For the Oldies!

[Avrilcloud]

Ok guys as most of you know, I...."Lost" my GW accounts a few weeks ago, but I found some money at the exact same time, so that was a happy coinkidink.

However most GW convos are gonna confuse me more and more as time goes by, SO here my new thread question.

Kinda aimed at the oldies a little and nice bit of nostalgia too.

What do you miss most from the "old days" I.E From Beggining of 2005 to Xmas ?
What did you hate the most too?

Personally I miss sprit Spamming! Making walls of spirits to trap peeps on Rez pads was Awesome!

OH! And of course professional Ganking! W/E (6) and M/E (2) Charging through the enemy and all planting WAF in one long line was soooo much fun!


Hmmm......have to say the only time I hated GW is when I salvaged a piece of my own armour, with a sup Vigor, and I got cloth. thats was rather......annoying!!! >.<

[Sieg Hawk]

I guess for me would be air ele spiking, because spiking was very powerful back then and it helped players learn about co-ordination etc (PUGs were actually good back then). I also liked the old way to get morale boost before entering hoh, it helped the group get organized, like who attacks and who defends etc....

What i hate...hm... i guess the smtie/spike nerf, there were absolutely no need for those nerfs...oh and probs the like 10% chance failure when trying to salvage a rune out of a piece of monster's armour, gold armour - sup vigor - 6 cloth, or even worse, gold armour - doesn't say unidentified....

[Galazar]

/me dies abit inside..

During Beta, the time it took to go from lvl 1 > 22

...12 hours, we made so many characters like that, me 'n my "homies" Damage Inc, we've just play for like 72 hour stretches during alpha and beta...gw lost something during its release, but i can't tell what...

[Real]

The thing I enjoyed the most was the early spike games and running spike teams in GvG and HoH, i didn't miss those bloody spirit spammers or smiters at all!

Funniest time has to be the 26th August when Chain lightning took a hit with the nerf bat and I remember being upset that my weapon was no longer as effective. Coupled with the Ranger Guild Hall being used and Ganking teams rushing straight at us, I reckon the 27 straight GvGs we played as Acoma over the 16 straight hours I put in that day was something I'd like to see again.

Gal I'd say the one thing the game lacks outside of the special events is purpose, people wander around fulfilling their own goals but are united for special events like the betas or PvPx weekend or Factions previews etc.

[Galazar]

true true, but in a way, guildwars still lacks purpose....its a "join a guild and get on with it" kind of game...i still have no purpose in it, they should make a mass map, where hundreds of players can battle on a battlefield against stupidly large hoardes of Charr - the servers are more than capable of it...but no, that'd be to easy

[Real]

they have and are focusing on the "Guild" element which is hardly surprising given the title, and while new interfacings and interactivity is required within the guild menus I believe that this is likely to be enhanced with the release of Factions and the Guild Alliances.

[Galazar]

Better be, or im going on a killing spree...

DID I MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT THIS KILLING SPREE BEING INGAME?...i think not.

[Julki]

The best moment in GW was prolly when we were in the old ABLW. It was fun chatting with peeps and everyone was donig something fun and asking others to join them (i even won my first fame on the second day in ABLW, it was henchway though... but who cares!)

[mort decametor]

My favourite GW moment was the when in ABLW we eventually won a GVG against some french guild after fighting for 89 mins.

The relief of finally getting it over and done with not to mention beating the French was great. As was the amount of swearing on ts during it.

[Real]

Well now we're mixing it up a bit with favourite moments....

Mine was September 19th 2005 at about 11:30pm my time (god how sad, i remember)

GvG: Acoma Bl Warriors [ABLW] vs The Order of Dii [Dii] - Rank ~800 vs ~250

The game started with a close battle at the flag stand which after 10-15 minutes we (ABLW was my Guild) lost ground and were pushed back inside our base on our home map which included the catapult.

We stayed in there for a bit thinking of what to do and waited as they didn't seem to be able to come in and deliver the finishing blow.

At 24 minutes we called the Victory or Death Gank (having had that introduced into GW at 30 minutes not long before that) and myself and our Guild Leader moved to the far corner of the map out of the back door and waited patiently.

I was running a Fire based (burny) E/Me while our leader was playing a Warrior and at the 30 minute mark we dodged henchies on our way to their Guild Lord and took him down while the rest of our team was engaged with our opposition inside our base.

The reactions, the spirit of the match, my first successful gank (believe me I havent stopped ganking since) and the congratulations we received from an opposition we respected (having known of them for their work with gwonline) was sensational and those feelings through a computer game have been hard to replicate (apart from the many other successful ganks against opposition too strong to beat in a face to face fight).

I posted on their forum after the match thanking them for the spirit of the match and the tactic was described as 'perfect whether intentional or not'.

When I later joined the Order of Dii a couple of the members remembered my post and I can safely say we had a good laugh about it but the win came at a crucial time for Acoma where we needed a confidence boost to continue to improve as a Guild (we'd slid from top 300 to about 1000). The guys ended up beating the then number 4 ranked Guild only a week later.

While the Guild may no longer exist the spirit continues to die hard (and you'll find many ex-Acoma on this very forum). Acoma Forever