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initiatefailure

Someone has to rescue the president from the prison formerly known as ascalon, since destroyed by gang warfare between charr and hoomans. Watch out for the duke, fat rytlock... Fytlock

M.D.

a few from the dragon i fought today





whoops i slipped

Kay

Battlebra.

The Charr in the second shot's gonna catch his bowstring on his horns! And helmet. And everything. Someone help him out!

(Awesome action shots from GW2, as always.)

Aldo

The sweeping vistas and landmarks are amazing and talking to the NPCs and learning the story behind them is simply magical. The reason why Lion's Arch looks like the pirate city of Pirates o/t Caribbean, the lighthouse in the harbour... nice to read about. What's more amazing are the mysteries like the moss-covered Great Wall of the Tengu and the town protected by Isgarren. It'll be nifty to be able to learn the story behind all that in the next few content patches and expansions.

I mean, just look at the crazy architecture and the paintings coming to life:







But then there's the nooks and crannies; the places off the beaten path. Sometimes with hidden achievements tied to them (aka: the ones you actually get hints for) and sometimes just because they were busy making a maze and forgot that you can actually get lost down there or something.




Oh, I also pimped my avatar 8)

With some flattering lighting:


And the reason why I went for the hooded cap and 2H staff:

Adellios

My Asura Engineer, kinda stuck in a level range where most armor is pirate based.

Just_Bri_Thanks

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Just_Bri_Thanks

My Asura in town clothes.

reVerse

My necromancer got all cultural and shit.

Anon the Felon

So, after hours and hours of grinding on Orr, I've managed to get two of (what I think) the best looking medium armor pieces in the game.





Rockin' full exotic's.

Fig-D

Ever play Darkwatch? The set and gun reminds me of it.

initiatefailure

Gives me a Steven king gunslinger vibe. Need to find some revolvers though

Arch

@Aldo you jerk

I just deleted my sylvari necro because I wanted him to be asura

now I am conflicted!

Banzai5150

That duster is awesome.

Phalanges

Aldo

Arch wrote: »

@Aldo you jerk

I just deleted my sylvari necro because I wanted him to be asura

now I am conflicted!

Asura Necro is like gnome warlock: enjoy looking ridiculous no matter what you wear.

Malkor

Adellios wrote: »

My Asura Engineer, kinda stuck in a level range where most armor is pirate based.

That is just adorable.

Weaver

Me and my stupid fat owl, Snowplow, about the fuck shit up.

Mostlyjoe13

My Asura Necromancer doing this big think.



My Sylvan Guardian aka. Mushroom Cop

drunkenpandaren

I miss that duster so much. That was what I was wearing when I hit 80.


And now look at me. Oh how much I have fallen.

Corehealer

You relinquished the duster?!?

I SPIT UPON YOU.

MyCoCo

Just crafted myself a set of 80 exotics so thought I'd splash out on fine transmutation stones and cultural. I now have 7 silver.

darklite_x

Asura are the worst.

initiatefailure

MyCoCo wrote: »

Just crafted myself a set of 80 exotics so thought I'd splash out on fine transmutation stones and cultural. I now have 7 silver.

If that's t3 heavy how could you not have the head! It's the best part. In fact it's just a cooler version of your hairstyle

MyCoCo

The t3 head is pretty great yeah, that's the t2 set though and the head is a weird little spikey bud which I am not keen on. Doesn't match the rest of the set too well, I love the rest of the set though.

initiatefailure

well carry on then. It's a good look. Shame the t2 head doesn't fit with it.

Weaver

We can get rocket launchers now.

Fantasyrogue

Not to be outdone by @MyCoCo I too have gotten the T2 cultural onto my new exotic set. Now we can be fancy plant brothers, the best dressed in town.

Corehealer

Fairy wings. Heh.

Weaver

Axen

A very slightly updated look for my Ranger.

Enig

Where did you get that hood? It looks similar to one of the Thief starting gears, so some Thieves might be interested to know.

Axen

Enig wrote: »

Where did you get that hood? It looks similar to one of the Thief starting gears, so some Thieves might be interested to know.

That is exactly where I got it from! Just follow these steps originally posted by Beltaine in the GW2 thread.

Beltaine wrote:

1.) Make a new Engineer with goggles.
2.) Have another character buy a cheap mask. NOTE This mask needs to be white or blue name (This is important)
3.) Put said mask in bank.
4.) Log onto the new Engineer with goggles.
5.) Now you can transmute the mask into goggles.
6.) Put the new transmuted goggles into bank
7.) Go into your current character and then take out the transmuted goggles.
8.) Now you can transmute the goggles with any mask.

Just remember the goggles are medium armor, and you can't transmute across armor classes.

Just replace"goggles" and "engineer" with whatever the hell you want. Provided you can use that armor class you can literally mix and match any of the classes' starting gear. Necro Skull Masks on Mesmers! Mesmer Jester Mask on Necros! Thief Hoods on Rangers! Pure anarchy!

Enig

Ah, that's a bug/exploit, not a proper source. Oh well

Ginpachi

MyDcmbr

Hey.

Give a Hoot, don't pollute.

Weaver

Corehealer

You know, even though GW2 is more fun to play (combat and quest wise) and has some of the better player character models, I still think Secret World has a more engaging story in the sense that it's grey, it's mature, it's full of mystery and horror and common themes explored in unique ways; and it's more in line with SW:TOR's cinematic presentation. It hasn't got personally chosen dialogue, your kind of just there for the ride, which hurts player agency, but it's a great ride to be on nonetheless.

Now if only it didn't have a sub fee plus the micro-transactions on top of the box price in a field full of F2P games of all kinds; I'd probably be playing it as readily as GW2. My hat is off to Weaver for not giving up on the game and for showcasing it's better aspects amidst the barrage of GW2 pics.

Kay

Some more Secret World. It really had some beautiful moments.

I needed anime to post.

you know what i harbour a secret love for



busted geometry and places i shouldn't be

Anon the Felon

Being the adonis that I am, I made myself a nice WvW set, I feel like a bad ass when I kill people. My other suit (pictured above) is just for PvE.