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Posted by: Countess Aire.9410

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Wow, three years ago they flipped the switch and it went live. For those vets that remember when the Wolfmaster was a chore to fight. First time you fought Shatter, Claw of Jormag, And Teq before the changes. Also the Champ train. When the community would stop to rez a downed player. The first time you completed the jumping puzzles. What is your memories of the first time memories of GW2. Happy Birthday to vets and newbies alike.

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Posted by: Randulf.7614

Randulf.7614

Being wowed by the big earth elemental in the starter zone for humans

Then trying to find the hall of monuments orb so I could look awesome..

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Posted by: JediYoda.1275

JediYoda.1275

1 more day to go yet, still 1,094 of 1,095 days

“If only ANet had some kind of forum they could use to communicate with us……”
“ANet. They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity to not mess up.”
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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

Just a flesh wound.3589

I remember being a low level with some friends in the Sylvari starter area. We were in this swamp doing the heart and suddenly this enormous wurm appeared beside us. We started fighting it and managed to kill it, just us and a couple of others that showed up.

Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.

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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

Just a flesh wound.3589

1 more day to go yet, still 1,094 of 1,095 days

Actually, no. The early access started at 11 PM (my time) on the 24th and at 9PM on the 24th on ANet’s time. So it’s today, 9 more hours.

Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.

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Posted by: Zypher.7609

Zypher.7609

Let us always remember the “Loot Cave!”
… oh wait, wrong game.

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Posted by: BrotherBelial.3094

BrotherBelial.3094

trying to find the hall of monuments orb so I could look awesome..

^this, and the whispers of “where did you get that sword?” When people saw my fiery dragons breath sword.

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Posted by: Draknar.5748

Draknar.5748

I remember Twilight Arbor story mode being about the hardest dungeon in the history of dungeons. Ever.

I won’t stop because I can’t stop.

It’s a medical condition, they say its terminal….

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Posted by: Ardenwolfe.8590

Ardenwolfe.8590

The one-time event in Southsun where you had to kill the Ancient Kraka. Whole community took pics at its corpse once we finally killed it . . . hours later it seemed.

Gone to Reddit.

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Posted by: LanfearShadowflame.3189

LanfearShadowflame.3189

The first time I saw Shadow Behemoth. I remember pausing, blinking a couple of times, and then I shrieked in glee like a teenager while charging in to the fight. (I think I scared a few years off my husband’s life at the same time lol)

Ah nostalgia….

Don’t look at me like that. Whatever you’ve heard, it’s probably not true.

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Posted by: Countess Aire.9410

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Thanks to all that have replied so far.

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Posted by: Draknar.5748

Draknar.5748

Let us always remember the “Loot Cave!”
… oh wait, wrong game.

I loved that cave! It’s a shame how they really try to milk their player base out of $. I don’t play it out of principle at this point. I’m sure the xpacs are good, just not willing to give them any more money to find out.

I won’t stop because I can’t stop.

It’s a medical condition, they say its terminal….

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Posted by: Tyloric.7520

Tyloric.7520

I still always stop to rez people. Etiquette, people!

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Posted by: JediYoda.1275

JediYoda.1275

1 more day to go yet, still 1,094 of 1,095 days

Actually, no. The early access started at 11 PM (my time) on the 24th and at 9PM on the 24th on ANet’s time. So it’s today, 9 more hours.

suuuuuuuuuuure it did!!

“If only ANet had some kind of forum they could use to communicate with us……”
“ANet. They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity to not mess up.”
Mod “Posts created to cause unrest with unfounded claims are not allowed” lmao

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Posted by: BrotherBelial.3094

BrotherBelial.3094

1 more day to go yet, still 1,094 of 1,095 days

Actually, no. The early access started at 11 PM (my time) on the 24th and at 9PM on the 24th on ANet’s time. So it’s today, 9 more hours.

So what’s the birthday gifts?

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Posted by: Countess Aire.9410

Countess Aire.9410

Early access was great. Seeing new characters react to the different events. Learning the mechanics for fighting different bosses.

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Posted by: Tyloric.7520

Tyloric.7520

Early access was great. Seeing new characters react to the different events. Learning the mechanics for fighting different bosses.

Nothing like experiencing everything for the first time with everyone! Remember when people in Orr just absolutely could not keep temples capped? REMEMBER WHEN DUNGEONS ACTUALLY TOOK COORDINATION!?

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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

Just a flesh wound.3589

1 more day to go yet, still 1,094 of 1,095 days

Actually, no. The early access started at 11 PM (my time) on the 24th and at 9PM on the 24th on ANet’s time. So it’s today, 9 more hours.

So what’s the birthday gifts?

Don’t get them until the clock ticks over completely.

Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.

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Posted by: pessimist.7294

pessimist.7294

1 more day to go yet, still 1,094 of 1,095 days

Actually, no. The early access started at 11 PM (my time) on the 24th and at 9PM on the 24th on ANet’s time. So it’s today, 9 more hours.

So what’s the birthday gifts?

Somebody said its going to be a special pvp finisher.
And probably another Jennah Mini..

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Posted by: Tyloric.7520

Tyloric.7520

I hope it’s actually some interesting this time around.

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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

Just a flesh wound.3589

1 more day to go yet, still 1,094 of 1,095 days

Actually, no. The early access started at 11 PM (my time) on the 24th and at 9PM on the 24th on ANet’s time. So it’s today, 9 more hours.

suuuuuuuuuuure it did!!

Yep. It did. If you are in Guild Wars 2 in 9 more hours, I’ll ping you the first gift I got.

(From my Diary. ^^)
Aug24,2012 11pm sharp, the servers came up. Got in and got the first name I wanted, Sandy Claws, then made Astral Projections, Slythy Toves, Slayer Of Insects, and Oops Did I Shoot You. Still need to make 3 toons; Resistance Is Fatal and then 2 names, Liberal Pacifist and Dewy Killem, may not be available till Tuesday. Played until I got kicked at 6am. Paid 1silver and got the guild name Lost My [MIND]. Grabbed it first thing as someone else got the name last BWE.

Be careful what you ask for
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Posted by: Donari.5237

Donari.5237

It started midnight my time, so just as the 24th became the 25th. My oldest alt has an Aug 25 birthday.

There were lots of things to discover, though thanks to beta I’d seen a lot of the very start already. So here are the things that were new to me that weekend: Getting the invite to the guild I’m still in now (we formed in April 2012 on gw2roleplayers.com and had lots of story RP before launch, but this time was the for-real invite) while in a mob of newly made characters and then heading to a guild dance sync party in the guild colors.

After that I had a lot of discoveries and oh-wows. I’ll stick to that which happened on the anniversary date, though.

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Posted by: Captain Unusual.9163

Captain Unusual.9163

My favorite memory is still the Flame Legion shaman in Ashford during one of the first BWEs, when it scaled way too hard and started oneshotting everyone in that entire half of the map.

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Posted by: rhapsody.3615

rhapsody.3615

Starting the game with a Sylvari character and [after an early story part] wondering where my clothes went.

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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

Just a flesh wound.3589

Guild Wars 2 headstart access times announced. Servers may go up 3 hours early

“If you pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 (fully paid off), then you’ll gain access to the game on Saturday, August 25, soon as the clock strikes midnight. As always, that’s in Pacific time, since ArenaNet is situated on the West Coast. In an effort to prevent a potential clusterfluff, ArenaNet may actually bring the servers up three hours before then.”

So, the early access was scheduled to start at midnight Pacific Time, August 25 with a possibility they would start up 3 hours early, at 9PM Pacific Time on August 24th, which is what they did.

Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.

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Posted by: Donari.5237

Donari.5237

Yes, and I was sooo happy. Even though I’d napped that afternoon I wasn’t sure I could stay up to 3 am my time (Eastern). I watched them like a hawk after that announcement and when it went up 3 hours early as promised I hurled myself in, rapid-fire made my five alts for name grabbing, then worked on Donari and played him quite a bit until I could stay up no longer … which happened to be at 3 am.

I suppose in hindsight that could have been a problem for people that didn’t start checking three hours early and lost out on some desired names as a result. But I’ve never seen a single complaint along those lines. I think everyone was on the edge of their seats. It was the first game I took time off from work for — I had the whole week off for launch. I needed to burn up use or lose annual leave anyway.

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Posted by: Tommyknocker.6089

Tommyknocker.6089

My favorite memory is still the Flame Legion shaman in Ashford during one of the first BWEs, when it scaled way too hard and started oneshotting everyone in that entire half of the map.

Those were the days. That boss alone got me 90% of my combat healer title.

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Posted by: Rauderi.8706

Rauderi.8706

One of my first potent memories is of the bandit champ, Kessex Hills, I believe.

Out of a roughly 25-man party, most ended up dead, with only 3 stalwart warriors keeping the fight going. As one led the boss on a merry chase, the others rescued the defeated until the second wave could finally defeat him.

Nowadays, that boss melts within a half-minute.
/wistful

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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

Just a flesh wound.3589

How about the prenerf Fire Elemental and only low level players killing that thing? That was a massacre. Lol. Dead people everywhere. Couldn’t even get close to the boss because even the bridge leading to it was being firebombed by numerous fire elemental flying around and the boss’ fire attacks. Most chars were completely naked by the time they killed that thing.

Nowadays, that boss melts within a half-minute.
/wistful

Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.

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Posted by: Linfang.1087

Linfang.1087

I remember as an Asura during headstart me and 4 other Asura tried to kill the Thermanova Reactor boss. We kept getting wiped, and after a half hour we killed it, having no idea it was a world boss we all thought wtf, this game is hard!

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Posted by: Countess Aire.9410

Countess Aire.9410

Forgot that fight. During, rinse and repeat. Learning how to dodge and attack. So uch fun.

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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

Just a flesh wound.3589

Anyone who wasn’t around back then, here is a August 28, 2012 YouTube video of the Fire Elemental Boss. It took them about 10 minutes (go to about the 10.50 minute mark on the video).

Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.

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Posted by: Behellagh.1468

Behellagh.1468

And they still didn’t defeat it in the video. Now a days we have the 30+ range crowd on the pedestals blasting away and it’s gone in two minutes. Trying to do it with maybe 10 people looks suicidal.

We are heroes. This is what we do!

RIP City of Heroes

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CD673141-975B-42E9-8500-F0FEFF861A7D

…I suppose in hindsight that could have been a problem for people that didn’t start checking three hours early and lost out on some desired names as a result. But I’ve never seen a single complaint along those lines.

This is probably because they had an excellent system in place for reserving a character name from gw1. I had Shoot N Loot saved prior to launch and though I did not notice the early access for an hour after it began, I got my name.

Gosh I remember my first (many) attempts at Fire Elemental and also the Metrica Province jumping puzzle. Both gave me the impression that the game was going to be very difficult indeed. That JP is still one of my favorites tbh.

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Posted by: Tiger Ashante.1792

Tiger Ashante.1792

For me, head start was a bit of a blurred flurry. I remember that night sitting at my PC and trying to log in on the dot when Anet said they would kick it early and true to their word they did and i was surprised when i got in right away.

After that, it was a mad rush to create my characters and reserve their names, even though we were assured our GW1 names would be safe, i just wanted to make sure. And ofc, registering my Guild name.

But one thing I’ll never forget, is that it was the most exciting moment I felt about any game, when i logged in and heard that epic GW2 log in music. It was music to my ears sort of speak and i don’t think i slept for like 3 days. Yea good old times and hey, I’m still here, so those amazing guys at Anet must have done something right to hold my attention for so long. I know i gripe sometimes, but i can honestly say, no other game has captivated me as GW2 has and GW1 for that matter.

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Posted by: BrotherBelial.3094

BrotherBelial.3094

For me, head start was a bit of a blurred flurry. I remember that night sitting at my PC and trying to log in on the dot when Anet said they would kick it early and true to their word they did and i was surprised when i got in right away.

After that, it was a mad rush to create my characters and reserve their names, even though we were assured our GW1 names would be safe, i just wanted to make sure. And ofc, registering my Guild name.

But one thing I’ll never forget, is that it was the most exciting moment I felt about any game, when i logged in and heard that epic GW2 log in music. It was music to my ears sort of speak and i don’t think i slept for like 3 days. Yea good old times and hey, I’m still here, so those amazing guys at Anet must have done something right to hold my attention for so long. I know i gripe sometimes, but i can honestly say, no other game has captivated me as GW2 has and GW1 for that matter.

Yeah I miss that log in screen. It was epic. The current one I don’t even look at, I wish they had never taken out the command line so we could still have it. I wish they’d bring that back.

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Posted by: roperratt.6917

roperratt.6917

I remember the first time I stumbled upon the Shadow Behemoth. I was in shock, I had a level 16 warrior and I couldn’t believe I had a chance against it. I talked to my guild about it and only 1/3 of them had heard of it. Then SB broke, and didn’t return for months. When it returned it started raining “Final Rest” seemed like everyone was getting that staff. I got 3 of them in a week. I also remember all my guildies meeting every evening at 9pm game time at the diving board in LA. When the game first came out , my guild was in it 24 hours a day. I’m still in that guild, but I’m the only one that still plays daily.

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Posted by: Endless Soul.5178

Endless Soul.5178

You had me 10 years ago during Guild Wars open beta, you still have me today.

Happy Birthday.

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Posted by: BrotherBelial.3094

BrotherBelial.3094

You had me 10 years ago during Guild Wars open beta, you still have me today.

Happy Birthday.

Indeed, that’s when I fell in love with with GW. Got my key from Game spy arcade(anyone else remember that?) at the time I mostly played FPS like quake 3 arena AvP2 and KoTOR. Then I played Guild Wars…… And here I still am. If someone had told me id be playing Guild Wars for 10 years, I’d say they where nuts. And I’ll probably keep.playing both till the servers are switched off, my PC brakes and can’t afford a new one or I die.

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Posted by: Purecura.1795

Purecura.1795

I remember the first time I saw Divinity’s Reach, I was like OMFG I’ve never seen any city in any MMORPG this LARGE!!!!!

I also remember seeing the mesmer class in game for the first time 3 years ago, and I was like holy kitten, they can use clones!? So cool!!!

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Posted by: Mustbeghosts.7043

Mustbeghosts.7043

The first thing I did was go to Lion’s Arch and tame a pig for my ranger. Three years on and that pig and I are still kicking butts together.

I also remember getting so angry trying to do the Sharkmaw jp that I couldn’t even look at it for a few months. Yeah that sucker’s pretty easy now.

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Posted by: nexxe.7081

nexxe.7081

If only they would make their anniversary events tied to accounts. Some of us didn’t keep our characters from Headstart or Launch, so now we have to wait weeks or longer just to get our gifts.

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Posted by: Vavume.8065

Vavume.8065

If only they would make their anniversary events tied to accounts. Some of us didn’t keep our characters from Headstart or Launch, so now we have to wait weeks or longer just to get our gifts.

Then you would only get 1 birthday for the account, instead of multiple birthdays for multiple characters, so no thx, I rather have 18 birthday presents.

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Posted by: Tasida.4085

Tasida.4085

If only they would make their anniversary events tied to accounts. Some of us didn’t keep our characters from Headstart or Launch, so now we have to wait weeks or longer just to get our gifts.

Not sure why you couldn’t keep your toon(s)@head start or launch, I got to keep mine as did many others. Unless you accidently deleted them or something. Then all I can say is sorry if that’s what happened. I like the system they have in place, it’s the same in GW1 and should really stay as is. GAME ON

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Posted by: coso.9173

coso.9173

I had no idea it was an anniversary, I would have expected some kind of event though even a small one.