Curse

Cain Swift · Dec 24, 2008, 01:05 AM // 01:05

I remember my first GW character she was a Me/R. I would give her name but it was my real name spelled backwards. I stopped playing for 2 years and when I picked the game back up again a year ago October I deleted her not knowing anything about the birthday present mini pets ;_; she would of had 2nd year one but I didn't look. I was upset ^_^.

Chief Odoacer · Dec 24, 2008, 01:21 AM // 01:21

My first character was a male Warrior/monk named Chief Odoacer and he was my main character for the better part of 2 years. When I first started off in pre i was unimpressed by the warrior skills since they did not do as much damage as the smiting skills provided by my monk secondary. So I progressed through Prophecies gleefully rushing to the skill trainer in every new town i visited to check if there were any new smiting skills i could purchase. Imagine my expression when i found the azure shadow boss in the shiverpeaks that could give me an elite smiting skill. It was'nt until the Ring of Fire islands that someone finally critisized my build and showed me a viable alternative consisting of warrior skills that could maximize my potential. I continued with that character as my main and have a few max titles on him.

Thanks for hosting this contest, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all and congrats to the eventual winner.

lzxatwork · Dec 24, 2008, 05:10 AM // 05:10

IGN: Alicia Akai
Other notes: Wishing for the weapons to repay a good friend, Ag Ami

My first GW character would be a warrior named Mai Akai, i started some time in factions, which is still the campaign i like most for starting new characters (fast leveling =P ) at that time i was still new to the game and had no clue about most of the game mechanics and i dont even have enough money to get a set of 1k armor.
Luckily my friend, Ag Ami, who started a bit earlier decided to help me out a lot, patiently teaching me about the game as well as answering my nubby questions. He even decided to forgo buying the weapon set that he liked just to gear me up.
Right now i still use my warrior a lot for dungeons as well as faction farming, i had always wanted to repay him (Ag Ami) in some way for spending so much time and effort in helping me out at the start to the extent of sacrificing the weapons he liked, but i am kinda poor in gw and couldnt really afford nice enough stuff...

I know he like translucent looking/crystal like weapons so i though that this might be a chance to repay him (xmas is about giving ^^ ) , so i decided to reply to this give away thread, to wish for the eternal set not for myself, but for my friend, Ag Ami.

If i somehow win the items i hope that it could be delivered to him directly so i could give him a surprise! (we could talk thru PM and i'll find some way to make sure he is on during the planned time =P )

sumfears · Dec 24, 2008, 06:16 AM // 06:16

Ahh I bought the game the week it came out. Me and my buddies played it pretty well. So my first character was a Warrior. His name was B A R S unfortunately i don't still have him. I leveled him to about 15 or so then he got deleted for a need of space.

Ramod · Dec 24, 2008, 06:48 AM // 06:48

My first character was a ranger. Ramod Maxes, also my forum name. I started out with my irl housemate who got me Guild Wars Factions for Christmas. I played it for a few days and decided to get Guild Wars Prophecies myself. I remember when we got into our first guild, the guild leader gave us each 20 platinum, we never seen so much gold ever as you know in prophecies it takes awhile to gain level/gold. We then got this so called "run" to Droknar's Forge to get our first armor. It was great...I also went out to charm a wolf. I still have that character till this day, well now he has a bit better armor

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LithiumPicnic · Dec 24, 2008, 07:23 AM // 07:23

Wow, never thought I'd be even thinking about my first character again. "His name was Robert Paulson, his name was Robert Paulson" Nah not realy, but hey, they're both dead, right? He was "Ashe Crowthorne", a male warrior, and as green as me when he started his journey through Nightfall. I thought the classic wammo might be the best way to start exploring a new game, and rightly so: OMG mending was sooo cool. It makes red bars go up... Now thats what I'm talking about ;-) Anyway, everything went ok-ish, untill I died at every mob in Kourna. WTF? Oh, it might help getting better armor. 50AR Istani armor just doesn't cut it anymore, lol. Anyway, he eventualy made it past "The Drought" (gawd knows how), and settled in Chantry, doing some smite runs when I was bored of playing my new and improved characters. I eventualy decided he's rather fugly, and replaced his character slot with a much prettier female version, which now also is settled in chantry. (amoung other places) Thats about it. RIP Ashe.

AnonTerror · Dec 24, 2008, 07:34 AM // 07:34

First character is Anon Terror, a ranger that I still have (and have most of my hours accumulated on) and play every time I get on Guild Wars. PvE sucks and out of the 700 hours alone I've spent on Terror I have yet to complete Nightfall or EOTN.

Srak Scream · Dec 24, 2008, 08:46 AM // 08:46

I was a little late getting around to the game, about 4 months after launch, a buddy of mine introduced me to it while at a basketball tourny he had it on his laptop. I was hooked from day one. Couldn't get enough of Pre-Searing to start with. When it came time to make my first character there was absolutely no question it was going to be a Necromancer. I just loved the look and feel of the profession and the mythology around it. The idea of having my own undead army fascinated me along with stealing my opponents health was very satisfying.

My first big challenge was what to name him? I had no idea what i was going to do, I wanted it to be simple but sleek. No idea how but it just came to me. What do people do when they see something terrifying? They scream of course. I decided that was to be my characters last name. But what would his first name be? I love the idea and of the first and last name starting with the same first letter so the name would roll off of the toungue. So i knew it would start with an 'S' but I wanted something nobody had ever heard of before. Not "sam" or "steven" but something very unique that everyone would eventually know me by. Somehow i forged a new name that all my buddies would come to know me by. Srak.

Unique eh? I got a lot of weird looks from my personal friends to start but Srak Scream just seemed to be a match made in heaven for my tall, thin, but very scary Necro. From day one in Pre when i decided to go Necro/Ele (due to the fact i also wanted to use meteor shower eventually because i had seen its awesome mob-smashing power in PvE) I loved spamming flare (lol i know) and vamp gaze to both burn and steal health from all my enemies. I loved going it alone to start with and have come full circle since my first days and I now know the importance of having not only good teammates but teammates that you have chemistry with. Both in PvE and PvP communication and reaction as a team is vital. I learned this while getting rolled many times going it alone on my Necro.

After a while when factions came out it was just natural for me to continue my dominance with him and not start a new character. Even with Srak Scream being a Necro and having no speed boosts or anything of the sort. I loved exploring the remote areas of tyria with him. One night in particular I remember exploring in the Maguuma Jungle. I was still by all means a noob at this point, but the game was incredibly fun for me. I loved the sense of adventure I got out of it. Well that night in Maguuma I stumbled upon something. Something that is a well known fact by most people now. this is before I knew of this site or any others that help you along so I was doing all the discovering on my own at this point. I found a shrine to Grenth (my idol at this point in the game) and I loved taking screen shots at this point. So naturally i felt I needed to kneel to this god of the Necromancers. Magically at the time we had favor so it all worked out. I keeled to take a screen shot and magically a ghost comes out to meet me. I was stunned to find this Avatar of Grenth coming out to speak to me. I used this blessing from the Avatar to help me get through the rest of the Jungle that night. I was so satisfied after my night of exploring. That has always been my favorite part about Guild Wars, whether I get online for 15 minutes or 6 hours I felt like I accomplished something when I get off.

Sadly things didnt end with Srak Scream quite like I planned. One night after the release of nightfall (before GW:EN was announced) I was PvPing with some of my personal friends and I needed to reroll another profession. For some reason I needed to do this quickly, it may have been one open spot on an HoH team or something but I proceded to delete Srak Scream. Immediately after it happened I was stunned. My heart sank. Had I lost 1000 hours of my time? Had I lost all the questing, gold, and time I invested in my main PvE character? Had I destroyed my pride and joy of the game? I was devastated and proceeded to not play the game for 3 months and had no desire to play again. I felt sick whenever I thought about it.

Eventually I found my way back. I had gotten everything out of Srak Scream i could have imagined. I made it through two campaigns with him, unlocked all Necro skills from all 3 campaigns, and capped many elites from other professions. His name spawned all of my other characters names. All my PvE characters have Srak as the first name and the last name is another 'S' word that is related to that profession.

Srak Spear
Srak Scythe
Srak Smite

etc.

The one regret I have with Srak Scream is that I was never able to get him a hall of monuments. His hall would have been my grandest achievement. His deletion has led me to be a more PvP focused player, feeling that I accomplished all I wanted in PvE with him.

Ive come a long way as a Guild Wars player since first starting Srak Scream over 3 1/2 years ago. I went from spamming flare in Pre-Searing to solo farming underworld with SS. No matter what else I do in Guild Wars I will always be Srak Scream first and foremost.

I will give you one guess what my first Guild Wars 2 character's name will be.....

A Kitten On Fire · Dec 24, 2008, 11:44 AM // 11:44

I remember my first character, Nexus Twilight, my female monk. Of course I didn't know anything about the game at the time and went /necro because I heard you could summon minions and I liked the thought of that for some reason... But that monk was a mega ninja and still is

Anyways that is amazing that you're actually GIVING away a Q9 eternal blade... wish I had that kind of money. IGN is God Of Toast

Thank you for being this generous and really, congratulations to whoever gets this prize. Treasure it. :P

victorian · Dec 24, 2008, 12:07 PM // 12:07

Hello!

Aaah, my first character ever... that was such a long time ago. I remember first buying this game in 2006, when I bought it because I was playing with a friend in real life. Coming from a Runescape background, at that time I was heavily into the Ancient Magicks in Runescape, and of course that influenced the way I picked a name for my character. The Barrage spells - the highest level of Ancient Magicks - became my foundation from which I formed the name: SHADOW BARRAGER X! (of course - it didn't tell me anything at all about the person who was playing it, now I realize that it is a generic doesn't-say-anything-about-me kinda name.)

I believe he was first a Monk - a male monk. Clad in the best robes I could find, I went about making him a "solo" character - a Mo/N with some healing spells coupled with summoning deadly minions. My battle plans were heavily thought out: I would first knockdown the opponent with Bane Signet, then send my minions in charging before finishing off with a Deadly Swarm. My friend then had a N/Mo - whom I later realized was much more adept to producing minions and doing all that deadly shiz. Needless to say, I soon deleted that character - but the most memorable time spent on that character was in one of the first few missions - I think Ruins of Surmia - smiting the Charr that ran back and forth with Symbol of Wrath! I remember feeling proud of all those 13s rising up my screen and even boasted that I was the one who did all the work slaying Charr!

Well, that was some nice time spent reminiscing. And I'm back to a monk now - after about 3-4 characters wasted not knowing what I wanted, I'm back to a monk, Victorians Secret. Thankfully because of my time with SHADOW BARRAGER X, I presume!

Have a blessed Christmas!

basch · Dec 24, 2008, 12:22 PM // 12:22

Hmmm... My 1st character was a female warior named Tifa, "born' in pre-ascalon. The very first days of her life was spent in lovely oldschool ascalon doing all quests availiable there, running with white "crystaline sword" was quite fun at the beggining but after a short time it became really boring and sometimes even annoying. Theres where i decided to proceed with the campain. In fact ascalon after searing was not as hard as i supposed, I have made every mission till LA, where i traveled to Cantha to level up. So i did, now i was ready to travel to the far north of shiverpeaks, land of brave norns , wise asuras and bloody charrs (thats how i have been thinking about it those days). One thing surprises me now. How was I able to beat that expansion without Heroes, elite skill, max armor and with my epic white Crystaline ;P Heres where i have heard about good farming place , which UW was this days, i capped my 1st elite , VWK and started farming. I farmed over 200 ectos but starting getting bored playing warior ,I created my next char, on which i did Legendary Survivor, but thats the other story...

I rly hope you enjoyed the story, sorry about my quite bad english and all mistakes i did.

Thx in advance

Amisi Layla

wtfisgoingon · Dec 24, 2008, 07:42 PM // 19:42

i knew i wouldnt win
best verbal skills win

valakas · Dec 25, 2008, 01:11 AM // 01:11

Heya. I was introduced to GW by this guy from school who later on became my boyfriend ^^. He showed me basicly every class in GW but there was this one that amazed me the most. It was called dervish. When i first saw it i was like "wow this is so awesome it looks like a grim reaper". The day after, i bought GW nightfall and created my first char, a derv called Valakas rider (tribute to a raid boss from L2). I love my char and i play alot with him, mostly everytime im online ^^. Its my first char and the one i will never ever delete cause it means alot to me. I learned how to play GW using that char and spend lots of happy moments with my bf and my guild mates using that char. U can say im a derv-a-holic ^^

GL to all and Merry christmas

farmerfez · Dec 25, 2008, 01:51 AM // 01:51

uhm did my post get deleted?

If it did uhm wtf lol

ExilGuru · Dec 25, 2008, 03:53 AM // 03:53

My First Character was a complete bomb.. it was a warrior with red hair in a pony tail.. once i figured out how to leave presearing after about a month, i went into post knowing practically nothing about the game. I was a complete NOOB. I ended up finally saving up enough gold from doing quests (couldn't figure out missions) to get the 15k armor after paying for a run to droks when i didn't know what was there.. i didn't realize there was more than 1 different kind of 15k armor and i bought a crappy one so i started a new char and haven't played my first since! 6 months=no max titles

devil_sheild · Dec 25, 2008, 06:01 AM // 06:01

My charactar Deveils Sheild began his journey in Ascilon. At the armory he chose his armor to Yellow Dye because he was a Golden Devel Warrior. He battle many wolfs and begs. His most feared nemesis was a level 5 Bison. For many level Devil Sheild was very affraid of this creature. But he had a determanation to destroy him! For this task he decided to use Mesmer secendary skills because they had Conjure phantasm which takes down his foes very quickly.

He ran to the bison and fought it in a ferocious battle, and had to use many healing signets ^^. Unfortunately, upon first attempt, he fell down to the floor dead. But he was determined and now that he fought htebeast and saw that he could damage, it, he was determined to be afraid of it NO LONGER! And on the second try this bison was slain at the hands of Devels Sheild. Buahahaha!! After this it was time to move on to bigger prey! And Devels Shield went to declare war on the toughest beasts in the region!

He traveled far and wide through the mountains in the southern to the Swamp river full of Riverskales! All foes fell to his mighty hammer. Then he came upon a village and reassuer all the villagers that he will save them for further ever beasts invading them! And he clear off the meadows of pigs and riverskales! But slaying this beasts only made him hungry for more formidable prey. So he goes to Wizard FOlley and ask anyone there where is the toughest foes?? It was there he learned about the Charr north of the gate!!

So after reaching the north gate, he tried to enter the gate, but when he tries to go through the gate he could not run to the gate close enough after pushing the switch! It is obvious that the charr fear him so are playing a trick. So he went back and ask how to fight the charr?? They say to head to the Academy.

So this is what golden Dragen Sheild warrior goes and he fights many charr alongside Prince Rurik. Being able to fight alongeside this phenomenal warrior was a great honor for Devels Shield, so he made sure to give his entire Heart into battle. The charr fell swiftly and easily, despite Devels Shield Dire low health during many of the battles. After this battle the gerat wall fell to the charr and A Burning Inferno plagued across the lands.

Seeing the beauty scorched from the lands into a desolate wasteland, killed all of the Villagers near Wizard Folley that Devels Sheild pledged to protect from harm. He could not imagine what it must have been like for those people when he told them he would protect them, and he dissapeared to fight charr and when the battle of charr came to that town, he could not be there to protect them. He felt devastated as if his world had been shattered. Beautiful Ascalon reduced to nothing, all the villagers he once loved and protected dead, abandoned by him. He start doing quests once in a while to kill Grawls and help people around Ascalon.

Then two months later, the 2008 Hallewween event came around, and Devels Sheild found many tonics and witch's brews. He didnt pay them much thought until he realized he could get drunk off of them. Maybe if this items didnt drop for him thigs would have turned out diffrently. But once he realise he could drink them all his problems went away. So currentely Dvels Sheild lives a sad life in ascalon sucking down Witch brews and eggnog, still at level 7 with nothing to live for. He starts doing quests for people around Ascelon less and lesst in favor of self pity and alcoholisem.

For a few days he went to the Armer trader at Ascalon to try to get armor pieces. This interest him to get materials and gold, but whne he has a hard time getting this, he ended up just run around Ascalon in a drunken haze calling people jews for not helping him. Recently Devels Sheild has joined a clan called Warriors Infiniti, however, they do not support his emotional needs enough to help him out with his alcoholism.

Today wenh Devels sheild looks in the mirror. He sees a failure. Sometime he looks at his old armor and sees the Shining Golden Knight who saved all of the southern villagers, but this thout is quickly replaced with Disgust at his failure and drunkenness. And now cannot even wear his armor without hateing himself for secceeding to his false visions of his own honor. He now runs around a naked drunk in ascalon calling people noobs and getting kicked out of runs to Lion's arch for bad mannar. Maybe one day Devels Sheild will complete the journy to Lion's Arch and continue his journy, but for now, his destiny is unknonw.

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Loki Merethalderlad · Dec 25, 2008, 06:19 AM // 06:19

first character hmm? Alright, my first ever character was a ranger named Sky Soma. I started out in pre with him over three years ago and deleted him about two years ago to make room for a mesmer, which i thought i would have more fun playing. Had regretted that decision for a long time since. I had some great times with my ranger. Still remenbered that melandrus stalker that i kept till it was a healthy lvl 20 cat which I thought did good damage even without beast mastery :P ahh i was so naive then lolz. with that ranger, i also joined my first guild of friends that i had know in an multiplayer 2D spaceship game called continuum. They introduced me to this game and thus far have me addicted lol. Ah, also, I'm pretty sure i was the first ranger (with the same name) during the beta's to have capped the elementalist skill Meteor Shower from an ele skill right and used it XD

Nibbit · Dec 25, 2008, 03:14 PM // 15:14

When I first played GW, I had no clue what I was doing, I had never played any mmo before I began my epic 29 month journey. I chose I ranger cuz my "avatar" had to look like a ninja, and you didnt have assassins back then. My ranger used both a bow and a sword/shield back then, so I could hit people from long and close range. (RANGER) I liked the pre searing a lot, and then, all of a sudden, a destroyed landscape (old ascalon), it stopped me from playing for a week, I got so depressive from it lolol.

But, I picked up the game again, and bravely went throught the icy mountains, the nice weadows of kryta, the paranoid jungle, etc. Joined a guild, learned how to play mmo's in general, etc.

Now 29 months later, im pretty proud of what I've achieved, r5 maxed titles, r8 hero, a nice champ title, and a nice FoW set for all of my pves, all thanks to the ranger that got me going.

My ranger is now a retired pve'er and occasinaly does some charity work in Alliance Battles.

end of story

greetz nibbsta

optik · Dec 25, 2008, 05:33 PM // 17:33

Well my first char was a monk : Soul despairs. I was stuck in pré-searing profecy haha (love gwen & charr tbh)

it's good to see some good people like u dude and "le mot de la fin" in french : SALAM SHALOM AMEN MAKE PEACE NOT WARS KKTHX

Happy Xmas & Happy new year btw.

Djinn Effer · Dec 25, 2008, 08:22 PM // 20:22

My first character's story isn't that great, so I should probably tell another one... But since you asked about the first, I will tell about that one first:

My very first character was a female Necromancer with white hair by the name of Djinn Illuvator -- I tried to make her look like Eve.

The name itself came from a couple things. I've always been very fond of genies and djinns, I really liked the movies Wishmaster -- even though he was very cruel in those. It also sounds like my first name -- Djinn, Jen. So, the pronunciation would be spot on (You can see later I made Djinn Effer - say it out loud, Jennifer). Illuvator is just a name I liked from a book, The Silmarillion.

I was sooo bad... I remember I went through the game, and I looked on the GW websites to see what armors there were, and I wanted Tormented armor soooo bad! So, I played through the game and eventually got to Quarrel Falls and I got my Tormented Armor. Not max of course, but I was really excited at the time, as you might imagine.

Then I went on to doing The Gates of Kryta mission over and over, killing the drakes there because supposedly it was good for getting gold.

Well, funny story actually, this whole thing... I went through the game thinking it was sooo hard and I sucked so bad, and everyone around me was just so much better than me... Then one day I was typing to someone and accidentally hit "h" and I found out about attribute points --- I was level 19. Yes, I made it to level 19, thinking the game was super hard, before I figured out attribute points existed! And so, of course I was really excited about that... Everyone in the guild I was in at the time of course laughed at me and wondered how I didn't know.

Just prior to figuring out about attribute points someone had shown me that they farmed the skale outside of The Gates of Kryta, and killed them all with one spell - Meteor Shower. So, I figured "that must be it!" So, I got that spell. He was a Necromancer too, so I figured that must be the thing to do. Of course, I didn't know what anything did yet at this point. So, I get the spell and die horribly. I don't understand why it's doing so little damage when his wiped out all the monsters in seconds. Little did I know... :P

Now, later I ended up going from Djinn names to Maliclot names, which are a mixture of Malice and Lancelot. Also sounds a lot like my last name... Anyways!

Jenipfizer Maliclot (warrior) was my very first character to hold the "Maliclot" name, though all except one character ever since has held that last name. The name really just came from mine but just all strange and indistinguishable. My original Warrior's name was Djinn Twdneanc way way way long ago, my new Warrior's inspiration was actually the first Female Warrior that got full Fissure, she's an exact replica except a slightly less light skin tone. She eventually replaced my first Warrior entirely, in terms of the whole RP aspect of it.. She was engaged to a Warrior named Tank Windwalker which I had been friends with since release.

Neato Maliclot (Monk) was my second ever character to hold the "Maliclot" name, infact she also was the first character to hold the "Neato" name which I am now known by, unfortunately. It was initially created because I wanted to make a new Monk but couldn't think of a name for the life of me, so I was just like "alright.. I guess I'll just use my Warrior's last name so I don't have to figure out a new last name" then I ended up just being like.. "hm.. neato!" and thats what its named turned out being, lol. For a very long time Neato was my favorite character, eventually she became less favored as I grew tired of Monking but there's still a ton of history behind her, enough in fact that I would never delete her just for that. Neato was engaged to, and eventually married Deripfi Maliclot (which happened to be another one of Tank Windwalker's characters he made to match my last name) and well, they had a daughter named Spiffy Maliclot (a cute lil Ranger) after some drama they nearly got a divorce but they are still married, though Deripfi quit GW about 3 years ago. And of course, I talk about the roleplay aspect a lot, but... I was never really into roleplaying. It was more of a one day "Our characters should be married" sort of thing, there never was the whole... roleplaying thing. That just didn't happen. We didn't go around using emotes and talking in strange character and acting like the game world was real or anything... We just kinda joked around about things, like y'know... Here's an example: Click here

Next one would be Tiffany Maliclot, my Elementalist. I created her on my now main account when I got the slots from buying Factions even though I already had an Elementalist currently with all the 15k armors, Ember Maliclot. I think she's up there with one of my favorites cause Ele has always been my favorite class to play (havn't really ever been too great at it though), the second character I ever created was I B Bad which was an Ele, I had her for months and months and was the only character I could never delete.. Eventually I gave in and deleted her, only to deeply regret it later. I guess she just seems like a continuation of I B Bad to me, but in all reality she has no real back story. She's sooo cute though!

My new (well, 3 years old now..!) Necromancer, Irtiu Pr Aa. Her name is actually Ancient Egyptian, irtiu pR-Aa meaning Blue Pharaoh, which the Pharaoh thing in Egypt was actually considered more of a “Temple”, if you can understand that. So, Blue Temple, if you've ever heard the whole “My body is my temple” thing - thats kinda where I was going. My very first character was a Necro named Djinn Illuvator, she was a bit taller than normal and had white hair - she is long since deleted but I still have her chest piece (49 armor Tormentor from Quarrel dyed purple), I'd say my most loved character was my Necro that I deleted quite some time ago which I had made only for Putrid Explosion, Imy Ra Msa - she had 15k Bonelace dyed black, then the day after I got the armor for her they nerfed Putrid Explosion, leaving me stumbling around trying to find my place in the world.. *sadface* Irtiu doesn't have too much history like my other characters, I've had her for quite some time though, I've kinda drifted away from playing Necro though sadly.

Anyways, I don't think I have any more characters that really qualify as "first," but, those are pretty much the beginning of my Guild Wars. I was just happy to share!

Oh and good luck to everyone else.