Today's Great Jungle Wurm Adventure
Sep. 18th, 2014 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainwatersparkI don't really know why I started neglecting this LJ and posting everything on Tumblr instead. The *point* of this LJ was for me to post all my geeky stuff here. Well, I'll try to make up for it!
Today I accidentally, accidentally ended up on a TTS map for Triple Trouble/the Great Jungle Wurm, and since I thought it would be a waste to quit now that I'd ended up on the map, I ended up running Triple Trouble with them and got my second Great Jungle Wurm kill, huzzah.
But let me back up a moment.
The first time I ran Triple Trouble with TTS was over the Labor Day weekend, when I finally realized that due to the megaserver system, I now had a chance at defeating the major world bosses like Tequatl. Initially I wasn't running the Great Jungle Wurm for loot (although the loot and money was a nice bonus). It was because I'd attempted the Wurm many times in January (?) when it was first released, and failed each time since no one knew the strategy for taking down the Wurm at that point, and died so many times that I had kind of a major grudge against the boss, but couldn't do much since I wasn't on a server that could take the Wurm down. So over Labor Day weekend, I luckily managed to end up in a TTS map after my first try failed (I can never taxi on someone before the map gets filled), killed the Wurm, and felt very satisfied.
I'd intended to finish the Triple Trouble achievements eventually, but I was very happy with my shiny new title of "Wurm's Bane" and also wasn't in a hurry to undergo the stressful process of trying to get into a TTS map again, so I left the Wurm alone for a while.
So what happened tonight? I saw on Reddit that there were two commanders trying to organize a PUG Triple Trouble kill, with the intent to train future commanders and try to figure out a way the Wurm could be done without Teamspeak, and I wanted in on that. But at first, when I waypointed to Bloodtide Coast, my game froze and I had to reboot my computer. [Side note: My Guild Wars 2 client has been freezing a lot ever since the recent Feature Pack. Thanks, Arenanet.] I opened up Guild Wars 2 again, hoping this time I'd end up in the right map where those commanders were, but instead I ended up in what looked like a hopeful TTS overflow map. Somehow, I couldn't join those commanders, either--when I tried to enter their names, I ended up trying to join completely random people (was it a possible bug?). So I quit, thinking it was a lost cause.
Then I remembered that I hadn't sorted through my loot from the day's Tequatl run yet, so I booted up GW2 a third time to manage my inventory. And miraculously, I ended up in the TTS map.
So yeah, that's my story. Now I only need one more Wurm kill to finish my achievements (and get the title of "Great Jungle Wurm Slayer," hah), so hopefully I can get that Wurm kill. I don't know whether I'll attempt to join another TTS map this Sunday or try again for that PUG map next Thursday. Either way, it'll happen. Soonish.
(I don't think I'll keep running Wurm after I finish my achievements. I might continue to try to get into that PUG map, because I'm also interested in seeing PUGs eventually be able to get successful Wurm kills, but Tequatl is by far easier and faster and less stressful.)
Today I accidentally, accidentally ended up on a TTS map for Triple Trouble/the Great Jungle Wurm, and since I thought it would be a waste to quit now that I'd ended up on the map, I ended up running Triple Trouble with them and got my second Great Jungle Wurm kill, huzzah.
But let me back up a moment.
The first time I ran Triple Trouble with TTS was over the Labor Day weekend, when I finally realized that due to the megaserver system, I now had a chance at defeating the major world bosses like Tequatl. Initially I wasn't running the Great Jungle Wurm for loot (although the loot and money was a nice bonus). It was because I'd attempted the Wurm many times in January (?) when it was first released, and failed each time since no one knew the strategy for taking down the Wurm at that point, and died so many times that I had kind of a major grudge against the boss, but couldn't do much since I wasn't on a server that could take the Wurm down. So over Labor Day weekend, I luckily managed to end up in a TTS map after my first try failed (I can never taxi on someone before the map gets filled), killed the Wurm, and felt very satisfied.
I'd intended to finish the Triple Trouble achievements eventually, but I was very happy with my shiny new title of "Wurm's Bane" and also wasn't in a hurry to undergo the stressful process of trying to get into a TTS map again, so I left the Wurm alone for a while.
So what happened tonight? I saw on Reddit that there were two commanders trying to organize a PUG Triple Trouble kill, with the intent to train future commanders and try to figure out a way the Wurm could be done without Teamspeak, and I wanted in on that. But at first, when I waypointed to Bloodtide Coast, my game froze and I had to reboot my computer. [Side note: My Guild Wars 2 client has been freezing a lot ever since the recent Feature Pack. Thanks, Arenanet.] I opened up Guild Wars 2 again, hoping this time I'd end up in the right map where those commanders were, but instead I ended up in what looked like a hopeful TTS overflow map. Somehow, I couldn't join those commanders, either--when I tried to enter their names, I ended up trying to join completely random people (was it a possible bug?). So I quit, thinking it was a lost cause.
Then I remembered that I hadn't sorted through my loot from the day's Tequatl run yet, so I booted up GW2 a third time to manage my inventory. And miraculously, I ended up in the TTS map.
So yeah, that's my story. Now I only need one more Wurm kill to finish my achievements (and get the title of "Great Jungle Wurm Slayer," hah), so hopefully I can get that Wurm kill. I don't know whether I'll attempt to join another TTS map this Sunday or try again for that PUG map next Thursday. Either way, it'll happen. Soonish.
(I don't think I'll keep running Wurm after I finish my achievements. I might continue to try to get into that PUG map, because I'm also interested in seeing PUGs eventually be able to get successful Wurm kills, but Tequatl is by far easier and faster and less stressful.)
