Vanilla WoW players - how well did you do?

Started playing just after vanilla release. Got a warrior to level 60 a and immediately started farming for an Arcanite Reaper, farmed the mats and got someone to make it for me. As soon as I got this started pvping quite a bit but got smashed off premades so only got to rank 11. Decided I wanted to heal so made a dwarf priest joined a guild which had some really nice guys and gals and went through MC and part of bwl. I left to join another Guild as they were a bit further on and managed to get to naxx. I then got a girlfriend IRL and stopped playing. Bought the next 2 expansions but didn't play as much as I did.

Vanilla wow still the best gaming experience I've ever had on pc.
 
I started playing just after EU release and played pretty solidly until a little while after WotLK with a few short breaks dictated by work. After that it's been the case that I'll get the expansions and have a look at the content, but can't imagine going back with any level of commitment (raiding 3 or 4 times a week for 3-4 hours a night seems incredible looking back), both due to not having the time, and that barely any of the people I played with are active now.

Found a great guild (on Silvermoon) and stayed there for probably 5 years until the majority of the original members left and founded a new guild. We met up a couple of times and I'm still in occasional touch with some of them.

In terms of progress, in vanilla we cleared AQ40 up to twins and had a quick look at Naxx. BWL was a great experience, once we'd spent weeks struggling with Vael.

Burning Crusade we got as far as clearing up to Brutallus in SWP - Black Temple is still my favourite raid, it's when we started seeing Blizzard experimenting with variation in boss mechanics in more detail, plus as a mage it made a change to have to do things rather than spamming scorch and fireball. In particular tanking on Illidari Council and handling various things on Illidan.

WotLK was really the time when I started missing time, so I saw Ulduar and some of ICC but not really as progress raids. I didn't raid at all in the last two expansions.

It was great at the time, but I can't imagine going back with any dedication, or sinking that amount of time into any other MMO, perhaps that's an age thing. Plus, when I stopped playing regularly, Silvermoon seemed to still have some sense of community, you'd recognise a lot of the guilds and players, but mass migration to the server and the advent of things like gearscore mean that there doesn't seem to be the same atmosphere, at least that was the case when I've dipped my toe back into the water.
 
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God damn it I so wish I played in Vanilla...
I played for a month during TBC and hated the game, got a PC in 2011 and played it for nearly 2 years straight
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I rolled a Shadow Priest and got to about level 52 and EPL/WPL and for some reason had a huge break. I then came back and got to 60, quite late compared to most. My first raiding guild was a total nab fest and I cleared some of the MC content etc. I recall getting some epic loots from the outdoor boss Kazzak when attending with my IRL friend who was in a much better guild. Got some left over cloth pieces :) Was good for Holy as I could not raid as Shadow. I recall killing C'Thun in AQ40 and it was the best feeling ever. Outdoor PvP was my bag as a Shadow Priest with gear though, Warriors would run in absolute fear...as would pretty much anything.

I slowly progressed through some guilds and ended up clearing BWL etc but was never even near the hardcore spectrum. nearing the middle/end of Vanilla I was frequently playing Shadow in raids and supporting the Warlock teams in 40 mans. Cleared AQ20/40 as they became available in much the same time scales.

Stuck with the same bunch in The Burning Crusade and cleared most stuff in about average time scales. I joined Last Resort on Kazzak and started raiding hardcore, clearing Sunwell Plateau in the World Top 5 and getting the first legendary Bow Drop from Kil'jaeden - Was epic times. When Arena competative play came out I formed a 2v2 team with a Warlock whilst playing Shadow Priest. We Ranked Number 1 in 2v2 and high enough ranked in 3v3 and 5v5 to get Armored Netherdrakes in all 3 brackets. Had to delete the other 2 in my mail.....FML Unique! I am still bitter, in Season 2 they introduced PERMANENT Rank 1 Gladiator titles. My Rank 1 Season 1 title disappeared :(

WoTLK came and I continued in Last Resort,things slowed down for me due to IRL and having cleared Ulduar on the hardcore level quit.

I rejoined towards the end of WoTLK in a different guild but played a Protection tank. Cataclysm with another guild as tank but eventually ended back in Last Resort towards the tail end as a Shadow Priest but as more of a casual player. Cleared Cata but quit before The Firelands expansions, not gone back since.


I find it hard to go back now, I miss the hardcore cutting edge raiding and soul destroyingly hard encounters (Such as full pre-nerf M'Uru with spell pushback and everything). For a long time I played absolute high end Shadow Priest with the best gear available, the best min-max spec and the best theorycraft. Posted far too much on Shadowpriest.com and had some pretty epic official Forum posts too. I do miss it. I could DPS like a train and enjoyed competing on the worldwide raid based damage charts. A true utlity/DPS powerhouse. The same thing just is not possible these days, and I find playing casually hard, I have a drug like addict itch for the super hardcore play.
 
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It seems like a lot of the readers here quit during WoTLK like I did. Like we all mutually decided there and then that WoW's 'best' days are over.

resurgam said:
Found a great guild (on Silvermoon) and stayed there for probably 5 years until the majority of the original members left and founded a new guild. We met up a couple of times and I'm still in occasional touch with some of them.

In terms of progress, in vanilla we cleared AQ40 up to twins and had a quick look at Naxx. BWL was a great experience, once we'd spent weeks struggling with Vael.
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I was on Silvermoon too!! I got introduced to the game and realm by an IRL friend, and then I met randoms / PUGs / guildies who also became IRL friends. Mostly UK people but have also met a couple of Germans and 1 Norwegian IRL through the game.

BWL was my favourite raid as well as there were hardly any trash mobs, and thus wasn't repetitive. BWL took us a month to clear, but like you said, Vael and the 1st boss alone took up half of that time!
 
One of my favourite memories is our entire raid zoning out of AQ to PVP with one of the big horde guilds at the time (I forget the name unfortunately). This is when the pvp flag transferred when buffing and we had a few pvp flagged people waiting outside the instance after ressing who were getting ganked.

That and singing on TS while waiting for neffy to respawn, it used to drive the RL mad.
 
I started on day one. I remember sitting in Greek class the day before it was released, looking through my dictionary for a suitable name. I settled on Fulax.

I was a warrior in an all troll guild called the Boomshaka Tribe - can't remember which server, but I'm pretty sure it began with a B. We'd been together for a good month or so before release, and we were all pretty laid back, casual players (fitting, for a guild of trolls). Getting to level 60 with everyone was great fun, but there was hardly any endgame content at that time and obviously if you wanted to start a new character you either had to roll another troll or not be in the guild. So I got bored and left after around 6 months of playing.

I came back again when they released the PvP content, and when they raised the level cap, and again with Burning Crusade, but I didn't stay for longer than a few weeks. It just wasn't the same somehow :(
 
In Vanilla I played as a Nelf Rogue. I levelled up to about 42, got my mount (woo) and then stopped playing because it became a bit too much of a grind, I obviously never raided in vanilla.

TBC - Levelled to 70 (with the same Rogue) then stopped playing before any raiding.

WoTLK - First time raiding. Loved it.

I've raided every expansion since. Never for more than a raid or 2. I get bored a little too quickly.
 
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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.
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I honestly can't remember but it was pretty cheap. I think they offered a deal for both expansions. :)
 
Don't think I have seen a thread with so many wall-of-text posts in :eek:

Played WoW in beta, but I was still too entrenched in Eq/Eq2 to play it properly until BC, where I played/raided/pvp'd/arena'd until end of WotLK.

Now I am MMO free and better for it :D
 
Started playing just when the 1st battlegrounds were phased in. The highest character had the full hunter epic kit with the highest enchants - it was a death machine. I got to the 2nd to last on the BG rankings (whatever it was called below Warlord).

I gave up just before the expansion and sold the character for £200. Glad I did I sort of knew they way it was going to go and I'd had enough of either being told what to do by kids or working my nuts farming/guild runs for other people to take it for granted.

Good days though and still think about it.
 
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