User:Katy kraft

My Guild Wars Career
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 to 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-leveled 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, which was the beginning of one of my biggest goals in the game (Cartographer title, 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.

TO BE CONTINUED

History
Kathryn Stardust was born in Istan to a farmer. As a farmer's daughter, she lived comfortably but not as nobility. The most important thing about her childhood was its normalcy. She wasn't too rich or too poor; she didn't receive a great education, but she was educated; and she wasn't trained from birth to be a warrior, though she could handle a sword.

How, then, was this normal girl introduced to the ways of the scythe and the hood? Simply put, she was in the right place at the right time. As she and her father were walking into Kamadan to get some farming supplies on a seemingly ordinary day, they were ambushed by some petty Corsairs. Her father carried a small dagger for occasions such as this, but in the struggle it was thrust from his hands. While the thieves were looting the pockets of her father, Kathryn fetched the dagger and approached them. When they realized she had picked it up, they taunted her, saying that she would never use it. But she did. She stabbed one of the ambushers directly in the throat. The rest of them didn't want to deal with their dead friend, so they ran away with what little loot they had taken from Kathryn's father. This quick act of bravery would have normally gone unnoticed, but her father had quite the big mouth. It wasn't long before everyone in Kamadan knew of her brave acts. Everyone including the First Spear Dehvad of the Sunspears. Considering the lack of sunspears in the time of imminent crisis, it wasn't long before he contacted Kathryn.

After not long at all, Kathryn became a very respected member of the Sunspear recruits, and one of the best Dervishes they have to offer. It was at this point that the events of Nightfall began, and Kathryn rose to the occasion.