Flaws

I was thinking about my flaws the other day and the flaws of other people too and I realised that shared flaws of personality often bring people together in friendship. I have recently spoken about arrogance, and though I'll freely admit that I can be arrogant myself at times, I would not list it as a reoccurring flaw of mine (I've just realised that this actually sounds really arrogant, so I could be wrong about it).

Long story short I saw both arrogance and ignorance in play yesterday from the same person in the space of about ten seconds. It happened in Guild Wars (yes I realise that I blog about this a lot but give me at little credit, it is my favourite thing to do at the moment), that a team member of mine was standing right next to a boss shooting arrows at it. I called him up on it, asked him why, and he implied that with less space between them his interrupts would be more effective. In my puzzlement I asked Dave who said that was tripe, and in my own anal-retentive (flaw 1) way I looked it up. I discovered that all bows have a FIXED flight time, and that standing closer to an enemy won't make a blind bit of difference. It seems I won (flaw 2: over-competitive nature).

In other news, recently I started to worry that we're falling behind in the race through prophesies (flaw 3: neurosis), even though there are almost four months remaining and it's measured in game time (number of hours played on that character) not actual time. We are actually still well ahead of the main other competitors as we have three of four survivors in tacked and they have one of four, and that's by pure skill alone from that player. Their monk, to say the least, is kind of useless (flaw 4: judgemental), but I'm going to stop this rant right now because otherwise I may lose control of it.

Among my escapades as a monk, I've also played my elementalist quite a lot recently. I love playing a starburster, because it's fun to jump about which is an assassin thing mostly, but I'm not very good as a sin (flaw 5: low self-confidence). I was speaking to Dave about my starbursting, and said that I didn't want to do it in hard mode, mostly because I think that as a squishy elementalist I'd be easy to kill, but also because my damage output wouldn't be as high with the higher armour rating and also because I don't want to be a burden on Dave. He'll probably say that it's fine, but I don't think it is. That seventy armour rating that his assassin has makes one hell of a difference, the only way I could really do it would be to play it on my sin, and then I risk my energy being too low (flaw 6: over thinking).

As the days go by I find myself more and more surrounded with everything, my work will need to be done soon to complete my second year, but I don't want to give up Guild Wars hours, time with Hayley or Alex or anything that I do really, which means I should start now, yet here I am instead procrastinating (flaw 7: procrastination) and posting yet another blog post. Perhaps it would be prudent to write my assignments into a blog page and just copy and paste them at the end, then I might get them done. I'm going to have to juggle of course, but I have done it every semester since the beginning of college, so I'm pretty good with time at the moment. Of course it also doesn't help that I've just purchased the complete five seasons of desperate housewives and am now more addicted that ever.

Something that does play on my side though, is that I don't play Guild Wars when no one else is online. Doing things on my own has become a chore rather than an exciting challenge. Still I do enjoy Guild Wars more and more without a doubt.

Anyway, seven flaws in one post. Awesome ¬¬ (flaw 8: sarcasm).