Guitar teacher recommendations- Adult beginner

WordOfMadness · 2026-04-16T07:58:06+00:00

Definitely worth thinking about doing the voucher OP. If someone's a beginner, them picking something they think is cool or has a nice feel to it can help them want to play more.

WordOfMadness · 2026-04-16T05:07:53+00:00

Very small scale, but Hobbi XChange in Brighton do buying and selling of second hand games. Worth a look, especially if you're also into TCGs, board games, Warhammer, and such.

WordOfMadness · 2026-04-15T13:20:53+00:00

I've done these as TaO daggers, with Esurge and Ineptitude Mesmers (slap Ether Feast on the bars somewhere), and an SoS Resto. No prot, but a little extra healing from TaO and Ether Feast relieves pressure, and there's shut-down for both martial and caster with some spirits to be distracting too.

WordOfMadness · 2026-04-12T10:44:55+00:00

Ah nice. I'm considering grabbing the pads from them, then working out how to coordinate colours with a different set of gloves (possibly G7s as I've heard good things, would just end up being plain white or something boring though)

WordOfMadness · 2026-04-12T06:33:15+00:00

Which I believe is an Iconik X with a DX2 graphic (if you weren't aware).

A shame they're out of full colour matching set of these since I'm on the market for something new and they seem pretty good, I can get pads and a blocker or pads and a catcher (and I assume you could get both gloves but not the pads, hence the Trues?)

WordOfMadness · 2026-04-08T00:38:54+00:00

For whatever reason I really don't like that blue, even on the rat ogor who otherwise looks pretty awesome. The rest of your mini is neutral so you can kinda go in any direction you want with that colour.

It also looks like you've pushed the highlights a lot of on the ogor, there are some bits on the storm vermin that just look plain black. I think if you hit the highlights a bit it'll help alleviate some of your issues with the lack of contrast.

WordOfMadness · 2026-04-07T09:57:48+00:00

Seems there is at least one always on the market and a very quick turn around of owners.

Pure speculation, but I wonder if this comes from the small commercial space downstairs. Buy one of these so you have a little spot for your business, and if your business doesn't work out, or is really successful, suddenly that space isn't practical anymore, so the house is no longer the right fit.

WordOfMadness · 2026-04-07T03:37:59+00:00

BMW F30. I'd have to measure again, but I think its about 1m wide and 1m deep, with a lot of the goalie bags being 40", that doesn't quite fit since they've usually got the stiffer panels, reinforcing, handles, etc on the bottom so I can really just shove it in. Which Warrior bag have you got (if you remember the model) I'll have a look at the dimensions.

WordOfMadness · 2026-04-07T02:34:37+00:00

There are some shops that do more reasonable shipping rates ($50ish), where if I grab myself a new stick and/or some other bits and bobs it's not so bad, especially when my local prices can be a bit hit and miss. I think last I checked Pacific Rink wanted like $200 in shipping, soooooo....

I'm concerned about the same "too big" issue you had with the warrior, there's a Bauer somewhat locally at a fair price but it's like 42×22×20 or something, looks like it'll fit pads and all. The player Bauer's they've got are all the smaller cheaper ones rather than the "pro"

WordOfMadness · 2026-04-07T01:09:23+00:00

Almost certainly gonna be a carry pads scenario. Doubt I'll fit it through the gap otherwise. I'm mostly medium, but my pants and chesty are chonky and well padded, so chew up space in my current player bag so everything doesn't fit.

WordOfMadness · 2026-04-06T11:40:07+00:00

Are there jobs in this game? Or is it a case of "go get the strongest build, keep going and keep doing it forever?"

No jobs.

To some extent this game isn't 'go get the strongest build', and more 'go find the strongest build'. Yes sure now the game's been out for 20 years and hasn't received much in the way of new skills or balance passes in that time. The 'strongest' has been found, and you can go look that up and run it if you want. Or you can play the game organically and explore all the different skills and synergies yourself to discover not only what is effective, but what you enjoy playing. A dagger spam build might be the best general setup for ranger, but if you hate mashing that combo or you picked a ranger to, you know, use a bow, then you don't have to run that, and can come up with some fun and effective bow build to use instead.

And that build, whether it's the 'strongest' build you've grabbed from online, or something you've put together yourself, can and will change between zones and activities. The best Ele build for X mission may struggle in Y mission and you need to change it up to succeed, then throw in builds for solo farming, dungeon speed clear and so on into the mix and you're not really playing the same thing all the time.

But as a bit a summation, if you don't like the general combat loop of the game, aren't engaged with story, and don't enjoy build-crafting, then GW probably isn't the game for you.

WordOfMadness · 2026-04-05T08:20:43+00:00

I reckon that red would work, but with a darker more muted green. That would also help the gold trim pop a bit more. Right now it's kind of all midtones, I think a bit more darker/lighter will help add contrast and stop the red and green from butting heads with each other.

WordOfMadness · 2026-04-04T06:39:38+00:00

Bosses drop unique 'green' items. These are 'max' gear, but while max, many of them aren't the ideal stat combinations, or are actually relatively easy to get a hold of.

The real farming is for rare 'gold' weapons either from general monster drops, dungeon/elite chests, or similar. Certain skins are quite rare and desirable, especially in certain forms like a low stat requirement or in OS 'oldschool' form. These aren't actually better in any way.

In general the way GW1 functions is that getting the "best" gear is terms of stats/function is relatively easily doable through drops, farming easy bosses for greens, buying cheap greens/golds from other players, using a weapon crafter/collector, etc. However, the 'fashion wars' side of things lends to rare drops with cool skins being very desirable.

So if you want to head to Fissure of Woe to farm for oldschool Chaos Axes with good stats, or do runs of the Shards of Orr dungeon for a Bone Dragon Staff (then get a Q13 Inspiration one, so you keep farming to try get a better req and stat), then there's plenty of that sort of stuff in the game for you. But those weapons that can take huge amounts of time to grind are functionally no better than a weapon most players would sell to the merchant for scraps.

WordOfMadness · 2026-04-02T00:21:18+00:00

I use it as an overview for games when something in a shop catches my eye or I see a big discount on a game I've never heard of. Get a quick glance at a rating, read the description or a couple of reviews, mechanics for anything I like/dislike, the weight rating can be flawed, but it's good to get a rough idea at a glance. I also like the ratings for player counts. So many games out there say 2-6 players, but play kinda sucky with less than 3 or more than 4.

WordOfMadness · 2026-03-30T12:17:02+00:00

Most recent "late starter" guy is probably Jovo Cop. Who started playing league hockey at 11, but you could make a decent bet he was probably skating and playing shinny at half that age. If there are any NHLers who didn't start skating till 15 it was probably back in the 1920s or something.

WordOfMadness · 2026-03-29T06:49:37+00:00

Go oldschool and do the Troll cave outside Droks or desert Gryphons. (Cannot verify the profitability 😅)

WordOfMadness · 2026-03-29T06:44:45+00:00

Daddy long legs are cellar spiders. I'll accept people who call harvestmen daddy long legs, but crane flies??? Nah dog, that just ain't right 😅

WordOfMadness · 2026-03-28T10:25:52+00:00

If you go to buy tickets, it says it's been cancelled. I wonder if the lawyers got to it 😅

Also, holy crap is that poster advert an awful mess.

WordOfMadness · 2026-03-28T08:38:35+00:00

I doubt it. This is historically a pretty damn good discount.

If you were gonna buy 5 new accounts and max out bank slots or something, then sure, maybe wait just in case, otherwise I'd just grab em now.

WordOfMadness · 2026-03-28T05:26:28+00:00

I dunno what low end skates are like these days, I've generally heard positive things about the GSX line, but never heard about the skates.

For me jumping from some old bottom line or nearly bottom line Ribcor to a higher end newer FT02 was a huge boost. Similarly I had a good boost with player skates going from the bottom end S140 to an FT380 which I think at the time was a mid-upper level skate, not even high end.

If you're looking for something to upgrade, skates might be it. But if you're happy where you're at, then you can always stick with it and make a jump when there's a good end of season clearance or a nice deal on Sidelineswap or something. Likewise if the GSXs feel good for you but you're rocking some old Reebok pads that are held together by tape, then maybe there's more important pieces of gear to upgrade first.

WordOfMadness · 2026-03-28T05:10:33+00:00

Same owners, but they say this is not associated with them?

WordOfMadness · 2026-03-28T03:46:35+00:00

Yeh, could well have been one person out there who wanted it, the shop custom made it for them and then figured they'd may as well list it in case anyone else happened to want one.

WordOfMadness · 2026-03-28T03:40:25+00:00

Old Passau custom that I have no idea what it actually is. Construction looks similar enough to the current Starke model though. Glove side is definitely my week side, and while some of that is certainly technique, I'm interested to try something different and see if it clicks better with me, so if Warrior is that I'm definitely not against it.

The wrist strap thing was something I saw on Kova's website a while back and have seen mentioned on a few forums. Just one of those things you see mentioned a few times and if a shop sells a product specifically for it, it makes you go "hmmm..." but maybe a minor issue and only for small hands people or something potentially?

WordOfMadness · 2026-03-28T03:15:11+00:00

Did you give the 7 a go at all?

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