Maia

Nice! I'm going to have to try that one. Mostly I get strange looks when I mention gaming to people who don't know me well, assuming I say anything at all. I typically blame it on gender (most people don't expect a middle aged woman to wax eloquent on video games), but perhaps I'm just not being persuasive enough.

No problem Ser! I updated my build based on this video too. Still trying to hit the dps benchmark though. Seems like I never have long enough in berserker 

Hey Bone.

The permanent contracts are definitely the holy grail of most key farmers. I've never gotten one and I'm not even sure anyone (other than Arenanet) has an accurate idea what the drop rate is. However, one thing is sure if you don't open chests you will never get one unless you buy it off the trading post.

That said, I have one character slot dedicated to Key Farming. Once a week, I level a character to 10 and get the key from the level 10 personal story and delete it. You can only get that one once per week per account. You also get a key from the level 40 and 60 story steps but I don't think it's worth making a throw away character for that. 

You can also scrounge up keys with your regular characters. Although you can only do it once per character, each of your alts can get a key from the personal story level 10, 40, and 60 as well as living world season 2 tangled paths, and Hot act 3 roots of terror. That's potentially a decent number of keys even without a dedicated Key Farming character.

Thanks Bone!

I'm having a blast doing both. The blog will probably remain videos, situations, and thoughts about GW2 (from myself and others) that I find funny or interesting. I expect most of the YouTube videos will be raid kills, but I'd love to put in some fractal runs and other stuff. I admit I don't really have a specific audience in mind- I'm in it for fun-but I'm happy to hear someone else is enjoying it too.

Nice to know I'm not the only one Bone.

Tonight I was PUGing thamanova and we wiped on subject 6 after someone continued attacking during the block phase.   One of my party members types "MALDITOS NOOBS" (damn noobs) in party chat and rage quits. I knew that wasn't a compliment, but I thought it just meant bad noobs. We finished the fractal very quickly after that guy left.

Now I've joined the select group of people who have been sworn at in Spanish in a T2 Fractal . They should make a title for that...it could be Maldito Noob.

I need to watch this guide about 100 more times.