User:Fraught/Memories

When I Was A Noob...
I've been playing Guild Wars for a little over three years now. I wasn't around in the beta, or even shortly thereafter, but I first started playing in September 2005. September 14, to be exact--I still have the receipt from when I bought Prophecies ;).

A friend gave me a ten-hour trial code and I was just... completely sold. GW was my first MMO ever and since it's not a traditional MMO like WoW, I think it's spoiled me something rotten to the point where I've tried both WoW and Warhammer Online, and didn't play either for very long. Though I must mention WAR was, imo, a stronger game than WoW, which turned me off with its boring, repetitive "go here and kill 10 whatevers" starter quests. God, that was a chore. Anyway, I'm drifting from what I wanted to do on this page, which was just doing a bit of reminiscing.

Three years of play means three years of funny, hilarious, stupid and downright idiotic moments. I'll add to this page as I remember them.

--My first character was a Ranger. I named her Amadei, which is still my username on GWO and GWG. Anyway, I was, naturally, pretty terrible. In my defense, very few people weren't pretty terrible back then. I have old screenshots of my builds and they're very *facepalm*-inducing.

One thing I remember doing on her quite clearly was DDF with a random pug. I was so very bad back then, but the rest of the PuG sucked too. We died a lot and eventually, people started dropping out. I think we eventually managed to complete the quest with about five people left--with me complaining the whole team about not being able to cast Backfire because the death penalty had reduced my energy too much. It's one of those things you kind of want to punch your old self in the face for :P

--I'm doing IMOM with a PuG. Infusion + mission, and we decide to run to the cutscene, as you do. We all start running and arrive at the Seer with about a hundred ice imps and assorted baddies on our tail (this was before a patch that fixed monsters trailing you endlessly, for those of you who remember). Cutscene starts, yay. I hit skip; in fact, everyone but one person hits skip. Cutscene plays and we're being torn apart by the monsters. Still the last person does not skip. Cutscene ends. Half the party's dead and swearing, the other half quickly gets slaughtered as well. More cursing. Return to outpost. I found another PuG.

--That time I wandered away from my PuG when doing Ancient Secrets in the desert. I was convinced we needed this teleporter and went off that way while the others went off another way. So I activate the teleporter, step on it and zoom to its mate--where I end up hugging a bunch of angry Storm Kin. :( They hurt. I died. Party returned later, rezzed me and we completed the quest. I still stupid even writing this down <_<

--The Factions Preview Event was great fun. I stayed up late to muck around with some guildies. We wound up doing the supply run quest out of HzH. It's the one where if you drop the supplies, it emits an annoying ping. Multiply that by eight clueless rits and sins and we had quite the annoying evening ;P. Great fun, though, especially since the gear trick hadn't been fixed before the event either, making every pot-cradling ritualist the mobs' favorite snack.

--Trying to run to desert outposts on my ele and dying miserably meters away from the entrance. I didn't have any running skills or anything; just sheer force of will made it so I got as far as I did.

--Getting lost in the Catacombs.

--Also in the Catacombs, setting off the fire traps from the necromancer quest myself, dying, then running back, because I didn't know to use the Animate Bone Horror spell Munne gave me. :D I'm smart!

Fun Memories
--Stepping out of Maatu Keep for the first time during the FPE and heading toward Boreas Seabed, only to run into our very first Siege Turtle spotting. I think we all froze and stared in awe for a bit before moving on.

--Being in Cavalon and HzH when the FPE ended and trying not to die to an angry Kuunavang. Watching people bodyblocking her. Watching people piss off Gaile Gray by bodyblocking Kuunie. Cheering on city NPCs brave enough to take Kuunies on.

--Playing Alliance Battles almost the entire PvE preview event and trying to convince guildies they were fun. Nobody believed me then :(.

--At some point in ABs, it was possible to kill the now invincible Base Defense. So we managed to kill him and then we spawn-camped the enemy team for the remainder of the match <_<. Yeah, not very nice, but so much fun!

--Thunderhead Keep monk strike! I didn't participate, but I watched it all go down. Sync dancing, chanting, slinging insults around, Gaile showing up... Ah, good times, good times.

--Mursaat in Maguuma Stade. I actually went there on a mule because she was the only character that actually had the place on the map, hee. Dying in towns is always so much fun :D