Makeovers & Money Trees

Something that I must admit I am addicted to is the makeover function in Guild Wars. I can't help myself - there's always something about one of my characters that needs to be tweaked (both my ele and my necro have undergone major pixel-surgery) and sometimes I'm just itching to spend a little money. Therefore I think that there are things that can be done to improve the makeover system. Just as Guild Wars has recently placed a new NPC that gives you a free costume (that you pay for, of course), why is there not a function to buy new hairstyles that are exclusive to the seller? You could have seasonal styles and colours, and this could easily be blended into the existing Festival Hat makers, which will store and reproduce your festival masks across accounts. I suppose the fatal flaw in my plan is the fact that in order to list these exclusive hair styles, they would need names; an aspect that isn't used in the other hairstyles in the makeover and character creation zones. At least it's an idea towards funding Guild Wars 2, A-Net. By the way, I wouldn't mind a job in development =D

Speaking of Guild Wars 2, the main website has published the clues towards the first novel in the upcoming Guild Wars 2 novels. These are designed to plug the gap between the end of GW:EN and the beginning of GW2, in order to make sense of 250 years' worth of history. The website does nothing more than explain that it follows the human struggle against the Charr by that dolt Adelbern, the loss of Ascalon, and the eventual move to Kryta. While the storyline seems a little thin and predictable, something that personally interests me is the level to which it may explain possible game play and potential items that you may find in-game. Bring on the treasure hunt!

N00b Land!

Yesterday evening I was faced with boredom (which I'll admit, happens quite a bit after all these years). Luckily though one of my friends who has recently begun to play had just come online and had been having trouble with the mission The Ruins of Surmia. Now I am always happy to help out a friend – especially if it's also a chance to show off how l33t I am.

So anyway, I headed to Ascalon, and found said friend ready and waiting. As soon as we grouped up however I noticed the appearance of Aeterna and her boyfriend and invited them along too. Before long we had three level twenties accompanying my friend into the harsh wilderness of Surmia. The mission? To hunt down and slaughter the Charr holding the Ascalonian citizens hostage.

Picture the scene, a group of “Ascalon's finest” go into the wilderness. They run into devourers and what's this? Out of the corpse comes a big scary level twenty-nine flesh golem. WTF?! I mean seriously, what's going on?

Well that'd be me, playing my favourite minion mastering build the power of eleven in one. Flanked by the heroic Aeterna playing her Elementalist and raining fire upon the foes, striking them down and frying them to death. And her boyfriend, the mighty and powerful monk of all monks who shall keep us alive, even in the face of level five Charr! OMG!

Ok, so we were a bit overpowered.

In my opinion this made it all the more fun. I mean, it was eleven in the evening, I've been doing hardcore stuff all evening. And then a beginning mission comes up, and we just can't help ourselves.

I could say we wanted to help out a guildy, and that would be true, but all of us crave for easy adventure now and again, and last night was just one of those times.

I've heard people say that the beginning missions aren't fun, that they're boring because of how easy they are. I don't think that's true, I mean, sure, they shouldn't be done everyday, but blitzing a mission with an overpowered build against low level foes is fun. It brings back memories of those times when you were also a n00b and you wanted to be up there with those chaos gloved people and have pink elite armour. And we should all try to recapture the n00b inside us sometimes, otherwise we might become those players who shout n00b at everyone.

Getting to Know Me - Aeterna

Welcome to the gaming blog, Kirins and Djinns! I am Aeterna, a fellow Guild Wars player and a girl that branches out into FPS and strategy gaming as well. As far back as I can remember, I have loved playing video games on a PC. Whilst I own many consoles (my favourite still being my PS2) I prefer my PC more than anything. It's not just that it's so easy to access many forms of video games on this machine, it's knowing that my computer can evolve alongside these games by upgrading the GPU here and the processor there. I'll admit that my computers tend to have a relatively short shelf-life; this one is not even 2 and I alrady want a new one.
I guess then that computers in general are why I was drawn to GW. I am a graphics whore, and I also like RPG. How many of you were playing Runescape all those years ago? I was there in its greatest moments, and despite the poor graphics it was the option of running it in a browser that caught my attention every time. The same goes for GW. Although many of my friends use the fullscreen option, I continually play it in a browser format so that I can cycle through other things that I am doing on my machine.
Unlike Faithzles, I don't have a main character as such. I have many characters that I love playing, and some definitely more than others, but at the end of the day I've always been someone with broad tastes and that doesn't stop with gaming.
As far as the subjects of gaming and computers go, that's enough for an introduction. Speak to you soon!

Faithzles - An Introduction

I have played Guild Wars for several years now, and really enjoy it. Though this blog was not created solely for the purposes of splurging the information that we collect - from our MMORPG of choice - into it, I have no doubt that most of what we do will be just that.

I am both a writer and gamer by affliction, and am completely and utterly addicted to both. In my writing I tend to favour strong female characters, and get especially hung up on the supposedly "evil" characters. Thus I play a Necromancer in Guild Wars.

Both Aeterna and I shall keep you fairly up to date on our day to day thoughts and explorations throughout our online lives, and invite you to come on a journey with us through this world of Kirins and Djinns.