User:Bryder

= Brother Bryder [DVDF] =


 * Location
 * United Kingdom


 * Played Guild Wars since
 * June 2005

I'm a "thirty-something" male, born and now back living in Derby, United Kingdom. Worked in IT/MIS for most of my career, more recently as manager of an Managed Services company. Currently a Director of a professional audio spares business which supplies components and accessories for professional studio and live sound/PA applications. I enjoy travelling and music and occassionally do sound engineering work for live music events, am involved with local bands and enjoy going to gigs and festivals.

Guild Wars Background
I started playing Guild Wars in June 2005, after dabbling with Eve Online and World of Warcraft. A friend of mine (hiya Shadow!) pestered me into buying Guild Wars and he still owes me three years of my life back! I own the original Guild Wars (Prophecies), Factions and Nightfall and Eye of the North and have at least one character of each profession, most of whom have completed the game and capped or unlocked all their primary skills.

My primary character is my Monk, Brother Bryder, who has the My Guild Hall Smells of Rich Mahogany title and completed all quests across all the campaigns, as well as every mission and elite area in normal and hard mode. I've capped all Elite Skills with him so am able to run any monk build or roll PvP characters of almost any profession and build on my spare character slot.

I'm hooked on Guild Wars mostly because of the community and team aspects and have rarely played with hench or heroes (except to fill slots) since rolling my second character back in Summer 2005, preferring to play with other people in alliance/guild teams or PUGs. I regularly organise and manage events and trips within DVDF or with other guilds and friends. I'm predominantly a PvE player but play PvP arenas occassionaly and keep a character slot free for the purpose, although I'm not at all keen on GvG and Alliance Battles.

Guild
Brother Bryder is proud to be an Officer of DVD Forums [DVDF], a member of the DVDF Alliance.

DVDF is a tight-knit family of guilds sharing common goals, ideals, policies and tags. DVDF embraces all kinds of gameplay and has enjoyed some PvP success but are most active and better known within PvE community and the many events we've hosted, including:-

- Christmas 2006 gift giveaway. - Canthan New Year 2007. Members collected and presented ingredients in several pre-announced districts for each visit so hundreds of players were guaranteed special event Minature Pigs. Many turned up to claim their minipet on the day or from the stock we kept for players who missed out. - DVDF Birthday Party, May 2007. We held a party to celebrate DVDFs second birthday, filling two International districts in Lions Arch for several hours while hundreds of Guild Wars players came to take part in the lottery, competitions and collect prizes and gifts given out during the party. - July 2007 Lockpick event. We were able to purchase thousands of discounted lockpicks after taking ownership of a town and made them all available to players in Lions Arch at "cost" price. - Wintersday 2007 gift giveaway. Over 1600 items were given away. - Canthan New Year 2008. Members collected and presented ingredients in 76 districts, helping more than 15,000 people! - Wintersday 2008 gift giveaway. Over 2500 items given away. - Canthan New Year 2009.

DVD Forums were featured as Guild of the Week on 19th June 2007.

Previous Guilds
In the time I've been playing Guild Wars I've been fortunate to have played an active part in some other good guilds:-

Characters
I have at least one of every profession, with a total of well over 42 million XP earned over about 8,000 hours played, split between two accounts.

Main Account
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Brother Bryder

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Bryder Bigblade

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Bryder Baynaloard

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Hugely Bare

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Blackmagic Bryder

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Blackbelt Bryder

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Bryder Barakiel

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Baba Bryder

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Bryder De Buatier

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Biohazard Bryder

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Bullseye Bryder

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Bryder On The Storm

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Second Account
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Friar Brydus

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Brydus Bowyer

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Brydus Blackblood

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Brydus Brownale

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