Do any of you guys miss Pre-Ascalon? - Guild Wars Guru archive powered by Guild Wars Legacy

Demesis

Banned

Join Date: May 2006

01 Jul 2006 at 11:43 - 1

Sometimes I take my pre searing character out for a run in Ascalon in it's mighty days. The scenery is absolutely breathtaking. I would still have to vote on pre having better surroundings than what they have in newb island in Cantha.

So do you guys still play with characters in pre? I sometimes find myself asking why Pre is so addictive. Perhaps it's also the simple life where you don't get trade spams of "WTS - ..... for 100k".

Here's 2 of my favourite screenies to get the thread going:

Here is in the Catacombs, it's an awesome place to visit. How come it isn't accessible in post searing??

Northerlands. Before the Charr came and butt-raped Ascalon.

So what do you guys think? Is Pre better looking than most sceneries in Cantha? It's pretty amazing what Anet did when Prophecies first came out. I kinda regret rushing through Pre when I first started. I should have taken things more slowly and enjoyed the sights before I got dumped in that horrible mess of Post-searing. :P

Another question, how many of you guys actually keep pre searing characters and what are your reasons?

Yanman.be

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

Belgium

[ROSE]

A/

01 Jul 2006 at 11:48 - 2

Pre is better yes, but Shing Jea has more...action...

Numa Pompilius

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

At an Insit.. Intis... a house.

Live Forever Or Die Trying [GLHF]

W/Me

01 Jul 2006 at 11:52 - 3

Yeah, pre-searing is the prettiest area in the game, hands down, handily beating Shing Jea island. I'd also say that it's the best designed. You can really feel how it was a real labor of love for whomever designed it, with lots of little flourishes like the ghost in the graveyard, the hidden area by Ranik, and the white rabbit. It's also nice that not every single mob attacks you on sight.

It's also the friendliest and most laid-back area in the game, or at least was until the guild-hall bug allowed tons of cash and items to flow in to pre-searing and it too became just another hangout for uberfarmers - on my last tour in pre I lost track of all the all-black monks who were spamming WTS charr farmed gear & WTB black dye.

That said, it's a pretty limited area, and although I sometimes create a new char to run around and enjoy the scenery, I don't stay there for more than a few days. It is an area with training wheels, and it feels.

Invicta

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jul 2006

I Live in the U.K , Manchester

Black Locust

W/Me

01 Jul 2006 at 11:56 - 4

I love the pre I hav saved your pics and put them into my Skreensaver he he he.
I also like the pre as i thought it was the main game when i started and got up to lv 16

-Loki-

Forge Runner

Join Date: Oct 2005

01 Jul 2006 at 11:56 - 5

I've missed pre Ascalon since i left. Please anet, make an expansion where we restore ascalon.

yo home boi

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

The Neutral Selection [TNS]

01 Jul 2006 at 11:58 - 6

Its gr8 in good old pre i wish i had a space for a new char to mess armound in pre ^^

Kaldor Meshekal

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

England

Rt/N

01 Jul 2006 at 12:00 - 7

I still like good old Pre-searing Ascalon, and even keep a small measure of hope that one day it will be rebuilt to it's former glory in a future chapter.

Sora

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Hong Kong

Guardian of Old Ascalon (GoA)

E/

01 Jul 2006 at 12:02 - 8

Quote:

Originally Posted by -Loki-

I've missed pre Ascalon since i left. Please anet, make an expansion where we restore ascalon.

Yeah...we should be allowed to restore the Ascalon.
The story about Ascalon just end after Rurik died, and nothing follow up.
Come on Anet, give the Ascalon back to us

Demesis

Banned

Join Date: May 2006

01 Jul 2006 at 12:06 - 9

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sora

Yeah...we should be allowed to restore the Ascalon.
The story about Ascalon just end after Rurik died, and nothing follow up.
Come on Anet, give the Ascalon back to us

Perhaps Anet could put in some sort of time portal thingy that brings you back to pre

Just like that portal that took over Tombs of the Primeval Kings.

samifly

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Girl Power [GP]

Mo/Me

01 Jul 2006 at 12:07 - 10

I miss pre's scenery, but I do not miss its lousy teaching. Shing Jea is far better for learning how to play the game, and theres no one there trying to buy black dye for 50g.

Maxiemonster

There is no spoon.

Join Date: Jun 2005

Netherlands

Mo/

01 Jul 2006 at 12:15 - 11

Hell yes. The good old days...

Zakarr

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Finland

01 Jul 2006 at 12:25 - 12

Pre-searing Ascalon is the best place in Guild Wars. I sometimes make a character there with reserved PvP slot and go look some beautiful views.

Silent Kitty

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

Netherlands

[TYW] "The Young World"

A/Me

01 Jul 2006 at 12:33 - 13

If you think pre-searing is beautiful, you obviously have never been in Kryta and the Maguuma Jungle. The scenery is 10 times prettier than pre, and it has a little challenge too.
The only one that I miss a bit is Gwen. Don't know why, though. :S

Sir Mad

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

Moe's Pub

Pigs Can Fly [Pigs]

R/

01 Jul 2006 at 12:38 - 14

I definitely miss pre-searing. I used to have a char camped there but I had to delete it, untill ANET let us purchase additional slots. Why do I like it so much? Probably for the same reason I like Shing Jea Island or the Warriors Island: everything is green, life seems to be peaceful in the small villages, people do care more about their pigs than the demons invating the cities in other parts of the world... Yeah, that's quiet, and that's good. However there is something more for me in pre.. Is it Devona, or Cynn b**ching around? Or the nasty Gwen?

I guess my 7th char will stay in pre, spending his time farming Red Iris Flowers...

Demesis

Banned

Join Date: May 2006

01 Jul 2006 at 13:02 - 15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Silent Kitty

If you think pre-searing is beautiful, you obviously have never been in Kryta and the Maguuma Jungle. The scenery is 10 times prettier than pre, and it has a little challenge too.
The only one that I miss a bit is Gwen. Don't know why, though. :S

But the maguuma is always night time and Kryta seems to have that repetitive scenery :P

Either way, there's those hostile mobs that try to get you

lol.

Aaah yes, that annoying Gwen... :P

Queenie

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

01 Jul 2006 at 13:06 - 16

I truely adore pre-searing! It owns the Canthan Pre-sear area, I didn't wanna leave pre :/ Maybe in Chap3. anet will do somthink and we go back to Ascalon and its liek..partly rebuilt!

I also wish you could explore my areas and stuff sinces it soo nice!

Seissor

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

Squiggilyville. Population: Me.

[oRly] Hello Kitty Death Squad

R/Me

01 Jul 2006 at 13:08 - 17

I kinda prefer pre-seer ascalon, I have more of a connection to it, and its pretty. Shing Jea is lovely though, but I need more forests with canopies above me head :-)

Andy_M

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

Worthing, UK

(Don't fear) The Beaver

01 Jul 2006 at 13:27 - 18

Yeah, it's easily the nicest looking and laid-back area of the game. Nowhere else in Prophecies or Factions comes anywhere near the design.

But isn't that the whole point of it ? To show the juxtaposition between post and pre-sear Ascalon ? Certainly depresses the hell out of me everytime I stand near what was the waterfall in Ashford.

Must be why in the 2 years between the searing and coming back to Ascalon our characters get no experience or better equipment....

Sora

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Hong Kong

Guardian of Old Ascalon (GoA)

E/

01 Jul 2006 at 14:45 - 19

Shing Jea is nice, but it's too rushed for me.
Pre-searing is different, I can always enjoy myself in it.

WasAGuest

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

01 Jul 2006 at 14:49 - 20

Yea I love pre-seer Acsalon. Best area in the game. As was said above, you can tell, the area was made with "love" and care. It wasn't slapped together real fast to meet a dead line.
The fact that not everything attacks you constantly is also nice as it allows for the player to look around and enjoy the enviroment.

The Jungle is also nice looking, but having to clear the entire zone to be able to look at the art is annoying. I wish GW had a leveled aggro table so once you are a few levels above the enemies they would leave you alone unless you attack first.

Shing Jea is too rushed, too cramped and too... I dunno, just bleh. Has a few good looking spots, but not many.

Favorite area in the game (including Factions): Pre-sear catacombs.

Edit: spelling

XvArchonvX

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

R/

01 Jul 2006 at 15:52 - 21

I do admit I miss presearing. There is something that is just very calming and laid back about it. However the worst part is searing. Something about landing in Post-Searing Ascalon feels like you fell out of a beautiful utopia into a gutter. That area always felt like such a grind after Pre.

silyrinth

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

Chocobos and Moogles [Kupo]

Mo/Rt

01 Jul 2006 at 15:53 - 22

Pre-Searing Ascalon trumps every area I've been to so far, definitely. It's very nicely laid back, I think, because a lot of people in it aren't new players anymore and they're all there to run around together, chat, or just dance and play in the outposts. It's more like a favorite corner hang out than anything else. The towns are smaller and less crowded, and definitely less business-like.

The Pre-Searing catacombs are absolutely gorgeous. The only place in Cantha that you can say is even close would be the temple north of the monastery where you go to kill the mantids for you Necro quest, and that's still not even in its league.

Of course, I'm still only in the city on the mainland and haven't gotten out into the countryside. I have some nice screenshots of Kurzuck cathedrals from the preview event, but though they're very nice they're still missing something.

Ascalon, I think, has more of an old western civilisation feel to it. A lot of the people who like it seem to be European or American, so of course it just feels right to us. It's like the 'Good Old Days' of our own homelands.

Carth`

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

01 Jul 2006 at 16:06 - 23

Yes, I loved pre-searing Ascalon, there was something magical about it. It was serene, innocent, and beautiful. And I agree with everything people have said about it, you can tell someone or some people worked very hard on it and put a lot of detail and care into it.

Hyper Cutter

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Knights of the White Eye [HINA]

01 Jul 2006 at 17:55 - 24

Quote:

Originally Posted by Silent Kitty

If you think pre-searing is beautiful, you obviously have never been in Kryta and the Maguuma Jungle. The scenery is 10 times prettier than pre, and it has a little challenge too.

Maguuma sucks because you can't go 5 feet without spiders and/or scarabs coming out of the woodwork at you...

Dawnspire

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

E/N

01 Jul 2006 at 17:56 - 25

Presearing is ultimate. Though I wish you could get to the Serenity Temple..its soooo close to Ranik!! Come on Anet make a bonus pre area now!!

Ch3 presents the perfect opportunity to restore Old Ascalon. With Everyone playing factions and nightfall; they do a type of modified global 'faction farming' system for players still thinking back to Prophecies.

And by faction farming, I mean FARMING!! Clearing the land of debris and monsters, finally pushing back the charr, rebuilding towns with a community donated effort, gaining points for restoration activities or large parties defeating hordes of Charr, AB style. Then donate the 'faction' points to a global 'Warline', like Luxon vs Kurzicks, except; Tyrians vs Charr! Gradually restoring Ascalon to its former glory over a few months..

"+5k to Ascalon" anyone?

Tsamikayu

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2006

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Warriors of Ellimire

N/R

01 Jul 2006 at 18:04 - 26

I liked pre-searing a lot. It was just so darned pretty.

I have a Ranger character there right now, possibly indefinitely, to help with any new people. Like when my friends buy Guild Wars and start out, that kind of thing. Or just anyone that wants a helping hand really.

Demesis

Banned

Join Date: May 2006

01 Jul 2006 at 18:05 - 27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dawnspire

Presearing is ultimate. Though I wish you could get to the Serenity Temple..its soooo close to Ranik!! Come on Anet make a bonus pre area now!!

Ch3 presents the perfect opportunity to restore Old Ascalon. With Everyone playing factions and nightfall; they do a type of modified global 'faction farming' system for players still thinking back to Prophecies.

And by faction farming, I mean FARMING!! Clearing the land of debris and monsters, finally pushing back the charr, rebuilding towns with a community donated effort, gaining points for restoration activities or large parties defeating hordes of Charr, AB style. Then donate the 'faction' points to a global 'Warline', like Luxon vs Kurzicks, except; Tyrians vs Charr! Gradually restoring Ascalon to its former glory over a few months..

"+5k to Ascalon" anyone?

In the immortal and often annoying words of Prince Rurik:

"FOR ASCALON!!!!!"

Bai

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Houston, TX

11 Aug 2006 at 21:25 - 28

Pre-searing was probably the best area in the game for me. It made me want to play Guild Wars even more when I started out there. You could travel anywhere in Pre-Searing with much less risk of dying than post-sear. It's sad that the Charr turned Ascalon into a barren wasteland..IMO, I think that the Maguuma Jungle is just too dangerous and too much work to explore. You can't just run anywhere you want to in Post-Searing without the help of henchies.

lagrand1

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

Zombies of War

W/

11 Aug 2006 at 21:35 - 29

It's too funny you made this thread. This morning, I was thinking about going on vacation in pre-sear. A nice little walk, maybe kill some stuff, but if I didn't want to, they would just pass by. I guess I'm not the only one.

Good idea regarding the level differential. If you are more than 5 levels higher, they should ignore you, or something like that.

Arkantos

The Greatest

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

11 Aug 2006 at 21:37 - 30

I'm gonna buy a char slot just for a pre char.

Pre-searing owns.

Carl Butanananowski

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2006

Arizona

We Have Big [Meat]

11 Aug 2006 at 22:00 - 31

I was kinda hoping they'd make a CH that looked like Presear...

I mean, less laid back and all, but pretty to look at :P

saphir

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

doa

Mo/

11 Aug 2006 at 22:18 - 32

i loved presear ascalon, especially since i thought that's how the entire game would be.. so beautiful.

pre also feel more organic and alive, with villagers travelling between the towns running their own errands. also the mobs are humanoid like charr who are not as ugly as cantha's snake creatures. I'm sorry, but when I see those snakes and the ugly kappa turtles creatures I just feel the urge to kill them.

But the most amazing part of pre I think are the colors. It seems to be late autumn, and the leaves are falling around you as the sunlight filters thru foilage, the little babbling brook in the background as you carefully stalk melandru's pet.. gwen's flute playing softly in your ear. And the music. ah the music..

please, oh please, let use return to the days of pre.

the environment in pre reminds me of dungeon siege with its amazingly lush environments, and music by the same composer.

Age

Hall Hero

Join Date: Jul 2005

California Canada/BC

STG Administrator

Mo/

11 Aug 2006 at 22:21 - 33

I agree I like pre as well it is one of my best parts of the game and I to would like to see it restored in post.It has been over year now and we have all beaten the Charr it is time to see it restored.There could be a place close to LA that could start off those that want to make a new Prophecies char. and it similiar to presearing with a longer cutscene then you are taken to Lions Gate and are let in to the Arch.This is sort of like Shing Jea to the Kaineg Centre.

While you are at it make an actual town of Rin close to the Barridins Estate.

eternal pho

Banned

Join Date: Nov 2005

The Licious Fame Farmers {TLG}

W/E

11 Aug 2006 at 22:26 - 34

IMO, Kryta was the best looking/colorful area

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

11 Aug 2006 at 22:41 - 35

i dont miss it at all as i have a permanent presear character for vacations.

Markaedw

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

N/

12 Aug 2006 at 00:57 - 36

I started a new guy just for pre. it is a little enjoyable to look at the scenery but so is the monastary in factions. I would like to see a quest from LA that takes us back to Ascalon, but this time it is fixed up.

wilebill

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

Mt Vernon, Ohio

Band of the Hawk

W/Mo

12 Aug 2006 at 01:07 - 37

If GW had maintained the artistic splendor of Pre throughout the whole game, instead of just in spots like North Kryta, and had then continued the same artistic genius in Factions, they would now own the online market. GW, like most companies, ends up shooting themselves in the foot with "value engineering."

I bought extra slots and started a Necro. The Necro is still in Pre-Searing. I just don't want to leave!

[DE]

Hugs and Kisses

Join Date: Oct 2005

Scars Meadows

12 Aug 2006 at 01:08 - 38

Presearing scenerary rocked! But some of post searing is also just as pretty. If you go north from riverside province you can explore Twin Serpent Lakes and a few other places that are imo some of the best looking places in all of the game.

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

12 Aug 2006 at 01:11 - 39

lol i must be the only one that cant stand pre then..i leave as soon as i get my second proffesion

its soo boring!! screw the scenery if i wanted to look at pretty scenery i'd get in my soft top and go for a drive down to newquay..womens beach volleyball ftw

i want action and pre has veryyyyy little

Terra Xin

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Mar 2006

New Zealand

Me/R

12 Aug 2006 at 01:15 - 40

Do I miss Pre? I keep one of my characters there^^