Mad As Hell.2168

Not a HUGE shortcut, but you can avoid a little of the mess near the honeycomb area by using the new Glitch path. You also get to run easily across the top and jump down instead of having to wall hop over to the monkey trees.

8,175 hours 32 minutes over the 2,065 days. Don't Raid. Don't WvW. Don't PvP. Got burned out on fractals so I don't have all the challenge motes. Still don't have the last couple of Arah paths. 29,893 AP. I need my Fire Shirt.

The best way is to use TaCo with Tekkit. Even with that it isn't Easy Mode. It just doesn't go to 11.

Mild OCD, probably. When I look at what I do in the game I can't find much point other than just keeping a routine. 7571 hours 5 minutes over the past 1839 days (that used to be a lot higher hours per day). 28,173 AP. 295 Mastery (because fortunately you only need one successful Raid to unlock that mastery chain). I never missed a day or a Daily until I maxed out AP from Dailies + Monthlies. I even got the Daily on the day the servers were reset and all of that day's progress was lost. I may have missed ONE day since I maxed but I don't bother with Dailies any longer. No further motivation there. Maxed out MF from luck. No further motivation there. Stopped playing fractals because it's just grinding for rewards with no real point. Was working on grinding out the 25,000 fractal relics needed for Mist Attunement 1 when I thought "Why am I doing this time-consuming work when I work for real 8-10 hours per day anyway?" I quit working on that when I would have "only" needed about a month and a half of more Fractal Dailies to get the rest of the relics. I haven't done some of the challenge motes but unless you've done the challenge motes successfully several times nobody wants you on a PUG team. Ping Proof. No further motivation there. My guild (DTOP) basically fell apart after the death of a key leader. It still exists but it's rarely active any longer. Those were the only people that I really did team-based content with on a regular basis. So now I pretty much play alone, like I did before I ran into them in the first place. My two kids stopped playing because the fun ran out. My wife never really played much to start with but she doesn't play any longer either. With this and the guild, I might as well go back to solo FPS games. (Death Stranding looks so good it'll have to be a disappointment.) I tried to get into Raids several months after they came out, but the snobbery of the Raid player base turned me off of those. Unless you run with a group of people who do the content there's not much opportunity to get started. No chance for a PUG to learn. Ping Proof. No further motivation there. WvW and PvP is not something I enjoy. The story of the game interests me a lot more than fighting other players. I readily admit that I'd never be more than average at that and it's not fun to be stomped all the time. This is a game. If it's not fun it should not be played. I have the Hellfire Legguards Skin I was looking forward to. I need over 1900 more AP for the Hellfire Chestpiece Skin. That's a lot of grinding with no more Dailies AP unless I play WvW and PvP which I don't enjoy so that would be another type of grind. No further motivation there. I still have a lot of non-Raid/WvW/PvP AP left that I could complete, but most of it is small amounts for expensive or RNG-gated collections or completing a few achievements here and there for which there's not a lot of point except collecting the AP. Do I really want to try Migraine just for that, and if I did would four others? There are so many AP holes that I think I should "work" on, but that's what it would be: work, not play. And even if I did, it would probably only give me a two or three hundred points unless I also took on the job of working the salt mines of PvP and WvW. It's more filling out a checklist than doing something for the fun of it. I have four legendaries (Chuka and Champawat, Sunrise, Meterlogicus, and The Bifrost). I could make more, but why. I wouldn't mind having Nevermore but it's not worth the effort. I still have 2 gifts of exploration in case the bug bites for another gen 1 weapon, but eh. I'm moderately rich in the game (GW2Efficiency says 93 percentile account value, 8k Wallet Liquid Gold value, 12.7k Mat Storage LG value, nearly 13.5k spirit shards, nearly 3k laurels) so I feel no point in farming for coin. I could go buy the "I'm Rich, You Know" title, but why. I could buy the Carnival weapons, but why. So, it must be the OCD.

The ranged mobs standing on the ramps where you can't melee them without going into the Fog. What a wonderful idea. Ha.