Wow, things have changed

Anyone remember how chests used to work pre-faction days? I swear they were compeltly different

Yep , remembering old days is actually more enjoyable than playing GW , especially PvP , today. Hardest thing was maybe droks run , now people complete UW HM in less than 30mn and the deep in about 10 mn. So fun game wooo

for Ascalon!

Update - Thursday, August 11, 2005

* Improved traders so that they maintain more stable prices and closer spreads between buy and sell prices.
* Improved traders so that traders from all regions (America, Europe, and Korea) now buy and sell from the same stock and charge the same prices.


and also reading through my prophecies manual...Atttribute Refund points...what the heck was that about

Great thread, made me do a lot of looking back to which I have some to add.

So from now on people might as well add some of their own.

This was the biggest that stood out as being mostly wrong. The great days for the Necro with the addition of Sorrows furnace and the largest minion partys of all time.

Don't forget

Charr hunting in pre felt like it meant something.

While most people in pre where looking to get out of pre asap : as soon as you crossed over and experienced the searing for the first time ....most wanted to get back to Pre asap.

Hundreds of wammo's yelling "test run to drok's" and failing BADLY - Daily

4 Char slots ... My main char never felt so lonely on the Character screen.

Bring on the second accounts!

The only reason why wammo's existed : taking advantage of foe AI and holding aggro.

The +5 Energy short sword that was a random drop (white version), plus the light blue version

The pre Crystalline sword that everyone tried to pass off as the real thing.

Marhan's Grotto was awesomely annoying. Let alone getting there! Grotto Parties!

Fow parties that usually just went to the Temple of War and crapped.

The only reason for going so far in FoW - armor

Wow you have enough money for FoW armor? Wait..thats WARRIOR FoW armor? WTF?

Finish Underworld? just so I can say i did it once? ok once.

Ecto values 15k+


Arborstone officially became the most annoying mission ever.

Eternal Grove unofficially became the most annoying mission ever when it came to pugs.

Chest running Raisu palace explorable

After entering Vizunah square, and asking for a human team on the other side? silence? back to town xD

Confused about why there was two Vizunah squares...always feeling like I was in the wrong one.

Theres an undercity??? wait its not on the map? Im so confused.

Runners from Marketplace to Kaineng city charging 500g-1k?? then always yelling you can just walk there..wtf???


But the biggest thing....

Waking up...starting the computer...going to the bathroom...grabbing a little something to nibble on...logging on/doing a quick mission...going to work...thinking of GW....going home...starting the computer.. get a shower...log in...start playing..(eat when everyone agreed on a break) back to playing.... Looking at the time....crap (only 4-5 hours of sleep ahead of me)..sleep those hours.. Wake up.......Repeat!!!

thats all i got for now

Lmao back when I just had to get my warrior Elite Charr Hide... still one of my top 5 sets in the game.

I love these threads, the memories come rushing back every time.

Same for me...i guess this is the effect on a 1-year-old player like me.

great OP, summed it up pretty much for me...brought back a lot of memories! The ranger hate I felt made me a little sad, and everytime I'm forced to think about how much time I spent daily playing this game in the real grind phase makes me wish I would have gone for a Ph.D, or at least learned another language fluently (yes, I think 5k hours would enable you to do that)

I liked it a lot. All the memories. Thanks for bringing those back. Was fun to read. You made my day! Like someone already said.

I loved reading this...shared much of my thoughts..though ranger was my first character ever in GW.

Great post, really fun to read, also for a bit more nostalgia look at this,



1 Storage tab, old dye flasks and a leet ammount of money :P

no costume slot etc eiether..they changed the runes image a few times too and i recall the amount of health they change too

Lol love the screen shots....ohh man what a great post...


Made me smile the whole way through reading it...

I need to look through my old screenies too...

Oh boy!

I can remember that lol, I even remember the night Nightfall went out live I only slept 3-4 hours before going to work.

Anyone remember the bug where everyone could add heroes in AB (4 humans + 3 heroes each!!!)? It was really nice steamrolling those suxons (j/k) that night!

Things weren't that easier back then but I'm sure as hell that people were more laid back.

I remember the green farming in TOPK and how hard and time consuming it was back then.

I love that armor too!, add a militia shield and a heket axe and you're good to go

omg this post brings back memories!!!!

i just came back to gw a few months ago. GW has changed!! ( in a good way)
I stopped playing gw right after EOTN came out.

back then

DOA full run took over 6+ hrs haha. Did so many runs pulling all-nighter!

who said rangers were bad, THEY WERE STARS b/p run anyone?
and they were the faster droks runner imo

That made me laugh...ha


I rolled into Augry Rock with my warrior for the first time this week and it reminded me the good ole days of desert runs and people getting to the desert for the first time ala 5 years ago. I feel very nostalgic as I explore the latter half of Prophecies for the first time in a long time.

For Ascalon!

lol good times!
Don't forget about farming Ettins for sup vigor and absorption

As a fairly new GW player(3rd year), I've always thought of Dreadnought's Drift as a strange place, a pretty small zone without any real significance, "protected" by two large areas full of what I presume were difficult foes at the time of Prophecies.

Then I learned about the Lost Strongbox and Frozen Chest.

D: