User:GW-Skogul



The Real Person
In real life, I'm Asia; a level 22 ascended female originally from California, now living in Massachusetts. I am engaged and work as a clerk at a video store for slave wages. I fancy myself an illustrator and amateur webdesigner, although I haven't done much art at all in the past year or so. Shame on me.

I am also the parent of a male Pembroke Welsh Corgi named Spider and an enthusiastic supporter of the breed and of dogs in general. I own two cats, but they are inconsequential. :)

Points of Interest

 * My personal website can be found at: skogul dot net
 * I maintain blogs at Livejournal and VOX, and I have a myspace
 * My AIM SN is vintage espresso

The GW Person
To my knowledge, I've been playing Guild Wars since the summer of 2005. I tried it out after seeing a couple of friends of mine get it and give it good reviews. I was also getting a bit jaded with the grindtastic nature of Ragnarok Online (which was my MMO of choice at the time) and wasn't quite able to justify paying $12 USD a month for it.

So, I got it and enjoyed it, and even converted a friend over to it, except for the fact that my computer at the time was far too low-end to really handle GW, even with all the settings as low as possible. So, I took a break from GW until I could regularly access a computer capable of running the game reasonably well.

I returned around the release of Factions, which renewed my interest in the game and was the killing blow for my patronage of Ragnarok Online. However, I was only able to enjoy GW by hijacking my fiance's computer, which was much better than mine, and this did not go over well with him. So, I took yet another break until I could afford a decent computer to replace mine a couple of months later. Around this time, I returned and played off and on until Nightfall's release, which spurred me into playing very regularly and eventually I acquired Nightfall as a Christmas gift.

Overall, I'd like to say I'm proficient at this game. I am not an expert, by any means, and don't claim to be. I have just a handful of green items, 8 out of my 10 characters are level 20, and only half of them are ascended in their respective campaigns. I've only achieved endgame in Prophecies, and own only a single piece of 15k armor. However, I like to measure my competence with my playing ability, not my levels and items.

Playstyle
In general, for questing and most missions in Prophecies and Nightfall, I prefer to use henchies/heroes instead of PUGs. I've had far too many bad experiences with random players and am usually able to meet objectives just fine on my own. In cases where I can't quite manage, I enlist the help of members of my guild or friends before turning to random groups.

Guild
I am the founder and leader of the guild Aether Aura, part of the [OTO] Alliance, which I established during the summer of 2005. We're not enormous, nor to we strive to be. We're primarily PvE/Social, although we have participated in Alliance Battles in the past, our focus is on enjoying each other's company and, above all, having fun. A lot of our guild activity is in the form of sitting around a town or outpost, dancing, emoting and talking about random things.

We try to be as helpful and friendly as possible, but don't like it when people want nothing more but free assistance and hand-outs. We don't demand people logon every day, or even every week, we just enjoy their company when they can pull themselves away from real life long enough to join us for a while.

Characters
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[[Image:Warrior-icon.png]] Ugly Valkyrie



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[[Image:Ritualist-icon.png]] Seer Skogul



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