Hey #MMORPG friendos and tooters! Your favorite long-running indie #MMO blog #MassivelyOP has planted roots here on Mastodon. We cover news and editorials on everything from the biggest virtual worlds like #WoW and #GuildWars2 and #FFXIV to weird stuff you've never heard of. Our MMO podcast #MOPPodcast releases every Tuesday!
Professionally right now I work as an SME in a #PenTesting group for a regulatory company, but it's really not my bag of tea in the long run. That I can feel. I much prefer to be in an investigatory and tool-making field for something related to #DFIR . I was especially happy doing #ReverseEngineering of #malware .
I'm into reverse engineering, assembly languages like #IA32 and recently #ARM / #ARM64, programming (old classics like C/C++ / #Python but learning the newer stuff like #RustLang ), big into #forensics, #RasPi and #Arduino projects and such.
Still trying to figure out what I am career wise, though, like job title and such! It's all great fun to me, just haven't found the direct niche to sink into.
Hobby wise, I'm also really into #GuildWars2! Long time gamer at heart.
Good Morning Friends! Yesterday we got the announcement of the first expansion in the new #GuildWars2 content model. I am so freaking excited about Secrets of the Obscure and I talk a bit about some of the features discussed.
Good Morning Friends! This weekend I set aside my #ARPG grinds for a bit and picked back up #GuildWars2 working on getting my #Ranger caught up with the content. This weekend I finished out Living World Season 2 and #HeartOfThorns ultimately stopping last night when I hit Bloodstone Fen.
A painting of my #GW2#charr#mesmer. I wish I had time to play her more often! She's spec'ed as a #chronomancer, which is probably still my favorite mesmer specialization.
Still learning how this site works! Thanks to everyone who's taken a look at my art, I appreciate it & hope to spend more time here!
You know that feeling in an #MMO when a new expansion arrives and suddenly nearly all of the older content is worthless because you can get way better gear in the new zones for was less effort? Empty old maps? No one running older content?
Hey!
I'm Fen, #MMORPG enjoyer since my pre-teen years. Primarily #ffxiv atm, but have been a big #GuildWars2 gamer as well, still hang around those communities.
I also enjoy various other games like #Diablo, #Nier and #DMC5.
I have a cat and I also have #ADHD and am #Actuallyautistic so, my interests are sort of all over the place and I get really deep into them for a while. Expect the unexpected or something
I started out on the fediverse arooooound...I wanna say 2017/18 mebbe? My big start in social media was MySpace. Before that, I had a LiveJournal (which I miss mightily with all my heart). My very first computer was a Gateway PC, back when they shipped them to you in those awesome cow spot pattern boxes. I am trying to de-google my life.
I'm #ADHD and suffer from #dysthymia. I'm currently unmedicated. I can be damned moody at times, so there's your warning.
Religiously/spiritually speaking, I'm complicated. That will be a long post, when I get around to writing it. My general rule is: I have my thing. It's not everybody's thing, and that's cool. Not everybody's thing is my thing, and that's cool. Just don't be a wanker towards those whose thing ain't your thing. OM 🕉
I'm 57 years old and have come to the conclusion that we never truly appreciate the decades we grew up in until we hit middle age.
I'm single and childless, hence my user tag: TheLastOfHisName.
unfortunately, it's the only reason I still have a reddit account, but if anyone wants to read my thoughts on how today's Radiant Fire change affects willbender, here ya go <3
It is fine. It also challenges players to be creative and patient in solving the obstacles to reach places.
It is why, many of us core #GuildWars2 players often recommends for new players to play the core game without gliding and any mounts even if they can unlock it already. This teaches the players how #GW2 works, especially when it comes to jumping puzzles and hard to reach places.
Oftentimes, in Guild Wars 2 at least, maps and puzzles made with flying in mind, were made similarly the way the early maps (without mounts) were made: make it very challenging that will require the player to be creative and fire up all those neurons in their brains.
And gliding is a perfect halfway through full-blown flying (as #WorldOfWarcraft offers). You still have to be creative and use those neurons.
To sideline, GW2 doesn't exactly have a full-blown flying mount like #WoW. The next step in “flying” after gliding, is the Gryphon. It's very fast “gliding” mount. Like gliding, Gryphon mounts work best when you are up high, so you can enable its speed mode (which is technically the fastest in the game).
Then the Skyscale mount is the best flying mount in GW2, which is still not a full-blown flying mount. You can't just fly all you want, you still have to find ways to climb because the Skyscale's stamina is limited. The higher you go, the faster it is consumed, and the less the Skyscale can store.
If #Palia will introduce something similar to GW2's mounts, then gliding is a very good start to practice. Just like in GW2, gliding was the first form of flying before the Gryphon and Skyscale were introduced.
So, yes, it is good to have gliding. It is also a good sign that the devs will not introduce a full-blown flying mount the way WoW did.
Happy Lunar New Year! Wanted to do something small to celebrate - no requirements, just check the screenshot and it's open to whoever claims them first. 400 each (800 total).
I wish you luck and happiness during the Year of the Dragon!
'Commander of You Heart' a GW2 fanzine is out now! Free to download, it's 200+ pages of art, writing and comics about that dragon-cycle-ender we all love to play. Check it out and share it with your friends! ♥