I haven’t has the best of summers in this game or in real life. My Cat died, I handled it… oddly in comparison to similar situations in the past. I not only maxxed out but I over-shot my limit on my credit card on GW 2 Gems… and blew every single penny I owned in game within a 1-week period.
sobs
Thus I had come to find out from all of my wonderful fellow players and my husband and friends in real life that, HA! Guess what? I’m not the only person to have ever made silly mistakes like that.
I am known in this game as the resident Lady Donald Trump, and I hate that term but… whatever, yet, I found I couldn’t actually manage to earn any money in game for a time immediately following this strange hiatus that befell me. I was broke. I mean, kitten POOR BROKE, in game, couldn’t buy anymore gems to rectify the issue, I couldn’t figure out how to make any money in game either… I was… in a depression.
Suddenly – ANet announces: October 23rd – Heart of Thorns!
You’d think I’d be excited by this but… actually, I panicked, cause I had nothing and what in no way prepared in way I had hoped to be by this point.
I wanted to have at least 1,000g in my game bank by October 23rd, and I had NO clue on how to do it for some reason.
1 week later: Dove head first into Silverwastes and came out clean on the other side with 700g in bank via doing various different methods that I knew but somehow forgotten yet… suddenly remembered?
I struggled for weeks to earn and keep even 50g in my bank, but they announce Hot and 5 days later, 700g saved.
What the hell? I went to a friend of mine, Ed and we talked about it and his input on the notion is: “The finally announced the release. Fell like someone flicked a switch and turned your brain on and everything comes into focus? Yeah, that’s called renewed focus. Enjoy it.”
Not that I post this cause I don’t believe him, just that… really, what the hell?
Our brains get so fogged over and huge mistakes can be made but… they announce the one thing you’ve been waiting for them to say and… all of a sudden you go from being stupid to smart again?
I use to be a Ritualist and a Paragon in my former life…
when after some time a sudden change of the situation occurs, for example something you have waited for a long long time gets finally announced u have a reason to go back to normal operate mode. not that uncommon at all. as your friend said: enjoy it. and if ur able to dont forget about it if you ever come in a similiar situation