The essential reminiscing of good times 'thread'...

[Porkchop Sandwhiches]

I am gonna get pounced because of this, but here it is anyway.


Yes, that's Vimway. I lead a lot of Vim teams years and years ago. I was living away from home and only had dial up and no voice chat. We won Halls quite a bit around 3AM and later. My name in this image was a reference to Pure Pwnage

[Winner]

I hated vimway and iway, but I'm still glad to see someone still remembers those, what I miss the most from good ol' times is active HA, with all those top players who used to play, some still do. That place is only alive 2 times a week now which I find quite sad. But players like Leeloof, Starcraft, Seo, Sama, Infuse Carbs, Rezz Anna Nicole, Red Chamalee, Authority, Hopeless, Meatball, Borat and many others are those who I want to thank for making my GW (HA) experience way better. Their unique play style, skill, tactics, it's something that will definitely be missed.
PvE was fun as well.

[apocalypse azza]

In chronological order (i think):

1. My first ever GvG in beta games, it went on for so many hours both teams sat down together and had a chat

2. First time entering the Shiverpeaks and seeing the snow fall down

3. I joined a team that formed in LA with the purpose of finding a village that had skills

4. TOPK when it gave access to what is now Heroes Ascent, when there would be hundreds of people there and how you would jump onto Ventrilo meeting randomers constantly (and how the Americans found my Mancunian Brit accent strange).

5. Chest runs, chest runs everywhere especially Raisu or was it Imperial Palace?

6. Alliance Battles!! This is what I loved the most, just a crazy fight where you didn't have to think too much about what you were doing (if you chose to)... if only there were more maps...

7. Your first time going through EOTN

[Porkchop Sandwhiches]

Originally Posted by Winner

I hated vimway and iway, but I'm still glad to see someone still remembers those, what I miss the most from good ol' times is active HA, with all those top players who used to play, some still do. That place is only alive 2 times a week now which I find quite sad. But players like Leeloof, Starcraft, Seo, Sama, Infuse Carbs, Rezz Anna Nicole, Red Chamalee, Authority, Hopeless, Meatball, Borat and many others are those who I want to thank for making my GW (HA) experience way better.

I recognize a few of those names. I did a lot of HA before the Vim/IWay craze. And, I still remember playing HA when it was at Tombs and you had to kill the rift warden guys

[prism2525]

Trying to do THK + bonus multiple times.

and also:

Noobness level: facepalm

[Snograt]

Heh, just remembered another one.

Who else remembers getting to Beacon's Perch and going out of the "wrong" exit?

[Swingline]

Originally Posted by Snograt

Heh, just remembered another one.

Who else remembers getting to Beacon's Perch and going out of the "wrong" exit?

Kind of reminded me of other moments in my gaming history where I somehow stumbled into high level areas at starting levels.

(Yea I'm looking at you WoW)

[system.fan]

Chestruns, chestruns, chestruns.... that's it :P

Running in Groups through Hell's or Witman's with /roll 100 to see if drops are gold or purple :P
But coolest thing i remember about it was doing chestruns on Ice Flow and selling unidentified req9 hornbow's + mursaat hammers for ~100k/ea =)
That was pretty amazing to me.

[Coast]

u rather get me a q8 hornbow, system
i remember os chests, much better then the crap we get now.
old chests please

[Nay of the Ether]

My first time getting a dye and selling it to a merchant for 1g...it was a black dye, my whole first year in GW when I lone-wolf'd it, when I bought factions and nf and realized I hadn't really even started the game, when I finished NF the first time and realized I just got troll'd, my first epic full completion of eotn (did it in a single weekend, no sleep whatsoever lawl), watching some high roller players get dhuum'd the first time they introduced that feature.....oh it goes on. Thank you Guild Wars for so many awesome memories and I hope many more to come....

[Mahanaxar]

Cripshot/apply poison/distortion R/Me flag runners.
My favorite build ever.

[Mustache Mayhem]

think one of the things I remember most- it was mid day and I was killing scorpions around heros audience.. then my friend comes up later and shows me a ton of ecto in his inventory..

was like whaat.. apparently ectos and shards were selling back to the vendor for more than they cost.. he conveniently forgot to pm me that ass- it lasted like a hour too.. he was walking around like a king

ah well.. they never reset that vendor disaster either.. also remember selling my first green for 100k- was a tanzits defender on the first day sorrows was opened.. droks runs used to take a bit of talent to pull off too.. had a little bit of everything.. one screwup and you lost your customers

solo ritualist farming oni in rheas crater.. oh yeah you can't forget the 55 monk before protective bond was nerfed at 17 (with offhand cast 20%)- ah you were almost invincible.. no popups back then either the most rare item I owned was the 15% fiery flame spitter before it was nerfed and then a year later removed

the dungeon runs were pretty fun too.. I really liked farming though- like slavers exile.. got addicted to farming early on- used to farm riverside and get some good mats and golds

when I basically discovered that guildwars gold drops are not as random as you'd think.. it's based on the time of day.. that's how they keep certain things very rare.. like used to see people on the forum post- I just got xx gold drop.. I'd immediately go in game and usually end up getting it (this worked with fortunes and anything that had to do with a rare in any loot table)

game was really deep until cons and well nightfall.. hope gw2 offers farmers a bone somewhere.. I was hoping dragons would fly around like skyrim

[Krazy Kat]

Droks Running
Epic Matches in HA
Getting my first Halloween Hat and having to use multiple characters
The death of everyone in Mad King says from /flex
Griffon Farming near Augury Rock
Minotaur Farming at Elona Reach (one of my first farms I did on my Me/E with Arcane echo mist form and lava font)
Mountain Troll Farming near Droks
Solo farming ecto as a W/N with a crazy ass build but it got nerfed
When enemies were dumb and didn't spread out from nukes
In addition to above, when Anet first made enemies spread out, you could bring ignite arrows and make every enemy run from you
When Paragons were amazing in PvP
Tomb of the Primeval Kings when it wasn't corrupted
Thunderhead Keep Monk Strike
UWSC with E/As when there was no Dhuum to fight
When there was no such thing as Hard Mode
When there was no such thing as loot scaling
Ettin Farming
Superior Absorption 100K
Lieutenant's Helm 50% less hex duration
Knight's Insignia on one piece of armor affecting entire set
Prophecies login screen and music
When Gates of Madness was nearly impossible to beat... in fact... the entire endgame of Nightfall was crazy hard at first
When +5 permanent energy weapons (axes and swords) were craftable at factions endgame (man did the price of the HoD sword fall fast!)
When there were no such things as heroes and you were forced to group with people or take crappy henchmen
Farming Charr at Great Northern wall/Nolani Academy
55 Monks
When you needed to have your armor infused
When I saved tons of money by converting most of my ecto into lockpicks after Anet buffed Shadow Form
Titles didn't exist (I preferred this version of GW the most) I think titles really killed the "community aspect of GW a little"
When Drok's was a major town full of people
When the jungle was full of people instead of being the empty towns they are today
Soloing Thirsty River with my W/Mo with healing hands and running people
Sorrow's Furnace farms with a Bonder, Warrior Tank, MM, Ele and Healer
Keyless chest that dropped wtfrandom weapons in Dreadnaught's Drift
Keg Farming Vaettir (and how you had to go to 3 different zones just to get to them)
Team Arenas!
Hero Battles!
The Droknar Arena
DoA Cryway
Ursanway
When you could make unlimited minions
When Murakai could make unlimited servants of murakai
When it was impossible to get into The Deep or Urgoz without being in the alliance that owned the respective town
Kurzick HFFF
Luxon supply runs
600/smite being the most popular dungeon farming build
When having FoW armor really really meant something
When there were no elite tomes (and repeating missions several times to get all the elites)
Gaile Gray farewell event
Premade PvP builds (like abominable snowman)
Xunlai Tournament House
April Fool's Day jokes
When ecto was 15K

[Malice Black]

Halloween/Wintersday 2005

The first will always be the best, even if it technically wasn't

[Rebelor]

i miss mud bricks

[akelarumi]

I'll miss the thrills. Remembering the first time I got past my doppelganger in nm and being cheering and yelling yes, and the moment I remembered that when I killed it in HM in a second (got lucky cause the ebon sin hitted crit on his first attack).