#kosmic muses

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I looked over at FFXIV and I see they've already got new classes lined up in their new expansion... Since GW2 has had rather anemic updates as of late and my wallet's been refreshed with Christmas money, I might renew my sub to FFXIV and get ready for that new expansion. I never did finish leveling my Lancer so maybe I'll just reroll a new character and level it with friends... Anyone else looking to do the same?

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Of Bonds Forged and Forgotten in Guild Wars 2

Events that occurred over the weekend made me reflect on how much things have changed over the past year of my time playing Guild Wars 2. Specifically, I realized the sharp changes in the people who I hang out regularly with and those I don't as much anymore...

I thought back about the wonderful first months, finding my way in my first MMO and joining my first guild. It was a tight-knit group of friendly players and I was on Yak’s Bend at the time. Sometimes I really miss doing dungeons with them and exchanging witty banter over Mumble. They were a great group, friendly, funny and helpful.

As time went on, the guild was absorbed into a larger guild and while it took some adjusting, I came to love how much of the game opened up to me with a larger guild to do more things with. But some of those original guildies eventually stopped playing…and I didn’t see them anymore…they haven’t logged on since…

As I came to interact with more of the GW2 tumblr community, I found myself guesting to Tarnished Coast more and more to spend time with new friends. Eventually, I transferred altogether and become one of the first members of KEEP. Since then, I’ve come to hang out regularly with various groups of people. I've seen groups slowly shrink as people stop playing, left the guild for their own reasons or simply don’t interact with me as much anymore. I do miss those earlier days…and I regret I don’t get to see as much of certain friends as much as I’d like to…and believe me, I do try...

Maybe I’m just being a sentimental fool. Maybe I’ve got a point. Thing is, I do reach out to friends when I have the chance…I guess I’m afraid of becoming “That Guy.” The one who becomes a nuisance. Always in your face and wanting to hang out, when you don't care for them anymore. I don’t want to bug anyone…especially if I could be seen as butting in. Or maybe I’ve been a nuisance this whole time…and never realized it. If that’s truly the case, then perhaps I best forget about them and move on?

I’m such a bloody idiot. Truly I am, for not even considering how much of the problem could just be me.

Better for me to simply walk away…leaving nothing but the whistling wind and the echo of past memories…

[lordkosmic]

Nothing quite cheers the mood like an episode of Code MENT playing in the background whilst I work.

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Reminiscence on GW2

I was thinking lately on how much has changed since I first started playing GW2. Feels like only yesterday that Kazrec was a recent level 80, wearing the odd mix of rares and greens with the first components of a legendary stashed away in a corner of my bank. GW2 was my first, true MMO and I've meet so many wonderful people and made a number of great friends. My life is currently a stressful roller coaster (Then again, who's life isn't?) and it's so great to be able to log in at the end of a stressful day and always have such awesome friends to play with and talk to. It helps me more than you think and I'm so grateful to all of you: My friends, guildies and followers; for being there and putting up with me. Sorry about all that...I'm just feeling sentimental for some reason...

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Possible Name Change?

Since I plan to use my other Charr more often to serious RP, I was thinking of giving a couple of them some name changes to help differentiate them better. In particular, I was looking at my mesmer: Kazbek Stormshatter and my thief: Kazdan Stormstrike.

Their new names would be Renzor Stormshatter and Felgar Stormstrike

What think?

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I've had an Idea, Followers what do you think?

I've been wanting to get more into the RP scene of Guild Wars 2. To that end I plan on posting more fleshed out bios for all my main characters. I'm not the best artist, so in lieu of artwork depicting Kazrec on his adventures, there would be little mini stories that I would write out describing epic excerpts from his latest adventures, accompanied by the occasional screenshot. However, I get the feeling I might need to create a separate blog just for the RP stuff. All other Gw2 stuff would still be posted to my main blog.... What think?