Girl Power Hour – Girls Pwning UW June 7, 2007

Attention girl gamers! You’re invited!

This Sunday, our amazon army will descend into the cold embrace of Grenth as we invade the Underworld.

Normally, our international gathering of girl gamers would be precluded from choosing this destination for our weekly expedition, but thanks to the powerful new magic of Passage Scrolls, our multi-region teams will be able to work together in the noble cause of restoring the monuments of Grenth, which have been overrun by the foul minions of Dhuum. Oh, and on a side note, gathering loot like Eternal Shields, Storm Bows, and Globs of Ectoplasm.

To participate, your character needs to be ascended or equivalent. For Tyrian born characters, that means having completed the three missions and final challenge in the Crystal Desert. Canthan born characters will need to be Weh no Su. Elonian born characters need to have completed the quest Hunted! Tyrians can achieve ascension by becoming Weh no Su in Cantha, and Canthans can do the same by completing the ascension trials in the Crystal Desert, and Elonians may ascend by either path as well. Only Elonians can achieve the benefits of ascension via the Hunted! quest.

Bring whichever character you have that is qualified to enter the Realms of the Gods, we’ll form teams from what’s available, any profession is welcome. We’ll try to make sure that teams go in with enough healing and damage.

We’ll gather this Sunday, June 10th, in our usual meeting place, The Temple of the Ages, International District 1 (by the statue of Dwayna) and at our regular meeting time, 1:00 PM Eastern Time (10:00 AM Pacific, 5:00 PM GMT, 6:00 PM BST). Conveniently, ToA is the entry point for the Realms of the Gods in Tyria, so we’ll enter UW from there.

Female players only, please. (Females playing male characters are welcome.) Of course there’s no way for us to check, but please respect the women who wish to gather for this event to play with other female gamers.

What: Girl Power Hour – Girls Pwning UW

Where: Temple of the Ages, International District 1

When: Sunday, June 10th, 1:00 PM Eastern, 10:00 AM Pacific, 5:00 PM GMT

Who: Girl Gamers

Why: Because girls kick butt!

Awesome GW Char Progress Tracker June 5, 2007

Ok, this is just the bee’s knees. You know how people say on achat “Does anybody need <mission> bonus?” and people don’t know, have to switch chars to check or whatever?

I got frustrated by that last night (about myself, I couldn’t remember where all my chars were in Nightfall) and did a google search to see if anybody had done something cool to address the problem. And somebody had.

Check out Rohars Roughnecks’ Character Progress Tracker.

This tool is really easy to use and fits what I was looking for exactly. You create a tracker for each of your chars, and then you fill out that character’s accomplishments. Then, you can view the “My Missions” page to find out at a glance which character needs to complete a mission or bonus.

The tool tracks all three campaigns in both Normal & Hard Mode, as well as tracking Vanquisher for the explorables in all three campaigns. You can view the Missions page in both text mode and a cool looking Shield Mode (which shows the swords like the maps in the game) and you can even save the results as an XML spreadsheet. Conveniently (and cleverly) the mission names on the list are links to the Wiki page about the mission, so you can get that last minute Master’s strategy once you’ve figured out which character you’re bringing to the mission.

For the statistics geeks amongst you (raises hand) there’s a Tracker Stats page that shows what percentage of the characters being tracked by the tool (in total for the site) have completed each goal.

It’s easy to set up and update, and solves a complex problem very neatly. Enjoy!