Status Update: Tequatl Rising

So the latest living story update is the Tequatl's Rising. All the major World Bosses across Tyria have gained upgrades to their combat mechanics, timers for a victory to be achieved and enhanced loot drops to compensate for the increased difficulty.

As of this posting I have tried the Event three times and have failed each time. For the moment I am going to focus on travelling across Tyria and collecting the various 'clues' so that I can obtain the living story achievements. 6000 Achievement points here I come.

I have been on vacation since my august posting and it turns out most of my Guild has also gone on vacation or taken a break from the game in this time span. I hope to now rally my guild and get some guild events going again.


I'm still trying out the new WvW update which created a new mechanic in the Mist Wars called 'bloodlust' with a whole new set of capture points that my server has to compete over. Thanks to all this, WvW has become a lot more active and of course more laggy. For those of us who had to put up with about 5 fps in Keep battles this extends the region in which we have to deal with low frame rates to include the former lake regions now.

 

Alrun Gunnarson

This is my main character in Guild Wars 2 as well as my main Roleplay character. As my main you will find me running most of the living story and WvW content with Alrun over all my other characters. I play on the Tarnished Coast Server as part of Clan Wolfmane.

Currently I am running a Beserker Build with Alrun focusing on mobility and continuous DPS at all times.  One of the key parts of this build is that I can keep up a near continuous switfness and might so that I can chase down my foes, especially in WvW and bring them down fairly quickly.
Beserker Build.
 
Alrun's professions are Cooking and Armorsmithing. Cooking being his forte.

Roleplay:
Alrun is a Norn Warrior serving in the Vigil. After being attacked by some strange Charr during a Moot, Alrun has realized he needs companions who have his back and can help him out when he is in a pinch. Thus he joined Clan Wolfmane and works as a Warlord in charge of adventuring and hunting down powerful foes.

Sorry for being away for so long.

Hello all who've been visiting my blog.

I apologize for the long hiatus my blog has taken, but now I am back again. I will f- ocus on putting up blog posts about all the things I see in Guild Wars 2 and activities I'm taking part in. I will try to have one post a week minimum from now on.

That said here is a quick update on whats happened so far:
- I now have a total of 7 characters on my accounts 1 in each class except for the Ranger.
- I've increased my bank tab so i now have 4 tabs for storing goods in my personal bank.
- My guild has done some restructuring with me moving up in the leadership chain.
- I'm aiming for 2 builds on my main character a 'Magic-Find' set for general PVE content. And a 'Tank' set for WvW.

The craziness of WvW

So like most players of Guild Wars 2 I take part in World vs Wold activities.  I am part of Tarnished Coast so this week I was up against Fort Aspenwood and Kaineg. Just today evening I went into the Fort Aspenwood Borderlands and helped to keep constant control over our 1 camp, 1 tower and 1 keep.

Interestingly the Fort Aspenwood force came at us with greatly superior numbers (probably 40 or more) but each time they attacked they focused their assault on the 1 supply camp that was well within our territory.

With a force as great as the one they had you would expect them to begin by assaulting our tower or keep which were still undergoing upgrades for being reinforced. The end result was what I call the Killing Fields. An open supply camp with no way to block attacks. Just several players wildly swinging weapons at each other without a care for who they hit or how much damage they do to the other party. Fort Aspenwood's superior numbers allowed them to each assault long enough that we had to use the waypoints to resurrect and come back to kill them at least twice before they would all be killed off.

Overall this was one of my most active adventures in World vs World.

The standings in our WvW match when I logged out.

My Super Fun Adventure

So just recently Arenanet released the Super Adventure Box. It is a virtual world created by an Asura Moto who wishes to use it to test various experiments.

You are to go through and complete tasks in the box so that he can collect data. While all that may sound boring, the adventure it self was awesome. It is a mixing between modern day graphics with retro pixel graphics. I don't know where Arenanet got the idea but they did idea good job with it.

The instance takes after the Super Mario style games from the past where your task is to rescue a princess. I tried out this adventure with Guildmates from Cruelty and Clemency, I unfortunately lost all my lives before we finished the instance, but I had a lot of fun with it. I even earned the Super Staff skin.