Good Morning Friends! Last night I finished up map completion and it feels great to have finally done this on one of my characters. I did struggle a bit at the very end because I had all of the exploration achievements completed and every zone I moused over was showing 100%. However my World Completion was stuck at 99% so I found a list online of some areas that folks might have missed. I ported to all three of the faction headquarters, which you can zone into and do not seem to count towards map completion for a given area. Then I ported to each of the capitol cities that have a separate chamber used by the ruling body. It turns out it was the council chambers in Rata Sum that I missed and that managed to push me over to 100%.
I now have two Gift of Exploration waiting for me in the bank for Legendary nonsense. I guess at some point I should start working on a Gift of Battle, which I know I will need as well. Now I will probably focus on getting some of the achievements that grant mastery points in the various “expansion” zones like Silverwastes or Dry Top. I also should really push forward in Living World 3 again, but I ended up getting caught up in a pattern of knocking out zones for completion. Doing World Completion made me realize just how much I do not like the Orr zones. My friend Sita talked about that being his favorite area, but I just find them depressing and I am pretty sure the “Quake” color palate is part of it. I would love to see what that area was like in its heyday and I have always wondered if some of the Orr escaped to another area before the fall.
The other thing that I did yesterday was watch the first episode of the Halo television series while eating dinner. I enjoyed it but also you have to understand I have very little connection to this franchise. I know he is a green shootymans that fights purple and blue aliens, and that his name is Master Chief and after that… it all is fuzzy. This series however does not seem like anything I remember from the bits and pieces of the games that I attempted to play, but confession time… I’ve never successfully made it through a Halo game. I hate the mechanics of throw away weapons and all I really wanted was unlimited ammo for the auto rifle that you start with. All of the other weapons felt like trash.
What the series does do is set up an interesting science fiction setting, but I have a feeling it doesn’t come very close to the games. I mean the look and feel seem spot on, and even I have played enough to recognize the shield recharging sound. I also noticed at one point when they were at the UNSC headquarters on Reach that in the background you could hear someone paging “Commander Shepard” which seemed like a nice Mass Effect easter egg. I will likely keep watching it to see where it goes because I went into it expecting next to nothing. I will be curious to hear how the more diehard fans of the series interpret it.
Gratz on world completion!
If you’re in no hurry for a legendary, it may be worth putting off Gift of Battle until they renew focus on WvW with their alliances or what not, and hopefully rework their reward tracks. I suppose it depends on the server, but on a fairly deserted one like mine, it’s a pain to push that reward track. I bought like 6-7 Gifts of Battle just before they made it no longer buyable with Badges of Honor, and have been so thankful for it. Ran out last year and can’t face the prospect of the track for now.
But y’know, do what you like, that’s the fun of GW2, to branch out in whatever direction you feel like.
I almost wish I’d gotten a gift of battle back when it was a thing that cost currency, as amusingly I still have a bunch of said currency and have never finished the gift of battle reward track. It is currently the only thing between me and my first Legendary.
In this post you have the paradigm of the difference between you and me as players. You got seriously into GW2 just a handful of weeks ago and today you post about having achieved Map Completion. I have been playing pretty much daily for nearly ten years, have three active accounts and nearly two dozen Level 80 characters… and I have never done Map Completion on any of them. The nearest is my first ranger, who’s in the 70% range I think. I don’t play him much any more.
The characters I play most days are down in the 20% – 30% range. Most of them have only really been in a handful of maps because I literally have different characters for different maps, who stay there and just do stuff in those maps when it comes up in dailies or events. And even those characters don’t all have map completion even of the maps in which they live!
The Gift of Battle, though… I think I have a couple of dozen of those in one account bank and mayb seven or eight in the other.
Hehe, that’s kinda funny. I think my two main toons are at 79% and 5x% and I was actually planning to push the 79% a bit further in the near future.