Post by Brutus on Jan 9, 2016 1:09:55 GMT -8
I thought I'd drop in and say hi on this forum. You guys need to write better introductions! I started playing Guild Wars in Nov. 2005. I too am sorry to see presearing.com close up shop, but I am happy to see this site up.
After my first year of GW, I had computer issues and eventually dropped out of GW for a year. I came back and played a lot of pre. I eventually focused on the main game, finished 30 titles, got my GWAMM title, and moved to GW2 when it was launched. Last year I decided to come back to GW to finish a few things (more on that later).
My initial year of GW was relatively uneventful. I breezed through pre and spent almost all of my time in post. I became a heavy buyer and seller of dyes in Ascalon City. Post-searing Ascalon was the main town in GW in those days. There was no Kamadan (Nightfall was a long ways away). Since all of the Wintersday traders were in Ascalon, that was where a lot of people went to trade. My main character got a run from Beacons to Droks, got his Droks armor, then got totally lost, having never gone the proper route following primary quests from the Northern Shiverpeaks to Kryta.
When I came back after a year off, I was confused for a while at the concept of titles, which were introduced while I was away. I read about the LDoA title and got heavily into pre. I got my LDoA the old fashioned way before daily Vanguard quests introduced. I death-leveled charr on Brutus The Sword on weekdays to level 16 or 17 before I killed them. It took 9 months, with some time off for holidays and special GW events. Since death leveling took so long, and since I could not play on my main account, I bought my second account (Pharoah Roman) and resumed my trading, this time in pre. Dyes, runes, weapons, minipets, holiday drops--anything was fair game. I eventually racked up the most trade feedbacks on presearing.com. I remember selling a new bone dragon (green 1st year mini) in pre for 400k post. Fun times. Eventually I gained a third account from my friend, Ju Is Leet, when he left GW.
They had a nice party for me in Ascalon City when I achieved the LDoA title (it was not common back then). Imagine my sadness when Anet essentially nerfed the title by introducing Vanguard quests. I took 2 more level 16 characters to LDoA the new way, but it seemed too cheap and easy. It took days, not months. Since the LDoA title was no longer very prestigious to me, I now wear some humorous title such as my Unlucky track title. I also got my drinking title the old way--10,000 minutes of drinks, carefully timed one minute apart, since you could not spam the drinks. They really dumbed things down and nerfed that title too by allowing ales to be spammed. Anet bent so many corners to oversimplify titles before they launched GW2. The only title that I did not legitimately earn was survivor. One lag-spike, rubber band job would undo all of my hard work. I eventually gave in and bought that title with Kath hammers.
Remember when GW was new and still developing? I was not around for the launch or the first Halloween, but I joined right after that. I remember wondering what candy cane shards and dragon tokens were when they were introduced. I remember the excitement in pre about Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies being added to Easter. Then there was all that speculation as to whether we would have a Thanksgiving event and if there would be new drops--I guessed Pumpkin Pies correctly but not Hard Apple Ciders. And fellow old-timers, do you remember getting party items before there was even a title track for party points? How about the excitement of of being transformed in pre by event tonics (candy corn man!) before there were everlasting tonics in gifts? Remember all the overpowered or novelty builds that seemed to follow one after another in post--55 monk, discord minion masters groups, shadow form assasins, and ursan before it was nerfed.
My merchanting eventually took me to dizzying heights. I bought charr carvings for months before the 3rd Wintersday until nearly all of my free space was filled (remember, this was before you could buy extra storage panels). Then I sold them for huge profits to all those people chasing consumables titles during Wintersday. I learned that storage could only hold 1 million gold. I resorted to putting 100k on each of my characters and was forced into buying ectos. Over the years, my wealth through trading built up so much that I would end up buying some fun minis like greased lightning, naga raincaller, oni, and even a polar bear. When I returned again last year, I was saddened to hear that bots made the polar bears more common. The first year there were only one or two around, and I picked mine up the second year when they were still really rare.
Ah well, GW2 was launched, and I moved there. It is a completely different game but fun in its own ways. However, last year I started spending some of my gaming time in the original GW to finish up some stuff. I have 11 playable characters in my main account--one of each profession plus an extra warrior since I remade one to get my first LDoA title. My goals for these characters were: (1) get Protector title (mission and bonus, normal mode) for each character in each campaign and also finish Eye of the North; (2) get every skill for that character's profession; (3) put every possible area on each character's map (ignore temporary ones like Sorrow's Furnace and underground that do not show up on maps later); and (4) do every quest in the 3 campaigns. I did allow myself some outs on the last one--I only did the Sorrows Furnace, Glint, and the Nightfall torment quests on my main character because they just were not as fun (especially trying to figure out where to go in the unmappable and illogical Realm of Torment). Why repeat if the only point of these self-imposed goals was to have fun.
I'm almost done with all of those goals--just need to do some Luxon quests and missions on a few characters because I wanted to concentrate on one faction at a time. Since those are nearly done, I'm making some secondary goals: (5) unlock most heroes on the 11 playable characters (a few are a pain, and since this is just for fun, I feel no urge to unlock them on every character) and (6) max a few more titles--Treasure Hunter, Wisdom, Lucky, and Unlucky come to mind. I guess that means I'll be afk on 9-rings again. And more boring chest runs. At least I'll be able to use some weapons from those chest runs on all the newly unlocked heroes. If you see my buying runes in pre, now you know why.
So what am I doing in pre these days? Buying runes for heroes, buying and selling a few items, running to Nick, and mostly just sitting there with my ads posted while I work on those 6 goals in post. Since I have nearly 4000 Gifts of the Huntsman in pre, I may eventually open them and put the titles on one of my perma pre characters. I never started a mini collection in pre because of the space issue. Maybe I'll make a special pre collection of 4--Rurik, Adelbern, Gwen, and charr shaman.
Hope to see you in-game!
IGN (main account): Brutus The Sword
IGN (2nd account): Pharoah Roman
IGN (3rd account): Ju Is Leet
After my first year of GW, I had computer issues and eventually dropped out of GW for a year. I came back and played a lot of pre. I eventually focused on the main game, finished 30 titles, got my GWAMM title, and moved to GW2 when it was launched. Last year I decided to come back to GW to finish a few things (more on that later).
My initial year of GW was relatively uneventful. I breezed through pre and spent almost all of my time in post. I became a heavy buyer and seller of dyes in Ascalon City. Post-searing Ascalon was the main town in GW in those days. There was no Kamadan (Nightfall was a long ways away). Since all of the Wintersday traders were in Ascalon, that was where a lot of people went to trade. My main character got a run from Beacons to Droks, got his Droks armor, then got totally lost, having never gone the proper route following primary quests from the Northern Shiverpeaks to Kryta.
When I came back after a year off, I was confused for a while at the concept of titles, which were introduced while I was away. I read about the LDoA title and got heavily into pre. I got my LDoA the old fashioned way before daily Vanguard quests introduced. I death-leveled charr on Brutus The Sword on weekdays to level 16 or 17 before I killed them. It took 9 months, with some time off for holidays and special GW events. Since death leveling took so long, and since I could not play on my main account, I bought my second account (Pharoah Roman) and resumed my trading, this time in pre. Dyes, runes, weapons, minipets, holiday drops--anything was fair game. I eventually racked up the most trade feedbacks on presearing.com. I remember selling a new bone dragon (green 1st year mini) in pre for 400k post. Fun times. Eventually I gained a third account from my friend, Ju Is Leet, when he left GW.
They had a nice party for me in Ascalon City when I achieved the LDoA title (it was not common back then). Imagine my sadness when Anet essentially nerfed the title by introducing Vanguard quests. I took 2 more level 16 characters to LDoA the new way, but it seemed too cheap and easy. It took days, not months. Since the LDoA title was no longer very prestigious to me, I now wear some humorous title such as my Unlucky track title. I also got my drinking title the old way--10,000 minutes of drinks, carefully timed one minute apart, since you could not spam the drinks. They really dumbed things down and nerfed that title too by allowing ales to be spammed. Anet bent so many corners to oversimplify titles before they launched GW2. The only title that I did not legitimately earn was survivor. One lag-spike, rubber band job would undo all of my hard work. I eventually gave in and bought that title with Kath hammers.
Remember when GW was new and still developing? I was not around for the launch or the first Halloween, but I joined right after that. I remember wondering what candy cane shards and dragon tokens were when they were introduced. I remember the excitement in pre about Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies being added to Easter. Then there was all that speculation as to whether we would have a Thanksgiving event and if there would be new drops--I guessed Pumpkin Pies correctly but not Hard Apple Ciders. And fellow old-timers, do you remember getting party items before there was even a title track for party points? How about the excitement of of being transformed in pre by event tonics (candy corn man!) before there were everlasting tonics in gifts? Remember all the overpowered or novelty builds that seemed to follow one after another in post--55 monk, discord minion masters groups, shadow form assasins, and ursan before it was nerfed.
My merchanting eventually took me to dizzying heights. I bought charr carvings for months before the 3rd Wintersday until nearly all of my free space was filled (remember, this was before you could buy extra storage panels). Then I sold them for huge profits to all those people chasing consumables titles during Wintersday. I learned that storage could only hold 1 million gold. I resorted to putting 100k on each of my characters and was forced into buying ectos. Over the years, my wealth through trading built up so much that I would end up buying some fun minis like greased lightning, naga raincaller, oni, and even a polar bear. When I returned again last year, I was saddened to hear that bots made the polar bears more common. The first year there were only one or two around, and I picked mine up the second year when they were still really rare.
Ah well, GW2 was launched, and I moved there. It is a completely different game but fun in its own ways. However, last year I started spending some of my gaming time in the original GW to finish up some stuff. I have 11 playable characters in my main account--one of each profession plus an extra warrior since I remade one to get my first LDoA title. My goals for these characters were: (1) get Protector title (mission and bonus, normal mode) for each character in each campaign and also finish Eye of the North; (2) get every skill for that character's profession; (3) put every possible area on each character's map (ignore temporary ones like Sorrow's Furnace and underground that do not show up on maps later); and (4) do every quest in the 3 campaigns. I did allow myself some outs on the last one--I only did the Sorrows Furnace, Glint, and the Nightfall torment quests on my main character because they just were not as fun (especially trying to figure out where to go in the unmappable and illogical Realm of Torment). Why repeat if the only point of these self-imposed goals was to have fun.
I'm almost done with all of those goals--just need to do some Luxon quests and missions on a few characters because I wanted to concentrate on one faction at a time. Since those are nearly done, I'm making some secondary goals: (5) unlock most heroes on the 11 playable characters (a few are a pain, and since this is just for fun, I feel no urge to unlock them on every character) and (6) max a few more titles--Treasure Hunter, Wisdom, Lucky, and Unlucky come to mind. I guess that means I'll be afk on 9-rings again. And more boring chest runs. At least I'll be able to use some weapons from those chest runs on all the newly unlocked heroes. If you see my buying runes in pre, now you know why.
So what am I doing in pre these days? Buying runes for heroes, buying and selling a few items, running to Nick, and mostly just sitting there with my ads posted while I work on those 6 goals in post. Since I have nearly 4000 Gifts of the Huntsman in pre, I may eventually open them and put the titles on one of my perma pre characters. I never started a mini collection in pre because of the space issue. Maybe I'll make a special pre collection of 4--Rurik, Adelbern, Gwen, and charr shaman.
Hope to see you in-game!IGN (main account): Brutus The Sword
IGN (2nd account): Pharoah Roman
IGN (3rd account): Ju Is Leet
