Guild Wars 2

Dear adventurers,

I am one who always tries to come up with challenges in-game. Thanks to the new WvW match-up, I was able to get map completion without dying, a little challenge I came up with back in the days before the account wallet even existed. Notable foes were cliffs, a Veteran Risen Abomination’s charge in Caledon Forest, unseen holes in the floor (Stonemist Castle’s vista) and my every so reckless play style.

I am currently wondering what to try out next, and I would like to ask you: what do you do to challenge yourself?

I was thinking of doing something similar but without unlocking any weapon, but the recent changes to that make it hard to prove. Nevertheless, all input is welcome!


All the salad’y love,
Totalswag Salad*



*After trying this with ten characters with serious names, I found it easier to just get a silly name.

I was thinking of starting a Jumping Puzzle run with no boons or speed boosts, no armor or trinkets and only one weapon. I only have a default of 3 lives for each puzzle, and if I fail to complete it in 3 lives, I cannot try that puzzle again until the next day. Was going to go around the entire map and do all of them in a set. I think it would be fun.

Quite an accomplishment! How many characters did you go through on the way?

Edit: Oh, just realized you said 10 characters. Dang. What’s the /age on that one?

Very impressive that you managed to do Map Completion without dying once. (Especially in WvW! That must have been nerve wracking.)

Yeah bump on /age.

For those having trouble with wvw map completion, it used to be a gentlemen’s agreement that if you used the quaggen tonic when you where running around then people would leave you alone.

I don’t know if people still honor that or not, I still do.

I have never heard of that agreement before. I’d probably think twice before attacking a transformed player like that, but for all I know they’re using it just to spy or to hide more easily in places like SMC.

Sorry guys, I’ve been busy and lost track of this.

@Hickeroar & Heapheaus: /age right now is 61 hours and 0 minutes!

@WvW comments: my tip here is to start early and check it out often. With servers changing colors more often, it’s not so hard to do one third of the map every week or so. I didn’t follow my own advice though and so I got stuck 98% completion for two weeks. I did go deep into enemy territory, but that’s because I’m a bit crazy.

A little cheap trick though: you can click on a waypoint once on your minimap and a confirmation message will pop up on your screen. It will stay there no matter where you go, so you can WP away quickly by clicking “Yes” at any time. Keep in mind though that the message goes away if you interact with a vista.

There are quite a few guilds that have re-roll hard events. Once you die once…game over… delete character, only use found items, etc, etc.

I forget the term for it but it’s a common theme of personal challenge in many MMORPG’s as well as offline RPG’s and I’ve seen it on a few guild sites and youtube clips in regards to this game.