Cows and Bears

Ho, Adventurer!

Since I started playing I have struggled with the decision as to whether I should just explore everywhere on Tore (my main) or leave some areas to explore with Alts.  I've still not made a firm choice.  I have broadly decided I won't deliberately avoid exploring an area at the cost of having nothing fun to do.  I'll also try to keep the 1-15 areas for Alts that are starting out: always nice to explore home turf on a new toon.

As I don't have the time or inclination to do a Legendary weapon getting 100% world is not a priority.  In fact, if I did want to do that, 100% world would be the smallest hurdle to jump.

I thought it would be nice to explore Queensdale completely as I figured I'd never make a human (boring) but I have since decided a female human engineer might be good fun!

Pretty, isn't it?

However, with the announcement of Flame & Frost: Prelude I figured I should definitely go and get 100% completion on Diessa Plateau before the Living Story changed anything radically.  I have to say it's one of the more varied an interesting zones I've explored.  I really liked the autumnal aesthetic and a lot of the heart quests were quite novel.  The norn heart quests are quite samey throughout the Shiverpeaks; certainly there are enough dredge to last you a life time and Frostgorge Sound makes for a welcome break.

I think my favourite heart quest in Diessa was helping out with the gardening and my favourite dynamic event was cow training. A very enjoyable hour of gaming!

I should have taken a few more screenshots of some of my favourite areas on the plateau but I suspect the Living Story will take me back there soon enough.  My overall impression was bears, ghosts and cows.  Lots of cows.

Diessa Plateau: where it's always autumn

Shrine of the Six

Hello there!

Odd to start a blog just as you begin playing a game only to reach the level cap before you post again, don't you think?  Well, in this case, no.  I was just enjoying myself too much!

Last weekend I reached 80 on my norn Necromancer.  I tried to play almost exclusively in the Shiverpeaks (which felt like home turf) and yesterday I finally managed map completion for Frostgorge Sound.  That was pretty good fun.  Of course I got distracted fighting dragons a few times but, hey, they were hard to miss!

Unfortunately I have missed 3 areas so I don't have my Shiverpeak Explorer badge but I want to go back and find the jumping puzzles anyway.

Having reached a nice natural end point yesterday, this morning I was free to do whatever I liked.  I had a good look at level 80 exotic gear last night and decided which dungeons I'd like to try to do.  So, one thing I could do is unlock all the dungeon waypoints.  However, I don't like to just run pell-mell through zones so I decided to go and explore Divinity's Reach in detail.

Having not played GW I'm not very familiar with the lore of the games so I enjoyed finding out about the six gods the humans worship and suddenly a few things made a bit more sense.  I still prefer the norn animal totems as a system of deification but that's for another blog.

I do intend to play some other characters and some point so I am somewhat reluctant to go and explore some areas on Tore.  I know I'll enjoy playing those other characters much more if I don't.

That's all for now, RL to attend!

Ho! Adventurer

My name is Tore Raghnar and I am a Necromancer.

Yup, I love sex with dead things.  Oh, wait, that's not right.

So, I recently began my adventures in Guild Wars 2 and aside from the fact that the trading post was broken for the first week, I have nothing but good things to say about it.

I'll share some of those things here.

Bye for now!