a believer! Now, the logic IS sound but this just gets annoying when they do it every single fucking episode.
Every episode ends with half a family tree gathered in some living room, giving us an extremely boring relay of ghost-to-Melinda-to-family dialog. People cry. People hug. Ghost goes into the light.
One more side note; It does make sense that Ghosts can only see or remember what they WANT to see or remember (Supernatural covered this, yet another show with a similar concept but does it a lot better), but I found it kind of odd after FOUR different occassions a ghost CONVENIENTLY and completely remembers a certain situation that would help Melinda either convince the family she can actually see ghosts, or help further her investigation in helping it.
It might be worth trying to watch a couple of times. The acting is decent, has several thousand good looking women in it... making this a borderline soap opra but they mix it up with the occasional old guy or fat girl. (And even THOSE are by no means ugly).
The show tries to mix things up by getting Melinda a husband, having one of her friends die, or having one of the haunted people be a possible murderer. But at the end of the day every episode is the same.
It's a neat concept but it's been done before, and better. Time better spent rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer or catching up with Supernatural.
[edit] October 16, 2009
Elementalists really get the short end of the stick when it comes to armor. Most of it looks exactly the same.
In other news, good morning to be a kurzick. Played several JQ games and only lost 1 so far. But the more hours pass, the more resiliant luxons are (They're logging on). May only handle a couple more games.
Oddly enough, I've been doing JQ more for the balthazar. A few zkeys will spur my ele armor funding.
More to come today, maybe.
[edit] October 15, 2009
New goal: Elite Stormforge armor for my elementalist. I think it'll fit her new earth build splendidly.
How to get this money? Well, hoping to find a Mallyx group. I prefer Mallyx only but wouldn't mind doing a full run, get gem drops, and sell them. (Torments are 5k, that's beefy). Of course, still doing my Zkey thing.
After spending a few plat though, I got some Norn Tourney farmer builds (Pretty much the same 6 skills, on different characters) and was able to get both the Tourney and Glacial Griffon. The griffon, as usual, was a little rough. But it's spirits were too busy attacking my own. So I lived, almost never got hit.
And now I've got ~3 characters of the /Rt variety that can farm the tourney if I need to. (But the crown dyes.. oddly. It becomes blinding-neon).
Still, even with all this I'm still really BORED. After some of this is done, I'm doomed to constant PvP loss or standing around Blade Radio Dj's.
Still, really want to play my ranger more now.
[edit] October 14, 2009
I really like this screenshot. Looks like she's having a lot of fun. She's very cute in this.
I've blown through a lot of money to get that particular look, and not just because of the black dyes.
Ever since I saw her character, I've been trying to steal my friend's ranger's look. I was discouraged when I discovered that was the fuckmothering VABBIAN chestpiece.
But I was finally able to afford it, and I already had the elite druid bottoms for my trapper set. So with those two pieces, half the battle was over.
The real problem came along with the boots and gloves. Well, I easily cannot (ever) afford the obsidian boots, or the elite studded leather. (Maybe the studded, but I didn't like the look and didn't want to bother).
So eventually my friend pointed me in the direction of the similar-but-reskinned monument armor. So I got them. 40k later I have two pieces of armor that DIDN'T HAVE THE SAME BLACK HUE as the vabbian/druid. Instead it was more like a navy blue and it was extremely noticeable. Fuck.
So I did a lot of research and a lot of wiki tabs, looking and comparing every ranger glove pieces and boots. Even went in-game to buy the nub 20gold pieces just to see what it would all look like. I finally succeeded with the Istani armor. It dyes really well and frankly, I think it's one of the best looking starter sets in the game, my mixing aside.
Thus further proving "I can't get above 10k without finding something to buy" mentality.
Other than that, I've run into another dead-end on GW. I have very little to do. I would do a lot more nightfall but the Whhan Terraces graphics glitch gives me a massive roadblock, despite all the rest of Vabbi actually working for me.
I've been poking at some PvP but after losing a few times in a row, its fun-factor wears off very easily. I've switched to luxon again, but mostly for a casual=chatting alliance. I'm still going to be kurzick, made easier since I don't do actual alliance battles anymore. I'm all about the FA/JQ.
To fill the time I've been SS/LB farming on my rit. Um. Nothing really to add onto that, except I got an elite necro tome which I sold to help fund Nikki's mix armor.
So I'm slightly stuck unless someone wants to help me get through Gyala Hatchery like, three times on different characters. Luckily Ichihara got past it and is now in Raisu Palace. But somehow that place has been consistantly barren.
