Claymore

iskender wrote an interesting post, On Women and Men and Gaming the other day. On a similar theme, I saw another interesting article today: Beauty or Brawn - Have You Got the Baals?

Both well worth reading.

I finished skill-capping in GuildWars for my character, Vexyra Malagate, and got the four max skill-cap titles. That took her to 11 titles, giving her the prestigious rank of "People Know Me".

So I went back to the town she started in, Ascalon City, and took a picture...

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I've been doing well at GuildWars lately. I finished Nightfall over the weekend, so I now have all three Protector titles: Elona, Tyria and Cantha.

I also managed (with a little help) to get 100% explored on Elona, so I have the Elonian Grandmaster Cartographer title.

That means I'm one title away from "Kind of a Big Deal". My next two targets are Grandmaster Cartographer for Cantha and for Tyria. With Tyria, I'm at 91% explored, but the rest is a bitch to do because it's little bits all round the edges of everything. I'm at 99.4% for Cantha, and for the moment, cannot get any more; the only two remaining areas to explore are the Jade Quarry faction battle (which requires 16 participants, and there are very rarely more than 4 people in either Luxon or Kurzick Jade Quarry), and the Monastery Overlook, outside Shing Jea, which is only accessible to characters born in Cantha, or during festivals. I guess I'm going to have to wait till the next festival, in July, I think.

And my quest to save up for Fissure of Woe Necro armour is going well - I have 464K saved, of the 600K required.