User:Ward
| Guildwars Division Member | |
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| Member Information | |
| Ingame Handle | Ward |
| Real Name | Andres Macias |
| Occupation | Business Student at USM and chief researcher for CORPEI |
| Location | Guayaquil, Ecuador |
| Date Of Birth | June 12, 1987 |
| Member Since | May, 2008 |
| Guildwars Related Information | |
| Favorite Classes | Monk, Warrior and Ritualist |
| Favorite Skills | Eviscerate, Protective Spirit and Life |
| Most Hated Skills | Blackout and IWAY |
| Playing Style | A healthy mix of PvE and PvP |
| Past Guilds | Durance Of Fate [DoF], House Redfalls [HRFL], O I I I I I I I O [Jeep], The Shadowknights [SK] |
| Time Playing Guildwars | Since April 2005 |
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About Me: Guildwars Story
After graduating from High School, I got invited by the Ecuadorian Chancellery to form part of the diplomatic crew that represented the Country before the UN, I had to live Manhattan for 10 months, and I pretty much had zero relatives up there and had met no one that lived there by that time. So pretty much it was a new world for me to explore, but instead of visiting New York like any other newcomer, I decided to stick to my office learn as much as I could and relief some stress by playing videogames. I never actually played any MMORPG before Guildwars, so the learning curve was pretty hard for me to deal with, I got to like the PvE enviroment the game offered, and actually went Emo when I learned about the searing over Ascalon City. My first character was a Ranger I called Valandil Of Ascalon (Hence the name of my PvE warrior) and it took me about 2 months to finish the campaing on my own, after that, I started doing some Hall of Heroes as a Trapper, and I joined my first guild.
By Guilds
Joining Durance Of Fate
Before joining DoF, it was pretty much me and the henchies which made this game amusing. I met some very cool people when I was pugging, but I always ended up preferring just taking the way of the warrior untill I started doing HoH matches, back then on a trapper I met Saad, Mike and Pharun from Canada. Iverson, Dondada, Beleg and Kellen from The US and Daniel and his brother Xeeron from the UK, together with Korgy from Belgium were the founding members of Durance Of Fate, named after a dungeon of Diablo 2.
It Took me a while to understand how I needed to use VoIP programs, and how the skill synergy with other classes occur. But I learned up pretty fast and Durance Of Fate was a very competitive guild up to the end of 2005. By that time, I stopped playing Guildwars since my time with the UN was done and I was going back to Ecuador. I climbed up Durance Of Fate from a probational member to a member of the "Council Of Fate" and then to be one of the 3 Magnos that led DoF.
Looking for a more viable PvP enviroment
When I came back to Ecuador, I was already a rank 4 hero. so I could pretty much chose on which Guild I wanted to be, as rank 6 was the highest and only a few were rank 9. By then Dondada, Saad, Beleg and Kellen had split of from DoF and joined a new guild called House Redfalls, as soon as I had my stuff fixed back at home, I came back to Guildwars to learn about Spirit spammers and farm my last 400 fame untill they got nerfed for overpowering something we later knew as IWAY. that pretty much killed HA and with it, the only PvP I knew. HRFL crew decided it was time for moving up to some other PvP enviroment that offered now a more rewarding range of prizes which was GvG.
GvG wise, HRFL topped at top 100's, we couldn't go further mainly because the two that kept the guild glued, Rosie and Lucis decided to quit the game and move over. This was also the end for me as it goes for Guildwars for a while. I entered college and stopped playing a couple months.
The Shadowknights era
You would think College will take the time off you, but you're wrong. There's still a lot of time left specially when you've got stuff that you love learning that is really just too easy to try. I came back to Guildwars and Joined by personal invite on Eli Crush the sister guild of The Shadowknights, a top 50 guild of guildwars, called O I I I I I I I O [Jeep]. Being in Jeep was both amazing and annoying at the same time. Learning from such great players as Damian, Scova, Cube, Agrias and Red was worth the pain of gaming with the most horrible players that ever tried to move from PvE to PvP. Jeep was a great event on my contacts, but a bad event on my humor. I ended up being strat caller on a monk for Jeep, and that was pretty much the end of me there, with an offer to Join what Iverson called the reform of Marvel Superheroes, Muppet Babies. By this I got invited to SK due to Red leaving the guild to an HA guild. and I pretty much had my 15 minutes of fame in SK. Zaishen moved up to Monk, and I moved to flagger. we stayed here from the ending of the winterfest tournament till the first 5 months of the AT introduction.
Fish and Tag
SK finally died and what was left of The Fishmonger delved into a huge drama, and made two guilds, Omnious Latin Name [Tag] and Clan KYGU, I joined the first as they've lost their flagged to the second guild. I played in Tag for their ladder push, and then I had to step away because I got stuff in real life that had to be taken care of. I did got to play on both the Celestial Tournament and on winterfest finals on Jaden account, mine was still in SK when both this tournaments happened.
Joining Strike Force
Once in SK, I met a couple members from Strikeforce, this includes Lucky and Standerd, people I've met during my HA time and hated deeply for running bloodspike, they were pretty cool aside of what they would run, and as I was tired of all the PvP raging enviroment, I pretty much just decided to chill with the people I knew that were still playing the game in this Guild called Strike Force. I joined the guild for the first time in July last year, and was hopping in an out untill january this year, when I finally joined, hopefully for good.
My achievements
Here is a list of my ingame achievements and titles
PvE
- Kind of a Big Deal (1) for my PvE Monk
- Finished all of the campaigns Missions + Bonus/Masters in Normal Mode
- Maxed out Norn, Deldrimor, Sunspear and Lightbringer ranks
- Accomplish Survivor (3) on my PvE Ritualist
PvP
- Rank 6 Hero
- Rank 1 Commander
- Rank 1 Gladiator
- Rank 1 Friend of the Zaishen
My goals
Here is a list of what I'm planning to do before release of GW2
PvE
- Reach Kind of a Big Deal (3) for my PvE Monk
- Get the max out Sweet Tooth title
- Vanquish all of the 3 campaings
- Do all of the 3 campaings in HM
PvP
- Finish my rank 1 Champion title
- Get rank 3 Gladiator
- Get rank 8-10 Kurzick
