Good Morning Friends! This is going to be a bit of a meandering post as I don’t have anything terribly pressing to talk about, but also a handful of blurbs. So as is something that often happens when I get into a game… I have commissioned my good friend and unofficial blog/podcast artist AmmosArt to do a version of my Guild Wars 2 Necromancer. I got an update yesterday that she would probably kill me if I shared… because it is still very much in the rough sketch phase but the idea is coming along nicely. I am going to have to fiddle with the masthead at some point soon in the future to determine who stays and who goes. I also have a secondary project which is to add some more game critters to the bar similar to the Moogles… maybe a Choya or a Quaggan.
As far as game progress goes, I am now in the second zone of Living World Season 4, but immediately allowed myself to get distracted by the world boss train last night. I’ve been trying to farm Tequatl each night since it spawns as the game is resetting and is easy to track. I have singled out this boss more than any in part due to the convenience and in part because it has a chance of dropping Tequatl’s Hoard which is a chest granting you a choice of ascended weapons. Additionally there is the chance for Wings of the Sunless which is a back item that I would not mind having either. Often times I stay on the world boss train for a few kills before finally tucking into some daily achievement content. Last night I rode the train longer than normal and never quite got back to working on story content.
One of the things that I dig about games like Guild Wars 2 and Elder Scrolls Online is that they allow you to be in multiple guilds at the same time. So I can for example stay in a smaller tight knit Greysky Armada or Kamikaze Runners and still have access to larger guilds. I’ve been in a few Gaiscioch guilds before and given that I kept bumping into members while doing the World Boss train I decided to investigate. Gaiscioch for those who do not know is a large multi-game guild with many “adventures” that span into different titles. I likely SHOULD have followed them into New World as from what I can tell that branch is still rather active. The Guild Wars 2 seems extremely active as well with around sixty or so people being online last night when I was playing. My theory is this should give me access to some larger events when I have the social and emotional energy to participate in them. A lot of activities tend to start around 7 pm my time which is something I can easily join in without becoming sleep deprived.
In another news we’ve done some recent renovations on the Super Dungeon Friends discord. This concept was envisioned during my fevered pitch of playing Final Fantasy XIV, as having a way to help more shy and social awkward folks get groups going. The problem with this concept is that since so many of us are on Aether… the busiest of all data centers, it became a challenge during the crush of new membership to really make cross realm groups happen on the regular. However what has evolved instead is just a place to hang out and chat about games. Recently I threw out a question about expanding this beyond the scope of Final Fantasy XIV and to a lesser extent our brief foray into New World. The end result is that I collected some games as suggestions and then spent a chunk of time reworking things over the weekend to condense the structure a bit.
Now the “Games You Play” selector has a wider swath of games available, and each role toggles on a little area with at a minimum a chat channel devoted to the game and a voice channel. So far the “Lion’s Arch” channel devoted to Guild Wars 2 seems to be among the busiest. Basically this is not me abandoning the FFXIV mission, but more expanding it out since we have a great group of people gathered here. Of these the only game that I am personally playing on the regular is in fact Guild Wars 2. However I think it is awesome that folks were interested in seeing who was playing the other games. If you’ve ever been active, swing on by and check it out again. If you stayed away because you simply did not play FFXIV, it might be worth checking out. You can find the discord invite link here.
I do like the multiple guilds set-up. Mostly I’ve used it to make more personal guilds for bank storage but I am in a couple of larger guilds, one for WvW and I’m also in one of the Gaiscioch offshoot guilds on one account, the one that just does events and such. Been a long time since I actually joined in with anything they do, though.