Any WoW old schoolers?

DampCat said:
Hate the current game. Vanilla was epic.

Arena and BGs destroyed World PVP which was ludicrous fun.
Travelling to Raids. Ganking outside guild v guild.
No ridiculous stats. No "pvp power" or whatever it is now. No rating, just percentages.
Sense of family in the guild.
Epic quests (Anathema/Hunter Bow)
low level dungeons still worth doing. These days grind straight to 85, skip all content.
40 man raids. You just cant describe the sheer scale of organising 40 people. So much fun.
Actual need for CC, although that seems to have been re-introduced.
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I remember raid camping :D

We used to start half an hour early to get an hours worth of ganking in pre raid :p only had peace with the no1 horde guild (cz and sk united I think they were called) the rest we slapped around :D
 
I remember giving it a go back in TBC. But didn't play much till LK went out.

My problem is all of the nerfing going on though. Hoefully Panda will put the raid problems right.
 
Wow had such high hopes, but its not till end game that you realise the general player base are all low life scum. Its such a shame, because its a very well executed game.
 
Played since Vanilla and definitely had my best times in TBC, I can still remember walking through the Dark Portal for the very first time (possibly because I didn't wait for my gf to finish installing the game so we could walk through together which she wasn't happy about :rolleyes:). I still enjoyed WotLK but stopped doing much in the way of raiding during that expansion, and I bought a collectors edition of Cata (and got two delivered :D) but I barely played it for more than a month or so, just didn't capture me the way the previous expansions had.

I totally miss Vanilla/TBC and maybe it is just because of the rosy glasses, and almost certainly because I was in good guilds and had lots of good friends during those times, but for me vanilla and tbc were just so captivating and exciting and mystifying. I don't think I've ever had another experience in a game like first walking into Westfall when the sun was setting, walking into Ironforge at peak server time and seeing hundreds upon hundreds of players with such incredible looking armour, the first time you got a FP and seeing the entire world unfold beneath you, old AV (which no matter what anyone says, was epic) and grouping with 39 other players (as frustrating as it was) to do a raid. Almost makes me want to resub:p
 
I started shortly before TBC came out - my best times were with the OcUK guild during TBC (I played an enhancement shammy called Shambles if any old-timers are still around).

I really enjoyed the game back then, but the fun has seemed to ebb away after a while, mainly during WotLK.

I'll possibly take a look again when the Pandas are out (though I hate the idea of Pandas..) as my best gaming memories have come from WoW.
 
I played since EU release on Bladefist EU. :)

I've gotta admit the best times for me were also in Vanilla. The Tarren Mill/Southshore PvP battles, the first time Alterac Valley came out, downing Ragnaros and Blackwing the first time... all good times.

Since TBC came out the game started to go downhill for me. I didn't like TBC at all. I've played every expansion pack although I'm not too sure if I'll be buying MoP.
 
I felt the game was so balanced at 60, and world pvp was great fun. Past 60, it seemed to go downhill.

At 60, Epics were truely Epic! If you saw a hand of rag, you left a mess in your pants :)
 
The game was far from balanced at 60. Both PvP and PvE had major bias.

Only alliance getting Paladin blessings (MASSIVE bias in Raid content)
Only horde getting totems (Inferior for most encounters)

Abilities were not normalised so warriors with the biggest, slowest 2 handers going ripped things to shreds. As a shadowpriest I was unstoppable, literally. Would take groups to kill me and anything died 1 on 1 - ANYTHING.
 
Can't remember when I started but it wasn't long after it came out. I levelled as a Resto-Druid all the way 0-60. Was certainly.....interesting ha ha.

Vanilla was where it was at. Our guild only really managed MC/Onyxia (spelling?) and a little of BWL. AV was immense and I loved finding all the same things in the game and discovering epic quest storylines and such.

TBC was epic in parts and a let down in others. I missed the 40 man raids but it brought in some awesome 25 man stuff so I can't complain too much :P WoTLK didn't appeal to me and I could see where the game was headed and I didn't like the look of it. It stank of going the way Star Wars Galaxies did (EPIC game before NGE killed it off) and I wanted to stop playing while I was still enjoying it.
 
andy85wsm said:
Not really sure why percentages are any better than "ridiculous stats"
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Because +1% Crit is a far more sensible system than +140 crit rating (+1% crit))
Simple and effective. No stupid PVP Power and PVE power. Just attack bonus and defense bonus that were universal and based on %.

andy85wsm said:
40 man raids could be fun but organising 40 people certainly wasn't loads of fun.
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Was for me in my 60 regular raider guild. Teamspeak with teh chaos of 40 people was always a blast.

I knew it would be you to reply to my post. Im sorry you didnt enjoy Vanilla but 99% of people prefer it.
 
DampCat said:
Because +1% Crit is a far more sensible system than +140 crit rating (+1% crit))
Simple and effective. No stupid PVP Power and PVE power. Just attack bonus and defense bonus that were universal and based on %.
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The rating system was implemented to let people make use of the new gear that they picked up.

Getting one shot by a pyroblast in vanilla wasn't all that fun hence resilience

DampCat said:
I knew it would be you to reply to my post. Im sorry you didnt enjoy Vanilla but 99% of people prefer it.
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Way to pull random numbers out of thin air to prove your point.
 
andy85wsm said:
Getting one shot by a pyroblast in vanilla wasn't all that fun hence resilience
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Getting one shot by pyroblast in TBC and Wrath, and having 90% of your health gone in Cata (all with resilience) was just as pointless. At least vanilla had the benefits of the rock/paper/scissors approach.

PvP has always been broken in WoW, vanilla was the most balanced and fun by far.
 
I stopped playing some time ago and don't plan on ever re-subbing. For me vanilla and early TBC was best because there was an actual community on the servers. You had to be mindful of your reputation as you were playing with/against the same people all the time. You built up good friendships and rivalrys because of this. By far the greatest wow moment for me was downing 40-man C'Thun after 3 solid nights of attempts. Good times.

Technically the game was more hassle and less polished but the sense of community more than made up for that (for me anyway).
 
Clav said:
I stopped playing some time ago and don't plan on ever re-subbing. For me vanilla and early TBC was best because there was an actual community on the servers. You had to be mindful of your reputation as you were playing with/against the same people all the time. You built up good friendships and rivalrys because of this. By far the greatest wow moment for me was downing 40-man C'Thun after 3 solid nights of attempts. Good times.

Technically the game was more hassle and less polished but the sense of community more than made up for that (for me anyway).
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This is totally correct, the reason the group finder / raid finder lead to terrible experience is that you never have to play with thoes people again, and as such results in people ninjoring loot and being absolute **** to each other.
The community spirit was far better in vanilla/tbc. The concept of having a group finder is all well and good, but it should be limited to thoes in your server whoem you may have to play with again.
 
Grognak said:
...but its not till end game that you realise the general player base are all low life scum...
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Yeah, I find this myself. And even when you are playing within the guild, you often find people who are trying to just gain as much loot as possible, begging others for pieces, or the guild makes their loot addon slightly bias toward their favourites.
 
anyone else also think blizzard nailed their music for vanilla perfectly?, from the ambiance to the general sound tracks , a good example would be transitioning from elywnn forest to the stormwind from a mellow song to a all out epic choir just added more epicness
 
dmcg said:
anyone else also think blizzard nailed their music for vanilla perfectly?, from the ambiance to the general sound tracks , a good example would be transitioning from elywnn forest to the stormwind from a mellow song to a all out epic choir just added more epicness
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Totally agree. The Vanilla music was spot on.

The music in Ashenvale still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.
 
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