Name
MirageFire.9265
Age (must be 18+)
24
Do you have any friends in the guild? If so, who?
None
Main Character
Benthuel
Character Name
Benthuel
Race
Human
Profession(Class)
Guardian
What role do you wish to play in the guild? For example: PvP, PvE, Casual/Social
Depending on time, semi-active PvX. In SWTOR, I was a heavy PVPer because that was the only way for me to grind and earn weapons and armor that were superior to the ones found in the Hard Mode Flashpoints but inferior to the Story Mode Operations. Also, for some odd reason the RNG God hates me because my Jedi Knight piece never drops. I did my first story mode Ops in PVP Battlemaster Gear. I’ll be sticking mostly with PVE in GW2 until I learned and mastered the combat system. WvW is also pretty fun and I’m mostly saving it for my End Game.
Which previous MMO's or online games have you played and how long for?
I played Vanilla WoW back in 2006 for about two months but couldn’t get into it. I barely made it to my mid-thirties on my Paladin. I didn’t join any guilds and I only ran one dungeon where I was kicked for what people today now called “Ninja Looting.” I didn’t understood the “Need/Greed/Pass Looting System” at that time and no one bothered to explain it to me. That left a sour impression in my mouth for quite a while that everyone in WoW assumed you knew everything about the game. I wanted to go back to WoW when WoTLK came out, but decided not to because I was suffering from the “Can’t Catch Up” effect from being severely out-leveled and out-geared.
In early February of this year, I picked up SWTOR I greatly enjoyed the game (for three months). The story and leveling was enjoyable as GW2 and much better compared to WoW. Since I never did any Raiding in WoW, SWTOR was actually my first introduction to Raiding which I despised because my framerate was being dropped into the single digits when there were 16 players on screen all trying to take down a giant Rancor. As I said before, for me to gear up in order to run Ops, I had to grind Valor and Commendations so I could get Battlemaster gear. PVP was very one-sided because of I was on an Empire dominated sever and I was playing as a hybrid Jedi Guardian. I left SWTOR two weeks after patch 1.2 came out because like so many other disgruntled subscribers, Bioware never truly addressed many of the real problems the community kept pressing.
Were you a part of a guild? What was your experience?
My old guild in SWTOR is best described as an equal opportunity guild and we are all friends with everyone. We were one of the few Alliance Guilds on the server that didn’t just ask any random player without a Guild to join. I think it was March that I joined and the members were more than happy to help gear up new active members that were interested in running Operations. Many of the Ops Team ran Hard Mode FPs with them (as long as it was opened to them). I ran with them a couple times and I only got two pieces of Jedi Knight PVE gear. My guild was mostly a PVE progression oriented guild and I was with the 8 man group that first cleared Explosive Conflict when Patch 1.2 came out. The only negative thing I can think of in our guild is our lack members for Ops where we only have one main 8 man progression team and a few benchwarmers. I was a benchwarmer because I played a Jedi Guardian and we already have two active tanks. I usually get called in when the team needed a DPS for that Ops night.
How did you hear about the Guild?
I found the AltTabMe podcast on Youtube when I was browsing help videos relating to GW2. I watched a few roundabout discussions about GW2 topics and got interested in joining. I didn’t make the next step to join because the recruiting video at that time was fairly dated I thought that the guild was probably already full by then. While I was browsing the guildwars2guru.com forums, I found the Arcanix Guild Recruitment post was still looking for candidates to fill their ranks. The forum post was dated yesterday, so I thought “Why Not?” Then I submitted my application.
What will you bring to the ALTTABME community? (Chatty? Skilled? Funny? Helping?)
To be honest, I’m a gamer that is both eager and willing to learn from others and pass on the knowledge. One the things I hear about the WoW community is that everyone expects everyone to know what they’re doing be it their role, builds, rotations, boss fights, etc. The “L2P NooB!” attitude was another deterrent the WoW community kept me from coming back. I loathe those types of people and I hope the GW2 community doesn’t end up like that.
Will Arcanix be the only guild you join?
As of now Yes
Is there anything else you would like to throw in here at the end?
I’ve never ran any Dungeons in GW2 with main because I’m still learning and experimenting with the combat system and my build. I hope to have fun and make friends in this guild if I'm accepted. I'm also an Army Reservist. So depending on what we're doing that weekend for the month, I might be gone that entire weekend or just during the daytime. I'm on US Central Time by the way.
MirageFire.9265
Age (must be 18+)
24
Do you have any friends in the guild? If so, who?
None
Main Character
Benthuel
Character Name
Benthuel
Race
Human
Profession(Class)
Guardian
What role do you wish to play in the guild? For example: PvP, PvE, Casual/Social
Depending on time, semi-active PvX. In SWTOR, I was a heavy PVPer because that was the only way for me to grind and earn weapons and armor that were superior to the ones found in the Hard Mode Flashpoints but inferior to the Story Mode Operations. Also, for some odd reason the RNG God hates me because my Jedi Knight piece never drops. I did my first story mode Ops in PVP Battlemaster Gear. I’ll be sticking mostly with PVE in GW2 until I learned and mastered the combat system. WvW is also pretty fun and I’m mostly saving it for my End Game.
Which previous MMO's or online games have you played and how long for?
I played Vanilla WoW back in 2006 for about two months but couldn’t get into it. I barely made it to my mid-thirties on my Paladin. I didn’t join any guilds and I only ran one dungeon where I was kicked for what people today now called “Ninja Looting.” I didn’t understood the “Need/Greed/Pass Looting System” at that time and no one bothered to explain it to me. That left a sour impression in my mouth for quite a while that everyone in WoW assumed you knew everything about the game. I wanted to go back to WoW when WoTLK came out, but decided not to because I was suffering from the “Can’t Catch Up” effect from being severely out-leveled and out-geared.
In early February of this year, I picked up SWTOR I greatly enjoyed the game (for three months). The story and leveling was enjoyable as GW2 and much better compared to WoW. Since I never did any Raiding in WoW, SWTOR was actually my first introduction to Raiding which I despised because my framerate was being dropped into the single digits when there were 16 players on screen all trying to take down a giant Rancor. As I said before, for me to gear up in order to run Ops, I had to grind Valor and Commendations so I could get Battlemaster gear. PVP was very one-sided because of I was on an Empire dominated sever and I was playing as a hybrid Jedi Guardian. I left SWTOR two weeks after patch 1.2 came out because like so many other disgruntled subscribers, Bioware never truly addressed many of the real problems the community kept pressing.
Were you a part of a guild? What was your experience?
My old guild in SWTOR is best described as an equal opportunity guild and we are all friends with everyone. We were one of the few Alliance Guilds on the server that didn’t just ask any random player without a Guild to join. I think it was March that I joined and the members were more than happy to help gear up new active members that were interested in running Operations. Many of the Ops Team ran Hard Mode FPs with them (as long as it was opened to them). I ran with them a couple times and I only got two pieces of Jedi Knight PVE gear. My guild was mostly a PVE progression oriented guild and I was with the 8 man group that first cleared Explosive Conflict when Patch 1.2 came out. The only negative thing I can think of in our guild is our lack members for Ops where we only have one main 8 man progression team and a few benchwarmers. I was a benchwarmer because I played a Jedi Guardian and we already have two active tanks. I usually get called in when the team needed a DPS for that Ops night.
How did you hear about the Guild?
I found the AltTabMe podcast on Youtube when I was browsing help videos relating to GW2. I watched a few roundabout discussions about GW2 topics and got interested in joining. I didn’t make the next step to join because the recruiting video at that time was fairly dated I thought that the guild was probably already full by then. While I was browsing the guildwars2guru.com forums, I found the Arcanix Guild Recruitment post was still looking for candidates to fill their ranks. The forum post was dated yesterday, so I thought “Why Not?” Then I submitted my application.
What will you bring to the ALTTABME community? (Chatty? Skilled? Funny? Helping?)
To be honest, I’m a gamer that is both eager and willing to learn from others and pass on the knowledge. One the things I hear about the WoW community is that everyone expects everyone to know what they’re doing be it their role, builds, rotations, boss fights, etc. The “L2P NooB!” attitude was another deterrent the WoW community kept me from coming back. I loathe those types of people and I hope the GW2 community doesn’t end up like that.
Will Arcanix be the only guild you join?
As of now Yes
Is there anything else you would like to throw in here at the end?
I’ve never ran any Dungeons in GW2 with main because I’m still learning and experimenting with the combat system and my build. I hope to have fun and make friends in this guild if I'm accepted. I'm also an Army Reservist. So depending on what we're doing that weekend for the month, I might be gone that entire weekend or just during the daytime. I'm on US Central Time by the way.
