Posts by BJWyler

  • Aion Wings and Guild Wars Shop

    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.

  • Mercenary Pack

    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.

  • how to DoA?!

    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.

  • Gaile's account was hacked.

    Quote from Kevin


    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.

  • The Titan Source Party!

    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!

  • Mercenary Pack

    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.

  • Extra Life Livestreaming

    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

  • Checking for Interest

    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.

  • Introductions Thread!

    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.

  • When did you start playing Guild Wars?

    Quote from Juniebug


    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!


    Quote from Zhay


    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.

  • RealMillenniumGroup

    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.

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    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/

  • Forum for Video/Streaming

    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.

  • When did you start playing Guild Wars?

    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.