User:Enolena Sedai
Who I am, in the game and out:[edit]
Hello, my GW account name is Enolena Sedai. I started Guild Wars on July 13, 2006. My son, who plays Warcraft, suggested I download World of Warcraft because he was tired of watching me play Diablo 2, where I was running an Amazon (Bow-zon) from start to finish through all three difficulty levels then deleting and starting over again. I actually did that from the time the game was released until 2006. I played the World of Warcraft for 2 days then deleted it from my computer. It was too cartoonish and the children playing there were rude. My son then gave me the link to Arena Net and I downloaded Guild Wars Prophecies and purchased the game within 1 hour. I loved it immediately.
I passed through a couple of guilds for a year or so until I joined Prodigy Exiles [PE], a member of the Remnants of Light alliance. After 11 months in [PE], I moved to an allied guild COGGnizant Dreams [COGG] as its Recruiting Officer (agreed upon by the two guild leaders involved). I later became it's Guild Leader for approximately 4 months at which point I had grown the membership from 5 to around 30 within that time. Although I recruited intelligent mature players (as I do to this day), the older guilds, not really wanting growth or innovation, gave me grief for bringing "all these new people into our community". They secretly decided to curtail my recruitment by banning all recruitment efforts for 60 days. After much thought, I gave [COGG] back to it's founder and left the alliance and its oligarchy and have never looked back. Not surprisingly, he immediately disbanded it under pressure, leaving its members with no guild and/or leadership, and moved the remaining members into other allied guilds.
After 3 months of traveling through the game, I decided to create a guild of my own, The Azz Kicking Association [AKA]. The [AKA] was created on April 26, 2009 using my second alternate account. It came into being as a community of "real" people who wanted to gather together in a guild that was devoid of politics, backstabbing, cliques and all the things that I (and they) had to go through in previous guilds. The [AKA] is now thriving with a healthy membership of between 45 and 60 people at any given time. While on the other hand, the Remnants of Light Alliance has completely disbanded from lack of activity and members. It, I am sad to say, no longer exists in Guild Wars at all. We are now a member of the Illustrious Wizardry Players Guild alliance and are very happy there.
The AKA now has 8 Officers, 40 regular members, a full Guild Hall and a busy, thriving forums website. We are a small-medium casually active guild that keeps it membership within the aforementioned range. We like our guild to be small, cozy and community-oriented. I and my members feel that anything more than that can be none of those things.
As Guild Wars approaches its 6th Anniversary/Birthday Celebration, the [AKA] proudly celebrates it's 2nd. Hurray for the [AKA]!
My Ladies of Tyria:
I have 10 characters and 4 storage mules.
My characters are:
Enolena Sedai (Ranger-Prophecies)
Lillie Bell (Necromancer-Prophecies)
Katerina Sedai (Elementalist-Night Fall)
Morraine Ayes Sedai (Mesmer-Night Fall)
Whitley Aes Sedai (Warrior-Night Fall)
Sareitha Aes Sedai (Monk-Night Fall)
Chokum Aes Sedai (Ritualist-Factions)
Sookie Stackhaus (Ranger-Night Fall-R1 Survivor)
Ima ThrowThis Sedai (Paragon-Night Fall)
Twinkle LaRue McCoy (Assassin-Factions)
The Gold Mule (Gold Weapons Mule)
The Greene Mule (Green Weapons Mule)
The Gray Mule (Mods/Upgrades Mule)
The Blue Mule (Collectibles Mule)
Enolena has completed both Prophecies + EotN Expansion.
Whitley has completed only the EotN Expansion.
Morraine has completed Night Fall and is Protector.
Katerina, Sareitha, Lillie Bell and Chokum have completed all 3 games + EotN Expansion.
The other ladies are all out there exploring and experimenting.
Titles:
As you will see below, I have no clear-cut goals for achieving titles. They just come as they come (usually through helping others reach their goals). I'm just enjoying playing the game too much to worry about Title Grinding.
Later, I might concentrate on one character and get GWAMM. It will probably be with Lillie Bell since she seems to be further along than the other ladies.
Legendary Guardian and "People Know Me", (Lillie Bell - 12 titles)
Protector of Cantha (Sareitha, Lillie Bell & Chokum)
Protector of Elona (Morraine & Lillie Bell)
Protector of Tyria (Lillie Bell)
Guardian of Cantha (Katerina, Sareitha, Lillie Bell & Chokum)
Guardian of Elona (Lillie Bell)
Guardian of Tyria (Lillie Bell)
Maxed Sunspear Rank (Sareitha, Lillie Bell, Chokum & Katerina)
Maxed Lightbringer Rank (Sareitha, Lillie Bell, Chokum & Katerina)
Maxed Asuran Rank (Lillie Bell)
Maxed Dwarven Rank (Lillie Bell
Maxed Norn Rank (Lillie Bell)
Personally, I am a (1) retired widowed High School Mathematics Teacher who is (2) female and (3) African American. These are three things that are very rare in the gaming world individually; but when you look at all three of these together, I think that I am a rare individual indeed. In the Guild Wars Universe, I am extremely rare. My retirement did not happen as a result of age, but was an early retirement due to a catastrophic illness which I conquered. :)
I am still learning things in Guild Wars and am never bored since there is always something that needs to be done with my characters and their progress. There is always a dungeon to explore in either Normal or Hard Mode. There is always Fort Aspenwood or a Ferndale vanquish for gaining Kurzick faction. There will always be practicing with PUG's to sharpen my skills and expertise. There will always be venturing with 7 Heroes, making things so much easier on my Survivor, Sookie.
The one thing that I would like to do next is learn how to "fancy up" this page. :)
