Guild Wars 2 Character Planning

Finally sat down and read through all the skills on the Wiki to get at least a cursory understanding of the flavor of the abilities of the game.  Did a little preliminary character planning as well, figured out what class/race/name combos I want to go with.  Reusing a lot of names I used in SWTOR but I ditched a few I thought were lackluster and replaced others.

I really like a lot of the skills on Guardians, but at the same time I would like to start by playing a class archtype I'm less familiar with and tentatively settled on Thief after having also considered Ranger.  Going to start with a Thief, Guardian, Necromancer, Mesmer, and Warrior.  Aside from having decided to start with a Thief first, I've enjoyed playing tanky archtypes in PvP in the past so Guardian is a natural choice and Necromancer was lots of fun in GW1.  The latter two are classes that Taugrim's done a lot of writing on so far so there will be a little less guesswork when I have time to play those classes.  I'll add Engineer, Ranger, and Elementalist characters as I get a chance to.

I picked races whose abilities (though irrelevant I realize) complement certain classes at least thematically.  I've got at least one of every race for the purposes of experiencing some of the differing stories but am planning to go with only one each of Asurans and Charr since I like their aesthetic the least.  In the end my race choices are perhaps a little to stereotypical, but eh.

Meanwhile, I've still been half-heartedly trying to get HoM points but I'm past trying to force myself to continue for difficult statues at this point.  Been trying to get through at least the first disc of Xenogears before Saturday too.

Brandon and I used to have an inside joke referring to Xenogears: Xenobeers, a game staring Gen from SaGa Frontier as he drinks and swash-buckles his away across the world/galaxy/universe.

Also, I'm now formally consigning this blog to Guild Wars 2 for the foreseeable future.  As such I'll be adding a bunch of helpful links to the eponymous section of the blog.