User:Mgrinshpon10644

A bit about myself
I'm Michael Grinshpon (hence the name, mgrinshpon). I'm 16, and live in New Jersey. I am a member (by choice, I don't like being an officer, gotten roughly 50 million promotion offers), web designer, and webmaster in the Winged Gods (WING), members of some alliance. I used to be in a Heroes Ascent guild called I Swear She Was Eighteen [GWEN] while I took a little break from WING. Then, after two weeks, there was a schizm of those that wanted GvG and those that wanted HA, and I chose GVG. I sided with GvG, got kicked out, joined the new guild that they created, and made it into the top 100 briefly; however, I came back several months later to my good friends at WING.

After a long haitus from Guildwars, I am now back. I am currently preparing myself for PvP play and starting out by capping most of the skills needed in PvP play, primarily Guild Versus Guild and Heroes Ascent. My first priority will be to make my warrior Heroes Ascent and Guild Versus Guild ready, followed by my monk. Afterwards, I may either work on my Ranger or my Dervish.

Before I played Guildwars, I played Earth and Beyond. I had a level 150 Progen Warrior named... Grinch! My other alts were all below level 100, sadly. Regardless, It was a great game and I miss all my buddies in my old guild there, Order of Chivalry. If EA hadn't shut down the game, I would still be paying for it, and loving every minute of it. I loved Earth and Beyond, and will forever hate EA shutting down on September 22nd, 2004. RIP EnB.

Other Games I play
Besides Guildwars and other MMOs, I play all sorts of things. Auto Assault, Test Drive: Unlimited, X3: The Reunion, Garry's Mod, Oblivion, you name it! Variety is the spice of life, or so they say. My collection of games can be found here at Gamespot.

GuildWiki
I joined Guildwiki a long time ago, in May 06, which isn't that long ago.

Past, present and future projects

 * 1) Obtaining a better mastery of wikicode
 * 2) Make an awesome build that will be favored
 * 3) Getting a set of colors to be decided upon

My Personal Builds and Guides

 * 1) The Sandbox: What ideas does Grinch have flowing through his mind? Who knows!
 * 2) My heroes' skills are located here and have been proven to work (by me).

Guides and Builds started

 * 1) Spirit Bonding Guide for Spirit Bonding. It is archived in my userspace due to the build wipe.
 * 2) N/P Ordergon, brought orders to the next level. It was unfortunately voted unfavored.
 * 3) The Mo/Me Revitalizer made use of Revitalize (Healer's Boon is a stupid name) to heal party members quickly.

Persuasive Guides

 * 1) Why touches should stay skills: alot of people have said that, "Touches should be spells" for the nerfing of the all too common touch ranger, but I disagree, and here's why.

Guildwars Improvements

 * Some sort of auction-house (WoW style, I suppose): Stop the spam everywhere! Good god there's alot of it!
 * More storage for things: There's too many weapon upgrades and green items to keep track of.
 * Weapon Upgrades Trader: It's tough to find a market for those 18-19% things. Also, keep organization like Priests of Balthazar.
 * Rune Trader Organization: Rune Traders could learn a thing or two on how to organize things from the Priests of Balthazar.
 * Chatlog: While this thing would have to be compressed beyond belief to conserve space, it would be quite nice to use this instead of Trillian to talk to everyone.

Humor

 * W/E Starburst Warrior: Clearly, someone has a very good sense of humor.

Notes to Self

 * Remember the links for the skill lists (Skill List (Campaign).
 * Do stuff in the Sandbox and not in random pages.
 * Finish up guild builds for my guild.
 * Work on my guild's tactics page.
 * Refer to the list of totally cool userpages for totally nifty wikicode ideas and such, like, totally!
 * Work on Games templates for as many MMOs as I can find.
 * Work on Nog64's Contest
 * Collect all Treasure