Hero List

We love heroes. These super-henchmen allow you to solo non-AI-able missions, easily vanquish Hard Mode with a friend, and run a team farm build by yourself.

But the sheer number of available heroes can be daunting, and makes keeping track of equips difficult. Is Margrid wielding an icy or poisonous bow? Does Zenmai need the minor shadow rune or should I give it to Anton? This fire staff I just found has a cool skin and good mods, but aren’t my fire eles already using good staves? It may be manageable if you’re the type to play one character exclusively; keeping track of your heroes across multiple characters is a different story entirely.

Gwen
Gwen

Data packrats and listmakers — I feel your pain. That’s why I’m sharing my awful secret with you. I use text files to keep track of all kinds of things, from what mission my paragon last finished in each campaign, to which mini-pets my necro has in the Hall of Monuments. Crazy, yes. Helpful, indeed! With eleven playable characters and frequent hiatuses, I find it necessary.

So here’s one of the lists I finally decided to make after months of inventory agony. Every available hero is listed in the order in which they appear in your “Add a Hero” drop-down menu. Copy + paste it to start your own list fun!

Hero List:

edit: Since a recent Guild Wars update, the list below is obsolete.  See the post “Heroes X 7” for an updated list (added 5/31/11).

  1. Norgu – mesmer (NF)
  2. Goren – warrior (NF)
  3. Tahlkora – monk (NF)
  4. Master of Whispers – necromancer (NF)
  5. Acolyte Jin – ranger (NF)
  6. Koss – warrior (NF)
  7. Dunkoro – monk (NF)
  8. Acolyte Sousuke – elementalist (NF)
  9. Melonni – dervish (NF))
  10. Zhed Shadowhoof – elementalist (NF)
  11. General Morgahn – paragon (NF)
  12. Margrid the Sly – ranger (NF)
  13. Zenmai – assassin (F)
  14. Olias – necromancer (P)
  15. Razah – ritualist (NF)
  16. M.O.X – dervish (F)
  17. Jora – warrior (EN)
  18. Pyre Fierceshot – ranger (EN)
  19. Anton – assassin (EN)
  20. Livia – necromancer (EN)
  21. Hayda – paragon (EN)
  22. Kahmu – dervish (EN)
  23. Gwen – mesmer (EN)
  24. Xandra – ritualist (EN)
  25. Vekk – elementalist (EN)
  26. Ogden Stonehealer – monk (EN)

Campaign Legend:

P = Hero acquired in Prophecies
F = Hero acquired in Factions
NF = Hero acquired in Nightfall
EN = Hero acquired in Eye of the North

Translator

Considering the number of international visitors we get, it only seems fair to implement some kind of translation tool. WordPress has all kinds of neat plugins, and luckily there were several translation plugins to choose from. I ended up using one called “Google AJAX Translation.” So far it works like a charm.

And I came across something silly after testing out the plugin on a few posts! I don’t know how humorous it is in other languages, but reading the comment by Cohlrox on this post (in the family’s native language) gave me a good chuckle. Here is my response, in image form:

Not Too Smelly

I’m also wondering if anyone has come across a good translation mod for phpBB forums? I’ll keep looking, but feel free to share if you’ve found something good.

edit: As of January 2018, the plugin mentioned in this post has been closed – not sure when / if it will return (added 9/18/19).

Sharkee the Crusader

I know it’s been awhile since Sharkee3000 got his 3rd job. He’s already lvl 73 now…! But the way I figure, better late than never. Here’s our one and only Crusader obliging my screenshot requests.

Sharkee 3rd Job
Congratulations on 3rd job Sharkee3000!

Here are a couple more from that outing, plus a couple of random earlier ones.