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Ardenweald Adventure

Posted by Peter (Devee) on November 28, 2020
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Another gorgeous zone! The design of these zones is truly spectacular. Ardenweald was beautiful and had some variation despite being lush forest. More importantly, it was filled with animals! Note that this post will contain spoilers.

Aliothe is the best part of this zone (obviously). To be fair, Blizzard owed us a bear after Ursoc. I did not like that part and don’t want to talk about it anymore. But Aliothe was cute and powerful! Look at us in that screenshot above! We’re buddies. Do you see both vulpin (fox-like creatures) in the screenshot?

Her background of being from a world destroyed by the Legion (even if she didn’t know who they were) was a nice touch. It still seems odd to me that our characters don’t provide information to others more often. “Hey, I think I know what happened to your planet. And by the way, I helped stop the culprits for good.”

A thousand pardons, fine citizen, I cannot hear you. I HAVE A SQUIRREL ON MY HEAD! HA HA HA HA HA! (Okay, okay, I realize the squirrel wouldn’t block sound. But this made me think of Mad King Thorn on Halloween in Guild Wars who makes a joke about the pumpkin on his head. See my 2012 post!)

Look at all our friends – a squirrel, an owl, an otter, and a chubby cat!

I’m leaning toward having my druid join the Night Fae. It’s tough with multiple specs. I like guardian and resto, but I also spend time in balance while solo’ing. However, if covenants were purely cosmetic/story choices, that’s what I’d choose. And I think it’ll work.

For a lot of the zone, I expected the Winter Queen to be evil. It seemed like she just did not want to see us, and when she did show up, she left after a moment. Obviously Blizzard knew how it looked – our characters shrugged in the cutscene. By the end, she didn’t seem evil, so what was up with that?

I was trying to guess who was in the wildseed for a while. I forget when I guessed it. It was definitely before seeing any of her visions, which would have given it away, but likely not that much earlier.

The Winter Queen said something about the soul in the wildseed being related to somehow to her sister. What did that mean? What sister? Is the sister an Eternal One, the gods of the Shadowlands? None of them seem to have a relation to Ysera. It makes me wonder if she was referring to Elune. Does Ysera have a strong relation to Elune? Could Elune be an Eternal One who left or was exiled? Maybe I’m grasping at straws or just misunderstanding.

Three out of four main leveling zones down (story quests, anyways), and I’ve been impressed with all of them.

Mad King Thorn

Posted by Peter (Devee) on October 31, 2012
Posted in: Guild Wars. Tagged: , , . 1 Comment

With Halloween comes the Mad King Thorn! I always look forward to playing the Mad King’s games even though it’s the only day out of the year I usually play Guild Wars. I love the decorations and his model, I love his games, I love his corny jokes, and I love getting a new mask. Unfortunately, ArenaNet changed things a bit this year.

Instead of rewarding a mask at the end the event, they gave players a single-use tonic that turned them into a miniature Mad King Thorn. Completing a quest gives a token that can be used to purchase a mask from a previous year. That’s all fine and great, but I want a new mask! I bet ArenaNet did this to focus their attention on Guild Wars 2, but I think that’s a mistake. ArenaNet would like me to pull away a bit from WoW and play Guild Wars 2, I’m sure. Right now, my only tie to the Guild Wars series at all is playing the original Guild Wars on Halloween. Yes, it’s true that I played despite knowing ahead of time that there was no new mask, so maybe they still have me. However, I’m a lot less thrilled about it. You’d think they’d step it up and put in an event even more fun to remind people how great ArenaNet and Guild Wars are. That might help me to play Guild Wars 2.

In better news, Mad King Thorn chose me to battle him in rock-paper-scissors! I think it was the first time I’ve been chosen. Of course, I was going back and forth between two computers while multiboxing. It was the first round, and I had done my emote too early by accident. He killed me. But maybe I’ll get my chance to best him next year (if I continue my tradition of playing).

My disappointment at failing my battle against him and the lack of a new hat didn’t stop Mooglegem Kaylia Mog and I from boogying down with him though!

Here’s one of the jokes that I like.

What’s the difference between someone who doesn’t laugh at my jokes and a corpse?

I don’t know either!

I don’t know the exact phrasing of this one, and when I searched online, I couldn’t find it. Maybe it’s new.

Do you know why I used dwarf labor to build a statue in my honor when I was alive?

Because dwarves have low overhead!

Now, my favorite joke.

When I first returned from the Land of the Dead, one of the fine citizens of Lion’s Arch let out a cry: “Why King Thorn, you have a pumpkin on your head!”

And I said, “Eh?” So he repeated, “Milord, you have a pumpkin on your head!”

And I said, “What?” So he yelled, “Milord, you have a pumpkin on your head!”

To which, I replied, “A thousand pardons, fine citizen, I cannot hear you. I HAVE A PUMPKIN ON MY HEAD!” HA HA HA HA HA!