I Remember When...

I remember when i first started playing and thought pre-searing was it, thinking that i just wasted $50 on a piece of crap, then someone in the outpost told me bout going to post-searing and seeing the post map the first time made my jaw dropped...

I remember the first time i did The Great Northern Wall and found it very fun being chased by the charrs and actually making it at the end...my first ever gw mission experience...

I remember i never even dared to do the bonus for THK because of how difficult the mission itself already was...and how people being stuck there for weeks...and the monk strike and how i missed having my monk participate in it...

I remember running people thru the elona mission and actually making a hell lot of money with my warrior

I remember being run to Droknar's from Beacon's...then learned how to do it myself, and completing my first ever successful run to tips

I remember when Sorrow's Furnace came out, and there was constantly more than 10 districts, and greens were worth a fortune.

I remember when it was easy to get in a pug for missions...and even though it wasnt as efficient as heroes nowaday...i still prefer how i actually had people to talk to while playing...now, i feel like i'm playing an offline game...

I remember when Prophecie's quests offer skills as rewards...and there was motivation in doing them....now with factions and nightfalll...the only way to get them is from skill trainers...

I remember getting my first and only FOW armor for my warrior...and how it cost me about 1.5-2 mil...

I remember pvping in the Ascalon Arena was actually fun...

o well that's all i can think of for now

white dye. 12345

What was the THK monk strike?

The monk strike can be explained in this way(not only for THK mind you)

wammo: guys, this mission has to be done the right way, let me go kill that group

monk: No ffs, don't aggro

wammo aggros

monk can't handle the pressure (no LoD those days ^^)

wammo: Jeez, you stupid monk mending isn't strong enough to keep me alive forever! Why didn't u heal breeze me???

monk logs out

The End

I remember wen Guild Wars was fun and great game.

It was a great story to tell.

Well it was around the time of prophecies only. Monks were complaining that they weren't getting the respect for the amazing job they were doing: healing and protecting other players.

So Large numbers of Monks appeared in Thunderhead Keep (one of the hardest/most annoying missions). And did not accept any invites.
"No Deal No Heal" was commonly said by every monk.

After a day or two, things started to get back in order with monks and other players.

It saddens me to see what kind of game GW has been. Myself I started playing in December '06.

I remember when I got my first 15K armor. It was very cool when you farmed money for it by farming Hydras with W/Mo. :P

Yeah, because I made a monk and ignored the strikers.

I got any group I wanted in those days. I miss that.

I remember when The Last Pride was the guild of guilds.

I remember when I beat Hell's Precipice, before finding out what runes were/did.

I remember when I could bear people's stupidity in PuGs.

lvl 20 people were considered amazing for a bit and in earlier missions you could not fail with them which ofcourse we've learnt lvl 20 doesnt make you great.
Anyone else remember the centaur mission and how hard the bonus used to be.

ofcourse i remember the old chests. they usually were in fixed posistions and didnt require a key..this was before titles. lol when my monk tells this story to my paragon....epic adventures hes had years ago.

Peopel used to say they had 4 lvl 20 characters with like a whole bag of golds. i never beleved them.

i found out what 55ing was so i decided i'd give it ago. In order to be good i needed some expensive looking amor lol, i wanted this before i did the later ice missions such as THK.
This caused trouble for a fellow guildie. a simple run from thk to the grotto to get aftershock is easy. but when i dont have THK on the map and only iron mines being nearest.....
i died so easily and i watched him slay single handedly millions of ice imps to get me there. dying alot aswell and got a huge dp.

.........................now you can get aftershock from tomes and also kamadem..................the 55 build is also no longer that decent


OMG i just remembered the villianry of galrath. That was horrid back then.
the changing of item images is great. the dyes changed, the runes changed...
they changed imperial tokens a few times

i remember when i took my lvl 12 warrior into gvgs until i reached lvl 20
i remember when you couldent kill somone in half a second uless your whole team ganked them...
i remember when over powered skills didnt exist and final thrust was the S***
i remember when noobs walked the earth and noone kicked you from a group for having a low rank
i remember when i beat fow for the first time a week ago... (played for over 2 years and never did it)
i remember when clearing out the catacombs was fun instead of a decent way of becoming a ldoa

When I got my first black dye in pre-searing when I started the game.

When I thought that by giving my characters attribute points I wouldn't be able to take them out and I'd have my build stuck forever.

When I didn't comprehend the concept of instances and was confused why I couldn't see my friend when I walked outside of ascalon

When I learned the concept of merchanting and haggling when mini-pets first came out.

When I was amazed at people soloing the desert missions, and I thought Healing Hands was some major uber skill of 1337ness.

Good times...

I remember the old dye system.
I remember the old premade pvp builds and me thinking the paladin was the best build ever...
I remember when people thought THK was hard.
I remember black dye being 10k+. And silver being 3k+. I was shocked when silver got under 1k.

- i remember when having no elite in your bar was a normal thing...
- i remember when people were nice and no 11 year olds roamed around trying to pick a fight or yelling "OMG HAHA BUTTSECKS!!" *sorry for the example, best i could think of, though*
- i remember when no one said "gay" and it was only "stupid"
- i remember when getting ascended meant you were a god
- when R/Mo's did Ascalon to Desert running and W/Mo did Drok's running... i made a fortune off of those ascalon to LA runs.
- when MM's had about 30 bone horrors/fiends.
- when GvG was intense and meant you rocked
- the pre-searing arena right before you left. How you would say you were ready to leave, then pop up in the Academy and do a 5 minute PvP game... I miss that... you can't ever pop into a group
- when doing Dragon's Lair was really hard... took me a week to get through it.
- when Monks went on their strike and Mesmers were respected.
- When Wammos were non-existant... you were a W/Mo and took on the mobs and were nice to everyone
- When you could be any class and get through the story line in good time... now if you wanna get through, you must be an Ele, Necro, or Mo to find a group fast.
- 55'ers made LOADS of cash
- when the elites came out
- Xmas '05 had the coolest bunch of people
- The Drok's arena...
- No PvP continent

Maybe GW2 will bring all the good in people back again. And it will all reset and the community will be respectful. I hope that happens... either way I'm making a Monk as my first GW2 character.

Last week? O.o

i'm with you on that...

stuff like that, is still around X.X

You were attempting to troll last week too, right?

I remember using 3 sup fire runes on my armor, i was such a noob back then...

I remember when you didn't need to be ascended to go to the UW and FoW.It was easy to farm as well with no elites and no protective spirit just bond.Ha The Good Ole days.

Just miss playing with clan members/pugs in Prophecies. Good times, no attitudes just experience it and have fun.

I remember when I bought my first thing for 100k...which was a Superior Absorbtion Rune.

lol, same here

The good ole days where golden.





Then the mass nerfs destroyed everything for good.

24/7 my friend...24/7

Ah, that was my favorite character select screen. I wish yuo could pick and choose your char select screens, the EotN one looks horrible on my ocmputer. Loot scaling really ruined the game for me too.

i like the screen that was introduced during the Factions PvP Weekend Preview. The one that your charcter was standing on a post thing and the backround had all the different land-types cycling through. Where you saw mountains and volcanos.

Regardless of what people say I like these threads, if just to remember. I still play the game and have been playing since the first open beta. I like the game, yes I regret some things that have changed but overall, I still think this game rocks and my addiction is still healthy.

I remember when three friends and myself made our first guild. It was near Halloween during the beta so we used Black and orange as the colours and the spider symbol. It was ugly as sin. The guilds didn't use capes then, they used a smock or tabard style thing to wear. Capes didn't exist.

I remember also something about necklaces and amulets that I could NEVER get to work at all. It really pissed me off that I could get them to work.

I remember when the geography of Post-searing Ascalon did not match the geography of Pre-searing and I thought to myself that was really dumb.

I recall that in the very early game gold was so very very difficult to find and I had no stash, or I didn't know they existed. Platinum didn't exist, there was only gold and I could never find very much. I NEVER saw more that 30 or 40 GP drop at once.

I remember seeing my first level 20 character running around Ascalon City a few days after the game went live and I was very impressed and wondered what they could do.

I do regret how PUGs became more a game of tolerance than fun, I do remember that being a mesmer in the early days that when I got invited into a group I knew they were good players because no one who didn't know the game EVER invited Mesmers into their group. The only people who played with Mesmers were those who actually knew their usefulness and knew how to use them in the group. Almost every PUG I went into would stand around for a few minutes before each mission and discuss the mission and strats to succeed. This was all the more vital because there existed no wiki et al and we had to actually try the mission a few time...sometimes several dozen times to get through it. What I liked best is often the very same people would stay in the same pug mission after mission all day and at the end would add each other to our f-list just because we so enjoyed each other's game play.

I don't have the patience to stand around waiting for groups to form anymore, BUT when I do, they are usually tolerable and not as bad as I think they are going to be.

My Most memorable time playing GW was just after Factions was released I built my first monk and I was experimenting with him and I decided that I liked Protection better than healing and we did the Vizunah Square Mission and after we got the Masters reward four of the members of the team just up and gave me 1000 gold each because they thought I did an awesome job. That made me feel so good and I don't get that a lot no of days, but it still happens every now and then.

EDIT <--- I forgot to say That I think I preferred the time when you couldn't see the health of the monster you were fighting or what they were casting. You had to recognise the animation of each spell to be able to distinguise what it was casting and what spell/skill you needed to use to disrupt it.

I have come to realise that the game will never stay static and will always evolve and sometime I won't like what changes are made but I adapt and I adjust to meet the challenge. I love this game, still, after almost three years.

Wow, so many good memories of Guild Wars. Lets see if I can bring up one or two more.

I remember when groups of players would actually talk about the upcoming mission; planning strategy, determine who, if anyone actually knew the mission.
I remember when rage quitters were very rare; some people believed they did not exist.
I remember when saying “Thank you” was common.
I remember when players respected each other and addressed each other by name.
I remember long and often desperate fights to make it to the next town, and once you made it everyone would say “Good Job.” I can not count how many times we decided to do the next mission together, and got it the first try.
I remember when teamwork was common place.
I remember taking a level 6 Ranger/Monk with two other people to Lions Arch, fighting all the way. The ranger was level 12 when we got there.

Most of all, I remember actually enjoying playing Guild Wars. I miss those days.

I miss hanging out at "the end of the world" as we called it. The glitch where you could leave Granite, but not actually map out. Could go all the way past where the Mineral Springs portal is.

There's like eighteen of those still in existence. Example would be the Northern Wall one, although that's inside of the mission. I miss the Lutgardis glitch, I do. u.u

Who remembers Amnoon Arch of last December?

I missed it, was in the middle of something, and it was fixed before I got a chance to see it.

Oh yeah i remember that. It was weird haha but i loved seeing people freak out (even myself) over it.

ahhh wow. It was that long ago, i went inside the old arena lol.

/tear good ol days.

The first time I got to THK was with my Ranger. Tried to do the mission in a PUG 20 times, all failing...

Finally got it on the 21st, with henchies...

Wow...


100k Sup Abs, 70k Sup Vigor, Refund Points, all the "cool" builds like Paladin, Snowman, Flame Slinger thing with Greater Conflagration or whatever that would be considered crap these days, etc...


When people actually did the Prophecies missions instead of running through them...ahh, the good old days.

I remember when a Ranger directed the party to total victory in THK stationing a wamo in each gate, an ele over each gate, a person each side to run the cats, himself in the middle as support, and a monk to camp the king. It was flawless, and I have never seen it since.

I remember when MMs could run a gorgeous platoon of undead, lined up behind them in perfect miliatary formation.

I remember being able to make a k per round cleaning out gargoyles and scale outside Gates of Kryta.

Omg... I started playing after that ended.

Been playing since July '05, there's more stuff than I care to write at the moment, but for those who missed it, here's Amnoon Arch:

Yeh there are still a few skills that mention being "cannot be evaded"

I remember when Guildwarsguru.com wasnt around...

Yes i remember w/mo hydra farming too, hehe i posted a build way back on that

I remember when they changed the way damage was shown and how i thought i would never adapt....i remember when they fixed the armor bug and made -x only good against physical damage...and how Warriors would never be worth a shit again...I remember when i first got the game back in Apr 06 and researched on how to progress and stumbling upon guru and crossingtyria..and how Lion's Arch sounded so magnificent...I remember a guy doing a free run in one of the desert missions and i thought he was god like. I remember someone showing me how to do the troll run...and how much money i thought i was making by doing it....I remember when gold items weren't guaranteed to be perfect weapons....i can remember buying up non perfect weapons before NF hopeing i could add inscriptions to them and make a killing! I remember when +30hp mods were 10's of thousands of gold...and how you had to be lucky to salvage a good mod from an item.