Posts by Ostona

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Glowing Runic Maul = 5e

Nightmare Scythe = 3e

EDIT: Trade completed, tyvm!

Quote from Capitalist

omg I didn't remember the chest so small

I mean, who thought that

Quote from Red Fireball

But some raise sadness - for things that got nerfed, bugs I missed witnessing - mainly the few areas that could earlier be mapped but can no longer - like the proph arenas or the part during the amnoon/la flooding bug.

Yes, but at least the """"good"""" thing is that those areas are still in the game, but only available to access with developer account powers (which are a server thing).

Some of the arenas can be accessed to see them with GWToolbox, because they are part of the map of the city itself to which they are merged (like the Amnoon Arena), but others are isolated maps and the maps are incomplete unless you enter the arena itself (Fort Koga arena).

For example, the outpost of the famous Fort Koga arena it's still there, but incomplete and locked with giant roots (entering from Henge of Denravi), but the preview map can still be seen with the free camera mode.

As some of you know, I am a fan of the "History" of this game even though I never got to play the Betas, I contribute in updating the photos of the wiki when I have time and I have tried to contact some old players to try to discover how certain things worked in the past (although with this I have not had much luck because the game is practically dead). I still have pending to create two or three new pages in the wiki compiling the info about some things discussed here in the past months about old weapons (that I will probably do at the end of September), etc.

Some of the sources:

https://www.gamepressure.com/games/screenshots_list.asp?ID=1547

https://www.tendocity.net/showthread.php?tid=7147

https://blackfalcongames.net/?page_id=1174

https://www.angelfire.com/games5/guildwarz/infopage/

https://www.angelfire.com/games5/guildwa…um/info-map?i=0

Anyway, I've been searching and saving old screenshots of the betas from various portals, webs and forums (some of them using the Wayback Machine, where I found old pictures of the Ahmtur Arena -in bad quality though- with the names of the players in the group, despite I've never seen any of them online again) and I thought it would be nice to compare a little how the change has been when Kyhlo was remodeled to what is now Ascalon City. There is not much content available on internet, but less is nothing.

Album: https://ibb.co/album/7QQbmG

* Think that some of them are my own interpretation of what I think it was before, keeping the base map but modifying the landscape.

* The last picture, Kyhlo's main square/plaza, is a combination of our current Ascalon and Lion's Arch, I merged both pictures trying to recreate it.

Prophecies here too. Also thanks to GW I discovered Jeremy Soule and since then has become one of my favorite composers.

More than missions themselves, my favorite areas are the Magumma Jungle and Crystal Desert for all the history it contains, I'm fan of Egypt and its forgotten history, so any landscape with sand, dunes, buried things, symbols in constructs, lost buildings, etc, is beauty in my eyes.

One thing I like a lot of Prophecies is the progression/transformation between maps or zones. For example, I remember arriving at Ventari's Refuge for first time and we know is not Magumma yet, but you start to see traces of it.

Amazing, thanks for sharing this piece of history Scryb Ranger

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Also because except the Tengu mission, the other ones are a pain in the ass.

Quote from Swiitisch

Clean as always

It would be cool too to take screenshots with weapons and skills or poses, there are plenty of possibilities. It's a pity that many of the photos that were in GW Guru were lost because they were uploaded via ImageShack, when they did the mass cleansing almost half of internet pictures were deleted, many forums ended empty.

Q9 Insc Vampiric Dragon Sword - 5e

Q9 Insc Flamberge - 2e

EDIT: trade completed, tyvm!

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Another chance to enter the Ahmtur Arena destroyed. Tears of sorrow ~~

I'm gonna ask the redundant question: if you played the first weeks of the release, do you remember by ANY chance something about the Brick of Mud or Clay Brick? It's a mystery that remains unsolved.

I was wondering if it's possible for ArenaNet to create a "GW Classic" like Blizzard has done with WoW (in this case, playing the game before Factions like in the first two months of the release) using a backup or image of the game from 2005.

I remember reading countless times that many of the code of GW is hardcoded and can't be changed or it's very difficult. I don't fully understand this since I'm not videogame programmer/designer, but in computing everything can be changed, it's a question of knowing. They have said many times that the character loading screen cannot be changed for something related to this, so if they can't even change that, I don't want to imagine what a mess the inside of this game must be. Too bad there is no developer left to talk to, to explain a few things.

PACK 1

Necromaner

• Frozen Fan (5e)

Mesmer

• Gorrel's Staff (1e)
• Shelkeh's Hex Eater (1e)
• Gorrel's Cane (5k)
• Mohby's Artifact (5k)
• The Time Eater (5k)
• The Rockmolder (1e)
• Garbok's Chalice (1e)
• The Purifier (5k)
• Deeproot's Sorrow (1e)
• Vokur's Chakram (1e)

Elementalist

• Joffs' Focus (3e)

Total (12 items): 14e + 20k

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PACK 2

Necromancer

• Villnar's Staff (1e)
• Zoldark's Focus (5k)

Ranger

• Forgerunner (2e)
• Graygore's Shortbow (2e)

Monk

• Brohn's Holy Rod (2e)
• Ivor's Staff (2e)

Mesmer

• Garbok's Chalice (1e)

Total (7 items): 10e + 5k

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I did 2 packs because one is for me (pack 1) and another for a friend (pack 2), I want to separate each item.

Edit: trade completed, tyvm!

Quote from Hate Core

We all dont know how many secrets are still around, but this is why we love it.

Counting on what ArenaNet has done with the game? Zero. Where each update seems more like a penalty than an improvement.

I still remember in 2005 how they did the marketing for this game. It was something like: "Join forces with your friends, combine a large number of skills to pass the challenges and be the best of all." (like Pokémon and that shit, and we know very well that Nintendoesn't give a shit about anyone

and it's pure facade).

And how this was after actually, of course: "Oh, a player discovered a way to do <something> using the system that we have created and that we support/encourage them to use. LET'S FUCK IT!! ejjejejejeje xdddd".

There is only 1 way to discover things in this game: 1) Discover it. 2) Shut up about it.

Quote from Mr. Clean(-Value)

q8 Paperlantern 20/20 Fire to match it then i guess

Air Magic version (Paper Fan) for me and we match. But with a Q9 I'm happy.

Greens

• Crystal Focus 4e
• Blisterbark's Staff 10e
• Destructive Shield 4e

EDIT: trade completed, ty!

Warrior

Razorstone 3e

Kanaxai's Axe 1e

Cho Wei's Axe 5k

Wing's Axe 1e

Cobleri's Hammer 3e

Tarnen's Shield 2e

Jacqui's Aegis 1e

Grognar's Defender 4e

Victo's Battle Axe 3e

Victo's Blade 2e

Victo's Maul 1e

The Stonebreaker (axe) 4e

Thorgall's Stone Smasher 1e

Bludgeoner 1e

Ranger

Graygore's Shortbow 4e

Boulderbeard's Shortbow 4e

Razortongue's Recurve Bow 1e

Razorjaw's Hornbow 2e

Mesmer

Forgotten Fan 1e

The Mindsquall 6e

Korvald's Chakram 3e

Elementalist

Runar's Brimstone Staff 3e

Seacrash's Influence 2e

Bahnba's Scepter 2e

Assassin

Urkal's Kamas 2e

Falaharn's Split Chakrams 1e

Ritualist

Spiritgarden's Repose 3e

The Pain Eater 1e

The Skill Eater 1e

Sseer's Wish 3e

Soulwhisper's Guardian 1e

Tattered Fan 1e

EDIT: trade completed, tyvm!

Adamantine Shield q9 tactics - b/o 2e

Eldritch Sword - b/o 5k

Gardock's Staff - b/o 1e

EDIT: trade completed, ty!

I knew I was gonna find my old hat, glad you still have it XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Celestial Compass Q9 Air Magic - CC Air Q9 info - 22E

I remember seeing some of your armor sets when we were at GTOB time ago, but without weapons, now with weapons it's more impressive. Zodiac, Outcast and Cockatrice ones particulary.

Aureate Aegis q9 command - b/o 2e

Edit: trade completed, tyvm!

Got mine a few minutes ago.

Big thanks to Matthew Moore to acknowledge the existence of the weapon, to Endarkks Ziatri for being the first one to discover it, and to all the people in Discord and Reddit in this burning and passionate time trial hunt.

Congratulations to Endarkks

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After reading everything including the Discord, I have only 1 concern: is not strange that no one discovered this when the gw.dat was dumped entirely finding all the discarded content like the old gods (Arachnia), etc?

I say this because, perhaps, the hidden weapon is not necessarily a "new" weapon, only a normal quest reward weapon like any other, but hidden. If the weapon has a different or exclusive name like a green from a boss, then when the gw.dat was dumped someone should have seen it.

This is the quality content that I needed again to awake the interest for this game, I quit in 2011 and returned in 2019 or so, so I've skipped almost all of this. I'm going to read it all carefully, thanks for the summary.

Quote from since 05

The weird part was I was spamming for this specific item. Convienently a few days later hes selling one obviously to try and get me to bite.

I know one in particular doing this shit almost every day of the week. Not the same user, but just as idiot.

7/15 = x1

8/16 = x4

8/16 = x3

7/15 = x3

Edit: trade completed, tyvm!

Q10 Chaos axe (castermods) - 10e

Edit: trade completed, ty!

to buy:

OS cockatrice q11 air 20/19: r/b 5e

OS cockatrice staff q9illu : r/b 5e

to check:

OS forbidden staff q9 air : r/b 5e

Edit: trade completed, tyvm!

Lissah's Edge 3e

Edit: trade completed, tyvm!