Horrifically amused...

There is Guild Wars fanfiction. I know it's not a surprise, since most RPGs of all kinds naturally tends to spawn quest logs that turn into pseudo-stories and I mean - just look at YvtW! XD

I didn't actually read any of it of course, since it's pretty much given that these aren't as much as "fanfiction" as they are adventure logs rewritten with Mary Sue/Gary Stu type prose.

But, I'm still amused.

And tempted to write something involving my Elementalist and Kai Ying... (I will of course keep such indulgences to myself and refrain from airing such brainlessness in public of course.)

Anyway. So amused.

EDIT: I should get myself a Guild Wars icon, methinks.

GW: Need advice on shopping...

Because we all know the #1 thing I care about in Guild Wars is teh pretteh. And, since my ranger is lvl 20 and my elementalist is getting there, and my funds are limited, I'm going to need some advice on what to get...

( The choices )

Now, given the amount of money I have now and what I will have when my Elementalist can hit the lvl 20 shops (she's only 1 quest away, technically), I have barely enough money now for a full set of the non-Ascended lvl 20 stuff.

On a pure functional level, I suppose the Elementalist doesn't actually *need* an armor upgrade since she's not supposed to be tanking/taking hits as much as the Ranger, and also since she has a monk secondary and thus good healing abilities. So I can afford to wait until later in the game for the Luxon/Kurzick or even the Ascended stuff. While the ranger does need the extra armor since she doesn't have good self healing and largely relies on henchmen and her HP/AC to get by, so I'm not sure I can wait to get the Kurzick/Luxon stuff. On the other hand... I'm not actually that certain I'll ever get that far into the game since some of the later missions/quests seem rather difficult.

On an aesthetics level...

I think of the Elementalist stuff, the Krytan and Shing Jea sets are some of the best of the bunch. The Kurzick style is nice, but IMO it looks a lot like the Shing Jea set. Of it all I like the Ascended Canthan style the best but that's a far off dream as far as I'm concerned. So my two possible routes are to either go for my final set of armor now, or stick with what I have without upgrading until I get to Kurzick/endgame.

For the ranger, I definitely like the Luxon/Ascended Luxon styles the best, but again I'm not sure I can get there, especially if I don't upgrade in the interim. But of the other lvl 20 stuff... Iono, none of them really strikes my fancy. So I guess a second opinion on what looks good for the ranger styles would be nice.


( And while I'm at it... )