Introductions Thread!

    Hi all,


    I’ve recently returned to Guild Wars 1 after many years away. I started back in the mid-2000s and played all campaigns (All classes).


    I’m currently sorting through some of my old characters, birthday presents, minis, and tonics, and I thought Legacy would be the best place to reconnect with the community.


    Looking forward to trading, sharing some nostalgia, and maybe even joining a run or two.


    Glad to be here!


    — Lord Magic

    I started playing when the game started. I have two accounts and every profession.

    So many presents to collect for every year.

    Nice to see some improvements even though the game is not updated any more. More storage slots and material storage is a blessing.
    I would love to see it created for consoles. PlayStation in particular but know it won't happen unfortunately.

    I jump back in now and then, mainly in Old Ascalon for a bit of fun. Favourite character ATM is my Ritualist, both damage and healing.

    Happy gaming!

    Hi

    bin Yabba und freu mich wie wolle das es nun wieder los geht bin mittler weile 20j älter geworden (55) ich renn meistens in Kamadan rum mach alles was Spaß macht und liebe es Greenis zu Farmen .

    ich bin gespannt wenn man nun nach all der zeit so wider treffen wird . ich habe immer an gw1 geglaubt und gehoft das dieser tag der 3-12-25 kommen wird

    mit gw2 bin ich nie richtig warm geworden und habe relativ schnell aufgehört zu spielen . ich werde ein paar tage warten ob vlt meine alte Gilde wider auftaucht , danach bin ich dann zu haben

    habe 19plätze , habe meinen Gott , und alle Klassen auf Max , muss den einen oder anderen noch fertig spielen

    Gruß Yabba

    ing: Yabba Gsl

    Hello everyone. I'm new kind of. I bought the game back in 2005 when it came out. Played it for a while, but didn't get far, maybe to level 9 in post. But I got sucked into Wow, as I had friends playing that, and they talked me into it. The farthest I got was Piken Square. I have to say, with some hiccups on my part, it has really been a lot of fun so far. I made a ranger/ele, but now I seem to be focusing on the ranger skills. The people here have been really helpful, and I want to say thank you for that.

    Yo-ho-ho!

    Started playing gw right around factions release, but started with prophecies. Main Dervish after doing warrior for a long time. I used to spend my time running SoO on my 600 monk but then A-net nerfed my main source of income and I think I quit around that time. Fun fact, I think I did over 200-300 SoO runs and never saw a single BDS drop. Not for me, nor any of the folks I was running.

    Now rejoined anticipating the reforged hype. was a bit let down at how little actually changed with a "reforged" title, but that's a discussion for another topic :P Been enjoying myself, but I find myself absolutely lost in the current-day market, what skins are worth something etc, so hoping to do some price checks around here later :D

    Thanks for having me y'all!

    Hello There,

    I m Geri V in Guild Wars 2 & Cannibalistic Koala in Guild Wars Reforged (Guild Wars 1)

    I am here because i am looking for an active monitored forum and to share odd builds/thoughts with all of you
    I am in the Guild Wars universe since 2007 and gaming since 1994

    I hope we will have a great time together

    Hi,

    Pudding here! I started playing guild around when factions first came out and played until about 2010 or 2011. I picked up gw2 when it came out and played up until about 2020. I just restarted gw1 during the last anniversary event and played a couple months and now im back on the gw1 grind again. Ive finaly gotten into eotn and im really enjoying the dungeons. If anyone ever wants to show me how to tackle some of the hard mode dungeons let me know!

    Hey everyone,

    I'm Frank. I've been playing Guild Wars actively for over 20 years now without taking a break – I think I'm at around 8,000 hours played by now.

    I started as a classic Warrior back in the day, but quickly realized that ranged combat is more my style. These days my favorites are Ritualist and Ranger, though I enjoy a good Mesmer as well.

    I’ve seen it all, including the times when I was literally the only person standing in Kamadan :D so I am really happy to see the new life and activity in the game recently.

    I'm looking forward to good conversations and finally being part of the forum.

    Hello, Guild Wars Legacy

    My name is Kyle — Kyle The Savage, KTS, whatever you know me by.

    This is going to be a long post, multiple sections I have a lot to say about my Guild Wars story, and I want to tell it right. My hope is that by the time you finish reading, you feel even a fraction of the love and inspiration this game gives me every single day.

    Where It All Started

    I first laid eyes on Guild Wars at a friend's house in 6th grade. He handed me the Prophecies manual — that thick, beautiful thing — and I just sat there, flipping through the profession pages, studying the armor designs, reading how each class played. Eventually he let me make a character. I rolled a W/Mo, ran around Pre-Searing for a couple hours, and that was it. I was hooked.

    I'm 34 years old now. I never really stopped playing.

    PvP and Finding My People

    I fell in love with PvP early. I played in countless GvG and HA sessions with [Tru] Tremendously Underrated, and became completely addicted to Random Arenas. We managed to break the top 100 at various points throughout the years, and those sessions are some of my best memories in this game.

    But the person who shaped my Guild Wars experience more than almost anyone else was a guy named Shorty. (By the way — if anyone owns the single-name character 'Shorty,' please PM me.) Shorty was a 40-something-year-old man from Mississippi with a thick southern accent. I was a mature-for-my-age 14-year-old from California. On paper it's a strange partnership. In practice, it was perfect.

    The OG Black Widow Spider Charm Runners

    The main way I built wealth in Guild Wars was through a service that Shorty and I created together. We were the original Black Widow Spider charm runners. We figured out early on which quests in the Underworld gave access to the Black Widow pet — which was extremely sought after at the time — and to my knowledge, we were the first players in the game to offer this as a service.

    I had a post on the old GuildWarsGuru forums with hundreds of positive reviews that I'd refer people to so they knew we weren't scammers. At 20k–25k a run, we were doing 10+ spiders a day for well over a year. If Shorty and I helped you cap a Black Widow, I would love to hear from you in the comments. ❤️

    Shorty doesn't play much anymore, but we're still connected through Facebook. Some friendships outlast the game that made them.

    The Power Trader Era

    The spider money was real — especially back then, when not everyone was sitting on hundreds of ecto. And that's when the power trading started.

    But I didn't just dive in blindly. Before I bought a single thing, I studied the market. I spent hours reading trade chat in Kamadan, just watching. And after enough hours, you start to notice patterns. I realized quickly that Guild Wars has no trade tax — so as long as you sold something for even slightly more than you paid, you profited. That's still true today, of course, but back then the market was wilder and the opportunities were everywhere.

    I started a guild called Quality not Quantity [QQ], made up of close friends who traded alongside me — many of whom I'd originally met in Kamadan doing deals and who slowly became part of the inner circle. QQ worked as a team, and honestly, I probably absorbed most of the benefit. I was able to accumulate a massive amount of wealth, and again — this was early enough in the game's life that that kind of wealth was genuinely rare.

    The Zaishen Title and Teh Axe

    When the Zaishen title was released, I — along with many other big traders — raced to stockpile zkeys and finish it. I wasn't the first by any means, but I was without question in the top 10 players to achieve Zaishen rank 12, and I did it roughly 4 days.

    I collected all kinds of incredible items along the way. OS weapons, q8 items, things most players only dream about. But there was one transaction that stood above everything else.

    I purchased the famed Unconditional r8 Axe, known simply as "Teh Axe."

    If you know, you know. It is, without question, the #1 holy grail item in Guild Wars history. I used it on my main Warrior, and let me tell you — it felt like I had beaten the game. My character held and swung the single rarest, most legendary item Guild Wars has ever produced.

    But here's the thing. If you've been around this forum or the old GuildWarsGuru, you probably know Krompdown and Kabong's collection. They have the incredibly noble goal of preserving Guild Wars history through the items they maintain. After carrying Teh Axe for a while, I truly felt that it belonged as the centerpiece of their collection — not sitting in my inventory. Kromp and I made a deal, and Teh Axe has been with him ever since.

    We've been friends ever since, too.

    Moving On — Sort Of

    After selling Teh Axe and finishing my 6th GWAMM, I felt like I'd done everything I set out to do. I was a freshman in college, Guild Wars 2 was right around the corner, and I was ready for the next chapter.

    When GW2 launched, I dove right in. I was a strong PvP player in GW1 and couldn't wait to try GvG in the sequel — only to discover it wasn't a game mode. How can the game be called Guild Wars with no Guild Wars?

    For those who don't know, the GW2 GvG community proceeded to exist anyway, without official support, and still does to this day. I joined Everything Purple [EP] as one of the main warriors, and we became one of — if not the most — notorious GW2 NA GvG guilds, period. I streamed our GvGs and raids for years on Twitch. If you recognize me from GW2 or EP, please say hello in the comments!

    But even during the GW2 years, GW1 was always there. Was I logging in every day? No. But I was still maintaining my guild, still popping in to say hello to friends I'd known for over a decade. You don't just leave this game behind. It's part of you.

    Coming Home

    GW2 GvG declined significantly over the last several years, and that was all the nudge I needed. GW1 has been my main game again for the last three years or so.

    I have new goals now. I'm not collecting the way I once did — instead, I've been working on maxing every title in the game, which is an absolutely daunting task. But that's exactly what keeps Guild Wars alive after all this time: the next hunt, the next goal, the next adventure.

    Pre-Searing has become my home base for the last 4 years when I'm not grinding titles. Running around Lakeside County never gets old. There's a peace to it that I can't really explain to anyone who hasn't felt it.

    20 Years of Merch and a New Party

    Throughout all of this — the PvP, the trading, the titles — I've also been collecting Guild Wars merchandise for the last 20 years. I'll link a photo below to show the collection. And if anyone out there has a Shadow of Nayos statue from GW2 — I believe it's the only officially licensed Guild Wars statue I'm missing — please PM me!



    And now for the part that means the most.

    I'm married now, and my wife and our two kids are playing a 4-person team through Pre-Searing together. We haven't made it to the new dungeon yet — still getting our asses kicked in the Northlands — but God, I wouldn't have it any other way.

    Some games you play. Some games become part of your life. Guild Wars became part of mine over twenty years ago, and it's still writing new chapters.

    See you in-game. ❤️

    Kyle