[Complete] For Players with PWI Accounts that are 7 Years Old!

sheepclouds
sheepclouds Posts: 81 Perfect World Employee
edited October 2015 in Official Announcements


This is a special forum event for players who have been playing PWI for 7 years! :)


Event Start Date: 9/21/2015
Event End Date: 9/28/2015 10AM PDT

The contest topic is: Your favorite PWI expansion


Contest Rules:
  • Have a character in that was created in 2008. (Or post on an account that was created in 2008 :) )
  • Currently play PWI
  • Post a screenshot of your character with one of these: favorite fashion, best gear, cutest pet, super cool mount or flyer. ( Your character screenshot is part of the entry)
  • Give us the name of your character that was created in 2008 and the server it is on - or your main character on your account from 2008 (we will verify that the character/account was created in 2008)
  • Tell us what your favorite expansion has been from the seven years.
  • Entries will be judged by PWE staff
Prizes:


First Place and Second Place:


Ginger Tiger Statue and 1000 Free Zen




Third, Fourth and Fifth Place:

Ginger Tiger Plush and 500 Free Zen




Sixth - Tenth Place:

100 Free Event Gold

Winners will need to update their personal information in Arc to receive the physical items. The information will only be used to send these prizes and will not be shared with any other parties.
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  • catgirldesu
    catgirldesu Posts: 993 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    Favourite expansion eh? Hm, there are two I really like. I'm going to have to think about which one I like the most xD
    Will edit the post later to add my entry. Gotta get that Tiger Plush!
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  • d3athg1rl101
    d3athg1rl101 Posts: 29 Arc User
    Yet another slap to those of us who have been playing since 2009.
  • eternalghost
    eternalghost Posts: 154 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    My favorite expansion was by far the Rising Tide expansion. I struggled a lot playing the other classes as they either didnt appeal to me, or I just found them boring to play. As soon as I made an Assassin, I was hooked! Been playing him as my main ever since, and dont regret choosing it the slightest bit. I also really enjoyed Nirvana for the time that it was active, and sadly regret not doing it more!

    Here is a picture of my character with my most prized possession: My Adversity daggers!


    These daggers mean a lot to me for various reasons. Im a pretty big cash shopper, I admit, but these I purely farmed. It took me 2 solid weeks of 5 hours+ TT a day during a X2 stint, but I did it, and I am so very proud of it.

    They also remind me of 3 of my dearest friends (Because I never faced the trials of hours on end farming alone!), 2 of which I am very close with in real life because of our ventures together, and the other who is my in game wife now :)

    As much as I get annoyed and frustrated with it, PWI truly holds some dear memories for me, which I hope to never forget!

    My first character was GhostKairi, a cleric who I played for a long time, but never really bonded with. She is sadly retired. I beleive the date of creation was the 28th of September 2008, but it could of been earlier :wink:
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    103 - 103 - 102
    Etherblade
    My Gear: http://mypers.pw/10/#543295
    My Youtube Channel: youtu.be/zyiaSCxQ_KY
  • celestial
    celestial Posts: 15 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    Character: Flare
    Server: Heaven's Tear (Etherblade)
    Account Creation: August 26, 2008




    My favorite expansion is Rising Tide. This expansion allowed me to obtain shiny gear and fully realize my shininess potential. As you see my display name is celestial, so I am crazy about making my character shiny/white. The TT99 gear only gave part of the shiny feel to it. Once Rising Tide came, the set of white gear changed it all, especially those Unicorn Axes.

    The gear was not easy to obtain at all. I had to make connections that I never thought I would have. I made new friends in order to run Nirvana almost endlessly to obtain the best/shiniest gear of its time.

    People would ask me where I got my axes and armor. I even tried my best to keep the origin of the axes and armor a secret in order to not have someone else looking like me.

    During the time of Rising Tide, I was known as the shiniest BM on Heaven's Tear.
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  • sylenthunder
    sylenthunder Posts: 3,061 Community Moderator
    celestial wrote: »
    Ah.. another contest. I will edit this post when I am ready to enter.

    Ya know, with how the forum ads the #latest tag to the link, you guys pre-posting are more likely to be overlooked than just posting it when you are ready. bear-47.gif​​
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  • glassguitar
    glassguitar Posts: 75 Arc User
    This is my archer Castleberry, the second character I ever played. Her home was on Heaven's Tear. (now Etherblade) This was my favorite ever fashion, sadly I dyed this dress and ruined it .... LOL. Never could get that color back.

    My Favorite expansion to date has been the Primal World addition including Reawakening. The ability to expand your character and have a second and third chance to build the stats caused me to retry certain characters that were previously abandonded.
  • noodlepunch
    noodlepunch Posts: 132 Arc User
    2nd pic is the glitch from 39 cave?​​
  • lobo63
    lobo63 Posts: 10 Arc User
    edited September 2015



    This is justbarb, the newest character on an account that started back in December of 2008 on Heaven's Tear (Now Etherblade) with another barb, wolfelder. He's standing just outside Lost with his white tiger cub, named junior. They make a cute couple running around Arch together. My favorite expansion would have to be Rising Tide, since it set the pace for future expansions. Plus, I do have fun with my assassin and mystic, though the untamed will always be my favorites.
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  • zigheart
    zigheart Posts: 54 Arc User

    2nd pic is the glitch from 39 cave?​​

    that would be the one ^^ i always thought it the sky there was so pretty. once i found out how to get outside the walls it became one of my favorite instances.
  • yperoxos
    yperoxos Posts: 2 Arc User
    Character: MoNaDiKoS
    Server: Heaven's Tear ( Etherblade )
    Acc. Creation: 30/9/2008
    Favorite Exp.: Rising Tide
    My favorite fashion Rock shirt :)


  • catgirldesu
    catgirldesu Posts: 993 Arc User
    Yeee Greek players! tiger-40.gif​​
  • catgirldesu
    catgirldesu Posts: 993 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    Alright, time for my entry!

    Character: Desdi
    Server: Twilight Temple (previously Sanctuary)
    Playing since October 30th 2008

    Well, Desdi is not exactly my "main" now, but this is first and oldest account (and Desdi is the oldest character) I have, so I'm posting with/for the same character again.

    Screenshot:
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    My super cool mount!
    This is an old screenshot from the days when Desdi still had white hair and a poor girl's fashion (not the colours I want, no matching shoes etc.). I think I was around level 60 there. When it comes to mounts, I've always preferred the simpler ones. I don't know why, but all the big, flashy mounts don't attract me. I have two favourite ones; the Quick Sika Reindeer and the Black/Vicous Raptor.

    I picked the Reindeer for this contest for two reasons: the Raptor has been buggy for months so I've kinda stopped using it because it bothers me looking at the character floating instead of sitting. The second reason is that this is the oldest screen with my character-on-a-mount I could find. Considering this is still kinda a "trip down memory lane" contest, I wanted to find an older screenshot again.


    Favourite Expansion:
    This was a bit difficult to pick because I have two expansions I could consider as "favourite". These two would be Perfect World International: Descent and Perfect World International: Sirens of War. For this contest, however, I'm going to pick Descent!

    Descent introduced Morai, which was a great addition to the game. Morai brought a set of new skills for every class. With the exception of Assassins/Psychics who were pretty good skill-wise at the time, all classes got really useful skills that greatly boosted their abilities and performance, especially in PvP.

    Apart from skills, Descent introduced other nice things to the game. Morai gear allowed players to get cheap, good gear for PvE. It may have lost its value nowadays, but back then it was a big deal because casual/poor players had a chance to get pretty good for a low cost compared to other options. Morai Orders offered other goodies as well like free COF letters from Luminance, a second PV token from Shroud and more. The Morai quest line gives a lot of EXP and it has an interesting story. Then there are also things like EU and AEU instances.

    PWI was generally at its best during that time. Thanks to a couple of content updates that happened before/after that expansion as well.



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  • misanno
    misanno Posts: 53 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    im not sure if i actually count
    i made my account in 2008, but started playing the game in 2009, made the forum account in 2008 as well howeer due to an incident (my computer blew up) i had to get a new computer and then i redownloaded pwi, in 2010 i had to remake my account because i got hac.ked, i got to keep my characters, most of my fashion was kepts (it wasnt the expensive fashion) but because of me getting hac.ked, when i remade the account the forum account was changed to 2010


    edit: for some reason h a c k e d is censored
  • phmn
    phmn Posts: 57 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    I am also not sure if I qualify but here goes. I started playing PWI around the time of their first expanion with genies. I was originally on Lost City, a PVP server. I was not too fond of getting killed while trying to level up especially being new to the game. So my friends and I transferred to Heaven's Tear. They have since stopped playing and I am still around on what is now my main Arynx on Etherblade.

    Favorite Expansion? Hmm I honestly don't know. As an Archer we haven't received too many "great updates" to our skills and what not. Although the one where I felt like I really got more interest and wanted to do more to my archer was after Reawakenings and War Avatars were introduced. I was so excited to see if I could break over 900 dex which I have done, and I am one more 105 away from having a comfortable max at 926. Also the fact that I love TCGs, I played Yu-Gi-Oh, and Magic the Gathering, which is what really got me into the Avatar System. Though, it fell short of my expectations. I feel like PWI could've made a lot more off of it as an in game TCG, than just gambling for cards. For me, an expansion that drives me to compete really piques my interest. And from Sirens of War onwards the game has been able to keep my interest and keep me playing.
    Arynx Demon Archer 105-105-105
    Karma - Etherblade
    http://mypers.pw/8/#368041
  • bangbang
    bangbang Posts: 127 Arc User
    Character: Snow
    Server: Twilight Temple
    The best expansion I would have to say is the New Horizons expansion because they updated the quests to include bro **** bag. (As pictured below.)
    It would be funny if there was fashion to make you look like that as well.

  • b1ademaster
    b1ademaster Posts: 16 Arc User
    Character: DarkFightrLC
    Server: Twilight Temple (Lost City)

    I`ve been playing the game since November 2008 and the game was fun for me throughout.
    But the game started dieing a bit with high levels having nothing to do after reaching a saturation point in the game.
    In comes PWI: Descent



    The new area introduced, Morai was tons of fun to explore na dhaving something to do again. New gears, skills and quests in a beautiful and well designed area.
    It kind of grabbed alot of intrest and brought few players back too.

    Also the update following Descent, PWI: Sirens of War was pretty good too as it made Niravana 3 (G16) gears accessible for more. It did kill the Niravana instance ( the once most popular instance) but it was a huge stepping stone in PWI history.

    So Thanks PWI for these wonderful updates and keep them coming :smiley:
  • brithedarkangel#8032
    brithedarkangel#8032 Posts: 19 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    Ok. So where to start.

    Account Creation Date: 10-11-08

    Main: HealerAnne RA2 Level 100

    Server: Heaven's Tear (Etherblade)

    Favorite Fashion: The High Celestial Set (have it on my veno who is semi retired on Twilight Temple)

    Favorite Ground Mount: The Penquin (forgot his name but he's cute. Sadly have yet to aquire one.)

    Favorite Fly Mount: Iridescence (my cleric has these. Love the colors and the annimation)

    Favorite Veno Pet: Herc

    Favorite All-Class Pet: Divine Sage Tiger Pet

    Now for the tough one Favorite Expansion:

    I'm going to say Rising Tide. The reason for this is the Goshiki Quest Line. It was a royal pain but all the crazy comentary from Dizzy, made it worth it.


    My Wings



    My Pet


    I'm an angel I swear I am. The horns are just there to hold my halo up!!
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  • tetraem007
    tetraem007 Posts: 129 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    Hi sheepclouds,
    I did create collages in last contest, I hope this was still within the rules.
    This time i took just one screenshot, but tbh it's hard to make a screenshot where you can recognize a "face" + "show fashion/gear/whole body + mount/flyer" + get a nice background.

    I also got another idea for a contest: create a photomontage with at least four toons of your account/ same account :smiley:
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  • tetraem007
    tetraem007 Posts: 129 Arc User
    edited September 2015

    Main Character: Prehistorik
    Server Twilight Tempel




    * As I already mentionend in the other contest, the time of "Rising Tide expansion" was payback time and we got rid off the nix-venos on world map :)

    * The Genesis expansion was the best expansion with regard to graphic. The Earthguards got the most beautiful capital and best starter area. We also got the "earthguard eyes" and skins which are transferable to other classes by editing the ini files. The only reason why Tellus city isn't a popular login spot is because the bankers there are too difficult to reach and not close to a teleporter.

    *The most important expansions to rebalance classes (regarding to skills, gear, stats) were the "Age of Spirit" (Genies), the "Decent" expansion (Morai) , "Sirens of War" ("Awakened gear" for everyone) and Rising Call (Meridian System).

    *In between these rebalancing expansions we always got "imbalanced expansions" like first rank sale (Rank8 release for the masses), release of "Limitless Rank9 gear" (R999), Eclipse (Nightshades) and "New Horizons" (Primal World), which motivated people to create/work on imba classes/characters (mainly Assassins, but also Nightshades and Seekers).

    *Since my main character on this account is a Barbarian and skills are most important to me, the "Decent" expansion was the best expansion imo. Because of the Morai expansion Barbarians did become a factor in PvP (and not only "dmg taker" in TW or PvE).

    Even "Celestial skills" are farmable in Morai. The Morai map had also best, most detailed graphic at this time (only Primal World and maybe Nightshade area is on par nowadays). In contrast to Primal World you can see a light at the end of the tunnel when you start to farm your skills in Morai (S Avatar sets are out of my league and I won't be motivated to do Primal World dailies forever to get a decent high-level Star Chart).

    * Regarding to gameplay best updates to me were the Trials (= first and unfortunately only raid parties in PW), the Treasure map quests (= back to world map after living in instances for years) and Nation Wars (= profitable PvP for everyone).


    Btw, nice pick/pic DarkFightrLC, this spot was my first choice too. xD
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  • xlory
    xlory Posts: 2 Arc User
    Can we partecipate here even if we posted in the previous one?
    LoryFoxie - Lv45 Venomancer - DawnGlory
    Ilyan - Lv40s Duskblade - DawnGlory
    xxLory - Lv86 Venomancer - US West
  • tet
    tet Posts: 73 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    xlory said:

    Can we partecipate here even if we posted in the previous one?

    I can't see any rules against it. Since there are not many people which post screenshots and some do even post more than one, I'll do that too ;)

    Character: GreenLight
    Server: Twilight Tempel
    Screenshot: Primal World, Ice Goblin Camp; best looking gear (it's the free "Legacy Gear" which you get after first reawakening).

    Best Expansion for my Cleric: "Sirens of War", because "Awakened gear" did become accessible for everyone. And at least on Lost City server you were able to make billions with Nation War Rewards (for more than a half year), even with just an average PvE character.




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  • zigheart
    zigheart Posts: 54 Arc User
    Well figured i'd jump in and see where i land :3

    Honestly, this game has continued to surprise me with each expansion, i don't think i could pick a favorite. i've been around since the closed beta and seen the game go thru some incredibly drastic changes, while grinding daylies gets dull at times above all i think it was the friends i have had that kept me coming back and playing, from the first time i joined from early of game play. (sadly no early game pics, as i lost all my screens when my computer failed T^T)
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    The Raging Tides Expansion:
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    The Morai and Earth Gaurd Expansion:
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    When they changed abba and SoT:
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    Tho i have to say it was definitely my friends that kept me interested, most of whom don't play anymore, from this cute pic of my favorite mounts (me and my roomate respectively):
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    I'll close with a few pics from the most memorable times i have had in game in no particular order, (i'll leave direct links as the forums lack spoilers to condense the images):

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  • zigheart
    zigheart Posts: 54 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    LOL wtf so all my old posts that didn't go thru DAYS ago just posted. @sylenthunder you can delete the duplicates... i'll use the post before this one as my entry.

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  • killercow
    killercow Posts: 1 Arc User
    Character: SannaForYou
    Server: Dawnglory
    Screenshot: Central Archosaur with favorite fashion

    Best Expansion: Rising Tide



    In the coldness of mid December of 2008 I was playing a single player game quite heavily when I came across a bug that meant I had to stop playing while I waited for the developers to fix it. During that time I decided I would try to play an MMORPG and after searching the internet for one that would fit, I decided to give PWI a go. I decided to start on Sanctuary, current Twilight Temple server, and came across a nice guild. Still keep in contact with some of them even if that guild is gone since over 5 years now. My first character was a barb because I wanted to be tanky but in all honesty I did not do very well on that, and later on found that caster classes are a better fit for me. I might have started PWI because of an accident but now it is 2015 and I am still around.

    When the EU server started up I decided to move to there and currently my main is SannaForYou which is a stormbringer. Still using the same account from 2008 even if the Dawnglory server is my main hunting ground now.

    My favorite expansion would need to be the Rising Tide expansion because that is when I found psychic's and that changed the game totally for me. Still remember that full day of playing, trying to race friends to gain those levels, as well as the unity it brought the guild and the server, as people needed a lot of help and we all did our best to support each other. I think that was something very special and even if it has been mirrored in the game since then, I think that first big expansion with new classes was very special.



    Me and my favourite statue in the game. The fashion is a mix of after hours and school girl.
  • chary
    chary Posts: 850 Arc User
    My main character is Eoria on Dawnglory server.

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    A friend and I got married in-game and we both ended up getting Bubblefish pets from marriage quest. He named his Derpy so I named mine Herpy. egg-1.gif

    As for favorite expansion, it would have to be the EG expansion in retrospect. I didn't make my mystic alt, Frelia, until way later, but it was probably one of the best decisions. I had so much fun with her and she's been a very good moneymaker as well. I'm just sad I can't really pvp with her anymore due to all the changes since NH expansion which has to be my least favorite expansion honestly due to killing my altoholicness.

    And here's a victory pic from one of the most memorable TWs I did on my mystic:

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  • sheepclouds
    sheepclouds Posts: 81 Perfect World Employee
    Closed for voting! :) We should have both sets of winners posted by Friday October 2nd.
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  • srow
    srow Posts: 4 Arc User
    My character name is LoVeAnGell (cleric,my main now still),she was created in 2009 , month 7 day 4,server Harshlands (Downglory now)but i would still like to share her story .

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    And this is her now^^


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  • srow
    srow Posts: 4 Arc User
    My character name is LoVeAnGell (cleric,my main now still),she was created in 2009 , month 7 day 4,server Harshlands (Downglory now)but i would still like to share her story .

    photo 2015-08-20 16-43-07_zpsbykueuas.png
    photo 2015-05-19 21-06-59_zpsry7jfl8x.png
    photo 2015-08-01 18-56-55_zps92rxuuc7.png
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    And this is her now^^


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  • sheepclouds
    sheepclouds Posts: 81 Perfect World Employee
    edited October 2015
    Winners!


    Special thanks to Mintsummer and TheNamesDomino for helping with voting!

    The Winner's names have been submitted for prizes: virtual prizes should be received by next Friday. If you won a physical gift, please update your shipping address and phone number on your Arc account and your prize will be mailed with all of the others going out at the end of the month!

    First and Second Place (Ginger Tiger Statue and 1000 Free Zen)

    blademaster
    chary

    Third – Fifth Place (Ginger Tiger Plush and 500 Free Zen)

    zigheart
    Eternalghost
    celestial

    Sixth – Thirteenth Place (100 Free Event Gold) - We added additional prizes to break ties! :)

    Players who won the Free event gold, please send me a PM with your Server and the character you would like the event gold sent to!

    Killercow
    Tet
    Catgirdesu
    Bangbang
    Glassguitar
    Darkangel78
    Lobo63
    Yperoxos
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