So… how I did find Living Story Season 1 episode 1’s reappearance after nine years? A bit of a non-event, really. But in contrast to way back when, I’m thinking non-events are pretty good i...
https://whyigame.wordpress.com/2022/04/27/gw2-return-to-flame-and-frost/
The plan was to re-read some of my ancient posts way back in 2012 and early 2013 to remember how I felt about GW2’s Living Story World back then. Perhaps find the equivalent comparisons to the ...
https://whyigame.wordpress.com/2022/04/24/in-memoriam-for-those-who-have-gone-before/
I had a nice chance encounter the other night. I was in Auric Basin doing events, having observed that my stock of aurillium currency was dangerously low, and hey, map rewards were on shiny baubl...
https://whyigame.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/gw2-my-funny-friend-and-me/
You know you’ve played too much GW2 when your right index finger starts hurting. I have a keyboard key bound to left click, for mass bag opening sessions (my mouse scroll doesn’t scroll very ...
https://whyigame.wordpress.com/2022/04/01/gw2-efficiency-numbers-one-week-later/
I was going to write a deep, brooding post about how it’s easy to begin things, and more difficult to continue them, and even harder to end them. I was going to tie that into how I was over-rea...
https://whyigame.wordpress.com/2022/03/31/gw2-overthinking-lag-and-how-to-continue/
Yesterday, I became randomly curious as to the popularity of the Dragon’s End meta. It struck me, while scanning the LFG periodically to see if there were any organized groups feeding my transi...
https://whyigame.wordpress.com/2022/03/24/gw2-some-numbers-apropos-of-nothing/
Finally made it to Cantha. I took a deliberate two week pause from launch date. Busy playing… Dark Souls on Switch. Elden Ring being too newfangled for the computing equipment I have. Ah well, ...
https://whyigame.wordpress.com/2022/03/21/gw2-apropos-of-nothing/
Krikket’s got a cool challenge up on her blog recently, fueled by a grumpy bitter tweet about too much damn content on the interwebs (aka too many indie games on Steam.) We’re challenged to g...
https://whyigame.wordpress.com/2022/01/30/justonepercent-the-easy-way-out-aka-im-done/
Regular readers (all ten of them? am I being optimistic?) might have noticed a sudden textual silence from this tiny corner of the interwebs. The family and I are *crosses fingers* still doing fi...
Guild Wars 2 has always been a haven in the MMO space for horizontal progression. No vertical forever-treadmill where one chases higher and higher numbers, for glory and ambition or merely for th...