User:GW-Skogul



= The Real Person =

In real life, I'm Asia; an adult female originally from California, now living in Massachusetts. I am engaged and work as a clerk at a video store for slave wages. I fancy myself an illustrator and amateur webdesigner, although I haven't done much art at all in the past year or so. Shame on me.

I am also the parent of a male Pembroke Welsh Corgi named Spider and an enthusiastic supporter of the breed and of dogs in general. I own two cats, but they are inconsequential. :)

= The GW Person =

To my knowledge, I've been playing Guild Wars since the summer of 2005. I tried it out after seeing a couple of friends of mine get it and give it good reviews. I was also getting a bit jaded with the grindtastic nature of Ragnarok Online (which was my MMO of choice at the time) and wasn't quite able to justify paying $12 USD a month for it.

So, I got it and enjoyed it, and even converted a friend over to it, except for the fact that my computer at the time was far too low-end to really handle GW, even with all the settings as low as possible. So, I took a break from GW until I could regularly access a computer capable of running the game reasonably well.

I returned around the release of Factions, which renewed my interest in the game and was the killing blow for my patronage of Ragnarok Online. However, I was only able to enjoy GW by hijacking my fiance's computer, which was much better than mine, and this did not go over well with him. So, I took yet another break until I could afford a decent computer to replace mine a couple of months later. Around this time, I returned and played off and on until Nightfall's release, which spurred me into playing very regularly and eventually I acquired Nightfall as a Christmas gift.

Overall, I'd like to say I'm proficient at this game. I am not an expert, by any means, and don't claim to be. In some aspects, despite being an off-and-on player, I am still relatively "noobish". I do not own any sets of 15k armor, I only possess three green items and, of my 10 character slots, only 5 are level 20 and of those 5, only 3 are properly ascended in their respective campaigns.

= Playstyle =

In general, for questing and most missions in Prophecies and Nightfall, I prefer to use henchies/heroes instead of PUGs. I've had far too many bad experiences with random players and am usually able to meet objectives just fine on my own. In cases where I can't quite manage, I enlist the help of members of my guild or friends before turning to random groups.

= Characters =

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