He and I have never met directly, just perhaps encountered each other in zone from time to time. I was always extremely amused by his name. When I was leveling in the Charr lands, I always saw another Charr running about in the same leveling zones.
(If anyone named is uncomfortable with this, and want privacy or some such, feel free to contact me and I’ll edit you right off.) I’ll give a named example, since some people are pouting that we bloggers talk along in generalities, but never in specifics. Some others may simply be names that get more and more familiar the more time you spend on the server. Some of them are acquaintances of the moment, that you may never see again. I’ve had spontaneous friendly encounters on difficult vistas, jumping puzzles and mini-dungeons. I just shrug, probably a WoW-trained person. Most will stop to help fight a mob, or revive each other and so on, and the rudest thing that happens is someone who just dashes past the veteran mob you’re fighting to sneak a node and dash right off. I don’t mind the wordless ‘being alongside’ each other in normal play. Which is quite amazing, given just how antisocial a loner I tend to be in most other games.Ī lot of this perception is in the eye of the beholder, I feel. Speaking just for myself, I am definitely encouraged to be more social by the design. There’s even a current debate in the blogosphere, prompted by Syp’s post on Playing Together Alone Together, about how much GW2’s pro-social measures help this or fail to. Other guilds or what other people are doing, unimportant in the greater scheme of things, let’s just focus on our PvE, our raid instance, our PvP battleground, or what-have-you. But in most typical MMOs, everyone runs around in a nameless anonymous crowd, barely knowing or recognizing each other.Īt most, one joins a guild and gets to know the group of people inside that in-group. If I played Eve Online or Star Wars Galaxy, that might be different, I’m given to understand that such things can occur there. That is, the ability to become famous or familiar to each other and be known for various things. Return to Bound by Blood: Course Favorite: Grothmar Valley - Complete the Grothmar Grand Tour or Crater Circuit races or adventures.One thing I haven’t seen in an MMO since ye olde A Tale in the Desert is oldschool name recognition.Daily Icebrood Saga: Daily Grothmar Valley Racer - Complete the Grothmar Grand Tour or Crater Circuit races or adventures. (0 ).Prologue: Bound by Blood: Crater Circuit: Top Three - Finish the Crater Circuit in the top three. (3 ).Prologue: Bound by Blood: Crater Circuit: Silver Challenge - Finish the Crater Circuit within the Silver Challenge time limit. (2 ).Prologue: Bound by Blood: Crater Circuit: Gold Challenge - Finish the Crater Circuit within the gold challenge time limit. (3 ).Try to avoid going over rocks, as the skimmer loses speed if it is not moving over water. The timing to get gold is tight, so keep using the special action skill as soon as it has recharged. The skimmer is given a special action skill, Geyser Charge, that allows boosting much higher into the air than Ride The Wind.