Day 13 — When did you start playing?

There was a trial. Way back. I don’t remember the dates, but I didn’t buy the game until last New Years Eve, about half a year from now. I remember, because I was more than a little tipsy and I wanted to play the game, and I wanted to play it immediately. It was still installed since the trial, and poor Sithricar was already sitting there, just waiting for me to buy the game. So I got a digital copy from their website, overpriced and not even in a box, but at least I could start playing at once. One day, when I have money and if I am still playing when I have money, I will get a boxed edition.

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Nooo! I am so upset!!! I met a really nice person on ACNL and they gave me their friend code and I gave them mine but the thing keeps saying the code is incorrect!!! :’( ANYONE OUT THERE NAMED KEVIN WHO MET MARNIE AT THE ISLAND??? THEY EVEN GAVE ME A LOT OF TIPS AND THEY EVEN GAVE ME BELLS AND NOW I FEEL LIKE A REALLY FUCKING SHITTY PERSON BECAUSE IT’LL SEEM LIKE I JUST ACTED THAT WAY TO GET THEIR MONEY AND LEAVE????? OMFG PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST OR SOMETHING. SoRRy :’(

See that girl in distress? That girl is awesome. Help her find her Kevin.

Day 12 — Your achievements.

I don’t honestly care much about achievements. I have all the world bosses? I guess that’s something I’m pleased with. I do dailies every day, but more for the laurels and karma than for the points. I got friends who are way more into it than I am, which is somewhat motivating, but I’m just not a very competitive person in such regards. I am tempted to get all the jumping puzzle achievements, but mostly because I enjoy jumping puzzles :D

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Day 11 — Your favorite gear set.

Another hard one, because dress-up is basically my favourite part of the game. While I really love anything from Crucible of Eternity, I prefer putting together mixed armours. I’ll just list some of the favourites I am currently using on some of my lv80s.

Guardian: Pauldrons and gauntlets from Crucible of Eternity, Primeval chestpiece from the gemstore, leggings from Honor of the Waves and Banded boots. The set doesn’t have any particular helmet; I wear a Draconic one for stats and keep it hidden. The dyes are iron, illumination and scarlet.

Mesmer: Mantle from Caudecus’ Manor, gloves, chestpiece and leggings from Crucible of Eternity, boots from Ascalonian Catacombs and hedpiece from Honor of the Waves. The dyes are midnight fire, gold and maroon. Sometimes I run midnight teal and midnight fuchsia.

Warrior: Shoulders and helmet from Twilight Arbor, tier two sylvari cultural gloves and boots, tier one chestpiece and leggings from Arah. The dyes are charcoal (same as his skin), illumination and spitfire. Yes, I love illumination to bits, it’s like the same thing.

Elementalist: All cultural, tier one headpiece, tier two pauldrons and leggings, tier three chestpiece, gloves and boots. Dyes are celestial, shiver sea, spruce and sapphire.

Currently outfitting my fresh lv80 thief in a mix of Duelist, Whisperer and cultural armour. More celestial and illumination with some black cherry on top, yesss.

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Day 10 — Your favorite weapon skin.

… Have five of them. Ahem.

It’s hard to say, but these are the skins that come first to mind. Note that I only have 1/5 ahahaha.

First is Infinite Light. This fucking sword will take me forever, but it’s gorgeous. Somehow simple and detailed and sparkly at the same time; it’s everything I love when it comes to design. I already have part of the materials, but I have put it on hold for my current goal because farming for this is a borefest.

Second is the Moonshank. I fucking love the Moonshank. It’s so ridiculous yet elegant and pretty and oh my god, I was going to use sword/dagger on my thief but I really want double Moonshank. I mean, just the name is glorious, and it’s not all that expensive either, so when he hits 80 I will be getting it.

Third is the Crossing, which is the most expensive weapon I have crafted, not counting the gifts I have piled up for my Legendary. I love it, but my necro really isn’t built for staves xD

Fourth is the Flameseeker Prophecies. Would feel wrong not to include it on the list considering I am about halfway in the process of crafting it and have bled profusely for it already. My goal is to let my guardian wield the Flameseeker and Infinite Light together.

Fifth is Ganadriva. I first fell in love with the short bow of same design actually; Avirdanag. However I will most likely run pistols on my thief, as much as I like short bow. The long bow version both looks better and is cheaper, however, and discovering it was a beautiful blessing.

I am sure I forgot some skins I really love but, as I mentioned, these were the first that came to mind and the ones I am currently drooling over.

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Day 09 — A screenshot you like.

I have too many of those. Seriously, and this isn’t even a question about my favourite screenshot. Over the half year I have been playing, I have taken somewhere around 3,5k screenshot, so here are three I came across after a quick browsing through my many folders that I didn’t feel I could leave out.

First one is from way back, right after I made my ranger. Dàshi is more than a little fond of Grumpyfox’ highborn necromancer, Melissan, and I got such a perfect screenshot of him levelling up right as they were saying goodbye after a wonderful day of killing moas together :D

Second just gives me all the feels. It’s sad that it’s in such poor quality, but you can barely make out Tybalt hiding behind my necro, Tenebriel. I just love the cinematography in that cutscene.

Last one is from when Tenebriel made a shield for his best and only friend, Sulhin. Totally not because he is crushing hard on him. Totally not. Sulhin is Grumpyfox’ pretty pretty guardian.

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Day 08 — PvE/PvP/RP?

Good, solid roleplay is incredibly fun, but I’m picky about who I do it with. I also really enjoy doing dungeons, especially when we’re a whole party of friends and skyping. It’s the best thing :D

I also really liked doing WvW back when I was saving up badges for the Gift of Battle, but our server is really shit at it, and some of the commanders are just egotistical asshats.

Character creation, roleplay and dress-up really is my main motivation for this game. If I didn’t love my characters so much, I would not be playing for as long as I have.

This is my guardian Elyan looking shy, and my lovely Grumpyfox’ thief, Adrian, being his usual suave self.

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Day 07 — Your favorite piece of lore?

Ascalon, and all its history. I don’t much like the maps, and I rather dislike fighting the ghosts, but the war between humans and charr is the one thing Guild Wars 2 actually delves pretty deeply into, and it has affected greater parts of the world map extensively.

I never really feel like Guild Wars 2 goes very deeply into backstories, which saddens me quite a bit. I have friends who were avid players of Guild Wars 1, and they tell me such interesting stories. My lv 6 monk in Guild Wars 1 is still in presearing, and I am seeing how beautiful Ascalon once was. It really is enjoyable, and I am so looking forward to seeing more of the history behind Guild Wars 2 as I play the first game.

In the picture is my guardian, Elyan Ashguard. He was an orphan, and his name was a gift from his charr mentor (my first guardian that I deleted, because I needed a sexy man-boy to dress up in skirts). I love him to bits, and I am currently saving up to getting him the Flameseeker Prophecies, which will also be my first legendary, should I ever get around to completing it.

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Day 06 — Your favorite renown heart(s)?

Didn’t have to go far for this one; Support the citziens of Beetletun. I don’t know what it’s about scrubbing grafitti off the walls and stomping wasp nests that make me so entertained, but I tend to prefer the renown hearts where you don’t have to just grind up a huge stack of kills. This one doesn’t need a single kill, it’s quick, the scenery is nice and for a couple of minutes you can feel like a glorified janitor. I really just like pretty settlements where there is stuff to do, and Beetletun is one of the best ones in the game.

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Installed Skyrim on new laptop and started it up for the first time and this is what it told me after it checked out my hardware.

I can honestly say this is the most beautiful thing I have ever been told by a computer.