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A Competitive Failure’s Guild Wars 2 PvP Experience

I am one of those people who is hilariously bad at PvP but for some reason keeps on playing with the hope that they will eventually get better. After much desk pounding and foul language that embarrasses even the most aggressive PvPer, I do get a little better, but it only happens after I scare away all of my teammates.

Now, I love Guild Wars 2. For this second beta event weekend, I spent most of my time participating in rage-inducing structured PvP. I did a little World vs World vs. World, which is sort of like Wintergrasp except 50 times bigger and has three servers fighting each other. That’s not really PvP in the truest sense, because you spend most of your time tearing down walls, but it’s like entry level PvP that doesn’t have high stakes and it’s fun even if you’re losing (unless you’re getting dominated, though once servers get ranked that should be rare).

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Rolling, Rolling, Rolling

I don’t know how to set up this video, other than saying this is what happens when you roll during a lag-ocolype in the MoP beta. If I hadn’t force quit WoW at the end, I would have kept rolling for all eternity. Too bad I got stuck. :(

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Brewmaster Changes, Zen Flight, and More

I primarily log into beta these days to see if pandaren have any more customization options or access to the barber shop (no, not yet), but today was a special build day and I wanted to see if Zen Pilgrimage worked yet (it does). Thankfully, lady pandaren also keep their hair when the UI reloads and that’s pretty cool. Then there were some other things I noticed, but one at a time please!

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Latest Brewmaster Updates Build 15699

There hasn’t been much going on in the Mists of Pandaria world for me lately, thanks to Diablo 3 and my new position at work. However, in the last week there have been two patches with some interesting monkalicious tidbits. I’m going to talk about the best tidbits today.

Most of these changes aren’t very game changing, and most of them are tooltip clarifications of sorts. I’m going to start with the slightly older changes first.

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Guild Wars 2: An Interesting Relationship with Femininity

The sole reason why I never played the original Guild Wars was the box covers. I was in high school and had one or two friends who played it, but when I saw that every single box cover, including their expansions, portrayed a busty female with very little clothing, I realized that this game was not marketed towards women and that I would not be welcome there.

That realization was probably not 100% correct, but it was enough to keep me from buying. Now that Guild Wars 2 is nearing its release, I’ve been giving the franchise another go. You probably all know by now that I love it, but the game still sends a couple mixed messages regarding women.

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Guild Wars 2: First Impressions Brain Dump

My boyfriend and I planned to spend the entire weekend glued to our computers playing Guild Wars 2, and we did just that. We ordered food, prepared some Arnold Palmer (a few years ago this would have been replaced by energy drinks, but I’m now old enough that energy drinks don’t appeal to me anymore), and did nothing except play GW2 and sleep. We ended the weekend tired and greasy, but eager for launch. I’m pretty excited for this game, more excited than I am for Mist of Pandaria. Even though it lacks end game PvE.

I have a couple of posts planned for delving deeper into the game, but here are my first impressions.

We leveled to 23 and finished most of the available PvE content for charr. We did some organized PvP and a day or so of World vs World vs World (WvW). I played an elementalist and he played a guardian.

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Monk Transmogrification

Monks will be a difficult transmog target. Not only do they lack all the fancy tiers that other classes enjoy, but pandaren, with their adorably large, round stomachs, awkwardly stretch some textures out in ways that aren’t exactly expected.

In the real world, monks of almost any flavor dress in simple cloth robes. Unfortunately, our World of Warcraft monks wear leather. Equipment designers also have a tendency to create overly complex designs that completely go against traditional simple monk attire.

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