Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Ten Years of Guild Wars 2

Omg, it's been 10 years since I made Spiral Madheart in GW2??? WHOA.

Spiral Madheart is 10 years old!

I took a looooong break from the game, as you can see from my posts. I came back April of 2021 and caught up on all the good stuff in Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire, and then joined a WvW guild and got really into that on my warrior, Flaxi. In fact, most people who know me in-game now call me Flaxi, not Spiral. Took a bit of getting used to!

End of Dragons came out in February of this year, which added more content and excitement to the game. The Canthan zone of Seitung Province is one of my favourites! 

I have all of the mounts now, including this furry sweetie, the Tundra Grimalkin, that Flaxi rides around on in World vs World.

Tundra Grimalkin Warclaw WvW GW2
Flaxi Everafter on her Warkitty

I have 14 characters and an alt account with 5 more. I have no gold cuz I keep making legendaries, including Exordium, Bifrost, Moot, Quip, Juggernaut, Conflux, and a full set of heavy armor. #flex 😏

I still hate PvP. I still do a weekly key farm. I still stop and gawk at the scenery. I'm still finding things I've never noticed before.

I didn't know I would love WvW so much but it rocks...especially with a great guild of crazy folks who make me laugh every day. Shout out to Battery Operated Boyfriends [BOB] of Yak's Bend!

Hmm, what else? I guess it's neat that I am still having fun in a game that is 10 years old. I think ArenaNet is going a great job of keeping GW2 fresh and interesting. I still feel like I have so much left to do! I haven't perfected all the new classes, haven't done all the achieves (lol), haven't completed raids (though we tried), and haven't unlocked all the fashion. GASP!

So that's my 10-year update on my GW2 adventures. I hope everyone is doing super swell and enjoying their lives both in-game and out! 😘


Wednesday, May 10, 2017

I Made The Moot!

I'm super excited to present my first -- and probably only -- legendary, The Moot!

Guild Wars 2 GW2 moot mystic forge toilet legendary
If you've made a legendary, you know how your heart pounds at this point!
Guild Wars 2 GW2 moot legendary black lion trading
Just curious, I looked to see how much it would be worth if I sold it.
I gave it to Flaxi Barnborn, my Norn Warrior, to try out.
But since it's The Moot, I had to change her clothes! HA HA!
So shiny!!
Flaxi just hanging out in fishnets, holding her legendary. :)
So the story goes that I got The Energizer precursor a while back, like months and months ago, when I was doing a daily that required you to put crap in the Mystic Toilet. I was shocked to get a precursor and debated selling it. Instead, I stuck it in the bank and left it.

Well, recently I've been playing more GW2. Okay, like a LOT more. 😊 So I decided I might as well start focusing on getting the mats needed to make The Moot.

Long story short, made it today and really love it ... but I hate mace skills! I gave it to Flaxi for now but will probably also use it more on my Guardian, Mouseskin. I guess the only other mace wielder is Revenant. I barely use my Rev but perhaps this will give me incentive.

Anyhoo, thought I'd come out of hiding to tell you all about this milestone event!
Here's a video from a funny guy about him making The Moot, and it shows the animations and footfalls. Have fun out there!

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Happy Wintersday 2016!

I've been back playing GW2 since about Halloween. That's my favourite holiday in both real life and virtual life, so and I wanted to be sure I didn't miss any fun Mad King stuff!

Since then, I bought the Heart of Thorns expansion and I'm working my way through all the new living story. Got stuck for a looong time on the Mordremoth fight cuz I'm too stubborn to ask for help. :)

Guild Wars 2 is still such an absorbing game with so much to do! I get caught up with the obsession of doing the dailies, plus doing events, plus now that I have a precursor -- the Energizer that I got from a random dump of items into the Mystic Toilet on a daily quest -- I have been trying to focus a bit more on collecting what I need to complete it. I finally finished my Mawdrey as well. I still have to get all my masteries and maybe try out some fractals and finish all the new maps and collect all the hungry cats!

Anyway, I hope you're all having fun doing whatever you're doing, even if it's not in Tyria.
Happy Holidays from Spiral!

Tried to get a nice picture under this pretty tree but there was a teensy bit of snow!
I want a giant quaggan stuffie!!  :D

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Twitch Expansion Announcement - Heart of Thorns

For those of you that didn't get to watch the PAX South GW2 live stream on Twitch, here are my notes. I was going to make them all neat and coherent, but screw that. I've got gaming to do!
Spiral OUT!

NOTES:
Jennifer Hale awkward hype build
MUCH CRINGE, MANY AWKWARD, WOW
audience -- cosplay girl & people with commander tags
polite nerds listening so attentively

who were the bloggers at the beginning?
Super fast chat... spammers, !key?? eventually just tuned out chat

Mike's smile as he announced Maguuma Jungle Expansion
Mike O'Brien of ArenaNet
"in it together" where you're "always happy to see another player"

"the journey is the reward"

Expansion is typically: New gear, new level,

Mike understands new gear invalidates old gear, leaving behind a "wasteland of old content", same with new level cap.

"I think you need new challenges." -- Mike

72,000 watchers on Twitch

"Masteries"
--in jungle, master skills and abilities that you need to succeed in the jungle.
Vertical environment.
(was hoping Mike would fly off the stage on cables)

new professional specializations
customize your existing professions
new guild support and progression

"HoT is our new vision for character progression in GW2." - Mike

Colin is so adorbs and awkward and his goofy grin
Colin Johanson
[ME: My face hurts from smiling. I love my game. I love my "people".]

The Heart of Maguuma -- name of new area

3 biomes - core (floor), roots (under), canopy (high)

audience never knew when to cheer
friendliest gaming community is actually quite shy  :)

MASTERIES - account-based pve
available to level 80s
complete content to get mastery points
points spent on abilities on any character
"no-grind philosophy" (clapping)

--exploration mastery - climbing... don't fall!... get to highest point... "What do we do?" Crowd yells: JUMP!! (Laughter) "then the epic journey to meet the ground and splat", then swarm of rezzers come out of nowhere. (laughter) ... but now... mastery points to hang-glide!!
HANG GLIDE!!!!

--lore mastery -- understand languages and will access secret locations (applause)

--combat mastery -- sketchy details about this

--collecting, crafting, building mastery -- "legendary weapon is the ultimate version", what is hardest to get? -- Crowd: "Precursor!!" Mastery will allow you to build collections to send you on journeys, once completed, will give you precursor weapon! (much applause), PLUS new legendaries!

-- skills & traits - specializations system allows each proffesional to master a new specialization (UGH lost stream)
--> "rich druidic history" RANGERS will be able to grow themselves to become a DRUID. use staff, could never use before. access to new heal skill, new elite, new utility skills, new professional mechanics
--> necromancers with greatsword (laughter) causing much debate... why was Marjory learning? Necro specialization means they can use greatswords. (won't say more!)

LAUNCH DATE -- awww... he won't tell... "When it's ready." infamous GW2 quote

HEAVY ARMOR PROFESSION! Colin's smile...
omg omg omg
THE REVENANT!!!!
Rytlock!!! is one
"ability to channel and control the powers of the Mists"
channels power of great legends from the past
--king jalis ironhammer, great dwarf, his powers will be available
--demon malix, power of conditions

PVP - "it's time for me to go kill another person" (Laughter)
WvW -- "inside an RTS game" (what is RTS?), new WvW Borderland map! each keep has distinct theme and defending and controlling keep will give you special abilities and features, eg. fire keep will make magma pools for fast travel... holding objectives rather than just taking them will be a bigger component of WvW

PvP - "STRONGHOLD" game mode, fight for control of supply, spend supply to hire troops, you and troops assault enemies, kill Guild Lord to win, can win over heroes to help you,

guild teams and competition

GUILD HALLS!! (amazing cheers, extended!!) - only sketches to show us

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Point of No Return

I just finished the Living Story, Point of No Return.

EPIC. Epic epic epic!

I don't want to give anything away, so I'm going to the forums to barf praise on ANet! (Here's my my reply to the common feedback thread.)

If you haven't done it yet, go now!

Are you still here?
Get going! Go! Naow!

New Eyes, New Hair, New Adventures

Happy Release Day! I haven't gone into the game yet but I'm excited about No Turning Back. It was a bit of a cliffhanger, wasn't it? The sealed door...the sassy dwarf... And where is that goonberry, Caithe? Is she making a giant omelette with Glint's egg? I'll be finding out later today when I have time to immerse myself in this next chapter of the Living Story.

Thanks to Dulfy for posting up the new hair and eye colors so quickly. Love them!

New eye colours in Total Makeover Kits

New hair colours in Total Makeover Kits
Dulfy is also reporting that HEART OF THORNS has been trademarked by Guild Wars 2. Sounds like the name of an expansion to me!
People are commenting that they don't want a paid expansion, but I wouldn't mind shelling out some bucks to ANet for new content, and to show them how much I enjoy their game. I'm dirt poor but considering the number of hours I've put into the game, I think they deserve a bit of cash.

However, I did post a bit of a rant on the forums regarding this New Player Experience. I didn't even know that was a term until I started browsing the forums looking for a place to vent.
I was farming Black Lion keys to try to get enough scraps for a Wintersday skin -- and failed to get them, btw, but that's fine -- and therefore I was rolling new toons and revisiting the low zones and personal story. NOT impressed with the changes. Not impressed at all.

My conclusion: ANet suffers from low self esteem.
My solution: ANet should suck it up and realize they can't please everyone and stop trying to change. As my Mumsy always says, or rather sings: Be Yourself!

Saturday, January 3, 2015

2015 Will Be A Big Year

Hey, GW2-ers! How's it going? How was your holidays? Has Tixx been good to you this Wintersday?

I've been puttering around in Tyria again! I logged on to see the Wintersday festivities, only to find them moved to Divinity's Reach. They've done a great job of decorating it! All the same games and prizes were there too, which was a bit disappointing. I was hoping for something new. Even a new song in Bell Choir would have been nice. I love the new striped scarf thing but can't afford to buy it.

I can, however, justify spending real hard cash on this!
Spiral Madheart 2015!
What's that? You don't see anything? Well, for those faithful readers who have been following along, I got a free Total Makeover Kit a while back and changed Spiral's face. And I've regretted it every since! I couldn't adjust to her new face. It just didn't look like HER. She looked so... nice. So sweet. Spiral can be sweet, of course, but she can also be spiky, like a cactus.
So I splurged and bought gems to get a Makeover Kit on sale and changed her back. I had a big grin on my face when I saw the "old" Spiral's mischievous smile. :D

I also bought a Black Lion Key and opened a chest. Got a Hair Style Kit and used it on Flaxi, my Warrior.
Flaxi Barnborn, Norn warrior
Once again, the preview in the kit (on the right) never seems to quite match the real thing. She looks a bit psychotic in the game... not sweet and happy like in the preview! Oh well. Might just be lighting and graphics options. I hardly play Flaxi anyway: warrior is not my thing. She and Butterscotch Ripple (ranger) are the only two characters I have that aren't at level 80.

What else has been going on? Oh, I took Mousekin out to do some of her personal story and she found her Mom!

That's Galina Edgecrusher of Blood Legion. She has the same purple eyes as Mousekin and pretty close to the same white & grey fur. I'm figuring that Galina hooked up with Snarl Backdraft, cuz you know they're making googly eyes at each other between their snarly spats, and she had Mousekin, but since Mousie was a pale and scrawny cub, she cut all ties to her. (Although, Charr give their cubs to the fahrar anyway.) But I've always thought Mousekin was a female kitten that was picked on for being too pretty to fight. That's why she chose Iron Legion and Guardian. Anyway, I never really roleplay but there is always a bit of backstory in my characters. Thought I'd share. :)

Okay, so one other thing. Have you guys tried key farming lately? OMG. I freaked out! I thought I'd go to a key farm real quick and ended up baffled and stalled. I take it they tried to kill key farming with that so-called "Feature" pack in September. Now you have to be level 10 to start your personal story line. Well, a quick Google shows that most folks just do cooking to level up, which really only adds a few more minutes to the key farm. Lucky for me, I have mats galore, so I didn't even have to fork over that much coin to get a few key runs done. Didn't get anything cool out the chests though.

Okay, maybe one more other thing.  :D
Have you been to the lowbie zones? They changed the hearts and stuff!
In Metrica Province, the progeny are moved over, and the weird heart with the ooze and the protesters is different.
In Queensdale, you now dance for the cows and "tend" the corn rather than watering it.
In Wayfarer Foothills, Bjarni is no longer up on the hill with that loonie, Linnea. He's down by the first pass into the zone. She's up there with some other guy, although in all her madness she still refers to him as Bjarni when she runs off to chase the jackalope!
Caledon Forest has a new heart and Plains of Ashford has TWO. So strange.

I'm not sure if I agree with all these features and changes. That little compass up at the top right showing where to go next? Yeah, hold my hand cuz I'm a BABY.
Unlocking stuff as you level to 10? Uh, why?
Plus I've always thought that leveling in GW2 was way way WAY too freaking easy. It's not even a challenge. There is no feeling of accomplishment when you reach 80. All this new stuff just adds to the feeling that the game is designed for lazy people who love to look good but don't want to work for it.
Oh, except for the endless collections of crap that are unlockable now. You could work on that every day for forever. Don't get me wrong: I loved collecting in Rift. It had me hooked. But the system in GW2 with the unlocking and the random crap all over the map... *sigh*... why? To give people something to do, I guess?

Sorry, that's enough ranting from me for now. Truthfully, I am enjoying wandering around in the game again. It still amazes me with its artistry and creativity and humour. I love finding hidden nooks. I love listening to NPCs. I love the jokesters in map chat. There haven't been too many games in my life that have captivated me for this long. :)

I'm off to bed! Happy New Year to all and to all a good night!


Sunday, November 9, 2014

Echoes of the Past is AMAZEBALLS

I've only logged into GW2 twice in the past few months. Once to check out Halloween stuff, and yesterday to check out the new Living Story, Echoes of the Past.

Man, was I impressed! I did all of the new chapter in two sittings and gobbled it up. The writing was better than previous stories, the emotions were heightened, there was abundant lore (omg the library!), and Glint's lair was absolutely breathtaking.

If you haven't been playing Guild Wars 2 much lately, I urge you to log back in and experience this great chapter. I almost want to play it again!

I dyed my Ancestral Outfit for Halloween.
I wanted to buy the kitty mini, but alas, no gold.
The Hexed Outfit is fantastic!
Wish I could have bought it as well.
I almost died because I kept looking around with my mouth open! I looked over the edges and up at the sky and admired my distorted reflection in the crystals. Amazing job, Artists of ANet. Standing ovation!

Friday, August 15, 2014

Loving the Dragon's Reach Living Story

I haven't had much time to play lately, but when I do play, it's to complete the Living Story. And I love it! Of course, it's still a bit cheesy in dialogue and the interactions between the members of Destiny's Orphans, but the fights are pretty awesome and epic. I won't give away any spoilers, although I'm sure all you hardcore GW2 fans out there have already done the whole story. :)

Spiral wearing Orchid cultural gear
I got Spiral all dressed up in her traditional Sylvari armor to go visit the Pale Tree. She looks fabulous, although I doubt these petals are good for fighting. I've got 90 transmutation charges sitting around, so I figured I'd change her clothes now and then to take advantage of them.

Down below is a pic I snapped near the end of Dragon's Reach Part 2. I had to adjust the brightness a bit afterwards. not sure why but my screenshots are all coming out very dark. And since my graphics card burnt up (*sob*), I haven't been playing on nice settings, so the world is quite as pretty as it was. Still gorgeous though. I'm constantly wide-mouthed in amazement at the beauty of Tyria!

I guess the game is taking a break from Living Story and gearing up for the September Feature Pack. Is anyone else irritated by that? I mean, not just that the LS is on hiatus, but that they're doing ANOTHER feature pack? To me, the game is fine as it is. All these changes to things just makes things complicated and has the potential to wreck your progress on things.

I'm not sure what I'm trying to say. Like, the wardrobe system "feature" wrecked the dye market, and made dye production in cooking a worthless investment. I'm sure there are other examples. I guess I just want things to stay the same so I can stop having to relearn everything and readjust to new systems of rewards and PvP and on and on. The game is FINE. Leave it alone!

Anyway, minor rant ended! Time for lunch and perhaps some more gaming. TTYL, friends! :)
Are they still called Destiny's Orphans? Hmmm, they've got to find a better guild name.
And maybe get some more male members? Poor Braham!

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Cosplay -- No Boobs, Sorry :)

I don't usually go for cosplay, but check out the amazing cosplay by Enayla. This is handmade Orrian armor. Wow! She's trying to win a contest to go to ComicCon. Go "like" her page on Facebook, or just admire her handiwork. :D

Friday, July 18, 2014

Hilarious (And Dirty) Song



If you haven't seen this yet, give it a watch! Really funny song, and especially awesome with GW2! YouTubers Bananas and Shrimps (Tyria Today) did such a great job!
Thanks to my gaming-girlfriends, Chazdy and Desi, for the link.

Monday, June 30, 2014

I'm Alive and So Are You!

Hey, faithful readers! It's your not-so-faithful blogger, Spiral. I'm so sorry!! I've been absent for months, haven't I? My bad.
I've been super busy doing fun real-life things, and have been trying to squeeze in some time to enjoy the Festival of the Winds on GW2. I think that it's my fave festival, aside from Mad King/Hallowe'en.

I've leveled a few of my alts to 80, unlocked a metric-crap-tonne of skins, ran the baby dolyak race a bazillion times, bought the coolest Zephyrite stuff, and farmed keys until I can't stand to hear the NPCs one more FREAKING time. ("By all Six Gods, what is that thing!") I play with my music blaring so I don't have to listen to them.

I've made a point of going around to listen to all the NPCs in Labyrinthine Cliffs to find clues for the new content, Gates of Maguuma, on July 1. WAIT -- THAT'S TOMORROW! OMG!!! Super excited!

Here are the very few screens I've taken over the past six weeks or so.
I've got to work now. *grumble*
Have fun out there!

Me (on my thief,Agga) and my friend Grave on his Charr. So hilarious!

Grave showed me how to break INTO the Asura jail in Rata Sum. LOL!  :)

Agga preparing to dive into the bucket in Edge of the Mists. (She made it on the first try even!)

Majyst (on Carnelion) came back!
But it was only briefly. He disappeared again. *sniff sniff* Maj, I miss you!

Gave Spiral a makeover: new face, new eye color, new hair color.
The eyes and hair are very subtle changes but the face is taking some getting used to. 


Friday, April 18, 2014

April is Exciting

Figured it was about time for another fascinating blog post from moi. :)

Totally had a blast on April's Fools with the Bobble Heads. Spent a solid hour in Vigil Keep laughing at the folks there, using up my Mystery Potions, and dancing my bobbley-head off.
Loved this guy! You can see me and my little bobble-head to the left of him.

Whatchoo looking at?
Spent most of the beginning of April, pre-Feature Pack, farming BL keys to try to get enough Black Lion scraps to buy the Tormented Focus skin before the price went up. I was successful, but only because of my darling friend, Dezi, who taught me how to farm BL keys properly. Thanks so much, girlfriend. :)
I also tried to focus on making gold, but when I got more than 100, I ended up just getting discouraged at the wasted time. So I spent it all. I actually spent 20g buying a complete stranger a Makeover Kit because he hated his hair. Random act of kindness, courtesy of 2am boredom. He was very pleased with his new look. I made his day, I guess. I spent the rest of Cultural Armor for Spiral and Whispers Armor for Mistress. Don't they look fab?
Mistress Madheart in her dom gear. ;) I'm still wearing the T2 legs vines.
Probably will never give them up.
I love the idea that Spiral is barefoot.
You'd never know that purple is my favourite colour. :D
Playing on a toon named Mistress, with a guild tag of [bAd], and an outfit like that, I do get some pervs whispering me. Sometimes I play along; sometimes I tell them to shove off. Had a hilarious conversation with an overeager admirer the other night and yanked his chain talking about the "exquisite pleasure of sex, love and power". Heh heh. I'm a dominatrix, but only in the sense that I enjoy messing with people's heads. Mental S&M.

Anyhoo, the Feature Patch came and there was no more time for shenanigans. I got 465 unidentified dyes. Only opened 215 and left a stack for later. Unlocked 12 new colours, which is impressive considering how close I am to finished the entire dye set. Still don't have Celestial. Grrr. Simple white just won't do. *stomps foot and pouts*
Found my inner rage-quitter with the implementation of the megaserver, but so far have managed to vent enough steam on the forums to prevent myself from actually quitting. I hate hate HATE the megaserver idea. I love Yak's Bend. I love the people, I love the personality of the server, I love being alone in Lornar's Pass. I don't want to be mixed in with jerks from other worlds. I'm a gamer. I'm anti-social. Duh!
However, I love the new wardrobe, even though it makes me feel my time and effort are all for naught. The people who play this game from now on have it so easy, and they won't understand the struggles we went through in the beginning to get that perfect look. (Sounds like "kids these days have no respect!" I'm getting old, eh?)
Spiral got a full wardrobe makeover, and Mistress finally gets her Abyss colour. Put a blindfold on her to incite more entertaining late-night conversations.
Is she dom or sub now? This is a mixed armor set.
Going with gold and white for now, just to stand out.
May the Six bless Dulfy again for her Wardrobe Guide. Go there now and get your fashion on!

I've been spending some time in The Edge of the Mists and Eternal Battlegrounds,  having fun running with the zerg. The new dailies and monthlies are irritating because they're forcing me to do stuff I don't usually do, but sometimes change is good. And also inevitable, so there is that. 

Screenshot dump for ya. See you in game, friends. :)
Flaxi fought this Charr for that magnificent Roast Yak on a Stick.

Found this mystical seal in a cave in Harathi Hinterlands. Anyone know where it goes?

Scared myself with my own alt!

The Grawl worship me! How sweet. :)

I am light. I push back the darkness. I am a child of the universe.

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Must See Video

Okay, I know today is The Big Patch, but I just saw this video and I had to share. Made me LOL.
Watch the first minute to get the idea, then fast forward to 3:30 and listen to the guys talk for a few seconds, then continue watching for an AWESOME surprise.  :)

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

New Wardrobe and Dye Systems OMG!!

Read this: Introducing the Wardrobe System.
And this: Dyes in the New Account Wardrobe.

To sum up the main bits:
1. All armor and weapon skins will be unlocked account-wide.
2. All dyes are unlocked account-wide.

This is shocking to me. I'm stunned. I'm excited and confused also. And nervous. And happy. And disappointed. And ... a bundle of emotions!

Shocked and stunned that such a huge change is coming after the game has been out for so long.
Excited because I love dressing up!
Confused because they didn't explain it all, or else I read it too fast and didn't absorb it.
Nervous that I will lose what I've already unlocked.
Happy to see this fine print: "If you already have the same dyes unlocked on multiple characters, when you log in on additional characters, you will receive one unidentified dye for each duplicate dye already unlocked on your account."
Disappointed that all my hard work and gold getting skins and dyes is now pretty much wasted. Everyone is going to have it sooooo easy from here on in.

New Wardrobe UI. I'm staring at it, trying to figure out how it'll work.
QUESTIONS:
What is a transmutation charge? How much will those cost?
The article says, currently owned "Transmutation Crystals can be directly converted into charges, and Transmutation Stones can be converted at a three-to-one rate."
So does that mean the charges good for all levels? Will there be level restrictions? Like, could a level 10 noob put level 80 gear on his toon? (Makes it  less awesome to have level 80 gear if all the noobs are wearing it.)
Can we switch armor types? Medium to light, etc? (Edit: No, not gonna happen.)
Can we switch cultural armor? Can my Charr wear Asura cultural armor?
If unidentified dyes will no longer drop. how we will craft some of the legendary items that require 250 of them? (I think it's Bifrost.)

The forums are going crazy. The TP is crazier. I'm heading into game to hear some mapchat.



Saturday, March 22, 2014

Alts and Other Time Well Spent

Time for another screenshot folder dump! This one focused on the strange things I've seen in my travels, plus the abundant number of alts I've played with while key farming. Enjoy.
Me and my friend, Grave Lord Nito, as a miniaturized blonde asura.
He's since moved to Henge of Denravi to have more success in WvW.
It looks like a tie game, but they actually won it. Grrrr.

Did you know there were snow butterflies?

Have you been to the old Marionette fight location yet?


Garm and a wolf pup tearing around in the snow at Eir's house. So adorable!

Planking, Tyria style.
Frustrated by an invisible wall that keeps me from getting to a cool cave opening.
Swam down to this fabulous chest, fought off a bunch of pirates,
and then the darn thing wouldn't open. 
One of the most realistic and funny things I've seen. Girl walking in the woods, checking out a curious raven, not noticing a GIANT moose hiding in the bushes. (Welcome to Canada.)
Quaggan jumping puzzle, Coddler's Cove.
This lovely dame was singing to the babes.

Now for the alts! I tell ya, if you ever need to come up with a toon name, let me know. I seem to have an endless reservoir of monikers in my head. Pointless talent.

Miss Magicpaws Needlefoot
(couldn't believe that name wasn't taken)

Norm Dullspoon
(making fun of all the dudes named
Awesomix RazorScythe and such)
Aerie Skyborn Idina Wolfsong

Schnozelda You know you want her.

Willow Kitteh
(designed after my real life kitty, Willow, who is in fact much fiercer than a Charr. I have the scars to prove it.)

Anna of Arendelle, based on the movie Frozen Mel Eficient
(designed after Angelina Jolie as Maleficent)

Liezle Screwturner Khyjji Spiral Minime Bechemelle

And finally, Flaxi Barnborn.
She is going to stay! I love her so much, I'm deleting my
male Sylvari warrior to keep her instead.)