Mad Thorn King

Dracula

Halloween is an event I’ve missed out on for the past 3 years.  My wedding annivesary falls on the 29th and there’s always something that prevents me from particapting.  Halloween is my favorite time of year, so it makes me sad not being able to play my favorite game during this time of year.  Luckily this year, the stars have aligned to allow me to play some GW for halloween.  I was so excited, that me and the wife (Phedre) put together this tribute cake which I’ll enter into the Guild Wars Halloween Art Contest.  Wish us luck!

Sadly, the minions have once again dwindled.  Most have gone to fight in distant, glitchy lands full of new adventure but sorely lacking the challenges that were fought on the soil of Tyria.  Even our leader has stepped down to commit more time to the foriegn battles. For once, I’m glad Rurik isn’t around to see how depressing things have truely become.

Alas, one year later I’ve declared the SURGE a failure.  We tried, we fought mightly, but we did not win.

Welcome Nick!

After being in several alliances that seemed more focused on raising their kids via GW than actually having fun, we’ve decided to form our own alliance. A mature, beer drinking alliance.

I understand that there are many alliances out there that like to have tons of rules and requirements. That’s not us. Have fun and drink beer. Those are the rules.

If the below describes your guild, let me know and we’ll get this BEER alliance going:

Guild “Requirements”:

• Play GW for pure enjoyment above all else.
• Relaxed, mature players. 21+. We’re mostly old guys in our late twenties/early thirties.
• Like to drink good beers. No coors light.
• Don’t have a problem swearing in alliance chat
• Most of the members have completed the game and been playings since the early days.

About our guild:

• Kurzick
• We love to drink. And even swear sometimes.
• 20 members on both coasts. Not all are super active. Yes, we have females.
• PVE and PVP Focused. 80/20 split. Though we would love to PVP more.
• Hardcore players like the challenging Elite areas (DOA/UW/etc)
• We also have several casual members.
• We do a fair amount of farming.
• Everyone is over 29 years old.
• We have TS , Vent, and good ole Skype.

IGN: Diks Devastator

While some of the guildies will be trying to destroy the forest (Urgoz), other’s will be admiring it (Lightning in a Bottle).

We are a diverse Guild indeed.

VS

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).

Finished up GW:EN this weekend… Great game if you haven’t played through it yet.  The rewards are better, the dungeons are great, and it’s more challenging than the other campaigns.  Some parts are near impossible with out other human players…though I was able to complete the final two missions with just heros/hench.