Thursday, March 26, 2009

The Early Kat Years 1: First reactions playing the game and the creation of Blackened Shadow


Welcome to the first of "The Early Kat Years" series of posts! In this series, I'm going to type about many of the wonderful adventures I've had in my early years of Guild Wars. I'll try to make this a daily post, but no guarantees!

I started playing Guild Wars in October 2005, after being introduced to it by my Jason, who still plays under the character name "The Lirin Namer." At the time, I was still playing FPS games (primarily Counterstrike and other Half-Life mods) so it was a drastic change for me as Guild Wars would've then been my first MMO. From the way Jason was describing the game, it sounded remarkable. From raising minions, to burning enemies to a crisp it sounded great!

So... I made Blackened Shadow, my first character, because I was courageous enough to try to "hardest" class in the game to learn which was mesmer at the time. You can imagine the usual initial reactions and nooby moments. There are endless reactions that I would like to share with you guys, but because of length I'll just list some of the highlights.



  • Degening Pre-Searing enemies with Conjure Phantasm and dropping them within 4 seconds.
  • My friend Jason running me through Great Northern Wall with his minion army (this was a total shocker o_o)
  • Jason again killing three stone elementals at once by using Chain Lightning
  • Running to Piken square all by myself by only using Illusion Of Haste.
  • Getting ran by a R/W from Piken Square to Yak's Bend using Dodge, Escape and Troll Unguent. (This really inspired me to make my warrior which I'll talk about in another post).
Being a noob again and running from Beacon's Perch to Gates Of Kryta with Illusion Of Haste and some fire magic spells (I did manage to do it BTW... but the reaction from all my friends afterwards was rather humorous). I racked up 60% DP easily and casted Firestorm and Fireball before the Mergoyle Wavebreakers instakilled me with Deep Freeze.
  • Trying to run from Beacon's Perch to Drok's Forge on my own and failing miserably at the ice imps just outside... lo
Well that's enough for The Early Kat Years 1... so stay tuned for part 2!

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