When GW just came out...

R/E Fireballin'-Penetrating Attacks with a Melandru's Stalker!

I remember that I spent tons of time trying to explore all of Pre-Searing as well...I was trying to find more towns.

Then I got sad when I got to Post and all those towns were gone...

My earliest impressions of the game were pretty cool. I thought the Maguuma would be an intensely crowded place, instead not so much. I also thought the Lich would be an awesome and abysmal diety found deep in the depths of Tyria.

Those were about the only expectations that were really "disappointed". Aside from that, everything was spot on.

On April 28th, 2005, I was in my parents basement, frustrated as hell because the original Guild Wars packaging came with the most impossible-to-read cd key.

It took me 3 hours to enter in the correct combination.

That's what I used. But, strangely, I wasn't a complete noob and I understood that 15 ene is too much for 3 pips of regen.


...I had Glyph of Lesser Energy too ;d
Oh, and I used Me/N FC Minion Master with degen. Wow, I thought it was so cool, killing a monster in few seconds with mega degen. How wrong I was...

I remember my first character was an Ele/mes that specialized in Earth/Water for disruption. Using Echo'd Earthquakes, water snares, and Maelstrom, enemy casters didn't stand a chance (or so I thought, at the time). I remember everyone telling me I should go Fire because it had the best damage or to at least go Air because it could spike enemies well.

First character I ever made in the game was a mesmer. I still have him and 2 other pve mesmers which have completed almost all 4 campaigns too.

Always new mesmers were better then all other professions and still think they do.

I'm still surprised there are noobs out there who think they are useless XD

OMG i went through the same thing. I thought all the scenery atnd stuff in pre was awesome, and i spent a while there trying to leve up, get new armor and weapons, or find some new huge town. Then when i got to post, i hated it. tbh, i've always hated new ascalon. It's such a dark gloomy place. you get sick of the colors really fast.

My first character was a warrior. Thought I was pretty good in pre... but when I reached post at lv4 not only the scenery sucked completely, but I found the game much, much harder. I had problems killing stuff and given I didn't have many skills, was forced to switch weapons to use them all. I also remember deleting her because I couldn't switch from sword to axe anymore - refund points FTL.

Good ol' me never saw henchies until I started playing with my necro and someone told me I could put click on them and put them in my party. My pre armor was dyed silver, blue, purple and green. When I figured out silver dye was worth in the 2k range... ouch. It's a lot to a noob.

I had no preconceptions of the game. I bought it for my son's birthday in Dec 2005 and two months later he talked me into buying it for myself.

I had no idea how it played except that it was online with no monthly fee and my son and I could play together. My normal game fare was the D&D games, Morrowind and Civ3.

First character - W/R and she was (and still is) a blast. I began with a sword build, but soon moved to axe. She now has more weapons than my other 7 chars combined. Now her shield collection is growing.

Pre to me was pretty, but boring. Thankfully, I knew more was coming.

who reads instruction manuals? lol.

But when i first started playing i didnt have a clue what was going on, i was just killing stuff. And then one day everything was all pretty and shit, the next everything was dead and outside there were gargoyles that made mincemeat out of me. I didnt understand the concept of armour until i got to RoF and was stuck, so a guild group asked me why i was still in pre armour. A friend (who got me into the game) gave me a purple hand axe in the second mission, so i figured it was a sword (because it was one handed) so i put all my atts into swordmanship and used axe skills up until kryta. Anything purple or gold or blue i used to just leave there, i remeber someone (whos name eludes me) who spent 20mins explaining why purple items and gold items were better than blue and white,and even ID'd a gold rune for me and gave it back. I wish id of FL'ed him :/

damn i miss being a noob.

yup same....half the reason my guild hall is wizard(?) isle for the pre-searing scenery feel ;P



also running a bar like this up to and including THK - back when it was hard to do...
[skill]power shot[/skill][skill]charm animal[/skill][skill]troll unguent[/skill][skill]comfort animal[/skill][skill]conjure phantasm[/skill][skill]ether feast[/skill][skill]resurrection signet[/skill] oOO and the elite [skill]energy surge[/skill] <<< xD


also wondering wtf? I was being owned by lvl3 gargoyles outside post-ascalon and wondering why I had 60% DP.... <<<<<<<<first time I ventured out of post-ascalon on my own (didn't know about hench) :

aah good old naustalgia days :P (typo? lol)



---------------also seeing two lvl20 wars running past me first time I entered post-ascalon and thinking "OMG these guys are lvl20 must be uber leet" lol

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvww8...eature=related (I don't get a siggy so have to post it ())

I remember that my first char was a warrior with fire storm and as soon as i got out of pre i quit the game for 3 months until i made my necro. The hulking stone elementals and gargoyles would kill me so fast as i tried to solo the mobs so naturally i deleted him. hopefully i am just as much of a noob in gw2 =)

My first was my ele, ~18 mil XP on her atm. and ya it was mostly a [Fire storm] oriented build.

I didn't use henchmen until Factions (though I also quit after a month Prophecies) came out because I thought you had to pay for them. I know you still do, it just seemed less salient to pay for them upfront. I'd probably do better with drops if that was the case, though.

Can't remember any noobish builds. I'll have to take more screenies in the beginning of GWII.

IMHO dervish was the ONLY extra profession that was cool. Ritualist was a maybe, since they have spirits which are pretty cool, but you could have just added to the necro or monk for most of those skills. Sin was an epic fail since those were hard to control and people thought they were wammos, ran in and died. Paragon are strong, but still pretty out of place, I would rather have phalanx, with longer spears. I would have even prefered knight, with a long javalen.

GW Prophecies was really the best campiagn and NF following closely. I too remember what it was like to think that pre searing was it. I did enjoying the duo gate opening. That was about the most fun I ever had.

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when I first played GW, I was screaming how to display my weapon in Ascalon (outpost)

I just hope that they maintain the medieval settings for all Guild Wars expansion and kept the classes that suit the settings.

lol i made a M/W with the special in-game hammer reward, along with smites. I farmed outside Ascalon City so I can gather up 2k for a cape for my guild "The Jokers"

The thing I remember is when I created my first character, a mesmer, that I expected Conjure Phantasm to create some sort of visual disruption on my enemy's screen. I guess something like what bloopers do in Mario Kart DS. haha fun times..
I used my mesmer with illusion stuff and a pet for a long time.