First real post

So after what seems like an eternity I finally beat Guild Wars: Eye of the North a couple nights ago.  I abused consumables to get through Destruction's Depths (everything's fine until the Destroyers rush you when you get to the Norn NPCs) and then after over 9000 times dying on The Great Destroyer I decided to just spam Pain Inverter on him and he went down pretty quickly.

This means my ranger has completed all of the story of Guild Wars now.  I turned in the full Hero's Handbook for some Norn points (which took me from r6 to r7).

This also means I finally have Hard Mode unlocked in Eye of the North.  Now I can finally use Hard Mode to farm experience for my dervish so he can get Legendary Survivor.  With the HM +50% experience bonus and a scroll of adventurer's insight, he gets 594 experience from one of the now level 30 Snow Wurms outside Boreal Station.

Speaking of my dervish, I've now gotten him to Amnoon Oasis.  Since he hasn't gotten to mainland Elona yet, he hasn't had the opportunity to do Hunted!, so if I ascend him in the Crystal Desert before doing Hunted!, he'll get that nice fat 50,000 experience from beating the doppleganger.  I've already got a plan for defeating the doppleganger too.

Since the doppleganger can't use PvE-only skills, I can take Aura of Holy Might to give me an all-around attack damage boost that he can't use.  Secondly, the doppleganger has 480 health, and I have 595 (which I could take to 625 if I had a +30 health scythe mod), so I have a nice 115 health buffer to operate with.  Third, the doppleganger has 12 in all attributes except weapon masteries where he has zero, so I'll be dealing more damage than him anyway.  All three of these things combined together should equal doppleganger rape.  Then it's back to killing Snow Wurms until I get Legendary Survivor.

Also with HM unlocked I can join speedbooking groups to turn in minimal Hero's Handbooks for quick points and leech off of raptor farmers for Asura points.

Man, going through the southern Kryta missions with my dervish was so fun.  Most of the enemies are undead, and I'm running a build with Eternal Aura and Avatar of Balthazar.  Eternal Aura recharges all dervish skills, which makes Avatar of Balthazar maintainable.  Avatar of Balthazar, among other things, converts my attack damage to holy damage, which gets doubled vs. undead.  My damage was in the triple digits and I think I saw it peak at 336 with a well-placed Mystic Sweep.

Go Guild Wars!