What do you miss most from the earlier years of Guild Wars?

I loved the choice of pre-made PvP builds, in RA all the W/Mo's were guaranteed to be using Mending and Healing hands (paladin), and W/E's were "Abominable Snowman" with deep freeze.
Oh, and there was a time when warriors used Gale over Shock. ♥

Everything was new to me.
Now I know every single centimeter of terrain better than the back of my hand.
New stuff is great. Old stuff is... well... not so great.

Most things have improved since then, and I still want retroactive changes to make old campaigns more like the new ones. Like talking to NPCs with an icon over themselves to start missions.

Non-PvE skills.
Challenge of the game.
New explored areas and towns.
lvl 20 in Ascalon Arena or low lvl with elite skills ^^

The innocence of players.
These days everyone thinks they know everything and it just turns into ignorance.

I miss this; "omg I just ID a sup rune, IM RICH!!!!!"

not so much:
* not being able to join pugs because necros were regarded too weak in pve
* waiting 3 months before getting into UW because europe "never" had favor
* in my first guild being forced to play gvg as lonely lvl 19 newbie monk, without any previous pvp experience - and getting the blame when we lost
* Being humiliated for 1 hour when I by mistake joined a "farming pug" (without knowing) when doing tombs a 2nd time
* Getting harassed in outposts by naked wammos
* Getting disconnected after 4 hours in UW
* Not being able to test different builds because I did not have enough points

but more so:
* my first full exploration of UW took 11 hours, 4 hours to gather a team and and fail once, and 7 hours to actually explore (not all quest though)
* Using purple runes since gold ones were too expensive
* Taking 10 min breaks in the middle of missions and UW/FoW trips
* When pugs really could be bad (I pug missions a lot today, but rarely get into bad pugs)
* Most people carried self heal
* Without a clue, fighting the dobbelganger with a plain bloodbuild more than 10 times before I finally survived
* Beating the last area in UW with only 3 people left in the party and really be proud of it
* Being able to do long pulls, and fight during withdrawal was important
* When Rebirth was an almost mandatory skill

PUGs. I miss them. I do
As a monk I really had to concentrate on what I'm doing and where I'm standing. I never knew what to expect from people

Also the old Urgoz. Before the NF and etc
It was an elite area and you had to know what you are doing. The margin for error was really tiny
Went to Urgoz 4 days ago and I almost fell asleep

Nope. I only remember one skill, but that's because my Warrior is my main. The original incarnation of Sun and Moon Slash was worded like this:

"Attack target enemy twice. The first attack cannot be blocked, the second attack cannot be evaded."

Lol i miss lots of things
But the biggest ones i suppose are;
.Being new to guild wars and knowing nothing
.when pugs were common
.when there were more people playing
.the factions login screen
.when there were more frequent updates

and i know there's probably lots more but can't think of them.

I miss not having to pay so much rl money for things.

I also miss PvP....

I really do miss when 5 min was considered a really long wait time for GvG.

I miss Guild Wars.

This just isnt the same game we all loved 4-5 years ago, when everyone thought Kryta would be Guild Wars 2, when you could farm trolls for a day straight and make 10x more then a shitty perma sin, when getting Obi armor (after about the first year) took 2 hours, when Wammo's were used in any organized team, when mesmers were the rubish class, when there was no grinding for titles, no eliteism, and a friendly community...

I honestly miss Guild Wars....

When minion masters were actually effective in pvp and pve. Motherf***ing minion cap. putting that in was a ridiculous decision.

Oh, and I miss my innocent days of the first few days of factions when roaming shing jea island was fun instead of boring and I just killed monsters for fun instead of quests.

When everybody in an outpost didn't have a number "4" over their head.

If everybody has it, then nobody is teaming up with each other.

Full Hero/Hench teams are a major step backwards. Too late to fix it now.

I miss when people would play together rather than h/h in a multiplayer game. And when people ddn't care if I used my sword ele or my IW mes.

I also miss playing in the Ascalon/Shiverpeak Arenas, and VoD.

I was actually pretty excited when i got my first green, and 3 hours used to get a really good time for Sorrow's Furnace, now I feel like I wasted half a day when most of the greens are subpar anyway.

I miss people.
And PuGs.

My favourite time was early to mid 2007.

Lots of cool people. The good Kurzicks were still playing, the Luxons were all mobbing, and AB was fun shit. Game balance was pretty nice, both PvE and PvP. There were heroes, and still plenty enough people that you could make a choice either way. There were lots of people even in those quiet-ish Prophecies outposts. All Chat was filled everywhere. There were regular skill updates.

The game was alive.

I miss when this game was good. Particularly the PvP. Nothing more need be said.