User talk:J.Kougar/Archive11

Congratulations!!!!

WAUW...an official proposal..and you accepted too! Awesome ring! Congratulations to the both of you!. When is the wedding? --Silverleaf 09:43, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Congrats! - Tanetris 10:01, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks guys, still have to move before we can set a wedding date. ~ J.Kougar 16:17, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Who's the best man? I can has be? -- NUKLEAR IIV 10:23, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

64 characters.

Sweet fucking jesus mercy christ of mother mary's glorious cleavage. Sixty-four characters. What is the POINT? I myself can only think only a few uses for characters. 9 for each of the class (to which, you can put multiple builds on each). Maybe a few more for mules. A permapre character or two perhaps. That's... all I got. Seriously, what is the point to having seven accounts with an entire 60+ characters amoung them? I'm genuinely interested.- Vanguard

Ya, wouldn't you get bored of GWs after all those characters? — ク Eloc 貢 23:46, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Psst, Vanguard - there's ten different classes, not nine. -- Armond Warblade 02:48, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Well when I started, there was no option to buy extra character slots and there were only four slots to an account. I wanted to play all the classes, and sometimes a male and female for each (as the armor varies so much) so that meant I needed a minimum of six slots, and at least twelve to be comfortable and have a storage guy(s). Problem was, I really enjoyed Pre-Searing Ascalon, so I wanted to keep a few character back there to level up and who didn't leave... so that meant duplicates of some of the genders and classes... so with the need for at least fifteen slots I had to purchase extra accounts, as there was, at the time, no way to expand beyond the four on any one account. Thus, I bought extra accounts.

Then, as time went on and Factions came out I had to get Factions for most of my accounts, as they had characters I enjoyed playing on them, and wanted the new skills and such. Problem was, that brought new classes into play, and with wanting to have more than just one of each, it took up space and also more storage guys were needed.

Then came Nightfall... that brought more classes, and also the option to make characters and not take a second profession, yet go off and beat Prophecies and Factions anyway... so of course I had to make more new characters of more repeat classes because I wanted to have several to play through with one profession... the shock value alone when joining PUGs is great, as so many don't know how to do so, simple as it is.

Not to mention more than one and an half accounts is nothing but PreSearing only, played ones and a lot of storage... with the option to only hold 100k on a character and no storage box back there, you have to do something... and then after a short while you need a character just for mini-pets, one for dye and event items, and at least one or two for runes, then there's weapons... is it any wonder I need more than a dozen pre characters?

Yes, I got obsessive... I do that easily, and as such I just kept getting more to have more slots, so I could keep making new characters. For me, one of the most enjoyable aspects of the game is making a new character and playing them through (prophecies mostly) and leveling them up to twenty and picking out a set of armor (almost always elite) that I don't yet have on another character, and getting them all setup with it. Even now, three years later, I'm still making new characters and playing them through, usually at least one a week... sometimes I delete them after, sometimes I keep them and let them earn minis.

Yes Eloc, you do get really board really easy like this. This has been an issue for me for a while now. Once you've made and played every class through every campaign, usually multiple times, you start to lose interest... especially once you've played each class each way possible. You can make an Elementalist and hook them up with Tomes and get them going pure Water from the start and then keep with it till 20, and do the same with characters and Earth, Fire, and Lightning... then you have to start doing stuff like playing an E/Mo through as a Monk only, then a Mesmer, etc. I've done that with about every class... played with special focus on just one attribute for the entire leveling process. Played Rangers as Warriors, Paragons, Dervishes, and Assassins... played Warriors as Dervishes, Rangers, Assassins, and Paragons (which often requires a 15 in strength and Warrior's Endurance lol) and everything else. I just made a Necromancer and played her through as a Paragon. It's crazy, but it gives me something to do and I like a challenge.

Problem is, once you've done it all... yea... see the N/P was a little bit of a stretch for me... finding something I haven't done yet, that is doable, is hard. Finding skills I've not used before or much and making them work in builds is difficult when you run out of skills. I am very close to being totally out of stuff to do though, other than running HM GW:EN missions for gold, and even then the gold is only good as long as there is stuff you still want in the game. Yea, I've come up with some great builds that I never see anyone else run, and some really fun ways to play, but I can't even waste my time getting Chaos Gloves for all my played characters as I think they only look good on Monks and Mesmers. I need things to strive for, but I'm not finding much.

I do struggle to find things to keep me busy on Guild Wars, but unfortunately for other games like Rappelz, Vanguard, and WoW, you are pushed to have to play with other people too much. With Guild Wars I can play with others when I want or just Hero/Hench it all myself. The ability to play alone is what keeps me coming back, as I play at crazy times when often not a lot of others are about.

When I'm board, when my fiance is at work, when the weather is bad and I have nothing better to do, GW is always there for me... but after more than three years... yea... I have gotten board with the majority of it... to the point where I'm currently spending time going around and getting the protector titles on characters I don't even like or usually play. lol

Wow that was long, happens when I'm tired and up late but not sleepy... I just end up overly longwinded and complicated when typing. Sorry. ~ J.Kougar 06:22, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

I like playing off-class, too. It's some fun mess. My ranger has a sword, axe, and scythe build. And a bow. That's four things on one character. I just manage with what I got.- Vanguard 15:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

With the best part being the creation and leveling process, I'd have to delete my poor guys at least monthly, as I did back when I first started and before I got extra spaces. I do have many characters that play a huge variety of builds... but what better way to play test the concept for a unique build then to drop the skills on a level one and make him use them through a campaign and to level twenty?  ;) ~ J.Kougar 17:53, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

That's what I did with my axe ranger :D- Vanguard 00:11, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

How many hours do you have logged? In my 3 years of playing, I only have 3RP characters. 2 being level 20. And one of those is a 55 Monk. lol. I also only got about 3,000 hours logged, 2,000 on Eloc. I beat you pwn that easily though. — ク Eloc 貢 03:11, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

riWell he did say he deleted and remade a lot in the process.- Vanguard 03:15, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Deleted characters count towards your total play time. — ク Eloc 貢 13:28, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Looked through them all and totaled up the numbers. 9,347 hours. Yea, that averages to nearly eight hours a day, but that's not accurate for a few reasons. First off, I don't play daily... but I do often play for up to twelve hours or more a day when I do play... making a character and not getting off the computer longer than to eat and take care of bodily functions until that character has reached level 20 and beaten Prophecies... is something I've done a couple times... and also, I can surely blame at least 1000, maybe even 2000 of those hours on my fiance, as he's played my characters some as I have his, and he's also made characters on the other accounts that I am the primary user of... so taking all that into consideration that can drop it to about six hours a day... and given I don't work for a living anymore and am home all day while my Fiance works, it's not too unreasonable a number I guess.

Also, to keep active while playing, I frequently do pull-ups and sit-ups on the exercise bar in the doorway to the hall behind my computer, while waiting for others to join a PUG, waiting for someone to get back from an AFK, or trying to buy/sell something in a town, etc. as I can still clearly see my screen while doing so... and of course my fiance and I go walking/hiking and such, or practice Kobudo together when he gets home from work, and play disc golf, go fishing, camping, and whatnot when he's off work... so I guess that's how I manage to stay in the 120-130lb range and not the stereotypical 300lb blob who plays GW all day because he's stuck in his computer chair due to too many rolls of flab being caught under the armrests.  ;) ~ J.Kougar 22:47, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Oh yea, and anyone heard anything much about that WarHammer game that came out today? The video on their site looks pretty interesting... but I don't know that much about the WarHammer line... I'm just still looking for something new I can invest myself in as I have with GW, but so far of all the games I've played, nothing has quite stuck the way GW has. ~ J.Kougar 22:47, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Wow, you weigh less than me & play about 4 times more than I do. lol — ク Eloc 貢 23:15, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

120-130? Wow, how tall are you? calor (talk) 23:19, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

About 5'4 I think. ~ J.Kougar 23:22, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Ah, so kind of short-ish. I'm 5'10 I think and about 150. — ク Eloc 貢 23:24, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Oh, ok. I was gonna say, if you were, say, 5'11" 130 lbs, that'd be scary. calor (talk) 23:26, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

A bit, yea. I always have on leather boots though, with heals, so I can usually pass for 5'6 easily.  ;) ~ J.Kougar 23:29, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Is this the part where I scare you all by saying I'm 5'11", eat pretty much anything I get my hands on, almost never get exercise outside of biking to and from work (two miles total, when I actually have work), and still weigh about 130 lbs? -- Armond Warblade 17:15, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm the exact same. Same height, same weight. Biking two miles every day (to and from bus stop) does that for you. calor (talk) 19:11, 19 September 2008 (UTC)