Guild Wars 2 World Event: Tequatl the Sunless

Dear Chlorine,

Just so you know, I am writing this when you are 1.5 years old (555 days to be exact). By the time you’re able to read this, you’ll have probably known that I like playing video games and I like playing them with friends, brothers, your mother, and most probably even you. I like sharing gaming experiences, and I actually enjoy playing games while someone is watching (ask Mommy how many times I forced her to watch me play). A lot of times these experiences get posted to Facebook, or Twitter, or Google+. By the time you’re reading this, though, Social Networking might have become obsolete (who knows?). And besides, they’re too cluttered with other posts such as check-ins, vacation photos, and many more.

So I decided to compile these gaming experiences into one blog, so that one day I get to share them with you, and so that as I play these games right now while you’re still a baby, I can play them as if I’m already showing them to a grown-up you.

In fact, I’ve taken the liberty to give you a temporary gaming nickname – Chlorine. Feel free to change it when you’re old enough.

When you grow up, maybe not when you first read this but even further into the future, you’ll learn that things change. Things evolve. There are small things, and there are big things.

Your Mommy and I love MMORPGs. We played several since we graduated from college: Tantra, Perfect World, World of Warcraft. When I tried Guild Wars 2 after having played WoW for over a year, I was skeptical at first.

Like all games, though, as long as you play them with friends, they become much more fun. This is a video of me participating in a so-called World Event early in my Guild Wars 2 life:

WAFU vs Tequatl the Sunless

Note from 2017: Tequatl is very differnent now (it changed in 2014, I think). It became much more difficulty then, to the point where people changed servers and maps became full so they can complete it. Then people learned and "Teq" is completed now on a regular basis.

This is my first character (which I barely use these days) and as you can hear our voices in the video, I was playing with two friends and colleagues (and also your Ninongs).

Because Guild Wars 2 doesn’t have Raiding dungeons or Raiding parties like in WoW, it tries to make up for it by using “World Events” like this one. World Events are huge boss fights that require many players to complete. Unlike Raids, it does not require too much strategy and the participants don’t even need to communicate at all to complete the task.

It’s good in the sense that anyone at anytime can participate – no need to form groups. And who knows, maybe at the time you’re reading these, Guild Wars 2 Raiding will have already existed! (If it does please wake me up right now and let’s do one).

Try out new things, experiment, and have fun!

You may or may not like it in the end, but you can’t comment on it until you’ve tried it yourself.
P.S. This does not apply to drugs, tobacco, and even alcohol.