A lot of us have been playing World of Warcraft for a very long time. I’ve been going strong since early closed beta when the end-game dungeon available to players was Uldaman. Obviously things have changed a lot since then. Something we will never be able to do again, some will never feel the same. So lately old adventures I’ve had in Azeroth have been popping into my head and I thought I would jot them down and encourage you guys to add your favorite moments that can’t or won’t ever be duplicated or any awesome adventure you recall.
- Raiding Upper Blackrock Spire with 40 people. And wiping on trash.
- Convincing people to peer into the crack in the wall behind Golemagg because we told them they could see Ragnaros. And watching them die.
- “Sacrificing” one of our Gnome Warlocks to silly things in Molten Core in hopes it would bring us good loot!
- Receiving Teebu’s Blazing Longsword during a UBRS run off of trash and subsequently receiving tells from people all across the server. (Bonus points if you can tell me why it was so awesome, other than the obvious Lightsaber factor)
- The “hate” I received from people for having the aforementioned sword and winning a Runeblade of Baron Rivendare. I am sure if you spent hours digging through down-ranked Thottbot comments you could find some of the original hate.
- Our guild coordinating the AQ Gate Event Auction. Had people from all over the server submit redeemable items in exchange for “tickets” to help us get the Mallet made faster in exchange for the chance of winning a “You and 3 friends come with us to MC and loot everything” and a “Come to Nefarion and loot everything” evening of awesomeness.
- Heading to Felwood with other Warriors to “farm” honor before the weekly reset.
- PvPing for the sake of PvPing.
- Defending Southshore furiously because that’s what we did. And landing in Southshore and dying instantly.
- Joining an Alterac Valley, fighting for an hour, leaving to go to school or work, coming back 8 hours later and joining the same unfinished Alterac Valley.
- Having to have a certain rank in order to zone into the room with some of the other PvP vendors.
- Getting invites and summons to UBRS to tank the last 2 bosses because I was one of the few tanks geared enough to “handle” the Beast and General.
- Thinking how awesome it was to have 9,000 health while tanking Ragnaros thanks to a ridiculous amount of buffs, including a battle standard from Alterac Valley.
- Getting my Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros after our guild received two Eye of Ragnaros during our first two kills.
- PvPing in PvE gear because that was the gear that rocked.
- The original C’thun corpse run. OK, not the fondest memory, but a memory none the less.
- When the game changed once Warriors had wide access to the Arcanite Reaper.
- Getting complimented in Ironforge because of my full Valor gear.
- When any Druid coming to a raid was required to spec into Innervate.
- The concept of “Auto-Shot AFK.”
- When Shadowmeld was the hottest thing to use when guarding a base in Arathi Basin as a Warrior.
- Racing to world bosses in order to get the kill before other guilds did.
The one and only time we ever lined up for a screenshot.
OK, this next one is a bit of a story which warranted more than a bullet point. But those who remember it dubbed it “Remember Forgewright’s Tomb.” Before there was Thorium Point, Alliance would run from Thelsamar either through the Badlands or using the Gate Key (“Oh, you mean THIS gate key.”) to get to Searing Gorge to head to Molten Core. Being the wary raiders that we were, we gathered as a group before heading to our raid.
As we traveled, we picked off Horde in our path. Maybe one or two here, one or two there. It was a long path to Molten Core! This continued until we were in Blackrock Mountain. While we were waiting for our few stragglers some folks ventured down closer to the entrance to Molten Core, continuing with the Horde killing. Finally we had regrouped and were about to head to our raid, as we were gathered inside Forgewright’s Tomb.
A battle any Orc... errr, Night Elf would be proud of! >_>
That’s when general chat had a few levelers exclaiming that a whole lot of Horde were resurrecting and grouping up. By final count, there was easily two full raid groups of Horde who were upset that we had interrupted their attempts to travel to their raid. And back in these, everyone knew everyone on your server. You came to know guilds and their players. Through forums, through PvP, or whatever.
So we prepared ourselves for our final stand within the tomb. I kind of envision it like that scene in Moria in Lord of the Rings. Except with two doors, and the opposing force having healers. So the Horde poured in through the doors and we fought. And fought. And they kept coming. Drums. Drums in the deep.
Needless to say there was too many for us to hold off. But the battle and the situation itself reeked of awesomeness. No matter how many years have passed, that remains my fondest PvP memory in WoW.
If you’ve been playing WoW for any length of time you no doubt have some awesome moments. So share them in the comments below!
i thought ubrs was a 10-man max…
That was implemented much much later. Originally it was 40. Then 25. Then 10. It’s changed a lot. :)
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Wait, wasn’t UBRS 15 at one point? I vaguely remember gearing my priest alt at 60, and finding healers took forever.
I just remember ‘raiding’ Scholo every night with my first guild, trying to get Darkmaster Gandling to drop my Beaststalker helm. Though I can’t remember if that was a 10 or 20man…
I think it was Sratholme that was 10-man, not Scholo:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Stratholme
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Hmm, it might have been 15 then 10, instead of 25. It’s been a long time. :)
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I belive UBRS went from 20 to 15 to 10?
http://www.wowwiki.com/Upper_Blackrock_Spire#Patch_changes
But thats a minor detail.
I agree whith many of you bullets. There are lots of fond, and some not so fond, memories from several years of playing.
My personal favorite is from the trash just before the twins in AQ40. Those hot summernights when we raided Blackwing Lair and AQ40. A guilde of mine captured our funniest pull. Ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3xSL0kUKtc
(It´s my bear Zixten that fetches the mobs!)
Sorry for the swedish song, but the text is in english…
Haha, I love pulls like that. Endless humor at the expense of others. :D
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All instances were capped at 40 at one (early) point of the game.
Strat/Scholo were usually done as 10 man raids, however to complete any quests in there you needed to go in with 5. In patch 1.X they were revamped (nerfed) to host 5 man parties only.
BRS used to be a 15 man raid – I think it’s 10 nowadays (not that anyone goes there for ‘real’ these days).
On topic: Nice list, I can relate to that stuff. When WoW was more about adventure and having fun rather than hanging around in a city spamming “LFM ICC” or waiting for a portal to improve your gearscore.
I agree that the adventure has . . . changed. While in many ways, things have improved. Rep grinds, most loot acquisition methods, etc. But there was definitely something to be said about the relationships you developed with people on your server when it was just your server. Dungeon groups, battlegrounds, the opposing faction, etc. You knew people, whether you knew them or not. :)
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Remember when rogues had to craft their own poisons and Vanish took mats to even cast! And don’t forget your Volcanic Armor and Fire Resist Pots for Rag Or /2 LFG:Furbie Rep GrindEpic Alterac Valley used to be crazy and go on for…e…….v…………e………………………………….r
- When Hunters had a use for spell power
- When traps could only be used out of combat
- When you’d die from Feign Death
- When swirly ball was the bee’s knee
- When Blind could be parried (dodged I could understand, but parried… rofl)
Ah yes, Feign Death Trap macros. Good times. :) And go go Mend Pet power!
Back in Naxx 25 my guild joked around with warlocks. “Warlock died! epic loots.” Good times.
Oh, and CCing in 5mans. Remember when skull actually mattered? “Don’t dot the square!”
Wow, who is that sexy warlock in those screen shots!?
You forgot.
Wiping on double destroyers our first real attempt in MC.
Wiping in Scholomance with 40 people because that instance sucked.
Wiping in Stratholme with 40 people because that instance sucked.
Kazzak owning Lakeshire. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDqnt5E-ZNI
Mantrad Battle resing some hunters bear who happened to have the same name as our main tank *cough*ARATAR*cough*.
Sacrificing Aednat for better loot.
Tormund ninjaing the first MC loot. http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y248/Zen455/MCPhatLewt.jpg
Killing Nightwarrior and Nox every time they were MC’d just because fuck rogues.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y248/Zen455/Authenticating.jpg
Having one like level 40 priest own our entire 40 man undercity raid because they feared us on the elevator and we all fell through the world.
Looking like some Arabic hobo because they hadn’t put in the unique models for epic armor.
“Stealth Underwater Raid” of Org, and having everyone follow Aratar because he knows Orgrimmar well, then he lags and we all run into the auction house and get crushed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puMdXdy1Sc4 You can hear Drotara in this video. You never have enough time to build up threat and your always lagging :P.
Then some of my personal ones.
Raiding AQ40, summoning the last hunter who was almost there but running down to the zone. Having the horde raid behind us attack the hunter who feigns death, then accepts the summon in the middle of 40 horde.
Running Blackrock Depths 5 man, then summoning the rest of the 40 man raid to MC, one shard at a time because there was no window to zone in on.
Lagging when jumping through the window and dieing in the lava.
One shotting a gold farmer rogue because of negative resistances.
Gull and Brother Davros.
3-0ing the first HWL honor farming team in WSG because of our superior PVE gear.
Diametrically Opposed.
Getting feared through the Scarlet Monastery instance entrance, falling through the world and NOT dieing, running around under the world for 3 days with a ticket open because there was only like 1 gm who was slow as balls, finally finding a warlock above level 20 to summon my ass out of there.
Ravennoob Crest
Good times.
Oh man Drathas, way to bust out a ton more old school memories! Such good times. The three best Warlocks on the server were the Triple D. Drathas, Dalara, and someone else who I can’t remember.
Oh, and don’t forget us being traitors because we worked with Horde guilds to get things we wanted, like Thunderfury and what not.
Wow, those are some great memories. I’ve only been playing since mid-BC but I’ve heard stories about some of the stuff you referenced (like Teebu’s Blazing Longsword, boxart what what) and those classic stories are awesome. Like the day-long Alterac Valley battles…I’ve heard about them but can’t even imagine! Always fun to hear about ye olde days. :D
Oh my, all those WoW memories comin’ back. I was the raid leader and guild officer of RCW back in the hail days of the guild. Back when we made it within world top 20 (or was it 10?) of Nefarian in Blackwing Lair. Back when boss strategies actually had to be devised by the guild itself and cannot be simply “googled” for a solution. Everything was secret back then. MC was secret. You might laugh at it now but boy things were different back then.
RCW was big time. We rocked and had fun doing it. We did PvE. We did PvP. And then we did stupid ass shit just for the sake of doing stupid ass shit.
Remember ForgeWrights tomb was also by far my most favorite PvP moment. We were trying to assemble a raid of 40 for MC but we had an off night where we could not muster more than 30 at any given time. Twenty of us were just chilling at the entrance to MC, waiting and hoping that more guildmates would log on. We entertained ourselves with killing horde that wandered down. Soon enough, well-recognizable horde guilds started to show up, and we knew that they were assembling a raid for MC. Well they were disorganized and we were -teh awesome- so they stood no chance as we ambushed them again and again and again from the Tomb. At first a few separate horde would trickle through and be thoroughly crushed. Then they got smart and gathered a little outside into a bigger group. They still got crushed. As time went by and the tomb was littered with more and more piling horde corpses, they put an effort to gather their whole raid to kill our 20. Still stood no chance. It wasn’t until another entire MC raid from another horde guild and whatever horde were in the area to gather up and storm the tomb were they finally able to wipe us out.
The most epic part was the build up…the anticipation. The horde attacks were relentless and we had to res and eat food/drink from inside the tomb. Cooldowns were always ticking and long-term buffs were seldom affordable. As the horde mob grew we knew we were going to break sometime but we just kept on making our stand. Finally, when they got their massive 2 forty man raids organized together, waiting outside to assemble (with our rogues spying on them) we realized we were doomed. When they charged in shit was flying everywhere and health bars were dropping like mad. We still managed to kill a great lot of them but in the end we all lay dead around the tomb and none of us had released our corpses. When the dust settled and all the horde we had previously killed gathered around the tomb, it was only then that we realized how greatly outnumbered we were. Eventually the horde moved on to start their raid and we never got ours going, but we must have delayed their start by at least an hour. More importantly, we made the RCW name a force to be feared and reckoned with on the battlegrounds, in PvP town raids, and just basically anywhere horde wandered in contested lands :)
Whispering people they were the bomb on Baron Geddon, running of and dying ^^
AQ opening event which went on all night
your alt getting killed in STV, bringing your main for revenge leading to a lvl 60 world pvp massacre
and then the numerous 1% whipes on new bosses
I remember when the Leeroy Jenkins video came out, my guild and I would recreate the scene week after week :P Including the dialog!