7,777,777 legendary survivor and long overdue update

I have joined The Eternal Night Vanguard [TEN] led by the awesome guild leader Kazera Wolfsbane. If you haven't done it already, do ittt.

Also, during Halloween I went farm crazy and killed skeleton after skeleton to finally achieve this:



Also, I know this is a random blog post since I haven't updated it in a while because of laziness and real life issues. I won't be updating often, only when I feel like it :).

The Early Kat Years 23 : My younger brother

Around 4 years ago, my younger brother also played Guild Wars under the characters The Dark Desolator (which was a necromancer back then, and now my banned assassin) and Dark Templar Mylar (a warrior). He was very into the game, and I remember helping him out with Gates of Kryta by suggesting to him to use a fire/minion master build. It worked amazingly well, and he was storming through that mission, and even FARMING it afterwards using inferno and phoenix on the ramp in the beginning.

We had alot of fun times together, and I got him to beat prophecies and play through part of factions. His most memorable parts of the game were farming trolls with the W/Mo cyclone axe and gladiator's defense build and raising limitless minions.

Eventually, when factions came out he lost interest in the game, partly also because ArenaNet introduced a minion cap into the game that severely limited the power of his necromancer.

I made my now banned assassin The Dark Desolator to honor his service to the game.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! The Krazy Kat is back!

First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone!

I have started playing Guild Wars again on my account Teh Cute Kitteh Kat.

Now... I have a long explanation for everyone who follows me.

8 months ago in May 2010 I was one of the victims of the mass banning of 3,700 accounts for the use of bots. For reasons which I won't discuss here I was able to farm mass quantities of gold and as a result 12 of my accounts were banned. My main account Krazy Katherine was one of those accounts. Ever since that day I was reluctant to replay Guild Wars again and restart all my characters over again.

However, I have reborn and started to play Guild Wars again on my mesmer, which was also the first profession I made over 5 years ago when I started playing. On this new mesmer, I have completed Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall, and Eye of the North. Due to the imminent release of Guild Wars 2, I probably won't title hunt but I will attempt to rebuild my account on a variety of professions all over again.

I'm sorry I didn't inform all my fans sooner, but a long wait was needed for me to finally decide what I'm going to do in this game.

5 years already?

Wow... it's amazing how close it seems but it's already been FIVE years since Guild Wars was released. Even though the game is dying down, there are still lots of things to do and friends that still play!

I've been spending more time away from Guild Wars lately, but I still log on to chat with friends and assist with help :).

Now I wonder how Guild Wars will be like when Guild Wars 2 is released...

And if you haven't already... WATCH THE NEW ELEMENTALIST VIDEOS on the Guild Wars 2 page! They're awesome.

Zos Shivros Channel!

I can't believe I didn't link to this video yet!



I know I'll miss the old Zos Shivros Channel farm and Shadow Form :(.

New guild tag for [KrZy]

So on March 20 2010, I found someone who makes Asian guild tags for 25K. I had 洋子matsumoto turn Krazy Guild With Krazy People [KrZy] into Krazy Guild With Krazy People [K尺乙了]. The bad thing is... I had to kick everyone from the guild to invite them back again and I had to leave from the alliance as well.

Now I just have to wait for the alliance leader Junk Master to log on :P

Ending Krazy Kat's Adventures? Maybe?

If anyone is still following me after these long months without posting an entry, I will probably be ending Krazy Kat's Adventures since I am don't have the time to update my blog.

However, this doesn't mean I won't post at all... just don't expect anything :P

Changed all my passwords today

Because I'm paranoid, I changed all my passwords today to EVERY website I use.

Also, it seems like there are even more hackings on Guild Wars. Some people think it's related to PlayNC.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10410038

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE! GW HACKINGS GALORE

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE!

Kiss of the Divine (dei's guild leader) got hacked last Sunday. It seems as if she isn't the only one. Many people on Guru are reporting they've been hacked too... most likely through a server side intrusion (aka... not your fault). Even though you have a secure password, anti-virus, no keyloggers, etc... they still manage to make their way in.

People who get hacked have most of their valuable items gone, FoW armor salvaged, armors with superior vigor salvaged, equipment bags gone, balthazar faction traded for z-keys and random weapons and miniatures appearing in the hacked person's inventories.

Anet is clearly showing that your account is vunerable. Until they improve their security, please note that you may get hacked. As usual, take any usual precautions and try to spread your wealth across multiple accounts if you have any.

I would also recommend splitting your stacks of valuable items (ex. Ectos, shards, gems) across multiple characters you don't use so you have more time to intercept the hacker if they do manage to break in. (ex. 8 ectos each on every character... 2 ectos each in the backpack, belt pouch, bag and the last bag)

Some links to recent complaints:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10408381 (Kiss of the Divine)
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10408555
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10408397
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10407895 (This person even WORKS in computer security)
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10401219
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10406737
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10408949

The Early Kat Years 22: Dragon Moss Farming

Ahh... good old normal mode farming. Back before Hard Mode was around... and loot scaling was introduced, all the drops were yours to keep. Louden Swain from Pantheon of Shadows [dei] told me about this farm which he nicknamed "the ATM machine".

The Dragon Moss farm was one of the best places to farm then, as many Dragon Mosses group together and can be farmed rather quickly, like today's famous Raptor farm. It was possible to make 2K every minute with this farm, but it was limited as you would hit the farming cap VERY QUICK.

At first I used my monk Joyful Jasmine with a Searing Flames build and EoE build. Below are the two videos which I used to learn from Louden. In these videos you can also witness the overpowered Shield of Absorption; when it could be permanently maintained.

Searing Flames Build

EoE BUILD

Later on, I experimented with my elementalist Alexa The Amazing after being inspired by a video on YouTube by SalamandraTheNinja.

SalamandraTheNinja's Dragon Moss Farm with Searing Flames

I recreated a video of Alexa's early builds that I modified for more damage (Stone Striker caused Searing Flames to deal Earth damage, therefore not triggering Mark of Rodgort). Unfortunately, the amazingness of the drops cannot be witnessed as this was made today :(.

Fighting the biggest mob in Guild Wars (300+ Servants of Murakai)

Yesterday, I went crazy and fought against 300+ enemies... and lived to tell about it.

View the embedded video or visit the YouTube link below (preferred because you can get High Definition) :).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3lp9NzR94E

Forgotten Blog and New Videos

Hey everybody! I've forgotten all about this blog and I'm sorry that I did. I was cleaning my bookmarks today and I was like... hmmm what's this website doing here? Then I remembered it was my blog and haven't typed up a post in over a month. Shame on me.

I uploaded a 600/smite run of Vloxen Excavations earlier today and annotated it. Check it out if you want to see me in action or want to learn the run :D.

600/Smite Vloxen Excavations in Hard Mode

The Early Kat Years 22: I Actually Have A Life [Lies]

I joined this guild after Noobs Just Took Halls [WTF] went under. Factions had just come out and a build called Dual-Smite with Air of Enchantment smiters and 2 Shock warriors was beginning to surface. One of the guilds that played this build well was I Actually Have A Life [Lies]. I was charmed by its guild leader Uber Penguin, Chaos Warrior, Telepathic warriors, a strong midline and a fun attitude on vent. Two of the players knew each other in real life, which is probably why they were able to coordinate spikes and already be on the target. The "Shock Chain" was an important strategy to prevent ghosts from capping. Two warriors would chain a ghostly hero with Shock to knock it down and prevent it from using Claim Resource.

When I joined this guild I was almost always playing the midline or one of the monks. It was a fun guild but it also died quickly when the members moved on to other games.

Animated GIFs commission thread and I'm also a deviant!

Soooo today I made an animated gif commission thread on guru. It's turning out to be a big hit so far... It's not even up for 4 hours and there's already 3 people on the waiting list.

I also made a deviantART page (I know it's about time) to upload everything. Check out some of the work I did so far!

Animated GIFs!

First of all, sorry that I haven't been posting on the blog lately. I'm just too lazy to do it I'm getting back into doing animated .gif files again and it's really fun to make them. I'll give you a little taste below!

The Early Kat Years 21: N/E Farming Gates of Kryta

This post will be more about my brother. He had a necromancer back then by the name of "The Dark Desolator", which is now my assassin's name.

I told him about Gates of Kryta farming (where you go down that long ramp to spawn tons of ghouls and hellhounds). It's so funny the build he used.... I think it has flame burst, inferno, fireball, putrid explosion, soul feast and lava font in it.

He would basically kill the enemies as they came and use fire magic to damage them. Then he would use putrid explosion on their corpses.

I always used to love farming that area =P. It's still a great area for farming stuff...

Maybe I'll try it again for nostalgia's sake!

Prices

I can't believe how much prices have increased on all rare items. About a year ago, I bought a miniature ghostly hero for 100K+1000 ecto. Recently I saw a thread on GuildWarsGuru with a bid on a mini ghost for 2100 ecto. Prices on everything from miniature kuunuvang, req 7/8 weapons, and unconditional weapons have all skyrocketed. I wonder what's been behind this strange phenomenon?

Another GW Commission from Lumin Solia

By Lumin Solia from Guild Wars Guru. Her thread is here.

The Early Kat Years 20: Ken The Eviscerator and "The Way Is Blocked"

I created Ken The Eviscerator because I was inspired by Jason's minion master and the ability to create boneless creations out of dead bodies (who doesn't?).

One of my favorite quests was "The Way Is Blocked" because I could create endless amounts of minions. Frequently, I would just do that quest for everyone in Yak's Bend who needed it because I was able to summon 30+ minions at a time due to there being no minion cap (the minion cap was added during the release of Factions). I sure miss those days when minion masters were wanted by every single group.

The minion master was also extremely popular during Sorrow's Furnace farms, where a warrior would be bonded up with Life Barrier and other enchantments and carry a "book" to draw all the aggro to them, while elementalists would pound enemies and minion masters created endless minions with no cap.

My brother also created a necromancer too around three years ago named The Dark Desolator (The Dark Desolator is now my assassin). He mainly used it as a minion master and was obsessed with it. However, when the minion cap came he was discouraged and I think one of the main reasons why he quit the game (aside from other things).

Unlock the minion cap Anet!

Krazy Kat's GW Commission by Tzu

By Tzu from GuildWarsGuru.

Her thread is here.