As an Me to an Mo, I want to say this: Don't find Smite Hex. And DEFINITELY don't tell anybody where it is, if you do. :D I currently use 6 hexes, 1 spell (shatter enchantment) and a res sig.

I used to just do domination magic, but decided.. it's really easy in this game to spread out, instead of focusing on one thing.. you spend way, way too many skill points, and runes, even just major runes, can help get your skills where you want them.. I'm around ~10-13 in fast casting, dom, and illusion magic, and i only have 1 rune on (don't want to spoil all my pricey armor just yet..) The illusion magic is great against warriors!! People learn to take out the Me pronto, to save their monk, so I cast a few hexes on the warrior thats charging at me, slow him down, and back up while somebody nukes the hell out of him, once he's out, then it's on to backfire and all that goodness like usual. :D

I've had some really good experiences with some players. I have found that most are really friendly and rather un-surprised that I'm a female who plays the game. Of course, I've had my share of leroys (http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...=leroy+jenkins). Douchebags who jump into shit only to die in the middle of a charr fortress. Then they bail out of the group/quest/mission.

I've started a guild for female characters (FEM). I thought it would be cool to do a GvG with a team of chicks, or at least chick characters.

Pet peeve about the interaction...why do people insist on doing trade on the "all" channel? It feels like I'm being spammed to death in Asc. Dist 1. But I love this game. I also really like that there is no monthly fee. :)

~Calypte Anna (lvl 13 mo/mes)

It's really freaking hard to trade in ascalon district 1 by trying to see who is selling what. I just yell out "I NEED A NEW AXE" or something to that effect. I usually get a bunch of pms within 2 minutes. Just turn off everything except pm, and you won't have any troubles with the mass trade messages.

Although I am not female, all my characters are female =)

W/Mo17 Confuzed One
N/E8 Layzee One
Mo/E7 Sympathetic One
R/Me7 Bored One

It's good to see more and more girls getting into gaming these days. Hopefully they will break into the FPS and RTS boys clubs as well in the near future...

Well, quake 3 has a number of female avatars


and there are female heroes in a few RTS games. Infested Kerrigan was awesome! :D

Heck ya, Kerrigan is my all time favorite game character and protoss is my favorite race/in general (or whatever not sure what category it'd fit under) and both in the same game. And Terran had some good characters too, warcraft series really doesn't hold a candle to starcraft. Its a wonder why theyve only made 1 SC and so many WCs. I'd love to see a next generation MMO of the starcraft universe. Would be the ultimate game. (would have to be next gen because the normal levels and exp system really wouldnt work, I mean what, a lvl 60 zergling?)

PS I think Kostya meant real girls playing those games, not men playing female avatars in them or general female NPCs. :)

A level 60 zergling... :lol: The mind just reels at the thought of that.

Yeah.

Kerrigan did rock the Kasbah though...

Ahhh, Starcraft...

Heady times...

So, update, I'm in Lion's Arch and still a closet noob...

Doh, misread the post

Nah, don't worry about where you are. I'm not that much past Lion's Arch. But then again, I haven't played the game in forever.

If you/anybody needs someone to tank some damage while screaming "OMG MEDIC!" go ahead and add me. Or better yet, pm me to set up a time since i'm hardly on.

(Add the warrior, i don't think a level 8 necro will do too much tanking)

Finally found Resurrect. Took long enough. After the rest of the guys logged off, I went out solo for shits and giggles. Keep in mind that I'm a Mo/Ne.

I had a sword and cast mending, retribution and live vicariously on myself. So, I had 2 arrows of health regen, damage reflection and health gain everytime I attacked someone. Amazingly, I held up pretty well, even with 4 stone elementals pounding on me at one point.

Fng,
Have you found Holy Wrath? I think that's the name of the spell, you cast it on a friendly (or yourself) and all foes around you take gobs of holy damage for several seconds...saved my butt on a solo quest from Serenity Temple.

Hmm, I thought resurrect was a spell that was easy to find. Or maybe I was just lucky..

As for the spell you are talking about astrahl, you get it pre-searing, so I would hope that FngKestrel has it :)

Yeah, I've got Wrath, but I just wanted to see how effective of a melee fighter I could be. :D

And I guess looking at the world map, Resurrect was more south than the majority of the quests we were doing. So, in theory, I should have been able to find it earlier than I did.

Mannnn,

People get mighty crazy in the desert. Must be the sun. But I think I passed Elona's reach after the fiftieth time or so...

I still haven't touched the game. I think it's been more than 2 weeks. My buddy wants me to help him finish the villainy of galrath quest, since it's the only one he hasn't done yet.

I've been playing Guild Wars exponentially MORE as I go along.

Want to get my PVP skills happening, because right now I'm a total noob.

Finally made it to Droknars Forge, got mah sexy new armour and am poor again...

Now you can work on the 15k per piece armor :D

Yeah, I actually kind of want to start playing again. But I have midterms coming up. So maybe after that.

Farming is pretty much the only way to get that armour, a LOT of farming...

One more mission to go...

The tail end of the game is hell on non-Guild affiliated players, because random groups are entirely pot luck...

I've had lava loving warriors, monks with tank delusions, those delightful people who capture and drop out, the abusive angsty teenager types and pretty much every other group ruining kind of player known to Tyria...

I love the game when you have friendly, level headed people in your group, it's a dream, even when I'm dying I'm having fun, but mannnn, after failing Elona about fifty times, I was reaching the end of my very very long tether...

Anybody else noticed the ridiculous abundance of W/Mo these days?

I'm one of the originals!

But it is a useful class to play. You are able to tank it out while keeping yourself relatively alive.

After midterms, I guess i'll start playing again

Hehe, good call. I've got nothing against the w/Mo build, it's pretty damn useful. Though I hate it when some boneheaded group leader decides that a W/Mo can 'double as healer'. Yeah... right...

Finally finished all the storyline missions...

That last one is a doozy...

Now, the capture signet comes out and it's boss huntin time...

What's even better is when you ONLY have a W/Mo as your team's healer. Good times.... Not only is the w/mo him/herself screaming "omg medic!", the rest of the team is also! :lol:

I love Guild wars! I'm a Necro/Warrior lv14. My player is Johnny Pyro. Its better than COH because its free! :D

I for one am still playing this game. Finally got my PvE character almost complete, ready to move into some PvP action.

I'm still playing too! I made a second character, looking for a little more punch than my Mo/N. I settled on a E/Me, but I find myself using more Me skills than E skills.

I just went thru searing with another build myself - Mimi North, a mesmer/monk. Found a black dye yesterday too!

Good to hear. Having gotten the storyline monkey off my back I've been PVPing with my N/Me in the random arenas.

Hella fun, but frustrating, because skills are only marginally effective in a situation where you have say 2 Mesmers, a ranger and a necro come up against three monk eles and a warrior...

Thinking about going for the E/Me build purely for the Aeromancing PVP factor. Something tells me that the Aero spike build is going to go out of fashion in the near future because of all the counters people have been devising...

Anyone else noticing the rampant inflation due to people buying gold on ebay and upping the prices ridiculously. I hate it when that happens.

People buy guild wars items on ebay? Haha, time to sell my account. Time to get my friends to sell theirs' too. Rolling in the benjamins... :D

Okay, so I was looking at the running price for black dye. 6 platinum?!

And runes, Warrior Rune of Superior Absorption = 51 plat, 575 gold?!

How the hell does anyone have that much money?

:crazy:

I've heard of prices up to 100 plat. So 51 plat is relatively tame.

I'm not really that far in the game, i've just reached the desert area. I have roughly 8 plat myself. However, if I really wanted to, I could sell all my runes (most of which I won't use anyway), my dyes (including 3 blacks), my weapon upgrades, my set of purple weapons (none of which I use) and my gold staff (which i don't use).

I guess it really depends where you are in the game. My friend who's finished the story mode says money isn't too much of a problem once you reach the later portions of the game.

But come on, 6 platinum just for dye? I mean, are people so vain and they have to have their dark and moody character that they're willing to shell out that much cash in relation to the other colors? I feel like I should buy up all outstanding vials of orange and artificially inflate the price.

Haha, if you're interested in doing that, i'll totally do it with you. Haha.


WTT: Black dye for 100 orange dyes! :lol:

I'd totally be down for that. :lol: Got two vials of black over here. I wonder how many people will go for it?

I started buying up orange vials. People are willing to part with them for between 50 - 130 gold.

What's the best way to leverage the price? Buy up from the trader? Or only offer trades for black dye?

My friend pointed out a major flaw in our plan.

and that flaw is...... orange dye is available from the dye trader. This means that it's actually impossible for us to buy out all the orange dye.

We need to think of a semi rare colour. Maybe silver?

Silver's sold at the traders too. I see it for 1 plat 415 gold.

What if we only offer trades for black. I've got 3 vials of black. Or just trade all dyes and items for orange dye. Like, basically, convert dye into a money unit of sorts, worth about 200 gold right now. So if we want to trade black dye, we divide the cost of black dye by the cost of orange dye plus a marginal increase (40%). So 6917(current black)/141(current price) + 56.4 (40%) = 35 orange dyes. Maybe a bit more to compensate for the fact that after a certain point, the cost of the orange dye is going to go up.

Or we could just ask for 100 orange dyes for a black dye and see how many people are willing to go to the trader and buy the number of orange dyes to get the black dye or willing to farm for 200 hours. Basically, this deal has a penalty on people who can't do math.

In essence, we let our purchasers buy from the trader and push up the price. And since we got our initial stores of orange for cheap, once we've pushed the price up, per unit, we can sell at profit. Man, I should quit my job and become day trader. :lol:

Hmm... i'd say the best way is to buy it from the trader first. If we buy loads of it first, the price will have increased. Then we offer trades for it while it isn't TOO expensive. I'd say this will result in a better profit.

We're really going to need other people in on this... haha

Heh, okay, What price do you think we should push the orange up to? The next highest color?

At the time of this post, These are the prices:

Blue 495
Green 216
Purple 185
Red 312
Yellow 161
Orange 141
Silver 1028
Black 6917

Yellow is the next highest at 161. Green and Red are the 2 colors in the middle of the pack, priced at 216 and 312 respectively. Average of those two is 264.

If you think those are expensive, the new Fissure of Woe armor is over 1000 plat in rare crafting items.

how can something cost over 1000 plat? i thought 1000 plat was the max you could hold.