Curse

Lonesamurai · Feb 01, 2007, 02:39 PM // 14:39

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Originally Posted by Crystal Of Winter

mini pets? o.O people were able to keep their chars from the WPE in 2004 then? o.o

I didn't, but my Warrior has been in presear since december 2005 as my officers and i run a teaching service by my guild and we help out new players... (its a good recruiting tool)

besides the fact that dye drops are great in presear

Moiax · Feb 01, 2007, 03:16 PM // 15:16

I miss my uber build:

It's really is the ignorance. I remember how cool I thought I was when I made it to L.A. for the first time, and how long it took me to get there. Doing EVERY quest along the way. Getting stuck at THK. Getting to droks, and having to spend 1.5k on each armor peice(it was so much). Good times.....

bebe · Feb 01, 2007, 03:18 PM // 15:18

^ That reminds me of when I was half fire-ele and half healer. Spaming healing breeze and heal party. XD

Good times. ;d

roysland · Aug 07, 2008, 03:56 AM // 03:56

Times before the expansions were great. I earned my first max armor set selling altheas ashes in piken square. I don't think anyone do that quest anymore.

I remember the fabled Droknar's Forge, and the mysterious "Desert", where you could change secondary profession. I explored almost the entire Old Ascalon area looking for this "Desert".

I remember my very first mission in the crystal desert, playing a necro and casting nasty hexes like [malaise] on the bosses. Probably without spending any attribute points in curses. I owe a big thanx to the PuGs that accepted me and my horrible skills and skillbar.

Nightow · Aug 07, 2008, 03:58 AM // 03:58

lol, thread necromancy.

I miss the early factions days when I could actually run binding rituals on my Ritualist before the nerfs.

Aspy was so great back then.

/cloud9

Masterful Victory · Aug 07, 2008, 04:23 AM // 04:23

I miss back when there was only 1 campaign so everyone wasn't spread out AND NO HEROES so people actually teamed up with each other. Along with the time when guilds actually spoke in guild chat besides constant profanity, and I miss back when all my friends played =(

oh ya and I HATE inscribable weapons

Lady Raenef · Aug 07, 2008, 04:31 AM // 04:31

When the four extra professions didn't exist and the game was more balanced.

Nightow · Aug 07, 2008, 04:40 AM // 04:40

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Originally Posted by Lady Raenef

When the four extra professions didn't exist and the game was more balanced.

Yeah but then we'd have less content and that would majorly suck.

What I also miss about early factions was how people didn't always complain about the classes.

fireflyry · Aug 07, 2008, 04:47 AM // 04:47

I miss having no titles and no heroes.

Both drastically changed GW for the worse imo.

Quote:

Originally Posted by roysland

Times before the expansions were great. I earned my first max armor set selling altheas ashes in piken square.

lol

I remember those days.

requiemlacrimosa · Aug 07, 2008, 04:54 AM // 04:54

I just started playing guild wars two months ago, after reading this I feel like I'm playing the crap game now. But even I noticed some of the things people have said, like the players who don't know what common english words are. Or how to spell words with four letters or more. Although, what do you expect? With no subscription fees it was just a matter of time before the game went downhill. Subscription fees are what keep the whiners away. Whiners=the downfall of games.

Bahumhat · Aug 07, 2008, 04:59 AM // 04:59

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Originally Posted by atkafighter

Ahh ignorance truly is bliss.

Reading this thread has reminded me of those days when I first started. I was in the beta since 2004. but I never tested Pre-sear(I didn't know it existed xD) Then the day before release, (when the testers were allowed in before the actual release) I went in and was like "Whoah!! What is this??! This isn't Lion's Arch! Cooooool." I would give anything to experience this feel again when I play GW2. Thats all I wish for. I care nothing for the small details most people probably flip over heels for, I just want that experience. I just want that "kewwwwl /drool"

DarkGanni · Aug 07, 2008, 05:04 AM // 05:04

This:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ht=monk+circus

LOOOOOOOOOOOOL awesome days for those old timers

draxynnic · Aug 07, 2008, 05:07 AM // 05:07

Whoah, that was serious thread necromancy...

One thing I miss is filling out a guild group with puggers instead of heroes. It was standard practice even after heroes were incorporated, but... maybe we just had bad luck, but we had an unbroken string of bad experiences doing so that it's now an unwritten rule that guild groups get filled out with heroes - or friends of guildies - instead.

That's not to say that there aren't such things as good PuGs any more - it's just that picking up a couple of extras to fill out a group to be nice to the people looking for a groupin a mostly empty outpost... well, once upon a time the people who are active in lower-activity times tended to be good players, but nowadays that one or two extra humans will turn out to have not allowed enough time for the mission, will overaggro, or will otherwise complicate the mission in one way or another.

Riceboi · Aug 07, 2008, 05:16 AM // 05:16

unlimited minions

Lady Raenef · Aug 07, 2008, 05:19 AM // 05:19

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Originally Posted by Riceboi

unlimited minions

Oh, how could I forget that? 20+ minions ruled!

Pleikki · Aug 07, 2008, 05:27 AM // 05:27

Frozen Chests
Lost Strongboxes
having ONLY non-inscribable items (inscribable sucks, in my opinion)
Old Favor system
Old Arenas (Dalessio, Droknars, etc)
Farming good ol' Sorrow Furnance
Old Dye mix system
Old Insighia system (back then you couldnt change your insighias)
Old Ecto & shard prices (ecto 13-14k/ea & shard ~4k/ea when bought my first obsidians)

glacialphoenix · Aug 07, 2008, 05:28 AM // 05:28

I used to PUG. I don't do that anymore except for some very specific areas, because it seemed I'd keep getting increasingly aggravated by things like overaggro, not pulling, multiple leavers for increasingly inane reasons... and all that only came after GWEN.

I miss actually being able to PUG properly, instead of collecting the odd mishmash and filling it with heroes.

And Presear was just magical. I was so disappointed post-sear - "OMG WTH HAPPENED?

"

cellardweller · Aug 07, 2008, 05:38 AM // 05:38

I miss being able to play with all my characters instead of just the 2-3 that have the requisite rep points to be able to use thier skills fully.

RavagerOfDreams · Aug 07, 2008, 05:52 AM // 05:52

i miss 10k ectos

and rune farming

Aug 07, 2008, 06:33 AM // 06:33

"hey what dye combo is that?"
"(silver+dye remover)+(yellow+yellow+silver)+(dye remover)"
"dangg."