User:Kalisa

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Behind the keyboard[edit]

I'm forever a FFXI player, but my attention has been wandering into Guild Wars heavily ever since I purchased Nightfall. I am an experienced wiki editor, having dealt extensively with another game wiki for whom I no longer edit due to differences with the administration, and I contribute occasionally to this wiki--until now under anonymous IP contributions--but have now created an account because I wanted a userpage to keep track of my general progress on various characters. :P

Characters[edit]

Ranger-icon.png Kalisa Brynn Mesmer-icon.png
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  • Created: November 2006
  • Status: Deleted
  • Plans: None
  • Name Origin: Kalisa is my main character name on FFXI. Brynn is a last name I used in an old AOL chat-based roleplay.
  • Story: A while back, I saw a copy of Guild Wars for sale, noticed its main draw--free online play--and decided to get it for something to play on my laptop while my desktop was logged in to FFXI and suffering from long party seek times. Of course, not knowing that Factions and Nightfall were stand-alone games instead of expansions, what I picked up was Prophecies. My initial impressions of the game were mixed, and I was confident then that the game would never be any more than a distractor from FFXI's long downtimes. I went through all of the secondary profession quests and saw that Conjure Phantasm did what looked to be badass amounts of damage, so my newbish self decided to choose Mesmer as a secondary profession. :3 I joined a guild shortly after arriving to present-day Ascalon, and to their credit, they were really quite nice... but they ruined this character by offering to run her around to various places, and I was in Lion's Arch barely after learning basic game concepts. Also contributing to this character's deletion was the fact that when I did the first mission, two level 20s essentially did the whole thing for my group and skipped all the cutscenes. I was lost, and I felt like I hadn't earned what I'd gotten, so I was discouraged. My subsequent desktop crash forced my laptop to become my primary machine, so until recently it was reserved exclusively for FFXI, as it can't handle running both at once.
 

Level: 8
Tyria Missions:

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Ranger-icon.png Kalisa Daval Mesmer-icon.png
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  • Created: March 2007
  • Status: Active
  • Plans: Decide between my two active rangers after Kalisa's first birthday.
  • Name Origin: Kalisa is my main character name on FFXI. Daval is a last name I used in an old AOL chat-based roleplay.
  • Story: Despite the fact that I hadn't played in a while, I went back to Guild Wars as an occasional distraction, convincing my husband to play with me, too. I made a second ranger and played through pre-searing with his Necromancer (Andraste Daval), again choosing R/Me solely for Conjure Phantasm's fantastic-looking damage. However, GW fell out of both of our interests again shortly after arriving in present-day Ascalon. We still pick these characters up occasionally, so they've made a bit of progress since then despite having been all but abandoned.
 

Level: 9
Tyria Missions:

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Ranger-icon.png Ruqayya Brynn Mesmer-icon.png
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  • Created: July 2007
  • Status: Active
  • Plans: Decide between my two active rangers after Kalisa's first birthday.
  • Name Origin: Ruqayya is the name of a leveled storage character I own on FFXI. Brynn is a last name I used in an old AOL chat-based roleplay.
  • Story: This character was created to be my sincere "do-over" after my original character was run and dumped off in LA and in missions I didn't know the storyline for. I got her to about level 10 before my interest waned again. I had to move in late August, though, which involved spending about three weeks in a hotel. The hotel had wireless internet, but something about its routing or proxy server blocked FFXI from connecting, so I went back to Guild Wars for a while. I joined another guild, the old one having either long since broken up or removed me for inactivity. It was a tiny guild of only 5-6 people, only one of which I ever saw online, but in the day or so that I actually saw that one member around, I complained about Prophecies boring me so far and how hard it was for GW to grab my attention. He recommended I try Nightfall, saying that I would probably get hooked on the hero system of being able to customize and level your own henchmen. I continued on with Ruqayya for a little while after that, but found Nightfall shortly and fell into that. This guild member also introduced me to pvxwiki so that I could start making intelligent build choices.
 

Level: 14
Tyria Missions:

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Dervish-icon.png Achiiwo Brynn Monk-icon.png
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  • Created: September 2007
  • Status: Active
  • Plans: Favorite character. Beat all missions with bonuses, work on max titles, etc.
  • Name Origin: Achiiwo is the name of a storage character I own on FFXI. Brynn is a last name I used in an old AOL chat-based roleplay.
  • Story: Eager to see what the big deal was about Nightfall, I created a new character immediately. I wanted to try one of the new jobs, so after a short debate over Paragon or Dervish, I chose Dervish. Hook. Line. Sinker. I played for two days straight and drove straight through to 20, thinking myself fairly badass for finally managing to get there after the leveling dredge of Prophecies. Meanwhile, I happened upon an ad for a guild meant for mature players, so I asked for an invite, having not seen anyone online in my guild for quite a while. That guild was Heaven's Death Knights [HDK], of which I am still a member. People there have been extremely helpful to me, almost always willing to help out when I was stuck on a mission or when I was in need of a decent weapon. I try to continue to make progress on this character, wanting to eventually get a few Legendary titles under my belt. I'm also desperately trying to learn how to run, but have been failing miserably. I usually run some variant or another of Dwayna's PvE Avatar on this character. I typically favor Mystic Regeneration or, in undead-heavy areas, Heart of Holy Flame over Conviction, and Eremite's Attack is subject to being replaced by whatever else I might need, be it a Signet of Capture, Wild Blow, Lightbringer's Gaze, or whatever else.
  • Achiiwo Brynn's Details
 

Level: 20
Elona Missions:

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Canthan Missions:

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Tyria Missions:

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Eye of the North missions:

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Assassin-icon.png Striker Naghola Elementalist-icon.png
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  • Created: September 2007
  • Status: Active
  • Plans: Nothing in particular.
  • Name Origin: Tired of putting "Brynn" after everything, I started up a new naming scheme that I now wish I could implement account-wide: Reaper Achiiwo, Hunter Ruqayya, etc.
  • Story: There's nothing particularly special about this character. I wanted to play with one of the new jobs when I ganked my husband's new Factions disc (he bought it for himself thinking I already had it and EotN was the one I was missing, when Factions was my only missing campaign). I find Assassin pretty fun, although the fact that chaining screws up if a lead/off-hand attack is blocked gets to me. I haven't played this character much since I got to the mainland and found myself too underleveled to care much; until my henches can PL me to 20, I'm not likely to play this character very often, but I believe my initial intentions with her were to run PvX's Solo Green Farmer build for a farming alternative to my later-planned 55 Monk. I haven't gotten far enough to put together a good general build yet, but I'm looking at the generic PvE Assaulter when I can assemble all the skills.
 

Level: 16
Canthan Missions:

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Monk-icon.png Akae Ra Dervish-icon.png
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  • Created: October 2007
  • Status: Active
  • Plans: After I capture Shield of Judgement, this character will be fully set up to be a 55 Monk for farming.
  • Name Origin: Nothing special: I dreamed up a name "Akaera" and split it into two words to satisfy GW's name requirements.
  • Story: The concept of a 55 Monk has intrigued me ever since I heard about it. This being the case, I dragged my husband into Nightfall with me by creating a Monk to tie to his new Paragon character. My goal right now is to capture Shield of Judgement so I can have the full SoA 55 Monk build. As such, I'm working on Prophecies with this character so that I can get at least in the general vicinity; the next mission I do will land me in Drok's Forge upon victory, so I can work up to getting to Mineral Springs from there. I hear it's a real bitch to cap, though. In general PvE though, I usually run a Light of Deliverance setup, although I went far enough in Cantha to cap Word of Healing upon my guild's recommendation, too.
 

Level: 20
Elona Missions:

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Canthan Missions:

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Tyria Missions:

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Mesmer-icon.png Traveler Ara Monk-icon.png
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  • Created: October 2007
  • Status: Active
  • Plans: As long as I still have money troubles in this game, this character is intended to get to Consulate Docks and be a ferry.
  • Story: My husband is using his Dervish to help this character up to Consulate Docks so that I can make more money for armor, skills, weapons, and so forth. I've offered to do the same for him, although whenever we play together he gets all the golds. :(
 

Level: 7
Elona Missions:

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Ritualist-icon.png Summoner Xue
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  • Created: October 2007
  • Status: Active
  • Plans: Complete all available quests.
  • Story: This character is brand-new, just because I felt like playing with Ritualist... but I plan to make a subpage for each of my last few characters with copies of quest listings so that I can organize and cross them off as I finish them. I really wish GW had a way to look up a list all the quests you've completed, or I'd do the same for my other prominent characters, too! :(
 

Level: 2
Canthan Missions:

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Necromancer-icon.png Deatheater Mei
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  • Created: October 2007
  • Status: Active
  • Plans: Complete all available quests. Set up a SS Necro incase my husband ever gets the 55 Monk he's so interested in off the ground.
  • Story: My husband said once that he'd like to set up a 55 Monk. "But I already have one," I thought... but I'd eventually like one of each profession, so why not work on a Necro anyway, right?
  • Deatheater Mei's Details
 

Level: 2
Canthan Missions:

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