I remeber when ...

Ok with the new content coming out and with the number of founders dwindling I thought it would be a bit of fun for all those of us who were here at the beginning to recount some of the stuff we remember happening in the game. Things like the days before housing or when the bank vault only had 45 spaces in it. Things that have become common place now that were not even a part of vanilla LOTRO. Heck there are probably some of you that remember areas like Angmar going through 2 rounds of changes(lord of the boars anyone?).

So here is a great place to recount all you favorite things of the past before they change again.

To get it started I remeber back when the hobbit pushing a wheel barrel between the party tree and hobbiton was stuck. he pushed that thing from dawn to dusk and from dusk to dawn and never moved an inch. I felt so bad for him I reported that bug 4 times :)

I remember the first time I got attacked by a deer in Evindum. That was a bit of a shock. of course they would auto agro and not just threaten back in those days. There I was running through an area that was only 10 lvls above my hobbit mini and making sure to steer clear of the mobs that would agro and stay close to the wildlife that would ignore me and BAM something hits me from behind. I spin around all confused looking for what had uncloaked only to be smacked by the deer a second time. I tried to turn and run but by then it was too late. 3rd and 4th hit came down and I was dead. What a horrid experience.

Well that should get you going. You can all fill in your fun moments from the past. be they good or bad just fill them in so that when we get flooded by all the new players that are expected can see just how far this wonderful game has changed.

P.S. why do I feel like an old man sitting in a rocking chair. the only thing that is missing is the weekly trips to helegrod trudging through snow up to our waist up hill both ways. :p

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P.S. why do I feel like an old man sitting in a rocking chair. the only thing that is missing is the weekly trips to helegrod trudging through snow up to our waist up hill both ways. :p

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GET OFF MY LAWN, YOU CRAZY KID!

The good old days, before housing, before costumes, hunters ruled the world. No quest tracker. You had to actually run from one end of Bree to the other, and to Combe, but many people avoided Bree anyway because of the lag.

There was a neat time in the early stages when many weapons were unbound. You could use them for a while and then trade them to someone else to use. That didn't last long.

I do like that the crafted champion horns are still that way today. Sort of an honorable passing down of the horn. :)

Irememberwen.... (little joke there) :)

Hyper Helegrod Runs.
Getting up for 7:00 AM every SATURDAY (yes I got up that early) and running The Rift until mid-afternoon. Never did get the Balrog, well not before the inception of Retro Runs (Thanks Jeanna!), but had plenty of good times and fun with the Breakfast Club.
When my Main was a Captain... until at 50(cap) I decided to quick level an explorer in order to farm mats for my Capt's Weaponsmithing and thereby created my now current main.
Amarthiel... oh Amarthiel. When she ambushed me, yes me... all by myself! As it were we got a group together to go into Urugarth. They all zoned in, and I guess I was taking my time. Then something hits me. ***? I look around, and to my utter Horror its Amarthiel and Friends. Well thank you voice chat ... "Umm get back out here and help me guys!!" :D
Joining The Family... a mere few days after the game went Live. And look, we're still here!
Then: Ballad, Swing, Ballad, Swing... Now: Ballad-ballad-ballad, what's an auto attack??

This is a good idea, look forward to reading some more.

nehwrebemerI....

Popping Guardian's Pledge put me over 100% block. And 100% parry. And not by a little bit either.....
Thrust was the only Bleed a Guardian had. And it was never used. Cos it was really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really bad.
Unless you were a hunter, you couldn't move and shoot a ranged weapon at the same time.
The forums were flooded with "Insertnamehere is a node-ninja!" posts.

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Irememberwen.

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Was totally thinking that when I first saw the post. Taking part in Irememberwen's wedding ceremony was really cool.

Remembering the initial downtime of Sept.'07 when the population was super low, it was sure neat how kinships banded together to make something fantastic. Sorry about the Unite channel idea though, lol. At least it's still useful on occasion.

I remember when:
- The Old Forest was dangerous and you could get lost
- Etched Beryl recipes alone cost 2g+
- The bank was filled with keys
- Players gathered and manually jammed in groups by the Prancing Pony Tavern prior to .abc files (man that was cool)
- There were no 50's and everyone was learning together
- Shard hunting was something of a sport, and they were hard to get

All I can think of at the moment. Certainly wouldn't mind returning to those days sometimes. :)

Irememberwen's Barz impersonations

BONES! BONES! BONES!

Vent Lag for Yuchi..... In the middle of looting the chest from the Balrog, in Vent all of a sudden we hear AIRBORN!! AIRBORN!!

On my first Balrog attempt Arestor testing the green water in the Everseerer's room to see if it would kill him.... :)

"I am going to Mushroom a Ninja..." Theadus

Nalya being funny on a /roll and doing /roll 10000 and getting a 1 (have a screenshot to prove it :) )

VA Chicken run to Forochel Ghost Ship.... Stupid stealthed barghest...

Both VA Anniversary Parties. They were both a blast and a lot of fun.

Beating the Balrog and Thorog for the first time.... It was epic... :)

And MOST IMPORTANT.... :)

I remember when all raids formed on top of the stable in Bree before heading out...

EDIT: Have to add the VA Balrog Marathon the Saturday before Moria launched.... killed the Balrog 5 times in one day!

Month of the Hunter! We got HS then...

Winning the roll for the ornate key was as valuable as winning anything.

LFF'ing in Angamr and getting responses

Bogbereth was the only raid in the game

Hill Defender

Seeing LFF for Mini's, offerring silver

Lalia!

Taking the scrying pool to creepside and going wth??

Camping Snowback
Camping Hoartusk
Camping Sagrurz
Camping Gnashmaw
Doing constant cd runs from 48-50 in hopes of getting 8.5 done
It taking an hour just to get to CD
EVERYONE HIT GREEN AND RUN FOR IT!
...Fornost...
When I didn't have warspeech
Gold Selling LM's at South Bree
Replying to people asking WHERE IS SARA OAKHART for Book 9
That quest in Angmar where you had to kill crawlers and the drop rate was horrrrrrrible.

You young scally wags really know how to make an old gamer smile. :D

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"I am going to Mushroom a Ninja..." Theadus
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Oh I was on that run!!
That was the run that my hunter tanked the balrog. oh sure it was only for like 3 attacks and everyone else was dead already but she still tanked the balrog :P

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Originally Posted by Magnarr

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- The Old Forest was dangerous and you could get lost
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I use to skip it because it was such a scary place. There are some things to be said about mood and setting. Making it easy so that all players can "enjoy" it totally destroyed that feeling of dread. getting lost in there and wondering if you would ever see the light of day again may have been a touch frustrating but left you with a the desire to go back and master it. Now it's just a good place to farm medium hides.

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Originally Posted by Magnarr

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- The bank was filled with keys

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yeah now it's just full of barter tokens and rep items :P

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Originally Posted by Magnarr

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- Shard hunting was something of a sport, and they were hard to get

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Oh I had that down. I took a break from the game to go try WAR(big mistake) and at the time I was not sure I would return so I gave away my 3.5 stacks of Beryle shards(they only stacked to 10 at the time)

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Irememberwen.... (little joke there) :)

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Yeah I was thinking the same thing when I was trying to come up with the title. figured it would just be another one of those things that the old hands could get a little chuckle out of :)

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Hyper Helegrod Runs.
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Oh yes I loved those runs. Was the first time I got to be dps target assist. I learned that it would display what ever I had selected so there was no more rearranging my pack during the raid :P

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Originally Posted by Oznob

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That quest in Angmar where you had to kill crawlers and the drop rate was horrrrrrrible.

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I think it was 1 in 25 and you needed 12 so you needed to kill like 500 to get them all. heaven forbid if there were 2 people trying to do it at the same time. did that quest 5 times.

here let me add a few more to the list.

• Misty Mountain Silver(and that was the only place you could find it!)
• the horrid blue/green that all crafting mats got in one update
• spending 1.5 gold and a full week to get master Apprentice farmer
• Stocking up on Coal before the price went way up.
• Stocking up on Farming Crit mats before the price tripled(I think I still have some of those in my pack to this date)
• Dwarf iron was used in both tier 4 and tier 5 so it was farmed to death.
• Sneaking into Riv during the open beta(max lvl 15).

lol and my personal favorite
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Pz7i8au44s.../apple-pie.jpg
Pie!

keep em coming you wipper snappers

You got a discount for buying at the Bree Mayor's Office
Trestlebridge was attacked by Orcs
Hunting book pages from Spiders in the Trollshaws and other very specific locations.
The Maddened Hill Beast instance needed a full fellowship
Red dye needed Ichor (oh the farming)
Cooks could buy just about everything they needed from NPCs
Flying Pets and pets stuck on lamp posts in Esteldin
Lag so bad you could die by misadventure just trying to enter Esteldin
No Quest tracker or direction on mini maps and quests that included the wrong directions

Those were the days

I remember when...

I used to play. Thinking of coming back though... any CotS oldtimers still around?



Raisun 50-LM
Haisun 50-Burg
Naisun 50-Hunter

No guardian/warden arguments....

You guys do know we already have a thread for this -- and it's in the Hall of Fame? ;)

-Forjo

the forums didnt suck...

I see dead people.....

I saw Irememberwen Wednesday night :) Good to see him back

Remember the big beryl Shard wars when everyone wanted the 1 time blue gear drops from the instances that was dropping i do believe rep items?

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Remember the big beryl Shard wars when everyone wanted the 1 time blue gear drops from the instances that was dropping i do believe rep items?

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i won that war! thats how i got famous....

crafted armor was 10g

the exquisite radiance cloak was like 30g

helegrod gear when it had a rare chance drop on all random mobs lvl 57-60... and still sold for 30-70g

session play based on how many keeps they got...

warg howl being OP

Burgs being OP

hunter ports being useful and more then just a way to leave an instance....

summoning lvl 5's to the moors :D good luck little buddy!

I remember these days back in beta LMAO!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INke_dBTuws

Gnashmaw! Agh I still have 2 gnashmaw's tongues in my stash and I can't bring myself to part with them... people used to fight over the spawn!

Lethal Sharp Dread Webbed Turtle Claws!

I remember when they brought down Thorog for the first time right here on Vilya.

I definitely remember making tons of friends, some of which are still around after 2 1/2 years.

Becoming an officer in the Forsaken was a great experience, and being the rising star captain in Conviction for a little while*

(*until that time I blew up ALL THE HUNTERS fighting Thorog and my stock took a big hit X'D although nobody ever brought it up, I knew that they knew I did it o_0. How does a fear effect get through on a captain with muster courage and a stack of 20 potions!!)

I remember Thomass and the gold-farmers and competing with them for crafting materials.

I remember Forged by Fire before it was powerful :-D. Miss you Rutgor :'-(

Grouping with tons of kinships in the ettenmoors, fighting Skaithe's warg pack. The Oculus of Nex too...

I remember lots of entertaining drama on the Vilya forums...

Good times.

-Calidore

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On my first Balrog attempt Arestor testing the green water in the Everseerer's room to see if it would kill him.... :)

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Hah, I still use this as my "well at least I didn't do what Arestor did!" excuse whenever anyone teases me for DFing during the Balrog fight.

I remember a VA run when Kayowen's screen went blank due to dread while we were huddling up in the circle before the Balrog, and everyone was helping her with "turn right... no, more right... back left a bit... go straight... turn right..."

People hitting the advice channel in Evendim looking for the location of the boars.

Stealthed burgs on horseback.

Stealthed burgs motorboating across the lake in Evendim.

Camouflaged hunters learning how to move and stay hidden.

A certain kin leader publicly going just a tad nuts for a while there. I know, that doesn't really narrow it down any.

I remember when I first met Irememberwen.... :)

When they "fixed" the battle screams...
When no-one had been to Rivendel yet...
When you fell and actually limped. Now we pimp walk, haha...
When there was a lovely silver node on the side of Weathertop...that would kill you...
When dying from falling damaged your gear...
When your feet turned IN when riding a mount...
When I found my first elite~er~when it found me~doing the Staddle brigand quest, waiting in the farm for nightfall, and they all spawn on TOP of me...Surprise!!
When LM did not have a lynx...or DPS....or a res...
When I saw and fought my very first troll...
When we could go visit the happy little squirrels, and other off-map goodies...
When "small fellowship" really did mean not solo....
When everyone was waiting for housing and rushing to make sure to get a house in the same neighborhood as the kin....
When we could do the CHAIR TRAIN!!!
When I had to stop playing because the game made me want to watch the movies again...and again...~wait...that still happens...
When

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A certain kin leader publicly going just a tad nuts for a while there. I know, that doesn't really narrow it down any.

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Just a tad....

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I used to play. Thinking of coming back though... any CotS oldtimers still around?
Raisun 50-LM
Haisun 50-Burg
Naisun 50-Hunter

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HEY!!! "irememberyou" lol...Haven't seen you in FOREVER!!! How ya doin? ((hugs))

I remember when...
I could df in combat,
Back when etched beryl jewelry was 15 gold...
Back when I thought I was done pve grinding....

I remember when I could glitch one shots on my warg and kill people in rez circle.

Lulz.

I remember ... the laughs. :) the kindred spirits.
The OoN.

I was in downtown Bree the other day and thinking of this thread. Remember when the Bree crafting hall was where the jail is now?

I was in downtown Bree the other day and thinking of this thread. Remember when the Bree crafting hall was where the jail is now?

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I was in downtown Bree the other day and thinking of this thread. Remember when the Bree crafting hall was where the jail is now?

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Yeah, I stepped in the 'way-back' machine there.

I recall when the Glass of Aglaral, +3 Agility ring and the Scented Candles were semi useful. I also remeber when remeber had 2 m's in it. ;)

Ah... the good old days...

LOL

I remember when the kin Conviction petitioned our kin name and we were forced to change it from "Wight Trash" to "Kindred of the Damned"

I remember selling the first few pieces of blue crafted armor made on the server for 50g a pop. I am still living off that gold even after giving most of it away before i took 18 months off.

I remember the infamous cross burning in Bree \0/

I remember the first attempt ever at controlled one-on-one PVP. 30 minutes of negotiations, 2 minutes of fighting and then came the gate crashers.

I remember when:

when Rank 6 was a big deal in pvp

having Rift gear was a big deal

the gate to thorog did not lock so if you died you could run right back into the fight

camping rare spawns and getting in fights with people

when Evilspinner owned the moors

when Covenant of the Sword was still a kinship

when Level 15 items would sell for a gold in open beta

When the bow I have from Helegrod was the best in the game because it gave you power back

when Wig-Feld was dope

when as a hunter you would take a knee (instead of standing up like now) and only shoot 2 arrows with a swift bow

when people would solo in the moors because it was the only way to get good renown and now everyone raids up

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when people would solo in the moors because it was the only way to get good renown and now everyone raids up

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I remember when Exile failed to save Leca and he went ape **** on him!

I remember when Vilya actually read and participated in the forums!

Man, are these days lost or what?! C'mon people, keep the server alive! What the heck has happened? These used to be a daily fun-time resource for everybody. Soooooo stale lately. I think it happened when they changed the forums styles. We've GOT to come up with some new topics and get active again.

Please for the love of Oromë, someone post something new!

I'll tell my kinship to start viewing it more. Others please do the same.


*** Not at all taking away from the posts of Jimmly or Rekka.

I remember when Yoshii mushroomed a ninja!!!
I remember when the COTS/Conviction/Mellowship Feud was enough for any dramaqueen/troll
I remember when the Rift was the greatest thing going in any MMO
I remember when crafted gear was worth it and beryl shards were a by God fight to get

sigh... i remember Irememberwen, Hypercyril, Indecent, and all the old guys, man those were the days...maybe theyll come again

I remember when I first heard about this game more than 5 years ago...
I remember when I told my other gamer buddies I would still play their game too...then never went back.
I remember when I first spotted the constellations...
I remember seeing Weathertop from Bree for the first time...

./drink, cheers, everyone! To 5 more years of great memories :)

I remember when this game would cost me $.33 cents a day for all the content.

Actually I cant really remember that..nvm.

I remember when...
You had to buy a regular stable mount for FOUR gold. No specific morale, and no super-fast run speed. You had to travel to Hengstacer Farms to do the quests that took you to North Gate, Michel Delving, and Othrikar, and then do the race where you have to run around the farms in under two minutes.
Unless you were a hunter or had a pocket-hunter, it took roughly 200 silver for the stable rides BACK to Bree, and there was no stable to the farms! :)
Not only all of that, but the horsies weren't even a skill. They sat in your inventory, and if you sold them, you were a #### outta luck unless you bought them back before you logged out.

All of that, and I had all four ponies :) Now I have about 42-45 horses, haha!

It was so much fun reading all this.. It would have been awesome to see those times, but unfortunately I just discovered MMOs one year and a half ago when I joined lotro.. And I do remember some stuff
I remember when I had no idea what tank, dps, healer, aoe, dot, raid, fellow or stats mean.
I remember learning english while playing! (I still do that)
And I remember weekend CD, BG & Uru runs with Melnordan, it was so much fun :) I never found someone that wanted to finish that metadeed with me!

I remember when Vilya was the only server that had a warning at the top of the forum page about PvP trash-talk. :)

I remember when there wasnt 200 different kinds of tokens to collect.

I remember having a blast running The Rift on friday/saturday nights with my kin.

I remember Skaithe/The Scourge of Vilya, and Rekka/Southern Discomfort and Blackhate/Lockdown being awesome fun.

I remember the creep personalities, Skaithe, Rovok, Rekka, Kira, Ernik, Gazrah, Rutgor, Guka, Skat, Gizz, Evilspinner, Darkrage, spidergod, Redhate, Smegg, Wertes, Lheggs, Badman, and plenty of others, miss those days. :)

I remember Skaithe's "old man" and "Madonna" impressions. lol

I remember a bunch of other stuff.

I remember when ageon would make a raid and half of vilya would flock to the moors (on either side) for those couple hours

I remember when Vilya had a ton of different raiding kins

I remember when vilya had good drama

I remember when I spent more time at end game then I did grinding legendary weapons.

I remember when there was like 5 different gear sets that were considered pretty good (mix and match ftw).

I remember when I had to spend days farming sarnur trolls

I remember failing at CD and falling in the green around 30x in one run (lag and stupidity ftl)

I remember getting ganked by playful

I remember getting ganked by rovok

I remember being ganked by skaithe

I remember kira TRYING to gank me

I remember wanting to spend almost all my time playing lotro

I remember staying in the moors all day every day.

I remember a lot more about PvP...

Not sure if I posted before here, but I remember when the Bree crafting hall was where the jail is now.

And when dropped weapons were not bound.

Both in the WAY back machine.

I remember when I didn't have a 0 in my name :P

Also Raiding on Great Barrows, during beta because we couldn't advance farther then level 15.


OHHH.. And when the Lorebook actually represented the real name of who created Covenant of the Sword :P

I remember Teal shirts.

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I remember when I didn't have a 0 in my name :P

Also Raiding on Great Barrows, during beta because we couldn't advance farther then level 15.


OHHH.. And when the Lorebook actually represented the real name of who created Covenant of the Sword :P

I remember Teal shirts.

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Speaking of the way-back machine. Welcome back Fangnon! Been years.

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Originally Posted by Teklord

Irememberwen.... (little joke there) :)

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Also, Irecallwen I was talking to 'wen in kin chat about how useful it might be to have multi-kin raid runs since it was hard to find enough people online in our kin to do the rift, It would be an an alliance of the free people of sorts - or Vilya United...

The concept is long gone to the best of my knowledge but the channel remains...

God save us all, lol.

Also, The GM run defence of trestlebridge (http://www.mmo-stories.org/stories/l...fun_and_games/) was good times.

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Also, Irecallwen I was talking to 'wen in kin chat about how useful it might be to have multi-kin raid runs since it was hard to find enough people online in our kin to do the rift, It would be an an alliance of the free people of sorts - or Vilya United...

The concept is long gone to the best of my knowledge but the channel remains...

God save us all, lol.

Also, The GM run defence of trestlebridge (http://www.mmo-stories.org/stories/l...fun_and_games/) was good times.

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Actually it's still active although recently unused since so many of the core became Star Wars fanatics last fall. Check the link in my sig.

And a "ha" on Irememberwen. Ironic name now. He was the third one to join that channel back in the day.

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I remember when Yoshii mushroomed a ninja!!!
I remember when the COTS/Conviction/Mellowship Feud was enough for any dramaqueen/troll
I remember when the Rift was the greatest thing going in any MMO
I remember when crafted gear was worth it and beryl shards were a by God fight to get

sigh... i remember Irememberwen, Hypercyril, Indecent, and all the old guys, man those were the days...maybe theyll come again

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I might, reading this makes me realize of all the games since, the best gaming of my life was with ya'll in LOTRO.
"I'LL GNAW YOUR BONES!"

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I might, reading this makes me realize of all the games since, the best gaming of my life was with ya'll in LOTRO.
"I'LL GNAW YOUR BONES!"

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Geeze Wen, it's been a hell of a long time. I think one of the first times we ran together you ended up winning that bow in Barad Gularan I wanted. I miss United runs so very much. :(

I wonder whatever happened to the Guild of Venturers group I got to know in the Rift.


-Marenwen, 105 Hunter exiled to Landroval.

Necro again!

Just wanted to let folks know I go by Caelixian now on most all games. I also have a youtube channel if anyone is interested, I do some Let's Plays and such.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj0...cEHxFfX1fl0S-w

Anyway, it would be really cool to do a 10 year reunion or something!

-Wen

I'm just here so I won't get fined.