The Good Ol Days ...

These new players nowadays don't appreciate how good they've got it. Some of us geezers were here from the start. It was much tougher back in our day, yesiree. Much more like the wild west. Gather 'round you newbies and let me tell you about the good ol days:

-There were no rune traders. Yep. It's true. All your runes had to be gotten from drops - and back then, sonny, they dropped about as often as they do now. When the last time you ever IDed a Superior Rune of any kind for your primary profession? Never? Well, that was about your chance of ever seeing one, back then.
-Also, expert salvaging runes didn't always work. You could ID a superior vigor and then get 10 pieces of cloth if you expert salvaged it. I lost 2 Superior Vigors that way.
-Once upon a time, you had to infuse each piece of armor for the full benefit of infusion - which meant doing the Iron Mines mission 5 times in a row (yeah - I read that other thread - that's what inspired this one).
-There were no Rare Material traders, either. Seems like only yesterday when everyone was desperate to find out where you can get one fur square, sheet of parchment or a single chunk of charcoal.
-When you got to change your secondary profession - you had NO starter skill set. You had zero skills from your new profession!


Yep, these young players nowadays got it good - not like the old days when we had to actually work for every scrap.....

Actually 5-6 months ago it was easier to get stuff, not harder

Yay for hill giants and no soc.

That when GW actually seemed like an MMORPG... now everything is high tech, fast, and up to date. damn you sonnies and your new way of technology and economy!

there was no map-zoning so we had to walk from Ascalon to Lion's Arch through the snow uphill both ways ...
(ok I made that one up)

Shhh .... this is geezer-talk - they're not supposed to know about the Sanctum Cay Hill Giants ....

It was indeed much easier a while ago. Farming spots had not been nerfed yet, and spots like Riverside were nerfed much more abusively than now. Although I do agree that not getting a rune all the time out of armor was kind of a pain.

What are you talking about? Everything is overpriced now. Way back when seems much better.

WTS ECTOS 10K EA. WHISP. ME

this is one big joke, for a game not even half a year old.
that said, you forgot:

- back then, you actuallly had to capture a skill when the boss was using it. if he didn't use it, you had no elite.
- back then, there were no scroll traders.
- back then, rangers were unwanted everywhere for groups
- back then, there were no priests of balthasar

Back in the day when you had to catch the boss using the elite skill to capture it. Ok, so it wasn't THAT long ago.

EDIT: Too late

Oh, fiddlesticks!
Ok - I admit it! All things considered, pre-nerf GW was shooting fish in a barrel. Snake Dance had no Arcanists - it was all Blessed Griffins that could be farmed for ages.
Sanctum Cay had a goldmine of defenseless Hill Giants that got you 1-2 gold drops on average per run.
Shall I continue?....

yes, continu!
lol.
back then, you could get hundred blades somewhere around Ascalon. or so i heard...

Yup, it was a boss in the breach by piken square. I was going to cap it, then I found out they took it out of there the day before

That's exactly what happened to me hehe...
EXACTLY the day after they took it out, I went to try and capture it.

And oh the skill capping was so much worse back then. I spent 3 hours trying to get the stupid hydra in perdition to use echo and not interrupt me when I was using signet...

Escape was pretty hard to goad the boss into using also... Normally for those non-attack elites (like charge!), you could just walk up and cap it before they do anything. But escape was from a ranger boss so he had been dropping spirits in the meanwhile. So annoying. -.-

Expert salvage still doesn't always work, it's just a lot better now than it was.

expert salvage always works when you're extracting a rune that dropped from an enemy

it can fail when trying to pull out something you put in yourself

I remember wayyyyy back in the day during the start of the betas....

There were no res shrines. If you died in an EA, you had to return to the outpost.

Imagine how tough it would be to run to droknars? o_O

It was cool though. Everything seemed much more rare and difficult to get to. Instead of crossing the shiverpeaks via the two missions (Borlis Pass and The Frost Gate) my friends and I crossed through the Northern route. It was a chain of 5 EAs, with that insane cave at the end. It took about 2 hours to go through, and I remember at least 4 times in a row where we had our last person die at that cave and we had to restart all the way back from yak's bend. It was so exhilerating though when you finally made it to Lion's Arch!

I remeber everything but infusion ( i took my time with my first character so it took some time to get to that mission).. good times.. good times... thank you for this reminder from before the game because Gold Wars

Back in the day...Peeps had fun doing stupid shit....and they laughed when they died.......and they talked to each other..........hmmm now im hungry, I'll Jaunt over to the McRune for a Vigor combo

Well said Xue, as a Guild Wars "geezer", I must say that your post made me laugh. It made me very angry when they updated the infusion, because I had just completely infused my second set of armour .

Threads like this make up for all the other crap we get on these forums.

In the good old days I remember first day I walk in and this guy yells:
"WTS Black dye very rare 1k" and the other screaming WTS rare black dye 900g each", look at what dye costs now...

Or ppl shouting: "where are the bonus areas, what can u get there?"

Or ppl coming back into beacons pearch yelling " Holy shit how can my lvl 13 warrior beat all those lvl 24 monsters"

Or ppl saying " Anybody want to help a lvl 13 ranger lvl outside of ascalon" ( yup ppl thought u actully had to lvl and u had to have lvl 20 in the desert)

Good old days ppl entered a pvp arena, see koreans and the next thing you say was all americans and europeans dead on the ground. No shit buildds like ranger build, smite build and spike build.

And the best THE GOOD OLD DAYS where you begged for a necro in the Thirsty River mission, that was so awesome ppl begging necros to join just to use the glitch.

I miss the first week of GW so badly.

Back in the good ol' days, money could get you skills, runes and chicks