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Tyla

Emo Goth Italics

Join Date: Sep 2006

11 Jan 2008 at 22:17 - 1

What are YOUR best GW moments?
For me, it has to be when i was a complete n00b!

Looking back to the past and the best moments you have ever had on this game is a great way for admiring how the game has kept you occupied for this time, and i thought it would be a nice idea to post this thread!

ajmorgan25

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

Koss Stole My [WIFE]

11 Jan 2008 at 22:21 - 2

1. The first time I was wealthy enough to purchase 15k armor (Marketplace - Kaening Runs lol)

More when I think of them.

TBone2048

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Dec 2007

Are you stalking me?

Knights Of Pheonix [KOP]

E/D

11 Jan 2008 at 22:33 - 3

When I got Survivor title

Squishy ftw

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2007

Your backline

W/

11 Jan 2008 at 22:41 - 4

That has to be back when I started.

When I learned what aggro exactly meant and the importance of pulling. (Thank you yak's bend quests).

When I made my own first successful solo build to farm in the desert.

When I finally had the money to purchase 15k armor.

When I finally had the courage to stand up to those godawful hydras

bhavv

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2006

11 Jan 2008 at 22:44 - 5

Well done for the thousandth topic with this title, have a cookie.

For me:

1) Henchmen.

2) Heroes

3) A-net sucking up the game so badly that I started playing WoW. OMG what a superior game to this crap.

Hollow Gein

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2007

Menos Espadas

N/

11 Jan 2008 at 22:45 - 6

Definitely the early days before all the nerfs, loot-scaling and when people ACTUALLY played together to further the story/game.

Steboy93

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Feb 2007

Trinity of the Ascended [ToA] | Ex-Officer [TAM]

W/

11 Jan 2008 at 22:46 - 7

Completing Prophecies
Getting Legendary Guardian
Realizing i had surpassed my friends who introduced me to the game.

Siirius Black

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2007

The Dragon's Lair

La Legion Del Dragon

E/

11 Jan 2008 at 22:46 - 8

When I became a millionare when the crystaline swords first came out.

BUt dont ask what happened to the gold,
that was a past glory.

shrouded^god

IGN: J C A C H E

Join Date: Sep 2006

843

[Liar]

11 Jan 2008 at 22:55 - 9

Getting to level 20 for the first time.

I MP I

Hustler

Join Date: Nov 2006

in between GW2 servers

Mo/

11 Jan 2008 at 22:56 - 10

Getting Obsidian Armor for the first time.

fowlero

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

England, UK

We Are The One And Only [rR]

11 Jan 2008 at 23:01 - 11

When i stumbled across my first and only guild.

Group of 6 rl friends and then me, none of us knew how to play, none of us knew that the game existed other than prophecies (nightfall and factions were out then), none of us knew about wiki, I was under the impression a sword and shield make perfect sense on an ele (couldnt give up that long sword with the crystalline skin in pre lol) and only one of us had made it out of pre.

We knew absolutely nothing and it was simply the best way to get into the game. I felt epic when i got level 20 before 2 other guys in the guild.

chowmein69

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2007

11 Jan 2008 at 23:16 - 12

watching Rurik getting killed.

makosi

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

"Pre-nerf" is incorrect. It's pre-buff.

Requirement Begins With R [notQ]

Me/

11 Jan 2008 at 23:21 - 13

When Sorrow's Furnace was born. That rocked.

I hearted farming those greens and selling them which paid for my first Fissure armour set. It was kinda downhill when Factions came out - not that I dislike the new content, it's just too deviated from the essence of Prophecies.

Cowboy Nastyman

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2005

Me/Mo

11 Jan 2008 at 23:23 - 14

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soulless Warhawk

watching Rurik getting killed.

hahaha serves him right for surmia

my favorite recent one was taking down rotscale in hard on my mes with a friends para

garethporlest18

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

[HiDe]

W/

11 Jan 2008 at 23:25 - 15

Trolling during events/when I"m bored in towns. It's great because one day someone recognized me as doing this and insulted me for it. I was also called the biggest prick in Guild Wars. I have fans!

Kahlindra

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

England

Anthems to the Welkin at [Dusk]. 2 man guilds are king.

N/Me

11 Jan 2008 at 23:26 - 16

GvGing 18 months ago... the possibilities were endless.

Getting the first rank of KOABD and realising the rest of it was oh so very achievable.

Definitely that first elite armour moment.

ProgTes

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2007

Under that rock.

We Demand A Shrubbery [Ni]

W/E

11 Jan 2008 at 23:34 - 17

- Getting a r9 15/-10 chaos axe as a drop. Sold the jewel for 75k back then, I had never seen so much money

- Finishing the Foundry of Failed Creations in 4 hours. I felt so unbelievable tired yet I thought, woohoo, I've done it

- Getting my obsidian armor
- But the best of all was getting my 100% tyria explored. I worked so hard for it, and when I was done I really though; OK, what's next? And took a break from GW because I suddenly hadn't got anything to do

- Finishing Thunderhead Keep after my 11th attempt
- Finishing Prophecies. That was epic the first time.

Rexion

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2007

[Luck]

E/

12 Jan 2008 at 01:22 - 18

Quote:

Originally Posted by bhavv

3) A-net sucking up the game so badly that I started playing WoW. OMG what a superior game to this crap.

you win the internet for this comment...

i'd say when i discovered that NF wasn't so crappy after all, since i had started the storyline like right before leaving Istan and all... then i created my ele and it was actually good.

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

12 Jan 2008 at 01:26 - 19

Quote:

Originally Posted by bhavv

3) A-net sucking up the game so badly that I started playing WoW. OMG what a superior game to this crap.

What he said. Besides that..dunno to be fair. 15k armor was hardly an achievment, as it only took 1 trade to buy everything I needed. FoW armour was easy. First mill was easy.

I know...uninstalling \o/

bhavv

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2006

12 Jan 2008 at 01:55 - 20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rexion

i'd say when i discovered that NF wasn't so crappy after all, since i had started the storyline like right before leaving Istan and all... then i created my ele and it was actually good.

Yea NF was the best cos we got heroes. We wanted more particularly for HM, they dont give. Instead they give us loot scaling, dishonour / report, the worst ever wintersday and a mini pet that drops for 10 people in the whole game, and then they decide to sell the BMP O.o.

Sorry, I fail to understand what Anet is good at anymore. They made a great game. They ruined it.

GW doesnt even have any sence of achievement other then grinding titles, a traditional RPG's equivalent to leveling up and aquiring super equips. Yes we have elite armor and rare weapons, but you can get the same stats of cheap armor and weapons, so the need to obtain these is very low.

Hailo

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Angel of Death

Mo/

12 Jan 2008 at 01:58 - 21

Back before even greens were i the game. I was level 7 and made my first 100k, by the time I was level 14 I was a millionaire. How I did it? simple stock market tactics, buy low and sell high. Too bad you can't do that anymore, and rare items are overfarmed and lose value so quickly. Does anyone remember when Perfect eternal bows, storm bows, and fell blades were worth 800-900k+? and Ectos were over 20k and HoD swords were a common thing?

Queenie

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

12 Jan 2008 at 02:12 - 22

Crafting my first full set of Obsidian armor for Christie.

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

12 Jan 2008 at 02:58 - 23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hailo

Back before even greens were i the game. I was level 7 and made my first 100k, by the time I was level 14 I was a millionaire. How I did it? simple stock market tactics, buy low and sell high. Too bad you can't do that anymore, and rare items are overfarmed and lose value so quickly. Does anyone remember when Perfect eternal bows, storm bows, and fell blades were worth 800-900k+? and Ectos were over 20k and HoD swords were a common thing?

A millionaire at level14 back in the old days...? hahahaha if you're going to make up a story, try and make it a little believable.

Level 14 you'd would have been in the jungle? only shitty golds drop in the jungle, you'd have been lucky to get a max gold.

100k by level7...explain that to me...no way in hell you could have farmed it. No way in hell you could have made that much in trading, because at level 7 you wouldn't have anything to trade. Also, despite common belief trading requires a certain amount of cash injection before you can make a profit.

Buy/sell ecto, but to do that and to make a profit you need to buy in large amounts for under cost price, then you need to find an idiot how is offering at least 1.5k over cost price to make even the smallest amount of profit.

Trading materials...not possiable either really, because back in the golden days everyone went to Droks for materials. You could have crafted parchment, but at that level you'd have to farm low level critters for hours upon hours just to get enough wood to make a few k profit.

Unless I'm missing something...?

Aera Lure

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

In Baltar's head

Bring Out Your Dead [BOYD], former officer [LBS]

Mo/

12 Jan 2008 at 03:13 - 24

I have too many moments to name:

1. my first Drok's run in the good old days
2. FoW teams in my old guild (one of my favorite things)
3. Christmas party free Drok's runs while in my old guild
4. getting Legendary Guardian with my guild leader in my new guild
5. almost finishing MotN also with my current guild leader (sigh, I am not able to play now to finish it)
6. farming UW in the old days
7. the first time I finished Prophecies
8. getting Protector in Factions on 6 of my characters in random PUGs
9. heck, random PUGs in the good old days before heroes - I had many great times - cant do that now very much
10. the days back when THK was "hard" lol
11. Alliance Battles, until the wait times wore me out
12. saving for and getting my first FoW set
13. my monk got her FoW set (love my monk)

It just goes on and on, and I am not being very specific even.. too many stories and too many friends and good times with them to name. Sorry to all - you all know who you are.

As an aside, since bhavv raises it here:

Quote:

Originally Posted by bhavv

GW doesnt even have any sence of achievement other then grinding titles, a traditional RPG's equivalent to leveling up and aquiring super equips.

Yeah, but you know what? I would rather level up further and acquire better items. It got boring after a while when every drop was no better or more or less the same as every other, when the only thing to do was change skins.

Some of the titles are very nice though. I adored Legendary Guardian and the Protector titles. I had SO much fun with those. Skill Hunters were fun on rainy days I had nothing else to do. I also enjoyed working towards MotN. Others outside of that, well, I have a number of others, just didnt enjoy them anywhere near as much.

Quote:

Originally Posted by bhavv

Yes we have elite armor and rare weapons, but you can get the same stats of cheap armor and weapons, so the need to obtain these is very low.

The only need was cosmetics and yes, I am guilty of that. Untold millions into cosmetics lol.

Dont get me wrong though, I still love GW. Its just over time many parts of the game got dull, due to aspects above, and I had to find other aspects of it to interest me - namely the people I played with in both the guilds I have been in, setting common goals, working together for some titles, gameplay for certain activities has all remained fun. Other PvE aspects though leave much to be desired.

Steps_Descending

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2007

IN my pocket plane. Obviously!

Little Tom's Pocket Plane [THom]

Me/Mo

12 Jan 2008 at 03:29 - 25

It was on my first serious character who's still my main in fact, (Me/Mo Fast Cast healer... latest flash back of my healer days is going smite for ascenssion (a pretty nice memory too, that one), i can still see myself screaming "I am a monk" in maaguma).

I was in ascalon city, pre-searing, when that guy come up at me (was either afk or playing somewhere in the interface) and say somethign like :

"hey, your character looks like my auntie" (or was that it? either way it wasn't exactly a typical young lady's style)
"thks, I reply walking up to him, nice one too"
I think he was on a female monk or a male ranger (why one of those two? NO idea). Whatever he was trying to do that guy put a smile on my face for a while. And if he ever reads this : She may look like your auntie, but Sani Ty looks incredibly great in her black canthan robe. (ok its actually shing jea style)

Veripare

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2005

Canada, Ontario

12 Jan 2008 at 03:52 - 26

When I sold Brohn's Staff for 100K+16e.

When I sold three HoD swords for 100K+40e.

When I first bought max armor for my three most favourite characters.

When I first bought prestige armor.

When I was in a team that took and held the Altar for North America.

bhavv

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2006

12 Jan 2008 at 05:29 - 27

My best guild wars moment was getting heroes in NF and winning halls with them for the first time.

Davros Uitar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

Fool Wolves

W/Mo

12 Jan 2008 at 05:58 - 28

Completing the Abbadons Mouth mission and killing all those Mursaat bosses with a PUG of 4 wammos and a ranger. Our two monks and Leroooooy Ele all rage quit before the first boss because the party had "too many wammo's to heal" for their taste.

All us wammo's wanted to capture an elite, so we pressed on. The ranger was the only one that had a hard res, and he used it over and over again. We got our capture at the 2nd boss set then just decided we didnt need no damn monks and kept in rolling

.

Mind you - it got a bit hairy at the seals when we were down to 2 people - one with a res and 3 lying dead on the floor. Everytime I got ressed I would get instantly nuked down again. One time I got up, went into quick retreat mode. and ran straight into the lava (splat face down).

Fun times.

Kuhr

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2007

Somewhere between the gutter and the stars.

Wild Rovers [WR]

E/

12 Jan 2008 at 06:15 - 29

I got my first max title yesterday. Tyrian Grandmaster Cartographer.

I've been playing since the beginning. I was so proud. :'(

Lykan

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

StP

R/

12 Jan 2008 at 06:51 - 30

Getting my Bambi a long time ago.

@ the WoW lovers in this thread.. if its so great why spend so much time trolling guru? surely you have some levels to grind or something.

mazey vorstagg

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Nodnol

Meeting of Lost Minds

E/Mo

12 Jan 2008 at 07:14 - 31

My best moment was pre-searing when I first got the game. It was the first MMO I'd played and it felt amazing!

Turtle222

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2007

:D:D

D/W

12 Jan 2008 at 09:09 - 32

presearing wiht my friend irl. we had no idea what to do and ended up constantly attacking wurms

(and that dreaded wolf D

Fril Estelin

So Serious...

Join Date: Jan 2007

London

Nerfs Are [WHAK]

E/

12 Jan 2008 at 09:12 - 33

In all honesty, it's very difficult to pick only one. GW1 seems to me like a long list of good moments and there's not one that comes before the others. Well, may be Abaddon's mouth was very cool and unique in GW1

.

Uber Mass

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

The Netherlands

retired from gw [agro] still ftw

W/

12 Jan 2008 at 09:12 - 34

Getting to play with a girl wich became my gf now and we even live together

Horus

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2007

www.godtguild.com

Blades Of Burning Shadows [GoDT]-leader

Mo/

12 Jan 2008 at 09:13 - 35

when i won HoH with heroway team(as party leader) and my name was all over the GW world... and i won it with unranked team(i was rank1).
Unfortenatly i lost screenies of it, when my comp broke

Dorvan919

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2007

My chair

Droknars Arena Dogs [DAD]

D/

12 Jan 2008 at 11:03 - 36

my best moment is when I started playing GW NF for the first time. I never made another character that day, since I loved my dervish soooo much! Oh and when I got my first prestige armor and finished NF :P.

Lord Sojar

The Fallen One

Join Date: Dec 2005

Oblivion

Irrelevant

Mo/Me

12 Jan 2008 at 11:06 - 37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aera Lure

I have too many moments to name:

1. my first Drok's run in the good old days
2. FoW teams in my old guild (one of my favorite things)
3. Christmas party free Drok's runs while in my old guild
4. getting Legendary Guardian with my guild leader in my new guild
5. almost finishing MotN also with my current guild leader (sigh, I am not able to play now to finish it)
6. farming UW in the old days
7. the first time I finished Prophecies
8. getting Protector in Factions on 6 of my characters in random PUGs
9. heck, random PUGs in the good old days before heroes - I had many great times - cant do that now very much
10. the days back when THK was "hard" lol
11. Alliance Battles, until the wait times wore me out
12. saving for and getting my first FoW set
13. my monk got her FoW set (love my monk)

It just goes on and on, and I am not being very specific even.. too many stories and too many friends and good times with them to name. Sorry to all - you all know who you are.

As an aside, since bhavv raises it here:

Yeah, but you know what? I would rather level up further and acquire better items. It got boring after a while when every drop was no better or more or less the same as every other, when the only thing to do was change skins.

Some of the titles are very nice though. I adored Legendary Guardian and the Protector titles. I had SO much fun with those. Skill Hunters were fun on rainy days I had nothing else to do. I also enjoyed working towards MotN. Others outside of that, well, I have a number of others, just didnt enjoy them anywhere near as much.

The only need was cosmetics and yes, I am guilty of that. Untold millions into cosmetics lol.

Dont get me wrong though, I still love GW. Its just over time many parts of the game got dull, due to aspects above, and I had to find other aspects of it to interest me - namely the people I played with in both the guilds I have been in, setting common goals, working together for some titles, gameplay for certain activities has all remained fun. Other PvE aspects though leave much to be desired.

I miss Pavia...

We had fun in LBS before it turned nasty.

I basically think of the same stuff as you. I remember passing my droks run certs in LBS for the first time, and then watching as my storage filled up with ectos and gold from all those lazy peeps who wanted the runs. Ah yes, and the 100k per person runs for THK....ah the good ol' days!

Steboy93

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Feb 2007

Trinity of the Ascended [ToA] | Ex-Officer [TAM]

W/

12 Jan 2008 at 14:18 - 38

Just got 'I'm Very Important', this has made it into one of my favourite gw moments

Dev121

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2005

12 Jan 2008 at 14:34 - 39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rahja the Thief

I miss Pavia...

We had fun in LBS before it turned nasty.

Before you raped the guild?

Lawliet Kira

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2006

E/Me

12 Jan 2008 at 17:13 - 40

When i made my 1mil