User:Koda Kumi

• Me: 'Kat' is my identity in Guild Wars. I will not tell anyone my real name, not even is asked politely or if threatened with extreme sarcasm. I think a nickname is what I am supposed to be adressed with online. Having my real name known defeats that purpose entirely.
• Kat's ethics I am a very helpful person. If I give a comment or critique about someone's skillbar or playing style, it is only to help that person becoming a better player. Many times have I been summoned to help with missions or quests, and many times, my presence was not needed at all, as I only gave the person advice about their builds, which is far more useful because he/she will learn from the experience. I think that is very important.
• Kat's views: Guild Wars is a unique game, and that is the only reason why it is not dead yet. There is nothing like it. People like unique things. But there are many downsides to being unique. While there are aspects I do not like about GW, there is no other cooperative online 'RPG' to go to. None that is as diverse and populated as GW is, anyway. GW2 will be a lot worse in every aspect. Deal with it.

Somewhere along the way I got lost in the endless cycle of buffs and nerfs that the 'live team'(who are those guys anyway?) are throwing into the game. My theory for it is that a couple of nobodies read forums and note which skills are overpowered (important: do not specify a reason!) and which are underpowered (again, no reason) and those peeps show their excuses for reports to the 'live team' that will roll dice and change some random numbers accordingly to the dice rolls. I have yet to spot a flaw in this theory.

• Kat's guild: I am currently in the Blitzers.

Fury Rexy -- One of my 2 main characters. I like this profession because it is easy to see which skills someone is using and healing/protting at the same time.

Kat Kumi -- My second main character, though I do not consider her good enough to take to HM.

Fury Phoebe -- I started a mesmer because I did not have one. Everyone should, it is fun! As long as you do not take VoR, that is.

De Geitebreier -- I was out of inspiration when I took this name. And I was out of money when I stuck a blood rune on a dragon mask and called it a day.

Kat Bin Sari -- I once made an elementalist thinking I would use her to blow things up. I reconsidered.

Long Forgotten Fury -- I did not have a ritualist for a long time because I thought of them as one-trick-ponies and bad healers. But through experimenting with them with pvp characters made me see ritualists are very versatile.

• Until a while ago, I have been an avid M:tG player. Never have I been to a big tournament, as I do not play games to win. Just to have fun, and I just had no more fun in this game.
  
• Being dutch, it is expected that I have a bicycle. Unlike many other dutchmen, I enjoy using it. I live not far from Schiphol Airport, but also not far from the sea, so when I feel like it, I can tour through the dunes or enjoy the flatlands to my liking.
  
• Other than GW, I often play lots of old SNES games that I missed in my youth or that have been translated recently (and there are still an awful lot untranslated). At the moment, Record of Lodoss War keeps me busy, but that can change soon.
  
• My history of games that I have played ranges from Warcraft to Worms, and from Wizardry to Baldur's Gate. Generally I never stick much to one game unless I am part of a community in it. most game have terrible communities :P
  

• D&D -=- I am NOT getting 4th Ed. No way. 3rd Ed was a roleplaying game, and the system fully supported that. 4th only supports wargames and skirmish battles. I am not looking for that.
• Dragon Age -=- The grandmasters of fantasy return to their roots. This can only be good.
• Diablo 3 -=- It will not have LAN support. Drat. But nonetheless I expect good quality from this game.

P.S. The layout of this page is the same as that of Andrew Patrick's. I know. I have no knowledge at all of HTML coding and just as much knowledge about wiki language, so I hope this is an elegant solution to my problem. If Andrew or anyone else has a problem with it.... sue me :P