Guild Wars

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph


Yes, I am a pervert and play cross-gender. No, I don't care.

I usually play female characters. I tend to find that gender in character choosing is best if you go with "how you play" that character - a female character if you're either a passive healer/buffer or a debuffer, a male character as a hyperaggressive warrior or a nuker. It's horribly stereotypical, but it means people are more likely to figure you for the role you actually play ... and I'm not very aggressive, usually, so hence I play mostly female characters (excepting my male Corporal Carrot W/Mo)...

[Kassiopeia]

I don't play females, because one of my friends I play with would keep harassing me and making disturbing comments. OTOH, it would certainly convince him that no, people with female toons are NOT female IRL...

[Snotty]

Mostly if Im playing a female char, its because I prefer looking at a pixelated fit bird, instead of a buff bloke.

[DrSpike]

Both my necro and my PvE Ele are female characters, though those are the only 2.

[Harovan]

After I saw my character in her foxy Ele outfit, I felt the constant urge to pollute my monitor. Just kidding, of course.

I know now, what a Searing is. Got up to level 9 by now. Made the big jump at 8, already. Managed to sell my dyes (except green) for several k, had my pyromancer outfit made and dyed in green (Mytilma has always been the green mage) and have runed bags and a storage.

First missions accomplished also, still not guilded. Exploring a big wasteland. A bit of a disappointing view after seeing the beautiful nature pre-searing. Not that my Elementalist would mind it, but I am sure, my ranger will.

[snoopy369]

I honestly don't recommend guilding until you're WELL into the missions, if not nearly ascending. Odds are, by the time you've done some of the truly harder missions, you'll end up finding a few folks that are in a single guild (and doing missions together). They'll be somewhat competent. There you go (Any guild that doesn't do missions together isn't a very good guild ...)

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
After I saw my character in her foxy Ele outfit, I felt the constant urge to pollute my monitor. Just kidding, of course.

Yes, the criterion used for the female outfits seems to be the less the better. In fact, the more expensive your armour, the skimpier it becomes.

[Harovan]

Ok, we had a holiday today and I got Mytilma up to level 12. Just got Fireball in a Frontier Gate quest. I rarely group (doing 75% with NPC henchmen), but if I group, I noticed, that my DPS is absolutely insane compared with everyone else. Still using Flare as spam-DD, it's cheap (5 energy only), can be instantly recast and does a nice damage. Fireball is my newly acquired AE DD, also still using Fire Storm as AE DoT and Lava Font as PBAE DoT, although the latter two slowly lose effectiveness. Hope I get some new DoTs soon.

I distributed my points evenly between Energy storage and Fire Magic. I may respec toward air at some point, but so far I am fine with fire.

[snoopy369]

You'll get Meteor and Meteor shower soon. Those are nice.

For PvE, most of the game you can stay fire. Only really post-asencion do many elementals go air ... but post-ascencion it's very useful

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
Ok, we had a holiday today and I got Mytilma up to level 12. Just got Fireball in a Frontier Gate quest. I rarely group (doing 75% with NPC henchmen), but if I group, I noticed, that my DPS is absolutely insane compared with everyone else. Still using Flare as spam-DD, it's cheap (5 energy only), can be instantly recast and does a nice damage. Fireball is my newly acquired AE DD, also still using Fire Storm as AE DoT and Lava Font as PBAE DoT, although the latter two slowly lose effectiveness. Hope I get some new DoTs soon.

I distributed my points evenly between Energy storage and Fire Magic. I may respec toward air at some point, but so far I am fine with fire.

Hehe yes, ueber dmg is what eles are for, and you get some awesome spells right at the start so there is no need to work up to a great build. The mesmer DoT becomes less and less effective as I said and you'll probably drop the ele ones where you have to be close later when you get more good ranged skills. Staying at the back when you face big groups is better. You do get more fire based ranged DoTs at the end though which are nice.

[Barinthus]

Apparently there is one 'town' area in which you can find players' dead bodies. Can you identify where this is?

[Main_Brain]

Lvl 17? My Guess is on Jungle

Support: + No Elite Skills (yet)
+ Mission City

Antithesis: - Interior does more look like the Desert Towns

[Harovan]

Played the whole evening. Did both quests in Nolani Academy and all in and around Yak's Bend. Got a fun group there, 3 Eles, 2 Necros and 1 Mesmer. No primary or secondary tank, and only one secondary healer. Did everything with overwhelming firepower.

After this, I made the way to Borlis Pass with only NPC henchmen. Got to Level 13, with only 10-15% left to 14.

[Barinthus]

Nope, Main_Brain

[Harovan]

After I posted the above, I logged in again (yep, I am a fool who starts missions at 2am) and ported back to Great Northern Wall and Frontier Gate, in both of which I still lacked the bonus missions. Hey, I'm trying to get done everything. I realize, that this game does not have the depth and dimension of a real MMORPG, so I have to take what I get, but it is fun to play and very so.

In GNW I grouped up with a level 18 elementalist who, like myself, was just out for the bonus. We hired the NPC tank and healer, which we could have not done, since both are level 3 and of no help against the sorry mobs we get there and often were nuked to death by 2 mages even before our tank arrived in melee range. We did the bonus mission in like 20 minutes, after which I went to Frontier Gate.

It was almost completely empty (sure, a European district at 2:30am) except for a lone female, dancing in her underwear. It appears at least, that I am not the only pervert in this game. I decided to have a break. After I returned with a beer, three types had shown up and were about to start the mission. They were all three in the same guild and invited me in both the group and guild, which I accepted.

The mission and bonus was done in about 30 minutes, no wonder with a level 20 ranger on board. They seem to be nice guys and good players. I will look in the next days how it plays out. The only two things, that buggered me a bit, were their uninspired names and the fact, that they didn't call me Mytilma and not even Myt or so, but simply Ele. Could as well mean elephant. Guess that's something I have to get used to. I wouldn't call myself "Teh Kickass Nuker", most others however seem not to have problems with such unimmersive behavior. Hey, but their cape looks great!

Oh, and I am level 14 now, too. One week after creating the character.