User:Qing Guang

{|width="100%" style="background: #BA55D3; border: 2px solid #4B0082; padding: .5em .5em; margin: 0em;"
 * valign="top"|

{|width="100%" style="background: transparent; padding: 0em 0em; margin: 0em;"
 * valign="top"|

(RL)
Name: Ruth

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Main Character: Jennarose Mashaba (skill hunting Ele, but most often uses Air Magic, with or without accompanying dagger chains)

Guild: Lucid Spirits [LIFE]

Status: Officer

Allegiance: Kurzick (mostly)

Time in Guild Wars: since June 2007

Campaigns: All 3 plus GW:EN

Focus: Post-endgame-but-not-really-high-end PvE (IE Hard Mode, Dungeons, title grind, etc. but no Elite Dungeons/Missions/etc so far), low-end PvP (RA/TA, AB, low-rank GvG once in a blue moon)

Likes: cats, reptiles, tabletop and computer gaming, fantasy/sci-fi stuff, books, archery, art, sleep, chocolate, intelligent people, eating Sins and Eles for breakfast, MMing, getting titles by accident, grammar-policing, bad fanfics, ranting, anything by Joss Whedon

Dislikes: bunnies, AP classes, real sports, bad fanfics, cocky people, E-denial, grind, people who can't speak their own language properly, uninformed people, whiny people, tofu, politics, Twilight (dear Lord spare me), High School Musical (ditto)

Visit my DeviantArt (it's mostly GW stuff, lol - I'm such a nerd) at http://qing-guang.deviantart.com/!

What I'm up to
I don't play GW much anymore. Occasionally I'll get the desire to play again and will stick around for about a week, get something done, and then drop off again. This usually happens around holidays and new content releases. (Yay Hearts of the North!)

TBH I don't do a ton of gaming in general anymore. College and life have conspired to keep me busy, but I do try to get some time in. Mostly it's in WoW, though.

Fun with builds
This is where I get to demonstrate (and potentially frighten people with) my strange (somewhere between Noob Who Takes Advice but Proceeds to Make Bad Builds on the low end and Creative, Unique, and Generally Inspired but Not Clever Enough to Become Popular on the high end) gameplay and build-making style, because I have nothing better to do at the moment.

NEW! Energizer Nanami
Brand new build for a brand new Assassin. The critical chance on this girly is pretty obscene - I was testing on the dummies on IotN, and she's critting almost every hit - and gaining 4 energy and 18 HP each time. I was having energy issues before, so I put a couple Radiant insigs on my armor, but I'm thinking of pulling those and putting in Survivor ones and a Major SA rune instead of the Minor one I'm using now, since WoP is my only heal aside from DC and it's a little wimpy at just 4. Still, this girl is scary. And I'm figuring out how to play Assassin the way it was designed - also, Return is great for saving caster henchies when the melee guys get at them, though I'll replace it with Death's Retreat when I get the chance (and eventually Ebon Escape, but I don't plan on doing EotN for a bit). I am LOVING this.

Attuned Qing
This is my old reliable for my rit. I sometimes run her Channeling just for kicks, but this is what I use whenever I need to do something right. It's probably the build I'm most proud of, because it actually works very well despite being made from scratch like all my other ones (which range from mediocre to fairly effective). The bar presented here is the PvP version - these days I usually take Summon Ruby Djinn or Pain Inverter in place of Spirit to Flesh, because it's a pain in the arse to time when you're fussing over keeping everyone's red bars tip-top. Other than that, though - I've been working on some variant of this build since before I even capped AwS (HUUUUGE help with e-management), and I've only just now refined it (added Life so I could trash Mend Ailment, traded out Heal Party for Cure Hex). The only build I really get compliments on, excluding my Hero Monk build (I'll throw that up here sometime).

MoR Axe Jenna
Sooo, remember my old MoR Blades build that got accidentally nerfed by ANet? Well, I finally thought up a replacement for it. Just have to pick up the axe skills and find myself a fiery axe, and I can test it out.

Uberderv (Outdated as of Derv Update)
So, I made this build to try out for farming, and I've now completely moved away from using avatars. When I can do 100+ damage on a single hit, WITHOUT using Asuran Scan, in the Realm of Torment... life is good. (Incidentally, did you know that about half the skills in Scythe Mastery are not in fact scythe attacks but ordinary melee attacks? Drove me nuts when I was looking at the scythe attacks quick reference to try and remember what Victorious Sweep was called.)

Standard Gui
This is the build I'm happiest with, aside from the one below. Works in every situation where MMing is possible, and Dash can always be switched out for a PvE skill if necessary. The Rez Sig is in a funny place because I never bothered to move it, really, and now if I try to switch it to spot 8 I get confused and try to use it to feed my minions, hehe. It does help having BotM on the end, though - easy access. I so rarely change it that I have no idea what the attribute levels are for anything but Death Magic. I'm thinking of replacing Shadow Refuge with Shadow Sanctuary anyway. Only a 1pip drop in regen, a longer duration, and an armor boost to boot. All that "sight" business is overrated anyway. [edit 11/18: Changed Shadow Refuge to Shadow Sanctuary as I had mentioned. Haven't tried it, but I'm expecting it to work well. Means I can spec 12 points into SR now, too. I'll still use the old build for AB, since Shadow Sanctuary is a PvE skill.]

Mind Shock Jenna
Yes, I know the Air build (or as I call it, the Thor build) has much less synergy than the Fire one, but I usually only use it in low-level areas, or when I'm capping an air skill, or when I'm running with henchies, who don't care, and at the very least it's functional. Plus, it got me through Snake Dance at lvl 14, so I'm kind of attached to it.

(Theoretical) FC Dancing Healer
Inspired by something on I believe it was the Glimmer of Light talk page, and so named because all the skills can be activated without ending the dance emote (or any other sustained emote - /bowhead, /sit, /instrument - or attacking, IIRC). I can't attest to the practicality of the build (heck, it's got no rez), and it's not sustainable longer than 16 seconds at max Asura rank, but it would certainly be fun to try, now that my Mez has finally gotten herself out of Pre. Heck, with a pie or a celery one could substitute in some slightly longer skills, maybe some 3/4 sec ones or something.

User page
This format was kidnapped from JediRogue's page. Go check it out; she's awesome.

Other Stuff
User:Qing Guang/Treasure Log

User:Qing Guang/Sandbox

User:Qing Guang/April Update Charas