I beat Sanctum Cay yesterday in Hard Mode to make it 14/25 towards the Guardian of Tyria title.

This was a noteworthy accomplishment since it was achieved in a strange session during which I somehow contrived to make every possible mistake I could.

My first try was curtailed almost immediately when I hit Shift+Power instead of Shift+Print Screen. Instead of taking a screenshot without the UI, as I intended, the PC quickly shut down.

Thankfully, the reconnect feature is available once again so I continued where I left off in the mission after I powered-up my PC and logged on.

Things didn’t improve.
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September 4 and I’m still GW:EN-less.

Apparently there was a mix-up of some sorts resulting in a delay getting the game to local stores. I doubt I’ll be getting it by post before Saturday at the earliest. I’m a little disappointed but I did manage to play quite a bit of the expansion during the preview so I’m not as annoyed by this as I would otherwise be.

The Far Shiverpeaks may be inaccessible to me for the time being but I’m still adventuring in Tyria. I’m currently occupying myself by playing Prophecies missions in Hard Mode. Having acquired the Guardian of Cantha title last week, I’m now aiming for the Guardian of Tyria title.
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Did you know that …?
Some little known factoids about the game.

Van Hemlock’s AARs.
He’s running through the Factions missions and providing some entertaining after-action reports.

Sleepy in Seattle.
The author, who has just joined ArenaNet as an artist, will be working on character models and armour sets for Guild Wars 2. His brother, who’s also at ArenaNet, worked on the player hairstyles in Nightfall.

If one mission can be said to embody everything that’s bad about Guild Wars then Thunderhead Keep must surely be that mission.

It was a major frustration to my first character, the Necromancer, two years ago. I’m not sure how many sessions or how many days I spent stuck there but it was enough to make me wonder if perhaps this Guild Wars thing wasn’t quite working out.

Oh yeah, it’s tough.

It’s tough simply putting a group together for the mission. If you managed to wrangle an invite from a group, chances are your group couldn’t find a monk. If the group managed to find a monk, chances are you couldn’t get some other profession the leader insisted on having.

And once underway, the frustration really mounts.
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