A year?

Wow, it's hard to believe it's been a year and the guild hasn't grown to an extra large guild. Sure, we lost Micah and Kenneth to other things. Micah and his college, Kenneth and his Starcraft (still) and college. Anyway, it's been a lot easier now to get faction. I started doing the Jade Sea pvp and it was actually kinda fun. It may be the only one I look forward to doing. Anyway, you get both faction and balthazar points for each "kill", and a lot more for winning. Seven, Odin, and Xander have been doing a lot of pvp to increase the faction, I figured I'd help out. Our guild was ahead of the rest of the alliance for a while until this weekend, one allied guild passed us. Seven and I fixed that last night. Keep it up and have fun. I am looking forward to GW2 and will probably play GW1 occasionally. :-) Anet needs to hurry with GW2 though and provide updates. I signed up for the newsletter 4 or 5 times and haven't seen anything yet though.

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Dwarvenhole - Got Guild?

More on Luxon Faction

Zack got an alliance with FLOC this weekend and ran an Alliance Battle to show me what it's about. We got two people from the allied guild and ran it (since only 4 people can do it). You get 10 faction per "kill" during the battle. Re-spawning takes it's sweet time if you die, but at least you can re-spawn and get back out there. Careful out there though because it is PVP against the Kurzicks.

This does give ya'll an opportunity to contribute to the Alliance Faction pool. I just added 10,000 to it last night. If you guys don't mind, can ya earn some and contribute. It does cost 5,000, but you can't get the luxon skills anyway until you get Friend of Luxons title, which means spending 100,000 luxon faction. If you don't feel like doing Alliance Battles, south of Cavalon has a couple enemy heroes, as well as to the north, where you kill the Kraken to get to the Jade Sea.

Earning Luxon faction points

While Zack was helping me get my assassin to Cavalon to assist with earning faction for the guild I payed a priest by a shrine 100g for a blessing. The first time something got killed, I noticed a red +5 faction pop up. I checked my faction (h) and saw that it had increased. It isn't guild faction, it is luxon faction. So, on your way to Cavalon, once you do the first quest in the Jade seabead against the kraken, remember to hold onto 100 gp to pay for the blessing. There are hero enemies too, for them you should see +125 faction and +5 faction, for a total of 130 faction for the hero. Once you earn enough, you can use the accumulated points in Cavalon to get cool things. For 5000 faction points, you can increase the guild faction.

Survivor Title in Prophecies

I attempted to get the survivor title in Prophecies. I went all through the pre-searing without dying. I was at level 7, almost to 8. I did the final mission to get to post-searing. I was hoping to miss the pvp section but I didn't. Well, I found out that when a character dies in the pvp area, the title is lost. I haven't died since then either with my Necro/Monk, but at the first death in pvp, the title disappeared from the titles in the hero screen.

Survivor Title Track

The Survivor title track can take some patience and multiple runs with Kilroy in EOTN. On the way to getting to EOTN though, it may take multiple uses of f12 + c or y so your character doesn't die in combat or other situations. It won't actually start showing up in your titles until level 5. At that point, it will show you how much xp you need to get the title or next title. Here is what I've earned or working on so far. I'll update it as I get more in the Survivor track.

Survivor: 140,600
Indomitable Survivor: 587,500
Legendary Survivor: 1,337,500

Update May 02, 2008: I got Legendary survivor last night with my monk. It took a very long time and many scrolls that gave triple xp for 10 minutes. Why 10 minutes? It takes about 7 to 10 minutes for a Kilroy run. Anyway, there is no more to get after Legendary survivor. I have three more characters that are still working on this.

XP and Gold farming in EOTN

A place that Kenneth had mentioned is an awesome place to farm. It is a solo thing though. Once you get to Gunnar's Hold in Eye of the North, talk to Kilroy Stoneskin. It's cool how it works. You get a set of brass knucles to equip when you talk to him again. Do the first quest with him all the way through. I went through it without getting knocked out once last night. I used combinations of 1, 2, and 3 keys for those skills. Once I got enough adrenaline, I'd use 5 (it does 80 damage). Once you finish that quest, talk to Kilroy again. He wants you to help him go after someone. In this one, I'd use the same combinations as above, except another skill is added to key 6. It does 30 damage and knocks the enemy over for 3 seconds. When I'd get enough adrenaline, I'd target an enemy and press either 5 (which knocks them out instantly), or 6 if 5 had been used. I'd get clear up to where the locked chest is and map out. There are over 20 enemies to knock out so it is a sure 2000 xp per run. I went from level 12 to 18 in about 2 hours with my Paragon/Mesmer. I had also earned just over 3 platinum from dropped gold and items to sell. If you're working on survivor, it's awesome. When your health drops to 0, press the 8 key rapidly to refill your energy before the timer hits 0:00. You start out with 15 and each time you get knocked over, it increases by 5 making it harder. If it gets too high for the timer, I'd map out early (just in case). Have fun with that guys, I did and am going to keep it up to see if I can get past the survivor title.

Norn Reputation Farming - EOTN

Hey guys, I found a great place to farm for Norn reputation points. The frozen lake area just south of Sifhalla.
When you exit Sifhalla, immediately talk to the Norn at the shrine to get the bounty. From there, I usually head west into the caves. At the south end, there is a dwarven boss that gives 50 rep for defeating him. But anyway, don't talk to any more Norns at shrines until after 25 kills or you get nothing. After 25 kills, start talking to them. I typically get 20 Norn rep out of it, but sometimes I get a hunting rank. It is easy if you run around killing the shiverpeak guys and going around the lake. The shiverpeak boss is easy, it's the dervish ice queen that has a lot of critters around her. If patient, you can pick them off in groups of three to five. If impatient, be ready for a negative penalty on health and energy. Anyway, there are over 300 enemies to kill there, so happy farming.

Links to member's sites

This has changed. The links to other sites of the members has it's own page now on the web site. Please still comment on the previous post if you'd like yours added to the member links page.

Have a personal blog page?

For membes in the Dwarvenhole guild in Guild Wars, a link can be added to take people to their blog page from here. Just leave a comment on this post and it can be added. Please note what you'd like the link to say and the entire url. I'm horrible when it comes to checking my email, or checking the email account set up for Dwarvenhole. If we get a lot of members and there ends up being a lot of links, it will change to have links to personal blogs in it's own page on the web site: http://freewebs.com/dwarvenhole.

Blogger.com blog vs. blog provided with web page

Originally, before the web page, I'd created this blog page for Dwarvenhole. Once I created the web page, I noticed that it comes with a tool to add a blog page. I was thinking of just using the blog page provided with the web page, but messed around and tested and found out that it would require the username and password for the site to post a blog on that blog. Whereas with blogger.com, authors could be added. The authors could use their own email address and password. Besides, I know people like to experiment, me included. I'd prefer to have everyone that joins the guild have the ability to post blogs, not just comment on a blog (boring). This is where the experimentation comes in. If I gave everyone the username and password for the web site, I think it would be an ever changing site; well for about a week or so after a new member is added. It's a cheap free website, but hey, if I could afford a domain, I'd probably be playing WoW (hey, if I had the money I figure WoW would be a good thing to waste it on each month, but alas, in Utah the cost of living goes up while the wages don't). I figured that the Dwarvenhole guild just as well have a web site and blog page though so everyone (new members included) had a way of communicating without having to be in the game. The web site should be accessible on any computer with access to the Internet (that IT has not locked down of course), while Guild Wars is only accessible on computers that have it installed. So that's why the blog page link brings you to a blogger.com site in a nut shell. ;-)

Worthy Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap) [EOTN]

The quest Worthy Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap) took a while for me. I found two of the three on the lake. One of the ones to defeat, is at the North end, it's one of the Shiverpeak centaur things. It died without me even knowing it was there. The next one is more toward the center of the ice lake. It's a wraith-like thing. She had a lot flying around her. I finally killed her at -30% penalty. The final one is not on the lake. I got rid of my -30% penalty just looking for it. It's in a cave on the Southeast section of the area. It's between two res shrines, just follow the white rabbit. Walk up close to the tree in the center. Prepare to finally win at -60% penalty. About 40 shadow things appear and start pounding on you. I ended up with 335 kills in the whole area (tip for those wanting Norn reputation). Aren't you glad you talked to one of the Norn's at the closest res shrine? As there are two shrines, which one you come to life at depends on where you are in the cave. Once you get the quest completed, you get a skill called: You move like a Dwarf. It knocks an opponent over, deals damage and cripples them. The amount of damage and length of time of the cripple is determined by your Norn reputation. Slayer of Beasts, here I come!

Money Farming part 2

Hey guys, I found another location to farm for gold, but it is in Nightfall. Once through the mission at the Consulate Docks, you arrive in Yohlon Haven. The area northwest of there has a lot of enemies. Whenever they drop stuff, the items value 20+ gold when sold, and they typically drop over 80 gold, but I've seen in the 70s a few times and from the few level 16 bugs in the 60s. It is also a great place to farm for Sunspear Promotion Points!! Be sure to talk to the wandering priests at each shrine. When you kill the enemies in the bounty, you get double XP and 4 Sunspear Promotion Points per kill. From roughly 1700 promotion points, I did a few of the quests, but mostly farmed and I got Sunspear General within a few hours of landing in Yohlon Haven. Happy farming!!!
By the way, here is a detailed map of Elonia and sorry about the font size, it didn't want to word wrap, it would just fade out at the end of the link:
http://guildwars.incgamers.com/forums/gallery//showfull.php?photo=524

Great News

I set it up so that you can send an email to dwarvenhole.post@blogger.com so that it goes into the drafts. Once in the drafts, one of the authors can click on Customize then Dashboard. If already in Dashboard, where it says manage, click on Posts. In the list of posts, it says draft that you can edit then post. Be sure to click Publish Post at the bottom. This post is an example of what I had just set up. -Donnie

Money Farming

I found a great place in the Crystal Desert to farm for gold. It is to the East of Elona Reach. The gold dropped is 80+ gp and the items usually fetch around 20+ gp when sold to a merchant. I run around killing all of the enemies. Sometimes I don't get much, but other times, I can make over 1k. The typical run gets me around 600 to 800 gp.
Anyway, I need to get a few more of you there so I can run around splitting gold with you guys, rather than henchman and heroes. That way we can have more funding to purchase things for the guild hall.
I almost got Ben there last night, but about half way through the mission, he dropped off. We were so close to getting to the desert. To use the teleporters, if you go exploring, stand in the circle of runes and watch the four posts. The posts light up in the order that you need to touch them. Don't worry if you miss it, it starts over after a few seconds.
Watch out though when first stepping out of the Amnoon Oasis. Pesky Jade Scarabs like to suprise you by coming out of the ground right when you start a fight with something else. Tread lightly until you get to one of the teleporters, after that, if headed toward Augory Rock, it's mostly Minotaurs (which I want their horns by the way, just 4 more).
By the way, here's a better map of Tyria, which is really big:
http://guildwars.incgamers.com/wiki/images/1/18/Worldmap3a.jpg

Blog news

Ok, so we have a guild hall with a xunlai chest. I'd like to invite any who join the guild to be authors of this blog. I don't know Kenneth or Micah's email addresses, so I'd need them (once Kenneth finally lets us know when he gets Guid Wars). Or, of course, I've sent an email to Ben and Zack with the login as the administrator and password. First thing I'd like is a merchant (currently 25k). Before getting a weaponsmith (currently 10k), I'd prefer to get a material and rare material trader (both currently 100k) so we can just purchase the materials needed and buy a weapon without having to hunt for them in town. I have a place for money farming as well. I put it in my personal blog page (link to Donnie's Blog) of how to farm for money in one location. -Donnie