Halloween 2006 October 29, 2006

Hi Everyone! I know I was looking for some help, since right now I bet we are all busy with Nightfall, and theres an event going on too. So Guild Wars Guru has a guide with the details (Thanks CK for finding it) on this event.

Guild Wars Halloween Event

Comment to add any other guides you find and hugs to you all. Enjoy Nightfall

I <3 the Mad King

GP Crew is in the House! October 28, 2006

I met Gaile Gray October 27, 2006

Hi there I went to the Guild Wars event happening at a local Game Stop to me. Perhaps you saw the notice on the website. I got there an about an hour before the event was supposed to start, a line around 20-30 people showed up, and we waited outside, they started somewhat late, due to the founders of ANet being late. Jeff Strain’s wife, son and daughter were there, and they handed out candy as an apology for waiting. His kids were sooo adorable . Then after they started letting people in, some of the team came out to sign stuff for us while we waited and chat with us. I met and talked with the guy who designed the new Hench and Hero AI. When I finally got in, I met Gaile, Jeff Strain, and lots of other developers, writers, designers, and collected lots of signatures. Gaile said she had seen the [GP] and heard of the Happy Hellions. I told her we were big fans of her, and of Guild Wars. Sorry for no pictures, but I was pretty fatigued after waiting for so long, and wanted to get home, but it was great fun.

Chocolate farming October 23, 2006

I thought there was already a thread on this build here, and I was just gonna add some pictures. But since there’s not a thread, I’ll start it.

Thanks to CK and Nem for showing me the fun that is chocolate farming.

Chocolate farming? Well, much like folks refer to red colored vermin killin’ as tomato farming, farming the Shiro’Ken outside Harvest Temple is chocolate farming due to their prevailing brown color.

This is basically the Spirit Bond farmer, and you can read a detailed explaination here: guild wiki guide to spirit bonding

To farm the Shiro’Ken, you’ll want either Monk/mesmer or Mesmer/monk – the whole point is to turn the Shiro’Ken Ranger’s Famine spirit against the whole mob by using SV/AV to drain their energy.

CK does it with his mesmer, Nem & I do it with our monks.

I run:

Illusion Magic 10
Inspiration Magic 10
Protection Prayers 11 + 3 + 1
Divine Favor 7

(I think those atts are right, I can’t run GW here at work to look. If my math is off, the DF is probably less.)

Spirit Bond
Protective Spirit
Ancestor’s Visage
Sympathetic Visage
Mantra of Resolve
Balthazar’s Spirit
Essence Bond
Blessed Aura

The basic theory is to cast the maintained enchants, let your energy charge back to full, cast Mantra of Resolve, let your energy charge back up to close to full, hit Protective Spirit then start running down the stairs. When you get close to the first mob cast Spirit Bond. Keep running. You want to run all the way around the edge of the temple and gather all the Shiro’ken. Keep a very close eye on Spirit bond and Protective Spirit. If they go down, you die. Cast Mantra of Resolve before trying to recast protective spirit. You can survive Spirit Bond being down for a few seconds, you can’t survive Protective Spirit being down.

You’ll want to gather all the melee and then pull them up to the cluster of rangers so you’re all in a tight group. Make sure your Protective Spirit is fresh, keep up with the Spirit Bond. When you’ve got a good pool of energy (which should be quick given the attacks on you) cast Mantra of Resolve and try to get Ancestor’s Visage up followed by Sympathetic Visage. At least one of them will be interrupted, even with Resolve. Hopefully you’ll get the other up. If you get both up, bonus, but you only need one. If they both get interrupted, just keep Spirit Bond up until they both recharge and try again.

Once you get one of them up, the numbers get very pretty and things die.

This takes some practice, but it’s much more forgiving than 55 monking – because you can go in there with full health. You can even replace Blessed Aura with Vital Blessing to bring your health up even further.

My variation on this build for farming Minotaurs in Elona Reach, trolls in the cave outside Droks, and pretty much any place where you don’t have pesky mesmers or necros stripping your enchants is:

Smiting Prayers 12 + 1
Protection Prayers 11 + 1 + 3
Divine Favor 8 (or the rest, whatever)

Spirit Bond
Protective Spirit
Shield of Judgement {e}
Blessed Signet
Retribution
Essence Bond
Balthazar’s Spirit
Blessed Aura

With this one, you’ll have no energy pips, but Blessed Signet gives you 12 energy (4 maintained enchants * 3 per) which is plenty good for when you need it, most of the time Balth & Essence will keep you in plenty of energy.

Retribution provides steady killin’ and Shield of Judgement speeds them to their demise.

Last night, Sami and I went into the UW with a small change, dropping Blessed Aura for Power Drain to deal with the ^%$#ing Dying Nightmares. She ran N/Me SS/AV/SV. Was quite fun. Much faster than trapping, things die *quick.* Got an ecto apiece.

I’d like to monkey with it some more, like possibly doing it with a N/Mo battery/succor to see if I can afford running Holy Wrath in addtion to Retribution, or another monk running Holy Wrath plus Zealot’s Fire nuking off me.

For pure speed of farming, the Shiro’Ken run out of Harvest Temple is your best bed. The run takes about 3 minutes and they tend to net about 1-2k per run in dropped coin & merched crap drops. Occasionally a nice gold will drop. The UW run is *fun* though.

Anyway, I’m just reporting – creds to CK & Nem and the original Spirit Bond farmers. Have fun!

Urgoz Farming October 22, 2006

Let’s try three people Urgoz farming sometime.

GP Defeats The Deep! October 22, 2006

Cavalon, Cantha (Luxon territories): Girl Power [GP] has removed a source of terror from the depths of the Jade Sea. The evil Kanaxai and his minions have been terrorizing Canthan citizens, but no longer, for GP has slain this evil beast. The battle was hard fought, taking over 5 hours and involving 10 members of GP and its allies, and 2 luxon citizens.

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Testing new theme October 19, 2006

I’m testing out a new theme that wordpress.com recently added. I think its a little easier on the eyes, and easier to navigate. Don’t worry, we can go back to the old one quickly if general consensus is that people hate it. Let me know what you think. (I changed it, so let me know what you think of the new one. its more girly, but still has the links on the side, rather than the bottom.) Changed theme again…

Dragon Festival games coming back October 17, 2006

For this next weekend, the games that were held during the dragon festival will be returning. You can work on your Lucky/Unlucky titles, as well as participate in the Dragon Areana. It would be nice if they gave out more tickets, since nightfall is coming, and I dont want to spend all my money on them

sami

Guild Meeting October 12, 2006

There will be a Guild Meeting, this Sunday, Oct 15 at 9:00pm EST (1AM GMT, 6pm PST).

If you are unable to attend at this time, please use my contact info to submit concerns and questions.

GP and Friends Master Canthan Missions October 8, 2006

Tahnnakai Temple

Raisu Palace

Imperial Sanctum