Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Humans of Tyria

Humans are the most basic playable race of most MMORPGs, and the only playable character in the original Guild Wars. Their hometown in is Divinity's Reach, Kryta, on the upper left corner of the world map, next to Maguuma Wastes, and above the Sea of Sorrows.

Their religion is the belief of the Six Gods: Dwayna, the goddess of healing, air, and life; Balthazar, the god of war, fire, and courage; Melandru, the goddess of nature, earth, and growth; Lyssa, the twin goddesses of beauty, water and illusion; Grenth, the god of darkness, death, and ice; and Kormir, the goddess of order, spirit, and truth. 




The human government is a hereditary monarchy with ministers that represent all the human nationalities. At the top of the government is the queen, with her personal elite royal guards, the Shining Blade. Under the queen, is the ministers and representatives. The human army is mostly composed of the Seraph, a police force that protects the humans throughout Tyria. The Ministry Guards are support and protects the interests of ministers.

Humanity has declined since the end of the original Guild Wars, due to the war against the Charr and King Adelbern's madness, which turned the whole city of Ascalon into ghost/spirits. The humans are now fighting against the centaurs. Many bandits still exist, but many people would die to save their hometown and their queen.





Summary from Guild Wars 2 wiki

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Sword Art Onlne Review

This post have nothing to do with the Guild Wars 2 guide, since this is homework. This is going to be  a short review of the light novel Sword Art Online. Well, the first fifty or so pages anyways. The novel is set in the year 2022, where a machine that can create a virtual reality that is completely secluded from reality, called the Nerve Gear, is made. A few months later, at the end of the year 2022, a gamed called Sword Art Online, which was the first MMORPG that utilizes complete vitual reality, was released. Only 100,000 copies were released, and the protagonist Kazuto Kirigaya, was able to get one of the copies of the game.
Kazuto was still 14 years old middle school student when he first started playing Sword Art Online. His in-game alias, Kirito, was created by taking his name and combining them (Kirigaya Kazuto).
His avatar was a young, tall boy with a handsome face and long hair. He was going out of the Starting City(great name by the way) of the game, when another player, called Klein, and begged for help. After a few hours, when Klein was going to log out, they noticed that there was no "Log Out" option in the menu. They thought it was a bug or something of the sort, but little did they know thatsomething terrible was going to happen.
After waiting for a while, all the players in the game were teleported to the Central Plaza of Starting City. The GM appeared as a giant robe with no body and announced that there was no way to log out of the game,dying in the game means dying in real life, taking off the Nerve Gear would kill them by destroying their brains with microwaves that was inside the Nerve Gear, and the only way of leaving the game was clearing all 100 floors of the game. He gave each of the players an itmem called Hand Mirror, which upon using it, the players' avatars will be transformed into their real life body. The whole plaza was filled with confusion, terror, and chaos...

Monday, January 7, 2013

A New Beginning

    This blog is mainly going to be a guide to Guild Wars 2, sometimes about rants and gameplays of my own. For those who don't know what Guild Wars 2(or GW2 for short) is, it is a fantasy MMORPG, where the heroes/heroines save the world of Guild Wars 2 from the deadly grasps of the Elder Dragons, who are conquering and destroying the continent from all directions. There are five playable races and eight professions/classes available, with your own customizations in the character creation.
The five playable races are Human, Sylvari, Charr, Norn, and Asura, and the eight professions are Warrior, Guardian, Thief, Engineer, Necromancer, Mesmer, Elementalist, and Ranger. Each race and profession have their own unique skills and playstyles. The world of Guild Wars 2 is very free and open, there are many waypoints, or teleporters if you will, in every map so you can travel around the world freely and quickly, but with a bit of a fee.
The economy is very easy to understand in Guild Wars 2, 100 copper is 1 silver, and 100 silver is 1 gold. Players can gain money by killing mobs, doing events, selling equipments, and other things. They can also sell rare equipments or materials on the Trading Post, where you can quickly gain money if you sell rare or wanted items among the players.
I will explain the races and professions next time, so until next time!