Girl Power Hour - Girls Pwning FoW

Robin_Anadri

Robin_Anadri

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Atlanta, GA

Girl Power [GP]

Me/Mo

Attention girl gamers! You're invited!

This Sunday, our amazon army will cast light against the shadows and smite the undead as we take up Balthazar's pennant and march into the dread Fissure of Woe.

Normally, our international gathering of girl gamers would be precluded from choosing this destination for our weekly expedition, but thanks to the FoW and UW Open Access weekend event, our multi-region teams will be able to work together in the noble cause of defeating Menzies (not to mention gathering loot like Chaos Axes, Shadow Blades, and Obsidian Shards).

To participate, your character needs to be ascended. For Tyrian born characters, that means having completed the three missions and final challenge in the Crystal Desert. Canthan born characters will need to be Weh no Su. Elonian born characters need to have completed the quest Hunted! Tyrians can achieve ascension by becoming Weh no Su in Cantha, and Canthans can do the same by completing the ascension trials in the Crystal Desert, and Elonians may ascend by either path as well. Only Elonians can achieve the benefits of ascension via the Hunted! quest.

Bring whichever character you have that is qualified to enter the Realms of the Gods, we'll form teams from what's available, any profession is welcome. We'll try to make sure that teams go in with enough healing and damage.

We'll gather this Sunday, March 25th, in our usual meeting place, The Temple of the Ages, International District 1 (by the statue of Dwayna) and at our regular meeting time, 1:00 PM Eastern Time (10:00 AM Pacific, 5:00 PM GMT). Conveniently, ToA is the entry point for the Realms of the Gods in Tyria, so we'll enter FoW from there.

Female players only, please. (Females playing male characters are welcome.) Of course there’s no way for us to check, but please respect the women who wish to gather for this event to play with other female gamers.

What: Girl Power Hour - Girls Pwning FoW

Where: Temple of the Ages, International District 1

When: Sunday, March 25th, 1:00 PM Eastern, 10:00 AM Pacific, 5:00 PM GMT

Who: Girl Gamers

Why: Because girls kick butt!

Feminist Terrorist

Feminist Terrorist

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Oh Noes! The 'burbs!

Yay! And W00T! I actually have the weekend free, so I will do my best to be there with as much firepower as I can muster.

Laenavesse

Laenavesse

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2006

The Shadow Tower

A/

grrrr.

Well my monk would be super help there, but I don't think I can make it because I'll be driving back to college ____.____

CURSES!

Linksys

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2006

It's hard for me to head to the meeting place to provide moral support. I have work on Sunday mornings starting at 10:30am. Takes about ten minutes to get to work. So if I can, I'll try to be there at 10am and stick around for 5 to 10 minutes and show my support.

thelessa

thelessa

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Texas

Purple Puzycats

R/Mo

I hope to make it this weekend

explodemyheart

explodemyheart

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

Indiana

Gui1d War스 P01ic트 [Pr으]

Mo/

If there's anybody that needs help with ascension (ANY or ALL of the missions), I'd be willing to help. Just give me a yell.

Holy Light Angel

Holy Light Angel

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2006

Cambridge / Oxford

Mo/Me

would you mind helping me on my paragorn doing all of the desert missions

Robin_Anadri

Robin_Anadri

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Atlanta, GA

Girl Power [GP]

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Holy Light Angel
would you mind helping me on my paragorn doing all of the desert missions
It's probably faster for an Elonian character to do the Hunted! quest path. All you need to do is Consulate Docks mission, then the primary quest from Yohlon Haven.

JMFD

JMFD

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

Looking...

E/

I'll definately try and make it this week.

If anyone needs a hand getting there, drop me a message:
IGN: Jedi Mage Lousana

Zeander

Zeander

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2006

Florida

Illusions of Aphrodite [LUST]

R/E

Oh how cool, I wanna go!! Unfortunatly I gotta work 5:30a-4pm.

Y'all have fun and kick some butt!!

Taurucis

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

The edge of reason

I don't play any more.

W/E

Sounds great! I'll try to come, I think this Sunday will be free, hopefully.

More than half of my characters are guys though is that alright?

Robin_Anadri

Robin_Anadri

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Atlanta, GA

Girl Power [GP]

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Taurucis
More than half of my characters are guys though is that alright?
Sure. As long as you're a female gamer, you're welcome.

Lots of girls play male characters for the same reasons lots of guys play female characters.

Alex the Great

Alex the Great

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2007

America.....got a problem with that?

[Lite]

W/

you do know that most of the chicks in this game are relly guys......u may need trivia questions to make a team lol.










yes I'm a teenage boy

Toxage

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin_Anadri
What: Girl Power Hour - Girls Pwning Sorrow’s Furnace

Where: Temple of the Ages, International District 1

When: Sunday, March 25th, 1:00 PM Eastern, 10:00 AM Pacific, 5:00 PM GMT

Who: Girl Gamers

Why: Because girls kick butt!
Looks like that needs some fixing

Guardian of the Light

Guardian of the Light

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2005

Radicals Against Tyrants

W/

Hmmm I wonder if these events will carry into GW2.

prism2525

prism2525

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Among dead bodies.

The Republic of Sky Pirates

E/

Sounds sexist to me... even it was boys doing it.

Yes, I'm a MALE.

Smile Like Umean It

Smile Like Umean It

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2006

E/Rt

Quote:
Originally Posted by Toxage
Looks like that needs some fixing
No, they're going to own SF first as a warm up.

If I'm not with guildies I'll try to come. Seems I always miss these when you do them. And yes, I'm a girl.

iriyabran

iriyabran

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2007

[Lord]

E/

up for 5 man fow
can come as nuker or ss

Robin_Anadri

Robin_Anadri

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Atlanta, GA

Girl Power [GP]

Me/Mo

Woops. That's what I get for trying to save time by editing last week's announcement to make this week's, I guess. *blush*

Well, fixed now.

As for 5-man FoW, nope. We're doing 8-woman FoW. We're going in for fun, exploration, questing, and killing everything that moves, not farming.

anna

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin_Anadri
Woops. That's what I get for trying to save time by editing last week's announcement to make this week's, I guess. *blush*

Well, fixed now.

As for 5-man FoW, nope. We're doing 8-woman FoW. We're going in for fun, exploration, questing, and killing everything that moves, not farming.
Why is a party with less than 8 people considered farming?

Oh well. My guild is getting together too. GL you guys (gals)

Kittyhawk

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2006

OC, CA

Super Mega Cool People

Mo/

I'll definately try to be there. Just depends on whether the male in my life wants to stop me from play GW on Sunday.

*hug*

<~is female

PyrAnkh

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2006

Lowbird Academy [LoW]

W/

`the time isnt really good for me Itd be nice it we could do this sometime during the middle of the week

Feminist Terrorist

Feminist Terrorist

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Oh Noes! The 'burbs!

I think the guys are jealous.

Anyway.
Any tips on what builds to bring? I've never been to FoW, and am not sure if a reg. minion master would work there or if something else would be better.

evil joo

evil joo

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2007

Joo Will Always Love [mini]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by prism2525
Sounds sexist to me... even it was boys doing it.

Yes, I'm a MALE.
Yes, it is true that Girl Power Hours sounds really cool and exciting...but....

Restricting game-play for a specific gender (male/female) is obviously leaning towards sexism. Instead of promoting a game where everyone helps each other despite age, gender, or nationality, etc -- this events is definitely not a fine example of "Random Act of Kindness", but instead targeted to females only.

This is just my opinion, but if you girls want to show TRUE GIRL POWER and leadership, set up an event where you can help everyone on Guild Wars. You will gain the title and respect of helping all the girls in guild wars, as well as those in need (male or female).


Please Note: Of course this is not my event. I am not trying to flame as this is just one's opinion and anyone can do anything they want to have their way of fun

Renegade26

Renegade26

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Feminist Terrorist
I think the guys are jealous.

Anyway.
Any tips on what builds to bring? I've never been to FoW, and am not sure if a reg. minion master would work there or if something else would be better.
In FoW the Shadow army has its corpses eaten up by the many Necromancer Shadow beasts that are there, so MM would not be a great choice there, and the Skeletal army, which amounts to about 1/4 of the enemies you will fight for just Forgemaster quest will not leave any corpses. Most Necromancers choose to use Spiteful Spirit in small groups, or they would go any other random builds they like Blood is Power can be very team friendly if you have low enough health to combat 33% health sacrifice, and Spoil Victor is nice damage as well. Depends how evil you are feeling

Sarah Eleanore

Sarah Eleanore

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2006

R/

Hey, it's just a gettogether, something fun! Would you say the mesmer event was sexist because it was for mesmers? Everyone usually plays mixed in the game, so it might be fun just to play with fellow girls sometime. You don't have to get worked up about it or something, it's not a declaration of unequality!

I might be in, if my ranger is usefull and I'm able to be online long on sunday ^^! I've never been to the FOW as well, so some tips could be great ^^! I'll check some guides..

Robin_Anadri

Robin_Anadri

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Atlanta, GA

Girl Power [GP]

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Feminist Terrorist
I think the guys are jealous.

Anyway.
Any tips on what builds to bring? I've never been to FoW, and am not sure if a reg. minion master would work there or if something else would be better.
Minon Masters tend to get frustrated in FOW, there are a lot of undead and shadow beasts that don't leave corpses, and the careful pace of mob handling makes maintaining your army difficult.

For necromancers, SS or BiP builds are useful. Elementalist nuking is always welcome. Stance tanking used to be useful for warriors, but with the aggro changes, wars may as well bring a high DPS build. Mesmer shutdown/interrupt builds are useful, especially if they go rezmer and bring Rebirth. Rangers are useful for pulling and dishing out high damage to foes with Barrage (and going /Mo and bringing Judge's Insight is good for the undead). Monks, of course, preferably one prot and one heal, both bringing hex removal (there's a lot of SS being cast by the shadow beasts.) Ritualists are good either running spirit spammers or channel nuking (the newly buffed Splinter Weapon is lovely to put on the melee chars) Assasins running the BoA build are useful for ganking priority soft targets. Dervishes running Av of Balth are great for the extra holy damage vs Undead and the AoE scythe damage, and I really like having a ToF/GftE/AoF paragon along.

So really, any profession will work.

Renegade26

Renegade26

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

R/

Most Rangers are forced to go Barrage with Savage Shot + Distracting Shot, with Favourable Winds and some forms of defence with a Res Signet, but that is usually imposed on players by other players, and you should feel free to try other Ranger builds. Savage Shot + Distracting Shot are excellent in FoW simply because there are many Casters and Warriors using Healing Signet, and elites like Burning Arrow, Prepared Shot, Melandru's Shot are very nice, and Incendiary Arrows can be useful at times if you have it.
Pets can also be fun to use, using any of the elites from Beastmastery.
Glass Arrows is also nice extra damage.

Taurucis

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

The edge of reason

I don't play any more.

W/E

Mmm... I recently discovered all of my characters can get to ToA. What has the most call? I have a war, ele, necro, ranger, derv, para, and sin. My warrior can run just about anything... My ele can be a generic nuker, but I don't have Searing Flames. My necro can be a SS or a battery (I love playing battery, but I suicide accidentally too much) My ranger can play just about anything, I think, I could even go beastmaster if you want, but my pet is level 7. My Derv has all the avatars and Reaper's Sweep... but from what I recall there's quite a bit of enchantment removal in FoW. My paragon is pretty useless, I think the only elite I have is RaO -.-* I can sort of run a sin, but if I put in BoA that means I have to take out either Rebirth or Feigned Neutrality. I don't think I'll be able to get through NF easily so capping Shadow Prison is out of the question.

Which do you think would be most useful? I don't really like being a burden on the team. Also wondering. How long will this take?

Feminist Terrorist

Feminist Terrorist

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Oh Noes! The 'burbs!

Thanks for the tips.
I have a nice (imo) SS/degen build for my necro, a nice Searing Flames build for my ele, and my warrior is, well, iffy. I don't have any NF skills for her yet, though she is well equipped otherwise. My reflexes aren't so good, so my ranger isn't likely if you want interrupts, and I'm very rusty on monking. Still, I'm sure all of us can work something out.

angmar_nite

angmar_nite

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2007

[SNOW] of [YUM]

E/

WWhy does this thread have more posts than mine... Wouldnt post count be proportional to the amount of players of each gender?

H4x i say!

Geminus_Solis

Geminus_Solis

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Feb 2007

The other side.

Who needs a guild ?

E/Mo

Sounds like a good idea. Good luck to everyone participating.

tasha

tasha

Auctions Mod

Join Date: Jan 2006

UK

Mystic Spiral [MYST]

Thanks for a great time today ladies. Took a few pictures of my team in the Forge - we managed to complete the Forgemaster series of quests, but these pics were taken while we had a short break midway. Hope to see you again next week.

Pic 1

Pic 2

Renegade26

Renegade26

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

R/

Nice pictures, and it's great to see you have a Mesmer in there, as well as a Paragon. An all star cast tbh. Maybe you could take me along some time, show me how its done; i'm a guy, but is that really a problem ?

Thel Thoi

Thel Thoi

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2007

PST

Tasha- I really enjoyed our quests today. Thank you for posting the pics. I hope to attend next week too.

thelessa

thelessa

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Texas

Purple Puzycats

R/Mo

Darn I missed the event again! I looked up at the clock and I was an hour late :/ Sounds like you all had a great time today.

Oh well, I am hoping I can attend the next one

Feminist Terrorist

Feminist Terrorist

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Oh Noes! The 'burbs!

I made it too, yawning and blinking. Had a lot of fun, and I look forward to doing something next week, too.

Res Ipsi

Res Ipsi

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2006

Canada

Angel Sharks [As]

Me/

Finally had a chance to participate in this event. I hope someone on the team took screenshots (I always forget to do so). Anyway, we managed to do:
Rastigan
Army of Darkness
Restore the Temple (Forgemaster quest)
Wailing Lord

Our team included:
1 Elementalist
2 Dervish
1 Mesmer
2 Rangers
2 Monks
(wot? no wammo???)
Had it not been so late, we would have completed more.
Had a great time ladies, and looking forward to future events

Taurucis

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

The edge of reason

I don't play any more.

W/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by tasha_darke
Thanks for a great time today ladies. Took a few pictures of my team in the Forge - we managed to complete the Forgemaster series of quests, but these pics were taken while we had a short break midway. Hope to see you again next week.

Pic 1

Pic 2
Lookie lookie, there's me I'm the teal warrior with the crystalline

Best Forgemaster group I've been in. No arguments, no overaggro. Just a lot of fun. Can't wait for the next one. :P

JMFD

JMFD

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

Looking...

E/

I'm the /roaring elementalist

Shame folks had to go after the forgemaster, but definately one of the more.. relaxed groups I've been with