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Fucking hell ANerf
I just got acquainted with Winter's Embrace. The damage it dealt was too low and too conditional, but as some sort of failed consolation is armor ignoring. Now that you've increased the cost and the recharge but left the damage where it was, it makes the skill even more useless. I'm still waiting for Water Magic to start getting decent damage skills. You can start by removing the half damage vs. enchanted foes on Vapor Blade, since 90% of everything I ever want to use it on becomes enchanted just before it finishes activating.

I liked Marauder's Shot. I haven't used it in a while, but it was a great skill slot filler for a Ranger. The 5 second disable was perfect, just long enough to seal off anything I might want to do non-offensively but short enough that it could be overlooked if I played correctly. Now that it's 10 seconds, this skill will never be returning to my skill bar.

I loved Blood Magic. Life stealing is so much fun. It deserves to stay counterless in PvE. What, did monsters complain? I hate playing a minion master but I guess I'll have to go back to playing one.

To sum up this rant: Don't say in your developer update notes that it's a PvP-oriented update if any of it affects PvE. Furthermore, justify nerfing anything in PvE. No really, I'm waiting for a valid reason. Still waiting.

Yeah, fuck you.

I don't really PvP. I don't care about what PvPers think about skill balance. PvE is massively balanced against the player, therefore we need the skills to stay powerful. PvP can go die in a hole with nobody being able to deal any damage or heal anyone after enough nerfing. Guild Wars barely resembles the game I once knew it to be. It started out being an online RPG for the casual gamer who didn't have the time to grind for equipment and levels, and now we have to grind for stuff. I want to fill out my Zaishen Menagerie with a full compliment of level 5 pets and then set out levelling the ones I like the most. I'm down to the Black Widow, the Moss Spider, and the Rainbow Phoenix. The Moss Spider is too rare, needing an egg from Nick (and if you get one in this way, you should seriously consider buying a lottery ticket) or way too many zcoins or more balthazar faction than I can hold. The Black Widow is easy if I can get a party for UW that can make it to one, but my guild is dead and PUGs are unreliable. I have 8 titles, am two Nightfall Masters' bonuses away from the ninth, and then I really don't know if there are any other "easy max" titles left in the game for the tenth so I can get a Rainbow Phoenix. They're just pets. They're essentially different skins for the exact same thing. Just let me get them already.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled user page.

About Me
I have discovered that I can almost completely alleviate my issues running GW by running it windowed. I don't know why this is, but at least I can play the game again.

I mostly play PvE, but from time to time I'll hop into Fort Aspenwood, Jade Quarry, or an Alliance Battle, since those are the more accessible and friendly PvP formats to PvErs.

I have ten level 20 characters. One of each class. I hate levelling up characters, but at least now I'm done with it forever. Now if only I could just unlock all outposts on all of my characters without having to spend 30 hours per game for each doing inane quests and dying in missions. I want some of the skills Nightfall added, but the only place where you can get to a trainer that has all the new ones is in The Mouth of Torment. Compare to Factions, where foreign characters can just talk to the skill trainer in Kaineng and there they go, every new skill in Factions for their class.

Current in-game projects:
 * Looking for a new PvE guild that's active. Requirements:
 * Kurzick
 * Voice chat
 * willing to help me do stuff like:
 * Sorrow's Furnace - Orozar Highstone and High Priest Alkar left, then Final Assault
 * Titan Quests - DNKP and Last Day Dawns
 * UW/FoW/DoA - I need ectos/for fissure necro armor/I'd like to do it once or twice at the least and I can't take H/H in there...
 * misc titles (protector/guardian/vanquisher)
 * Unlock EotN HM (just Destruction's Depths and A Time for Heroes left)
 * Necromancer Obsidian Armor (86/105 ectos, have all other materials and the money)
 * Filling in my Menagerie (Just the Black Widow, Moss Spider, and the Rainbow Phoenix left, and I'm two Nightfall NM Master's bonuses and one arbitrary title away from the Rainbow Phoenix)
 * Get my dervish up to Legendary Survivor so I can go get him killed
 * Get a new computer so I can play the game fullscreen again

Birthday updates
ANet likes to nerf stuff on my birthday.

Nothing in 2006.

In 2007, they nerfed pet corpses just to mess with people farming tombs.

In 2008, they nerfed HFFF for no good reason.

Nothing in 2009.

What will next November hold for us?

Other stuff
I might write random articles from time to time that have no real place on GuildWiki other than my user page. They'll be listed here.

Token User Page Links

 * Elite Skills

Random stuff

 * Bonfaaz Pwntfur - exploiting level/armor differences to solo low level missions results in stuff like this.
 * To Familiar Lands - quest stemming from killing the above foe.
 * "Ni!" - Sleep deprivation combined with habitual reading of talk pages.
 * The Art of Skill Bar Organization - I attribute writing this to boredom.


 * Augury Rock HM Builds - Because having Augury Rock as a Zaishen Mission is lulz
 * Sandbox - Random build inspirations or what have you.
 * Userboxes - various ones I've made, free for the taking.