Mah Elite Armor, Part 4

I mentioned in passing our "main" native Canthans were nearish the end of their campaign, which we finished up the last mission of last night. They're not quite done done, as they need to go back and get the Master's award on two missions (one of which is a big PITA to get), and there's a few lingering quests (some of which we're deliberately putting off, as there's two competing factions and we're currently only working on the title for one of them, though we'll go back and do them eventually), but close enough. But that means they got their elite armor, yay!

Mah Elite Armor, Part 3

Yeah, I started to get determined about getting enough money to get all the oldest characters elite armor. These guys are Nightfall natives, so their armor is from a slightly creepy area late in that game. The one thing I don't like about it is how little you can dye, but I like the overall style and the undyable parts, thankfully, go with the colour scheme for this character, so I went ahead and got it anyhow. Pics behind cut (clickable for bigger versions):

Not Elite Armor

These guys were languishing in idle land for a long time but recently we finally got them out of the beginner area and ran them up to where they could get max armor (and makeovers). ("Ran", in this case, means taking them past a lot of earlier areas.) Since mesmer armor is just lovely even in the non-elite versions, I figured I'd take a couple screenshots.

Mah Elite Armor, Part 2

Made a bunch of money farming this week to get back what we spent on one of the games over the holiday, and decided to pick up some more elite armor for my other ranger, Lujayn. This time I thought to take screenshots outside with weapons and stuff, including one with my SO's necromancer Leila to complete the pair. I may do some for Xylia and Asimenios next time I think about it, too.

Character Panorama

Just a bit of eye candy (click for bigger version):

That's all my current characters from Guild Wars, excepting the neglected and unplayed PvP-only character, who serves right now as a mule. Maybe next time I do a panorama (which will probably be after I get more folks in elite armors), I'll include her. Ryn is a multipurpose mule; he's also placeholding a name for Guild Wars 2 for me. (A "mule", for those who don't know, is a character made principally to hold excess items. There's storage in GW but even with all the paid add-ons, not enough for a packrat like me.) He's been played a bit, too, but probably won't get much more play time overall.

Mah Elite Armor, Let Me Show U It

← There it is. Xylia, my Beast Master Ranger, in her pretty Monument Armor from Eye of the North. It's unfortunate that it's on the low side for dyeability (and dye on it tends to really oversaturate, making it hard to get the colour you want), but I really like it anyhow.

Yeah, it's probably not that big of a deal... if I weren't spending money on gaining skills (on 11 different characters, heh) and buying non-elite armor and stuff like that I'd probably have had this a long time ago. I actually plan on getting this character several others, but went with this one first because we just happened to be getting the required faction rank around the time I looked at my bank balance and said "Hrm, I bet I can spare 50k." (Actually, 40k; I didn't buy the headgear, since I never display it on this particular character.)

Xylia's technically my "main" since she's the one I'm working on getting the most titles on, and the "owner" of the majority of my miniatures (non-combat pet things). Also the first character I made in Guild Wars. Ranger, despite some fairly unpleasant nerfing, is probably my favorite profession, enough so that I made a second one, this time without a pet.


People who read my Sims blog might remember I posted a picture of her and her companion (my SO's char) in what I said at the time was expensive armor. Hah. The "expense" of that armor totalled about half of what I spent for one piece of this one. But that was when the majority of my experience was in Prophecies, where it is much harder to earn money. Now that I've been through a large chunk of the rest of the game, I have a different standard for expensive. (Also a different one for "hard".)

There's a good chance my next elite armor will be for my other Ranger and will also be from Eye of the North... but that's going to have to wait. I have to spend a buttload of money trying to earn more Lucky and Unlucky points this weekend during the Canthan New Year festival. And also on more skills, since I'm still working on getting all the skills (especially elites) for Xylia.

Scenes from around Paragon City

Aaaand a few scenery pics from Paragon City, home to heroes (clicky for bigger):


Faultline, a former hazard zone now being rebuilt

Scenes from Around the Villain Isles

Some various environments found in the Rogue Isles, main setting of City of Villains (all clicky for biggy...er).



Sun setting over ocean, Mercy Island

Fun Screenshot Sequences

Sometimes I get a chance to click off several screens in a row, giving me a cool sequence. Too little to be an animation, but enough so you can see the progression. Here's a few of those (click for bigger versions, natch):



Scrapper kicking dude out of frame


Object destruction in Mayhem Mission


The area heal from the villain-only Pain Domination set, all sparkly and evil