User talk:Verena

Sockpuppetry
This is made after I stumbled across the closed debate on Sockpuppetry. I read through it all, and basically found that all parties were getting overly worked up. I also came to the conclusion that I'm a rookie. I started using the GuildWiki after Stabber had supposedly left. But I was familiar with finding my way around the Wiki, well sorta, long before I registered and made my first post. But still, the first Talk page that I even saw was my own Ether Prod healer getting blocked.

The point that I raise with this is I'm a sock puppet of Stabber, or am I? I use a business connection that three routers change my IP address. I have multiple Guild Wars Accounts. Is there any way that I, or any other user for that matter, could prove my innocence? I'm just proving a point. Someone yelling at me declaring me a sockpuppet is just the same. I could say that you're a sockpuppet, and demand that you prove yourself different. In what way could you respond to clear your name? I do not claim to know or be involved with any side. I do not know Stabber, Gem, Karlos, or anyone else. I just see the names posted on some Talk Pages that I click random links to, trying to find cool textboxes to plagarise (Before I figured out how to make my own). I'm a little upset at Skuld for some of his comments on my build, and even vandalised my own page over it, but even I've gotten over that.

This is just a point that I felt obliged to make, not that anyone's ever going to see this page.--Verena 13:52, 7 April 2007 (CDT)(Edit: Now I feel stupid. That's the first time I've ever used the Timestamp. I've been typing them out the whole bloody time!)

Current Projects:
1. Getting the hang of using Karei's Healing Circle/Heal Area, to heal allies (other than myself) under Melee, without healing their attackers. Useless, risky, but fun to try.

2. Get my Paragon off of Istan.

3. Convince the world that E/Mo healers can work. A useless attempt, but it's what I WANT to do :P

4. Update this list with more things.

Builds worth keeping:
Healer's Prodigy

Equipment: Dunshek's Purifier and Chiossen's Wind, Rune of Recovery

Should I feel like digging up my others, I'll post them here.

Rant against ArenaNet
Okay, maybe not a rant against ANet's other projects. And I've only got one beef with Eye of the North, it's not standalone. My real things to be upset over are mainly to do with Guild Wars 2.

Many people, myself included, came to Guild Wars not because we were expecting a free World of WarCraft, but because of the things ArenaNet had promised us. The instancing to remove quest (and boss-spawn) lines. The low level-cap to eliminate grinding. A story progression, not just a backstory that doesn't even matter. A single race, so no one gets messed up. (My Elf Warrior isn't as good as an Orc Warrior's stats!) And a balanced PvP.

Okay, so here's my real problems. As far as publicly released information goes, all of the above are as good as gone come the sequel to the franchise. They are going for a "Persistent" world, high (100+?) level limit (if any limit at all), and a broad story that doesn't directly influence your gameplay experience. Not to mention that high (limitless?) level cap plays into the favor of who plugs the most hours in, ruining the casual gamer. Multiple races?

Personally, this just sounds like our favorite game is coming down to a clone of another successful ORPG.