As my main character, I played a level-50 wraithguard, somenewb. 


Best Experience:  Meet so many friendly and helpful folks…weren’t we suppose to fight more on the pvp server?   


Worst Experience:  Instant death by level-50 tricksters. 


Without question, my most exhilarating spellborn experience was when my first character, solidgone, a level-20 body based Deathhand arrived at Hearth.  During that time, spellborn was “pay to play” but had a promotion where it was “free to play” for limited timeframe (30 days or something).  Consequently, Hearth was packed with folks trying spellborn for the first time and pvp was everywhere.  It was an awesome image of what could have been had the population not dwindled after the promotion ended.  When I walked off the shardship, it looked liked the Wild West.  Players were fighting in the streets, on top of buildings, outside the gates, at the rez shrine and everywhere in between.  The only sanctuary I found was inside the blacksmith building. 


Still new to the game, I had big trouble competing, let alone winning, at pvp.  In order to complete quests, I had to sneak around town by ducking behind buildings to avoid getting slaughtered.  Progressing like a ninja was slow but steady until I encountered another deathhand of equal level with considerable more skill and attitude. 


This other deathhand made it his personal mission to hunt me down and kill me again and again.  The fights weren’t even close, and I thought that surely he would become bored and leave since I posed no challenge.  Instead of finding a better challenge, he persisted.  I became frustrated and thought that he must have cheats since his attacks never missed and his damage was considerably greater than mine.  Finally, after dying repeatedly for what seemed like hours, I logged off for the night inside the blacksmith with that other deathhand waiting for me just outside the door. 


The next day, I logged back in and was able to escape out of town and to freedom.  It was a big relief to be rid of that other deathhand.  I could now continue making progress questing, so I traveled to the marsh to hunt alligators.  All seemed to be well and good again as I completed that alligator quest and paused shortly before planning the long walk back to town to collect my fame and acquire the next quest.  All those plans changed when my #1 fan appeared to offer a shortcut back to town. 


I recall the scene like it was yesterday.  Suddenly, I saw 1k of my hit points disappear from a headshot.  As I turned to the northwest, I saw that dreaded other deathhand jumping and running down the hill while sending missiles of death towards me.  Before I could offer any resistance, there I lay, dead again…


Not wanting to continue this charade another night, I logged off very confused and frustrated with my deathhand standing at the rez shrine outside of the southern town of hearth.  I ended up staying logged off for many days after that ordeal.  Instead of playing the game, I studied the spellborn wiki and read the forums.  Maybe my luck would be better with a different class?  I elected to go with a 100% focus wraithguard, and somenewb was born.  Best game decision I ever made.   


During my journey to level-50 with somenewb, my knowledge of the game grew, and I gradually came to the realization that my hated nemesis deathhand back at hearth may have not been guilty of cheating.  Instead, he was likely focused based (at that time, the poison dot was based on focus) and simply understood the quirks of the targeting system better than I did at the time. 


Also, my short and unpleasant affair with that deathhand provided a pivotal learning experience for which I am grateful and set a standard to strive for in pvp.  As a result, I become a better player for it.  Unlike Rocky, I never encountered that deathhand again and got the rematch I wanted.  Nevertheless, the experience did help to earn the respect of another deathhand following a few friendly duals when we both were nearing level-40.  A short time later, I received an invitation from that deathhand, Stricken, to join deadspell enforcers.  Everything was cake after that.


Sorry for the long post.