Back in my day

I found a couple screenshots from 2005/2006 - GW1

Back in my day, you could GvG ladder and actually get real matches.

Back in my day, i wasen't good enough to run droknars forge but ran Camp Rankor > Deldrimor War Camp instead, charging 300-500g per player and was able to purchase Elite Gladiator Armor after a month or two of running.

Back in my day, I would MQSC 300k faction a day.

Back in my day generally got 4-5 party invites in almost any outpost I entered around Tyria. Oh, and I was a monk.

Back in my day....Augury Rock was always crowded

Back in my day, 5 teams played in the Hall of Heroes map.

back in my day people did not get glad 12 by fighting bots or glitching into private instances

rip zulu guild, we all remember you mr black mamba[zulu]

Back in my day:

The run from Beacon's Perch to Droknar's Forge, aka Drok's run, there was this little Easter Egg. During the run down Southern Shiverspeak, in Dreadnought's Drift, there's a mysterious chest that usually spawns. This chest was called The Lost Strongbox. As you get closer, usually an Azure pops up and will start to attack. The chest would spawn some random items. Legends say that there's a possible spawning of the legendary sword, The Crystalline Sword. Sold for buku bucks to the rich and famous for bragging purposes. Usually I run there with my bags completely empty, with some exceptional salvage and ID kits. Run back to the portal and back to DnD. Repeat. I've never got one but a few friends of mine had.

I have more, would you like to hear? Lol

Back in my day, people didn't need consets to be successful in PvE.

Back in my day:

The title tracking system and Hard Mode wasn't introduced. For PvE mapping, missions, and skill hunting, I had to write them down on my notebook and check them off as I go.

Vanquishing was introduced after the title system.

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Back in my day:

The title tracking system and Hard Mode wasn't introduced. For PvE mapping, missions, and skill hunting, I had to write them down on my notebook and check them off as I go.

Vanquishing was introduced after the title system.

I'd be curious to see more of your odd stories that people thought like your chest story.

You got it!

Back in my day:

When the price for Superior Absorption (for warriors only) was the highest of all the runes. They were selling, at the highest was ~80k a piece. You can only get them with rare armour hides to salvage from. I've made a few builds for my warrior for soloing to get these runes. I found the best place for this was to kill Ettins, they have the highest drop rate of salvageable armours. I would start out in Bettletun, clear out all Ettins in Nebo Terrace and run towards North Kryta Province. Same thing, find and kill all Ettins as you go towards Gates of Kryta. Map back to Beetletun and repeat. Avoid all the Bog Skales and Tengus, of course. This run usually takes about 30-40 minutes.

I did this for about a good 4 months or so. Whenever I need some cash, I'd hit up the "Ettin Run" and restock my storage. During a good week, I've manage to get about 2 average (superior absorptions) along with other runes too. Superior Vigor (averaging at ~60k) was nice to get, since those were the second most expensive rune. Overall, it was good money. Averaging of around 300-500k a week.

I never post or share any of these information when I played. This was instantly nerfed when 55 monk bots came and Anet changed the Ettin skill sets and threw in more obstacles.

I have screenshots of these somewhere on my hard drive. I'll post some when I remember to lol

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back in the day...there were DOZENS of districts for the mad king --and then it was only Lions Arch (and you didnt know what the hat was going to be until you attended).

Correct me if I'm wrong, I remembered The Mad King only appeared once during every hour or so, he did his little speech and then you get the item in your inventory.

In GW2 it's different.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, I remembered The Mad King only appeared once during every hour or so, he did his little speech and then you get the item in your inventory.

In GW2 it's different.

Once every 3 hours. Higher numbered districts have or had delayed starting times.

Back in the day:

When the infamous "55 monk" build came out, the build went crazy once everyone heard about it. But! I had to reroll many characters to get my Grim Cesta (knife version with -50HP). Sold a bunch and kept a few as well.

There were a few hot stops I heavily farmed at:

* UW (not the 'Tombs UW') was hottttttt, also faster with a SS Necro. Or 55 Necro duo/ 55 Monk duo.

* FOW, can only go as far as clearing out the beginning and heading towards the beach.

* Prophet's Path outside of Augury Rock, Griffons and whatnots. I did this with a 55 W/Mo variation as well.

* Talus Chute outside of Droknar's Forge, Minotaurs, Trolls and Mountain Ettins. I did this with a 55 W/Mo variation as well.

Ah....... the good ol' farming days lol

Back in my day, merching a Q7 or Q8 Max item that you don't want was intentional, not a stupid mistake like it would be today (I know some of you can relate to this hehe).

I wish there were still a few people around this board who could remember the times when character skills used to be bought from respective NPCs for 1 gold and the amount itself was considered a good drop, equivalent to approximately 5 platinum in the present currency. And half a year later, many of us also utilized these...

Back in my day, we used to run fow chests with 7 other wammos.

there are so many back in my day I can mention.

Back in the day, I farmed the drok cave as 55 monk

when doing drunkard title,you actually had to do drunkard title for 10k mintues to max the title

when DWC was populated for SF

When heroes was not around and people teamed up as 4,6,8 man to do everything

When people actually knew how to do pve, not with cons,pcons,meta builds like 99% still do.

When before templates were a thing,and we had to manually choose attribute points and find every skill/spell.

when ascalon int1 was THE trading place

When Droks was THE trading place

When toa was the place for fow/uw

When greens were status symbols among weapons.

When pvp was hard

When you actually meet people in mission outposts and you pugged up and found friends that way

When economy was not inflated.

When a GM was spotted in the wild

Earning XP to be able to change your atts.

Back in My Day when buying armors you had to choose Nice looks or good prefixes cus you coudnt have both

Back in my day when ascalon arena outpost was quite full and tombs were the entry to HA....

Back in my day when it took about 2 hours to do Hell's Precipice, because were a group of pugs and I was a minion master with no exploitable corpses around.

Back in my day warrior was the tank.

DOA took a long time.

HA was full of real teams.

GVG was a career, playing 6-8 hours of GVG a day to maintain top 40 position with over 10,000 guilds active.

Playing monk was a guarantee of a spot everywhere you went.

Fire Island was like 'OMG'.

SF was for decent players only and took a long time to clear for just the outside chance of a green drop.

Parties would form to farm greens.

Ettins were my main source of income when they used to drop gold runes. Not many people knew about it as we didn't talk about it!

US and EU servers had separate NPCs for goods and you could transfer between them bringing a pile of ectos and shards to play the markets.

Ultimate status symbol was a q8 fellblade or chaos axe.

55 monk ..ahh, the memories.

Doing things was sometimes hard.

SC (or spoiled completely as I call it) wasn't a thing.

UW full clearance took a very long time.

FoW burning forest bit was usually left until last as most likely place to wipe.

Back in my day, people would hang out in Marhan's Grotto....just because.

Back in my day, the Sunspear Sanctuary was a hub.

Back in my day, Lion's Arch was the center of the universe.

Back in my day, tanking in Sorrows Furnace meant holding a Gear.

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Back in my day, we used to run fow chests with 7 other wammos.

I remember taking turns with keys and also had to wait if we didn't have favor.

Another spot was in Port Sledge. Get a group and start running. There would usually 5 chests within 15 minutes of the run and repeat.

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Back in My Day when buying armors you had to choose Nice looks or good prefixes cus you coudnt have both

Or when you had to find the set of armor with the right attributes and where to craft/buy them. Now you can add inscriptions to armor/weapons to make it a perfect weapon.

Back in my day:

I had to run/do missions/quests to get to a town to get max armor. I wanted the "15k armor set" (elite armor now) and not the "1.5k" in the game. They both have the same stats but appearance and materials to craft it were different. When armors were attribute specific and you cannot add runes to your armor to be anything you want.

Same goes for weapons. When weapons were ID'd as perfect stats was the holy grail. Before the inscriptions update was introduced. I still have quite a few set items that do not have an inscription option.

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Back in my day when ascalon arena outpost was quite full and tombs were the entry to HA....

The "new" Underworld or TUW now of days. You had to defeat Glint to get there and THEN you can do HA lol

Back in my Day, there was 5,6 sometimes more districts in Presearing and was nearly impossible to get into district AE 1.

Back in my Day, you needed a gate monkey to charr hunt, oh wait, that was last month

Back in My Day overpowered skills got nerfed

Back in my day, Pre-searing gate monkeys were always on call....like Uber drivers

Alright, I've had lots of time to think about this one.

Back in my day:

PvE:

* when splinter weapon/ barrage ranger was the trend for FoW farming in the forest with the spiders. Rits had their own variations.

* when 55 monk/SS necro were the ultimate 2 man duo that can face the entire game.

* when 600/smite monk duo could duo anything.

* when SF assassin/ele solo'd UW after 55 monks were somewhat nerfed.

* when ranger trap team UW/FoW was a thing, probably still a thing?

PvP:

* when IWAY teams was the best, most irritating build, to farm fame points with.

* when MF (minion factory) build was kinda fun to play (no pet cap).

* when necros didn't have a minion cap.

* when balanced teams were the shit. You had your tank (target caller), your support, your snare/interrupts, and monks

* when blood spike builds were hot.

* when starburst ele, suicide ele builds, were hot.

* when groups of 55 monks were your opponent lol.

* when guild cape trims were highly respectable, "ohhhhh snap! it's Esoteric Warriors [EW]! we're totally done."

* when thumper groups were around.

* when ranger trap groups were ridiculous to play and play against.

I'll post some more when I get more stuff brewing in my mind lol