Reminiscenting good old days

its subjective, but they didn't have to last long (hl or lc kind of long) for them to of been considered good old days in my eyes. however, they lasted longer than what you experienced them to be, that bit I can promise at least.

ok children gather around, story time.

there were basically two halves of the heavily debated "good old days" that was archosaur's pk. most of you guys, even the better known ones, only experienced the second half right before the fc era. yes most of impulse turned white right at 30 (it was easy to wasnt it, being the biggest faction), but that didn't mean you were a part of the several hour long wars that happened over the course of nearly 2 weeks. most of what you're referencing was probably scrappy fights over oracle I and II, not the fattys.

the first half started when ulmos left impulse and pulled a long illuminous, badboy and several others. they were trashing impulse members at oracle II when me nova yoshi, this one psychic in particular who was the same level as nova but hes long since quit (no not gayfish or mexy, i forget his name), and a few others, went to fight em. we started wiping them quite easily because we had all the best DD. about 20 minutes into our fight at anglers I just left impulse to join Asuras because I saw it as an opportunity to make competition. well it workd out perfectly because I basically neutralized yoshi and others so that it became balanced. well one thing led to another and anglers / oracle II turned into a 2 hour war with nova bringing safezone buffers and asuras getting some unlikely allies (gayfish). both sides swapped ownership of just outside SZ for a while, but for the most part Asuras won and ended the day in control.

this went on over a few days until our newly recruited, and lower level asuras members couldn't oracle I because impulse took control of it again and obviously we were #1 rivals so they gunned for that tag like ulmos did to impulse members. at this point gayfish had already joined asuras and we were quite stacked at the time. most of who people expect would have pked at these levels DID NOT.

so the heated pk zone shifted from anglers back down to hidden orchid. it was here, and after the 2nd tw, more people started to get involved in the pk. narla started turning white, kazamir nahktul ghost fluffy, etc. ravenz were fresh off a tw loss and came in numbers to at least do something right, epicbunny, parena, khyrstalize, etc. nova and his impulse lot, and of course asuras getting bigger with nothing but pkers as the days went by. anyway 2 of these wars in particular lasted, again, 2 or nearing 2 hours (straight). the other fights built up over time with world chats and guild chats of action. this is where some sense and truemythz even found their way to start having some early fun.


the people who fought in this first half of archosaurs pk know exactly how good these days were and that they did in fact last for at least 2 weeks.


the second half of archosaurs pk is where most of the louder people got involved because they finally got to a comfortable level (7x) and were equipping themselves well. this is the pk that you are familiar with martin, don't confuse it.

here the pk changed from anglers and hidden orchid and shifted to west gate and orchid temple. this is where your Ieaz, kirbies, vvasteds, pinkrbells, proclivitys, etc. FIRST started to show their face in pk, or at least on the regular. if any of them showed up in the first half of archosaurs pk it was brief.

as this second half exhausted itself out, the fc era was born. some of us kept pking and always showing up, charmed or not, but most gave up and hid their face in instances.

hey i may toot my own horn a litle, but Im a defender of the truth so it is what it is


and kat I come home wednesday. b:cute

Nahktuul - Archosaur wrote: »

Proski is correct in his explanation of the 1st and 2nd 'era' of PvP on Arch.

3rd 'era' of PvP on arch is nonexistent. Everyone lived in instances for the race to 100/best gear.

Fluffy, I totally remember that day. Impulse really did have a head start on everyone, it was amazing. Even more amazing is how Narla pulled through in catching up. We worked our asses off, but if it werent for Impulse providing that kind of competition, we wouldve been bored.

Honestly, a lot of us are long time PW players, either from here or other versions. We all have experience, most of us have had experience in many classes, end game, and *cough* multiple servers *wink*. I dont think anyone needs to get on the forums and flaunt for the sake of their ego. I think a lot of us pk'd freely at 30+, because thats when it was the most fun. No one had event gear. The only real person who was cs'd beyond belief was really ULMOS, and he provided sufficient entertainment for us all, imho.

I remember the first day or two, Proski and I were the only two that were sticking together in leveling around Etherblade. It was fun, the friendly but intense competition, and then duking it out later on. Remember when I was grinding outside of sanctuary Proski, and you camped me for I dont know how long? lawl

It really is about a reflection of how PWI 'used to be'. I wish I had the money to buy out PWI, wipe the servers and start fresh.

I really hope everyone is enjoying standing around gawking at each other wearing the same gear. b:victory

yeah nahktuul I remember all of what you mentioned. to add, I do recall some original narla members turning white even right at 30 so it wasn't fair to say only impulse was white. lickmypus was my first kill on the server outside silver pool, and then either her or another narla bm ended up killing me a few minutes later can't remember. before 6x-7x, it ended up being about a 5:1 ratio of white impulse members to white narla members before people got through the oracle I and II stages.

some other things I remember were dai_viper (i think?) dropping his 30gold wings on like day 3 lmao. crunchi_ the templar archer pking quite well, gayfish demonstrating white voodoo and tanking a bunch of 3x once he got his stash wep. aztec_god constantly having p.def marrow on b:dirty and nova buying rep on his psychic just so he had armors to shard for any kind of advantage haha


at the sanctuary bit, lol. one of my friends asked if I could come help because she thought she was going to lose her grinding spot. well didn't work out too well, all I remember was ghost was there too so i couldn't do much of anything but try and kite and wait for an unstunned/interupted moment to try and sutra. I think i just hit my sakys light then and both of you were in your 6x.

but yeah, compared to how raging tide turned out (the other new server), archosaur was 10x more of a success for what it did provide. people were fearless and in it for fun right away. nobody sat there thinking about managing their charms early so that they had sufficient funds weeks in advance in preparation for the amount of FC's they'd be doing. I'd like to think all the people who did nothing but play the game and pk instead of letting the game play them, inspired most of the server to at least for a little have some fun. (shout out to the early pkers, you know who you are). archosaur had moments over the first 2 weeks that truly did reflect on how pwi used to be before gear and ease of level separated the server. even after the fc era, if you were there at the right time, there were still some pretty big fights in dt and sp before it turned into nothing but west gate clique camping. and EVEN then, some of that was quite good. I thought the second pk event was a huge success as as well and helped motivate some people to keep playing archosaur. big turn out from impulse narla and bunnies that day.


when I come home I'm going to keep playing archosaur provided there are still FC's I can level in. but no matter how foolhardy it sounds , all I can say is if the opportunity presents itself again and theres another new server, I'll throw 100 gold in it and try and re-live the same moments all over again even if it is doomed to fail at some point. because to me, its far more worth it to do it big and to do it right when you can than to be one of these ninja cash shoppers who come up to 9x later after missing the glory moments only to have large accumulated wealth but with no one to use it on b:bye