User:Sylv/GW Story

Had never heard of the game, period. I received the game as a birthday present from my older brother and was somewhat quite surprised about the gift. However, as soon as I installed the game I played for numerous hours straight. As a RPG player, I like games where you can work on your character/account in a Diablo II-like style :P. Since my birthday is on june 22nd and I'm still a student, I had all the summer vacation to start getting into the game. Don't get me wrong, I had a part-time job also but that was still basically a dream-life: 20 hours/week (a job that keeps your body in shape) and the rest of the time it'd be GW or friends.

I first made a ranger because of that love of nature I have and some other reasons. I called that character Alexei Dragor: Alexei comes from the fact that I love this russian-like name and Dragor comes from a fantasy name generator ^^. I basically play through the game, meet some friends, join and leave some guilds and so on. Of course, I was pretty much a new player and had not much knowledge of the game but a gw-friend of mine once told me that he had problems playing as a ranger. He said it was a hard class to play and so on. This is where my thirst for knowledge begins. After hearing such a comment, I secretly decided to write him down a guide with a ranger build for every single elite skill in the game so far (Prophecies only). From Greater Conflagration to Ferocious Strike, I had to study the skills from every core classes and come up with some brilliant ideas for some easy-to-play builds out there. The hardest elite skill to make a build with was ...Ferocious Strike...Since the overall GW-community wasn't enlighten yet to all the endless possibilities and unused skills, I guess I was one of the first person to find a powerful use to this skill. Though not mentionned in the previous paragraphs, my brother and I shared the same account for a month or so before he decided to buy an account for himself.

Himself having a warrior as his main character, he once explained me how adrenaline skills work since I was mystified by his gameplay on his warrior. This souvenir rang a bell when I read Ferocious Strike's description:...gains x energy and adrenaline. That Ferocious Strike build had to be R/W! I then knew where I was headed: went over on a fansite to find a list of warrior skills. With my simple-minded view, I thought pets could be more effective if the target would be knocked down because those are Really slow to react (and still are). I scrolled down to Hammer Mastery and went on to check the list of non-elite skills that causes knockdown. Hammer Bash first jumped to my mind. Straight after that, Irresistible Blow was quite appealing. I rechecked the list and was impressed by Crushing Blow's description mentionning that on hit of a knock-downed foe, it reduces its maximum health by 20%. Without a doubt this skill was added into the build. Finally, I added Tiger's Fury because of the fact that it's one of the rare IAS from the ranger line. And so was born the Bunny Thumper which I didn't name myself: I personally called it a hammer ranger.

(Until I figure out how to do a small horizontal skillbar)

Up to you to believe a human invented it or not but this was made ages ago..People don't get credit for making builds anyway. I was extremely proud of myself as testing this build showed its domination over the current RA trend. The downside of this is that I could never give the document to my friend because he left the game before that. Consequently, this build remained somewhat unknown to people until I decided to play some more RA and it got spreaded out afterwards.