User talk:Katy kraft

Hello. I am not a consistent player of Guild Wars, but when I do play I play often. I got the original game about two months after it was released, and got my W/N (named after my username) to Level 8. However, having done all the Ascalon quests, I was kind of "stuck". So, I stopped playing the game for a while.

When I came back, the name was changed for Prophecies, as Factions had been released. Then I learned about things called Missions. LOL. This allowed me to get out of Ascalon and start actually going somewhere in the game. I joined a guild, got a run to Droknar's Forge, then power-levelled up to 15. From there, I did all the missions and quests of Tyria (I literally did every one, one after the other) until I got Ascended and beat the Dragon (Glint). From there, I went to the Ice Caves of Sorrow but got destroyed. At this point I had reached 60% map completion, as that was one of my biggest goals in the game (Cartographer title, that is, since I am a completionist). But, again I felt like I was stuck.

In January 2007, I finally returned to the game. However, I decided to buy Factions and start that. I created a Rt/Mo. Luckily, it was during the weekend of the New Year's Festival (year of the pig), and there were tons of 5,000 XP quests to do on Shing Jea. I did every secondary-profession quest, like the article on here recommends, and was Level 18 before leaving Shing Jea. I was Level 20 before I knew it, but had really no direction as far as my build went. I tried to be a spirit spammer, but with my hench-focused play-style, this got me killed in the missions on the mainland.

It was during this time that I shifted my focus back on my Tyrian warrior. I improved my build by changing to Monk secondary and using an adaption of the Full Vigor Paladin on this site (of course I didn't have Hundred Blades). I beat the first two Southern Shiverpeak missions, and then was graced with the wonderful mission called Thunderhead Keep. It was here that I spent every night for a week trying to beat it with PUGs, to no avail. Finally, after I was about to give up, I tried it with henches following the strategies on GuildWiki and was able to do it (mainly with my Flurry + Vig Spirit + Live Vicariously build). Then I easily dispatched Ember Light Camp with henchies.

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