User:Queen of Spades

I discovered this game in July 2005 because I needed something to do when the other remaining Return to Castle Wolfenstein (RtCW) player quit.... By that time, I had come a long way from a timid FPS single-player. When my teenage sons saw me play the multiplayer online version of RtCW, they said, "Dad! Get a grip! Stick to the single player. You suck!" At one point, I was rated #1 player of the Banimod version of RtCW. I was a First Person Shooter player all the way, and only one game would do me. (Talk to me on my user talk page about RtCW, Banimod and especially Bani's Instagib Goldrush version, which my clan and I rocked at!)

Now Guild Wars is my first RPG of any kind, whether online, computer-, video-, or board-based. And it seems to be taking that one-game-will-do-me role!

I LOVE the teamplay aspect to Guild Wars. The fact that, like in RtCW, you need players to fill different roles in order to accomplish your mission. I love playing the roles that many people either don't understand (Mesmer), or underappreciate (Monk) because they don't kill people and break things.

I LOVE the intellectual pursuit of learning to play my role better with better skills and combinations. I love learning to play roles I didn't even know existed. And I especially love that "Eureka!" moment when I learn that someone has put to awesome use that certain skill I had discarded as judged to be complete crap. The flexibility and tradeoffs that the designers of GW have allowed/forced are truly wonderful.

Bor Dammerung /
Bor D was my first character. Good place to start for a complete newb to RPGs of any kind. I picked War/Nec because everyone else had War/Mo, which I figured must be the easy way. I fight well with a Curses/Mark of Pain/Flurry build, and I am wanting to investigate using Death as my main/only Necro attribute.

I think I started an industry from scratch, which you can read about on Bor's page. Well, it's only a niche industry. Or maybe it is not an industry at all: I may be the only one doing it. Intrigued? User:Queen of Spades/Bor Dammerung

Much of my learning time lately with Bor has centered around the Paladin-type build, or Warrior/Monk. /  I have learned to run with the help of a couple of great guildmates, and now I am a running fool! Bor's running has financed my 55hp Monk build for User:Queen of Spades/Momentarily Mortal, my InvinciMesmer build for User:Queen of Spades/Queen of Speydz, and hopefully will get me some vanity armor for one and all my characters.

I am currently learning to fight and farm solo with Bor as a War/Mo. What is this world coming to? War/Mes, anyone?


 * Let me know ingame if Bor, the teamplaying Warrior can help you with anything.
 * I know the stance tank role, and have a build I use, but I need some more experience with it, so give me a shout. (My farming escapades usually center around the need for my Monk, User:Queen of Spades/Momentarily Mortal.)
 * If you just need a warrior for a mission or quest that won't run off and aggro before you or the henches are regenned, and can adapt to your style of play, I am ready to help.


 * PM Bor ingame if you need a run.
 * I regularly run the entire Crystal Desert circuit, and from Lion's Arch thru Beetletun and Bergen HS to Temple of the Ages, and on to Fisherman's Haven, Sanctum Cay mission and thru mission to Amnoon Oasis in the desert. I will give you a discount if you tell me you heard about me here on Roller Derby.


 * Will I ever try to learn the Beacon's Perch to Droknar's Forge run? Stay tuned....
 * For more about Bor, check out my tome at User:Queen of Spades/Bor Dammerung.

Queen Of Speydz
QoS has her own page User:Queen of Spades/Queen of Speydz where I get to yadda, yadda, yadda....

Queen of Spades is her spiritual (real) name. Really pissed about A-net's bad word filter keeping me from naming my character "Queen of Spades".

I chose Mesmer for my second character and you can read why on her page. She was my favorite character to play for a long while. Even though I play monk much more than any of my other characters, I would not say I like Monk better than Mesmer. However, as things change from time to time, I have been coming back to QoS and Mezzing around. I finally have her Drok's Enchanters armor dyed a very nice shiny copper color.

Lately I have been playing around with Mesmer builds, including an InvinciMesmer, a 55hp Mesmer build. She is about ready to try to duo the Underworld.

Teaming Up With Another Mesmer
I had fun recently when I was desirous of capping the Mesmer elite Mantra of Recovery in the Dunes of Despair mission. I just shouted out for a team when I saw another Mesmer LFG, so I teamed with a 2nd mesmer instead of the normal caster. I don't recall if we just got henches for the rest or what. However, in the mission to protect the Ghostly Hero while he incants, when the waves of enemies come to an end with around 3:00 left on the timer, I have taken to attacking a Siege Wurm, in hopes of getting a Bleached Shell. With this dual mesmer combo with interrupts and big DoT, this was the first time I had been able to kill two wurms before the time ran out! And both dropped shells! (But not with my name on either.)


 * Gimme a holler ingame (Queen Of Speydz) if you want a Mesmer to help you with anything (or for that matter any of my other professions). I would love to play some more on a multiple Mesmer team!
 * For more about QoS, check out her page: User:Queen of Spades/Queen of Speydz
 * Any SS/SV necros want a good looking Mesmer partner for a UW smite run?

Momentarily Mortal
I think this name is cool, there is more about it on MoM's (User:Queen of Spades/Momentarily Mortal) page.

With my 3rd character, I took a shortcut to ascension, so due to missing certain skills, I became comfortable in a healer role but not a protection monk role. Going to the Fissure of Woe quite a bit, where monks are often in short supply, I quickly got more than 500K total experience on Mortal entirely in a 100% healer role. Lately, I have explored and gotten comfortable with a Life Bond build filling the protection monk role even more often than a pure healer role. I have also developed a Heal/Prot build that seems to come in handy for quests and missions where I am the only monk.

Most recently, I have been learning the Invincible Monk build. Though Mortal has not even been to UW yet, I have about 90K invested in his 55hp monk setup. It is time for some return on that!

The way my small circle of friends and guildies works, I foresee that Momentarily Mortal is going to be a dominant character in my GW gaming experience.
 * Please feel free to whisper me ingame if you want Monk help or just to talk. I love discussing and improving builds, and I like to teach & share what I know to whoever will listen.


 * For more of my blab about Mortal, see User:Queen of Spades/Momentarily Mortal.

She Makes You Burn /
I enjoyed finally getting around to a straight damage dealer for my fourth character. Naturally, a Fire elem, I had the name all picked out well before creation. (See her page User:Queen of Spades/She Makes You Burn.)

After getting her ascended and game "finished" at least before SF update and Vision of Glint quests, I have not gotten to play Burn much. There has been too much demand for my monk (User:Queen of Spades/Momentarily Mortal), as well as time I have spent in developing various builds for Mortal and QoS (User:Queen of Spades/Queen of Spades). So lately, I have gone out of my way to do some skill capping to make Burn into a heavy nuker role, with the odd interrupt thrown in occasionally.


 * Please whisper me ingame if you would like Nuker help or any of my other professions.
 * For more about Burn, check out her page: User:Queen of Spades/She Makes You Burn

The W R E T C H /
I had to flip a coin, because there was only one slot left between my two accounts, and I was still short a Ranger and a Neromancer. The necro won. And The W R E T C H is quite the fun character to play. It didn't take long having this necro character before I found out how useful they are in many situations, so Wretch quickly became my character with the second largest bucket of experience points! To read more about Wretch, see User:Queen of Spades/The W R E T C H

Death On Two Legs I /Ranger or /
When Factions came out, I jumped on the bandwagon with an Assassin and a Ritualist. This asin has been great fun to play. I initially picked Ranger as the secondary for my Assassin just so I could start learning a little about Ranger skills, not having made a ranger character yet. I started getting compliments from folks along the lines of, "Most asins suck, but thanks for being on the team! You were great, you make me want to revisit my asin, now." I have two very fine builds that I major in with my asin, for both of which I credit the GuildWiki community. The first is a Fevered Dreams {E} build from some info I gleaned from the PvE Team Build Team - Barrage/Pet (Tomb Ruins), and the second is the Build:A/R Critical Barrager. To read more about Wretch, see User:Queen of Spades/Death On Two Legs I

Styx L O R E L E I
Again, a Factions 'must', I made a Ritualist character that was fine until I got her to Cantha at nearly level 20 and got max armor. Since then, other chars and priorities have made this rit into a practical storage mule character. I will revisit her, I hope. Once I do, you will be able to read more about Lorelei at User:Queen of Spades/Styx L O R E L E I

E Q U I N O X Il Ranger/
Finally. FINALLY, I made a ranger. I made two rangers actually, one Canthan male, the other a Tyrian female. Both look great, and I was hesitant to do another Tyrian character, because I considered leveling up under Factions to be easier and quicker. But it was hard to turn down a nice looking femme ranger, too, so I went that route. Equinox is moving right along, having finished the Tyrian missions and having the true Fevered Dreams build that is a variation of Team - Barrage/Pet (Tomb Ruins) team build I mentioned earlier concerning Death On Two Legs. To read more about Equinox, see User:Queen of Spades/E Q U I N O X Il

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