Windy Weather

Bloodstone Fen is a new map in Living World Season 3. I don’t want to spoil it, I just want to encourage you to start that story if you have had bad experiences with previous Heart of Thorns content. This is more fun, and a lot more exciting.  No one picture can do this place justice.

For the moment, we are taking a break from the Dragons, and from Gravity.

Half the zone is a huge crater filled with updrafts and ley lines for gliding. The other half is a jungle full of nasty White Mantle. Sound like fun?

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My three Rangers all have their Heart of Thorns exclusive pets now. It was not as hard as I thought it would be. The descriptions talk about some of the pets only being available after some events in the game. Turns out that it’s not that hard once you are playing in that area to participate in the events and then you just basically walk up and get the pets.

There are four HoT exclusive pets:

• Bristleback
• Fire Wyvern
• Smokescale
• Electric Wyvern.

You can easily look these up on the Wiki pages and see their descriptions and a short description of how to get them.

Don’t be intimidated by the instructions. The Bristleback is the easiest to get. In Auric Basin, run South from the Bristleback Chasm WP to the glade where you find a couple of Veteran Bristlebacks and some Juveniles. Run in and charm a pet and run out. Even if you die on the way out, you have your pet.

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I’ve learned all the Achievements and Mastery Points I can from Dragon Stand by grinding the Dragon Stand Meta events for Ley Stone Armor. My last Mastery Point was for wearing the Exalted Armor during the event on the North Lane. Twenty Three of these give you mastery points.Here’s the whole list.

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Got my first creepy Chak weapon. The pics do not do these things justice. The claws twitch and the eyes glow on all of them. It takes a day or two grinding in Tangled Depths to get each one. Make sure you do a couple of the meta events each day for the Chak eggs and the Ley crystals will show up with just grinding any events. I’m done with all of the LeyStone armor sets now from Dragon Stand events, so it’s time to move on, or back, for other things and these look the most creepy or interesting. I’ll start with LongBow, Staff, GreatSword and then fill in the others since they are less used by my alts. The Dailies keep asking for Mystic Forging so I almost have the whole set of Mystic Weapons. These are cool, but not creepy obviously. After fighting Chak all day you wanna carry ones head home on a stick and now you can.

You’ll need bouncy mushies, updrafts and pretty much the whole map to follow a train with a good commander to grind events. I had a good commander today who kept about 30 of us so busy I barely had time to salvage gear and repair armor. But it was worth it for this creepy longbow.

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Monday’s not that great a day to do Mega Events. Or maybe it’s the new Living World Update: Crack in the Ice that just came out. I tried twice today to complete the Dragon Stand event and failed both times.  The first time we went round and round in the Blighting Tower, reset three times, and I gave up. There just weren’t enough people. And the second time I tried in the early afternoon, there were so few people that we couldn’t even get to the Blighting Tower portion of the event. But I farmed pods after the event failed, and then farmed again after the second failure. Got enough Crystallized Ore to get the boots for the Heavy armor. Sweet. They look best on a male with a blueish cast rather than the Pink I was using on the girls. Still need to get Medium and the Helms for the Collection Achievement.

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Got all but helm of Carapace Armor Medium. My rangers look great! The girl is wearing Viper Skirt since the Carapace skirt is very dorky. Now I’m working on Leystone Heavy for my Norn Warrior and Carapace Light for my Elementalist.

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I worked this morning and got another 20 Crystallized Ore, and the Leystone Leggings Box dropped during the event, so I now have a coat, pants and shoulders in light armor.

The armor is animated with wisps over the shoulders and gloves [don’t have those yet], and the chest is animated with some blue glowing patches. The glowing patch is much larger on the male armor. Very cool.

Here are pictures in the character list page which shows more detail, but due to the light background, you can’t see the wisps of energy.

I’m wearing Vigil boots and gloves on the girl, and exalted boots and dragon gauntlets on the boy until I complete the set. The colors are Midnight Blue and Enameled Anamnesis.

Just three more pieces of armor to go for this set of Light Armor.

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