Question about an old Guild Wars video

Milennin

Milennin

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Join Date: Sep 2006

Europe

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I was watching some old Guild Wars video, and noticed one scene that doesn't look familiar to me, and the quality is too low to read any text and names. Anyone know what this is and where it is/was?





Ailina

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Join Date: Jan 2010

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Oh geez, what ARE those things?!? I don't know of any monsters that look like that...
Seeing the Ghostly Hero there, and the decorations on the walls makes me think of HoH or something. I know there used to be those things called "Unworthy" you had to defeat to get to the PvP part of HoH, but I have no idea what they looked like (I was primarily PvE back then). Could those be it? It seems like a long shot, but it's all I could come up with.
If not, I have no clue. I'm really curious now too.
Could you link to the video please? For some context?

Kamara

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Looks like tombs before it got all Nightfallen.

There's Rift wardens far away on the first screen which would match up with this being old-Tombs, yeah. The radar and decor matches up. Yeah, definitely old-tombs. The NPC fighting round before you got to Underworld.

Milennin

Milennin

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Yup, link is here: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/guildwars/video/6123668. Somewhere around 1/2 of the video it shows the scene.

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Originally Posted by Kamara View Post
Looks like tombs before it got all Nightfallen.

There's Rift wardens far away on the first screen which would match up with this being old-Tombs, yeah. The radar and decor matches up. Yeah, definitely old-tombs. The NPC fighting round before you got to Underworld.
Then why did they change that? It looks cool.=p

Kamara

Kamara

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It *Was* cool, yes. I really hope that one day they go back to it. I mean, we got rid of the big bad in Nightfall. Give me back my pretty outpost! Not to mention I'd love to see this place decorated at Wintersday again. It was super pretty *_*

Milennin

Milennin

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Do you have any nice screenshots of the place?=p

Kamara

Kamara

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Only screens I've got of old-tombs are two 2005 wintersday ones.


AthenaNeiro

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conjure water trident healsig hammer warr. Oh the memories <3

Luminarus

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Woulda sworn that a better bar could be built with other skills, even before the power creep in proph!

Lord Dagon

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wow.. i didnt know tombs used to be preety o.0

Ailina

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Whats Prot Spirit [FoR]

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So, were those creatures the Unworthy? Because I can't find any other pictures of Unworthy anywhere. Does anyone have any pics of them or something? Because neither wiki has a pic, and it's got to be in the gw.dat somewhere, right?

EDIT:
By the way, lol @ "Chances are you'll still be playing this game when 2006 rolls around".

afmart

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i miss the old tombs, it was the only way to enter the hall of heros, they had to change it for Factions and Nightfall

Marty Silverblade

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Originally Posted by Ailina View Post
So, were those creatures the Unworthy? Because I can't find any other pictures of Unworthy anywhere. Does anyone have any pics of them or something? Because neither wiki has a pic, and it's got to be in the gw.dat somewhere, right?
They seem to be larger versions of Grasping Ghouls, perhaps with some minor modifications.

http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Grasping_Ghoul

Milennin

Milennin

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Awesome screenshots.=p
I still wonder why they removed/changed that area in the game.

Marty Silverblade

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Tombs was the old Heroes Ascent. The PvP was moved to the Battle Isles when Factions was released so that there was a single place for PvP rather than an equivalent of each type on each continent.