Old nostalgia?

I recently remade a prophecies character to help out a friend playing..

I miss the adventure, I miss the wide eyes when you see the beacons at Beacon's Perch, I miss the whole "LFR to LA" although I hate prophecies.

Factions really gets me too! Like the whole "SH lfg" for FFF

What are some things you would find back then, and not now?

Doesn't have to be just prophecies, but that would be pretty cool.

I'm kind of discovering pre-searing for the first time and am having fun with the economy of non-max weapons. I realize that I missed the time (I started in the post-Nightfall era) when max weapons were something really special and it was kind of exciting to get a gold drop that might actually be something really special. Nowadays just about everything is "merch food" unless it comes from a high end dungeon or elite chest.

Fiery Dragon Swords. They always bring me back to my earlier days.

Clicking the shrine with Althea's ashes a split second before I was killed for the 1000th time, and the victorydance me and my mates had afterwards.

I still have an old max r8 fiery dragon sword i bought for 1.5k after making my first platinum, good times.

Yeah i wish I was around back then. I was actually disapointed when I started playing in 08 at how cheap and easy it was to find a max weapon with max stats from other players so early in the game. It took the challenge away. Regardless, I played through and capped all my elite skills and got legendary survivor the old-fashioned way. Eh whatever, there's always GW2

Yeah, Post-searing Ascalon is the new Pre.

To the "good old days!"

The thing I miss and always end up thinking about when thinking of the past of GW was Skill Charms <3

i want my clay bricks back!!!!

Back in the first (half) year of guildwars were groups were made with players and not hencman trough every single mission in prophics and not everyone being an ass.

O yay and thunderhead keep ftw

When a purple Summit Axe was my best weapon, and I was tanking Sorrow's Furnace 5-man runs with my friends

Not even henches???

Unplayable now. Period.

Or maybe still playable but with mind numbing waiting times or else extremely rigid guild sheduling.

Seriously, why do people think heroes ruined the game again?

Also, i remember from my first day that i got black dye and used it om my roughspun handwraps. Dye trader? What's that?

Ditto. When watching the Dungeon Cinematic of GuildWars2, then at the end the Charr turns and holds a Fiery Dragon Sword and I was like OMG Thats not his!
I think a lot of people miss that nostalgia when just starting to play GuildWars2 without playing GuildWars first.

Getting my first set of FoW armour in prophecies after spending about 2 months farming ecto with my friend with 55/SS and pugging FoW where being able to do the quest to craft your armor was a huge achivement.

You all brought back some great memories, Prophesies first time round was the wonder period to me.

Pre searing scenery was unbelievable and our reaction to post was almost as if it actually happened to us.
Ascalon in post was a dismal place and we couldn't wait to get out of it.
So I think nothing since has beaten the first time through the prophesies storyline.

I do think though that we look back with rose tinted glasses there were nearly always long waits for parties, usually waiting for a monk or in some areas 2 monks.
It was not uncommon to spend an entire evening doing one maybe 2 missions and most of that was waiting for a party.

Doing all the quests in Old Ascalon one by one, without knowing which quests could be done together to minimize the time needed, nor the quickest path to reach each zone, resulting in each simple quest being a new adventure which i could fully enjoy, instead of now that i remember exactly every quest and the shortest routes, so doing them means something really close to a factory work. Also, enjoying the beautiful scenes (i never played a 3D game this big before) and noting closely every detail, while being amazed by them in the meantime.

Playing a Power Shot/Bane Signet R/Mo build after leaving pre-searing (and bane-s was my most damaging skill!), and my guildmate telling me that i had to switch to a better build

Going into UW with a couple of guildmates and clearing a couple of areas only for fun, when an ecto dropping for one of us whas like "wow! gratz!!!what a luck!!", not being bothered with completing it for the HoM, or farming ectos, or anything else then fun. I was a noob back then, i had only a ranger with only few skills, so they told me to run a Practiced Stance-Chocking Gas combo interrupter build..i didn't know if it was effective - nor i cared - but damn, it was fun talking and laughing in TS while having nothing more than a good time!

Starting a necromancer as second character for being amazed by the minion masters i saw around, thinking that those were incredibly powerful roles.

Getting down to RA for the first time because friends wanted me to join them in Team Arenas, but i didn't have them unlocked yet, and being really scared the first time by the completely new game format i was facing.

That night when my guildmates helped me doing Sanctum Cay for the first time with my ranger, than we finished it, and before the cinematic ended one of them said to me "Welcome to the desert!", then the Amnoon Oasis loaded and i saw the desert for the first time..i still remember it clearly..

Ahh the times you could get like 30-40 minions and overrun the entire mini map...
Also farming Griffs with my HH Wammo, or Icy Dragon Swords the week they came out (which is incidentally how i earned my 1st and 2nd millions respectively)

Hell yeah! I remember buying a blue 13-18 damage FDS when I was but a noob. I had it till the desert, when I bought a collector item for 1k that was max damage.

I also remember THK. Oh man, that mission was tough back then. Then the most awesome boring glitch ever with books and gears. You wiped everything, but if you were the bonder..you basically fell asleep (and I did) because all you had to do was stand there.

When i first made it all the way to the Magumma Jungle doing missions solo and thinking that i was about to finish the campaign! then i found out about the rest of the world, and runners...

One huge thing I really miss from back then was the 5 man sorrows furnace groups...oh and did I mention, the master gear tanking? lol...that was great. Pick up a master gear, and suddenly all aggro was going at the carrier.

Took me forever to get a Rago's Flame Staff, and I sold it for 3k without knowing the price for one back then, I still laugh about it when I think of it...lol