Vanquishes squished?

Last I posted, I planned to do one Vanquish a day for my title-chasing project in Guild Wars. But as they always say, life is what happens to you while you're making plans.

Leading up to Guild Wars' 5th anniversary last April, new content was gradually added into the GW world. Entitled Guild Wars Beyond, these updates sought to bridge the 250-year gap between the first Guild Wars and GW2, and tie up some loose ends in the process.

We see Zinn, creator of our Dervish hero M.O.X., called to stand trial for the destruction his golems P.O.X., N.O.X. and R.O.X. wrought throughout Tyria.

We see Krytan rebels The Shining Blade rally behind Princess Salma, illegitimate heir to the Krytan throne, in her bid to regain her country from the oppressive grip of the White Mantle. The ensuing Mantle crackdown and the Shining Blade's countermoves (occupation of Lion's Arch!) are chronicled in the War in Kryta.

As a result of these updates, most of the wildlife (aka mobs) in the Krytan exploreable zones have been replaced with White Mantle groups. They're as balanced and dangerous as the Charr groups up in the Eye of the North, having dual professions like players do, and with several party members sporting resurrection skills.  Unprepared groups can have long, ugly, drawn-out battles with this bunch.

With Salma occupying Lion's Arch, she issued several bounties daily on White Mantle leaders, a la Zaishen Bounties.

So two birds in one stone: I get to play the new content, and if all goes well, go on to Vanquish the zone I'm doing the bounty in.  Since in Hard Mode I usually kill most visible mobs right away so I won't be surprised with unexpected aggro, this plays well into my Vanquishing goals.

Still have lots of areas to do in Tyria, I suppose this is as good a place to start as any. Which reminds me, I have to update my Rohar's Roughnecks Progress Tracker.
 
Off I go, catch you later!

A Vanquish a day...

Recorded here will be the trials and travails of the ranger Boi Choi, and of his quest to vanquish all the known lands of the world of Tyria.


Meh. Am setting this up so I can keep track of my vanquishing and all other track progress on my Guild Wars main character's quest to gain 30 maximum titles, aka God Walking Among Mere Mortals or GWAMM.  Currently I'm at 19 titles, and with this tracker I hope to get that little extra push to finish off those titles sitting at 80%-above completion.

While vanquishing (genocide of hostile monsters in a Hard Mode exploreable) the Canthan lands I settled on a "vanquish a day" routine, and did chain vanquishes when possible.  But yeah, I had more time then than I had now. Still, I would like to finish up getting GWAMM as Guild Wars' 5th anniversary is just around the corner, and we're expecting further announcements on Guild Wars 2.

So I hope to get back into that daily vanquish routine, as I still have over 50 zones left to clear.  Hopefully while clearing those zones my Cartography progress will have been completed too, giving me a few more titles towards 30.

The consumable titles (drunkard, party animal and sugar rush) as well as the allegiance titles (Luxon and Kurzick) require quite a considerable investment in time and in-game money, both which I don't have in abundance.  Thanks to the weekly Gifts of the Traveller though, my consumable titles have slooooowly progressed...

Well then, here's to getting GWAMM before GW2 comes out!