I believe I started out on HG. I remember rolling characters in Rithwic, then having to make the run to Eastham, since the Eastham beach was the "it" place on carebear servers to hunt. That was until OG mages became the thing, then it was straight to Qalabar to drain lugians, then the Disaster Maze to drain tuskers. Then mothereffing level 26, and I would get fucking war magic and get raped in the BSD because I forgot to bane my gauntlets. Ahh the good times.

I remember back in the day when the first guy hit level 100. Then the first guy maxed out at 126. Was so insane, because I always spent too much time rerolling characters to ever level worth a damn.

I never got to play Shadownbane. Always wanted to, but by then my dad wasn't happy that I played AC so much so wouldn't get another game like that. But find it hard for any games PvP to be better than AC. Pvping with a mage is epic.

AC was still quite the grind back when I last played. Not quite as bad, since basically every macros now, and usually noone would get banned for it. There are still some old school players that play also.

But you would probably flip out over the insane level of bitching nowadays. Most every battle is spent with people bitching that the other squad had 1 more man, or that people were pulling shields and shit. And I doubt it was like that back in the day.

Oh they even do live events sometimes still. Usually they would have an envoy playing on Bael, running around fighting throughout the major areas.