Category Archives: Guild Wars

I can usually be found on my Ranger/Mesmer account, which is Shamess Fitzgerald if you’d like to get in touch with me on there. If you mention that you found me through this blog, I’ll be willing team up and help you in anyway because it’ll make me feel famous.

Sometimes change is bad. :(

Sometimes change is bad. :(

I remember before, I had a post that showed me downloading at like a megabyte a second. *sigh*

Don’t be fooled into believe that I love to tell you all what I’m doing every second of the day, I’m actually only here because World Of Warcraft is doing for maintenance. Why do they take off every realm at the same time? I thought I’d play my dwarf (PVP server) whilst my main is down, but that goes down too. Sucks. So now I’m here.

I still have the problems with graphics on both WoW and GW, with no idea what the problem is. I’ve updated drivers and everything. WoW support have told me to do a memory test, which could take hours so I might do it for when I got to bed. A small part of me wants the memory test to find an error, so I can get it fixed. But at the same time, I don’t want Toshiba to take him again…

I’ve actually done a lot of revision today. That makes me even less nervous. I was shocked to see that my first exam is Friday though… it’s a computing resit. I haven’t actually looked at it at all, to be honest… Tomorrow I shall though, and make sure that I understand all the terms in the specification. As all exams, you only need to learn what they want you to learn, even if it’s not relavant.

What else have I done today… Oh, I’ve started reading a C++ book, which my computing teacher lent me. It’s… huge. I got bored at first, where it’s teaching about variable types and stuff, which I already know. I’m reading it though, since I may miss something C++ specific that’ll confuse me later on in the book.

I suppose I’ll go to sleep now. Wake me up at 1100, when the server is back up.

What. The. Frack.

What. The. Frack.

Update: Apparently, my .dat file must have gotten corrupt, so I have to download all the images again… Got help from some unnofficial GW forum.

Update: That didn’t fix it. I just downloaded all the images again only to realise that the game works perfectly when not maximised in widescreen… I guess I file a ticket.

Here’s another image, from in game. Lion’s Arch.

Guild Wars not quiet working...

Guild Wars not quiet working...

Here’re my options. These worked before Toshiba took niimo in.

Guild Wars options menu

Guild Wars options menu

Update: WoW is fucked too.

Pfft.

Pfft.

I’m heading north through Riverside Province, because I never went up their earlier in the game. I’m guessing that’s because there are too many monsters!

It seems I\'m always at -60%.

I mean, I’m level 20! I shouldn’t be pwned so much by a mob of level 14s. Granted, there are a lot of them, and those Tengu move sodding fast. And that hex that I keep getting infected with – the one where I lose energy every time I hit – is a bitch and really doesn’t help.

I’ll keep at it.

I thought I’d give you a heads up on a few things that you should and shouldn’t do whilst playing Guild Wars. Any experienced player will have learnt all these things already, and newbies should really listen.

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I finally ascended! Yay! Gonna need to do one of the ascension missions again though, since their weren’t enough people around to do the bonus. Also, I tried to steal a dragon egg from Glint, and got pwned. No idea what I’d want with a dragon egg.

I’m so close to getting the Tyrian Explorer title. I decided to take a break though, since I have revision to do.

Guild Wars screenshot showing my equiped skills and titles

Oh, from the feedback I had from the LiveJournal Guild Wars community, I dropped the illusions magic and replaced it with Apply Poison; it’s cheaper for me to use and deals more damage, which is good. It also meant I could allocate all my attribute points to just my archer skills so I’m much stronger now.

I’m saving up for better armour at the moment. I can actually afford to head back to Cantha and get it now, but meh, I have a destiny to full fill first.

I was just doing the Villainy of Galrath quest and, oh, how I hate it. I’m sure it hates me too.

I set out from Lion’s Arch, so I only had a part of six, all level 12 henchmen (except me, who’s level twenty). How was I supposed to  know that you’re supposed to ascend and then you can do the mission much easily from a different outpost with eight in your party. I mean seriously, I’ve been doing that mission for the last three and a half hours.

This is what happened when I was trying to get through the Black Curtain.

Guild Wars screenshot from The Black Curtain

Note my minus 60% moral. Also note my resurection signet, uncharged.

This scene consisted of me yelling at the stupid henchmen for running into the water. Then I saw the mob that was coming to the mountain, towards me and changed my mind. The water was the only way to go really. Made it across though, thankfully.

In fact, I made it all the way through the swam! I was incredibly chuffed after the 50th sodding Fog Nightmare, flanked by Spined Aloe. Then my henchmen were dispatched by the two Forest Minotaurs. Kujo and I survived though!

From then on, I spent the next two hours or so argoing a set of minotaurs and then running away like mad whilst they chased, and killed them off slowly by casting Conjure Phantasm when my 16 energy charged. If I was lucky, they’d get distracted by Kujo and I could fire at them a few times.

My aim was to charge my signet. I knew you could do that by getting a moral boost, but I didn’t realise you had to boost it to a positive figure till I checked the Wiki. Damnit. I had gotten my moral up to -25% as well. Then I tried to kill the tree things and they just pwned me.

With my -40% moral, I decided to just run like made to Galrath. No prizes for guessing how that turned out. So, three hours into the mission, I’ve given up. Maybe when I’ve ascended, eh?