Update

Updated my “About Me” page with the current progress on all of my titles.  This includes several completed dungeons in both NM and HM, at least 1 new vanquish in each campaign, and several more ranks in my reputation titles.

My next short term goal will be to complete my NM dungeon book by doing Rragar’s Menagerie and Catacombs of Kathandrax.  This way I’ll get my Vanguard title to near r8, but will be able to use my NM dungeon book to earn vanguard reputation (so it’s not a waste).  I’m pretty sure the other 3 reputation titles will take care of themselves by the time I finish all of the dungeons.  Only 21 (total) more dungeons to go!

Now, if only I could find a way to farm keys…..

Traveler’s Vale Vanquished

Not a major feat really, but I had some free time so I thought I’d spend it wisely. I decided to whip out my Cryomancer build for this. It needs some work, but the energy management is great. I really need to get a 20/20 water item though to speed things up. Casting times killed me on this one. Still, the snares worked well to slow down the dwarves.

Cryomancer - N/E

Max out Soul Reaping and Water Magic

I used high energy armor and a +20 energy staff

Glyph of Energy [E]
Maelstrom
Deep Freeze
Ice Spikes
Freezing Gust
Glowing Ice
Signet of Lost Souls
Rez

Updates

Ok, a few updates. I Vanquished the rest of GW:EN and finished mapping it as well. I’ve bumped my second allegiance title over r8 (hard mode only from now on) and now I’m Not too Lazy. Despite my previous post, I used the same SS PvE build I’ve been using for these 3 vanquished areas…. SS, EVSinSupp., PainInverter, Enf.Blood, WeakArm, Barbs, MoP, rez. I wanted to do all 3 areas tonight so I went with simple.

Additionally, in unrelated news, I have stepped down as writer from GW Vault due to a RL busy schedule. As such, I’ve opened up Chronicles here on my blog for everyone to read. I’ll add to it when I can.

That’s about it for now. Off to bed.

Legendary Guardian

Well, it was a long time coming, but I finally made it. My last mission in Hard Mode was Gates of Madness. It took nearly a dozen allies and a few heroes to make it happen (obviously some had to leave) but I finally earned Legendary Guardian.

GoM was being particularly difficult today. It took 6 tries over the course of 3 hours to finally beat the mission (with 3 tries incredibly close having only Shiro or the Lich left). That being said, I am exhausted and I have earned a restful night’s sleep.

Busy

Ok, it has officially been a month between posts. Little has been done by way of Guild Wars this month as I have been working on my research paper and finishing up this semester. These are nearly complete, so hopefully I’ll be able to unwind a bit and play on GW some more.

Vanquishing, Builds and Me

I have 100 areas left to vanquish across the world. My mission, should I choose to accept it (and I do) is to vanquish each area with a different build. Now, I don’t mean 1-2 skills changed different, I mean something completely different from what I used in the area before. I like the idea of “anything you can do I can do better” though, what I’ve found for me at least is it turns out to be “anything you can do I can do also.” Realistically I won’t have a different build for every area because some of these areas involve caravaning, but you get the idea. I’m looking forward to exploring my 4 Necro attributes further and playing around with my N/X options. I gotta save up for some items though.

So, in the coming months as I successfully vanquish area after area, I’ll be posting the build I use. I have to say, listing my vanquishing accomplishments was an idea shamelessly stolen from Kousei, but I wanted to challenge myself further and try some new angles to playing a Necro, because frankly, I’m sick and tired of Spiteful Spirit.

Below is a list of all of the areas I still need to vanquish. If you’re in game, give me a whisper (Belzan Furu) if you want to tag along. Don’t bother clicking below if you don’t care about what I need to vanquish though…you aren’t missing much.