Xyla - progress in hall of monuments

2 weeks ago our worlds were shaken by the hall of monuments reward calculator announcement.

Since then, we've all been up to some unusual guild wars behaviour. Buying mini-pets, farming for gold again, challenge missions for hero armor and getting new pets. I'm pretty happy with my progress. The announcement was made, and I was on 18 points. My first step was to get a black-moa and progress to 19 points, then i posted this... with the hope to get to 26 before GW2 came out.

That day I also gained the tyrian skill hunter title, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Since then... I had some luck in the shadow nexus and dakjah inlet to gain an extra point with hero armor goodness! Then... today... after having to buy onyx gemstones from randoms as all the collectors had sold out... look at a ridiculous 600g for 10 granite slabs, and keep farming to get all that (plus diamonds might i add) and 5k... I got everything I needed for a destroyer staff - and now I'm sitting on a pretty 22 points in my hall!! wooo!

So... I need one more max title, some more armor and maybe more weapons to get where i want... good luck with that... no quick ones from here... just a hard slog

thinking i might spend some time on the war in kryta content and try to get a confessor weapon... more gold (for armor) and then more gold for some caps to max another one of those...

wooo... how good is guild wars!

materials and crafting

they are worth a bomb, so i imagine what i'm saying here is a little null and void... but there's a few things i'm looking for over the coming months, that i imagine you guys will all be after too.

amber chunks

jadeite shards

sapphires

rubys

globs of ectoplasm (yeah right)

obsidian shards

diamonds

onyx gemstones

i'm trying to farm some of these bad boys, but it aint easy. these are all the stuff needed for some of the elite armor and destroyer weapons (well the hard stuff anyways). Having just a few of these bad boys could save you a fair bit of coin in the scheme of things.

One more note of armor - if you are aiming for elite armor you dont need to buy all 5 pieces to be able to display it - you only need the bottom 4 (shoes, pants, body, gloves), not the headgear. It's not huge, but will save you a few materials and possibly 15 plat (again depends on the armor). I imagine particularly for you warrior types the helmets are cool as, so it might be worth doing it just so you look awesome.

Last thing to note, that is somewhat related is some info that had been popping up in a few articles. Each character in guild wars 2 will also pick a crafting ability. So, instead of going to weapons makers (for example) you will possibly be able to do it yourself. I reckon a blog article will come out in the coming months about this. I think it would be the sort of thing that we should talk about before choosing so we can have a few bases covered. I have no idea how it will work, but it might be good to be able to spread the love.