Curse

Ephidel · Nov 27, 2007, 06:03 AM // 06:03

N/R.

Pets were cool and I liked using a bow. Not sure how I survived so long with skills that didn't sync well at all, but at least I didn't put 2 points in every attribute or something. I had a build that was mostly Ranger skills and then Penetrating Shot, and another that used just Penetrating Shot and Troll Unguent and the rest Necromancer skills (I think I at least had the sense to realize Spiteful Spirit was useful - that probably helped with a whole lot of missions).

Come to think of it, I must have distracted myself from both Guild Wars and that guy for a long time once Factions came out, as I distinctly remember doing some almost as stupid Necromancer build using a spear (at least a year of barely anything done on him?), and finally beating Prophecies with said build shortly after Hard Mode came out.

Of course, at some point I finally snapped out of it and started to play builds with him that were actually good. He's currently my most-played character, who I'm using for some hard-core vanquishing. Nevertheless, this post was a not-so-welcome reminder of how little I've gotten done in Guild Wars over my almost three years of playing, in addition to what is likely a vast deviation from the topic. Sheesh.

Still need to make a Ranger someday, though. If I ever pick up another slot.

HawkofStorms · Nov 27, 2007, 07:21 AM // 07:21

E/Me

I actually read up on the game on Guru before buying it. Heard inspiration magic was useful... and it was.
Granted pre-LA people I was running around with backfire, but I mean when you are a newbie (not a NOOB) your skill selection was pretty limited in Phrophecies.

Sakura Az · Nov 27, 2007, 08:39 AM // 08:39

hmm i had heard that touch rangers were godly.. so i made a ranger/nerco.. i was using life siphon annd death thingy, and minnions and powershot.. yeahhhhhh i was leet.

LeoX · Nov 27, 2007, 08:54 AM // 08:54

W/Mo with mending of course, lo0l xD

Shadowfox1125 · Nov 27, 2007, 08:56 AM // 08:56

If you must know my VERY first profession combination, you'd have to go back to the January BWE.

Me/W

Then at release,
Mo/E - who doesn't exist anymore.

Shakkara · Nov 27, 2007, 09:18 AM // 09:18

Mo/R in beta, trying to use my bow for damage, unsuccesfully, and thinking monks sucked for solo play, I started a warrior upon release. W/E in presearing, then figuring out that fire storm and all that stuff doesn't work too well with only 2 energy regen, and changing to wammo before leaving presearing.

I wish I would have remained monk, but we didn't know about 55hp farming back then, and I really want a viable solo-character. The W/E would have been like a tankmage in ultima online, but the low energy of the warrior ruined that plan. So I picked monk as secondary as I didn't see mesmer having any use and I already had the bad experience with ranger secondary.

Coifmeister · Nov 27, 2007, 01:31 PM // 13:31

W/R!

I was going to nail them with arrows as they ran towards me then switch to sword and finnish them off.

Then I had some wilderness survival so I could last out in the wilds of pre-searing. Make traps catch food etc. Maybes even a tree house!

Fond memories.

Sora · Nov 27, 2007, 01:37 PM // 13:37

I choose to be an Elementalist, because that looks the best to me at that time.
And use Necro for secondary since Necro can use Blood Magic to heal themselves.
I actually used [skill]Life Siphon[/skill] back then.

eeks · Nov 27, 2007, 01:42 PM // 13:42

R/E. Back when I thought Expertise amounted to nothing, and put no attribute points in it, and (tried) to spam firestorm. Deleted her.

I then made a Ritualist, who also had Elementalist as her secondary. It took me a while to realise I was probably best off making an Ele.

Good times.

Qwertyfied · Nov 27, 2007, 01:58 PM // 13:58

Same as previous post, i was E/N

Morgoth the dark · Nov 27, 2007, 02:01 PM // 14:01

It was R/N in the first open beta ^^

aaaahhhhh good old days

ValaOfTheFens · Nov 27, 2007, 04:11 PM // 16:11

N/Me. I had no real idea how powerful that combo was. I just wanted access to more hexes.

My most noobish combo was R/E. Firestorm ftw!!

Taurucis · Nov 27, 2007, 04:36 PM // 16:36

I played a W/E at first because I thought that I'd be the ideal warrior-mage.

I used stuff like Immolate, Fire Storm, Fireball, Inferno... sometimes I had more ele skills on my bar than warrior skills.

The funny thing is that I beat Thirsty River with something like this skillbar...

[skill]Sever Artery[/skill][skill]Gash[/skill][skill]Savage Slash[/skill][skill]"I will avenge you!"[/skill][skill]Meteor Shower[/skill][skill]Flame Burst[/skill][skill]Healing Signet[/skill][skill]Resurrection Signet[/skill]

Except I'm not too sure about it, I know for a fact that I was using IWAY and Meteor Shower. We actually completed the mission.

Charqus · Nov 27, 2007, 05:42 PM // 17:42

W/E warrior skills with fireballs pwnd 2 years ago... LOL

Sabriel Benirus · Nov 28, 2007, 07:30 PM // 19:30

I chose Me/Mo as my first, because I liked the Mesmer's skills, and the self healing of the monk. Now, I don't even use her much anymore.

Fluffiliscious · Nov 28, 2007, 07:32 PM // 19:32

W/Mo *sighs* I like my Ele/Me SO much better.....the entire game experience is so different and less frustrating now....

ravensong · Nov 28, 2007, 07:47 PM // 19:47

I was Me/E...I tought because of Fast Casting I could also spam ele spells well! :P

netniwk · Nov 28, 2007, 08:21 PM // 20:21

I probably created every possible proffesion combo in E3 for everyone,my game crashed every 5 min

.The first one I realy remembered playing was a N/mo though.

Quentin.Sheley · Nov 28, 2007, 08:35 PM // 20:35

Mine was the A/Mo lol. I died soooo much. I didn't know that they weren't tanks for the longest lol and I kept running in with no good armor or anything and kept getting slaughtered. Now a days I don't even use Sins. It's a pitty. They're good in PvP, but my Tank Sin idea didn't work out at all. I was a pro Diablo 2 PvPer coming over to Guild Wars and things changed quite a bit with the change and I wasn't ready for the shock yet lol.

A11Eur0 · Nov 28, 2007, 08:42 PM // 20:42

Mending frenzy W/Mo, with breeze. That ended when I ascended and found new secondaries though...about the same time that mending and breeze start becoming useless.