Not like it should matter, but after more than a year, I have my first 80!
I haven’t even finished all the 15-25 zones yet (doing map completion). I kept getting sidetracked. All the “other things” that /map and /guild keeps talking about, half the time I have no idea what they are. I should start looking into these other things… map completion can get a bit repetitive. I hate not having a clue though.
Right now I play with a friend whom I introduced to the game, who’s a zoomer — goes from heart to heart and event to event, and sometimes wonders about not getting credit because he ESCs his way through the hearts and doesn’t realize what he’s supposed to do. That’s just how he plays, though. He’s enjoying himself very much otherwise.
Funny story that reminds me why it’s different from other MMOs. Yesterday I was in Diessa Plateau and was trying to get the vista at the very top of the tower. Friend says it’s impossible to get there (“let me know when you find a way please and thank you!”), so he went off to another shiny, while I thought it was a jump puzzle. The charr at the base of the tower says something about flying cows to the southeast. So I went southeast.
Came upon the cattlepult, which I thought was hilarious. So I stuck around, and suddenly, an event! We almost failed the event because I was too busy laughing at the cows being launched out of the catapult, so most of them got killed. If it wasn’t for my zoomer friend, we probably would have failed the event and got too many cows killed by harpies.
Event ended, friend zoomed off to another shiny, while I stuck around since I know there’s going to be a chain. There always is.
Except not this time. This time though, it was a funny dialogue between the catapult guy and his assistant. The assistant went off to find more cows, but in the meantime we’ve got a few cows left and might as well make use of them. So what does he do? He invites me to wager to see how far the cows will fly this time. I made 50 silver (guessed one right)! No event, no nothing. It was just something I saw because I stuck around. Hilarious!
Next up on my list are the activities from the crier in Lion’s Arch. Only ever tried Keg Brawl, which was equally funny, though frustrating when I meet that one opposing player who can toss the keg all across the field in one try.
