Posts by Ecto Sacrifice
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Ironwing xxxa. -5e is not as desired as 15^50 in general and won’t demand as much imo
Shadowbow is not worth anything to anyone but you since it’s customized. Otherwise it would be low xxxa
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q8 jade earth wand 19/9 - 75a
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yep ran there without dying on a level 1 with no skills immediately.. lol
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It's a great location for starting a northlands run from. I just hope they open piken square up to existing characters, after this "alpha" testing mode for reforged, instead of forcing people to restart as a reforged character just to access the best outpost... I tried to get there as well on my existing pre character, and there's no access.
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I hope they open Piken Square up in presearing to existing characters. The new Piken outpost in presearing is in an ideal location to run outside and immediately begin killing in the northlands... would really prefer for my existing characters in pre to be able to access that. I don't see a great reason to make it exclusive to the new "reforged" characters. "reforged characters" getting more xp and gold, against foes that have lower hp and armor (again, for "reforged" characters only), also seems like a dumb idea. Pre is already a breeze if you don't pull too large of a group at once. In addition, the 4 player party mode makes it even easier. I'm confused by the thought process here, even though updates are exciting and show continued dedication to the classic GW1 servers.
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+5e q8 ironwing is xxxxa but wicked blade have always been hard to sell for more than low xxxa
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Is anybody feeling inspired?
c/o as a set: none
c/o q7: 125a
c/o q8: 15a
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Cas3 and cas4 - 100a for the set
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It is indeed real; however, it is customized.
Thank you for showing me this sephis along with your other q8 customized sephis axes, Helepolis. A true sephis collector!
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Yeah I think some people would be bidding over 100a for it
Hell, people have been bidding up to 100a for q8 prenerf SINGLE MOD staves recently, so probably 100a minimum on something like this
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Single mod staves can be 40 to 100a each depending on interest. Feathered long and war hammer 25a to 50a and naked q8’s are worth something probably no more than 5 to 20a imo
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agreed, there's no known market price for things like this. you should list them if you want to sell them, but I don't think anybody has had great success trying to sell custo items like this before, regardless of the names attached
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gw guru archive at least had pictures before and was searchable via ctrl +f.. now it's even more unusable and no pictures are left.i don't understand the thought process behind "remastering" it when it's objectively worse than before. hopefully pictures and search is added otherwise it was all for nothing, leaving us with even less of a historical archive than beforeI stand corrected, take a look here. I'm glad to see that there is ongoing updates to the archive to make it more usable and fixing images.
The current version was the first step forwards to improving the archive. It's been quite a lot of work to get it to that state and it wasn't perfect and I was aware of that. But 2024 was generally a bad year for me, especially the last half of it and 2025 has been the worst year of my life, without a doubt. I lost my job in the beginning of the year, my mother got diagnosed with a serious disease, my relationship imploded, my nephew died, financial issues due to the loss of my job and so many bureaucratic challenges... my life as it was changed completely this year.
So, my focus this year has been to try and get through it all, trying to get my life back on the rails. While I spent several months at home, working on things was the last thing on my mind. It has only been recently that my desire to work on things again, returned.
I'm glad to have the beginnings of stability back with a new (challenging) job, a better understanding of myself and working on my self-confidence, trying to find my way in the new IT-world (which has drastically changed in the last year) and a new relationship as well. It's been a though year, but in the end, years like this are extremely unpleasant but they make you stronger and better as a person. At least, I hope so
But, back to on-topic, I wanted to introduce search into the archives as well, but I ran into a hard deadline when I built the previous version of the archive. The costs for the server were going to increase significantly so I wanted to migrate off it as soon as possible. But once the new archive was set up, I didn't touch the new server at all. In fact, I forgot a lot about how I set it up and after a while I didn't want to touch it anymore to avoid breaking something, which is never a great situation to be in.
The GuruArchiver was one of my first projects in Golang and I was never really a programmer, so it was quite an undertaking for me to build it. Over time, I started doing a lot more programming and I became a lot better in Golang, so each time when I touched the code, it improved a lot. The new version of the archive that will be going live soon, is a testament to how much I have grown. I have stripped out MariaDB for SQLite, but almost no database code itself needed to change, but other parts of the application required a lot more attention and time. Building search isn't rocket science, but with the size of the archive, you quickly run into practical limits: the database itself is 2.7 GB big. Searching through that without optimizations requires a lot of resources and a single search took about 15 seconds to complete, which isn't really feasible (especially since going to the next search result page is another search which took another 15 seconds). I have optimized this and it has made a huge difference, with searches now taking about 200ms, but it made the database nearly 7 GB in total. I've seen companies switching to specialized solutions like ElasticSearch for less, which is a whole other service to update/maintain and another tool that I would have had to learn. So that's why I didn't implement search before, because I wanted it to be a good implementation and not a half baked one.
Another reason why I didn't implement search back then is because of the impact it could have on the server. Imagine having to run several queries that take 15 seconds to complete on a server, it would quickly lead to issues with the database and impact every other website on the server that also used that database. It would very likely have impacted Guild Wars Legacy and I didn't want that.Fixing the images was a hard thing to do as well, because the archive hasn't got a unified way to deal with images. Some are expected to be in specific folders, some in others. That's due to how it was archived, it was a static HTML dump. There were so many issues with the scraped data as well (broken HTML), which is something that needed to be fixed as well. Every little thing you touch required further changes elsewhere and it quickly became a spiral out of control.
So... it took a while before I felt mentally fit enough again to tackle a project of this size. It was a lot of work, I added a lot of things that I originally wanted to have in the archive. I wanted to build a definitive version of the archive that would include everything that you all would want. And that just took a while and it meant that I had to learn new technologies as well. It's my second project using SQLite, my first project using Templ, first timing building search from scratch. It's the first time that I got help from an AI agent to help me build the new lay-out files. I'm really glad of the result and I'm really proud of it, but it didn't come from nowhere. This has been days of late-night coding and something that I do for my love for Guild Wars and this community, and because I have the skills to do so.
As long as Guild Wars is around, and as long as I am around, I'll always make sure to do my best for this community. And yes, further improvements will be made to the archive. Now, the next steps I need to do for the archive is to set-up the new server, set-up and test the new deployment system for the archives, write the Ansible code to manage it all and finally deploy it to the new server. I hope to find the time somewhere this week
Kev
Understood Kev,
This is no small project, and for one individual to tackle it is overwhelming, especially with other priorities taking hold IRL. Really excited to see the forthcoming update that you make for this passion project. The direction you've taken to use SQLite and Templ makes a lot of sense for what you described, and you're right that adding extra complexity with Elasticsearch is probably overkill. I'm sure AI has been invaluable in helping to move this along nicely!
Thanks for all the hard work that you put into this for the community!
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it's live folks
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gw guru archive at least had pictures before and was searchable via ctrl +f.. now it's even more unusable and no pictures are left.i don't understand the thought process behind "remastering" it when it's objectively worse than before. hopefully pictures and search is added otherwise it was all for nothing, leaving us with even less of a historical archive than beforeI stand corrected, take a look here. I'm glad to see that there is ongoing updates to the archive to make it more usable and fixing images.
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20/10 - 666a
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20/10 - 500a
