PVE
- Farming for Ribbit, Kettle and Malison eggs was profitable
- Elite Glob was a one hit killer!
- Wrathjaw was a valuable pet at the time
- Colton was a top pet for Sorcs, so everyone took the time to do all three Bards quests every single day
- Farming elite Frostir for Entombed Hammers was a good source of income
- There was a time when there weren't any Locked Crates....just think about that
- Agile Ranger gear was as good as it got for Rogues
- Lifethief daggers were so crazy OP that there were endless threads asking for a nerf
- When running elite Rooks Nest (for Mali eggs), people actually waited for you to respawn and rush to boss before they killed him (since it took 15-20 minutes per run)
- Running Goldmine, waiting for Ghul to summon three other bosses so you could maximize reroll loot
- I remember the day the Arena opened, and it was so insanely difficult that I actually complained to Remiem, who of course joined and used a /killall after struggling through the first two bosses and told my party "That's wasn't so difficult lol". It was nerfed shortly afterward.
- I remember running Planar Tombs 3 with a friend on the first day, both of us raged at the boss, blowing 10 Revenge buffs each before finally killing him. Again, boss was nerfed shortly afterward
- There was a time when soloing elites was actually extremely difficult and very few players did it
- Getting a Kraken Skewer drop was the same as getting a dump truck filled with gold
- NOBODY ran elite Skull Cove...
- Farming elite Ferrix and Overgrowth was challenging, fun and profitable
- When you couldn't get a full party, elite LMM (Lost Mages Mine) was common and loot was surprisingly good
- Taking the time to study pulls and group strategy was actually valuable and made a huge difference in runs
- An hour of farming elites might have cost you only a couple of deaths...and only because YOU made a mistake (like piercing into a Shaman's stomp)
PVP
- The goal of CTF was to capture the flag, and teams actually worked together without blocking/ganging/etc.
- I remember PvP before pets were allowed, and then a few players figured out an exploit to sneak pets in....they were ganged mercilessly until they left, and their teammates allowed it to happen
- PvP was all about fair play, strategies were shared over public chat and people actually took the time to teach noobs
- I also remember the all warrior wolf pack parties with rotating HoR being unstoppable
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