Graal Forums - Another one of those threads.

Before I get ready for some 5vs5 on WoW I thought I'd post something here from my PoV.

Graal Kingdoms. When I first started I was amazed by the possibilities to change your character as you went down the leveling road (as well as gearing but that's not new.) I spent time rerolling to have perfect starting stats. Of course I rolled a barbarian. They are brutal melee fighters who hit hard and leave nothing but a rotting carcass behind. This was the way to go.

I started leveling my physique as this was the main skill of the barbarian (according to me). As I leveled I picked up some magic books and prayers and realized I could level these skills as well. This opened up a lot of opportunities, like making a melee/caster hybrid or a priest/monk kind of character. This is what I fell in love with. You could create the perfect character. Highest level in all skills and stats, making it a god-like kind of character.

The years went by and I made my way to the maximum base-level: 110. I grinded my way to level 50 Physique (well it was actually a grind between level 27 and 50 physique, seeing as I leveled 20-27 using the wisdom bug.)
Of course leveling wasn't everything. You had to have the best gear available as well. This was not in my reach really so I settled with the basic stuff, netting me the 30 30 27 stats (str, dex, con).

As for RPing I never really liked it. I did it a couple of times but I can't say I enjoyed it that much. I took the other road and started practicing sparring. I enjoyed it and it brought a whole new challenge to the game. Instead of beating the AI I could now beat the actual players, the ones who I had looked up to when I watched them from outside the spar arena. I'll admit that I'm not the best of pkers on GK but I consider myself fairly good. Anyway..

As the playerbase dropped and the BModers left I was one of the few people left who played to fight other players. Logging on to do the /who command, looking for an innocent lowbie in BMode to kill, or to challenge a player of equal gear and level to spar for an hour or so. This eventually got boring and I quit the game.

A couple of months later I came back looking for another aspect of the game to explore. I figured I could combine PKing and RPing to a certain extent. This seemed like a nice idea and I stopped worshipping Bile and found new faith in Brigid, the godess of peace. This god wasn't really fit for my mission but I figured I could put a little twist to this seemingly boring godess. Instead of being the typical melee character, which was kind of one-sided, I made my character a melee/caster hybrid. Other than adding a bit of colour and flavour to PKing this wasn't much of a change really. I stayed for a couple of weeks but eventually quit again. I was done with GK. In my opinion I had beat the game. The goals I had set up were all reached and there was nothing left for me to do.

It was fun while it lasted.

This is my story. I just felt like sharing it with the rest of the community.

Feel free to share your stories too.