Vanilla WoW players - how well did you do?
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I think i picked this up about 6 months after it launched and was hooked from the get go, every possible second i had spare, i was levelling my orc warrior!
I have fond memories of not knowing what tanking was but constantly being whispered asking for dungeons so it was a decent learning curve then as the community seemed 100% better than the scum thats present today.
I managed to clear everything up to BWL in vanilla where we were still progressing when Burning Crusade hit, which i was quite miffed with myself as if i had started at release i would have tried to get into a naxx guild as i had a lot more time to dedicate to the game and from the videos i used to watch, naxx looked fantastic!
After that i raided through the game up to ICC but after wotlk i lost interest in it though i did join a guild in cata to clear demon soul.
Now im in a very casual guild raiding in Mop but i have to say the games certainly lost its appeal, i mainly log on for the social side of things now and levelling various characters
I have fond memories of not knowing what tanking was but constantly being whispered asking for dungeons so it was a decent learning curve then as the community seemed 100% better than the scum thats present today.
I managed to clear everything up to BWL in vanilla where we were still progressing when Burning Crusade hit, which i was quite miffed with myself as if i had started at release i would have tried to get into a naxx guild as i had a lot more time to dedicate to the game and from the videos i used to watch, naxx looked fantastic!
After that i raided through the game up to ICC but after wotlk i lost interest in it though i did join a guild in cata to clear demon soul.
Now im in a very casual guild raiding in Mop but i have to say the games certainly lost its appeal, i mainly log on for the social side of things now and levelling various characters
Vanilla
Started 2 weeks after Euro Release, 25th Feb (pay day!), had badgered a mate to buy the game and he was in from day one. Joined the server he was on, Turylon from memory, and rolled a human lock, he was late 20’s at this point, after clearing all quests in Elwynn Forest I was still only level 5 (that’ll teach me to be in a grp with a guy 25 levels above me), so rolled a Dwarf priest. Got him to mid 20’s and the end of the free month and jacked it in as it wasn’t a patch on my previous MMO (EQ).
Came back a few months later, same mate and rolled on a dwarf Paladin on Sunstrider. Got to 54 from memory & was in the same guild all the way through, Addicts I think it was called. The 60’s they had all wanted to raid so after much Guild Drama, the majority split off and formed their own guild, Elite Addicts or something – guild failed (I laughed). Mate left the game due to bordem so I rolled Horde on Twisting Nether with 4 RL friends that had been playing Alliance on another server. Rolled a priest, Hunter and Rogue (hunter was due to meeting this horde hunter in Tanaris on my paladin and getting my ass handed to me, dude knew how to kite, I couldn’t get close to him), Rogue was due to the World of Roguecraft vids and would eventually become my pvp twink who was sat at 29 for years, damn fun times (this was when bg’s were brand new & didn’t give xp). Hunter gave me some great World PvP memories too from taking down a priest 9 levels higher than me to the 5 of us in our 40’s taking out a level 60 to me destroying 2 rogues in an AB at cap.
Priest was my ‘main’, we formed our own little guild, and closer to the end of the vanilla lifecycle, joined a small alliance of other guilds so we could do some raiding, only did ZG, Ony, some MC and stepped into BWL.
Burning Crusade
TBC came along and I only lasted about a month again before jacking it in, 6 months later though my original RL mate that I started with badgered me to resub, so rolled a Rogue again on a new server, Aerie Peak, joined a guild called Hard Warriors levelling up very slowly (just loved pvp so would spend a month or 2 at the end of each bracket just doing bg’s )and did some raiding with them but they weren’t progressing and with the GL being a bit of a tit a bunch of us got to together, left and formed our own of which I was the GL. Raided casually tail end of BC and then came WotLK.
Lich King
Guild was progressing along nicely, people levelled well and we dropped to 2 10 man teams as we had some guys leave to the bigger guilds on the server. We were farming Naxx from memory when the officers decided they wanted to become a 25 man again, personally I didn’t think we could get the numbers and after much internal debate I stepped down and left (went back 6 months later and found the guild dead, they couldn’t recruit the additional folks so people left for other guilds, sad as it was a great guild with great people and I’m still in touch with other members).
Anyway, jumped to another server, Saurfang, joined another guild, levelling another priest, but at 60 decided I wanted some Paladin fun, so transferred my original paladin over, Guild was awesome and we were powering through the LK raids when some guild drama caused the guild to fall apart – long story short there were 2 GL’s, one of them wanted to bang a female member, her brother cracked on with some racist **** one night to which I kicked him out, he whinged to horny GL & got invited back – mass exodus of people and guild died. Joined another guild and got a HC Lich King kill just before expansion hit.
Cata (or the death of WoW)
Yuk, horrible. Killed everything that made the game great, quit after a month and only came back when Overachievers formed, had to leave half way through their BC phase though, destroyed my account and everything
Mists
Bought the game again just before xmas 2012 as I heard about the changes to allow the majority of older raids being solable, rolled a dwarf DK as they are the class to solo raids with, spanked through the old content on my own, chilling having fun and joined another reroll, Reminisce, that fell apart as the majority of rerolls do, so levelled a panda shammy on Shadowsong. I’ve now seen all the raid content mists has to offer on either Flex/LFR or Normal modes, so just chilling and levelling a Horde priest on Chamber with other OCUK guys. In a bit of a funk again, so am taking things easy – I’ve just got the loom daggers though with the intention of having an undead rogue for pvp levelling fun (just need to enchant them now
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Started 2 weeks after Euro Release, 25th Feb (pay day!), had badgered a mate to buy the game and he was in from day one. Joined the server he was on, Turylon from memory, and rolled a human lock, he was late 20’s at this point, after clearing all quests in Elwynn Forest I was still only level 5 (that’ll teach me to be in a grp with a guy 25 levels above me), so rolled a Dwarf priest. Got him to mid 20’s and the end of the free month and jacked it in as it wasn’t a patch on my previous MMO (EQ).
Came back a few months later, same mate and rolled on a dwarf Paladin on Sunstrider. Got to 54 from memory & was in the same guild all the way through, Addicts I think it was called. The 60’s they had all wanted to raid so after much Guild Drama, the majority split off and formed their own guild, Elite Addicts or something – guild failed (I laughed). Mate left the game due to bordem so I rolled Horde on Twisting Nether with 4 RL friends that had been playing Alliance on another server. Rolled a priest, Hunter and Rogue (hunter was due to meeting this horde hunter in Tanaris on my paladin and getting my ass handed to me, dude knew how to kite, I couldn’t get close to him), Rogue was due to the World of Roguecraft vids and would eventually become my pvp twink who was sat at 29 for years, damn fun times (this was when bg’s were brand new & didn’t give xp). Hunter gave me some great World PvP memories too from taking down a priest 9 levels higher than me to the 5 of us in our 40’s taking out a level 60 to me destroying 2 rogues in an AB at cap.
Priest was my ‘main’, we formed our own little guild, and closer to the end of the vanilla lifecycle, joined a small alliance of other guilds so we could do some raiding, only did ZG, Ony, some MC and stepped into BWL.
Burning Crusade
TBC came along and I only lasted about a month again before jacking it in, 6 months later though my original RL mate that I started with badgered me to resub, so rolled a Rogue again on a new server, Aerie Peak, joined a guild called Hard Warriors levelling up very slowly (just loved pvp so would spend a month or 2 at the end of each bracket just doing bg’s )and did some raiding with them but they weren’t progressing and with the GL being a bit of a tit a bunch of us got to together, left and formed our own of which I was the GL. Raided casually tail end of BC and then came WotLK.
Lich King
Guild was progressing along nicely, people levelled well and we dropped to 2 10 man teams as we had some guys leave to the bigger guilds on the server. We were farming Naxx from memory when the officers decided they wanted to become a 25 man again, personally I didn’t think we could get the numbers and after much internal debate I stepped down and left (went back 6 months later and found the guild dead, they couldn’t recruit the additional folks so people left for other guilds, sad as it was a great guild with great people and I’m still in touch with other members).
Anyway, jumped to another server, Saurfang, joined another guild, levelling another priest, but at 60 decided I wanted some Paladin fun, so transferred my original paladin over, Guild was awesome and we were powering through the LK raids when some guild drama caused the guild to fall apart – long story short there were 2 GL’s, one of them wanted to bang a female member, her brother cracked on with some racist **** one night to which I kicked him out, he whinged to horny GL & got invited back – mass exodus of people and guild died. Joined another guild and got a HC Lich King kill just before expansion hit.
Cata (or the death of WoW)
Yuk, horrible. Killed everything that made the game great, quit after a month and only came back when Overachievers formed, had to leave half way through their BC phase though, destroyed my account and everything
Mists
Bought the game again just before xmas 2012 as I heard about the changes to allow the majority of older raids being solable, rolled a dwarf DK as they are the class to solo raids with, spanked through the old content on my own, chilling having fun and joined another reroll, Reminisce, that fell apart as the majority of rerolls do, so levelled a panda shammy on Shadowsong. I’ve now seen all the raid content mists has to offer on either Flex/LFR or Normal modes, so just chilling and levelling a Horde priest on Chamber with other OCUK guys. In a bit of a funk again, so am taking things easy – I’ve just got the loom daggers though with the intention of having an undead rogue for pvp levelling fun (just need to enchant them now
)
Vanilla - I was a few weeks late into the game, but played a rogue. Leveled up to 60 and found a few friends, we created a guild together on Haomarush. One thing led to another, and before long, we had "absorbed" a whole bunch of smaller guilds into our own and started raiding.
Nothing special to write home here about, we wern't cutting edge raiders, and our progress was steady, working our way through the raids. The first *big* guild moment came when we got our first thunderfury, which, went to a rogue
Quite litterally we must have had the entire realm turn up to kill thunderaan, it was epic.
Moving up through BWL and AQ40 nothing much to note, then we hit naxx, oh the resistance gear grinding... even now makes me shudder thinking of it.
Basically cleared everything through to the 4 horsemen, never got the kill before the TBC patch and everyone went to battlegrounds for the easy epic gear.
Only other point of mention was I helped a friend grind high warlord on his warrior. We litterally played shifts, for 7 days a week, 24 hours a day... on the final week he needed.
TBC
We started off strong, clearing heroics, getting attunements sorted etc. Early raids such as kara, gruul, mag were easy. We got all the doom lord and lootreaver kills also on our realm.
SSC was hard for us as we geared our tanks up for the hydros resistance gear, then the main tank got banned. FML.
Finding a new good tank at this point was pretty hard, but we managed eventually by absorbing another guild and their top players, and then powered through TK and SSC pretty quickly. Never saw ashes drop in TBC.
Hyjal was fun, we had a maintank pala who just carried us on this. It was also here I re-rolled to priest. Cleared Hyjal and went BT. Again, we had solid steady progress, nothing to write home about, apart from on our first and third illidin kills, got warglaives, first on the realm to have a complete set (yes we used the loot table bug to get them, get over it
)
After farming BT for months, and even started selling warglaives for IRL cash to buyers, Sunwell came.
At sunwell we had had a lot of player turnover in BT, and didn't realise how low quality our roster had got, never killed brutalus, the guild disbanded and I transfered realm to a new guild who was progressing on felmyst.
We did alright, getting upto muru.... oh muru... killer of guilds... now that was an AMAZING fight of fights as a healer, I loved it, CoH spam anyone? KJ was also, simply an amazing fight, we were one of the top guild at the time who got KJ down after the soul flay nerf. I was one of the people at WWI08, who gave a small demo of priest healing in sunwell
WotLK.
Having played DK at WWI08, I knew I was re-rolling DK. So I did.
Joined up with The Legacy, cleared WotLK upto the end of Ulduar with top world ranks, then the guild disbanded (or good as). Got all the realm firsts, deaths demise, celestial defender etc etc etc.
Joined up with Apex for ToC and ICC, I was the first DK in the world to reach maximum gearscore. S'mourne + full heroic items.
Cata - I played half heartedly, it was ****. Still got good ranks, joined method, finished the game and then quit due to how boring it was.
Mists - Came back and joined up with some friends, we did alright, top 50 world upto ToT. Again nothing to write home about.
Now playing on a new guild on EU-Ragnaros. It's a guild of top quality players who want solid, good progress on a normal schedule. On our second week of forming and raiding SoO we downed heroic garrosh 25 man, taking the realm first.
Looking forward to WoD, we are looking to realy get noticed as a top 10 (25/20) guild, which works for people on a 9-5 job
Nothing special to write home here about, we wern't cutting edge raiders, and our progress was steady, working our way through the raids. The first *big* guild moment came when we got our first thunderfury, which, went to a rogue
Quite litterally we must have had the entire realm turn up to kill thunderaan, it was epic.Moving up through BWL and AQ40 nothing much to note, then we hit naxx, oh the resistance gear grinding... even now makes me shudder thinking of it.
Basically cleared everything through to the 4 horsemen, never got the kill before the TBC patch and everyone went to battlegrounds for the easy epic gear.
Only other point of mention was I helped a friend grind high warlord on his warrior. We litterally played shifts, for 7 days a week, 24 hours a day... on the final week he needed.
TBC
We started off strong, clearing heroics, getting attunements sorted etc. Early raids such as kara, gruul, mag were easy. We got all the doom lord and lootreaver kills also on our realm.
SSC was hard for us as we geared our tanks up for the hydros resistance gear, then the main tank got banned. FML.
Finding a new good tank at this point was pretty hard, but we managed eventually by absorbing another guild and their top players, and then powered through TK and SSC pretty quickly. Never saw ashes drop in TBC.
Hyjal was fun, we had a maintank pala who just carried us on this. It was also here I re-rolled to priest. Cleared Hyjal and went BT. Again, we had solid steady progress, nothing to write home about, apart from on our first and third illidin kills, got warglaives, first on the realm to have a complete set (yes we used the loot table bug to get them, get over it
)After farming BT for months, and even started selling warglaives for IRL cash to buyers, Sunwell came.
At sunwell we had had a lot of player turnover in BT, and didn't realise how low quality our roster had got, never killed brutalus, the guild disbanded and I transfered realm to a new guild who was progressing on felmyst.
We did alright, getting upto muru.... oh muru... killer of guilds... now that was an AMAZING fight of fights as a healer, I loved it, CoH spam anyone? KJ was also, simply an amazing fight, we were one of the top guild at the time who got KJ down after the soul flay nerf. I was one of the people at WWI08, who gave a small demo of priest healing in sunwell
WotLK.
Having played DK at WWI08, I knew I was re-rolling DK. So I did.
Joined up with The Legacy, cleared WotLK upto the end of Ulduar with top world ranks, then the guild disbanded (or good as). Got all the realm firsts, deaths demise, celestial defender etc etc etc.
Joined up with Apex for ToC and ICC, I was the first DK in the world to reach maximum gearscore. S'mourne + full heroic items.
Cata - I played half heartedly, it was ****. Still got good ranks, joined method, finished the game and then quit due to how boring it was.
Mists - Came back and joined up with some friends, we did alright, top 50 world upto ToT. Again nothing to write home about.
Now playing on a new guild on EU-Ragnaros. It's a guild of top quality players who want solid, good progress on a normal schedule. On our second week of forming and raiding SoO we downed heroic garrosh 25 man, taking the realm first.
Looking forward to WoD, we are looking to realy get noticed as a top 10 (25/20) guild, which works for people on a 9-5 job
What guilds have you been in on Argent Dawn?
I'm in a small guild on horde side; Duskhoof Tribe. It's run by the guys I mentioned in my post.
We're in a guild alliance with The Undecided and we raid with them.
I started just before patch 1.11. Enjoyed Vanilla. TBC was by far and away my best experience though. Followed by WoTLK, then MoP.
Loved heroics in TBC. Proper challenge! Karazhan and Zul'aman were amazing instances too. I can see why WoTLK introduced full 10 man raiding. SSC was a fantastic raid. 2 months of wiping 4 nights a week on Brutallus killed proper raiding for me.
Played casually in WoTLK and now in MoP. Skipped Cata.
The game was never the same after the guild I was in during TBC disbanded right at the end of that expansion. With the introduction of cross realm and dungeon\raid finder the standard of behaviour dropped massively. Now it is a cretin fest. There used to be proper community on each server.
No faction change, no name change, no server transfer. Guilds had blacklists for people who acted like dicks. Created great communities. You recognised everyone on your server. We even met up with the Horde guys for drinks in Newcastle a few time.
Loved heroics in TBC. Proper challenge! Karazhan and Zul'aman were amazing instances too. I can see why WoTLK introduced full 10 man raiding. SSC was a fantastic raid. 2 months of wiping 4 nights a week on Brutallus killed proper raiding for me.
Played casually in WoTLK and now in MoP. Skipped Cata.
The game was never the same after the guild I was in during TBC disbanded right at the end of that expansion. With the introduction of cross realm and dungeon\raid finder the standard of behaviour dropped massively. Now it is a cretin fest. There used to be proper community on each server.
No faction change, no name change, no server transfer. Guilds had blacklists for people who acted like dicks. Created great communities. You recognised everyone on your server. We even met up with the Horde guys for drinks in Newcastle a few time.
Been in since the start mate, pretty much.
Vanilla - I was a few weeks late into the game, but played a rogue. Leveled up to 60 and found a few friends, we created a guild together on Haomarush. One thing led to another, and before long, we had "absorbed" a whole bunch of smaller guilds into our own and started raiding.
Nothing special to write home here about, we wern't cutting edge raiders, and our progress was steady, working our way through the raids. The first *big* guild moment came when we got our first thunderfury, which, went to a rogue
Moving up through BWL and AQ40 nothing much to note, then we hit naxx, oh the resistance gear grinding... even now makes me shudder thinking of it.
Basically cleared everything through to the 4 horsemen, never got the kill before the TBC patch and everyone went to battlegrounds for the easy epic gear.
Only other point of mention was I helped a friend grind high warlord on his warrior. We litterally played shifts, for 7 days a week, 24 hours a day... on the final week he needed.
TBC
We started off strong, clearing heroics, getting attunements sorted etc. Early raids such as kara, gruul, mag were easy. We got all the doom lord and lootreaver kills also on our realm.
SSC was hard for us as we geared our tanks up for the hydros resistance gear, then the main tank got banned. FML.
Finding a new good tank at this point was pretty hard, but we managed eventually by absorbing another guild and their top players, and then powered through TK and SSC pretty quickly. Never saw ashes drop in TBC.
Hyjal was fun, we had a maintank pala who just carried us on this. It was also here I re-rolled to priest. Cleared Hyjal and went BT. Again, we had solid steady progress, nothing to write home about, apart from on our first and third illidin kills, got warglaives, first on the realm to have a complete set (yes we used the loot table bug to get them, get over it
After farming BT for months, and even started selling warglaives for IRL cash to buyers, Sunwell came.
At sunwell we had had a lot of player turnover in BT, and didn't realise how low quality our roster had got, never killed brutalus, the guild disbanded and I transfered realm to a new guild who was progressing on felmyst.
We did alright, getting upto muru.... oh muru... killer of guilds... now that was an AMAZING fight of fights as a healer, I loved it, CoH spam anyone? KJ was also, simply an amazing fight, we were one of the top guild at the time who got KJ down after the soul flay nerf. I was one of the people at WWI08, who gave a small demo of priest healing in sunwell
WotLK.
Having played DK at WWI08, I knew I was re-rolling DK. So I did.
Joined up with The Legacy, cleared WotLK upto the end of Ulduar with top world ranks, then the guild disbanded (or good as). Got all the realm firsts, deaths demise, celestial defender etc etc etc.
Joined up with Apex for ToC and ICC, I was the first DK in the world to reach maximum gearscore. S'mourne + full heroic items.
Cata - I played half heartedly, it was ****. Still got good ranks, joined method, finished the game and then quit due to how boring it was.
Mists - Came back and joined up with some friends, we did alright, top 50 world upto ToT. Again nothing to write home about.
Now playing on a new guild on EU-Ragnaros. It's a guild of top quality players who want solid, good progress on a normal schedule. On our second week of forming and raiding SoO we downed heroic garrosh 25 man, taking the realm first.
Looking forward to WoD, we are looking to realy get noticed as a top 10 (25/20) guild, which works for people on a 9-5 job
That journey sounds awesome, wish I could have experienced something similar. Crazy how we all play the same game but can have such different routes/stories
Yea, my journey has been initially fueled by the fun with friends, at Sunwell it became more, wanting to play in better and higher ranks, obviously that peaked when joining Method as from there the only way is down.
Now in my current guild, its all about making top world ranking on a "casual" normal persons schedule. Its full of guys who played for Envy, Method, Ensidia etc etc but who have jobs now so can't do the 24/7 raiding on new content.
I started during the beta and played a warlock up until the game officially launched, where I then rolled a paladin and buddied up with a fellow paladin and later a rogue and priest for doing dungeons together for faster leveling. I got to level 52 and the quests dried up and I started to lose interest quickly. Grinding mobs for 8 levels didn't sound appealing so I ended up re rolling on a pve server as a human priest instead. Same thing happened again where I hit 52 and lost interest completely. Ended up being boosted by a guild that needed healers for molten core as barely any priests wanted to be healers at that point anyway. I ended up raiding with them for a few years and through various expansion packs, but I rolled a Draenei shaman for chain heal spam, that netted me a raid spot for everything. I ended up being given tonnes of gear for all three major specs of a shaman to keep me spamming chain heal in raids. Ended up burning out during sun well though as although it was pretty fun, the untuned fights on launch were just guild destroying. I took a break from the game and came back during wrath of the lich king as a gnome warrior, which I really enjoyed. Played as a tank and quickly geared and started raiding. I finished uldar as the guilds mt which was cool and went on to clear all content in the expansion. In cataclysm though I didn't enjoy it at all and quit.
I started playing right at the end of vanilla, late 06. I started as a Dwarf Hunter on Agamaggan with some much higher Lv college friends. Had no idea what I was doing and all I got out of my friends was mixed and contradictory advice 
Slowly quested my way to 70 hitting it just before I went to Uni but having no idea what to do next except PvP. I got to lv 70 without even touching an dungeon and spending lots of time hiding from high lv Hord looking for low levels to kill.
At uni I lived with a house mate who played a bit, so new character and server, BE Mage on Wildhammer. Was levelling with him when WotLK was released. Hit 80 between Christmas and new year 2008. Took a 6 month break and started playing again in summer 09, still had very little idea of what to do at lv 80 so started another new character on Wildhammer, a Gnome Mage, got this guy up to 80 quite quickly but again life got in the way an I ended up taking another 6-8 month break. Came back to it early summer 09 and joined a small raiding guild for ICC, really enjoying my evenings spent raiding, although I seemed to be the guild bad luck charm, we could never down the Lich King with me there (it was not my fault either). I finally did the LK about 2 or 3 days before cata was released and at around that time the guild sort of fell to pieces.
Got to 85 but I never enjoyed Cata for end game content, the 5 mans at time were stupidly difficult for PUG groups to the point of maybe getting 1/2 in 5 succeeding combined with the mentality of some player on dungeon finder it became very unpleasant, and I didn't enjoy the raids with my new guild that much either. Stopped playing just after the Firelands raid was released.
I do miss playing sometimes and from time to time I contemplate going back, but I sort of know that with the direction that the game is taking I will never enjoy it as much as I did back in WotLK days.
Slowly quested my way to 70 hitting it just before I went to Uni but having no idea what to do next except PvP. I got to lv 70 without even touching an dungeon and spending lots of time hiding from high lv Hord looking for low levels to kill.
At uni I lived with a house mate who played a bit, so new character and server, BE Mage on Wildhammer. Was levelling with him when WotLK was released. Hit 80 between Christmas and new year 2008. Took a 6 month break and started playing again in summer 09, still had very little idea of what to do at lv 80 so started another new character on Wildhammer, a Gnome Mage, got this guy up to 80 quite quickly but again life got in the way an I ended up taking another 6-8 month break. Came back to it early summer 09 and joined a small raiding guild for ICC, really enjoying my evenings spent raiding, although I seemed to be the guild bad luck charm, we could never down the Lich King with me there (it was not my fault either). I finally did the LK about 2 or 3 days before cata was released and at around that time the guild sort of fell to pieces.
Got to 85 but I never enjoyed Cata for end game content, the 5 mans at time were stupidly difficult for PUG groups to the point of maybe getting 1/2 in 5 succeeding combined with the mentality of some player on dungeon finder it became very unpleasant, and I didn't enjoy the raids with my new guild that much either. Stopped playing just after the Firelands raid was released.
I do miss playing sometimes and from time to time I contemplate going back, but I sort of know that with the direction that the game is taking I will never enjoy it as much as I did back in WotLK days.
Oh vanilla <3
I started on Shadowmoon I think, it eventually ended up as a Russian team when they changed at launch of TBC but at first it was a good realm.
Plenty of good times vanilla and was mainly a pvper, got Field Marshal rank of my nelf Druid (just missed grand marshal fuuuuuuuu) and got Justicar title as well even though I preferred world pvp. Never really raided much vanilla, I saw it all as tag along with a great guild (whose name escapes me) but I mainly brawled around Tarren Mill and had some amazing times and memories. Battling for half a day to force them back to Tarren Mill.... Then the guards spanked you and you got rolled back rinse and repeat
Funniest was my first character a human lock I levelled to around 20 (you had to buy pet skills seperately lol) and I got a helm. It didn't match my outfit
so I deleted him and rolled my Druid not realising you could hide helms
TBC came round and this was the best for me. Shadowmoon became Russian and we all got booted to another server where the guild I used to tag along with twisted my arm into joining. At this point and on the new realm the guild merged with another to form Elysium our new guild. Became a raider as I hated what PvP had become and we were consistently no2-3 guild on the server. An alliance guild dominated (again name escapes me) and we were battling for second with an Eastern European horde guild. Amazing times! Such a good community I was realm famous as the best Boomkin alongside the one from the top guild. We used to have Boomkin dance offs that drew crowds in shattrath used to log in and get loads of hellos from the realm and by the end me and the other Boomkin used to run entry level raids for new players on a Sunday afternoon in kara/gruul/maggy to help new players.
I was ranged dps officer, a half Dutch/Scotsman the melee officer, a Romanian the healing officer and a Belgian the tank leader with the joint guild leaders Dutch and Italian. Amazing guild with great progress and have friends all over Europe now who I still speak with today years after leaving wow. Was amazingly eclectic and diverse group from our 15 year old amazing Polish hunter, to our 39 year old Dutch MD guild leader to our 66 year old English housewife who was our best healer (and whose son was a good pally tank in the guild!) Heck the Italian guild leader married a female player from Greece who was our best warlock and they have a kid now!!
Remember hearing the **** changes wrath was introducing and me and the melee officer spent an evening reminiscing and mocking wow for what it was becoming. Sure enough wrath was **** and that was the end for me and most the guild. The guild continued but 1 leader, 3 class leaders, and 11 of the 25 core raiders all quit at the joke the game was becoming.
I dipped back into wrath and cats to kill the bosses but I know the good fully died after wrath as it got dumbed down even further and I think from the 35 or so core from TBC there is only 1 who plays. Shame but some great memories I can genuinely say I wil treasure
I started on Shadowmoon I think, it eventually ended up as a Russian team when they changed at launch of TBC but at first it was a good realm.
Plenty of good times vanilla and was mainly a pvper, got Field Marshal rank of my nelf Druid (just missed grand marshal fuuuuuuuu) and got Justicar title as well even though I preferred world pvp. Never really raided much vanilla, I saw it all as tag along with a great guild (whose name escapes me) but I mainly brawled around Tarren Mill and had some amazing times and memories. Battling for half a day to force them back to Tarren Mill.... Then the guards spanked you and you got rolled back rinse and repeat
Funniest was my first character a human lock I levelled to around 20 (you had to buy pet skills seperately lol) and I got a helm. It didn't match my outfit
so I deleted him and rolled my Druid not realising you could hide helms TBC came round and this was the best for me. Shadowmoon became Russian and we all got booted to another server where the guild I used to tag along with twisted my arm into joining. At this point and on the new realm the guild merged with another to form Elysium our new guild. Became a raider as I hated what PvP had become and we were consistently no2-3 guild on the server. An alliance guild dominated (again name escapes me) and we were battling for second with an Eastern European horde guild. Amazing times! Such a good community I was realm famous as the best Boomkin alongside the one from the top guild. We used to have Boomkin dance offs that drew crowds in shattrath
used to log in and get loads of hellos from the realm and by the end me and the other Boomkin used to run entry level raids for new players on a Sunday afternoon in kara/gruul/maggy to help new players.I was ranged dps officer, a half Dutch/Scotsman the melee officer, a Romanian the healing officer and a Belgian the tank leader with the joint guild leaders Dutch and Italian. Amazing guild with great progress and have friends all over Europe now who I still speak with today years after leaving wow. Was amazingly eclectic and diverse group from our 15 year old amazing Polish hunter, to our 39 year old Dutch MD guild leader to our 66 year old English housewife who was our best healer (and whose son was a good pally tank in the guild!) Heck the Italian guild leader married a female player from Greece who was our best warlock and they have a kid now!!
Remember hearing the **** changes wrath was introducing and me and the melee officer spent an evening reminiscing and mocking wow for what it was becoming. Sure enough wrath was **** and that was the end for me and most the guild. The guild continued but 1 leader, 3 class leaders, and 11 of the 25 core raiders all quit at the joke the game was becoming.
I dipped back into wrath and cats to kill the bosses but I know the good fully died after wrath as it got dumbed down even further and I think from the 35 or so core from TBC there is only 1 who plays. Shame but some great memories I can genuinely say I wil treasure
Played from day one with a good friend at the time and we both rolled paladins.
Had such an amazing time leveling up..it was all so new and so much fun the first time. We met up with a couple more paladins while leveling up ane ending up all forming a guild together. I remember my first Uldaman run..it was 4 paladins and a warlock lol. Great fun.
One thing i hated though was being forced into being a healer at level 60 , especially for raids. I know paladins wern't very good damage dealers back then but i never realised untill i hit 60 and we started raiding that i would be forced into healing only and that got boring fast as it didn't suit my playstyle So i decided to turn to pvp instead. I think it was just crossroad raiding at first but once the battlegrounds and ranking system came out there was a group of us that pvped every single day lol. A couple of us decided to go for rank 14 and i became the second alliance guy on the server to hit rank 14 (the first guy was also in our pvp team) which was awsome at the time but also stressfull as hell. Especially the last 2 ranks which took so much effort as you had to basically play hour after hour to get it. I was at college at the time and the second i came home id be straight back onto pvp lol. When the ranking system first came out it was so much harder. They nerfed it pretty hard later on but i guess that was still the best moment in the game for me when i got rank 14 and got the grand marshall tag and all the armour and weapons that came with it that pretty much made you an unstoppable killing machine at the time in pvp. This was also in the time when there was no crossrealm battlegrounds which ruined pvp for me.
This was completely when it was server only and it was so much better as we kept on fighting this really strong horde team who were also going for rank 14 too and you get to know them better which makes it a better experiance for me. Its so much fun fighting people on your own server who you know than random strangers.
In the later expansions i mostly did raiding untill the arenas came out and me and a friend from that old pvp team went for gladiator rank. Warrior and paladin team lol. Worked pretty well.
Had such an amazing time leveling up..it was all so new and so much fun the first time. We met up with a couple more paladins while leveling up ane ending up all forming a guild together. I remember my first Uldaman run..it was 4 paladins and a warlock lol. Great fun.
One thing i hated though was being forced into being a healer at level 60 , especially for raids. I know paladins wern't very good damage dealers back then but i never realised untill i hit 60 and we started raiding that i would be forced into healing only and that got boring fast as it didn't suit my playstyle So i decided to turn to pvp instead. I think it was just crossroad raiding at first but once the battlegrounds and ranking system came out there was a group of us that pvped every single day lol. A couple of us decided to go for rank 14 and i became the second alliance guy on the server to hit rank 14 (the first guy was also in our pvp team) which was awsome at the time but also stressfull as hell. Especially the last 2 ranks which took so much effort as you had to basically play hour after hour to get it. I was at college at the time and the second i came home id be straight back onto pvp lol. When the ranking system first came out it was so much harder. They nerfed it pretty hard later on but i guess that was still the best moment in the game for me when i got rank 14 and got the grand marshall tag and all the armour and weapons that came with it that pretty much made you an unstoppable killing machine at the time in pvp. This was also in the time when there was no crossrealm battlegrounds which ruined pvp for me.
This was completely when it was server only and it was so much better as we kept on fighting this really strong horde team who were also going for rank 14 too and you get to know them better which makes it a better experiance for me. Its so much fun fighting people on your own server who you know than random strangers.
In the later expansions i mostly did raiding untill the arenas came out and me and a friend from that old pvp team went for gladiator rank. Warrior and paladin team lol. Worked pretty well.
Played from day one with a good friend at the time and we both rolled paladins.
Had such an amazing time leveling up..it was all so new and so much fun the first time. We met up with a couple more paladins while leveling up ane ending up all forming a guild together. I remember my first Uldaman run..it was 4 paladins and a warlock lol. Great fun.
One thing i hated though was being forced into being a healer at level 60 , especially for raids. I know paladins wern't very good damage dealers back then but i never realised untill i hit 60 and we started raiding that i would be forced into healing only and that got boring fast as it didn't suit my playstyle So i decided to turn to pvp instead. I think it was just crossroad raiding at first but once the battlegrounds and ranking system came out there was a group of us that pvped every single day lol. A couple of us decided to go for rank 14 and i became the second alliance guy on the server to hit rank 14 (the first guy was also in our pvp team) which was awsome at the time but also stressfull as hell. Especially the last 2 ranks which took so much effort as you had to basically play hour after hour to get it. I was at college at the time and the second i came home id be straight back onto pvp lol. When the ranking system first came out it was so much harder. They nerfed it pretty hard later on but i guess that was still the best moment in the game for me when i got rank 14 and got the grand marshall tag and all the armour and weapons that came with it that pretty much made you an unstoppable killing machine at the time in pvp. This was also in the time when there was no crossrealm battlegrounds which ruined pvp for me.
This was completely when it was server only and it was so much better as we kept on fighting this really strong horde team who were also going for rank 14 too and you get to know them better which makes it a better experiance for me. Its so much fun fighting people on your own server who you know than random strangers.
In the later expansions i mostly did raiding untill the arenas came out and me and a friend from that old pvp team went for gladiator rank. Warrior and paladin team lol. Worked pretty well.
Our 4 paladin and 1 warlock Uldaman run lol.
When i got the Grand Marshall gear.
Guild Photo lol
And finally when we slaughtered the horde rank 13/14 pvp team. good times.
Had such an amazing time leveling up..it was all so new and so much fun the first time. We met up with a couple more paladins while leveling up ane ending up all forming a guild together. I remember my first Uldaman run..it was 4 paladins and a warlock lol. Great fun.
One thing i hated though was being forced into being a healer at level 60 , especially for raids. I know paladins wern't very good damage dealers back then but i never realised untill i hit 60 and we started raiding that i would be forced into healing only and that got boring fast as it didn't suit my playstyle So i decided to turn to pvp instead. I think it was just crossroad raiding at first but once the battlegrounds and ranking system came out there was a group of us that pvped every single day lol. A couple of us decided to go for rank 14 and i became the second alliance guy on the server to hit rank 14 (the first guy was also in our pvp team) which was awsome at the time but also stressfull as hell. Especially the last 2 ranks which took so much effort as you had to basically play hour after hour to get it. I was at college at the time and the second i came home id be straight back onto pvp lol. When the ranking system first came out it was so much harder. They nerfed it pretty hard later on but i guess that was still the best moment in the game for me when i got rank 14 and got the grand marshall tag and all the armour and weapons that came with it that pretty much made you an unstoppable killing machine at the time in pvp. This was also in the time when there was no crossrealm battlegrounds which ruined pvp for me.
This was completely when it was server only and it was so much better as we kept on fighting this really strong horde team who were also going for rank 14 too and you get to know them better which makes it a better experiance for me. Its so much fun fighting people on your own server who you know than random strangers.
In the later expansions i mostly did raiding untill the arenas came out and me and a friend from that old pvp team went for gladiator rank. Warrior and paladin team lol. Worked pretty well.
Our 4 paladin and 1 warlock Uldaman run lol.
When i got the Grand Marshall gear.
Guild Photo lol
And finally when we slaughtered the horde rank 13/14 pvp team. good times.
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Thanks for all of the responses. I really enjoyed reading your journeys Plus, for those who saw Naxx the first time round - gratz! There were a few mentions of PvP. That was the one thing I didn't really do, except in Christmas 2006 when everyone stopped raiding for a week or so. I tried out the 3 different BG's. Can't remember what they were called but there was a capture-the-flag variation, one where you had to control 5 bases, and then there was a tug-of-war type game where you had to push the opposing faction back to their base. The TBC pre-release material also came out around then, so I tried a few cheeky arenas as well which were new at the time.
If you went from TLK to Mists, did you still have to buy Cata? I'm curious because I'm behind by both TLK & Mists and wondered if I need to buy them as well as Warlords which means I would need to buy 3 expansions.
Plus, for those who saw Naxx the first time round - gratz! There were a few mentions of PvP. That was the one thing I didn't really do, except in Christmas 2006 when everyone stopped raiding for a week or so. I tried out the 3 different BG's. Can't remember what they were called but there was a capture-the-flag variation, one where you had to control 5 bases, and then there was a tug-of-war type game where you had to push the opposing faction back to their base. The TBC pre-release material also came out around then, so I tried a few cheeky arenas as well which were new at the time.If you went from TLK to Mists, did you still have to buy Cata? I'm curious because I'm behind by both TLK & Mists and wondered if I need to buy them as well as Warlords which means I would need to buy 3 expansions.
I only did a tiny amount of naxx the first time round and I hated it. It required faaaaar too much time farming ingredients for hundreds of flasks and potions for even the trash. Raiding naxx in its original state was more like a full time job than an enjoyable game.
WOW was the first MMO I played.. I got it when it came out and not knowing much about it I rolled a warrior.
As people on the server started to hit 60 there was a "random" raid organised for Molten Core from those who were 60 and did the attunement.. I went along to the realms first MC raid as a DPS but shortly into the raid I ended up being an off tank and a little bit further the main tank.. it actually went quite well but I think we only got the first boss down but considering there was no voice comms then or readily available tactics like there arenow it was pretty good.
We then started a new raiding guild and in that I played an MT, progress was good and with realm firsts for MC, BWL and world bosses.. as far as I know I was one of the first in europe to get a legendary, I say that as GM's used to message me about it.
For me Vinalla WOW was brilliant, it was crazy tough as a tank as you had to keep on top of gear with all the resistance requirements, turn up for every raid etc and the schedule was pretty strict but the feeling the first time Ragnaros fell was amazing.
During that time I also played a Mage and Hunter for PvP.. actually thinking about it the hunter was so OP, kitted out in Full T2 gear I think you could 1 v 5 most of the time.
Although I've played every expansion since just to lvl and see the story, I stopped raiding on the first expansion as I just couldn't put the time in to it. WOW is now a shadow of what it was, it's been simplified beyond belief and there is no community and hardly any world PvP
I'm sure those who played Vanilla would remember the massive battles at the entrance to BWL/Mountain, great fun!
I'm gonna have to see if I can find any screen shots but I doubt I still have them
As people on the server started to hit 60 there was a "random" raid organised for Molten Core from those who were 60 and did the attunement.. I went along to the realms first MC raid as a DPS but shortly into the raid I ended up being an off tank and a little bit further the main tank.. it actually went quite well but I think we only got the first boss down but considering there was no voice comms then or readily available tactics like there arenow it was pretty good.
We then started a new raiding guild and in that I played an MT, progress was good and with realm firsts for MC, BWL and world bosses.. as far as I know I was one of the first in europe to get a legendary, I say that as GM's used to message me about it.
For me Vinalla WOW was brilliant, it was crazy tough as a tank as you had to keep on top of gear with all the resistance requirements, turn up for every raid etc and the schedule was pretty strict but the feeling the first time Ragnaros fell was amazing.
During that time I also played a Mage and Hunter for PvP.. actually thinking about it the hunter was so OP, kitted out in Full T2 gear I think you could 1 v 5 most of the time.
Although I've played every expansion since just to lvl and see the story, I stopped raiding on the first expansion as I just couldn't put the time in to it. WOW is now a shadow of what it was, it's been simplified beyond belief and there is no community and hardly any world PvP
I'm sure those who played Vanilla would remember the massive battles at the entrance to BWL/Mountain, great fun!I'm gonna have to see if I can find any screen shots but I doubt I still have them
