What do you miss?

I started to reminiscence about the "good old days" when Prophecies was just released and Pre-Searing was thought to be the whole game. My dream took me far upon the lands of Tyria; Pre-sear and Post-sear, Shiverpeak, Los Angeles, the Bloodstone, Ossa's sore throat, and the cuddly Titans. Times when Firestorm was accepted as nuking and frenzy was still worth using. When guilds have to work together to get a hall. The days where "LF MM/NUKER/TANK/ETC" were nonexistent. I shed a tear as these dreams were... merely just a dream.

I miss 6 team Burial Mounds.

God I loved ganking.

I miss the days when melee monsters didn't run away when they only had 50% life.

Haha what?

It's not worth using now?

Yeah because people never ever spammed what they were looking for.

Man I miss attribute refund points, not having rune or rare material traders, dozens of broken quests, the original Spirit Spamming in Tombs, getting 2 faction per kill, having to go through Iron Mines five times to get infused, having to time your cap sig to get the elite...

Yeah this game has gotten so awful these days.

I miss old Sup Abs and shield damage reduction (wtf did they fix that for?). I miss Griffins as well. Now if we could have those 2 things back, we'd be ace!

Wow I said ace...

I miss:

global damage reduction from a single piece of Knights armor
global damage reduction (instead of physical only) from absorb runes
Frozen Chests
Lost Strongboxes
having ONLY non-inscribable items (inscribable sucks, in my opinion)
sense of accomplishment when you finally got that special rare item you were searching for...
the time when monsters wouldnt run from you, making many skills useless wastes of space...

8v8 Tombs...

*sigh*

you mean HA? Tombs is full of Farmers...

my guess is far fewer than half the current crop of players even remembers the difference... I barely do myself.
I blame alcohol for my memory lapses, what was I saying?

So is HA ...

heh, so true...

I miss borderline competence. I miss playing with people that acted like they had a pulse and who had an IQ that would at least make for a respectable earthquake. I miss beating up ettins for their ratty old armor. I miss the old ecto prices where a man could make his fortune in just a few UW runs. I miss the days when FoW armor actually meant something.



EDIT: Oh yeah and lest I forget. I miss the days when a gold chest was a gold chest and a purple chest was a purple chest and that was just the way it was. Talk about party cooperation. You had one brave tester per chest. If he lost out then he lost out but the rest of the party saved their precious keys. That was heroic selflessness. you just don't see that anymore.

I miss the old days when 5gold dropped from lvl 20 mobs.

and back when that was actually a lot of gold

I miss the old skill trader system, before you could buy anything that was unlocked on your account. I gather I'm virtually alone on that one, though.

Otherwise, to be honest, I think the vast majority of changes have been positive.

I miss the days when you had to do quests to unlock other secondary professions.

Buying seems so cheap.

:|

Ah all the conservatives in the GW world. As they say, "nothing lasts forever." All things considering, I don’t know if there was anything I hoped that would return to its former glory. Many things have changed for some what in better cause, except for small skill balance issues that resonates most of the complaints at times.

Umm, apart from Elites, you can...

I know that you can instantly buy a skill from the first trader you come across (chapter specific) if you unlock it with faction...

Hell, if you buy the PvP unlock pack, you have access to every non-elite at the first trader you come across and can do a full 8 skill bar without elites or a cap sig on a brand new pve character from the start

The days when monster scatter to AoE wasn't implemented, anything was okay to use when it comes to PuG.

Now in groups.. some people will just go. "WTF?! FRENZY NOOB"

Back then, any build was viable. People don't care what skills you use. They don't care if you are MM, or tank. They just want you. They just want a player

If you don't like the past then don't ruin it for others. You will realize it when you are 70 and lonely.

I wish the monsters didnt run away and when there for no inscribable, items i miss having fun trading and getting unquie items...