User:DoctorMinovsky

Chuck Two-Buck's World Famous Pan-Tyria Pub Crawl

Wherein the wares at each wonderful warm wateringhole are welcomed and a drunken selfie documents the debauchery!

Yes this is a thing.

No, you don't get a legendary weapon from this. Your toon gets cirrhosis.

Do it for the orphans of Divinity's Reach!

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So, with all the salt around legendary armor back in the day, I figured I'd post my own Legendary Journey.

For every kind of alcohol and related item in the game. One for crazy items and a stack of each for everything else.

Have gone all over the map for hard-to-find vendors, bugged event merchants, and started a nuclear-worthy stockpile of Elonian wine.

Here's the catch: any alcohol not available on the TP, you have to do the map run 100% inebriated (drunk effect in-game, doing this irl ymmv) and lacking a random armor item or weapon as though you went out unprepared for a smokes and roadbeers run.

Notes from the brewery

The odd thing is, I don't even like alcohol irl...

Why make my own legendary? I don't personally prefer any of the high fantasy legendary items in the game. Just not my speed, but I respect the work that legendary people put into getting them (And Anet for designing them).

Ok but y tho? It's literally anything other than Yet Another Cookiecutter Legendary screenshot.

What makes this journey so legendary, anyway? I feel this is a legendary journey because it takes more than a *year* with the subscription brews. Also it costs many hundreds of gold and requires actual creativity and investigation.

What loot drops from this? The loot is the treasury of friends and acquaintances thatI have met so many nice and amazing people all along these map runs!!!

What items are consumed in the process? I don't even know how many additional stacks of 2 buck chuck I have burned through to stay drunk while running alcohol-themed events (Halla in Orr and that *thirsty* Norn chick with the stout ale).

What cannot be included in this Legendary Journey?

Elixir of Heroes, Bottle of Rum bundle and Elixir Bottle are bundles and can't be taken into inventory.

Profession-specific skills involving alcohol, such as Drop Stim Brew don't count for this Legendary Journey. Same for engineer elixirs.

Edit 3: The following terms are USELESS in GW2 for this Legendary Journey. However, searching them out is part of the journey. Literally unplayable: bitters, rye, mash, hair of the dog, omnomberry juice, rum, daiquiri, near-beer, 4Loko, [beer] nuts, salty snacks

Achievement Chain

1. Decide whether your character is gonna drink to remember or drink to forget (0 AP).
2. Go to Lion's Arch and contemplate that Anet adds alcohol-themed skins to the focus wep type, when alcohol gets you blurry.
3. Go to Hoelbrak --> Biergarten --> Courage Brewery and enjoy the ambient audio and just appreciate the crazy amount of human life invested in building GW2 from zero to today.
   1. Get a selfie with STEINGRIM the Norn barkeep, he of the most metal name for drinking ever.
   2. Defeat every master belcher in Belcher's Bluff. Requires permanent Belcher’s Bluff kit.
4. Contemplate, at the foot of Brothander Halfmad, the direction of your life and if games truly bring you joy.
   1. Complete Festive Imbiber.
   2. Complete Thirst Slayer.
   3. Complete Fine Wining.
5. Collect a Bottle of Skrittsburgh Special as a potential hero point but do not consume it! This is for COLLECTION!
6. Switch servers to Tarnished Coast and head to any of the roleplaying hubs in Divinity's Reach. Convincingly roleplay a bartender (0 AP).
7. Visit Apple Jack in Queensdale. Drink enough to soothe the crushing letdown that AJ is not what you thought or hoped it was.

Holiday Booze

250 Glasses of Buttered Spirits

250 Mugs of Eggnog

250 Cups of Spiced Apple Cider (assume this is the spiked version)

1 Cask-Strength Eggnog edit: changed from stack to 1 given the 10% drop rate would require farming 2500 Personalized Wintersday Gifts. Screw that! <3

Beers

(This list is shaped like a beer belly)

250 Steins of Ale

250 Steins of Light Ale

250 Steins of Amber Ale

250 Steins of Golden Ale

250 Steins of Hunter's Ale

250 Steins of Darkbrown Ale

250 Steins of Brackwater Ale

250 Draughts of Hunter's Ale

250 Steins of Highlander Beer

1 Cold Filtered Wurm Tincture

250 Steins of Celebratory Beer

250 Flasks of Meatoberfest Ale

250 Steins of Celebratory Drink

250 Bottles of Remi-Trundle Lager

250 Steins of Ancient Dwarven Ale

250 Steins of Snow Leopard Stout

250 Steins of Halla's Mighty Brew

250 Mugs of Cragstead Red

250 Bottles of Raven's Best

250 Clean Refreshing Drink

250 Jugs of Friesson's Ale

250 Steins of Hearty Ale

250 Steins of Cold Beer

250 Steins of Stout Ale

2 Steins of Ancient Deldrimor Ale (I'm having to farm karma for a few of these, don't have stack yet)

~~1 Stein of Kyesjard Special Reserve (karma-gated exotic)~~ Locked behind Moot III collection

1 Bobby Stein

, Lead writer for ArenaNet

Interview questions to Bobby Stein

Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder

Over your many years as a narrative designer, how have you wrestled with advancing GW2 past the comfortable trap of "the heroes are beautiful and the villains are ugly" trope?

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The future, the present, and the past walk into a bar. Things get tense.

What kind of crazy planning do you guys have to do to make sure everyone's writing/voice acting/programming line up correctly? Across a single episode? Across sequential episodes? Across the entire game history?

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Beer: so much more than a breakfast drink

To what extent are the narrative and setting design folks involved with naming/coming up with foods and beverages in GW2? Is that in your wheelhouse?

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Everyone needs something to believe in; I believe I'll have a chocolate stout!

Faith and religion can be polarizing issues in the real world. How do you and your narrative design staff tackle the process and balances of writing gods, impostor gods, and people confronting difficult faith crossroads (like Kasmeer in a recent Living World episode?) without angering diverse players?

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Alcohol...Because no great story ever started with someone eating a salad.

When designing a new race like the Sylvari, do you design details way beyond what makes it into the game and draw from that into the future, or flesh (vegetable...?) them out more as you go?

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Sometimes I drink a glass of water just to surprise my liver.

How much do you labor toward major plot twists intentionally vs. incorporate them as targets of opportunity as you do other things with the narrative?

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Alcohol may be my enemy but Ventari's Tablet says to love your enemy.

As a lead writer, do you tend to see all moral dilemmas written fo the various characters and races as variations on a few foundational dilemmas, or do you see a real variety among them?

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I'm not an *alcoholic*; alcoholics go to meetings. I'm a *Norn*; we go to moots.

How do you balance out adult vs. general audience writing in an ESRB teen-rated game spanning many countries in distribution?

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Pain makes you stronger. Tears make you braver. A broken heart makes you wiser. Alcohol makes you not remember any of that crap.

How do you balance the necessary gap between narrative bursts of each season's episodes against trying to provide a continuous story without too much exposition with each episode?

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Beer is like pouring smiles on your brain

How do you personally, as a lead writer, balance humor & tension-relief writing vs. serious, dire writing for the GW2 setting?

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Attention: please be patient with the bartender. Even a toilet can only serve one asshole at a time.

How do you blow off steam when player salt gets too concentrated? Are you able to play GW2 and enjoy it or do you suffer from the artist's curse of seeing (real or imagined) imperfections that the rest of us would never know?

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I never drink. I just disinfect internal injuries.

Granted, there are no culinary applications for bloodstone dust. None. *No good can come from feeding it to living beings.*

....

Ok, but what about *drinking* it, e.g., [goldschlager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldschl%C3%A4ger)-style?

A Dozen Elite Brews (Subscription)

Each stack is around 30 gold at the Eldvin Monastery Brew of the Month Club in the Krytan_Freeholds area of Queensdale. You have to purchase the subscription for 10 gold and then check back with them once a month for a full year to score all twelve stacks.

250 Bottles of Empyreal Stout (January time-locked)

250 Bottles of Dragon Bash Barley Wine (February time-locked)

250 Bottles of Pale Tree Pilsner (March time-locked)

250 Bottles of Rytlager Brimstout (April time-locked)

250 Bottles of Eldvin Abbey Ale (May time-locked)

250 Bottles of Bloodstone Orange Summer Ale (June time-locked)

250 Bottles of Istan Pale Ale (July time-locked)

250 Bottles of Queen's Jubilale (August time-locked)

250 Bottles of Black Lion Reserve (September time-locked)

250 Bottles of Mad King's Pumpkin Porter (October time-locked)

250 Bottles of Barrel-Aged Ascalonian Amber (November time-locked)

250 Bottles of Stonehealer Stout (December time-locked)

Wines

250 Bottles of Barradin Family Wine

250 Bottles of Wine

250 Bottles of Red Wine

250 Bottles of Victoria's Red Wine (Terrible stuff, ask Caudecus!)

250 Bottles of Rice Wine

250 Bottles of Standard Research Issue Aged Wine

250 Bottles of Sunken Wine (Karma-gated OR available for silver)

250 Bottles of Vintage Wine

250 Bottles of Putrid Wine

250 Bottles of Elonian Wine, It's legendary! (62.6 gold)

1 Bottle of Ancient Orrian Wine, locked behind Moot III collection

Booze

250 Flasks of Special Reserve Blood Whiskey

250 Flasks of Blood Whiskey

250 Flasks of Ooze Spirits

250 Bottles of Experimental Ooze Booze

250 Flasks of Firewater

250 Jugs of Moletariate Cocktail

250 Flasks of Gladiator Swill

250 Bottles of Juniberry Gin

250 Flasks of Raptor Juice sold by the vendor Ploint in Desider Atum, Metrica province

250 Jugs of Martini

250 Bottles of Silent Liqueur

250 Jugs of Confiscated Booze

250 Vials of Hylek Absinthe

250 Flasks of Recovered Brew

250 Special Jugs Super Adventure Box only

250 Jugs of Hard Apple Cider (cheap)

250 Jugs of Hard Apple Cider (expensive) -- This is about to vanish from the Trading Post since it's a Guild Wars 2 subreddit question thread converted old item.

250 Jugs of Autumn Nectar

1 Bottle of Shelp's Moonshine (karma-gated exotic consumable locked behind Moot III collection)

1 Sun God's Breath Flask (karma-gated exotic gizmo locked behind HOPE I collection)

Alcohol-Related Items

Inventory/Decorative Items

2 Shiny Bottle Openers, fine and masterwork

250 Vials of Enchanted Water

250 Glass Mugs

250 Crystalline Bottles

1 Empty Keg (saddest of all kegs)

0 Kegs (decorative) since these are soulbound on (scribe) crafting, I will have to learn to make my own!

1 Guild Banquet keg

250 Bottles of Spider Brew (Karma-gated from Cesseilia in Whisperwill Bogs)

250 Bottles of Batwing Brew

250 Sour Dye (Kryta regulates artificial food colorants added to sours mix; Jennah came up through the Krytan Food and Drug Ministry)

250 Packets of Salt (for rimming margarita glasses)

250 Flasks of Emergency Supplies

7 Pirate Rum bottles heart item, cannot collect a stack before completing this heart!

1 Gift of Mastery! (This makes the whole thing legit LEGENDARY) edit: I FINALLY GOT IT!

Weapons

Exotic Weapons

• 1 Ambrosia (focus)
• 1 Moonshine (focus)
• 1 Poyaqui's Noggin (focus)
• 1 Courage (focus)
• 1 Chalice of the Gods (focus)
• 1 Charr Meatoberfest Chalice (focus)
• 1 Goblet of Kings (focus) 52 gold on the TP --or-- you have to play through all 8 Living World Season 2 episodes through Arcana Obscura to get a Bag of Jewels.

Fine Weapons

• 1 Monk's Beer Stein (accessory)

Black Lion Weapon Skins

• Unlocked Improvised Dagger (Thank you, /u/Mordrem Moth!)

Costume Brawl Weapons

• 1 Frying Pan
• 1 Bottomless Belcher's Bluff Kit (100 gold)

Found Weapons

• 250 Stout Ale Kegs
• 250 Bottles, a consumable bundle weapon

Trophy/Junk Alcohol Items

• 250 Bottle of Refined Krait Oil, just in case it's alcoholic. I seem not to get any buzz from it whatsoever. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm sure the problem is with me; it's definitely not snake oil.
• 1 Chalice of Rhendak
• 1 White Mantle Ritual Goblet (GG Anet, locking my made-up Legendary Journey item behind raid content, smh ;)
• 1+ Bottle of Rum dropped by a Skritt Burglar or Mawdrey (Currently have 101)
• 1 Bottle of Scotch dropped by a Skritt Burglar
• 1 Bottle of Whiskey dropped by a Skritt Burglar

Domain of Vabbi

• Barrel of Jahin White
• Flask of Vabbian Red
• Imperial Cask of Djinnspit
• Magnum of Mehtu's Mead
• Bottle of Sahlahjar's Choice

Armor Items (Mostly Accessories)

• 1 Halfmad's Mug (Ascended)
• 0 Marriner's Flask (Ascended)
• 2 Pirate Flasks fine and masterwork versions
• 2 Commemorative Beer Steins fine and masterwork versions
• 2 Meatoberfest Souvenir Mugs fine and masterwork versions
• 1 Wurm Hunt Souvenir Stein
• 250 Flasks of Emergency Supplies
• 1 Hearty Chef's Backpack
• 1 Brewmaster Backpack, Time-gated with the Brew of the Month subscription
• 1 Hoelbrak Mountain Pack is a birthday item! Hang in there if you're a new character!
• ~~Zephyr Rucksack~~ (Living World Season 1 only, 1400 gold on the TP)

Taverns and alcohol sources by region

You must visit each, no skimping.

Ascalon

• Blazeridge Steppes (wiki's got nothing?)

• Diessa Plateau
  • Butcher's Block bartender in the Village of Butcher's Block

• Fields of Ruin
  • Sentinel's Perch top floor tavern run by a bartender) near Tenaebron Lake
  • Unnamed tavern in Ebonhawke run by a bartender) a block west of the Postern Gate point of interest

• Fireheart Rise (wiki's got nothing?)

• Iron Marches (wiki's got nothing?)

• Plains of Ashford
  • Three Legions Court tavern and point of interest in Smokestead run by a bartender

Heart of Maguuma

• Verdant Brink (wiki's got nothing, not even in Noble's Folly where they should be falldown drunk all things considered.)

• Auric Basin (the enchanted armors have literally the worst sense of humor about showing up to Octovine blackout drunk. Very judgy.)

• Tangled Depths (wiki's got nothing?)

• Dragon's Stand (wiki's got nothing?)

• Bloodstone Fen (wiki's got nothing?)

• Gilded Hollow
  • Guild tavern run by Nathan (Nice guy, not the best conversationalist, would swipe left tbh.)

• Lost Precipice
  • Guild tavern run by Nathan

• Forsaken Thicket (wiki's got nothing?)

Kryta

• Bloodtide Coast (wiki's got nothing?)

• Gendarran Fields

• • Applenook Hamlet's unnamed pub in Cornucopian Fields

• • Nebo Terrace's unnamed pub southwest of the Nebo Terrace waypoint

• • Gullveig the Grim in Vigilant Hills

• Harathi Hinterlands

• • Greystone Rise's unnamed pub in Seraph's Landing just behind Lieutenant Pickins. He's "on duty" (we know what's really going on).

• • The Fall tavern in Seraph's Landing run by Bartender Bill, between the Seraph's Landing waypoint and the Seraph Landing vista

• Kessex Hills

• • Triskellion Vale's unnamed pub west of Mayor Trisk and near the Triskell Quay point of interest. No bar but has a cellar, ymmv.

• • The Lionguard Kessex Haven's unnamed pub in the northeast tower, run by Brewer Ronger. If his ale is ronger I don't want to be righter. Ayyy

• Lake Doric

• • Lakeside Bazaar unnamed pub in Lake Doric next to the Lakeside Bazaar waypoint

• Queensdale

• • Rose in the Shire of Beetletun

• • The Hunting Lodge in the Queen's Forest is home to the lovely Emi.

• • Shaemoor's unnamed pub is across the street from the Shaemoor waypoint

• Southsun Cove

• • Consortium Beverage Vendor in Pride Point

• • Consortium Beverage Vendor in Pearl Islet

Maguuma Jungle

• Caldeon Forest (wiki's got nothing?)

• Metrica Province (wiki's got nothing?)

• Brisban Wildlands (wiki's got nothing?)

• Sparkfly Fen (wiki's got nothing?)

• Mount Maelstrom (wiki's got nothing?)

• Labyrinthine Cliffs

• • The Four Winds was between the Bazaar Docks waypoint and Sky Docks waypoint. Om Grandmaster Poyaqui held court here with his Noggin. Now he's in the Western Ward.

Maguuma Wastes

• Dry top

• • Martinus's pub in Prosperity

• Silverwastes (wiki's got nothing?)

Ring of Fire

• Ember Bay (have the traveling circus or the Skritt set anything up?)

• Draconis Mons (the ghostly druids don't seem like the drinking type? Boooorrriiinnnggg)

Ruins of Orr

• Straits of Devastation (Maybe a Pact encampment has a bar tucked away somewhere?)

• Malchor's Leap (wiki's got nothing?)

• Cursed Shore

• • Halla Corpseflayer doesn't count as a bar, *per se.*

Shiverpeak Mountains

• Bitterfrost Frontier (wiki's got nothing?)

• Snowden Drifts

• • Take a gulp of something fiery in Urgulp for the obvious reason, try not to drown

• Dredgehaunt Cliffs (wiki's got nothing?)

• Frostgorge Sound

• • Brewmaster Olaf in Leopard's Tail Valley

• • Rescued Brewer in Highpeaks

• Lornar's Pass (wiki's got nothing?)

• Mount Maelstrom (wiki's got nothing?)

• Timberline Falls (wiki's got nothing?)

• Wayfarer Foothills

• • Beer merchant in Cragstead

• • Brewer Daggulf in Borealis Forest

• • Kevach's Homestead lodge in Dolyak Pass. Famous for its ales!

• • Snowlord's Gate unnamed pub between Horncall waypoint and the Snowlord's Gate vista

The Mists

(I'm pretty sure none of these have any taverns, but the PVP lobby SHOULD. Literally undrinkable; queues are miserable, dry waiting.)

• Heart of the Mists

• Mad King's Realm

• Fractals of the Mists

• Edge of the Mists

• Eternal Battlegrounds

• Blue Borderlands

• Green Borderlands

• Red Borderlands

• Obsidian Sanctum

• PVP lobby

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City Taverns

The list below is similar to the one here.

Black Citadel

• Serrated Blade Tavern in Canton Factorum
• Renae Silverguard in Perimeter Loop
• Bartender Urvan in Gladium Canton
• Bartender Jaust in Praetor's Canton

Divinity's Reach

• Behruseh, Ourida, and Lakhi in Ossan Quarter
• Bartender in Plaza of Balthazar
• Jeri Stonewater in Dwayna Low Road
• The Busted Flagon in southern Western Commons, run by a Norn bartender
• The Maiden's Whisper in central Rurikton, supported by Evona and nearby Melyss Talthorne and a bartender
• Merchant's Coin adjacent to Rook's Row in Salma District, run by bartender nearby Josef(?)
• The Dead End in Eastern Commons (instanced, not regular world map) and run by a bartender
• Turai Tavern in Ossan Quarter

Hoelbrak

• Bear Lodge taps run by Dagar Friesson and assistants in the bottom level, north side
• Courage Brewery in the Biergarten, run by Gudrin and STEINGRIM!
• The Great Lodge taps in the second level, West side run by Gisla and Maeva
• The Great Lodge taps in the Hunter's Hearth instance run by Halldora
• Snow Leopard Lodge in the bottom level
• Wolf Lodge in the lower level, northeast side run by Anessa
• Vheratha's Tavern in the Hall of Legends, run by Darna
• Brewer Owen's tavern in the Trade Commons: barkeep, Ingegard, Brewer Alasyn, and Brewer Olin.
• Unnamed tavern in the outside upper balcony of the Great Lodge, southwest from Upper Balcony waypoint and left of BLTC post

The Grove

• Starbower Nursery in upper and lower Constellation Shelter, run by Beoir

Lion's Arch

• Zotturrikk in The Undermarket/Hooligan's Route
• Crow's Nest Tavern in Western Ward north of Sanctum Harbor waypoint
• Lion's Shadow Inn in Eastern Ward, only accessible during dusk, night, and dawn! Run by Innkeeper Aela
• Order of Whispers HQ in Commodore's Quarter is CLEARLY JUST A BAR AND NOT A FRONT FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN APPLE SALES o.o;
• Red Hand Tavern in Fort Marriner's Main Haven Headquarters run by Bartender Silvergrace
• Trader Jikk's in Western Ward, southwest of the Western Ward waypoint, in a seaside cliff cave
• Pour one out for the obliterated Cloud Skimmer Tavern in the Mystic Plaza
• Pour one out for the obliterated Melydiod's Nectar Bar in Eastern Ward

Rata Sum

• Plikter's place near the Aquatarium and run by Barkeep Plikter (and hopefully some day by Tippi, who has a perfect name for mixology)