Suggestion to bring back presearing

Nizzim

Nizzim

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Woot Loops

E/N

I think there should be an option to go back to presearing once you beat the game

I wish they made presearing a place and not a time frame.

Its such a pretty place and it makes the game fun to play, the post searing is bleek and ugly, bleh

I want my pre sear back

chaos dragoon

chaos dragoon

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Warrior Nation[WN]

R/

yes,pre searing is very nice.i made a monk and plane to stay there until i get 0xp from the charr.at least after you beat the first 4 missions and drive back the charr,ascalon should recover or something.maybe an 8 person mission where you had to defeat the charr army.

johnnylange

johnnylange

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

USA/Near Chicago

The Divine Darkness <TDDG>

W/Me

you gotta be kidding...I think the only reason anyone would wanna go back is so they can get or buy black dyes off the noobs for super cheap. After I created a couple characters, I would hurry up and do all the skill quests and get the hell out of there!

elhaym

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

Black Hole

E/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by chaos dragoon
at least after you beat the first 4 missions and drive back the charr,ascalon should recover or something.maybe an 8 person mission where you had to defeat the charr army.
thats actually something i thought about myself, and im sure others have as well. you leave and save the world, but what about ascalon? i want a green regent valley again dammit. maybe another time frame is the answer, you know, like a post-post searing?

anyways, i agree with the op, i want a green place that isnt a jungle with evil spiders to run around in.

Rayea

Rayea

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

west yorkshire, Uk

Sisters of Serenity

N/Mo

i know what you mean....have you ever run about in the over the wall area and looked at where you can actually get to..theres loads of it...
and, has anyone ever taken down that Charr guy that uses the Flame thing to bring about the searing?
surely, there could be a way to do an alternate reality/timeline version.
say, sentback through time a group of 8 hardy and acended idividuals, take out the Charr flame guy and save all of ascalon!
from then on, you could have the choice of Sered Realm or Green Realm. one is the same map we are all used to, full of holes and stuff. the other is the map as it would have been. with no charr, but different enemies and vilans and people that died in the Seared Realm are still alive

Charcoal Ann

Charcoal Ann

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

In a World of BADGERS!

Eternal Flame Brotherhood

I have killed all the charr around a flame stand i found however i am sure that i have seen another one elsewhere in the northlands so it is not easy to do but you could in theory stop the searing...i've never been bothered to stay in the area for that long, you die soo much.

Charrbane

Charrbane

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Canada

W/E

The better idea is not being able to return to pre-searing but to have areas on the outskirts of Ascalon where the green grass yet grows. How a bunch of beastcats destroyed an entire country with a cauldron and some wand waving is a bit of a mystery, but anyhow..... I do think that they should add some places where the seared areas merge nicely into places that look 'pre-seared'. I highly doubt we will see such a thing tho as it probably would interfere with the storyline, but I do hope that in a future expansion they have new areas that look like pre-sear Ascalon and maybe somehow we get to see Ascalon restored and get to see other parts of it that we haven't seen before... at the very least we should be able to give those Charr ba$tards worse than what they gave us. They destroyed my country and that big beautiful waterfall and I want to give them hell for it instead of skulking off to some humid jungle joint..

Crowskie

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2005

AR, US

FLA

R/Me

You know, I almost wonder if the searing spell required alot of sacrifices(as in, alot of Charr killed other Charr or themselves). You'd think that they'd still be doing it otherwise.

emil knight

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Chicago,IL

The Knights Of Temerity

R/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Charcoal Ann
I have killed all the charr around a flame stand i found however i am sure that i have seen another one elsewhere in the northlands so it is not easy to do but you could in theory stop the searing...i've never been bothered to stay in the area for that long, you die soo much.
I've done it. I had an El and I brought a Warrior and we cleared the place out. technically speaking, we did what those whimps inside the castle were afraid to do. Sure we died alot, but it really wasn't that hard to clear this area.

Everyone go on home... the Searing never happened... it's all been a dream...

Plague

Plague

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

N/E

I usually let each of my characters "simmer" in pre-Searing by getting them to the point where they can clear out the region with another player. No reward for that though.

I've personally wondered (but never wanted to bother trying this) if it were possible to max out at lvl 16 (or 15? whatever the cap is) by killing the boss monsters repeatedly, and then go back and do all the quests available to level up once more. It'd be a painful experiment to say the least, especially considering you'd have to avoid getting any but perhaps the starting skills just to have a chance.

Age

Age

Hall Hero

Join Date: Jul 2005

California Canada/BC

STG Administrator

Mo/

I would say it is about time Ascalon starts ruturning back to normal with it green trees and grass and the rivers clearing up.This would include the sky as well and seeing some rain would be nice.I guess that will have to wait for further chapter if the game lives that long.

SOT

SOT

Banned

Join Date: May 2005

East Texas

I agree with you Nizzim. I too miss the verdant fields of GWEN.

No seriously, I miss the almost cartoony feel of pre-searing. Everything post is either dead, salty and sandy, cannibus looking, or popsicled, or all 3. :-)

BlaineTog

BlaineTog

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

California

Broken Blades

E/Mo

Yeah, maybe after finishing the last mission you get access to an area like Presearing, maybe call it the Elysian Fields (or something similar).

Rayea

Rayea

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

west yorkshire, Uk

Sisters of Serenity

N/Mo

yeah, but if you have the Elysian fields, you need the Abbys as well, and i sure as frell dont what That next door to me...
imagine, Takhisis, poping round to borrow a cup of Sulpher, and finding me at the door^^

*knock,knock* 'just wondered if i could....YOU?!' *sizzle crack thump spark spark*

yeah, right

Ultimate_Gaara

Ultimate_Gaara

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

BC, Canada.. how aboot that eh?

Quote:
Originally Posted by SOT
I agree with you Nizzim. I too miss the verdant fields of GWEN.
Im glad im not a one man fan club of Gwen...

I miss pre-searing.. i really do... i wish it was back so i could look for more places to take screenshots for my next desktop...

Nizzim

Nizzim

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Woot Loops

E/N

yaay my suggestion rocks, go me

Imp

Imp

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Novum Igneus [NI]

Rt/

You could make a new character..

Other than that it is going to be "Buying black dye 400gold!"

Nizzim

Nizzim

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Woot Loops

E/N

no youve got the idea backwards, im not saying join the two, im saying have diff presearings, all i want is a beautiful environment.

thats all

=HT=Ingram

=HT=Ingram

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2005

Anchorage Alaska

Haz Team [HT]

R/W

you'll like the New Ascalon settlement in Cantha then. wait for chapter 2...

Seron Dalar

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

Axes High Alumni [AXES]

E/N

Uh, go to Kryta. Duh.

Nizzim

Nizzim

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Woot Loops

E/N

i dont want beaches with caves, i want fertile soil and rolling hills sillies

spiritofcat

spiritofcat

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2005

Sydney, Australia

Order of the Sanguine Dragon [OSD]

E/Mo

I agree it would be nice to go back to a place like presearing.
It wouldn't have to be the place inhabited by newbs, but just a nice green, friendly place. It could be implemented as another set of districts of presearing with no access between it and the newb presearing.

Killajalavu

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/N

Actually, I thought some of the Kryta missions were more beautiful then Presearing lol.....I think the layout design of it made it look a lot better then presearing. Especially the one Mission where you needed to find the Orrion Book, I thought that place looked awesome, and truly wished that places around where I lived looked like it.....well...without the spooky ghosts and lightening dragons :P But that doesn't change the fact it looked really beautiful

Charrbane

Charrbane

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Canada

W/E

Perhaps after you Ascend and all that junk you discover that an Earthquake hit Ascalon, which unearthed an entry to the Catacombs. You get a quest to go back there and once in the Cats you find some new areas to explore and most of the olde is still blocked off.... however the exit to Wizards Folly is free and you discover the area survived the Searing and is still green. You could then have some other new un-seared areas to discover from there.....

Rayea

Rayea

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

west yorkshire, Uk

Sisters of Serenity

N/Mo

not bad ^^ Charrbane....

gives us back 2 places we miss....the rolling feilds of Pre, and the Cats

i mean, we know there are or were areas the bottom side of the Walled in area, we just never got to go through them...so whats wrong with that? use those areas, wedged between the icy mountains and the wrecked area i like it *grins*

Ultimate_Gaara

Ultimate_Gaara

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

BC, Canada.. how aboot that eh?

well hopefuly in chapter two the charr will feel bad and come up with a way to unsear everything.. either that or they will have a lot of grass seeds to spread around..

Kai Nui

Kai Nui

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Behind you with a knife

Celebrity Gangsters [FamE]

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Plague
I usually let each of my characters "simmer" in pre-Searing by getting them to the point where they can clear out the region with another player. No reward for that though.

I've personally wondered (but never wanted to bother trying this) if it were possible to max out at lvl 16 (or 15? whatever the cap is) by killing the boss monsters repeatedly, and then go back and do all the quests available to level up once more. It'd be a painful experiment to say the least, especially considering you'd have to avoid getting any but perhaps the starting skills just to have a chance.
Actually I'm trying to do that now with a Warrior/Ranger with a pet and a friend who has a pet who hasn't completed across the wall. That's a total of 5 people. Two People, two pets, and the ben dude that's a ranger who dies quickly but helps a little anyway. Not to mention luring char to the 4 ascalon rangers and monk at the start of the level. Anyway we're doing our best to try and clear out the area and I'm personally trying to get to level 16 (the max) but it's going to be hell because you have only a few bosses while all char give no xp and are in the way. You have limited skills and limited armour and weapons, and I suggest you only do quests once normal char give no xp. That way you get the xp from quests, and kill the char generals. The quests will not supply enough xp to level up to level 17, it's like 200k to get to level 17 from 16 and since those general char will be giving only about 16 xp per kill, you'd have to have a loyal friend and a lot of junk to get to 16. I've seen 14, 15 is really high too, but 16 is godly. Just don't leave pre searing or you'll be a nobody. oooh it's such a pain. Do the quests and just don't finish them, you'll get skills and stuff, you'll need them.