Guild Wars 2

Another Icelander weighing in here in two a two part rant. Thanks for bearing with me.
Part 1(about Icelanders and Norn): There are some similarities between norn and icelanders. Some of us may be pretty adventurous, climbing glaciers and diverting lava flows and sailing through storms to catch a few fish, and there is a reputation for heavy drinking, and a strong connection to storytelling traditions, and personal reputation is still a very important part of our culture, but instead of hunting huge monsters we raise sheep and knit sweaters, and for the most part, we don’t live legends, we just tell them. We are more like a nation of Skalds than a nation of heros. Let the Americans where the hero badge. We are a bit more domestic.
Also, addressing an earlier post I wont bother quoting, we are one of the most egalitarian countries in the world. We even had the worlds first lesbian head of state.
But I’m getting off topic. My point being that in spite of a few similarities, icelanders are not norn and vice versa.

Part 2 (About Norn naming conventions): What many people seem to have forgotten is this: According to Anet, Norn individuals are specifically named by their communities. They Do Not name themselves. They are named by their reputation among other norn, which encourages norn who receive unfavorable titles to do something more worthy. In Braham’s case, he has a reputation for being Eir’s son. Other norn likely gossip about him. They gossip about the son of Eir, and they know his name, and They are the ones who name him Eirsson. It’s not up to him, or Eir, or the people who raised him, it’s up to the norn community. It’s not like they vote on it either, and maybe some people do call him Vinebane or Thorn Slayer, or maybe they will start calling him Braham The Lame (If his leg doesn’t heal right). My point being that it will always be the norn community, with some Skaldic influences perhaps, who has the final say in a norn’s name, and right now they recognize him as Eirsson.

Expected, if only because of the LB spirit weapon utility skill and matching weapon skin ;P

I’m looking forward to having another choice for a long range weapon; Scepter isn’t bad, but it just doesn’t do it for me. I’m having a hard time trying to imagine the various possible skills it could have. Too many possibilities for serious speculation.

I’ve been really enjoying my Norn Ranger’s personal story quests. Defeating a giant king, becoming an honorary Gear warband member, and foiling looters at archaeological dwarven dig sites where fun accomplishments.

That said, the one Personal story quest that I had some strong language for was called Bad Blood. Its actually not a hard quest, but the very first challenge of it was a semi platformer puzzle with a bottomless chasm (you die if you fall) with a narrow ledge where gusts of wind blow you off if you can’t find shelter every 8 seconds. Even with these qualities, the quest is not too hard. The problem comes from something much more simple: The quest tells you to predict the wind gusts by watching the movement of some flags blowing in the wind. These flags did not help at all. In the end the only reason I barely made it across was because I took to obsessively counting the elapsed time between gust intervals based on when they would hit my pet.
The flags just need to more clearly show the gusts.

I’ve been really enjoying my Norn Ranger’s personal story quests. Defeating a giant king, becoming an honorary Gear warband member, and foiling looters at archaeological dwarven dig sites where fun accomplishments.
That said, the one Personal story quest that I had some strong language for was called Bad Blood. Its actually not a hard quest in total, but the very first challenge of it was a semi platformer puzzle with a bottomless chasm (you die if you fall) with a narrow ledge where gusts of wind blow you off if you can’t find shelter every 8 seconds. Even with these qualities, the quest is not too hard. The problem comes from something much more simple: The quest tells you to predict the wind gusts by watching the movement of so flags blowing in the wind. These flags did not help at all. In the end the only reason I barely made it across was because I took to obsessively counting the elapsed time between gust intervals. The flags just need to more clearly show the gusts.