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In a span of one and half years, both of Candy Kennedy's parents passed away. And in the middle of that time, she and her husband lost their 35-year-old son to lung cancer. The couple were numb with grief and although they had a strong support system of friends, they felt utterly alone in their sadness.
Candy and Jim heard about the GriefShare support group at Grace Church and joined in January of 2011.
They were reluctant and unsure they could share their innermost feelings with strangers.
"It was the best decision for us," Jim said. "You develop a lifelong bond with the new friends who were once strangers in the group who help you get through a trying time."
Grace will offer the GriefShare grief recovery support group again, beginning Jan. 6. The group will meet at 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Sunday for 13 weeks.
"For someone with a significant loss, during and after the holidays are the times they feel that loss the most," Reggie Coe, family pastor of Grace Church, said. "The grief program is aimed at them coming out of it in a healthy way."
GriefShare, led by Paul DeLuca, a hospice chaplain and member of Grace Church, is designed for people grieving the death of a loved one. Each session includes a video seminar, which features speakers sharing their expertise on topics such as living with grief, the effects of grief, your family and grief, stuck in grief, God's prescription for grief and heaven. Workbook journaling helps participants put theological principles into practical terms. Small group discussion aids in processing the information.
For the Kennedys, GriefShare affirmed the feelings that were swirling around their heads
"It helped us become aware we were not alone in our feelings," Jim said. "Our feelings of profound sadness and anger toward God were not unique. Although in our heads we knew that God was with us, our broken hearts were having a hard time believing it. Seeing and sharing with others who had the same feelings was a great comfort to know that God had never left us."
For Coe, it is important for Grace Church to meet these hurting people where they are.
"We try to shape our ministry to what people are going through," he said. "I Corinthians 9:22 says: 'To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.'"
Candy and Jim Kennedy needed that affirmation that everything was going to be OK.
"It is important to have someone with strong faith to remind you that your loved ones are in God's loving arms and someday we will all be reunited once again," Jim said. "Christ said he was going to prepare a place for us and those loved ones that preceded us are waiting at the gate to welcome us home."
Grace Church will continue its caring ministries by offering Single and Parenting starting Jan. 9. The group will meet at 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday for 13 weeks.
"Most single parents feel overwhelmed by the challenges they face," Coe said. "The reality is that it is hard to be both a mom or a dad, and single parents deal with a lot of guilt over holding down a job, getting kids to their activities and wondering if they are getting everything they need."
The caring ministries at Grace were a lifesaver for Candy and Jim Kennedy and connecting with others was the key to their survival.
"It is very important to talk to someone you can trust and someone who can understand your grief," Jim said. "The love, comfort and fellowship with others experiencing the same deep feelings of grief and anger helped us greatly."
Coe said Grace Church will also offer divorce recovery next year as a part of its ongoing caring ministries. All the programs are open to anyone. The only cost is for the workbook. For more information, call Grace Church at 692-4251.
Happy 100th birthday
Mary Engstrom is celebrating her 100th birthday at Fain Presbyterian Church with a reception at noon Sunday. Engstrom joined Fain Church in 1964 and served as elder, Sunday school teacher and inspired others with her knowledge of the Bible. She also had a long career as a professional educator, teaching Spanish and English and coaching girls basketball.
Engstrom was born Mary Nell McClendon on Dec. 30, 1912, in Brownwood, Texas. She graduated as the valedictorian of her class at Daniel Baker College. She married James Engstrom in 1941 and they had two daughters, Mary Jane Bell and Betty Jean Ashley. The family moved to Wichita Fall in 1962, where she taught English at Northwest Junior High School (which later became Kirby Junior High) until she retired in 1976. In 1973, Engstrom was honored as Teacher of the Year.
Former students and friends of Engstrom are invited to come to Fain Presbyterian, 2201 Speedway, and wish her a happy birthday.
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In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to metrical verse, creating a medium that could accommodate tales of courtly romance, bawdy fabliaux, astute psychological portraiture, dramatic monologues, moral allegories, and its authors astonishing learning in fields from philosophy to medicine and astrology. Chaucers accomplishment is unequalled by any poet before Shakespeare and—in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida—ranks with that of the great English novelists.
Both The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida are presented complete in this anthology, in fresh modern translations by Theodore Morrison that convey both the gravity and gaiety of the Middle English originals. The Portable Chaucer also contains selections from The Book of Duchess, The House of Fame, The Bird's Parliament, and The Legend of Good Women, together with short poems. Morrison's introduction is vital for its insights into Chaucer as man and artist, and as a product of the Middle Ages whose shrewdness, humor, and compassion have a wonderfully contemporary ring.
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From 1374 Chaucer worked as controller of customs on wool in the port of London, but between 1366 and 1378 he made a number of trips abroad on official business, including two trips to Italy in 1372-3 and 1378. The influence of Chaucer's encounter with Italian literature is felt in the poems he wrote in the late 1370's and early 1380s – The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls and a version of The Knight's Tale – and finds its fullest expression in Troilus and Criseyde.
In 1386 Chaucer was member of parliament for Kent, but in the same year he resigned his customs post, although in 1389 he was appointed Clerk of the King's Works (resigning in 1391). After finishing Troilus and his translation into English prose of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae, Chaucer started his Legend of Good Women. In the 1390s he worked on his most ambitious project, The Canterbury Tales, which remained unfinished at his death. In 1399 Chaucer leased a house in the precincts of Westminster Abbey but died in 1400 and was buried in the Abbey.
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The Knight's Interruption of the Monk's Tale
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Prologue to the Friar's Tale
The Friar's Tale
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The Summoner's Tale
Prologue to and Conclusion of the Student's Tale
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Epilogue to the Squire's Tale
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Prologue to the Parson's Tale
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by Jim Allen | October 29, 2013
When the world lost Lou Reed on October 27, it lost one of rock's greatest risk-takers, a true musical revolutionary willing to challenge just about every preconception attached to popular music. But despite his persona as the original uber-decadent badass whose transgressive tendencies were reflected in both his work and his lifestyle, Lou was also a doo-wop-loving romantic at heart. He worshiped early rock 'n' roll songwriters like Doc Pomus ("Save the Last Dance for Me," et al) and threaded the influence of '50s street-corner R&B throughout his entire career, from The Velvet Underground through his solo recordings.
Despite all his aural assaults on convention and complacency, Reed always found room for a few love songs in whatever he was doing. After all, you don't write couplets like "If I could make the world as pure and strange as what I see/ I'd put you in the mirror that I put in front of me" (["Pale Blue Eyes"]) without knowing your way around the affairs of the heart. As we look back on Lou's legacy, it's important to remember the very real romantic side of the man who finally wed his longtime love, Laurie Anderson, in 2008. So here's a selection of songs from all across Reed's discography to spark that memory.


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Tired of $700+ sq ft prices for buildings that are going to lose their views? This unit at One Pacific Tower is the answer. #604 at 2000 1st Ave, is a 1,523 sq ft, 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom condo, listing for $649,000. It has ceiling high windows, open plan living area with water views, roomy… Read More
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About time! From the PSBJ, Developer promises new condos in downtown Seattle: On Tuesday the Business Journal reported that a Chinese company paid just over $20 million for a quarter block in the Belltown area. In a follow-up interview, TeamRise representative Randy Lim said Wednesday that the units will be for sale, rather than rental… Read More
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Now with 340 open houses, it's picking up a bit this weekend [updated]. To be balanced, we have a condo in Belltown, four new townhouses in Alki, and a mid-century view house in Laurelhurst. 3049 59th Ave SW unit A Neighborhood: Alki Open House: Saturday, October 25, 1-4pm and Sunday, October 26, 1-4pm This is… Read More
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LIVE WITH KELLY AND MICHAEL Ranks as No. 2 Syndicated Talk Show
During the 2012 November Sweep, "LIVE with Kelly and Michael" ranked as the No. 2 syndicated talk show in both Households (2.7 rating) and Total Viewers (3.485 million), beating "Ellen" in both Nielsen measures (2.6 rating and 3.463 million) despite the fact that "LIVE" airs in an early time period with lower overall HUT levels.
· "LIVE" was up 13% in Women 18-34 (0.9 vs. 0.8) over the year-ago November Sweep, which included the high-rated final week of Regis Philbin as host and the first 3 days of Kelly as a first time solo host, while retaining 100% of its Women 18-49 rating (1.3). In fact, "LIVE" tied its best numbers for the month in both Women demos in 5 years - since 2007.
· In addition to posting gains over last year's big November Sweep in Women 18-34 and holding even in Women 18-49, "LIVE with Kelly and Michael" grew over its 2-year-ago November 2010 delivery by 8% in Homes and 6% in Total Viewers and securEd Strong double-digit gains across all key Women: W18-34 +29%, W18-49 +18% and W25-54 +14%.
· On average for the 2012-13 season to date (11 weeks), "LIVE" is up over the comparable weeks last season by 14% in Women 18-34 (0.8 vs. 0.7) and by 9% in Women 18-49 (1.2 vs. 1.1), while holding all of its year-ago average in Women 25-54 (1.6) to match its biggest numbers through this point in a season in 5 years - since the 2007-08 season. The year-to-year growth for "LIVE" again becomes even more noteworthy considering its year-ago average includes the highly promoted and high rated weeks leading up to the departure of Regis last November.
· Ranked against all syndicated talkers season to date, "LIVE" is now the No. 2 talk show to "Dr. Phil" in Total Viewers (3.485 million vs. 4.303 million), moving up from the No. 3 position at the same point last season. "LIVE's" No. 2 rank this season becomes even more impressive considering the show airs in an earlier time period with lower overall TV usage.
Emmy Award-winning talk show "LIVE with Kelly and Michael" is distributed in national syndication by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. Produced by WABC-TV in New York and executive-produced by Michael Gelman, "LIVE" airs in more than 200 markets across the U.S. Visit "LIVE" on the web at LIVEKellyandMichael.com, on Facebook, or follow "LIVE" on Twitter, @KellyandMichael.
Source: The Nielsen Company, National Live + Same Day Program Ratings, November 2012 = 10/25/12-11/18/12, November 2011 = 10/27/11-11/23/11 and November 2010 = 10/28/10-11/24/10.
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Hello all! I'm getting ready to order my tickets online for the Eiffel Tower, but I'm having trouble buying tickets to the summit. A little online research seems to indicate that they're having trouble with elevators, and this is the cause (or at least it was back in 2012, the most recent info I could find). So first, is this still the case? And second, if I bought tickets to the 2nd floor now, can we upgrade to the summit (no pun intended) once we're there in June? Many thanks, Kristi Edited to add, I realize you CAN upgrade tickets under normal circumstances, but I'm unsure of whether it's possible in case of elevator issues and/or whether it can be tacked on to online tickets.


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Andrew William "Andy" Enfield (born June 8, 1969) is an American basketball coach who is currently the head men's basketball coach at the University of Southern California (USC). He came to national prominence as the head coach of Florida Gulf Coast University when his team achieved two major feats at the 2013 NCAA Tournament. First they became just the seventh 15-seed to defeat a 2-seed by upsetting Georgetown in the first round of the tournament. Then with an 81–71 upset of No. 7 San Diego State they became the first ever 15-seed to make it to the Sweet 16 round.
Arguably Enfield is one of the best players in the history of Johns Hopkins University basketball. He spent his collegiate career there as a shooting guard and currently holds 18 school records in the program.[2]
Early life and education[edit]
Andrew William Enfield, the son of Bill and Barbara Enfield, graduated as class valedictorian from Shippensburg High School in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.[3] He attended Johns Hopkins University, where he was the first recruit of longtime head basketball head coach Bill Nelson. Enfield was a shooting guard and currently holds 18 school records, such as career points (2,025), single-season points (610), career scoring average (18.8), career field goals (680), career three-pointers (234), career three-point percentage (.470), career field goals (680), career free throws (431), single-season free-throw percentage (95.3), and career minutes (3,542).[1][2] He also set the NCAA record for career free throw percentage (.925)[1][4] (since broken by Blake Ahearn) and was named a Division III Academic All-American in 1990 and 1991 and NABC All-American in 1991.[1] Enfield graduated from JHU with a bachelor's degree in economics and earned the prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.[1] He earned an MBA from the University of Maryland.[5]
Career background[edit]
To supplement his income, Enfield and current Johns Hopkins lacrosse coach Dave Pietramala operated lacrosse and basketball camps, which focused on shooting. This evolved into consulting, where Enfield advertised himself as "the shot doctor". He moved to New York City and formed his first company which sells videos teaching his basketball shooting techniques.
In 2000, Enfield invested in and was hired as a vice president of finance at TractManager, a healthcare software startup.[6] The company's founder/CEO, Thomas A. Rizk, said he "saw some genius in Andy in everything he did".[6] Enfield remained with the company for over five years and, as of March 2013, still owns stock in it; founder Thomas Rizk stated the company is worth significantly more than the $100 million figure he claimed was erroneously reported by Sports Illustrated.[6]
Coaching career[edit]
Milwaukee Bucks, Boston Celtics, and Florida State[edit]
Beginning in 1994, Enfield's work as a shooting consultant led to jobs as a shooting coach for two years each with the Milwaukee Bucks and then the Boston Celtics. After leaving TractManager, he was an assistant coach for five years to Leonard Hamilton with the Florida State Seminoles, which earned three trips to the NCAA tournament.
Florida Gulf Coast University[edit]
In 2011, Enfield was hired as the second head coach of Florida Gulf Coast University. In his first season, he led his team to the finals of the Atlantic Sun Conference tournament, losing to regular season champion Belmont. His 2012–13 team first attracted attention by beating Miami and finishing with a second-place finish and second seed in the Atlantic Sun tournament. After defeating regular season champion Mercer in the championship game, the Eagles earned a 15 seed in the South Region of the NCAA tournament, where they pulled off a major upset by defeating 2 seed Georgetown in the first round and then 7 seed San Diego State in the second round, making them the first 15 seed in the tournament's history to reach the regional semifinals (popularly known as the "Sweet Sixteen").[7] Their run ended after being defeated 62–50 by No. 3 Florida.
On April 1, 2013, the University of Southern California hired Enfield as its head basketball coach.[8][9] He replaced Bob Cantu, who took over in the middle of the 2012–13 season on an interim basis from Kevin O'Neill, who was fired.[9] The Trojans could not repeat the success of Enfield's previous team, finishing last in the Pac-12 twice in Enfield's first two seasons.
Personal life[edit]
Enfield's wife is former model Amanda Marcum.[10] They have two daughters, Aila and Lily, and a son, Marcum.[11][12] Enfield was inducted into Johns Hopkins University's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.[1][2]
Head coaching record[edit]
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|NCAA Sweet Sixteen
|41–28 (.594)
|21–15 (.583)
|USC Trojans (Pacific-12 Conference) (2013–present)
|23–41 (.359)
|5–31 (.139)
|64–69 (.481)
National champion Postseason invitational champion
- ^ a b c d e f "JHU Hall of Famer Andy Enfield Named Head Coach at Florida Gulf Coast". Johns Hopkins University. 31 March 2011.
- ^ a b c Norlander, Matt (March 27, 2013). "Before he was a star, he was a star: Andy Enfield at Johns Hopkins". CBS Sports.
- ^ Casey, Tim (23 March 2013). "Florida Gulf Coast coach Andy Enfield, Johns Hopkins' leading scorer, succeeds again". Baltimore Sun.
- ^ O'Neil, Dana (March 22, 2013). "Florida Gulf Coast coach's risks paying off". ESPN.
- ^ Howard, Johnette (April 3, 2013). "Andy Enfield has options". ESPN.
- ^ a b c Strauss, Chris (March 26, 2013). "Andy Enfield's ex-boss reveals the coach's other career". USA Today.
- ^ Layden, Tim (24 March 2013). "FGCU's Andy Enfield enjoys strange path to sport's pinnacle". 2013 NCAA Men's Tournament. Time Warner, Inc.
- ^ Klein, Gary (April 3, 2013). "Andy Enfield introduced as USC's basketball coach". The Los Angeles Times.
- ^ a b Thamel, Pete (April 1, 2013). "USC taps FGCU's Andy Enfield as next head coach". CNN.
- ^ Boren, Cindy (22 March 2013). "Andy Enfield's wife was a supermodel. You may be seeing a lot more of her". Washington Post.
- ^ Ebright, Olsen (April 3, 2013). "USC "Resets" Hoops Program With Andy Enfield Hire". NBC Los Angeles.
- ^ "Andy Enfield To Become USC Men's Basketball Head Coach". USCtrojans.com. Retrieved April 1, 2013.
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Originally posted by Nessanugget
Dynamic Events are in no way designed to replace the raiding that these kind of WoW/Rift raiders want. They want the large group content to be the hardest content and offer up the best loot in the game. GW2 doesn't offer that because all they offer is this unfathomable idea of actual fun large-scale, PvE content, without the drama.
Originally posted by sidhaetheOriginally posted by Plasmicredx
Oh ok! This sounds really good then.
Can't wait to see Guild Wars 2 to confirm all of this!
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Originally posted by Plasmicredx
It's confirmed and has been shown on many boss fights and events, if you want I can send you links.
Though all in all just wait and play it.
I did and even though they had to "nerf" the bosses for making it easy for the pre alpha it was pretty lengthy.
I think you'll like the challenge once you play it.
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Originally posted by Master10K
I think what mmorpg playerbase need to realize is that developers that make AAA games trying to cater to whole or almost whole playerbase are slowly going to end.
Sure AAA games won't change into some niche hardcore games - no chance for that, but since WoW losing subs, and WoW-like games failing up till now to hold interest of players for long time , SOME devs will try to do SOME games a tad diffrently. Just a bit.
Still that mean is that some AAA games will NOT cater to whole playerbase of WoW.
Hardcore raiding PvE-rs is one of this group. If someone really find best fun in being into big raids and beating hardest newest raids - he will just not find it in GW2.
That's conscious decision from A.net.
Same as for example Swtor is not aiming to compete for e-sport crowd, while GW2 does.
I really hope genre in 3-4 years will be much more diverse gameplay wise than it is atm. (in AAA titles, I know that there are indie or / and very old mmorpg's / some f2p games that break WoW-clonism).
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different"
TBH for me one of the big selling points is its doing things differently
So for me personally its a positive not a negative that there is no raids
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Originally posted by Master10K
Raiding as we know it is a creation of Everquest which was brought by Everquest Raiders and Devs to WOW which spread to the EQ, WOW family of games, TOR, WAR, LOTR , AOC and RIFT and a few others including ftp clones. That doesn't mean that everyone does it. What does happen is most of these clonse are stale. So whenever a game comes along that gasp doesn't use it the Raiders go into QQ mode and raid the games official forums and demand they implement raiding right away.
I'm sorry I hate raiding it is boring and is simply a reward for not sleeping and hitting a few macros to kill your 60 foot raid bosses. It is a totally un immersive mini game that is totally detached from the game world. And they only started doing that back in the day so that people who were afraid to do PVP could feel like they were accomplishing somehing by killing monsters.
Honestly to me you do not need to have drasticaly better gear that comes from content to make it desirable to be done, which would eliimante the need for raiding gear. To me the biggest different between a raid as well as a dongeon is the depth of the story and the effect on the game setting. A dongeon normally only efects the zone you are in or has an effect in that area, but a raid normally has effect that affect the entire world and setting (such as world bosses, or creature of vast power or importance.). To me a game should always have raiding in it yet it should not just be a gear grind, or a progression affair, but a desire to see more of the story as well as world. Even though many hated them overall i had always loved the requirements, attunements, and such that had to be doen to enter places or raids as they functioned as a way of making sure people knew what was going on in the story. Though to me these thiggns should have been account-wise so that if you are bringing up a new character you could skip them if you wishedm but a up and coming guild or character that had never seen them would actually need to progress thru them to gain access to other things. Atleast for me the story of the game that is really central for me in playing has always been sacrificed for the grinding, and gear bth in pvp or in pve. Even if no gear or achievements were in a raid for me to gain, i would still run it for the story thhat is being told thru them, and just like rereading a good book i would redo them as well. The better you tell a story in a game the less need you have to entice people to run things, yet having rewards for running thigns is not evil so long as you make it secondary to the actual story and events of the content.
Originally posted by Elricmerren
Well that is an opinion most of the GW2 player base does not share. Any raid content forced into a game setting will always lead to loot grinding. Attunement, tiered gear and all of that are carrots on a stick. To me it is not like reading a good book, it's like taking a book with glass and nails glued to it, and smashing my face with it, that is what Raiding is to me. I am happy there is not chance, not chance at all of this game being a Raid loot grind. Just get used to it. For a good Raid themepark experience I advise you to go the Direction of RIFT.
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Originally posted by Azaria
Agreed, there are raiding in enough games as it is, lets try something new.
There is no feature that is a must in a MMO.
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Im really excited for GW2 because of the lack of raids. I loved leveling and exploring the content in WoW/rift/many other mmo that play similiarly. My biggest problem was that I hated large raids. I didnt like feeling pointless and grinding raids over and over again. I love the focus on 5 man groups and the lack of an item treadmill. I find no joy in grinding the same boss 300 times trying to get that one piece of loot that someone else ninja loots anyways xD. Spent many joyful years in the traditional mmo. Very excited for something different. even if its not earth shatteringly different im still very happy to see a different focus :)
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Much like most other features isn't the 'raiding' just Gw2-like. They said there is no conventional instanced raids right, that's not how GW2 works. What do we do in Raids atm? We go into an instance and fight little boss's or parts of a boss so it give the illusion it's huge. Gw2 give you, real gigantic dragons to fight, in the open world. You can get all your friends together, push the dynamic events along the track and get the mobs to spawn. [isn't this just like clearing all the trash to get to the mob, except it's all dynamic scaled and in the open world] The large number of people ups the difficulty and boosts the rewards... eh, isn't that pretty much raids are? Maybe i'm missing something. The only difference is instand of it being some imaginary instanced world where just you and your crew can interact it's in the open world. Gw2 isn't a gear focused game imo, much of the reward system is very much on looks, for me that's what I raid for now too. I like to get that new shiny set peace so people know I'm uber. The stats are merely part of the incentive. So you can still get all of that, just... you don't get the stats.
Not really sure why no instanced raids is an issue for some people. It's not like you don't get more epic massive boss fights, because you do. You even get them as you level up. You're not going to miss out <.<
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Obviously from some comments here, some people are still in the dark a bit with the dynamic event system. Like how ArenaNet is going to have to educate most players from the classic holy trinity system to their trinity, so they will have to for grouping as well.
No traditional raiding of grouping up 10+ people to do a dungeon, but there will be plenty of dynamic event chains that will feel like a dungeon raid. Remember they also stream line so as you progress through a certain DE, it'll chain into a bigger event. The best things about DEs is you don't have to wait for new players. They can join and leave whenever. No more waiting for 5 minutes for a tank or healer.
Just have at it. One of my favorite parts of MMOs is just running around, coming across random areas and treading lightly at obvious danger zones. MMOs have been lacking a sense of adventure for awhile, and GW2 looks to bring that back.
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Originally posted by Elricmerren
The problem with your statement above is that you are coming at it from the perspective of the story being locked behind raids/dungeons. This may be the case in other MMOs, but is NOT the case in Guild Wars 2. You have your personal storyline, which is your character's personal story, and explorable dungeons in story mode that elucidate on the secondary plot elements. Dynamic events are the overarching story of the world by zone and by area.
So if you are looking for story, no need to look farther than the personal story, and explorable dungeons (whether in story mode or explorable mode). If you are looking for large-scale challenges, elite dynamic events tell the larger story of the world out in the open.
Guild Wars 2 is built from the ground up with different motivators than many other MMOs... you have to realize this first before you approach it in the way you have above. It simply does not apply.
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At first I thought 'No raids? What will I do endgame?' then it slowly dawned on me that Guild Wars 2's lack of raids may be contrinubted to two things.
Organizing/running a raid sucks - Sure we're all talking about raids raids but remember there has to be someone with enough game knowledge to put together a team of 25 COMPETENT people and having all of them perform at 170%. As much as I loved raids there are certain aspects of it I absolutely detested. People who didn't learn the fight, people who weren't willing to put some effort into beating a hard boss and just quit, waiting for TWO HOURS just to play and then have the entire team die in 15 seconds because someone didn't speak up about not knowing the boss mechanics. You know who you are.
Lack of endgame - Normally the end game is the highest tier/lvl of stuff to do but I started wondering about how GW2 endgame worked. I got bored of because WoW end game was raiding and only raiding (I didn't like WoW pvp, spoiled by GW pvp). Now not everyone is going to play in this manner but in gw2 I can imagine the entire game becoming end game because of the sidekicking and scaling of events. Instead of sacrificing resources to make very small and high tier content, Arena-net has turned raids into DE - something that just came to mind is that failing a raid boss in the world might mean a town will be crushed instead of just your party wiping in the raid instance.
edit - I forget that epic bosses are going to start appearing from lvl 1 so we're pretty set for epic boss fights.
Will I miss raids? Absolutely Will I miss the shit that came with it? Hell No.
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Originally posted by Twistingfate
Well there is live event from what was shown on one of Expo presentations where large amount of players were repeling Shatterer ( main evil Dragon) attack.
Originally posted by Elricmerren
Well what does matter is the Guild Wars 2 Development team, and there is absolutlely no sign of Raiding in this game and there never will be. Not every game will have raiding thats not new at all. Some people especially the GW2 demographic are not interested in boring raid grinds or meaninless battles with 60 foot raid bosses that force the holy trinity on us and dumb scripted fights against timed monsters which are about as predictable as the boxing apponents on the Punch Out video game. Now you may wish GW2 is going to cater to you the way TOR did, but thats quite simply too bad. You want that kind of game RIFT is your best bet, at least their skill tree system isn't totally boring.
Originally posted by Magnetia
There is nothing new about not having raids, there was such an influx of wow clones after 2004 people who liked raids came to expect it. But there have always been mmorpgs even popular ones that either don't have raids or dont demand that you do them. This whole end game idea raiders have is just laughable to me, who wants an end game in an mmorpg unless you're dead set on killing the ultimate bad guy scripted monster at the end. It was always silly to me. If I wanted an End game I would play a console RPG.
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Magnatia's second point is a good one.
Guild Wars 2 has so many handcrafted DE's, each with multiple or divergent stages in them, the effects of which can span days, weeks and perhaps even months, and because of the de-leveling (and sidekicking) a player could be doing DE's for months and not see the same event playing out, and iirc, some of those events have special/unique rewards including armor, weapons, trophies and whatever else.
That's a pretty solid PvE endgame in my opinion, and lets not forget that W-v-W has PvE elements in it, so even if youre not that into PvP you can still help people out in it by performing those PvE tasks.
"The problem with quotes from the Internet is that it's almost impossible to validate their authenticity." - Abraham Lincoln
The original video brings up a lot of good reasons why there aren't raids
I kind of think they missed one. One of GW2's goals seems to be not forcing people into doing a certain thing (raiding) in order to get "the best gear". With GW2, it'll be somewhat easy to get max stat power in your gear, and you'll be able to do it from a variety of sources. I think they're actually trying to deemphasize "the carrot" in general, so the game becomes more about doing whatever it is you find fun with fun being the real reward.
If there were raids in the game, why would you subject yourself to the hassle of doing them (finding more people, having to schedule, more AFKs/DCs, more likely someone messes up) if there wasn't at least some kind of tangible reward?
To me, it seems like there's a philosophical question here. Even if the reward is just another vanity skin, doesn't that in essence become "the best gear?" (if not from a stats standpoint, then from an elitism or desireability standpoint)
And if it is the case, what's the difference between the gear obtained from raiding and the gear obtained from the hardest dungeon? In both cases it seems like it becomes a badge of honor to be able to wear gear that not everyone can obtain.
I don't know, I'm asking here.


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Bush's faith-based initiative also privileges Christianity above all other religions. After sifting through every grant announcement I could get my hands on from Bush's faith-based offices, I couldn't find a single grant issued to a religious charity that wasn't Christian -- no Jewish charities, no Muslim charities, nothing. And when I spoke with Jim Towey, director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, he confirmed that no direct federal grants from his program had gone to a non-Christian religious group. This kind of religious favoritism is exactly what the Constitution's establishment clause was put in place to prevent.
Towey and Kaplan must view Sun Myung Moon as a Christian, because I've seen reports that an organization affiliated with Moon received a sizeable grant.
There is a tacit establishment of Christianity in the White House that is being made explicit in the distribution of federal dollars.
The same thing is going on with state money in states that have set up offices of faith-based liaison. Here's a link to a story about what happened in Oklahoma as the faith-based program was being set up. Here's a link to some eggregious examples of the faith-based office's endorsement of the Christian religion.
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Mike Singleton's '85 classic Adventure Strategy sequel to The Lords of Midnight, brought to and updated for Android. "It is many moons now since the Lords of Midnight first appeared out of the soft, wearing gloom. Those of you who took up their challenge and rode with them to battle...
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Marvel Spotlight #5 (Marvel, 1972) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white pages....
2013 August 1 - 3 Comics Signature Auction - Dallas #7079
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Marvel Spotlight #5 (Marvel, 1972) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white pages. The only 9.8 copy of the first appearance of Ghost Rider, what more needs to be said? Well, it's worth noting that CGC has certified more than 1,000 unrestored copies of the issue, so the lack of any other 9.8s is certainly not for lack of trying on the part of collectors. The multiple black edges of this issue simply make it very difficult for any copy to survive without picking up color breaks. As avidly collected as Marvels are and, as long as CGC has now been around, it's quite a surprise that there is still a Marvel key with only one 9.8. To compare to a couple of other 1970s Marvel keys with dark covers, Ghost Rider #1 has 14 9.8s as of this writing (April 2013) and X-Men #94 has 18. Also, this isn't one of those books that only people within the hobby can appreciate, since the character has been the star of two major motion pictures! Mike Ploog is the cover artist of this key book. One of the highlights of our Silver/Bronze Age section, this beauty is being auctioned without reserve. Overstreet 2013 NM- 9.2 value = $650. CGC census 7/13: 1 in 9.8, none higher.
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