Hi Everybody! I was sent here by Fera, whose guild I was a member of in GW1 until I stopped playing for a long time (hence the "reapplication"). I started back up to hit 50/50 in the HoM and get GWAMM, and now that I've accomplished both, I'm helping friends with their HoM track.
I used to play a lot of PvP, mainly in FPS games, back in middle/high school. I was in the top 80 players (out of 30k+) for the Bombing Run game type in Unreal Championship (Xbox), in the top 300 for Counterstrike (still Xbox), and I won all of the Smash Bros. Melee tournaments that our school had. I came in 2nd in a Smash Bros. Brawl tournament in college, but I liked the previous iteration better anyway!
For some reason (college? study abroad? I'm not quite sure myself), I sort of stopped playing PvP games, but still enjoyed PvE and solo games (especially RPGs). I tried some League of Legends, but was really put off by the attitude of many of the players (they were shattering #4 of the SoH code of conduct!), so I stuck with PvE games. However, in GW2, the WvWvW is really fun, and the PvP looks really fun, so I'd like to give it another shot! I'll probably be roaming around PvE a ton still, but I'd like to actually enjoy my PvP time again!
After trying each of the classes a bit, some (Guardian/Engineer/Mesmer) more than others (Warrior/Thief/Necro/Ele), I found that my favorite was the Ranger, and got myself to level 28 in the beta. I'm looking forward to the stress test this Monday to play again for a few hours and get my fix. I'm currently the guild leader (in the beta) of Two Scoops of Dangerous, but I'll have to see how involved my friends get in the game, since many of them seem to be leaning towards Diablo III. I think we wound up on Steamspur Mountains after switching a few times. We had switched from Crystal Desert because it became heavily-populated right away to Moledune because it was "medium population", then to Steamspur because Moledune was getting absolutely wrecked in WvW. But that's just for the beta anyway!
Anyway, I'll end the wall of text here with my in-game contact info in GW1 and GW2 (beta)!
GW1: Vesper Soulshifter
GW2: Riseria (I might add a surname to her come release, but this is my Ranger in beta!)
Hope to see you all in game!
Vesper
