Death of Thang

Well I've checked in on Thang a couple of times over the last few months, or should I say I've tried to check in. Every server says 'Server under maintenance' and it's been like that for months. Checking the 'forums' (I use that word loosely as they're the 'messiest' forums I've come across in a good while!) reveals that there's nothing much going on, except the odd player complaint about the demise of the game. The last GM message was in September as far as I can see.. not a good sign. Players seem to think that ongameport are concentrating on Deicide instead and have abandoned Thang.
It's a shame, because Thang had some promising qualities, although the quest system was forever to be built, and it really is a very one-dimensional game. I'll always think fondly of it though, because it's the nearest I've ever got my OH to playing a fantasy MMORPG with me! We had some fun, hacking and slashing, and I'll miss the trade system a lot, even though something went bizzarely wrong with that quite some months ago, effectively ruining the best aspect of Thang, for me anyway. I wish GW had a system like that: trading in GW is abysmal! Maybe GW2 will be better...

Wintersday, Titles and Armour

Not really played for the last few weeks. I pop in most days to check prices of ectos, with the intention of buying ranger Obsidian armour one day, but otherwise I haven't felt like playing for a while. No-one to play with really. I still have a few targets and completed one of them last time I actually played - Canthan Grandmaster Cartographer title on my Ritualist, so I'll have a go at one or two of those next time I get the 'GW bug'.

I discovered this morning that this Wintersday will see the return of candy canes. How annoying to have only recently 'binned' a load of candy cane shards! Grrr! If I hadn't, then I imagine I would have found myself playing this weekend. I might anyway. Another couple of disgusting festival hats for the collection: gotta be done! lol! To be fair, I like a few of them a lot, just some are gross.

Most of my characters have different armour than in my title picture. I'll make a new one when my ranger gets her FoW armour... (when hell freezes over :/ ) My Necro, Warrior and Paragon have the same armour, and I like those as much as anything else I've seen, so no immediate plans to change. I did see a para. skirt that could be dyed, which is different (for para's); but it doesn't look anywhere near as nice on wiki as the Asuran (which looks similar in shape to the Elonian my para wears now, which I like), so I might go for that one day.. ^..^ I have seen other necro and warrior armours that I've thought were nice. The Warrior 'Silver Eagle' looks nice, and I like the chunky look of the Primeval Boots. The Deldrimor is quite nice, but I prefer the Templar, which my warrior has bits of. Speaking of Deldrimor, I think the monk Deldrimor armour is gorgeous.. might have to get that one too at some point, as well as the Elite Sunspear my monkie has... hehe.

Still enjoying it

Well, I had a few months off GW but went back a couple of months ago, after I bought some more RAM off ebay. Now my graphics card is on it's way out :(

I still love GW. A couple of my chars. have finished GWEN; and a couple of others have finished Nightfall. I've tried a bit of 'Shadow Raptor' farming with my ele. - finished the game with her just so that I could try it out in Hard Mode. It's a handy build to have ready for when Anet do their weekend events where goodies drop - birthday cake, chocolate bunnies, or other helpful items. Not that I do that, but of course I always decide I want to when I can't, so now at least I can if I fancy it! Hehe.

After so long not really liking most elite armours enough to actually want to buy them, I suddenly decided I wanted four sets!: Ancient for my Ritualist and Mesmer, Kurzick for my 'sin, and Ancient upper/Vabbian skirt for my Dervish! Most of my characters have elite armour of some sort or other now, but because those were the armours that I liked, not because they're elite. My warrior still has non-elite armour and I don't plan on changing it any time soon, since I love her look: Krytan skirt, Glad. upper, Krytan/Templar boots depending on the build. Hmm.. I could have sworn the 'Templar' ones I just looked up on wiki were called 'knights'... meh.

Anyway, that'll do for now. Just thought it's been too long not to have posted!

:)

GW:EN

Guild Wars: Eye of the North, or 'GW:EN' for short is here. I bought the pre-order in the online store a few weeks back, and played a little of the pre-order last weekend, but since I was working, I didn't really get to play much, by which time most of my guildies had raced on ahead. Back to solitary life then Lol!

Partly for this reason, but also because of an increased interest in that oddity they call 'real life' (hehe) I just haven't got into it.. I wandered around my 'Hall of Monuments' which still baffles me... and wasn't overly impressed.. you can only have images of your heroes, for example, if you've upgraded their armour.. Similarly, you can't display your own image/armour unless you bought the FULL set of elite armour.. me being a 'mix-n-match' kinda gal... no image for me.. which is very annoying, because my ele. for instance, looks gorgeous - imho of course ;) She's just got the elite Primeval upper and boots and wears a cute little skirt in place of the pants.. dyed black to match her hair.. she looks niiice.. but I can't display that in MY 'Hall of Monuments'...

Speaking of HoM... it's 'per character'... I'm still baffled as to how I will link all this and both my accounts to my ONE (not doing the 'double' thing all over again!) GW2 account... that's if I bother with it.. (which I probably will).

Anyway, Gwen itself is nice, from what I have seen so far. It's pretty much more of the same, but since Anet has always excelled in the art department as far as I'm concerned, you can't get too much of that. NPCs also talk to you now, which is well cool; though I suspect it might become rather annoying after a while. I can just see calls of 'please make it so that we can turn this thing off' in the not-too-distant future.. :p

We get new heroes too. Nice. I've only picked up a couple so far, but one is an 'Asura' Elementalist: Asura are cute little creatures with big sticky-out ears, and.. the other is a Dwarf Monk. I might have just picked up a 'Norn' Warrior too.. played a bit the other night whilst a bit tipsy.. can't remember whether I actually 'gained' her or not.. :o.

If you've actually got this far and am curious as to what the heck I'm rambling on about, check out Guild Wars Wiki here for more information :)