2:16 am, January 8, 2014
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Random Derpy Observations Upon Returning
Because I am an insane person and a huge derp, I have decided to end my sabbatical and resume playing GW2 at least for a time. I hope my derpness amuses someone slightly in a parrallel universe where things that aren't funny amuse people.
Upon logging in for about an hour yesterday, I saw much and observed more:
1. Pretty! I just got a much better monitor, much higher color contrast, 1080p and all that, bigger size, etc. Makes me appreciate the graphics more. I had no idea how much my old piece of **** was holding me back.
2. I had hoped by now that Ascended items would be available for WvW badges, since thats the only currency I seem to collect in any meaningful quantity. It doesnt seem that this is the case, though perhaps I am wrong. I often hope to be the party who is in error and this is one of those times.
3. I am theorizing that the fact all my craft skills are obsolete now means Im supposed to buy gold with gems and buy overpriced mats from the TP and max those out and THEN maybe afford Ascended tier items. I havent checked so tell me if Im off target on that one. But if I am in fact at least partially correct, thats a big No Thank You.
Are we still ragging on the Cox box? Is that still a thing? Because this looks like a giant Cox box to me.
But Im not really surprised, they screwed the pooch when they didnt separate WvW gear and PvE gear at the onset of the game and its too late now.
4. I also realized some other odd things. In the WvW borderlands, only the first collection of a resource counts toward the daily. You have to go to a PvE zone to get credit for each item gathered. Or at least I had to, I hope this is a bug. Please tell me this is a bug.
I do not care for this change at all if it's legit. I will grant you its not that hard to run out Lions Arch and hit some nodes and that there are other parts of the daily you can just as easily do instead, but still not a fan of this. I hope its a bug, or I was just harvesting it wrong through the amazing power of my sheer derpitude?
5. Also same maps? Still? Really? Okay not shocked, but they could have at least adjusted some of the contours. Theres a new thing with controlling ruins at least, thats something. Its not a lot but its something. Something derpy.
6. It appears I am like 120+ WXP ranks behind the curve. Ecks Dee. Fortunately theyve kept these abilities niche enough its okay to be behind the power curve.
7. They changed the interface on me. Please tell me someone if you can still track how far along you are on an achievement on screen any more like you used to with the old interface and Im just being my usual derpy self?
8. Its ironic. Ive mained a Warrior for my initial foray, and I remember when it was the true bottom of the barrel profession everyone laughed at and for good reason because all it offered was pure damage for dungeon runs if specced and built a particular way. Now its climbed to the top of the meta, like in the early beta. Figures!
9. Sweet Okie of Muskogee, I have forgotten how to play this game. Im as clumsy, slow and awkward as I was in the beta. I was never an amazing player but I was marginally competent enough to stage a decent fight half the time, and gee whiz this is over the top bad. How do I shot web indeed. Its back to noobtown for me!
Okay in all fairness part of it is I came back on a character I havent played in a long time thats not intuitive to play, whose spec I was working on, and whose gear is terrible. Thats going to be a little rough for anyone and harder still on a derp. But still!
10. Also, we are now literally picking up luck. Okay I thought picking up good karma was a good meta joke and kind of clever, but picking up good luck kind of broke my brain. Im not even sure what to do with it, its an Artificer ingredient but for what? I need to find out what this stuff is this week, Im sure its on the wiki, I just havent looked yet.
I almost dont want to know, Im so enraptured with this bizarre universe where luck is not only objectively real, it is literally found on the ground as a solid object. The fact that something so marvelous exists in the same universe as Derper Boy Prime (aka Trahearne) is astonishing.
11. OMG AoE looting! I dont remember this from before but its awesome! Well really you ought to auto loot any wallet type items (theres no inventory space consumed so why not automatically pick up every one you come across?) so its not perfect, but big improvement nonetheless.
12. Still not sure how I feel about the checklist based game play. I will grant you I had done most of the daily incidentally, but I had to go to places I normally wouldnt to finish it. I will further grant this took all of ten minutes, but still.
Anyway those 12 derptastic observations aside, I decided to actually gear up and play that Necromancer of mine and see how much I can derp the place up. That character never really got a chance the first time after all, I just sort of leveled it and it sat there most of the time. I might still pay attention to dailies and maybe work up my wee little engi some, but I dunno if I feel that ambitious any more.
I actually did have fun playing, even in my awful piecemeal gear, and figured out traits I can live with. I got whooped pretty bad though, only constant ***** Shroud usage and Staff 5 kept me alive at all.
Come on trading post, work your magic for me while Im out and about and offline today. Even in all blue pieces, I would actually be able to do some DPS without all my points scattered onto random places on the character sheet. Amazing what happens when you actually add several hundred points to a few attributes that actually do something rather a few dozen points to a bunch that do nothing.
Of course, today I learn Im going to be out of town next week so no GW2 for me. Awesome, I resolve to get started again and immediately Im back to not playing.
I think this sets the tone for Phase 2 of my GW2 playing experience. Phase 1 was dubbed Mistakes Were Made.
I shall dub the second phase The Derp Era because I am going to willfully play like a derp on purpose this time in my craptastic Exotics and maybe Ill follow the checklists, maybe I wont, wont that be exciting as we play GW2 by its new Dungeons and Dragons type moniker: Checklists and Coxboxes!
Incidentally, yes there will eventually be a further sabbatical and a Phase 3, yet to be titled. Phase 3 is usually marked by a solid month of participation before realizing Im playing that damn game I swore to quit forever.
All that said, anything a newly returning derp like me should know about? Can anyone at least please tell me why the resource gathering for the daily is borked now? Is that actually a thing or was I just an unlucky derp?
Upon logging in for about an hour yesterday, I saw much and observed more:
1. Pretty! I just got a much better monitor, much higher color contrast, 1080p and all that, bigger size, etc. Makes me appreciate the graphics more. I had no idea how much my old piece of **** was holding me back.
2. I had hoped by now that Ascended items would be available for WvW badges, since thats the only currency I seem to collect in any meaningful quantity. It doesnt seem that this is the case, though perhaps I am wrong. I often hope to be the party who is in error and this is one of those times.
3. I am theorizing that the fact all my craft skills are obsolete now means Im supposed to buy gold with gems and buy overpriced mats from the TP and max those out and THEN maybe afford Ascended tier items. I havent checked so tell me if Im off target on that one. But if I am in fact at least partially correct, thats a big No Thank You.
Are we still ragging on the Cox box? Is that still a thing? Because this looks like a giant Cox box to me.
But Im not really surprised, they screwed the pooch when they didnt separate WvW gear and PvE gear at the onset of the game and its too late now.
4. I also realized some other odd things. In the WvW borderlands, only the first collection of a resource counts toward the daily. You have to go to a PvE zone to get credit for each item gathered. Or at least I had to, I hope this is a bug. Please tell me this is a bug.
I do not care for this change at all if it's legit. I will grant you its not that hard to run out Lions Arch and hit some nodes and that there are other parts of the daily you can just as easily do instead, but still not a fan of this. I hope its a bug, or I was just harvesting it wrong through the amazing power of my sheer derpitude?
5. Also same maps? Still? Really? Okay not shocked, but they could have at least adjusted some of the contours. Theres a new thing with controlling ruins at least, thats something. Its not a lot but its something. Something derpy.
6. It appears I am like 120+ WXP ranks behind the curve. Ecks Dee. Fortunately theyve kept these abilities niche enough its okay to be behind the power curve.
7. They changed the interface on me. Please tell me someone if you can still track how far along you are on an achievement on screen any more like you used to with the old interface and Im just being my usual derpy self?
8. Its ironic. Ive mained a Warrior for my initial foray, and I remember when it was the true bottom of the barrel profession everyone laughed at and for good reason because all it offered was pure damage for dungeon runs if specced and built a particular way. Now its climbed to the top of the meta, like in the early beta. Figures!
9. Sweet Okie of Muskogee, I have forgotten how to play this game. Im as clumsy, slow and awkward as I was in the beta. I was never an amazing player but I was marginally competent enough to stage a decent fight half the time, and gee whiz this is over the top bad. How do I shot web indeed. Its back to noobtown for me!
Okay in all fairness part of it is I came back on a character I havent played in a long time thats not intuitive to play, whose spec I was working on, and whose gear is terrible. Thats going to be a little rough for anyone and harder still on a derp. But still!
10. Also, we are now literally picking up luck. Okay I thought picking up good karma was a good meta joke and kind of clever, but picking up good luck kind of broke my brain. Im not even sure what to do with it, its an Artificer ingredient but for what? I need to find out what this stuff is this week, Im sure its on the wiki, I just havent looked yet.
I almost dont want to know, Im so enraptured with this bizarre universe where luck is not only objectively real, it is literally found on the ground as a solid object. The fact that something so marvelous exists in the same universe as Derper Boy Prime (aka Trahearne) is astonishing.
11. OMG AoE looting! I dont remember this from before but its awesome! Well really you ought to auto loot any wallet type items (theres no inventory space consumed so why not automatically pick up every one you come across?) so its not perfect, but big improvement nonetheless.
12. Still not sure how I feel about the checklist based game play. I will grant you I had done most of the daily incidentally, but I had to go to places I normally wouldnt to finish it. I will further grant this took all of ten minutes, but still.
Anyway those 12 derptastic observations aside, I decided to actually gear up and play that Necromancer of mine and see how much I can derp the place up. That character never really got a chance the first time after all, I just sort of leveled it and it sat there most of the time. I might still pay attention to dailies and maybe work up my wee little engi some, but I dunno if I feel that ambitious any more.
I actually did have fun playing, even in my awful piecemeal gear, and figured out traits I can live with. I got whooped pretty bad though, only constant ***** Shroud usage and Staff 5 kept me alive at all.
Come on trading post, work your magic for me while Im out and about and offline today. Even in all blue pieces, I would actually be able to do some DPS without all my points scattered onto random places on the character sheet. Amazing what happens when you actually add several hundred points to a few attributes that actually do something rather a few dozen points to a bunch that do nothing.
Of course, today I learn Im going to be out of town next week so no GW2 for me. Awesome, I resolve to get started again and immediately Im back to not playing.
I think this sets the tone for Phase 2 of my GW2 playing experience. Phase 1 was dubbed Mistakes Were Made.
I shall dub the second phase The Derp Era because I am going to willfully play like a derp on purpose this time in my craptastic Exotics and maybe Ill follow the checklists, maybe I wont, wont that be exciting as we play GW2 by its new Dungeons and Dragons type moniker: Checklists and Coxboxes!
Incidentally, yes there will eventually be a further sabbatical and a Phase 3, yet to be titled. Phase 3 is usually marked by a solid month of participation before realizing Im playing that damn game I swore to quit forever.
All that said, anything a newly returning derp like me should know about? Can anyone at least please tell me why the resource gathering for the daily is borked now? Is that actually a thing or was I just an unlucky derp?