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Despondency · Dec 25, 2008, 08:55 PM // 20:55

Well for my 1st dood most of the time I spent making him took place @ the naming stage. I usually over think my names but this one was just right - Veil of Midnight - my ranger. After that, I pretty much just over thunk all of my names many of which i wish I could rename now. My 1st however is probably one of my favorite names I've come up with for any game to date. I still love the name even now, ~3 years later.

I ended up actually migrating to warrior due to my playstyle though, since killing stuff is always gets me pumped.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Hanging Man · Dec 26, 2008, 12:25 AM // 00:25

Ign :Rain In Kazakhstan

Haha my first character was an ele. :P Lord of Elemnts was his name. I remember how amazed I was at the nuking abilities eles had. I ran through the entire game with him, got to the Ring of Fire, realized I didn't even have MS. I remember when triple echo nuking was in. I loved nuking all the stupid lil stone summits midgets in sorrows furnace. He was my favorite character ever.
I've tried to make another ele but it just didn't feel right

Trylo · Dec 26, 2008, 01:47 AM // 01:47

this is such a cool thread just reading through what some people have to say!

and now, onto my character:

My first character is Trylo Kanai, an elementalist(/ranger). When I first heard about GW in the beta testing time, elementalists just sounded unique. After reading through the original skills, I knew elementalists had it all (http://www.guildwarsguru.com/skill.php, the first site to actually list the skills for you back then). Anyways, my original idea was to use Earth magic, with the nature rituals like Muddy Terrain to create the best snarer with Glyph of Energy and Earthquake. GW had such a mysterious air back then, as many people didnt even know all the skills.

Anyways, some random background info: My first skill cap was Searing Heat (back when it was 25e and caused exhaust :P). My first gold ever is a q8 max damage fire wand (dropped by a lightning drake) which I still have to this day customized and dyed lime green. Trylo's first 15k armor was Kurzick as I am deeply interested in gothic architecture and art, and GW really made it beautiful with the stone forest setting. He also has an elder red crab pet. Trylo still exists to this day, and we share the connection of being made on the same day since I got GW for my birthday (42 months old IIRC)!

thanks for this opportunity and fun read

socky · Dec 26, 2008, 06:08 AM // 06:08

My first Char was named Slayer Of Spirit, which is currently my main character. He was an assasin... My first mission i had to try out around 20 times, because i could never get past the final boss in Minister Cho's Estate. it drove me temporarily insane. My first Minipet was a Mini Kirin, which is kind of coincidental because the first run ive ever done was zen dajun. my most valuable item ever gotten from a drop:req 9 uninsc perf Plagueborn Sword, perfect. i was so happy i spilt root beer on my keyboard (Bad idea to be drinking root beer while playing GW). My first campain ever beaten on slayer of spirit, Nightfall... One mission that i really love in nightfall is Gate of Pain. Who doesn't love -20 health every time you use a skill? especcially when you use death blossom spam build

My First Pet was a Black Moa. yea, the best pet ever as my first. BLACK MOA FTW!!! j/k. His name was Sorrow. whenever i go henching/heroing, i always bring Sorrow with me, hes dark meat...

I still have Slayer Of Spirit, and Sorrow, and i always thank myself for creating this character, and creating so many good times

Shooshu · Dec 26, 2008, 12:00 PM // 12:00

My first char was a ranger.
Me and my friend started playing together, we were so noobs that my friend had blinding flash and he thought it makes the char that you inflict it onto will temporarly makes the screen white, so he opened an ele and i a ranger, we went through the pre-searing faily well, and when we got to old ascalon we had so much troubles killing the monsters (we didnt know anything about the henchmens and nor didnt know how to add them), i died my friend died and my pet was still alive. We had so many jokes on how useless rangers are and that their pets cant do anything, so i deleted it and opened an ele. Then after 1.5 years I opened a ranger again, cause i knew what they worth better.

lol.

Wistera Garinwood · Dec 26, 2008, 02:16 PM // 14:16

My first character is still my main

Wistera Garinwood - my trusty ranger. I started GW VERY late apparently, I have played just over one year (Wist turned 1 around Thanksgiving). I started the game by myself - joined a tiny, inactive guild that was no help and proceeded to work my way through prophecies with the help of hench and pugs. I met some great friends in the ring of fire and have been in their guild ever since (in fact I am now co-guild & alliance leader). It took me 3 months to complete prophecies with Wist and since then she has completed all the games and obtained all the protector titles.

Still being relatively new to the game I still get excited when I find something new. Wist has progressed from a newb ranger to a decent character and I've branched out as well playing an ele, sin, paragon, monk & derv - but I always come back to Wist.

IAmABarbarian · Dec 26, 2008, 02:23 PM // 14:23

My first character was called Foolicus Maximus, he was originaly a R/Mo because I like the sound of a ranger (before guild wars I hadn't played a game with ranged attacks lol). I remember having just got out of pre-searing and being a total newb, being absolutely amazed that I bought a gold weapon for 2k and being even more amazed at a green axe that someone gave to me. The guy who made me get GW said that he would give me 50k back if I lent him 5k, so I went ahead, but apparently a gargoyle stole the 50k he had made, so I put all my money in my chest incase it got stolen (I know better now lol). I eventually made him a Ranger/Necromancer because I wanted to be a toucher.

Anyways, I still have him and eventually got him a bit further into proph, went to Kaineng Center and bought him some better armor, which he still has now.

Here's a pic

Gorwin · Dec 26, 2008, 07:47 PM // 19:47

Hi!

First, I come from Poland so I don't speak English very well. I hope you will understand my first character's history.

I am 16 years old and I live in the south of Poland. I spend my free time by playing Guild Wars and learning english (i am not too bad english speaker because of Guild Wars). I love Guild Wars and Mike Oldfield's music. My life isn't cheerful because my best friend (his name was Karol) died year ago in a serious car accident (15 December 2007)... I've met him first time 6 years ago. He knew me better than my parents... It's realy hard to live normally for me... I cry when I think about him... And I'm crying now, when I am writing this text...

----- My first character's history -----

It was two years ago, December 2006. I've bought Guild Wars: Prophecies One Milion Edition. I've created my first character: ranger known as The Blue Gorwin (yes, this nick is silly).

The Blue Gorwin spent a lot of time in Pre Searing. He was enjoying beautiful landscape. He was hunting River Skales.
One day he has met drake. "What a big monster!" thought Gorwin. He took his bow and has killed this drake. It was a great battle. Gorwin was very happy! After that he helped Devona with some things. He went back to Ascalon and went to Ascalon Academy. He helped Prince Rurik with killing Vatlaaw Doomtooth. After searing Gorwin was doing favours for Ambassador Zain. Gorwin helped Captain Calhaan, pushed back the invading Charr army, freed Ascalon captives and helped Prince Rurik in Nolani Academy. Then he shouted: "Shivepeaks are beautiful!". But he wanted to go fast to Kryta. He helped people of Rin with going to Kryta in Borlis Pass and in The Frost Gate. He was crying when Prince Rurik died. Finally, he has arrived to Kryta. He was happy because of that. With Justiciar Hablion he killed undeads and went to Lion's Arch. For next month he stayed at Lion's Arch. Then he did a lot of heroic things in Tyria. After year he has killed Undead Lich. That was a glorious battle. A lot of people shouted: "Gorwin, you are our hero!". Now The Blue Gorwin enjoys Tyria, Cantha and Elona. He wants to buy a good-looking bow and armor. But he hasn't got enough gold to enjoy Guild Wars. Eternal Blade req 9 will end Gorwin's financial problems and give me some joy after my best friend's death.

I hope you understand my english and my deep sadness after my best friend's death in a fatal car accident.

You can give me the greatest joy in my life after Karol's death! If you want to cheer me up - give this Eternal Blade to me. I can guarantee you - i will repay you for that. My life is very hard. The choice is yours.

Best wishes,
Bartek from Poland.

IGN The Blue Gorwin

Dr WTF · Dec 26, 2008, 08:08 PM // 20:08

Well i started playing almost 2 years ago, and i was (and still am a bit) the noobest GW player.
Well ive passed between all kinds of ways to make money (1st was the running : I wth a lvl 20 Ele/Ranger runned to the cristal desert missions for 500g each , i was so noob that my only running skill was a ranger one that only lasted 17 secs and the recharge was 20.
My second was the 55hp that one great friend (Duriel Brazuca) teached me...I only had profecies and didnt understood the 55hp thing , he wasnt pro but at lest he kneew how to kill hydras in HM and after lots of pacience he teached me how to farm hidras in HM, that dont give almost any money but gave the necessary to i get mexed armor for my newly created necro.
3rd -> I rly dunno why but i was wth my necro in ToA and i realy didnt kneew what was UW , Duo run UW , 600Hp , Smiter, when 1 monk lvl 20 asked me into his party and then i sad him that i didnt kneew UW but he said , do u have the skills for the build?yes?! so lets go, ill teach you. At taht time i only had profecies and to kill smites i neded Echo - SV -SV (echo) - then SS.
Because of that , ina few weeks i was excluded from the duo UW runs and got sad.
That time i went to pvp and learned how to be a pro by GvG , TA and mostly RA but i saw that i neded more campaigns to be able to GvG nicely so i bouth them. After a few days of pvp in assassin i remembered the shouts GLF perma , GLF Ursan etc and so i gone to guildwiki to know what was that.
I gone to ToA and Silky blonde teached me what a necro do in UW SC and then i become a SCer and lately and after more than 10 hours vieng youtube videos ive become a all areas perma sin.
Now im a bit rich (50K in storage

) but ive never got a nice drop in more than 50 chests.
Thats my history and i know i dont deserve the E-blade but im happy for telling my history here... hope u enjoyed it

RotteN · Dec 26, 2008, 10:45 PM // 22:45

Cute competition, nice idea

Well, i'll try and keep it brief (with my crappy memory, that can't be hard).

I started playing Guild Wars somewhere in april 2005. Coming from years of FPS-play i was in need of a change, and this free-to-play RPG sounded pretty badass. After reading through the whole manual/lore stuff (up to date one of the only game manuals i have ever read) i decided to play an elementalist because they did enormeous amounts of damage (at least according to the manual) and quickly enough Aurelie Enacthiel was born.

After goofing around in pre-searing to get the basics of being an elementalist down, i headed into the academy and stumbled into Ascalon, destroyed and under Charr siege. It was around that time she joined a guild, [pre]Dynasty Warriors [DW][/pre]. With that, she got quickly dragged into the guild's everlasting hunger for victory, and engaged into combat within the tombs of the primeval kings and our own guild hall. Using the powers of Lighting and later on Smiting (paired with Ether Renewal) she wrecked havoc within enemy ranks and brought home many sigils and a lot of rting points.

But as time went by, her little sister, Arianne Enacthiel, began to claim more and more playtime. Eventually, Aurelie retired and left to enjoy a quiet life in the countryside. Her little sister grew up to be the insane weaponswinging girl she's today (<3 warrior !)

The only remaining screenshot of my first character.

Scarn · Dec 27, 2008, 01:15 AM // 01:15

When I first started Guild Wars, I came in as many did: eager-eyed and hungry to make a powerful warrior. I terribly enjoyed the character creation process, I spent many hours deciding on the right hair style, the perfect height, and best facial construction. After I finally decided on what I believed to be the most handsome and ferocious hero Tyria had ever birthed, I stepped into the beautiful world of Pre-Searing Ascalon.

The stark beauty and magnificent vistas that the developers created in Ascalon immediately grabbed my attention and refused to loosen their staunch grasp. In seems somewhat embarrassing in retrospect, but I spent close to a month in Pre. I believed this to be the entire game, and was more than content with it. I equipped my avatar with the best that the Charr would relinquish. I slayed many Skale, countless Devourers, and too many Charr to count. I did my best to put the mischevious Bandits into custody and to right the wrongs dealt to the fair people of Ashford Abbey. It was not till later that I became informed of the game beyond the Searing.

That is the story of the creation of my first character, Donut Tzar. I have no idea where the Donut came from, but I can explain Tzar. At the time I began Guild Wars, I was in the middle of AP European History and we were studying Peter the Great. I decided tzar was an incredibly striking noun and placed it in my character's name.

Thanks for providing this contest and a forum to display affection for our first characters. These various giveaways never cease to impress me with the generosity of some players. Hope this gave you an interesting read and brought back some pleasant memories from your playing start.

Zynkh · Dec 27, 2008, 05:06 AM // 05:06

Hi, thanks for the giveaway of the Eternal (Christmas Spirit FTW!) <3

Sorry for my bad English (not American, hope you understand it)

I Bought Guild Wars 1 year ago (Got another account 3 years ago but get hack QQ).

I bought Factions first and then I saw Assasins and I get stoned cause' the Assassins are the best character on Guild Wars, then I created my Assassin named: Thanis Shadowkiller, at the start I didn't know how to attack but lol, read forums and know how.

I get survivor 1 doing Kaineng Missiones (yeah Old-School), my first armor I created was the Kurzick Armor 1k (I beat all the entire game with Shing Jea Armor!!) 1 month later I dyed black and love it, then I saved money and created Vabbi Armor (too hard to get it) my 2nd Prof. was Monk using [healing breeze] and [mending], lol.
Well, I beat GW with friends help and other missions with Henchies (died a lot but finally I beat Shiro, with Henchies too eheh).

Got all Protector Titles, Beated Mallyx, Beated Kanaxai, and beated all the games.

Hope you like my history. Happy Holidays.

Razorblade Monkey · Dec 27, 2008, 05:59 AM // 05:59

Very cool and generous opportunity you've got here, tyvm =o)

Kasumi Nightshade, female Assassin:

Although technically not my first character (I spent the first day or two messing around with looks/profs/names etc), Kasumi was my first character that was allowed to live past the 24 hour mark =oP She is an Assassin, which was largely the reason I first purchased Guild Wars: Factions. When I first saw the cover art of the Assassin, I just had to check that stuff out! Before that purchase I was quite anti-mmo, so that cg of Nika/Vizu opened my eyes big time (I try/play alot of mmo's now). Although I continued messing with character creation, Kasumi was my main for some time (around 6 months), and got quite alot done on her, coming very close to achieving Kind Of A Big Deal, which at the time, was errr, kind of a big deal =oP. Then one day, shortly after Nightfall was released, I decided this: She is my favourite character I've made, I want her to be as good as possible, and what's the one thing missing? Legendary Survivor! So after thinking about it for about 2 weeks, I thought "screw it! time to reroll Kasumi!". So goodbye to 4 sets of elite armor, almost all elites capped, loads of skills bought, all 3 campaigns completed etc etc...

It was a tough pill to swallow, but the ultimate goal was there, and the only way to reach it was to reroll. All was well, got rank 2 Survivor just from being sensible and doing any killing and xp quests I could find (this is before all the dwarven boxing/fff bs), then after spending 95k on cap sigs, fighting Jade Brotherhood, game freezes... Reboot, 1 death, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! So, needless to say, had to reroll, cause I had my goal and I wasn't going to let the original Kasumi die in vain. At the time 95k was almost all my money, so it was a mega kick in the pants to have wasted it like that, but being a perfectionist, some sacrifices must be made =oP

Rerolled, then got Legendary Survivor in 7 days! None of this fff, dwarven boxing, power levelling, scrolls or any other cheating stuff, just 100% effort, being careful and sensible always, and NEVER, EVER, PuG'ing =oP So regardless of what others think and how many people buy/cheat theirs, Kasumi's max survivor title will always feel fully earned to me, and that's what matters most to me =o)

18 months on, Ultimate Goal achieved... Kasumi Nightshade has trecked all the lands of Guild Wars, destroyed all foes that crossed her path, and now bares the mark of true "i-gotz-no-life-can-i-plz-buy-1"-ness:

God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals!

So to all those players whining their week-old character died so close to r1 Survivor... No offense intended, but get over it... If you want it, go get it! =oD

Ty for reading and best of luck to the winner! =o)

Snap of Kasumi shortly after achieving title:

snodaard · Dec 27, 2008, 10:55 AM // 10:55

hello

In the beginning of Guildwars My brother got himself GW for his birthday, The first time I saw it I was like, wow thats a nice game, so I asked my brother to make my own character on his account. He said it was okay so I was happy and made my ranger.(it was a male one btw)
named Vreescht Mijn Boog, I started realy realy realy realy ( and so on and on and on) slowly becouse I was so impressed of all the nice spots in pre-searing ascalon, So it took me like a week to get to the big rough world

I charmed a pet ofcourse it was a merlandru stalker, named it vreescht me. Just before that I chose my secondairy proffesion, I picked Mesmer. At the first I didn't know how to use it but eventually it worked gr8, I got myself (wich was realy hard) to grendich courthouse, all with henchies and bought epidemic there, for like 40 gold coins becouse that were the prices in that time. I played myself through the game till I got to Lions Arch, the first realy big city where everyone was spamming to sell his goodies, Ofcourse I tried selling my non-maxed shitty Items but I loved it. Then when I pressed K on my keyboard I saw the skills again and I saw Epidemic again so I thought, hmm what was I doing with it in the first place. And I knew it, was looking for the skill apply poision, So looked on wiki,( yeah that was the very very first time I used wiki

) and saw I could get my skill on the ascalon settlement just above Lions Arch, So I went there with my henchies and I failed the first times ofcourse, becouse all the bigh rough feathered beasts on my way.
at last I made it and got myself a good working skillbar. Then I played for several months until I got to the crystal dessert, at the end of the Crystal dessert I had to kill my doppleganger, wich wasn't like it used to be today, realy easy. It took me like 2-3 days to kill him, but I managed to kill him and I got to the dragons lair, got that mission and finaly I were in Droknars forge, I were realy happy, the first thing I did was shouting to my brother to come look

, he wasn't impressed at all becouse he had like 3 characters further then that silly town. I bought my druids armor, dyed it awful yellow and ran around yelling for a half moon becouse I liked those

.

Well you think that's it but no, In those days you were realy good if you were able to kill galrath, so I went there with a lot of friends and we killed him after a long and good fight. we sat there for a while talking about our achievement.

then just after the summer hollidays my neighbour bought guildwars too, but he was soo lucky he got 2 accounts instead of one, so I got my own account. My ranger got deleted, well I remade it but I didn't want to play the whole start all over again with the same character, so I made a necromancer, but well this is about my first character so I won't talk about this one

**sorry for my, I think worse English I'm from holland and I don't like to look at the grammar^^**

Goodluck with picking the winner

KoKoS · Dec 27, 2008, 03:19 PM // 15:19

oohh i love storiiiez =]

so0o0,here goes xD

It all started when my brother got GW for xMas 3 years ag0 (or sth xD) and made his necro.. He would spend hours playing and i considered that pretty wierd because he never plays that much.. So, i observed him and i discovered why he would spend so much time palying x]
So.. me, being an ultimate newbie decided to make my own character (yaay =P) I chose the monk path coz i liked the menlo foto (xP) --> jk.. I chose monk path coz my bro told me that monks are helpful and I offered my very own self to help the community of..(bla bla bla =]) and named him "Kokos Hero" (long st0ry =])
His first death was... the first day i created him =] coz as i mentioned be4, i was the ultimate newbie..!
My brother showed me the basics, but those weren't enough =] When my bro left for holidays, kokos lived the pre-life xD He would spend hours giving flowers to gwen, learning what commands like (/laugh) are, being scammed (=]), and watching the pre- landscapes...One, day he also discovered "DYES" =0 and dyed his yucky armor orange xP.. He also chose the necro path as his secondary profession because my fish died that day (=P)..
When he left pre, it was not until the Gates of Kryta mission that discovered that monks are not for using smiting+blood magic (xP) but are good healers..
One day, he disc0vered what 55hp is, from a show-off that wanted to make me think that he is unstoppable(>.>) and using it, he farmed a lot to buy his elite armors, and buy my other chars their armors =P
Since then he's owning GW with his awsome healing (xP) and 55hp farming..

it was so go0d remembering the old dayz =] gl all! =D

oh and happy holidays all =P

Cowie · Dec 27, 2008, 04:51 PM // 16:51

My first character was a good old warrior. Every game I have played that you can choose your class in I have chose warrior and I thought "why change a good thing right".

Well my friend and I both bought prophecies at the same time and both started together. We played every quest in pre sear completeing every mission while colectiing what we thought were "good weapons" lets say running around with a long sword and ornate buckler is not as appealing to the eyes anymore with all the wonderful skins out there that I had no idea existed lol. We both played our way to level 10 where I then made the decision to have mesmer as my second class (yes took me all the way to level 10). I thought that the game was running out of quests to do very quickly until I accepted my second class and the countdown began to head into the arena (which I had no idea was coming) lol. Needless to say the red team won with ease as we chopped our way through the opposition. I watched the theatrical and was placed in a odd area ad i remeber looking at the map and thinking "this game just hit a whole new level of crazy goodness".

And all that was less then a year ago although Fenrik Dallown's birthday is coming around in may I still play him as my main char remebering all the firsts i had with him in GW and the many more that will inevitably come

Thank you for making this thread I like reminising about how fun it was to play with my first char

Lithril Ashwalker · Dec 27, 2008, 10:33 PM // 22:33

My First Character was a necromancer back in beta prophecies while i was helping test out guild wars before market. i got lucky that my dad heard from some IBM buddies working in Anet part time. my dad was originally supposed to test it out but he gave it to me since i have most gaming experience.

as time went by i eventually deleted the blue haired freak casue of the emo look and factions had came out by this time so i created an assassin called Lithril Ashwalker . this guy is my MAIN character now and has the most titles. nothing special though, trying to earn a "living" if you will but due to nerfs nearly impossible so i can get FoW Armor. so far not even close to gaining enough money or materials.

i could care less if my friends got the armor or soemthing of the WEWT kind, but if they dont and i get this id give the cash made from the eternal set to them, becasue over the 4 years ive been on GW theyve become my family. hell ive even met them and became a godfather to one of their children!!

i owe them that much for helping me out.

RIP grandma Duell - 3/12/03

Strife17 · Dec 27, 2008, 10:40 PM // 22:40

my first character was a male ele named daisuke strife, a prophecies character

my friend got me into playing gw since he gave me a spare account and i found it very cool to run around in pre searing flaring all enemies that i run into

also beating the lvl 5 dragon at the lake for the first time is still a fresh memory.. the excitment and feeling of accomplishment was unbelievable.

then my friend decided it was time to go to post searing, and i remember coming to ascalon and thinking "wow i'll never find my way in here, but someday i know where most npc's are, just a matter of time".

he helped me with his lvl 20 character and i had a lvl 8 Ele doing the northern wall, in the middle of the mission he left me alone for dinner and i was surrounded by devourer scorpions all afraid of them to kill my precious ele

after a few missions i reached LA and was so proud to buy first armor that blue one

what else do i remember... oye doing one of the mission in the forest with all those spiders and me getting mad because healing breeze only regened for 3 pips and i wanted more pips but i didn't knew how!! also i had this awesome skill that did a lot of dmg! "meteor shower". but back then i didn't knew what exhaustion was, and didn't knew where it was coming from and i kept getting mad at that energy bar "ffs regenn!!!!"

what i liked most on playing that character the ignorance you play with, each town is a new experience, hoping for a skill trader to find some new skills!!

deleted him though..

RIP Daisuke Strife

Teron Ganor · Dec 27, 2008, 10:42 PM // 22:42

Man there truly is a massive amount of posts here. I figure i might as well post my first char's experience too.

I bought GW Proph about 2 years ago, (figured it was first...might as well start there.) right after getting married at 25 years of age, and installed it on my old frankenstein i built from the local thrift store. (450 Ghtz cpu, 256 Mb RAM and a 64 Mb Video Card

) I powered up the beast (which currently sounded like a Cessna Airplane Engine) and launched Guild Wars. I had already red the manuscript that came with the game and decided that i wanted to make a warrior/elementalist. So i sat back and waited, and waited, and waited, for my computer to load all the files. Finally the game booted and i found myself at the bottom of some hill with what looked to be a city wall off to one side. There were people running all over the place and all the armor looked kind of like shiny bluish glass. (for any of you who have ever run GW on a crappy card you know the look i mean!) I tried out the controls (w,a,s,d) and ran around for a bit. I then tried communicating with those around me to ask for help or get some guidance on what a newb like me was to do first. Alas, no one responded and I was highly disappointed. I clicked Menu>Log Off>Yes and stuck Guild Wars in a drawer for the next Year.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> Fast Forward one year's time.

Hearing from a friend that GW was truly a fun game to play, and having a new computer, (1.5 Ghtz cpu, 512 RAM, and 256 Card woot!) I decided to give it one more shot, pulled GW off the shelf, and loaded it up once more. Once again waiting for the files to load i grabbed myself a sandwich and waited. I almost choked when the town loaded. What i had thought a year ago had been outside of a city, was actually a town in and of itself. I actually had cool looking armor on (come on i had just started :P) and could now admire the graphics. (somewhat thanks to my card) I immediately started plugging away at quests until I got to the outpost Foibles Fair? (I think thats the one) Where I met my first truly helpful GW Player. He helped explain some basics i had missed, took me through some missions and helped me upgrade my armor. He was pleasant and friendly not to mention helpful and later let me know he was the leader of quite a massive Guild! He invited me and i gladly joined.

After that pre was a breeze with all the help i got, and i moved on to post where my new guildies hooked me up with 5 Plat to get started. I went on to beat Proph, Nightfall, Factions (I know i got them backwards but the Heroes man, the HEROES!) and am now most of the way through EoTN with him. He wears yellow dyed Elite Glad armor with an Elite Kurz helm. I have come far since then and now command about 12 Chars (cant remember exactly how many haha) my newest being a 55 Monk. (Man that's fun!) Years after GW has come out and just before GW2 I am finally starting to get the hang of the game. I have since split off of my Guild to form my own but still keep close ties with my beloved guildies. My first Char ever, Teron Ganor, has now almost completed every game Anet has thrown his way and has basically used the same axe build (except slight variations for an instance or two) through all campaigns. He is my favorite and will never get deleted.

To me he IS GW.

Even if I do not win, Thank you OP for letting me relive this trip down memory lane...it has been truly rewarding !

Stokely · Dec 28, 2008, 12:49 AM // 00:49

Nice of you to do a giveaway like this

My first character was a ranger named Intrepid Owl. I made the char when Guild Wars was just Guild Wars. Ah, the good old days, before all of the nerfs :P My ranger was my first character to get elite armor from marhans grotto/granite citadel. Shortly after that, I made a monk. This is where GW got interesting...By the time I was level 20, someone had tipped me on a "solo" farm build with an "invincible monk." Interested, I made the monk a 55, and started farming. This was probably a month or maybe more before they first nerfed drops. So, I had a little bit of time with my insider farm build that really, not many people knew about at the time. When they started nerfing everything...and when factions came out, was when I stopped playing (eh, I just got bored). Now, over 3 years later I am back playing again, and surprised to see the 55 monk still works (EVERYTHING is nerfed though..) And everything is new to me. Heroes (which are waaay better than henchies, gj ANet), party search, title tracks (when I played fame was all there was)...Festival celebrations, tomes, All of the new classes/new skills. It all has made the game a lot better imo (besides all of the farming nerfs...esp where they run away from AoE attacks, ugh) When I started up again, I had like 700k in my storage, and I thought I was rich, so I was giving out money and items left and right. I didn't reallise that most people that had been playing for a while were rich..Probably richer than me in ectos+zkeys. All of this stuff is new to me. My only regret after coming back was selling a req9 healing prayers celestial compass with perfect mods from a zchest for 65e..Just seems kind of low after checking the prices here. I just bought nightfall and am working on 2 chars in it right now. Nightfall is pretty good so far, so I think that I am going to buy the other addons and keep playing. If I won the giveaway, I would honestly probably sell the items so I can be "rich" again and help out my noob guild members on a reg. basis.

GL to all