Posts by BJWyler

I'm with Jayson on this one. Not exactly sure what kind of benefit this would ultimately have over just equalizing the economy for a period of time. I'm a collector, to me it seems easy enough to farm for the wealth we need right now. If anything, I would like to see Anet release some of those harder to find collectibles to the store or add them as trade-ins for holiday tokens or some such - especially the ones that were "lost" in the old account ban waves.

I started new characters in each of the campaigns for a video series to celebrate the game's 10th anniversary and do a "video diary" of the content for prosperity. You can't really recapture that "newness" feeling like the old days, but it has been an enjoyable adventure for me and I haven't needed to really send these adventure characters any gold or items in all this time, and they have been relegated to their own campaign - so no cross-campaign skills. It's been a great way to experience the content again, and remember things I forgot long ago. That's always been the draw for me outside of my hording/collecting OCD.

There are still plenty of people out there who like grouping up and doing content together - I think our little community here is example of that.

This idea reminds me of something a player in the Defiance forums said in relation to the updated version of the game releasing next week. He is a relatively new PvP player, and was upset that he wasn't as competitive as the vets who have been playing the game for the last 5 years. Obviously skill and the ability to use 5 years worth of item upgrades and such have something to do with that. He sees the "resetting" of the playerbase with the updated version as a way to equalize that.

My response was that it's not really going to do what he thinks it's going to do. One of his complaints was getting one-shot in a lot of matches by max level peeps. I told him that resetting the playerbase isn't going to change that. The core PvP people are going to focus on doing what they need to do to get back to their current position as quickly as possible. Sure at launch time and for about a week thereafter, there will be that normalization of everyone, but by the end of the week, people are going to get one-shot again.

I see the same thing here. The normalization of the market is only going to last until the farmers and bots get underway again. At the end of the day, we'll still be right where we are right now. Maybe even worse off because the playerbase is so small now compared to GW during it's heyday. It's the problem with player-driven economies. Something will always be out of the reach of a group of players. The only way to achieve a truly fair and equal economy is to have it system run with all items available at vendors for a set price determined by the desired rarity of any particular item.

'ello, 'ello, 'ello!

Funny that there are still sealed ones available somewhere. I remember the furor when Factions realeased because there wasn't enough to be had, and created the Kuunavang mini pet to help settle things down.

I just wanted to say thanks and a job well done to all of you who have put in the time and effort to keep this project going. We're coming up on 13 years of GW, and it's a testament to the game that we have such a dedicated bunch of peeps in this community.

Oh yeah, the good old wings promotion. Glad they still can be had. I think I got mine from eBay too during that time since I wasn't going to play Aion.

Now all we need is a way to get the original pre order codes. I picked them all up at the various retail locations for the American ones, but was never able to get my hands on a code for the European one - Chimeric Prism I think it was.

I like the idea. Right now my schedule (RL and game time) is tight, so I don't know how often I might be able to participate if this gets rolling, but it is something I would like to see happen.

I would be interested in UW and FoW, plus any other elite areas as I have not done them.

I am currently playing through Nightfall now for my Twitch/YouTube channels.

That's good news at least. Gaile was always one of the good ones.

Heathen! How dare you. You all know this is the place where the desire to burn all that is GW2 to the ground is strong!

An interesting update I discovered with the mercenaries. You can delete one and immediately re-add them (such as to change the appearance) and they will not lose anything if you had them set up on one or more characters.

I also discovered, in one case, that deleting one, then adding another character of the same primary profession leaves everything in tact as well, including the skill bar.

I'll be kicking it off in 45 minutes. Anyone interested in grouping, meet in the Temple of Ages. If you can't watch the stream, then whisper Zafaren Falzor. We'll figure out the grouping and then be off.

More how to's like this would always be appreciated for the game. I know I would like to be able to do all the "End game" and elite areas at some point, so having knowledge of them beforehand, as well as ways to solo them (if possible) is welcome.

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I've sent an email a while back to them Sadness, and I haven't gotten any reply on that yet.

I'm going to send another mail though to request an interview... but no further news yet.

Kev

I remember that a French fan site had requested an interview a couple years ago, and was first approved, but after Anet learned the questions would be about GW1, they ended up declining because there is almost no one there who knows that much about the game at this point.

In regards to the topic on hand, it is a shame, and scary, that Gaile's account was hacked in such a manner. She has always been a champion of the playerbase, and for someone to do that reflects negatively on us all. I can understand the frustration behind this and the Facebook post as well. At the end of the day, we are all Arenanet's customers, and that does come with some expectation of support for the service we are using, and some are still paying for (the GW1 store is still open for business, after all).

While I appreciate the fact that Anet has decided to keep GW1 running for the forseeable future, that comes as a double edged sword as there is that expectation that the playerbase should get at least a modicum of support when things aren't working as they should, or we have issues like botting and account hacking. It's water we have to tread carefully because I can see at some point, Anet just saying the hell with it and shutting down GW1 because of the "complainers" in the game eating up valuable support time.

It's a real shame that we lost much of that original team that gave their heart and soul into GW1 over the last decade. Anet isn't the company they used to be, and I always said that while it would be nice to get the updates and support that many other aging MMOs out there still get, this isn't necessarily the iteration of the team I want touching my favorite game. There's a certain charm and soul to GW1 that the current Anet just doen't understand, nor have the skill to properly update. It's time like this I wish there was an MMO dev out there with the gumption to have designed the "end of life scenario" of their game by designing a back end that could be taken and played off-line once the servers are shut down.

Hello all! I am hoping to find a couple of people to join me Monday afternoon (9/5 ~ noonish EST) to attempt a 4-man completion of The Titan Source for the final episode of my Twitch/YouTube series, The Tyrian Adventures.

I have one other person who is already to go, so we would just need a Tank or MM and a healer. Of course if more people are interested, then we could do an 8-man with a run from the Temple of Ages. When we are all wrapped up, we could also meet for a dance party at my favorite spot in Tyria - the top of Beacon's Perch.

UPDATE: Let me also add that there will be a Trick or Treat bag giveaway during the dance party as well - up to 10 per character, while supplies last! I will also give everyone in the quest party a full stack of ToT bags after successful completion!

If anyone is interested, please let me know ASAP. I can also plan for Tuesday afternoon or Thursday evening, if that happens to work better for more people (EST of course).

Stay tuned to my Twitch channel (link in my signature below) for when we go live on Monday to follow the action and join in on the dance party and giveaway afterwards!

Pfft. The fix was in ... oh wait, I mean congrats to the winners.

I'll take 96, puhleeze.

How is the transfer going? Will most of the info be able to be saved?

One other thing to note - you have to set up the mercs on each character you unlock them on. Even though you may have them kitted out on one character, they are blank slates for any other character until you kit them as well.

For those of you who don't know what Extra Life is, just go here: http://www.extra-life.org and you can find out all about it. Great cause for gamers to get behind.

That being said, I am currently part of the Extra Life Livestream team, and in addition to playing my Guild Wars Adventures on my own Twitch channel, am planning to livestream some action during the Dragon Festival this Wednesday 6/29 from 9-11 PM Eastern time on the Extra Life channel (http://twitch.tv/extralife4kids).

I am hoping to get as many GW fans as possible to tune in and chat, as well as play along with in game to help promote GW, as well as get the word out about Extra Life. Come join me if you can!

BJ

I would always be interested in seeing more GW footage. As Misty said, there are a lot of players out there that don't know the finer points of a few things. I've been playing the game since day 1 but still have not played the elite areas, or done much in Hard Mode, so walkthroughs and tips and tricks would be idea to get an overview of what I need to do in some areas, especially when I am ready to start going through them.

Hey all! I posted a bit of info on the "When did you start playing" thread (https://guildwarslegacy.com/showthread.php?tid=72), but here's some more!

I originally joined Guru and GWOnline/GWInc. back in May 2005. I used to really play the game (and the forums) heavy time from the beginning up until SWTOR was released in 2011. There have been only a handful of games that kept me addicted enough to play whenever I had a chance, including many a sleepless weekend binge. It all started with the original Wizardry series of games on the IBM and NES/SNES until I came across Firefly's Stronghold series, which became the new addiction until Guild Wars came along.

SWTOR relegated me to a "casual" GW player, and that was replace by Defiance until Trion dropped patch 1.5 back in the spring of 2014, at which time I went back to SWTOR. That has since been replaced by Stronghold Kingdoms (of which I was an original Alpha tester and had to step away because I knew I was going to get addicted). Fortunately though, I have found my play time with Guild Wars to be getting back to what it once was during the good ole days, thanks to my "Adventure" series of videos I decided to create in honor of the 10th Anniversary.

It's amazing what a fresh new experience that has been to go through the game with a fresh character once again (even though I still have yet to complete the EotN storyline!). But anyway, I am glad that ArenaNet has kept the game running and that we all still have places to go to outside of the game as well.

Everyone is welcome to add me to their in-game friends list. There's still a lot of things I haven't really had a chance to do in game yet before GW2 stole away our population and updates, so I'll be looking for help in the future.

Hey Alex, be sure to post your streaming/video channel info in the new sub-forum, it will be a great place for all us streamers to keep track of one another and follow each other!

https://guildwarslegacy.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=36

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I started in 2008 after a year of harassment by a very young student of mine. I created a ranger in Proph and was hooked from the start. What a beautiful village Ashford was and what a frightening shock the Searing was! I was in Maguuma before I knew there was a Wiki (sure made things easier after that!!) Before Wiki? I wandered around until, somehow, the deed-Quest-Mish was accomplished. Such a nooblet, no? Tried some other games, but except for a year in GW2, spent all my game time here.

Those who will remember, will speak fondly of the warm morning breeze.

Ahh, you should have been there before the wikis took off! I still have both my Prophecies and Factions Prima game guides!

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Looks like I'll be the youngest in this post :P, at least for now. I started playing two years ago, even when I had known about the game for a bit. Took my time to decide to spend a bit on me. Right now, my only regret it's not having started playing way earlier

Yeah I remember that time. That was during the big account hacking incident. A lot of people had their accounts hijacked by goldfarmers, including my main account (my secondary account was safe). A lot of people I knew from guru were hit as well.

I eventually discovered that the hackers got my password from a trading site affiliated with GWOnline (iirc) at the time, which was why my secondary account never got hacked. Needless to say, I had to take a break for a couple of months to recover from the shock from finding the account stripped. At least they didn't delete any of my characters. It took me about two years to "recover" everything that was stolen from the account and get back to the state it was in before the hack. Dark times those were.

Greetings all!

Thanks again to Kevin for adding this forum for all us videoites. I'll be sure to keep on checking back to add everyone else to my subscriptions - can't get enough of people playing the game.

Anyway, I have both Twitch and YouTube channels I use for Guild Wars and other games.

Currently I livestream my "Adventure" series on Twitch and post the videos up on YouTube once a week. I also post other stuff on YT that I don't necessarily livestream, so you can find more stuff on the YouTube channel. I don't have a set stream schedule unfortunately due to Real Life, but whenever I'm on, everyone is welcome to join in chat or even hit me up for grouping in the game as time allows.

Twitch Channel -

which currently features The Tyrian Adventures and The Canthan Adventures. I will start streaming The Elonian Adventures come August/September for Nightfall's 10th anniversary

YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/RealMillenniumGroup/

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Good idea! The streaming forum is now live @ https://guildwarslegacy.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=36!

- Kev

Excellent! Thank You!

I was wondering what the thought was to having a sub-forum for member to post their YouTube/Twitch channels for Guild Wars videos. I have found there is still interest in people watching streams or vids of the game and thought having our own sub-forum would make it a nice go to place for all of us interesting in promoting our channels, and finding more like minded people to follow.

I started during the last original beta weekend sometime back in late 2004/early 2005. I remember I was on dial-up with a really subpar laptop and it pretty much took me all weekend to download the game and get my very first character created.

I have been here ever since and started playing with a second account in June of 2005, then of course added a couple more accounts for mules/storage and tooling around. A lot has changed in those days both good and bad, but I'm glad that we can still play whenever we want over 11 years after launch. Much to be said for that.