I really enjoyed a lot of the old painful stuff
part of it was that as a rogue, you could wander around pretty much unmolested if you were careful
for some twisted reason, some of the things I found the most enjoyable were the recoveries from wipes
unless you're oldschool, you don't remember keeping a second set of armour and weapons in the bank that you could put on to go fight down to your corpses and start over, heh
I remember when Kaesora was new, and we wiped in the church
6 of us, using summoned armour, and old Ykesha's had to fight all the way back down and recover, it was awesome
also, having a good team of rogues able to drag a 50 man raid across an entire zone in under 3 mins was always something we used to take pride in
I think the big diff between successful guilds and the lesser guilds was the speed in which youcould recover from a wipe