User:M47715c00l

These aren't the droids you're looking for.

Some people are into PvP. Some people are into titles. I like cool armor and piles of loot... see below.

Yahweh Creator (Level 20 Necromancer) -- SS or MM Armor: Necromancer Ascended Kurzick Armor, dyed blood-red (blue + green + purple + remover; no longer possible) SS gear: Wayward Wand (Curses) and Villnar's Glove MM gear: Bloodstained Boots; Wayward Wand (Death) and Armind's Focus, or Konrru's Fervor (+27e) and Bazzr's Wail (+15e) Wishlist: Dye Remover (to make more blood-red necro armor); Necromancer Ascended Luxon Armor (undecided) Todo: Finish Nightfall campaign Notes: 81 energy on an MM is insane. And fun. The -2 energy regen doesn't hurt during fights, because of Soul Reaping. (Update: like every other good thing in Guild Wars, ArenaNet nerfed Soul Reaping, so this doesn't work nearly as well anymore.) This character's name is not a reference to God. A friend originally created the character; his game nickname prefix was "Yahweh" for a while, and this character was intended to be an MM, a creator of minions.

Pwnage Pony (Level 20 Monk) -- Healer Armor: Monk Ascended Kurzick Armor, dyed black Healer gear: Gold wand with +5e^50 and The Stonehart Wishlist: Maxed-out green or gold healing wand. Considerate PuGs... but that's probably asking too much. Todo: Continue Nightfall campaign Notes: Many enemies in Grenth's Footprint and Sorrow's Furnace have Strip Enchantment or Shatter Enchantment. Spammed enchants like Vigorous Spirit and Healing Breeze are often worse than useless. When running healer for a BP group, the only enchant I take is Holy Haste. I make up for the lack of enchants with speed and timing. The name was stolen from a friend's Xbox hostname.

Arianna Moonlight (Level 20 Ranger) -- B/P, Trapper or Runner (using the Lutgardis FFF R/A build) Pet: Dire Crane, named "Dire Wuss" Armor: Ranger Ascended Canthan Armor, dyed white BP gear: Gold req8 15^50 Stormbow, dyed silver, or Ironwing Longbow Trapper gear: Handsmasher Runner gear: Gardock's Staff (for R/A, to extend Shadow Form) Wishlist: Tormented Longbow; Ranger Obsidian Armor (undecided) Todo: Continue Nightfall campaign Notes: Glad I finally made a ranger; versatile and fun to play. "Arianna" means "Silver" in Welsh.

Is Somethin Burning (Level 20 Elementalist) -- Nuker, Solo Boss Farmer Armor: Elementalist Obsidian Armor, dyed white Nuker gear: Rago's Flame Staff, or a maxed gold Fire wand and The Kindlerock Solo gear: Galigord's Stone Staff Wishlist: I just got Obsidian armor... dunno what else. Todo: Continue Nightfall campaign Notes: The name is a quote from the Firebat unit, in StarCraft. The 'g' was omitted due to the 19-character length restriction.

Crymanwr Milain (Level 12 Dervish) Armor: Dervish Sunspear Armor, dyed red + orange (from Consulate Docks (Location)) Todo: Level 13 Notes: The name means "Grim Reaper" in Welsh.

I don't buy much besides armor. I bought a Villnar's Glove shortly after I started farming The Underworld, and I traded a Gordac's Hook Blood to a guildie in exchange for an Armind's Focus. I farmed all the other greens I have, including Rago's Flame Staff. I looted the Stormbow in UW with Yahweh, in late summer 2006 I think. It sat in the Xunlai Agent's box for months before I created Arianna to wield it.

Real life: Matt (probably a monk... all I do is fix other people's mistakes. Level 23) Armor: 1998 Nissan 240SX SE, dyed dark green Gear: Home-built 2.0GHz Athlon 64 3200+ with 1GB Kingston ECC, Sapphire Radeon X850XT Todo: Get a Life (TM). Work on my car. Have fun. Wishlist: An MMORPG/CORPG that doesn't suck, because Guild Wars is getting crappier by the day.

I play PvE pretty much exclusively. I've tried RA a few times and failed miserably. How can I gradually get into PvP? Is there an arena for players with meager PvP skills (as opposed to arenas for low-level characters)?

Warning: gripes and/or rants may follow.

People come up with cool ideas, and then ArenaNet makes the ideas useless. For example, another player explained to me how to achieve the Spearmarshal title. Shortly afterwards, ArenaNet nerfed the tactic he gave me, and now they've added another level to the title track, which is probably impossible to achieve. What's the point in a title if you can't earn it? More examples: the Skill Hunter title track. Aggro-tanking in general (the so-called "Spiteful Spirit nerf" right before Nightfall was released). Even blood-red dye (see my comment towards the bottom). I wish ArenaNet would leave the game alone, so we could achieve the goals they've given to us!

Update: Now they've attenuated Soul Reaping, and severely crippled various minion master builds. I discovered and improved the UW SS/SV+AV build and associated strategy before I discovered GuildWiki, and ArenaNet broke that in October with the aggro/tanking nerf. Once I got over that nerf, I developed my own very effective MM strategy, and now they've broken it too. What really doesn't make any sense to me is they reduced the energy cost of some of the minion spells, as if that would compensate for ruining the Soul Reaping functionality. That kind of widespread game-mechanics rape belonged in the beta, not 2 years into the game. Why are they doing it now? I have an idea! Isaiah Cartwright, why don't you just destroy everything in our (recently enlarged) storage accounts, and randomly delete one of our characters? Maybe all of them! This will cause all the experienced, creative PvE players to quit, leaving plenty of room for the idiots and newbies to take over. Now that's game balance.

ArenaNet doesn't want people to farm (there's an in-game message discouraging farming), but they've created a game that has a huge number of enormous sinks for gold: runs, alcohol for Drunkard titles, keys for chests, character armor, runes for character armor, character weapons, hero armor, runes for hero armor, hero weapons, and in the case of Razah, the hero itself. There's also Luxon/Kurzick faction farming, for the faction titles. Collectively, these represent a giant inconsistency between ArenaNet's words and actions. Yes, farming is repetitive and boring for some people. Other people enjoy it, and enjoy wheeling and dealing afterwards. Let them have their fun. (Who am I kidding? Let us have our fun!)

There's no in-game auction system. Consequently, I've wasted countless hours trying to buy and sell things using the trade chat; and scams are common. ArenaNet claims to keep chat logs; why don't they keep trade logs too? ArenaNet's excuse is that adding an auction system is "more difficult to do than the community understands", or something like that. What I understand is that they're wasting time nerfing things in the game that work fine, instead of fixing the things that are broken. The pile of platinum that I lost because of a bug in their wretched trade system is still gone; they've refused to give it back. "We're not responsible for any lost gold or items, for any reason." Can I hold you responsible for days and months of frustration?