The History of HT (A Discussion)

XylolyX - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Gen1 here. I started on Harshlands server and moved to HT.

I rolled a barb here and have never looked back. It was fun being a lowbie and even some of the 5X's and 6X's seemed like gods to me back then. I remember my guildie was a 54 barb and he helped me with a mini-boss, the bird that flies above Stairway to Heaven. He one-shotted the adds and 2 or 3 shot the boss. I was in total awe.

I stopped playing the barb seriously after I hit 91 so I could level my archer. Now I'm on to the veno to level her. It's kind of funny how when I was leveling the barb how people would squad to kill quest mobs and now it's not uncommon to see a 7x cleric in squad with a 2X of any class, helping with quest mobs.

I made a lot of good friends back in those days, simply from questing with them. And now most of them aren't playing anymore.

Same, I love being a Barb, but I can't see myself making an alt yet. There is so much to do still. I also agree on the friends part.....my old friends are gone......

Its just not the same anymore.b:cry

Gen 1 here (oct 2008).

I'm not sure I would want to go back to the days where doing WQ was a real ordeal, having to find every location on the map, from written notes. I remember having time do to my laundry, cook supper and what not during WQ and still, I wasn't finished. I must admit I'm a slow-poke legend tho, even today, even with Holy Path and maxed wings.

From the start I was determined to build a successful FAC and was hated for refusing to get rez and later, refusing again to level it above 3. Back then, every cleric was someone's pocket-slave and I didn't like that: BMs QQ'ing about their ticking charms was a daily occurence, party wipes blamed on the cleric (I only acted as a second cleric back then), TT mats unfairly distributed, etc etc. There may be greedies nowadays but back then, there were also quite a few scammers, KSers and well, bullies. But in general, people were nice.

I like how the game has evolved, I guess it suits any style. I still do my quests (tho I'm a bit behind), justice quests and general grinding. I only run BH's when I feel like it: I don't believe in power-levelling. Same thing with my lev 80 Psychic.

The only thing I miss is the charms at 340K.

Personally, I'd love a new server that was limited to the Gen 1 stuff (plus charms, fashion, newer mounts, and tideborn)

which means: old version FF, old version Lunar, TTs with more mobs, no blessings, no packs, no orbs over +5 through cash shop, no easy ways to get oracles, and not sure on yes/no for genies

Yes, I'm Gen 1 regardless of the current fishy state. Originally hung out regularly with djkinetic, Niefer, Phatius, Wintercas, and a few others in the original Evolution group, though I did mostly miss their original fishing days since I was averaging about 7 levels behind the bulk of my friends which would make me a gen 1 phase 2 fisher... When we were able to get full parties for fishing regularly and I'd sit there 8-12 hrs a day on scroll just taking whoever joined the group and if anybody left for longer than to repair/clear inventory in sumor camp, or a <5m bathroom break, they were replaced with the next person hovering overhead waiting for a spot to open in the fishing group. I remember Wargasm in wc bragging about being the first to hit 50 then being shot down by a level 53 who didn't care enough to brag, then people bragging about Blessing hitting 70 a week or so later while Dwodin sat there quietly at level 77.

The great days of pwi when people had to try so hard to get a cleric for the first dozen or so fb 69s that I got taken on my first 69 at level 42 and my second at 45 before I started actually grinding and leveling in earnest.

I remember Pinokio laughing at me on Lypi for using pdef shards in my 90 gear because 1v1 with a cleric in a duel, I'd usually lose by 400 hp or so then after I was in about 6 serious pvp tws a dozen other clerics in those guilds swapping their gear to half pdef shards because I was such a ***** to kill. Then 6 months later, BAM! Anni packs, and 2/3 of my closest friends quit because the game had become so financially imbalanced, and I'm still sitting here, dredging along because so much of the fun of leveling and earning your gear was immediately sapped out of the game at exactly that point.

Gen1.started as a cleric,deleted and moved to this archer.
I stopped for quite some time because of a major exam.
Ahh,I remember once where people actually WC'ed to see who was higher level.

Prowler - Heavens Tear wrote: »

My best memories would have to be of doing (non-simplified) Frost runs with just me and one other veno who was level 7x (Niall), and we'd be "borrowing" a cleric and archer to help us kill the flyers in the one corridor that had them then.

That actually DOES mean simplified frost runs... This means solo FF instead of squad FF (which was oddly built, since it needed 90+ to have even hope, when equips were at 85, but hey, theres warsoul at lvl 80 too...) I'm sure Lypi would be interested to comment on this.

Elenacostel - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Here are the ones that I remember.

Radiance
Elysium
TheEmpire
Evolution
Triad
Enrage
Tao
RoC
Something that starts with an 'A'. Arena?

You forgot Caesar and Assault and Legion well you forgot the others that they mentioned too. Lets see you forgot Belial and ..............who was that one that got the yellow terf down in the bottom right corner around Caesar's hay day? There are lots and lots of others :P but I suppose you don't remember them.

Enlighten, Legion, Roadkill?

TheCore got land once didnt they? and Ragnaroc got land for 1 week

Elenacostel - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Here are the ones that I remember.

Radiance
Elysium
TheEmpire
Evolution
Triad
Enrage
Tao
RoC
Something that starts with an 'A'. Arena?

Avengers b:victory

dragons

10 char

funny u say that, "dinosaur" had a land for sometime

devastation too .. at some point

I am the history of HT.

Rocky - Heavens Tear wrote: »

http://i321.photobucket.com/albums/nn382/3aaBrSbeeL/Games/2-2.jpg

first completed RB for me

hahaha I remember this!!!! Good ole redname too

Gen 1: Started playing November 08'. Was in TCE where I grew up. RoC, Evo, Rad, TE were tops in the server. Genesis, Elysium, Roadkill were there too...may be a couple I miss but TCE just fought with Genesis.

Saw TE fall apart while in TCE. Went to Evo around Jan. 09' after TCE fell apart...shortly I joinedEvo. RoC R***s Evo and 1/2 it's members lost. RoC tries to wipe out Evo while Evo is trying to hold on to land. I remember the Hong/Pepper feud. Joining Evo, Rad, or RoC was at 60+.

RoC disbands to go to ****...Evo and Legion fight and Evo sees it as legion ruining their alliance. Triad beats avengers and grows larger every week. Legion joins Evo-Evo has epic battles losing 3 times in a row against Triad then finally wins one against them to regain misfortune. Evo then loses many of their members (including me) at this time due to internal ****. Radiance already lost many members and formed Tao with many going to Enrage. Enrage takes over Evo and cuts off Triad.

Joined Tao in May 09' (Edya was very sweet)...computer crashes in June...came back and joined Partywipe in July...quit shortly into August.

I remember gold at it's lowest around 88K. GC's were at 250K (I remember the Charm packs being taken out in winter 09')...that's when it rose to 300-450K. Quit just before gold went to 120K. I remember grinding at Butterflies, fishies and zhenning at spiders. Frostland was annoying and somewhat difficult. I guess Lunar is hard still but seemed almost impossible back then. Being +3 or 4 to your armor was frikkin awesome!

I remember my friends in TCE, Evo, Partywipe and Tao. Miss you all and hope you're all having fun. Miss vent and funny karaoke.