Tell me about your best memory from old WoW, Sup Forums

Tell me about your best memory from old WoW, Sup Forums

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>never touched an MMO
>play in pirated version
>reach lvl 70 only using the best looking gear and weapons in a fucking undead warrior
>never know what stats mean

The day I stopped playing it.

Doing Duskwood for the first time. The original Legend of Stalvan quest. Meeting Stitches on the road.

The quest in vanilla wherw you have to free a baby griphon atthe top of a huge ass troll temple. Then when he is freed, the parents come to fly away with him. With the world time, it ended up being right after the night with the rising sun for me.

>The original Legend of Stalvan
my nigga

Reaching rank 14.

Hanging out in the starter area sending people out on quests to bring me back some vendor trash grey items and rewarding them with runecloth bags.

when i double clicked uninstall.exe

This and the profession quest that had you crossing into the depths of the other factions territories when there weren't flight paths near and graveyard runs were a bitch.

Every quest in that area with a group of people. Fucking collecting bloods in a group was a pain in the ass.

The day Mists of MOP launched and leveling a pandaren monk.

Hearing my friend tell stories about it and imagining it to be a much more epic game than it really was, never actually played it

When I stopped playing 1 hour in because the starting zone was so completely terrible

My best memory was that I never was interested enough to play it. I managed to save hundreds of hours of my life and thank God for that.

Doing the hunter epic quest after defeating Onyxia and using all my DKP the get the thingy you needed.

Walking to Stormwind from Ironforge at like lvl 15 or something because I didn't properly read the quest and didn't know there was a tram.

Yet here you are spending that time shitposting on Sup Forums instead.

>me and my gf leveling in stv getting fucked left and right as gay as fuck night elves

loved fucking just exploring in vanilla could be fucking brutal but still exciting

>He said, while wasting yet another hour of his time on Sup Forums

my only memory of WoW is my ""friend"" killing me over and over because I refused to play horde because I didn't want him to just carry me to high level and miss 90 percent of the game because he would refuse to make a fresh character

I pray to god every day so that he makes me stop going on this site

Raiding Ulduar when it was relevant
They haven't topped it since

my first epic, gauntlts of might on an arms warrior

most epic moment was BWL on vaelstraz and the tanks went down he was at like 2% and i yelled on vent SHIELD WALL NIGGA swapped my shit, tanked hm and we downed him

prpobably just nostalgia but it feels like you were your character back then, people knew you and things were more intimate

downing rag/nef or hillsbrad shitfests

I was horribly addicted to WoW from release day to a few months before TBC. Then my computer died, and I realised I could finally play something else.

Happiest day of my life. Even my marriage and divorce come second.

Doing my first dungeon with friends, which actually wasn't Deadmines but Blackfathom Deeps.
>our faces when one of us looks at the four braziers before the Aku'mai and figures "Oh, better light them all to open the door"
>WHOOPS
But really, we were going slow, soaking in everything, chatting, planning, having such a wonderful time.
Seyda and Marduk, I hope you guys are living a good life, wherever you are.

Doing Deadmines for the first time. It felt huge.
Then I destroyed the powder you needed for the cannon, figuring it was useless, accidentally fucking over the whole group.

>get addicted to WoW myself
>in a relationship at the time so balancing things with work
>co-worker tells me about how Everquest ruined his life and to not follow in his footsteps of fucking his relationships up
>years pass, marry said girl, still play WoW, working hard, etc
>said co-worker fails 2 marriages in the same time frame because he can't stop spending his time playing games
>to this day, he still acts like his life is better than mine

When i entered the dark portal for the first time.

I still get goosebumbs thinking about it.

Questing in Silithus in general
I was baffled when i later found out that this is one of the most hated zones by most people...
I guess it makes sense, i was 12 years old shitter during vanilla and never managed to reach past level 30-40 back then so my first top level heroes were in TBC and i think Silithus was pretty much empty and useless during most of vanilla so it makes sense that people hate it

Anyway, it was i had such a great experience with it.That cool hub city, those badass looking demon hunters in it that you see for the first time in the game, cool quests, great architecture of the silithid buildings, meeting Thunderaan, Prince of Air for the first time and in general, one of the best atmosphere in the game.That tranquil feeling you get from the permanent state of always sunset, those lush sands everywhere and yet you get that feeling of a huge threat always around you in the face of C'thun and the bugs.
I dont know, something in that zone just clicked with me, also the fact that as i said it was my first time im reaching high level and it was my last stop before crossing the Dark Portal made me even more hyped.
Good times.

Just first starting up the game and loading into Teldrassil, the fucking music, the atmosphere, holy shit.

Spending my first 20 levels in Darkshore/Ashenvale then eventually realizing everyone is around the Eastern Kingdoms and running all the way to Ironforge while 60 horde wait in Wetlands to gank you. Getting to Ironforge and seeing the huge amount of people, then Stormwind and seeing the huge amount of people and the Stormwind intro music.

Doing Westfall and Deadmines and being like "Wait how are Defias the bad guys again?" Edwin Vancleef did nothing wrong.

Duskwood as well and running into that grove in the center and seeing a fucking elite Dragon guarding a fucking portal.

Kiting Kazzak to Stormwind only for a GM to appear as we hit Stormwind gate and despawn him.

goddamn that looks so comfy.
>tfw you were too poor to afford a good pc to play the latest games
>tfw you were too poor to afford to play vanilla WoW when it came out
>tfw one of your first pc games was warcraft 2
>tfw you waited 4 years after warcraft 3 came out to actually get a chance to play it
>tfw you will never get to experience vanilla WoW for the first time
>tfw you will never get to have those fond memories of playing such an immersive mmo in its prime
these feels are seriously crippling me lads... it doesn't help when it seems like game developers are adamant to never make a great game ever again. everything nowadays is just sequels, cashgrabs and microtransaction shitfests.
hold me Sup Forumsros

holy shit bro, fucking upvoted :D :D :D

fellow slavbro, i see

>Human Warlock leveling in STV during vanilla
>It was 9am, the Gurubashi Arena event got triggered
>I already heard about the arena for friends, so I was already waiting by the stands
>I buff up myself, but a soulstone and everything, but it appears I'm the only one
>The moment the chest spawns I make a B line for it, but as I'm opening it, a NE druid comes out of stealth and kills me (Arena allows same faction killing, everyone has a special PvP tag there)
>While he's looting the chest, another high level player attacks him and they start duking it out.
>While those two bozos are fighting, I resurect myself because I had a soul stone and loot the chest while they are too busy.

I still remember the +5 stamina trinket you'd get out of it, and trinkets at lower levels were super rare.

>Old Westfall

HUH!

>2004-5 NYE, all the Horde raid Stormwind when it hits 12:00AM
>2005-6 NYE, All the Horde raid Ironforge when it hits 12:00am
>2006-7 NYE. All the Horde raid Darnassus when it hits 12:00am

It's actually kind of sad that I spent 3 NYEs not with friends out partying or having sex at age 18, 19, 20 but playing WoW.

>me and my gf leveling in stv getting fucked left and right as gay as fuck night elves

That was me ganking you, pick better races next time gaybois

it's ok user, we get wizard powers eventually

>being an Elf
>being a Night Elf on top of that
>thinking he can talk shit about other peoples choice of race

Spending a week fishing to get my epic mount while talking to friends in Ventrilo and watching TV.
Comfy times.

Wow, that sounds beautiful.

Playing on the Team Atom server with my friends.

Both Tirisfal Glades and Silverpine Forest were 10/10 comfy zones in atmosphere. Everything about the UD areas was great and my first character was an undead mage. New Brill is fucking cartoon tier shit and they took away the GOAT inn music at some point.

Also I really miss the world actually being dangerous and you having to pay attention to your surroundings. Depending on class pulling 2-3 mobs was a suicide at low levels and elites like this friendly guy could instakill you if you were careless.

life in eastern europe is suffering

>I was baffled when i later found out that this is one of the most hated zones by most people...

I fucking hated Silithus, but the same thing happened to me with Borean Tundra.Its probably my favorite zone in the game and i found out later that most people hate it.
Its so fucking good, that feeling you get once you enter Northrend on ship for the first time and you reach great Valiance Keep, the first time in the game they made a fortress town feels like a real fortress town...Than you immediately see shit going down with the scourge and you understand right away what is this expansion all about.Also, the quests were so fucking good, ive probably done every quests around 10 times through the years and never get bored of them.And holy shit, that diversity in the zone, it literally feels like microcosm of WoW put in just one zone, you literally cant walk more than 100 years before entering a completely new type of terrain and surroundings, while still being in Borean Tundra.Same with the enemies, you fight everything from giant undead vikings, to greedy poachers, to mad robots, to the scourge menace...
Also, it had hilarious quest lines like the Gnomish airfield, D.E.H.T.A. and the Murloc king.
The only part i didnt like was the Coldara subzone, but not that big of a deal.
Great zone, great atmosphere, its beyond me how can people hate it

Returning it to Best Buy and getting my refund for that battle chest edition with the first couple expansions after being bored out of my skull with it for the first 4 hours with it.

Classic really can't come fast enough
>All that well thought out dialogue instead of "funny" dialogue
>References to classic books, film and video games instead of internet memes

Also I fucking can't wait for something as simple as being able to casting a frostbolt to snare even if you spec to fire tree.

I did Howling Fjord the first time I played WotLK so it will always be the "good zone" and Borean Tundra will always be the lesser zone.

The scenic boat trip alone as alliance when you enter Howling Fjord is fucking great.

But I hope we can both agree Grizzly Hills is comfy as fuck.

>the first time you hear/witness Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer
So fucking radical.

That GM fucking Gandalf'd you.

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>life in eastern europe is suffering
Da.
More or less the same here, i wasnt poor tho, my family was quite rich, but my parents werent big fans of my gaming hobby when i was a kid, kek.
They thought that paying both internet monthly AND a subscription just for a single game was retarded so i was forced to play on private servers since early vanilla.First time i played retail was during Cataclysm when i was ~18 and started making my own money, but I fucking hated it and quit after a month.
I dont regret tho, i know i've played a gimped version of the game, but there was also something amazing about those private servers back then...Literally nothing worked properly, all the bosses and mobs were tank and spank since no scritpting, hilarious bugs and servers usually couldnt handle more than 100 people online, at least early on, but fuck, I still loved it and it still is probably my best gaming experience ever

>Grizzly Hills
One of the themes in the whole game. God damn, that song is beautiful.

>Also I fucking can't wait for something as simple as being able to casting a frostbolt to snare even if you spec to fire tree.

I just realized this a while ago. I was like "Oh no vanilla was cool and all but it had way less spells, how can I have fun when I've been spoiled by later expansions." but didn't take into account you get all your fucking spells at once except for like a couple you get from your specced tree for maximum utility. Feels good.

Everything you can imagine about how great vanilla wow was... it was 10 times that.

Howling is great. Even though it's silly, I liked riding the harpoon back to base camp. Also, auroras give me massive fucking boners.
Grizzly Hills is SO fucking good. The music, the appearance of it all, everything. On top of that, Firecracker Salmon is fished there, so if you're fishing for dem feasts you get to chillax and listen to sweet fucking music and just soak in it.

World pvp shenanigans on my troll prot warrior during early Wrath. I played since the middle of TBC but never messed with a pvp server or horde so I did both at the same time. It was fun as fuck leveling that dude, charging niggas and smashing my shield into their faces. And making a level 80 gnome mage one shot himself with spell reflect.

>But I hope we can both agree Grizzly Hills is comfy as fuck.
of course, this is probably the magnum opus of Blizzard when its coming to zone making, i havent played anything past Cata, but i still doubt they managed to outdo it.
This zone single-handedly made me want to get a visa one day and move to north USA or Canada where the same type of forests exist and live in a log cabin once I retire...
Its amazing that they managed to do such a good zone and in the same time place it right next to one of the worst zones they ever created-Zul'Drak

We used to call it Stranglethorn vietnam

My favorite is:
>dance naked to provoke aggro in thousand needles
>shadowpriest guildmate mind controls flagged newb and makes him jump off the cliff

y u do dis

>played tbc, city-hubs were used to chill and talk after a long day of questing/ grinding
>met nelf priest, turned out to be qt asian girl from switzerland
>played together every day for weeks and months, texted, talked on phone after playing
>sat on today's "no man's landing" and talked till the servers went offline for maintenance early in the morning
I had a crush on her, she wanted my attention/ company for some reason, some really good memories, lost contact over time, anyway:
>she introduced me to friend of her, girl as well, from germany
>she played same class as I did, helped her to perform better etc.
>she also was interested in exploration so we roamed around, walljumped into old hyjal, troll village above darkshore, old karazhan, under if etc.
Best memory was probably the whole exploration thing that existed in wow back then, to share it with someone is probably the best memory I have from this game

Played since vanilla, but my best memory was probably clearing all the WoTLK raids server first and being well known and respected as one of the best Paladins on my server (Barthilas if anyone is curious). It felt like I really had a community I belonged to and helped me escape my shitty real life. The game is quite antisocial now so it's hard to recreate that feel.

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I miss my old guildies

I'm sorry bro. It won't be the same when classic comes out, but I hope to see you and other newfags enjoying it all for the first time. I watched a few of my friends go through the same thing on some private realms. It's really something special.

>hordeniggers will never, EVER experience this for the first time

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being a newbie and not know what the fuck I was seeing and actually talking to them to ask about their character/their abilities/quests/environment

I remember standing at the dock at ratchet for boat to bb and seeing a tauren wielding thunderfury, blessed blade of the windseeker
I didn't know what it was but it looked cool as fuck and figured you had to be a GM to have that kind of weapon
so I /s to him "are you a GM?"

I think I was playing a nelf at the time so he wouldn't have understood me and I didn't get a response

I remember going to Howling Fjord hearing everyone was going Borean and did a round there. A buddy of mine logs on and after 5 minutes says "Dude you HAVE to come to Borean" So I argued with him that I was about to do UK and I heard Coldara was some dumb dragon stuff but he insisted. Once I came over there and say the man himself Kel'Thuzad laughing his ass off I knew this was the better zone.

When I got a weapon on my character but I wasn't able to use it because I didn't have the required weapon skill. So I had to embark on a journey through unknown lands to train my weapon skills. Asked people for directions and all. It was great.

The first thing I thought of when I saw WoW Classic was OG Brill. Now I'm even looking forward to going through the Plaguelands again

Not getting sucked into that time sink.

Why do you post here then?
You are the worst type of autist

Sorry to interrupt your nostalgia hugbox, fag. You may resume now.

Many. Getting my arcane reaper for lvl 59 warrior after months of grinding was probably the best. Orc with axe spec, in a 59 premade pvp group. Everyone focused on buffing and healing me, before the sweeping strikes/whirlwind etc combo was nerfed. Was insane, I wrecked havoc every wsg/ab. Reached rank 10 actually, which was hard when below lvl 60 in vanilla

bruh...

We have to preserve the memories. We have to inject the memories into the next of our kin so they may some day replicate the feels in a brand new video game using the newest technology.

>Roll belf dk.
>Meet another belf dk in starting zone.
>We keep in contact for months.
>Both level 80 and geared very high.
>Both our guild's raids are cancelled.
>Decide to hang out in game
>Go on skype
>Both of us start drinking beer in game and rl
>Get really drunk and start fucking around in alliance capitals.
>Running around naked in Ironforge being chased by angry ally players.
We did this about three or four times, I miss it.
Oddly enough this does not seem to be possible anymore, either I was stronger in wotlk or they bugged the fuck out of city guards because they one shot me now

Overrated zones tier list

Tier 1: Nagrand, Grizzly Hills

probably my best memory isn't really anything specific

once upon a time it was part of my routine to get up or get home from school, log into wow and say hello to all my guildies and friends who were online

I was probably leveling and would ask them if they wanted to do some dungeon runs or questing or something, or maybe just hang out and chat

my best memories of my life were when I was younger and went out with friends, by which I mean sit in my computer and play wow with friends

no longer in contact with those people I used to know, they all stopped playing as I did

retail wow just doesn't do it like it used to, wow classic will be just like old times right?

Tier 0:Duskwood

nigga I get emotional thinking about GH

>In Casual raiding guild as mutilate rogue (hated combat)
>RL is a bro NE hunter that sounds like a early-20's dude with slightly nasally voice
>Doing Karazhan and clearing ballroom
>He gets MC'ed by a trash mob
>Target switch faster than I ever have in my life and kill him.
>Stunned silence followed by laughing then him sputtering as he tries to articulate what just happened
>Every raid from that point on was us trading misdirect/tricks of the trade to try and kill the other
I miss that guild.

Grizzly hills is the only zone I never got bored of replaying and I have finished it five or six times.
>mfw the music.

Since vanilla, til i stopped playing in Cata, ive always played only alliance and never liked the horde, but theres something about this zone and i cant quite put finger about it...By all means, its a terrible zone, everything looks the same and its way too big, but it felt great.
Everytime i tried making a horde character i stopped after level 25-30 max and returned to my comfy alliance, but i will always have fond memories of this zone

I agree about Nagrand, never really got the hype about it, its basically a more boring STV, but Grizzly is great my man

>my actual face when I zone into old STV again

Than how do u know it wasn't as epic as u imagined?

...

How can a single town be so comfy, lads?

I cracked the sliding door in my room with the mouse when I threw it after failing the quest where you control an abomination for the fifth time.

Told my mom someone had tried to break in and the dumb bitch believed me.

>all that "comfy" talk
>no one has posted the king of comfy yet

Falling in the huge lava pit in Ironforge and getting stuck for 2 hours because I didn't have a fucking clue how to get out.
Sitting on that one roof in Darkshire as horde and killing low level fags until a GM told me to fuck off or get banned
Sitting in Warsong Gulch for two hours because the faggot flag holders would glitch and hide.
Dying every 5 minutes in Stranglethorne Vale because of fucking level 60 rogues.

I hate that place after spending hundreds of hours to get exalted with the Bloodsail Buccaneers.

>post-cata version

delete this

>until a GM told me to fuck off or get banned
What? For real?
That seems gay as shit

>zandalari and zulgurub in cataclysm

That was so fucking fun, it's was hard as fuck because only me and my cousin played so we had to queue and find 3 retards to complete our party and they never knew how to do the bosses

>Mr. Smite
>reviving unnerfed Helcular
>first complete runs of Uldaman and BRD

>Ragnaros server first-kill
>first character on the server with Zin'Rokh
>opening Ahn'Qiraj

>first character on the server with Gorehowl
>defeating Kael'thas

>tfw played runescape instead
>can relate to what everyone is saying about vanilla
are you guys sure it isn't nostalgia

>Sitting on that one roof in Darkshire as horde and killing low level fags until a GM told me to fuck off or get banned
i dont buy that for even a second
surely youd screenshot the blue messages, right?

>Post about Grizzly Hills
>Leave for groceries
>Come back to all this GH appreciation

>zandalari and zulgurub in cataclysm


This has to be among the worst patches in the history of the game, right?

>Handful of unique dungeons at the start of the expansion
>first big patch coming up
>devs are completely silent for months
>everyone assumes they're planning something BIG
>everyone excited
>patch drops
>it's literally two old 20 man raids converted into heroic dungeons
>they're on a separate tier from the other heroics so there's no reason to do the old ones
>stuck doing ZA + ZG for months before firelands was rushed out

Man that fucking sucked ass

>tfw Sup Forumsbros have the similar likes and experiences as you
>tfw you want to paly with them once classic retail is live
>tfw you remember what actual cancer is playing WoW with 4chab

why cant we make Sup Forums guilds lads, the cancerous trannies and meme spouting fucks from /vg/ are disgusting

Alterac Valley in Vanilla had literal no timer. and that fucking chokepoint.

I would spend hours on this fucking thing and love it.

>tfw had to go through my decade old Photobucket account to find my old vanilla pics