Monday, June 2, 2014

Well, this might be it

Hi,

Well, after playing on Friday, I didn't touch GW2 on Saturday, Sunday, or this morning. It doesn't look good for GW2 as Wildstar is one hell of a fun and engrossing game. It went live on Saturday. So, I really don't know if I'll be so wrapped up in Wildstar that I won't be playing GW2 any more, or whether I will still play some GW2 along with Wildstar.

With that being said, I focused mainly on Crafting this week. I did actually farm Seasoned Wood on Blondy, and had fun doing it. Got to do a bit more zone completion also.

Blondy also did World Bosses, and the other activity was leveling Charrly.

I'll have more details in this post later in the week, because I didn't prepare like normal by getting all the info ready.

Next week. Who knows. Maybe some GW2, or maybe none at all.

Time will tell.

BTW: Come check out my WoW blog:  http://lankyblog.blogspot.com/

Cheers.

Monday, May 26, 2014

Everyone to 35

Hi,

Yep, I did complete my plan for this week, getting all my characters to at least 35. The last was Necrobrit, who completed Gendarren Fields at level 32, but did the Fields of Ruin for a bit to get to 35.

Charrly has now moved past 35 leveling in Hirathi Hinterlands. A bit disappointed that the trees are still Gummo, but the Seasoned Wood ones will appear soon enough. I don't know if I should just get the right tools for one of my 80s and get the Seasoned Wood, or just wait for it to come naturally with Necro and Charrly.

I continued with World Bosses on Blondy, and added the Jungle Wurm. I also tried the Gollem Mark II once, but died almost immediately and didn't get loot. I think I'll give that one a pass. Blondy also tried out the Queen's Pavillion, but oh boy, what a flop. The bosses were really tough, and after about and hour, the event was completed at Bronze, netting 6 Champion bags. I could have done 4 World Bosses in that time, or way more than 6 champions. Just not worth the effort for the reward as far as I'm concerned.

I forgot about getting Ranger more gear, because I haven't been playing her. I'm just accumulating the Karma for later. I also keep forgetting to buy stuff with Guild Influence. I have tons of influence now.

Blondybrit (Norn/Warrior) Level 80
Map: 62% Bags: 8/8/12/15 Crafts: Armorsmith 227 Weaponsmith 325
Rangerbrit (Human/Ranger) Level 80
Map: 38% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Huntsman 202 Jeweler 226
Asurabrit (Asura/Elementalist) Level 54
Map: 23% Bags: 8/8/8/10 Crafts: Chef 252 Tailor 175
Mesmerbrit (Sylvari/Mesmer) Level 43
Map: 17% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Artificer 171
CharrlyBrit (Charr/Engineer) Level 37
Map: 19% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Leatherworker 152
Silvybrit (Sylvari/Warrior) Level 42
Map: 20% Bags: 4/4/8/8 Crafts: None
Necrobrit (Asura/Necromancer) Level 35
Map: 11% Bags: 5/5/5/5 Crafts: None

So, I'm now at 371/560, an increase of 11 since last week. I did continue to play Wildstar a bit, and Civ 5 a bit more than normal.

The plan for next week is to play GW2 until Friday, but then it's Wildstar headstart on Saturday, so I don't know how much I'll be playing after that. The goal is to continue leveling Charrly and Necro, and doing World Bosses to make gold.

Cheers.

Monday, May 19, 2014

A Wildstar Interlude, Cupcake!

Hi,

Oh Yeah! Played the Wildstar beta quite a bit this week, so progress in GW2 was pretty minimal. All that I'll say about it is that I did buy a copy, and I'm looking forward to playing on May 31st. But I'm planning on splitting my time between Wildstar and GW2, so I will continue to make progress.

Most of the stuff I did this week was on Blondy and Ranger. Blondy did 4 World Bosses most days, and Ranger did maybe 1 or 2. I did get back up to 40g with all the stuff I got, and bought over 400 gems more. I've got nearly 1300 now.

My 1327 gems

I leveled Asura just a bit, focusing on her as my next 80. She's hit Iron Marshes now. But then I decided to get Charrly and Necro to 35 and into Hirathi Highlands, so I stopped playing her.

Charrly completed Gendarren Fields, and is closing in on 35. Doing a bit more personal story, and some stuff in the zone where that takes place should suffice.

Blondybrit (Norn/Warrior) Level 80
Map: 62% Bags: 8/8/12/15 Crafts: Armorsmith 227 Weaponsmith 325
Rangerbrit (Human/Ranger) Level 80
Map: 38% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Huntsman 202 Jeweler 226
Asurabrit (Asura/Elementalist) Level 54
Map: 23% Bags: 8/8/8/10 Crafts: Chef 252 Tailor 175
Mesmerbrit (Sylvari/Mesmer) Level 43
Map: 17% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Artificer 171
CharrlyBrit (Charr/Engineer) Level 33
Map: 17% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Leatherworker 152
Silvybrit (Sylvari/Warrior) Level 42
Map: 20% Bags: 4/4/8/8 Crafts: None
Necrobrit (Asura/Necromancer) Level 28
Map: 6% Bags: 5/5/4/4 Crafts: None

So, I'm now at 360/560, an increase of only 6 since last week. As I said, that's because of Wildstar, and because I spent a lot of time on my 80s.

For next week, it should be a full GW2 week, because Wildstar beta is over. My plan is to get Charrly to 35, get Necro to 35 and to continue to do plenty of World Bosses.

Cheers.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Two Level 80s!!

Hi,

That's right. It only took a couple of days to get Ranger to 80. She then explored Malchor's Leap a bit to get a few of the temples open, and bought a couple of pieces of Karma gear. Now I'm poor on Karma again and will have to wait to get more gear for her. The Ranger is certainly fun, and my second favorite right now. I even did a couple of world bosses with her, and Ranger seems very effective.

Speaking of World bosses, Blondy has a couple more figured out, and now is on a good schedule. Maw -> Ugloth -> Fire Ele. Then dinner, and then Shadow Behemoth. Here's what it looks like doing Maw :)

Blondy vs Maw

That's Blondy in the foreground. She's been making the most of the gold I have. Lot's of gear from the World bosses goes for about 30-40s and it all starts adding up. With the gold I get, I'm buying gems, ready to improve my overall account once things go on sale. I was surprised that the gems for 10g dropped below 100, so I didn't buy. Fortunately, it was back up to 105 on Sunday, so I bought 40g worth. I have nearly 900 gems now.

Other than this, both Silvy and Asura have leveled this week. I was leveling Silvy and realized I really didn't want her to be my next 80. So, I fired up Asura and have been leveling her a lot. Elemental takes a bit of getting used to, but I think I'm getting the hang of it now.

I also tried leveling Artificing a bit more, but got stuck because I didn't have enough Seasoned Wood. So, I need to get more characters in the Tier 3 areas. That can wait though.

Blondybrit (Norn/Warrior) Level 80
Map: 62% Bags: 8/8/12/15 Crafts: Armorsmith 227 Weaponsmith 325
Rangerbrit (Human/Ranger) Level 80
Map: 38% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Huntsman 202 Jeweler 226
Asurabrit (Asura/Elementalist) Level 53
Map: 21% Bags: 8/8/8/10 Crafts: Chef 252 Tailor 175
Mesmerbrit (Sylvari/Mesmer) Level 43
Map: 17% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Artificer 171
CharrlyBrit (Charr/Engineer) Level 28
Map: 14% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Leatherworker 152
Silvybrit (Sylvari/Warrior) Level 42
Map: 20% Bags: 4/4/8/8 Crafts: None
Necrobrit (Asura/Necromancer) Level 28
Map: 6% Bags: 5/5/4/4 Crafts: None

So, I'm now at 354/560, an increase of 14 since last week. Let me tell you why that's a bit low. I've actually been playing a bit of the Wildstar Beta each night since it went open beta. It's actually quite fun, so maybe there will be a My Life On Planet Nexus soon :)

The plan for next week is to continue leveling Asura, do more World bosses on Blondy and Ranger, and perhaps level the lower level characters into Tier 3 areas.

Cheers.

Monday, May 5, 2014

Ranger, Ranger, Ranger

Hi,

That's right, it's all about Rangerbrit and getting to 80 (soon hopefully). I spent a lot of time on Ranger over the last week, and got her to level 74. She's now in Frostgorge Sound and going for completion. I've found this a pretty tough zone to figure out. You go north from a 71/72 area and suddenly all the mobs are level 80! Anyway, with the help of the internet, starting to figure it all out. Ranger is fun, and it will be good to see what it's like at 80. Knowing that you can only get loot from World Bosses once a day per character, it will be nice to be able to do it on a couple of characters.

Rangerbrit and Rooney

Other time was mostly spent on Silvy. She actually completed Hirathi Highlands, and is only level 40. This is kind of crazy. Only gained 5 levels while completing a 10 level zone. Anyway, I'm trying to become really familiar with Gendarren Forest and Hirathi Highlands, as I do those on all my characters.

I did play Blondy a bit. I've now got Flame Elemental and Shadow behemoth routines down, and will try out some other World Bosses to get familiar with them as time allows. FE and SB are nice, because they're 45 mins past each hour (FE odd hours, SB even hours) and are pretty easy to get to.

Other than that, I leveled Jewelcrafting up a bit, after realizing that it didn't need any tier 3 fine materials. So, it was easy getting it past tier 3 with all the gems I had. I also did my first laurel purchase, and purchased 5 Tier 6 mat bags. Even selling to just buy orders, this netted me 5g20s. Also, with the gold I had (40+) I bought 40g worth of Gems. Starting to build up my Gem stash for when things go on sale again.

Blondybrit (Norn/Warrior) Level 80
Map: 61% Bags: 8/8/12/15 Crafts: Armorsmith 227 Weaponsmith 325
Rangerbrit (Human/Ranger) Level 74
Map: 34% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Huntsman 202 Jeweler 226
Asurabrit (Asura/Elementalist) Level 47
Map: 18% Bags: 8/8/8/10 Crafts: Chef 252 Tailor 175
Mesmerbrit (Sylvari/Mesmer) Level 43
Map: 15% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Artificer 153
CharrlyBrit (Charr/Engineer) Level 28
Map: 14% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Leatherworker 152
Silvybrit (Sylvari/Warrior) Level 40
Map: 13% Bags: 4/4/8/8 Crafts: None
Necrobrit (Asura/Necromancer) Level 28
Map: 6% Bags: 5/5/4/4 Crafts: None

So, I'm now at 340/560, an increase of 25 since last week.

The plan for next week is to get Ranger to 80, and level some other characters. Also, to become familiar with some other World boss fights, and do FE and SB every day.

Cheers.

Monday, April 28, 2014

Filling out the Collection

Hi,

Yep, that's the goal. Having read this: http://www.guildwars2hub.com/features/editorials/80-things-do-level-80

I decided that I'd really try the goal of filling every single collection slot with at least 1 of the item. I said last week I was selling all Tier 1 and 2 items, but I made sure to have 1 of everything from that tier first:


So, I'm going well, but it going to be really hard collecting all the rare stuff, and I don't even want to think about the miniatures :) I'll treat this as a side project to my usual leveling and stuff.

Blondy got quite a bit of play time. Doing the Queensdale Champion Train, and also spending some time in Orr advancing her personal story. She did complete Malchor's Leap recently, and has moved on to Cursed Shore. I also made sure to do the 6:45pm Shadow Behemoth every night, to help make some money.

Ranger got some good play time too. She completed Timberline Falls, and has moved on now. She's level 63 now. Silvy moved ahead of the other 27s and got to 30 (I do enjoy my Rifle Warriors :)). Everyone got a bit of play, and advanced just a touch, with the exception of Charrly.

One other thing I did was really try to level Cooking. I had to go to some out of the way hearts vendors to get some mats, but was progressing nicely until I needed Oranges. Yikes, only drop off mobs in bags. So, I decided to carry on leveling characters to get those drops. Since then I have picked up 3 Oranges, but need tons more.

Another thing I tried was creating a new character just to get to personal story level 10, and get a Black Lion Key. I did this, and gathered tons of low level mats as I went, but what I got with the Black Lion Key didn't seem worth all the effort. I deleted that character and won't be doing it again.

I did get the monthly this week, but was dismayed when it didn't give any Laurels. Oh well, we got them in the first half of the month, so it wasn't too bad.

Blondybrit (Norn/Warrior) Level 80
Map: 60% Bags: 8/8/12/15 Crafts: Armorsmith 227 Weaponsmith 325
Rangerbrit (Human/Ranger) Level 63
Map: 28% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Huntsman 202 Jeweler 177
Asurabrit (Asura/Elementalist) Level 47
Map: 18% Bags: 8/8/8/10 Crafts: Chef 252 Tailor 175
Mesmerbrit (Sylvari/Mesmer) Level 40
Map: 15% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Artificer 153
CharrlyBrit (Charr/Engineer) Level 27
Map: 14% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Leatherworker 152
Silvybrit (Sylvari/Warrior) Level 30
Map: 13% Bags: 4/4/8/8 Crafts: None
Necrobrit (Asura/Necromancer) Level 28
Map: 6% Bags: 5/5/4/4 Crafts: None

So, I'm 315/560 on levels now. That's a 16 level improvement over last week.

The goal for next week is to level more and try to play Blondy less. I want to try to get as many Tier 3 mats as I can, so that I can be done with Tier 3. This will probably take a few weeks though. Still haven't bought anything with Laurels yet, so may do that this week.

EDIT: I just realized I made a major mistake. Even though Iron Ore is listed as a Tier 2 ore, it is still used as a Tier 3 ore in many Crafting Disciplines. So, I'm going to need to hang on to what I get now.

Cheers.

Monday, April 21, 2014

Please Welcome......Necrobrit!

Hi,

My 7th character is now up and running:

Necrobrit
I started her out, and played to about level 5. But then her Personal Story was level 6 and I felt like it was a grind to get there. Then, I remembered I had 3 scrolls of boost to level 20 in the bank. Done! level 20. Since then, she's been continuing on the Personal Story, and has got it to level 26, and is level 27 herself. I must admit, Necromancing is pretty fun. All those undead minions you can bring out.

Something else I did last week was concentrate on Crafting. I got all my crafts to at least 150, and thus was completely done with Tier 1 and Tier 2 Mats. I sold all the leftovers on the TP and made in excess of 20 gold. Now I want to get all my characters in Tier 3 zones, so that I can get all the mats needed to continue my crafting.

Blondy got a bit of play time, doing the Queensdale Champion train most of the time. But she also did one dungeon, just to see what it was like now. Got in a really good group, and managed to complete it (AC explorable). It does seem like a good little gold earner, doing dungeons.

I was also playing Ranger quite a bit. She will be the next 80, so I wanted to make some progress. She was having a blast in Timberline Falls. Only a modicum of progress was made on the other characters.

Blondybrit (Norn/Warrior) Level 80
Map: 57% Bags: 8/8/12/15 Crafts: Armorsmith 227 Weaponsmith 325
Rangerbrit (Human/Ranger) Level 58
Map: 23% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Huntsman 202 Jeweler 177
Asurabrit (Asura/Elementalist) Level 45
Map: 18% Bags: 8/8/8/10 Crafts: Chef 178 Tailor 175
Mesmerbrit (Sylvari/Mesmer) Level 35
Map: 13% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Artificer 153
CharrlyBrit (Charr/Engineer) Level 27
Map: 13% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Leatherworker 152
Silvybrit (Sylvari/Warrior) Level 27
Map: 12% Bags: 4/4/8/8 Crafts: None
Necrobrit (Asura/Necromancer) Level 27
Map: 5% Bags: 4/4/8 Crafts: None

One fun way to look at my progress is to see how I'm doing towards all of them being level 80. That's 560 levels. Adding it up, I'm 299/560. I'll report on that each week too.

The goal for next week will be to continue to level Ranger, and to get the lower level characters into Tier 3 territory. Oh and playing Blondy when I need to complete the daily, and I think I will get the monthly this week too. Really debating what to do with all the Laurels. Whether to save up for ascended stuff, or buy Tier 6 mats and sell them.

Cheers.

Monday, April 14, 2014

The Master Plan

Hi,

After coming back to GW2 on April 3rd, I remembered what I was doing when I left the game over a year ago. I leveled Blondy to 80, and was leveling Weaponsmithing at the same time. However, I hit a brick wall when I didn't have enough fine materials to continue. I tried farming for them, but diminishing returns made that pretty impossible. So, the Master Plan was bors to level tons of characters to 80, and have them deposit all the fine materials they come across. This would enable me to continue with Weaponsmithing, and to continue to level the other crafts too.

Why not buy on the TP, you may ask. Well, I have this aversion to spending anything on the TP. Maybe it's time to let go of that, because I could probably make back what I spend by selling the weapons. Oh well, I'm going to give the TP a miss for now, and see what I can get by leveling.

So, what did I get up to this week? A lot of time was spent on Silvy. She completed Brisban Wildlands (with a couple of pretty tough Skill Points near the end), and advanced the Personal Story to level 26. I also played Charrly a bit, and leveled Leatherworking to 126. My other time was spent mostly on Blondy, doing a bit more map completion, and also running the Queensdale Champion Train and trying to build back up Karma, after having spent it all.

One thing I'm also doing is building up my Guild, which has all my characters in it. I bought Architecture level 1 and 2, and then got the Guild Bank up. There aren't many things I can put in there though, because a lot of stuff is Account Bound. A bit of a disappointment actually. Influence is gained so slowly though, even though I'm making sure to at least log in to each character each day.

I bought another Character Slot with the gems I had left over from last week. So, I now have 8 slots and am thinking of starting another character. I think it will be a Necromacer, Necrobrit.

Here are my current characters:

Blondybrit (Norn/Warrior) Level 80
Map: 56% Bags: 8/8/12/15 Crafts: Armorsmith 125 Weaponsmith 325
Rangerbrit (Human/Ranger) Level 51
Map: 23% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Huntsman 202 Jeweler 177
Asurabrit (Asura/Elementalist) Level 44
Map: 17% Bags: 8/8/8/10 Crafts: Chef 104 Tailor 175
Mesmerbrit (Sylvari/Mesmer) Level 34
Map: 12% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Artificer 100
CharrlyBrit (Charr/Engineer) Level 24
Map: 12% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Leatherworker 126
Silvybrit (Sylvari/Warrior) Level 27
Map: 12% Bags: 4/4/8/8 Crafts: None

Let's now see what they all look like:

Blondybrit


Rangerbrit

Asurabrit
Mesmerbrit
Silvybrit
Charrlybrit
And there they are :)

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Reconnecting with Tyria

Hi,

I left Tyria over a year ago. I was annoyed at Diminishing Returns on farming for stuff, and really annoyed at the difficulty of Dungeons. So, I went back to WoW, and gave up GW2. But, I'm back!

Getting to know all about GW2 again was daunting. I obviously had all my characters, but playing them was very challenging to start with. But gradually, I got to know all about the game and how to play the different professions again.

Here is the list of my 6 characters now:

Blondybrit (Norn/Warrior) Level 80
Map: 56% Bags: 8/8/12/15 Crafts: Armorsmith 125 Weaponsmith 325
Rangerbrit (Human/Ranger) Level 51
Map: 22% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Huntsman 202 Jeweler 173
Asurabrit (Asura/Elementalist) Level 44
Map: 17% Bags: 8/8/8/10 Crafts: Chef 104 Tailor 175
Mesmerbrit (Sylvari/Mesmer) Level 33
Map: 12% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Artificer 100
CharrlyBrit (Charr/Engineer) Level 21
Map: 11% Bags: 8/8/8/8 Crafts: Leatherworker 75
Silvybrit (Sylvari/Warrior) Level 16
Map: 6% Bags: 4/4/8/8 Crafts: None

Anyway, I've been doing the Queensdale Champion Train on Blondy. I've been leveling up my other Warrior, and also been playing my Engineer and Elementalist again. I make sure to do the Daily tasks each day, and actually completed the abbreviated Monthly last night, Doing Completionist, and the 100 events.

So, I'm accumulating Laurels, and gradually gathering gold and Karma. I did blow nearly all my 250K Karma on a weapon and 4 Exotic armor pieces for Blondy, but am building back up and have about 50K again now.

This blog will continue to detail my experiences in Tyria with my characters, what I get up to week by week, and how I'm progressing. I will update it every Monday.

BTW: The Sylvari Personal Story is so awesome, because of the British accent of my character. Every character I create from now on may be Sylvari :)

Preview for next week. Trying to put a screenshot in:

Blondybrit