I've been playing Guild Wars since September 2005. In those almost three years, I've gone through a lot of characters. I mean, a lot. The only character I've never rerolled and who lives on as an active playable character is my monk. All my other characters have been recreated at least once, in the case of my ele and mesmer even at least five times.
My characters, let me show you them:
Alyeska "Aly" Lloryan is a Tyrian-born warrior, created after I felt the urgent need to smash things in the face with an axe or a sword. She was quite pimped out at a young age because she got runs to all the good places and had access to my primary's account storage.
Aly runs both sword builds (her favorite sword elites are Crippling Slash and Dragon Slash) and axe builds (Eviscerate!) and she's usually an assassin (for Dash, teleports or Disrupting Dagger) or elementalist secondary (for Shock or Conjure Frost). In her early days, Aly pretended to be a minion master in Fort Ranik, and she ran around in hideous Canthan armor until she finally got her hands on her all-time favorite set, Elite Gladiator's, a.k.a the Battle Bra. These days, Aly is also the proud owner of Vabbian armor.
Darya is my third ranger, Canthan-born and raised. I love rangers a lot in PvP battles like Alliance Battles, but getting one through PvE feels like such a chore, therefore she is the only main character of mine that hasn't completed a single campaign, except Eye of the North (and she only finished that one for the armor). Yeah. Go, me.
Darya can be most often spotted out in the wild, wild lands of Grenz Frontier and Saltspray Beach, where she shoots burning, poisoned arrows at people who annoy her, all the while mocking people for casting long-casting spells around her. Her favorite elites are Crippling Shot, Burning Arrow and the new and improved Incendiary Arrows. She never leaves home without Mending Touch, which has saved her life numerous times as sometimes she bites off a little more than she can chew. She's usually a monk secondary and wears Monument Armor.
As it turns out, the trick to making me love the dervish is to dress it up in pretty clothes. Loren is my third or fourth Dervish, who I gifted with Vabbian Armor about three days after she was created.
Loren is usually a warrior secondary, though she's been spotted as half an assasin as well. Her favorite secondary skills are Wild Blow, Dash and Disrupting Dagger, as well as Rush. She often looks Lyssa, the twin goddess of beauty and illusion, and always has Razah following her around to make her damage numbers go up. Loren would love to do ABs, but she's scared and needs a cute little mini-monklet to back her up :(.
Zoya is my fourth necromancer (my fifth... I think... if you count the male Prophecies one) and the first character with hair that wasn't dark or red (my preferred hair color). I just fell in love with the white hair.
To stave off boredom (because necromancers are very much a fire-and-forget type of class with little utility. Very powerful in PvE, but kind of boring), I played her as a non-minion master Death curser. Blowing things up with Icy Veins and Putrid Bile proved to be a lot of fun, and so she's currently making her way through Elona and the cold lands north of Ascalon. Her armor, Vabbian, is a set that had to grow on me for a long while, but now I think it's elegant and pretty. Plus, it dyes very nicely indeed.
Noel is my nth mesmer (it's bad if you lose count, right?), created with pretty much one goal: to get her Fissure of Woe armor. As you can see, I succeeded. Like a couple of other mesmers that came before her, Noel is Canthan, as Canthan mesmers are the prettiest mesmers in the wooooorld.
Noel is usually an elementalist for some help with energy management if she's not half a ritualist for a decent res spell. In PvE, she runs a number of different elites, ranging from the old faithful Energy Surge to Power Block to Migraine or Ineptitude. Visions of Regret is a new addition to her list of favorites. In ABs, Noel loves Power Block so she can piss people off but good. This tends to happen before an angry assassin decides she makes for a decent between-meals snack. Luckily, Noel almost never ABs without monkly backup from within her alliance.
Ah, paras. The bane of my GW existence. They are a solid class, usually fun to play as they typically run some of the best party-wide defense skills in the game, and yet... They're okay. I got Dunya some pretty Vabbian armor and completed Nightfall on her without any issues (and without dying). She's in early Eye of the North, but I don't really feel like playing her. She was part of a very fun all-para FoW outing--things like that are a lot more entertaining than just questing and missioning through a campaign. :D At least I like this para more than my previous ones...
A profession rerolled even more than a mesmer, Tahvi is my god-knows-th elementalist. She and Nyx are my only Elona-born characters because frankly, Nightfall nub island is a chore and I'm never ever doing it again. Tahvi's first elite set was Aeromancer, but she has many, many (MANY) more sets of armor. Her current favorite is Vabbian, despite the fact she's as Kurzick as Danika zu Heltzer.
Tahvi can choose from a wide variety of secondaries for a number of reasons, but she tends to be a mesmer or ritualist secondary. She's usually a Fire or Earth elementalist in PvE, but likes to play an Air or Water ele in ABs because making people angry is so much more fun than simply blowing them up. Her favorite elite skills are Mind Blast, Blinding Surge, Shatterstone, Water Trident and Unsteady Ground.
With the april 2009 big update, Tahvi got a little bit of a makeover. Though I can't change any of my characters' faces (it'd be too weird, as it would just make them new characters), I gave her my favorite Canthan hairstyle and a different skintone. The face is still the same and I gotta say, the more I see it, the more I love. Tahvi ♥
My oldest surviving character, Valaris has survived every character purge so far. She's usually the first I take through any new content, and she was the first to get Fissure of Woe armor when I decided I wanted to be incredibly poor for a set of pretty armor.
Valaris started out her illustrious monking career with an ele secondary, presumably for Firestorm or whatever. Thankfully, very few screenshots of those dark days live on on my computer. For quite some time, she was a Divine Boon healer, which, if anything, at least taught her how to manage her energy. At some point, someone beat some sense into her, and she switched to saner, more efficient builds. Boonprotting remains an extraordinary pleasant memory, as do the Blessed Light days.
These days, Valaris loves the new and improved Word of Healing, though Zealous Benediction is a contender for the favorite elite skill position as well. She has also been the Restore Condition monk of an RC/WoH combo in both Heroes' Ascent and Guild versus Guild battles. She's good buddies with Spellbreaker as well, because it makes those Cathedral of Flames runs go that much smoother.
It took me approximately seventeen million years to start liking ritualists, but Heleyne was the result of that newfound love. Gifted with two of the prettiest rit armor sets, Vabbian (pictured above) as well as Obsidian, Heleyne is the rit I actually use. Doesn't hurt that some time ago, rits in PvE got some love :).
Heleyne was also my second official attempt at a Legendary Survivor (Tahvi was the first; she died on the Ring of Fire island chain). Heleyne succeeded with the aid of a double skillcap weekend--she killed a lot of bosses that weekend. To make things vastly more exciting, the majority of her survivoring was done on my definitely-not-a-gaming-laptop, which doesn't run GW nearly as smoothly as my desktop PC. Still not sure how I managed to get through Grand Court of Sebelkeh without dying on that crappy laptop :p.
What is this I don't even like assassins all that much. Aven was pretty much born because she was the only class I didn't have yet. It's still not my favorite class -- and it will never be, as I favor caster classes -- but I'm actually having quite a bit of fun playing her.
Getting her some pretty armor definitely helped, for I am as deep as a kiddie pool. Pictured above is Aven in Elite Kurzick armor, one of the few assassin armors that don't suck. On that note, why is assassin Obsidian armor so awful? It looks like bad starter armor. Anyway, some combos are fun to pull off and some elites are hilariously overpowered for PvE, but I still can't really take the class seriously. At least she's pretty (though in need of a sandwich or five).
My characters, let me show you them:
Alyeska "Aly" Lloryan is a Tyrian-born warrior, created after I felt the urgent need to smash things in the face with an axe or a sword. She was quite pimped out at a young age because she got runs to all the good places and had access to my primary's account storage.
Aly runs both sword builds (her favorite sword elites are Crippling Slash and Dragon Slash) and axe builds (Eviscerate!) and she's usually an assassin (for Dash, teleports or Disrupting Dagger) or elementalist secondary (for Shock or Conjure Frost). In her early days, Aly pretended to be a minion master in Fort Ranik, and she ran around in hideous Canthan armor until she finally got her hands on her all-time favorite set, Elite Gladiator's, a.k.a the Battle Bra. These days, Aly is also the proud owner of Vabbian armor.
Darya is my third ranger, Canthan-born and raised. I love rangers a lot in PvP battles like Alliance Battles, but getting one through PvE feels like such a chore, therefore she is the only main character of mine that hasn't completed a single campaign, except Eye of the North (and she only finished that one for the armor). Yeah. Go, me.
Darya can be most often spotted out in the wild, wild lands of Grenz Frontier and Saltspray Beach, where she shoots burning, poisoned arrows at people who annoy her, all the while mocking people for casting long-casting spells around her. Her favorite elites are Crippling Shot, Burning Arrow and the new and improved Incendiary Arrows. She never leaves home without Mending Touch, which has saved her life numerous times as sometimes she bites off a little more than she can chew. She's usually a monk secondary and wears Monument Armor.
As it turns out, the trick to making me love the dervish is to dress it up in pretty clothes. Loren is my third or fourth Dervish, who I gifted with Vabbian Armor about three days after she was created.
Loren is usually a warrior secondary, though she's been spotted as half an assasin as well. Her favorite secondary skills are Wild Blow, Dash and Disrupting Dagger, as well as Rush. She often looks Lyssa, the twin goddess of beauty and illusion, and always has Razah following her around to make her damage numbers go up. Loren would love to do ABs, but she's scared and needs a cute little mini-monklet to back her up :(.
Zoya is my fourth necromancer (my fifth... I think... if you count the male Prophecies one) and the first character with hair that wasn't dark or red (my preferred hair color). I just fell in love with the white hair.
To stave off boredom (because necromancers are very much a fire-and-forget type of class with little utility. Very powerful in PvE, but kind of boring), I played her as a non-minion master Death curser. Blowing things up with Icy Veins and Putrid Bile proved to be a lot of fun, and so she's currently making her way through Elona and the cold lands north of Ascalon. Her armor, Vabbian, is a set that had to grow on me for a long while, but now I think it's elegant and pretty. Plus, it dyes very nicely indeed.
Noel is my nth mesmer (it's bad if you lose count, right?), created with pretty much one goal: to get her Fissure of Woe armor. As you can see, I succeeded. Like a couple of other mesmers that came before her, Noel is Canthan, as Canthan mesmers are the prettiest mesmers in the wooooorld.
Noel is usually an elementalist for some help with energy management if she's not half a ritualist for a decent res spell. In PvE, she runs a number of different elites, ranging from the old faithful Energy Surge to Power Block to Migraine or Ineptitude. Visions of Regret is a new addition to her list of favorites. In ABs, Noel loves Power Block so she can piss people off but good. This tends to happen before an angry assassin decides she makes for a decent between-meals snack. Luckily, Noel almost never ABs without monkly backup from within her alliance.
Ah, paras. The bane of my GW existence. They are a solid class, usually fun to play as they typically run some of the best party-wide defense skills in the game, and yet... They're okay. I got Dunya some pretty Vabbian armor and completed Nightfall on her without any issues (and without dying). She's in early Eye of the North, but I don't really feel like playing her. She was part of a very fun all-para FoW outing--things like that are a lot more entertaining than just questing and missioning through a campaign. :D At least I like this para more than my previous ones...
A profession rerolled even more than a mesmer, Tahvi is my god-knows-th elementalist. She and Nyx are my only Elona-born characters because frankly, Nightfall nub island is a chore and I'm never ever doing it again. Tahvi's first elite set was Aeromancer, but she has many, many (MANY) more sets of armor. Her current favorite is Vabbian, despite the fact she's as Kurzick as Danika zu Heltzer.
Tahvi can choose from a wide variety of secondaries for a number of reasons, but she tends to be a mesmer or ritualist secondary. She's usually a Fire or Earth elementalist in PvE, but likes to play an Air or Water ele in ABs because making people angry is so much more fun than simply blowing them up. Her favorite elite skills are Mind Blast, Blinding Surge, Shatterstone, Water Trident and Unsteady Ground.
With the april 2009 big update, Tahvi got a little bit of a makeover. Though I can't change any of my characters' faces (it'd be too weird, as it would just make them new characters), I gave her my favorite Canthan hairstyle and a different skintone. The face is still the same and I gotta say, the more I see it, the more I love. Tahvi ♥
My oldest surviving character, Valaris has survived every character purge so far. She's usually the first I take through any new content, and she was the first to get Fissure of Woe armor when I decided I wanted to be incredibly poor for a set of pretty armor.
Valaris started out her illustrious monking career with an ele secondary, presumably for Firestorm or whatever. Thankfully, very few screenshots of those dark days live on on my computer. For quite some time, she was a Divine Boon healer, which, if anything, at least taught her how to manage her energy. At some point, someone beat some sense into her, and she switched to saner, more efficient builds. Boonprotting remains an extraordinary pleasant memory, as do the Blessed Light days.
These days, Valaris loves the new and improved Word of Healing, though Zealous Benediction is a contender for the favorite elite skill position as well. She has also been the Restore Condition monk of an RC/WoH combo in both Heroes' Ascent and Guild versus Guild battles. She's good buddies with Spellbreaker as well, because it makes those Cathedral of Flames runs go that much smoother.
It took me approximately seventeen million years to start liking ritualists, but Heleyne was the result of that newfound love. Gifted with two of the prettiest rit armor sets, Vabbian (pictured above) as well as Obsidian, Heleyne is the rit I actually use. Doesn't hurt that some time ago, rits in PvE got some love :).
Heleyne was also my second official attempt at a Legendary Survivor (Tahvi was the first; she died on the Ring of Fire island chain). Heleyne succeeded with the aid of a double skillcap weekend--she killed a lot of bosses that weekend. To make things vastly more exciting, the majority of her survivoring was done on my definitely-not-a-gaming-laptop, which doesn't run GW nearly as smoothly as my desktop PC. Still not sure how I managed to get through Grand Court of Sebelkeh without dying on that crappy laptop :p.
What is this I don't even like assassins all that much. Aven was pretty much born because she was the only class I didn't have yet. It's still not my favorite class -- and it will never be, as I favor caster classes -- but I'm actually having quite a bit of fun playing her.
Getting her some pretty armor definitely helped, for I am as deep as a kiddie pool. Pictured above is Aven in Elite Kurzick armor, one of the few assassin armors that don't suck. On that note, why is assassin Obsidian armor so awful? It looks like bad starter armor. Anyway, some combos are fun to pull off and some elites are hilariously overpowered for PvE, but I still can't really take the class seriously. At least she's pretty (though in need of a sandwich or five).