I just wanted to put in a good work for posterity's sake. These folks were my heroes when I first started way back before snowbeasts. I have been gone on and off and have had well over a hundred lowbies over the years. I really enjoy the first ten to twenty circles before it becomes a daily grind. So I can't even remember my early characters' names back when it took months to make tenth circle, but I can still remember after nearly fifteen years the effect these two had on me through their willingness to help younger folks and competence.
My first serious character was a gnome ranger and I remember Snare always lending encouragement and being one of the legendary short bow users back when fifty ranks was godlike. Zovyn was the legendary archer of the time with ranks in the 90s in longbow reachable in a couple weeks now but this was back when hlc's had to lie down in crocodiles and make eye shots to learn at all past a certain point. He was tops in both long bow and short bow in the days before scripting and lived the ranger life through and through. The old Lang ranger guild used to have several of his archery trophies. Anyways, sorry for rambling but just wanted to throw a couple of names out there that may be forgotten today but made a tremendous impact on players of my time. It used to be a massive accomplishment to reach fifteenth circle in any guild but rangers were extraordinarily difficult and the GM was something of a masochist! And then there was Wyeth, the first rezzing cleric... a nearly unimaginable feat back then...
