At a time I thought it isn’t pos­si­ble, or at least not worth the trou­ble try­ing, to achieve Guild Wars Hall of Mon­u­ment 30/50.  The magic num­ber is a mea­sure­ment of ded­i­ca­tion of Guild Wars play­ers in term of com­ple­tion of con­tent.  My progress was stuck on 21/50 for quite some time.  After a closer look at the HoM Cal­cu­la­tor, I found that grind­ing for the hor­ri­ble Zaishen Key title that nor­mally would last months is unnec­es­sary.  So, three days later, I did it.

To any one who won­ders what’s the sig­nif­i­cance of 30/50.  It is the high­est I need to go to unlock all the item rewards in Guild Wars 2.  Scores higher than 30 only give addi­tional titles in GW2, which is not appeal­ing for most peo­ple to grind for, espe­cially since GW2 is out.

Any­way, the orig­i­nal plan was to hit 30/50 before GW2’s server come online, which did not hap­pen, thanks ArenaNet’s gen­er­ous act of open­ing the flood­gate three hours early.  Much of my time was spent on van­quish­ing areas “along the way” while com­plet­ing the Wayfarer’s Reverie: an event Are­naNet added in cel­e­bra­tion of GW2’s release; basi­cally a world wide sight­see­ing tour of the landmarks.

Fol­low­ing pages have a bunch of screen­shots I took along the way.