What ever happened to Sorrow's Furnace

Last night I was thinking about skill capping for the title in Prophecies when on my map I saw, Sorrow's Furnace!!!

I spend tones of time there.. once.

Does anyone do that anymore?

Every once in a while when I fancy a new Drago's

at first it was fun...but now people want rewards for there work and its a big place for nothing in return....same as TOtPK...best u get is a green....guildwars players (not all but most)...want the chance of something of value for the effort...BDS EBlade Obby edge etc...they are still a nice reward so people will play them alot.

This pretty much, i Still enjoy doing it now and then as i dont care about the rewards. its shame that Tombs and SF are dead

Takes back time when sorrow furnace was added to the game.
Yup good old days

Basically, the dwarves got owned by Bladed Aatxes.

It basically was the berth of the "green" weapon. At that time, most of the greens that came out of the furnace were decent to good.

Well obviously through the additions of factions, nightfall, and Eotn...these sorrows furnace greens became obsolete.

Think about it, even finishing the questing in sorrows didnt do anything for you. It became strictly for the farm.

Dont forget, Sorrows furnace was the place to be for the great days of the true human Minion Master. Certain areas in Sorrows gave you all the bodies you needed to control 30, 40, or 50+ minions with relative ease. When they nerfed the max to 10 minions, sorrows furnace took a big hit.

Obviously its dead as a doornail. An end chest would bring some draw back to with some additions of maybe new gold weapons. Keep the weapons UNINSCRIBABLE for some draw of truly unique weapons. Up the foe patrols maybe to help make it more interesting.

Considering with all people working on gw2, it wouldnt take much to update Sorrows to bring some draw back to it.

I can remember being dead and a Green dropped with my name on it and everyone was, "Don't res him!!!" So, no one res'd me and the fight issued of who will get the drop.

That was my first introduction to all for one and everyone for themselves in GW.

I still do it. I like it. I do some events with my guild there, not to mention Moa Chick.

This is why I always would go with two well-known guildies and the two henchie monks when I 5 man-Oro'd .

Seriously, though, back when SF was added were the really good old days of Guild Wars. Back then, 100k was A LOT of money, and getting one of Bortak's Greens or Rago's Flame Staff drop for you was cause for a coronary infarction. Also, no minion cap, so 30-40 minions on screen owning everything in sight was amazing.

To answer the OP, no...nobody really does it anymore aside from the occasional Black Moa trip. This is mainly due to the drastic decrease in the value of Greens when inscriptions came out.

Like so many things it's not worth it. The novelty of doing it with just a pary of 4 or 5 and occasionally getting a green wears off.

I went there a long time ago. Then I went back to get a statue and a black chick.
Then I forgot about the place.
Most uniques there can be replicated with better and moddable stuff, and the couple of nice skins you may find around there can be found inscribed in the North, from the other stone summit dwarves.
So there is no motivation to go there other than fun.
It's still fun, though, but not as fun as other things I may do.
It's a place to go with people. With H/H is not so fun.

Ppl forgetting the Uber Killroy chest dropping Purple Magmas, Crystallines, Dwarvens Etc!

its someting to go for still even now!

The purchase and possession of my Miniature Dredge Brute, is my personal way of showing my love for the place.

The quests were awesome, the drops were cool, and the place was just amazing. Not to mention the Dredge are cute being rebellious and communists and all :3

Back in 2005 it was great fun unmatched by anything else PvE had to offer in all the history of GW. And it was very rewarding.

I really miss that kind of gameplay, it's a big shame they didn't try to revive that experience, even EotN despite promises did nothing to bring that back.
It's even bigger shame they completely ruined the rewards by horrible game design decisions: first by giving quality green drops to easily accessible bosses in explorables, possible to be easily overfarmed solo, and then by doing the single worst thing that has happened to PvE - introducing the inscription system, which among all the bad things it did also made (most) greens obsoleted by random common drops.

Thanks to the occassional Z-Quest the fun can be revived once per a few months and PuGs are really forming on that day. And a couple greens which aren't just obsoleted by random insc crap are still among the most valuable greens in game, oh, and the occassional purple Crystalline drops from chests are nice too.

I still love Sorrow's Furnace, and go there often just because it's my fav "elite" area

Its a great place and fun to go. Too bad a-net has not updated it since the early 70's

Factions ruined greens because Every boss drops one and it also birthed the begining of "end game greens" Which Ive always thought were stupid, I loved hunting down bosses and grinding to kill em, now I just have to finish the game, lol.

Would be nice if these dead areas could be revamped for more playablity.