User:GW-Bishop

Who?
I'm Bishop. I play GW, mostly solo, because my time doesn't allow me to play on a fixed schedule. I used to be a member of a random guild that used to have a cool cape (so I said "uh, sure, I'll join" when someone asked me), but that guild seems to either have dissolved and/or kicked me during my hiatus. So now I'm with a fellow wikipondian, Skuld, and his merry band. There was talk of peeni in guildchat within the first 20 seconds after I joined, so this can only get interesting...

My scores on the [http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=152193&first=yes Which Guild Wars Profession Are You? - Factions Edition] quiz from Gem's fun page:

Ranger 63%

Elementalist 63%

Assassin 56%

Monk 56%

Mesmer 50%

Warrior 50%

Ritualist 44%

Necromancer 38%

Interestingly, my favorite character is my... necromancer (well, tied with my warrior but that doesn't help much). I think that test is BS. :)

Why?
I like Guild Wars. In fact, I like it a lot more now than I did the first time I played it, 6 months or so ago. Not sure why, but I think it has to do with re-discovering how intricate and versatile the 8-skill system actually is. That, and I love the fact that I don't have to worry about how much or how little I play because it costs me $0 per month anyway.

Where?
I live in Denmark, but I play on the US servers. Mostly because the few times I do group, it's usually with my buddy from Canada. And I don't much appreciate the whole multi-lingual general chat that's common on EU servers (I only speak a little German and no French).

What?
I have 3 acended lvl 20 characters:
 * Desiree Steele / just finished Prophecies as my first and only toon so far. Build not formalized.
 * Vanity Steele / mostly using my old E/Me Continual Energy Nuker but trying to come up with a good water build.
 * Darque Steele / currently playing my new N/Rt Accursed Flesh and loving it.

Two Factions characters:
 * Autumn Lotus / trying to collect skills enough to try some variants on Rt/N Explosive Creation.
 * Steele Spring / doing B/P (or what she was created for, R/Rt Tranquil Trapper) and the furthest through Factions of all my toons.

and one pvp character that I delete and remake on whim.
 * Bishop Steele, currently / man, I can't monk for spit.

Wherefore art thou, Mercurio?
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Builds
Having recovered from the depression caused by the nerf to my previous warrior build, I'm back in the saddle. Now kicking arse in 12v12 using this nasty little build (it's such a nice format because you don't really need a res sig so you can go nuts with 8 skill mayhem):

I've also replaced Axe Twist with Smite Hex on occation, but whenever I equip that, I never get hexed. Hmm. Maybe that's a good thing. The lack of Wild Blow is because, as opposed to 4v4, in 12v12 I don't have to care about rangers. At all. Let the hexers and the degeners deal with them while I cut down the squishies.

This is my sucky necro build:

And my monk bonder:

SS/SV UW necro for my own reference:

Just because I can, I improved (in my opinion, obviously, YMMV) on the touch ranger fotm and came up with this:

Touch of Agony is needed, and Gaze of Contempt is now the best enchantment removal, bar none. I tried the Melandrus Toucher variant, and while it worked, this is better.

Question: guildwikiguild?
I was wondering; is there an ingame guildwiki guild? (Whoah, that's meta on so many levels). And if so, is it a closed party with bulgy bouncers at the door, or open to the peanut gallery? :) -- 19:13, 11 March 2006 (CST)


 * See here. :) -- 19:55, 11 March 2006 (CST)


 * Thanks. To sum up for reference, that currently means "no". -- 20:04, 11 March 2006 (CST)

I documented her first!
That's my nooby rangerette there in the (really poorly taken) screenshot, too. What do I win? 

A clarification
Just to make it perfectly clear: (rap|con) <-- this part of my signature is not meant to look like tatoos on someone's bum. And now that that's settled, let's never talk about it again, okay?

Quick reference
The link I use the most on the wiki: Skills_by_capture_location