R9 Eternal Blade Christmas Giveaway!

Daenara

Bad Romance

Join Date: May 2006

Aussie Trolling Crew HQ - Grand Matron

Mo/

17 Dec 2008 at 23:08 - 41

My first character was a little Tyrian bun monkie called Lady Bubbazookie.

I created her on my brothers account so I could run around in pre searing, and quickly fell in love with the gorgeous scenery and awesome atmosphere. I finished pre searing, and armed with bane signet and orison of healing I headed off towards the charr. Man, these guys were tough! The chase from the Great Northern Wall left me breathless, (after suceeding on the third time) and Ruins of Surmia seemed unconquerable until a friendly level 20 gave me some help.

I was totally, unashamedly bad.

I didn't know there were communities surrounding guild wars, that could give helpful advice about bars. (What, you mean my heal/prot/smite/divine favour/beast mastery bar is terrible? And running 3 major runes probably wasn't a good idea?) Over the next few months I stumbled my way through to ascension, where I just couldn't take that nasty doppelganger down with my ohsopro beastmaster/smite build. (Oh yes babee) I turned to google for help, assuming (naturally) that everyone else was bad like me, and could provide some assistance. The first page I found led me to guru, where I joined and immediately began to read as much as I could. "Boon prot? But how do I do damage?" "Healing breeze is bad? Surely not!" These questions were eye opening, as it slowly began to dawn on me. I was a... noob.

Even though I now have my own account, Lady Bubbazookie still holds a warm place in my heart as my introduction to this great game.

Fennus

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Dec 2008

Im Using Signet Of Shut Your [Face]

W/Mo

17 Dec 2008 at 23:37 - 42

I started playing because a few friends did, but they didnt last very long in Guild Wars.

My first was a warrior named Mahangle Edge. (Ugly name, I know) He was born in Ascalon, He was always killing things in the tombs. He didnt know post existed so he got to about level 8 there until someone said "Why are you still here?!" He told me this is only 1/12 of the game. He told me where to go and I was then in the destroyed Ascalon. I asked around for help on some quests but no one helped me, until a fellow warrior came along. She was already level 20. She helped me with everything Quests, missions and even getting my new armour!
But shortly after I got to level 20 she left Guild Wars for World of Warcraft.

Thats really it, After I just continued playing. ^^

Anyways, Good luck everyone!

High Centurion

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2008

[PiE]

17 Dec 2008 at 23:54 - 43

Hey!
My first char was my ranger High Bowmaster, made almost 3 years ago, he was the first born of my acc xD, came to the world of Tyria. Don't know why i have him that name tho, first random thing that came to my head xD. He's my most played char, i love the idea of a ranger and the easiness of playing one. He's been spoiled with some nice armor and weapons(most spoiled of all my chars).
I love to play different builds with him, tho its mostly 3 main types of bar

.
He was the first to complete every campaign and get the first max title.
To this day, I continue to travel accross the oceans and visit far away lands, defeat new foes.
I am thankful that he hasn't died of age or deletion yet( if thats a word).
Thanx and Gl to everyone!

kedde

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2007

Kaons Banned Fecal Super Team [Ban]

Mo/A

18 Dec 2008 at 00:16 - 44

First ever char was my warrior kedde finubar.
I had my cousin make it for me as he'd been playing for months before I got the game and told me to create a warrior.
So I couldn't come up with a name. He decided to use one of his old friends nickname who died in a car accident in memory of him as our names were identical.
Played it through everything I believe and the name will be kept for gw2 as well.

Kerwyn Nasilan

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2007

WHERE DO YOU THINK

18 Dec 2008 at 01:05 - 45

My first char is my name sake, Kerwyn Nasilan.
Born a W/Mo (cause really who did not make a wammo) he made his way through pre doing most every quest and at level 6 went off to post, got some kickass ascalon armor and did the mishs to about lion's arch. There a guildie gave me a victos blade (which I used mending to cover the degen

) and a blue eternal shield with +21 health! With that and my new wyvern/dragon armor I was kick ass! I then got the amazing skill FINAL THRUST, Man I owned some undead! The jungle was a hard and maze like place, not that fun. The desert was also hard but beating my Doppelganger was a great feat. I pugged and got to droks where I sold my amazing rune of major vigor and got max platemail, IT WAS KICKASS, I then set my eyes on the incredible skill Hundred Blades!! I got to the final mission and beat teh lich, it was great cause I capped hundred blades. I then took him over to factiosn where I lost my victos blade to a scam (yeah pretty bad :/). I used a purple sword till I got a nice jade sword drop. Capped Dragon's Slash and relized its amazing kickass-ness and used it. Beat factions and between ten and NF I did a few FoW pugs, man those where fun, we usally dies near the forge but was really worth it, a shard was like 4k, you could do alot with that back then

. After NF I had saved up enough to buy a set of elite armor, a kurzick/primeval/glad combo. was awesoem, somewhere between there and GW:EN I lost most of my newbish inocence, and tbh I never had that newbie sense of woder ever again (well for the first week of gwen was close). I wish I could revist those days

Gnade

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2008

18 Dec 2008 at 01:14 - 46

my 1st char was a warr. i sill play on him cuz ive only had this game 4months. hes pretty cool with armor from boreal station cuz i cant afford anything else.. hes beat nightfall,prophecies and eye of the north. don't have factions. i usually help friends capping skills or something with him now. his name is Gnade Wangillp- got the name from a war game i used to play online. i would enjoy those eternal weps and make a new longtime friend also

darkmexican92

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2006

18 Dec 2008 at 01:24 - 47

Legon Aragous (the first) was my first character ever in Guild Wars and in any other MMORPG. He was a warrior and I was a very confused player in a massive world of the unknown. I remember picking my secondary profession as a ele because of the nuking skill fire storm. I'd carry it with me every where and I thought I was a bad ass. People would always tell me, " Dude, you should just make a ele."

After a few months of playing, i created a guru account and looked up on warrior builds and skills. Before I knew it I started chest running (when it wasn't nerfed). I had a lot of fun chest running. I made a pretty penny and got a set of good weapons. Later I met this chick, zakya soulblade. She was really cool and we got along great. We became good friends and she gave me money to buy my first set of 15k armor. I felt even more like a bad ass.

Guild Wars started to bore me after around a year of playing. My friend was always interested in playing guild wars so I thought It'd be nice of my to let him play. I warned him to not touch my warrior, Legon, because I put so much into him and all the hard work would be gone.

A few months later I had the urge of playing guild wars again, I signed up into my account and surely enough my friend did mess with Legon... He deleted him. I was really upset. How can he do this? Apparently he was "bored". What friend he was... Forgive and forget I suppose.

I miss my first Legon, I had gone through a lot with him and now it was all gone. I didn't appreciate how much fun I had with him until writing this post.

Now, I've made another character, a ranger called Legon Aragous,and he is my main. I'm still kinda mad that I can't play with my warrior, but hey **** happens.

Heres a screeny of him that I still have in my photobucket.

Happy holidays.

ANDY of GW

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2005

Mo/

18 Dec 2008 at 01:42 - 48

My first character was a ranger named Tyberius the true, sadly he has since been deleted. I felt that he was the only character i ever had real fun with, and even after i learned that i didnt need to complete every quest in proph, i did them anyway.

Some of our milestones were capturing his first elite; Barrage, gettin him his first set of elite armor; Elite druid, and finally taming a black widow in UW.

I miss him, and the good ol' GW days...

ryan__ryan

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2008

Canada

Vanquished Memories [VM]

Mo/

18 Dec 2008 at 02:56 - 49

my first character was a warrior....(i know..how typical).. i was a silly noob and made him really short because i thot it would make it a smaller target...
better yet, i was a w/e with starburst and aftershock. he had the good old Knights armor before insignias were invented... then i got a vamp q8 celestial sword! it was pretty intense but i hated the -1 degen so i went wammo with mending! However, this was a huge pain so i sold the sword which i may or may not regret because i forget the mods on it! After beating prophs i made a new character who is known as my monk who i have totally pimped out! now i use my warrior to farm minis!

Chocobo1

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2007

New Zealand

CoA

18 Dec 2008 at 03:28 - 50

Undead Priest, the best and the brightest of all Necromancers known to Guild Wars is my first character.

He has experienced everything in the game, from Pre Searing to Heros Ascent and has been my main focus in the game. From farming Sorrows Furnace upon release with 50 minions to smiting CoF. He really is the most amazing character. I remember the days of multi colored armor from Kryta being his main clothing of choice. Everything I have learned from Guild Wars has been learnt while using him. I think everyones first characters just mean a little bit more to them than other characters but never has a character kept me this entertained. He gives me the most options for anything I want to do and keeps me hooked on this game for hours on end.

This post is to show my love of my character, even confined to the realms of Guild Wars he is still the most special guy I know.

germanturkey

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

[PoW]

18 Dec 2008 at 04:23 - 51

My very first character and the one who has gotten the bulk of my playing hours is my elementalist, Cassandra Covzer. I tried to make her in the image of Cynn, whom I fell in love with after one glance at the cover art. I remember I couldn't think of a name at the time of creation, so I started thinking about girls in my class. So Cassie was a friend of mine, and so I chose her name. Covzer I just kind of made up because I couldn't come up with a proper last name. Lo and behold, all is good now.

She spent a lot of time in pre-searing. I'm pretty sure she mapped all of it. She was a beast with fire magic and roasted charr all day. Moving on to post searing, more stuff burned and was blown away by meteor shower. Going through the story was no problem because most groups back in the day were "LF NUKERS," which she had no problem joining. Then, that one faithful day, came the AOE AI update.. Her usefulness dropped a bit, but she was still loved. To this day, she's the only one who I've bought elite armors for.

Bobulation

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2008

USA

W/Mo

18 Dec 2008 at 05:24 - 52

Hmm.. my first character. That would be my pre monk, Bucking Fuffalos. Hes been in pre searing for a long time and will stay there. For a long time i just gave up at leveling him once he got to 13, because i was to lazy to do more, after getting him full black armor and really nice pre weapons, but recently i have decided to try to level my oldest character up to lvl 20 in pre, because thats the only thing in PvE that interests me in the slightest atm.

Angelica

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

Aussie land

Me/E

18 Dec 2008 at 06:34 - 53

I started to play GW when my son gave me the game as a present in May 2005.
I had never played a MMORPG before and I was a bit scared, but I found the GW community so very nice.

My first character was a warrior/ranger because I liked the opportunity to have a pet as companions. I still do not know how I survived because my playing was horrendous, I did not know about armours and green items and I was playing with the noob armour for a very long time, before I realized I could get a better one, but I learned and kept going on.

Angelica, my warrior, tried so many times to kill the doppleganger ....... till I got on my first Guild and thanks to guildies help I finally did get past him and completed the game.
I will never delete her she was my first and loved one, the one that drove me almost crazy, and made me smashing the keyboard when she was in the jungle getting lost all the time!

Some people think that I'm weird

because I'm playing online game at my age, but they do not know the fun they are missing!

By the way I'm a sixty two years old "Lady" and getting younger every day!

/Angelica

Kamara

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

Ponie Hill, Lion's Arch International

Blinkie Kaulitz Armie

18 Dec 2008 at 07:19 - 54

Happy Holidays!

My first character is still on my account, a Ranger by the name of Marla. She started her life with secondary of Elementalist because I wanted a pet and knew that Rangers handled them best, but I also wanted to lob spells at things.

From Ascalon to the Southern Shiverpeaks my Stalker, Kisa, joined me on my travels and my bar consisted of Charm + Comfort, a random prep, usually one that was terrible to the area: Poison when things couldn't be poisoned, Kindle when things were strong to fire damage. The rest of my bar was a mix of Fire, Air *and* Earth Magic (random memories of firestorm, meteor shower, whirlwind and stone daggers). I really don't know how I managed all of this, the energy needed for it and managed to kill anything. I should also point out that I did use a bow, not a staff.

The highlight of Bad-Marla's life though was doing Althea's Ashes with a low level guildie. We had just Alesia and Orion for company and they had DP'd out more times than I cared to count (we hadn't though). We were about to give up when I had an idea. Sneak up to the alter and drop Meteor Shower on them. Run away. Repeat.

Sure enough, the Charr all fell to my ranger's Meteor Shower save for one or two, but it was just enough to run up and grab the ashes. The quest that had sat on our quest log for three months was finally complete.

Thankfully I got better. A lot better. But man. They were some fun days and use these stories to tell new guildies that they will get better, and we all started off having no idea what the heck the pretty buttons do!

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Love the stories from everyone so far. Keep em coming

Sk00pZ

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2007

Ireland Derry

Mo/

18 Dec 2008 at 11:26 - 55

meeeeeeeeeee i would like a R9 Eternal Blade

Haxor

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2008

Legion of the Feng Huang [ASH]

18 Dec 2008 at 11:27 - 56

My very first character...

My first instinct is either my Assassin or my first monk (who has since been deleted), but after thinking for a few seconds, I realize these were all later.

My very first characters were created some 38 months ago, on a trial key I got from a friend of mine. I believe this was at the time that Factions was just coming out, although I can't say this for sure. After playing my two characters (Two ele's from Prophecies, one pre-searing, one post) for some time, I was bored with the profession. I switched to Factions, and made a new account. I didn't know you could add keys to your existing account at this time.

Thus, my ele's were sadly forgotten. Until a month or so ago. I picked up a copy of the GW Trilogy, for farming and storage purposes. I was thinking about which email I could use for this, when suddenly I remembered the password and email I had used over three years ago to create this trial account. I logged in, added the key and lo and behold, my two faithful ele's were still there! Both with 3 birthday presents sitting in their inventory, they had faithfully waited till the day I remembered my password and email, and added a new key.

With now a grand total of 20 hours spent on my very first character - an Ele/Mes who specced in Domination, Air, Energy Storage and fire magic (with no domination or air magic spells), I'm starting to remember. I remember thinking flare spam with Aura of Restoration was über damage, that Ether Feast (at 0 inspiration) was an epic heal. I remember dying time, time, and time again. Running in to, and using Lava Font on 'huge' groups. How impressed I was when someone ran me to Beacons Perch, past all those big, scary Charr who killed me all the time.

And, of course, I remember how I forgot about these characters. These fragments of my past, the product of my inner noob. How I moved on, started an assassin, and after dying each and every time I jumped in to a mob. Starting a monk, and failing at keeping anyone alive. Giving up on GW for several months, until an other friend dragged me back in to it, and finally, gradually getting better.

Good times, good times.

t00115577

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2007

Mo/

18 Dec 2008 at 13:30 - 57

My first character was my Necromancer Garik Lescar, he is now a mule but at one time he was my one and only character

I could never understand why people were saying 12 soul reaping was better than 12 fire magic, I mean flare and fire storm were so powerful

As soon as I realised how to be a necromancer he became an MM and rampaged through prophecies and factions before I decided to try another proffesion

So thats the story of my necromancer who now holds all my minipets

baltazar knight

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2007

Belgium

The Myth of Phoenix [Myth]

18 Dec 2008 at 13:53 - 58

oh my first char mhmm he got delete a longgg time ago.

I started playing gw when faction came out, i made an assassin i had alot of fun with it(i was a total noob then) it took me long times to get to the mainland, i made alot of friends who helped me with missions.

Favorite part of the character: one day i was in tahnnakai temple(very hard for me in that time)i went into a pug and they only had 1 monk they told me that they needed another monk instead of me but i convinced them that i would monk (sin/mo rofl) the mission went smooth!! At the end the pugs said that i did a rlly great job at healing! Pugs aren't that bad (well somethimes tho)

-Thank You

Necrosh

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2008

18 Dec 2008 at 14:01 - 59

First I want to thank you in advance for doing such giveaway in this xmas

My first character, I still keep it is my necromancer Rage of necrosh (dumby name

).
the first day,I created him like really fast, so I missed up some details,when I just got guildwars factions (not the greatest campaign to start

) when I was in the tutorial, I just went to shing jea... so I didn't learn really the basics of the game... then, there in shing jea, I took the necromancer quest and just followed up the way to the exit... there I was completely alone, and I spent all my attributes in soul reaping because I thought it was better to have a lot of energy, as "I was going to kill a lot of things", but when I encountered 2 mantids I wasn't able to kill them, using only a wand doesn't helps much. I stopped playing like for 2 days, and one of my friends came to my house, he saw the guild wars box and he told me to show him the game.

oh well, with a nooby accound and nothing interesting to do, I told him "why dont you buy the game? so maybe we can play together and do something interesting".

he liked the idea, and he bought factions, he created a ranger (his IGN is Nuy Gash)and I told him to do the tutorial because I didn't learn anything there and I was really confused, hehe I was in his house, the tutorial DID help us. then back on shing jea, there was a festival, we were Woow how cool, but we didnt know how to participate, so we lost the dragon mask

okay, there in shing jea monastery, we took all the quests including the one of the henchmen, we were really happy because we had a party of 4(with no monk T_T)
we did our different quests thogether(in some we got 60% penalty and just tried and tried XD) we did learn a lot during that time, and finally started to include the monks in our parties.

I hope you like my story

Miss Puddles

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

Shiverpeaks Search And Rescue [Lost]

Me/

18 Dec 2008 at 17:19 - 60

i shared an account with my (now ex) bf during beta, and my first character was a Me/R - Puddles McGee.
being newbtastic, i charmed a melandru's stalker and ran around with a bow, shooting arrows at everything in sight. i remember constantly getting trapped against buildings outside ashford abbey because my pet would glitch into a box or something nearby XD i thought power shot was the most awesome thing in the world and used it religiously. looking back, i wouldn't be surprised if i had put 0 attribute points into marksmanship at the time. those were the days, weren't they? *thoughtful sigh*
after release, i got my own account and had to give up my dear Puddles to be vengefully deleted by my ex :'(
she lives on in my current mesmer, Lydia Delgado, who can be seen on cold nights very much like this one, running into the distance with her pet spider, longbow in hand.
the end.

Ling

Ling-a-Ding-a-Dong

Join Date: Nov 2007

Playing GW2 on EU - FSP, pm me for contact details

Fellowship of the [Ling]

18 Dec 2008 at 18:00 - 61

I started playing GW in september 2007. I used to be a WoW addict, but the game had kinda lost my interest. Being interested in magic etc I decided to make an elementalist which I named Magic Ling. The magic part seem pretty obvious to me, and the Ling part because wow players often called me a chinese farmer (and Ling sounded pretty chinese to me :P). I've played this character for about 16 months now and haven't been tempted to change class yet. Of course I've given the other classes a few tries, especially the monk was fun in PvP. Nothing comes close to the fun you can have with an ele though ^^ So far I've made it to the Gwamm rank and am currently focussing more and more on the social part of the game. I usually sit in our guild hall chatting with people instead of actually doing missions and quests. Hit me up if you want a chat :P

Sorceress

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2007

vfa

E/Me

18 Dec 2008 at 18:08 - 62

Well Hi

My name is Sorceress Magus and im the first Char my creator made....Im an ele and im sooo like to nuke people..watching them burn as they run away gives me a buzz.Im surprised i was ever made tbh as my creator wasn't really into this kinda game and her Hubby introduced her to it (well Xhubby ..don't ask touchy subject) but i heard her admit to her guildies shes kinda addicted..lol..I think she doesn't have much money as i don't seem to have much clothing on most of the time and she makes me dance for entertainment but shes kinda cool.I watched a comp in guru which was brill and even won a mini comp (what can i say ..im a star in the making) Ive kinda attached it...*blush.Well of course i wouldn't use the set its self but my fellow char "dont u mess with me" will as hes her first warrior.

all the best

Sorceress Magus

X Shadow Reaper

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2008

18 Dec 2008 at 20:27 - 63

My first charr which i created couple months ago was a ele called S Deathmage(i know it sounds a bit like a necromancer) thinking i was cool but got a bit annoyed when i kept dying at the foot of a charr. At first, when i got to Post Searing i i didn't know the difference between a quest and a mission so i kept doing quests until this person from my guild came along and told me about missions and how they are more important than quests then gave me a( i know it's not much but that was the thing best someone has done for me online) Temple Guardian and helped me get to LA, though at first when people said about running to LA i kept thinking why would someone want a run to Los Anglos.

And thats mostly it about my first and i still have him AND most important thing

MERRY CHRISTMAS(WINTERSDAY)!

IronSheik

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2008

Wolfenstein: Goldrush

Zombies Go Nom Nom [Nom]

18 Dec 2008 at 20:44 - 64

Hmm, Last Christmas my Girlfriend bought the game to play with her in the sparetime when I was away on business trips.

I made a Character named Ubber Man in Prophecies, since that is a tag I had for years across many games. I made an Elementalist, and my girl helped me go through and I decided to be a monk secondary profession, I figure I can kill shit and heal myself, win win. So I ran around ascalon using Retirbution on all four of my teammates and always wondered why I never got anymore energy. This went on for about a month sitting there hoping retribution killed things.

I played through the game not knowing about elites and when I finally made it to droks I begged around for 5k and the materials to buy 1k armor, and then another 2k to buy red dyes at the trader.

Not until the fire islands did I realize you has attribute points to put into skills, that 50 damage flare sure beat the 5 damage.

He was the first character to get my obsidian on, and still to this day have the same 1k armor with random insignias on it, although not my main, the best character I got.

And my girlfriend dumped me a month after I started ;D

Happy Kwanzaa!

elegost stormrage

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2007

The Swiss Alpes i manage a Bed and Breakfast with the Mrs. Clause

Dobos fight club [DoBo]

P/A

18 Dec 2008 at 22:25 - 65

My first character I ever made was Elegost Stormrage, it was 2 years ago in december that i went to a christmas party at my cuzins. We played video games and stuff until i noticed the "Guild Wars Prophcies" case hanging out of the cabnit. So i asked them and they explained to my that the game didnt work on their computer and i could have it. so i took it home and installed it, when i finaly loaded up the game i thought I always choose rangers, maybe this time i should choose an elementilist. But i quickly tossed the thought aside and made a ranger. I leveled through propchies eggerly waiting to leave and when i finaly got to post i relized the game was bigger then i thought. I played through prochpies getting runs to yaks to LA joining guilds (leaving them of course :P) until the nightfall expansion came out. So after enjoying the game so much i had to get the nightfall expansion. I played through the nightfall expansion and made a whole bunch of characters along the way. But nothing beat Elegost. And now two years later i finaly got my Obby armor and Im almost done completing my ranger, even though i have 7 other chars my ranger is my favorite.

Merry Wintersday!

Dante the Warlord

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2006

W/R

18 Dec 2008 at 23:06 - 66

I was inspired by Ilfated Fat to post this, since I don't believe I have a chance to get the eternal set based to the colorful histories that have been provided for so many chars. But I still want this =).

My first character was named Tanya Grevious. She was a female war who was really short and very plain. I didn't like her much so i eventually deleted her. But that was my favorite character not because of her weapons or armor or even her appearance. I liked it because she was the one character that me and my bro shared when we first bought GW. Up until then, my bro was really distant to me because of a huge age gap, but then and there we found one game we could play together. I had a blast sharing the game with him until he eventually got his own account.

In light of deleting her, I made another character named Lady Grevious in her memory. Unfortunately I don't use her really and she acts as a mule.

I don't know how to paste pics =(.

Ghostcell

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2006

=VX9=

N/Mo

19 Dec 2008 at 02:12 - 67

I started playing 32 months ago.
My first character was a necromancer, i was looking through the instruction booklet at all the different classes, as my mum drove me home from EB games.
Anyway I remember either reading, or seeing a picture of a necromancer being able to raise minions. OH MY GOD! i could have an army of minions! that would be awesome! yep a necromancer is what i'll make.
so i start off choosing what i thought looked cool for a character, and of course having no idea what I was doing I made a lot of mistakes starting up.
I went /Me in presearing, thinking that arcane echo was an absolute skill of wonder. Well it took me, hmmmm near on 60 hours (maybe more) of playing to get him to 20, got stuck in places along the way. went for a long time without doing the 15 atrb. point quests. then factions comes out and my necro went in the corner for a while, but i brought him back in due time and placed him through factions, managed to finish off prophecies with him, got him elite luxon armor. made a little progress through NF and eotn with him, but during that time i made my ele, who is my main so my necromancer has drifted back into the corner

Dirty Panda

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2005

California

Order of TeH Cookie [NIBL]

Mo/

19 Dec 2008 at 02:19 - 68

Lets see....my first character was a warrior named Dirty Panda. Made him a small as possible and grabbed necro as his secondary after I heard of these awesome things called minions. I mean a big strong warrior and his undead buddies bashing on you is pro amirite?
So needless to say I soon realized this was an awful idea and changed to /Mo when i reached the desert and proceeded to load my bar with mending and HH and the like to help myself reach new levels of awesome.
I still have that lil' guy, though my builds have gotten better (hopefully) and I don't plan on ever deleting him if for nothing else then just the many memories he represents, plus it helps remind me we were all noobs once, some (me) more than others though.

Happy Holidays and good luck to everyone

Nerull

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

LaZy

Me/E

19 Dec 2008 at 04:17 - 69

My first charactor was a W/N named Valdis Deathbringer, I wish I could change his last name. I bought the game 3 weeks after it came out, so he has been around for a long time. I have always been heavy into farming just about anything that would make me some $$$. Valdis has 3,664,446 XP and 173 unused skill points. He has completed Prophecies and Nightfall. I bought Factions about 8 months ago but got bored with it and quit playing, I recently have started playing again... so much has changed since I last logged on. Currently Valdis is wearing Primeval Armor with a Spatha and Crimson Carapace Shield... my FoW Spider farming equipment

It seems that all I did was farm but was always broke because guildies were in need and I liked to help them out. Whatever it takes to make friends happy... even if it's just in a video game.

Merry Christmas to everyone!!!!

YunSooJin

Pyromaniac

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/W

19 Dec 2008 at 04:31 - 70

first character:
Crystania Khaelzyr

1067AE, Season of the Scion
As written by Symon the Scribe of Ascalon:

The Khaelzyrs were a long line of merchant/alchemists stuck firmly in the middle class of Ascalon. Taltrus Khaelzyr, Crystania's father, was more of an alchemist than a trader, a fact that eventually led to his demise. Although the details of what transpired is a mystery, it is certain Taltrus was fiddling with alchemic forces outside of his realm of control. The resulting explosion of might and magic wiped out most of his family, physically and mentally scarring the remainder. Crystania survived, but with a touch of madness and prolific magical powers.

The fey magicks that Taltrus had unwittingly released did more than damage the survivors; it changed them. Through the course of a fortnight, the house's lone butler became as spun mist, fading into another plane of existence. One of their youngest maids gained formidable psionic powers; another simply grew an extra set of arms. Crystania was found shaking like a leaf, as if the magickal cyclone had threatened to extinguish her life spirit. There was more than met the eye to her condition however, she herself was colder than icy rain during the winter solstice. Although by all accounts Crystania should have frozen to death, in the course of a week her body returned to normal. Concurrent to her recovery, a startling change manifested in her appearance. Along with her eyes, her once long auburn hair faded into a light azure, her skin paling into alabaster. She was eventually given over to relatives of a more sorcerous persuasion.

Over the years, Crystania turned into an elementalist of great repute, not in small part to her childhood tragedy, if gossip is to be believed. Those who have worked with her, and who do not wish to be identified, say they never do feel comfortable around her, for within her eyes they sense a flicker of the insane magick that has been both a boon and a curse.

Luca Firestorm

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2007

E/

19 Dec 2008 at 04:57 - 71

Luca Firestorm
He was born a long time ago (40 months to be precise). Luca managed to hone his skills in Ascalon where he mastered the spell firestorm. With this skill he dominated his adversaries for ages to come, for this was before fiends and foes evolved to run away from such spells. In fact, it must have been a long forgotten ancestor of Luca's that initially discovered it. After the searing he had a great amount of help from his friend, the veteran Rain E, who aided Luca to fight the Char and forewarned Luca not to enter the jungle. Instead they journeyed along the tropical coast eating drakes and imps. Luca then ascended by easily outsmarting his doppleganger and confronted the greatest beast known to mankind: the Dragon Glint. After a greuling battle, our hero and his comrades come out victorious. Once in the fire islands, Luca then learnt of two new powerful spells that played key roles in his life: meteor shower and elemental attunement.
From there, Luca spent his life aiding others in their ordeals and continued to strive to push the boundaries of humanity. Collaborating with a well known guild, he managed to defeat Kanaxi in less than half an hour. It is also known that he played a key role in the mastery of Shadow Form by elementalists. Any records of his life past this point are yet to be found.

netniwk

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2005

Bellgium

W/E

19 Dec 2008 at 11:31 - 72

Not here for the sword, but that's pretty awesome of you

jeutie

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2007

Wervik, Belgium

The Lore School [GWen]

R/

19 Dec 2008 at 14:06 - 73

Well, It all started a good 3 years ago,
Me being stupid, I made a female Ranger, and named her Lord Jeutie

My English was so bad, I didn't even notice that,
I continued playing and had loads of fun
My first birthday present?! Oh God, I was so happy with that Jungle Troll
The months come and go, and I finally managed to beat Prophecies

Then Factions cane out, A blessing... Cause I didn't even know what farming was,
So basicly I was done with Guild Wars I thought, Well after buying Factions & beating that...
Buying Nightfall and beating that, Buying EOTN and beating that xD
I already knew what farming was, but I didn't like it (And still don't)
Powertrading wasn't an option either, So I did some PVP and helped my guildies out

I was poor, But I managed to buy my first 15k armor, I was so happy
Also, My first Guild Wars event, was so cool, All these nice things happened to me on GW

I had this 'Pwning' build (The barrage/pet build) Yes, I was very newbish still after a year
Me and a few mates went to beat Urgoz, My first good drop! Urgoz Longbow
I still love the skin.

But, well I was kinda fed up that all the players in my Guild were so rich!
I didn't have more then 10k, But one of my rich Guild mates decided to give me fow
Dude, I was in shock! Fow armor, Me?!

Well, It all passed, And I'm still playing and enjoying Guild Wars
But, My Ranger doesn't do much any more aside trapping.
Yes, it's sad, But Guild Wars has more to offer then just 1 ranger

I made a new character, My monk...
Doing things original (NOT!) a small as possible monk'ie
With the most original name 'Omg I Healed Kenny'
I'm still busy to get her trough Nightfall...
Prophecies, Factions and EOTN are already done, Still I don't farm with her, And I'll never do...
She wears her Labyrinthine Armor which goes perfectly together with the Deldrimor weapons.

Having an Eternal Sword and Shield would be just awesome!
She would totally rock with it!

Also I made an Necro (Perma-Pre) first time I heard about that in 3 years
Her name is 'Omg I Cursed Kenny' I still have a lot to learn about perma-pre's but well...
She is level 10, and has already got her first Charr Bag, I'm so happy!
Wielding an Hourglass Staff she kicks all those charr asses!

Well, This was my story briefly (I could go on for hours ) I hope I have a chance winning this,
And my best wishes for all of you in 2009 (And in this contest too )

Pointless Intent

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2008

Scotland, UK

Passionate Kiss Of The Kurzicks [KISS]

A/

19 Dec 2008 at 14:52 - 74

My first character was my assassin, a male sin. I just started around 9/10 months ago and almost deleted him as he just seemed to die all the time . it took a while to find the right build and now hes completed all campaigns and EotN. The next goal is to get some maxed titles as he only has one

GL everyone

Shasgaliel

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2008

[bomb]

19 Dec 2008 at 15:25 - 75

My story is weird since it is all a big set of random events. So I got this game as present for well passed exams having no idea what this game was about. With opening the box the first shock came. It is an online one!? I decided to install internet connection just to be able to try it. It took two days and here I come. Second shock come when I had to name the character. I took character name randomly created in warhammer which I was using in many games and was unable to use it in gw since two words were needed.... So I added first letter of alphabet. So we have Shasgaliel A. Third shock came when I log in and noticed that those people running mindlessly around in pre-ascalon are not npc but real players...

Shasgaliel A had an extreme depression when he realized that he probably will be not a good soldier for sir Tydus and he will not help Ascalon, it came after being slain by a single river scale 3rd time in a row.... Now almost 4 years later he beaten everything which could be beaten in gw. And even today I still get pms why the hell I chose such a stupid name for my main character.

beserk

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2008

UK

W/

19 Dec 2008 at 18:51 - 76

My first char.......well......he is my only char xD <3333 gutz!!! I have been with him since a friend gave me a buddy key and made him in the 10hr proph free trial...decided i loved the game so bought the complete set and been playing with him ever since .

Note: I DONT WANT THE ETERNAL SET IM FILTHY RICH

Also some ppl really need to get out more, they are writing essay length posts for an ingame item =/

McMullen

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

R/W

19 Dec 2008 at 19:52 - 77

Love the stories in the thread so far, might as well share the story of my first character.

My first character was called "Mcullen The Archer", then I realised I missed a letter, deleted him and created "Mcmullen The Archer". As you can guess he's a ranger and has 41 months of experience under his belt, I had a firm idea in my head that he would have a warrior as his secondary profession so he could pull in enemies with his bow, then whip out a sword and go to town on the bad guys. At first, this dodgy attribute and skill spread worked (because you'd pretty much have to agro half of Ascalon to struggle with the first part of the game), and by some sort of miracle I even got as far as the crystal desert with this dodgy mix.

(clicky the thumbnail)
As you can see, my bar then consisted of skills from 4 different attributes (and I think I probably had points in expertise, which made it 5 attributes I put points into) yet I somehow soldiered on and made it to the southern shiverpeaks which is when I decided to ditch my sword and pet and put everything into marksmanship. I did however find something in the warrior skill-line useful, frenzy. At the time expertise effected all skills so I could spam it almost constantly, coupled with a newly acquired flatbow and the skill read the wind I was firing out arrows at stupendous speed from long range with no energy problems at all, then I got hit with spectral agony while under frenzy...
After that harsh lesson I took a cancle stance with me and made careful use of the skill.

When factions finally came about the first thing I did was take my ranger to AB, at the time many people were using assassins who had the skill Mirrored Stance in their default builds, I was still abusing frenzy at the time and was having great fun with assassins who used that hex on me.

(thumbnail again, using a PvP character instead though since my PvE ranger didn't have 200 attribute points at the time).
Another pic of my frenzy abusing times:

Eventually, expertise was nerfed so that the only non-ranger skills that were effected by expertise was attacks. Although it may not seem like such a big problem, it did cause some hefty energy problems when skills were spammed.
After that, I finally ditched the idea of using Frenzy and started to explore other secondaries.

Anyways, my ranger lived happily ever afterwards and didn't use any crappy builds ever again.

Codin The Great

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2008

You will never know!!!!

Guardians of Hades [GoH]

W/E

19 Dec 2008 at 20:09 - 78

My first character is a warrior from prophicies back in 2005.

His name is Codin the Great. He is my favorite of all characters. He was given birth from Ascalon and was born a killer warrior to serve King Rurik(which i later find out he dies in prophicies.) He has completed every single campaign including EoTN. He loves great hikes on the beach jk :P. Ive played him most of the time rather than my other characters. he has been thru helping out the Kurzicks in Alliance battles(r5). For some reason melee is my favorite thing to do in every game. I like to be a beast and be the heavy duty man in every single game. This is my breif summary of my warrior.

idk if u need my IGN but here it is. Codin the Great

Good luck to all and HAVE A MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Davy

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

Europe

Mo/

20 Dec 2008 at 16:17 - 79

My first character was a monk. Not because i like to heal, or even to support a party, i saw a firend of mine make a W/Mo and i didnt want to copy him so i made a....you guessed right a Mo/W.
I was so happy when i found my first tactics shield so i could actually have some defense in the ascalon arena till lvl 10, i thought that was where the game ended for me. Until I dicovered there was an area passed Ascalon. It took me 20 tries before I got past The Frost Gate. But I didn't give up, I was going to show the world a monk with smiting and sword skills could kill stuff just as well as a warrior (I even never used henchies till i got to ruins of surmia).
Then by the time I got to the desert i found out monks are supposed to heal and could never get over 60 armor, I was so ticked off I made a warrior and completely ignored my monk.
I played every profession, finished entire campaigns with them, put most of them in elite armor and yet... something felt wrong. I dusted up my monk and now Mighty Galaxa has all the armour, skills and titles a monk could long for and she has by far the most hours played on.

I just love my monk!

Lawliet Kira

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2006

E/Me

20 Dec 2008 at 23:57 - 80

My first ever character was a paragon, i still remember his name...Goku sjj four i started playing gw the first day nightfall came out, i had no idea what i was doing, first im like wait wtf? why does my guy have a skirt on, then i thought to myself, o well, its just the beginning, im gonna get pants sooner or later, so as i progressed through the game, i scraped up 2k, i remember i was in jokanur diggings, and said "Wtb good weapon" so im like ooo yeaaaa....so guy offered me a hammer, a green hammer, apparently worth crap and i didnt know...so i bought it, and realized later...paragons dont wear hammers...after i got done half way thru the game, i realized...i wasnt getting any pants..so i gave up with my paragon, deleted him, and created a derv...