Since the release of Guild Wars 2 is nearing I decided to go back and finish everything left to do in Guild Wars. I finished the quests that tie the first game with the second and finished adding everything to my hall of monuments. Now I just want to run through my experience while it's still freshish in my mind.
First lets have a look at this right here.
If you take out the amount of time I spent AFK I have played the game for about 35 continuous days. Most of which with my main character. Since I started playing in 2006 it would mean I have played the equivalent to 30mins a day since I started.
Here's my character Kimard Bowen towards the end of pre searing
It really doesn't feel like I started playing it 6 years ago. I still remember my first days and meeting people and getting everything wrong because I didn't understand the game mechanics. Finally leaving pre searing and seeing just how big the world was, it was like nothing I have experienced since. I remember runners to yaks bend and how it took me weeks to reach there and I was less then 1/10th of the way through the main story never mind the whole game. I remember a level 6 warrior dancing in Asclaon city dressed in full 15k armor and wondering what the hell was going on. I remember actually grouping with people because the henchmen just weren't enough to beat the majority of the missions.
Joining my first guild and making great friends with the only other 4 people in it was one of the highlights. None of us knew anything about guilds and when we found out about guild halls we all started chipping in. But we were 600g short. I was out fighting monsters trying to farm that 600g and then I got a silver dye drop and everyone was going crazy waiting to see our new guild hall. The guild leader took me with him to look at the guild halls since I gave most of the money to purchase it and we picked the factiony looking one. It was really late at night and everyone was staying on just to see what it was like. The we had a dance party on the boat. Good times had by all.
Times in our small guild were good. I was stinking rich (well more so then everyone else I knew and didn't realize people had 1000 times what I did) and stared running a lotto giving out 1k to a winner every week. Before this I was made an officer and I remember the other 2 officers who were friends in real life talking telling me that they had talked on the phone earlier that day and decided to make me an officer too. What a weird thing for 2 guys talking about a random guy they knew from a game.
Kimard during the best days of my Guild Wars playing.
Slowly the others stopped playing and finally they all left the guild and it was just me left. I stayed in the guild for a while (no idea what the guilds tag was but I think it may have been STAR or something similar). I also took a break from Guild Wars shortly after they left and didn't play again till the release of nightfall. I joined a few more guilds but never really got involved besides helping with missions and a little bit of PvP.
Major points since that include a guy running the last 2 missions of Nightfall for me for free, the eye of the north preview weekend and finally getting my Norn armour. And getting to 30 points in my hall of monuments. Clearing almost all dungeons in easy mode and over half in hard mode. Plus vanquishing all of the Norn areas and a handful of others.
I did some title hunting too for a while but it was just a way to pass the time. Here's what I had, some of it more impressive then others.
Surprisingly getting the norn title to level 9 was some of the most fun I had, with a few more dungeons I could probably get it to level 10 but there's not much point anymore. Skill hunter is the least fun thing, took ages and then I just gave up on getting the rest of them, took much work for too little gain.
Kimard at the end of my playing, and how he looked for more then 25% of the time I played.
So that's it basically, the end of a game I've played for 6 years. Looking forward to bringing Kimard back in Guild Wars 2, and then beating the whole game in a week. But I'm gonna miss it.
