Summary: Allona gushes FOREVER to Celeste about her time at PAX East! They go on to talk about beta news, eventual camera changes, the gem store, and answer some lovely listener questions (or get ringers to answer them). Also Pax. Audio Version What We Did This Week Allona Legen --- wait for it --- dary! … I have The Minstrel now! And managed it without breaking the bank … One lovely listener, Kendall, sent me 10 ectos (thanks so much!) but other than that I did it all on my own, which felt great! My heart was pounding as I was putting all the (crazy expensive) components into the Mystic Forge. PAX Thursday: Drive down with Inks of YouTube’s MMOInks and the lovely, Mrs. Inks. Got lied to by TomTom and go further south than we needed. Have a hilarious drive through Boston. Find hotels. Collapse. Friday: Hooked up with and obtained our passes from Opt from TWiT guild. Visit Anet booth, which looked amazing! Met Rubi, Stephane, and Gaile! (May have squee’d internally) Randomly found Chris as he was barrelling from one panel to the next! Visited with Jawa from chat room (surprise!) and his family! I was super jazzed! Went to the GW2 community party in the evening! It was wonderful! Talked with some amazing devs Leah Rivera, Elisabeth Claire, Hugh Norfolk, and some guy named Colin! Met Jebro (Daniel Littleton) and Kaelaris (James Carrol) who are really nice guys and were gracious in the face of my obvious ignorance of the competitive PvP scene! And that’s not even going into all the other fans of the game (like myself) I knew through twitter and in-game that I got to meet in person for the first time! It was a pretty special time. Saturday: Ball of nerves. Mostly worried about the interview we got with the devs. Thankfully it turned out to be a demo with Matt Wuerfell and Jon Peters and they did nearly all the talking while I tried to make my way through the first instance in HoT on the Revenant! I am SUPER reliant on my gaming gear … when people watch the video -- when it’s ready(tm) -- I hope they take that into account! I don’t want to go into too much detail here about the demo though. I watched two WTS matches, both won by The Dankening and it was quite exciting to be there for the live competition! Went to the panel Censored! about creative freedom in the videogame industry and it was illuminating and fascinating! https://youtu.be/4UEn6hsVZBU Sunday: Ate the largest burger of my life! Watched the final two games of WTS. Wow! They were incredible! GW2 has them on their channel if you’re interested in watching them. Helped record the Day 3 PAX video with Chris and Harry of MMO Reporter. And finally stood in line for an hour+ to try out Stronghold. John Corpening was talking with people near the head of the line so I got to chat with him for quite a while. He was happy that I have a new-found love of Skyhammer! He also gave me a really great rundown of the mechanics of the new map (and then stood behind me and coached me through the whole match! I just happened to be opposite Inks while he was streaming the match on GW2’s twitch stream so there’s proof of my team’s victory! (http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/b/634462393 - starts around 24:30) There was only one group that got to play after us … so that was cutting it pretty close to the wire! Monday: Drive home! Sleep forever. Celeste Family playday! I rerolled Steak N Potato Man again and we all played through Wayfarer Foothills, Ben on a Guardian (which he’s still not sure he likes) and Kiddo on a Staff Ele that I think he’s getting pretty good at. A: Because of Pax, I need to make Burger ‘n Tots Gal! Selling, Buying, and Trading. Filling in my T6 mats so I can catch up to Allona. Though I’m still seriously considering selling it once it’s done. Money is a lot more solvent and I may like one of the new legendaries a lot more. This seems like a much better idea now that I’m sitting below 10g.
