Guild Wars Attention Deficit Disorder (GWADD) is a serious disorder that can affect anyone without warning. You start out helping out Koss hook up with Meloni only to find yourself farming swamp petals because you need those so that you can complete some stew-making side quest and then for some reason you’re grinding your Norn title because you had a few good rounds in the Norn Fighting Tournament and figure, it would only take 9 weeks to max that title…but it’s time for Alliance Battle…

Welcome to my head while playing. A more specific example; A few weeks ago, Gile and I tried the elite area in Nightfall called the Domain of Anguish. It’s pretty rough, especially without a few other guild members to help out (hint, get your a** online). It consists of 4 brutal side-quests, each with 2-3 sub quests, and a mega end-boss Mallyx the Unyielding. We made it through the first set of quests in the City of Torc’qua but once we reached Ravenheart Gloom, it was epic fail. I challenge anyone to complete the 10 waves of L28 torment demons with heros and hench.

So what did we do? Give up? Of course not. We probably dumped 20k each into building up heros with skills, runes, and weapons. We tried a dozen times and failed. At some point we decided that if we maxed out our Lightbringer title, we’d be doing 40% more damage to these goons. Two weeks later, the grind is over. We maxed out both our Sunspear and Lightbringer titles.

Of course, along the way we played some AB, killed 500000000 margonites in the wurms, farmed feathers, helped guildies complete missions, elfed it up, had a firework show and pet show down in the guild hall, drank lots of water, got some celestial mini pigs, and worked some nubs.

Nick asks me often why I play this game still.  Two words….Eternal Grind (and endless fun).