Guild wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is an MMORPG with action combat mechanics like dodging which is a little different than that stand still and press buttons type of MMORPG I grew up with. It has very interesting and cohesive world lore that you will be directly involved in due to how the character creation and personal story is done. There are many explansions, many things you receive for free, and overall the game is just wonderful.

Favorite mechanic: Combat

It feels cliche to make combat another favorite mechanic, but I don't care. It is often the simple things that you engage with constantly during a game that are most important to get right and Guild Wars 2 does that. I made a charr engineer for the pistol gameplay, and I was not disappointed in how snappy it feels to simply shoot an enemy. Even when I switched to holosmith I still enjoy smacking things.

Story moment: Losing Aurene

This is one of the most painful parts of the game, and trust me, there are many. I was turning the tide of the fight against Kralkatorrik, we had him trapped, pinned, doing damage to him. Fighting alongside aurene...and then he managed to rear up and hit us with a powerful blast that sent us flying. Aurene...not so much. At first you don't know what has happened, you are just stumbling along the cavern until you hear the wailing, the crying, the mourning, and you finally see her. Aurene, dead, crystalized in a macabre display of loss and pain. The thing that makes this extra difficult is that you literally raise Aurene. You hatch her from an egg, do missions with her to teach her how to protect humanity and work as a team...and then this happens. You lose her.

Character: Taimi

Taimi gets the title spot for favorite character, but Blish and Gorrik are also my favorites. Taimi is an asura and an absolute genius. She was taken in by Rata Sum due to being an orphan, and as she kept going through her studies she excelled beyond all others, but this is probably also due to her determined attitude and go get em' philosophy. She has a degenerative muscle disease and so she uses her golem, Scruffy, to help her get around while also collecting data, samples, figthing, or anything else she needs to do. Her friends are Blish and Gorrik, two other asura who left the Inquest to join Dragonswatch- however in the fight against Kralkatorrik, Blish sacrificed himself to power the tracker as he was within the body of a golem. It was heartbreaking to lose him. There is a living world map where all three of them are there, stuck in that moment of peace, and I like to go there just to have all of them with me again. Either way, Taimi's character is amazing with how strong and passionate she is and I will raise Hell on Earth if anything ever happens to her. Arenanet, mark my words.

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Tess the Charr Engineer

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