User:Qrystal12541

I joined GuildWiki mostly out of love for the way wiki communities work so well. What better way to express my appreciation than by becoming a contributor! So, here I am.

See Also:
 * User:Qrystal/Characters - my Guild Wars characters in detail
 * User:Qrystal/Links - these are a collection of links I'm using for myself
 * User:Qrystal/InProgress - stuff on GuildWiki that I'm working on

My Guild Wars existence
I am fairly new to Guild Wars, having just purchased Prophecies in August of 2006. I generally play only once or twice a week, and my significant other also loves Guild Wars... too bad we don't have two game-capable computers! I do enjoy spending time here at GuildWiki while he's playing, though.

I play only PvE so far, but once I'm more confident I'm sure I'll get into PvP. I loved PvP in my old days of playing text-based RPGs (specifically, at a MUD called Aarchon).

Campaigns
I only have the Prophecies Campaign so far. I will purchase Nightfall next, but not for awhile I'm sure (since I'm barely halfway through Prophecies, and have two PvE characters with which I'm working through the story). I'm happy knowing that Factions is available once I'm in need of expanding my Guild Wars world, but it's third in the priority list for me.

Characters
I play as the following Characters:
 * Scarlett Carmine (N/Me)
 * Jade Viridia (R/E)
 * Violet Wisteria (Me/Mo)

I've been enjoying naming all my characters after colours! See my User:Qrystal/Characters page for more details.

Guild: Nobilis Est Regnum Dragonis [NERD]
"Noble is the Kingdom of the Dragon" Established: April 2, 2007 Leader: Aithne Solana  (my sister)

Explanation of Name: We wanted something that would spell out [NERD], but something that has a cool and interesting meaning. We decided Dragons are the epitome of cool, so the D would have to stand for Dragon. We tossed around ideas for quite some time, but then it hit me: Latin is cool AND nerdy!! Now, I realize that the word Draconis would be more correct, as the Latin word for dragon is actually draco and thus its genitive case would be draconis... but draco also connotes snake, from what I've read, and it sounds kinda like draconian which has other implications like cruelty or harshness. We pondered the difference between the sound of the two choices... Dragonis vs Draconis... and decided to go with Dragonis.  Cape: My vote was for something without colour, because my characters are each themed around a different colour. So, black and white and grey and silver were all okay... and what you see on the right is the final decision! :)  Purpose: So far, its main purpose is for me to communicate with my sister if we're not grouped together.  We haven't thought much about what we stand for, except the awesomeness of Dragons.  Neither of us were interested in being a part of a big guild, and GvG is a very distant dream.  We just wanted some kind of interesting name to be associated with our characters, and a cape, because cape design seemed like fun.  Guild Hall:  We'll probably eventually aim to get a Guild Hall, because some of them do look pretty cool.  My favourite so far is the Isle of Weeping Stone, but my sister had two others that she liked that she suggested I check out.  So, we'll see!

Attitude

 * I love exploring, and occasionally go off by myself with some henchmen so I can accomplish this. I love it when I am fortunate enough to be partnered with a person who feels the same way!


 * I love being a part of a good party that works well together. When I'm low level, I hate being rushed through an area by level 20's uber-pwning everything before I get to help.


 * I love the fact that I can play with my sister, who lives 5 hours away!!


 * I love trying to understand the game mechanics, and seeing how the Guild Wars developers have handled various tricky aspects of multiplayer gaming. This stems from my previous existance at Aarchon, when I was an immortal who helped with programming.  I love learning, in general, which is probably why I love GuildWiki so much... it has already helped me learn so much about the game!!


 * I am semi-social when I am in a group: I like to comment on things a lot, but I don't care to know where everyone's from, or junk like that.  I guess, in a sense, I like the roleplaying aspect... the things I say are often perfectly reasonable things that Scarlett Carmine might say (except if I'm commenting on some aspect of game mechanics).


 * I hate spam of any sort. I hate that selling items seems to have to be done via spamming of the information, and I hate when people spam many times in a row just to get themselves heard.  I hate that guild recruiting is done this way too.  Most of all, I HATE ALL CAPS. :P


 * I also get annoyed when people are announcing that they are looking for a group, and they don't say anything about themselves. The first question that comes to mind when someone is looking for a group is what level and profession they are.  As soon as I realized that I wonder that, I started including my info when I'm announcing LFG.

Other Stuff
I am also Qrystal at Wikipedia.