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Best days of Warcraft were the early days
RogueTroopa
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Well like most of you i was there at the beginning. For me the whole nostalgia of the game was not having a clue what to do. It was only after the first few quests in Teldrassil that things started to shape and i was maybe getting the hang of it. Then running onto Dolonaar i saw that first big purple tree man. It was now i was starting to love the game. Quests were getting tougher now and took me several attempts to do the Ban'ethil Barrow den with my grey gear. I didn't even realise an auction house existed lol!!!!
Eventually onto Darnassus and being hit by that music when you come into it. I felt like a king arriving into my city. So many things to do here and yet again pretty clueless as to what was happening. Found a portal which took me to a boat. Arrived in Darkshore. Didn't know where or how big this world was. Ran down the path through the murky woods and saw a level 20 dwarf and thought 'where did he come from?' and 'he must be hardcore lol' .When i eventually made it to ashenvale it has to be the most beautiful music made for a game. Simply stunning. Anyway the journey up to 60 never disappointed. New zones, beautiful music. Always on the lookout for the Horde. Everything was a mystery and asking fellow travellers 'the way' was a norm with no idea Thottbot existed. Maybe it didn't then?
And the most hypnotic part of WOW has to be the music. You know each area simply by the music and what a fantastic score it is. Maybe that was part of the key to their success.
Whatever race you started with you will always have fond memories of the first few months.
Such a pity I can't rewind the clock and get those feelings back again. YouTube can help though but it will never be the same.
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I love the first days of MMO's... Not knowing how to play, where to go, or what features the game has is great. So many games are the same that I don't get this same rush as much. I guess Elves are Elves no matter where you play them... Kinda kills it! Its also probably because I have played MMO's for 10+ years, and in the early days there was allot of new potential. Now everyone is coping what works.
What I remember most about my early WoW days is the music, they really did an amazing job.
I remember falling off Teldrassil and having no clue how to get back. Dying a bazillion times before I'd even reached Darnassus. Trying to tame a rabbit as my hunter pet. Trading some poor guy over and over because I was pressing the wrong button. Running through Darkshore as a very low level. Running to IF from Menethil with a group because we were all low level. Swimming from Westfall to BB because someone said I was too low level for STV...
Ah the days of a noob. But then I had a repeat of that in Aion and it just didn't seem so much fun. Best days in WoW for me was being in a raiding guild back when raiding was good.
The raiding guild I was in, plus the 2v2, 3v3 and 5v5 teams where all going for top spot, and I was the top priest so if I didn't show up their success rate plumetted. It became work, I had to be on from 7PM - Around 11 PM M-F for Raids, Saturday Morning for 5v5, and 2v2 and 3v3 had equal demanding schedules. We got into the top 5 in all 3 tournements, and the RAID guild was probably the 3rd best on the server, but it got to be too much work, and ended up costing me to leave the game.
In addition back in BC, the cost of respec and of all the pots and such was almost impossible for a pure focused healing RAIDING Priest or PVP Spec. We just could not do anything by ourselves, but luckily auctioneer was new and few used it. Also My teams helped supply resources for us. I never wanted to run a different type of toon, and am still a healer to the core.
I never RAIDED in the original WOW, though I wish I did. I took a break from the game and missed allot of that. After leaving BC, I did a trial for Linch King, but when I found that all of my rare pets and other items were stolen while the account was deactivated I never wanted to go back. They offered 700 gold for their failure, but that seemed trivial and frankly insulting. 2 months of contacting support, and billed 3 months of game play time lost for 700 gold... I have a bitter taste, not from the Game, but from Blizzard. I will not be buying there next games...
I started a few days after launch, and it was my first MMO so everything was amazing and new.
My journey was pretty close to yours. Seeing the Ancient Protectors wandering around Dolanaar for the first time was so cool. I followed him around for a few minutes just to watch him. Making my way through Teldrassil and finally seeing (and hearing) Darnassus. Teaming up with someone from Hong Kong and catching our first boat ride to Darkshore. Running along the shore and seeing the rotting, dead sea creatures. Seeing the dead old god at Master's Glaive. Finally making it to Ashenvale and Astranaar and getting into my first world PvP.
I stayed in awe of the game for a long while and joined a decent raiding guild. The game stayed fun and interesting for me until BC came out. Our guild just lost interest and dissolved and my interest didn't last much longer. Got two to 70 and quit.
Current: None
Played: WoW, CoX, SWG, LotRO, EVE, AoC, VG, CO, Ryzom, DF, WAR
Tried: Lineage2, Dofus, EQ2, CoS, FE, UO, Wurm, Wakfu
Future: The Repopulation, ArcheAge, Black Desert, EQN
I played an enhancement shaman. I still healed in raids.
Pvp was fun though, Windfury + SS+ ES = insta kill on cloth and leather.
Make it so...
My first character was a tauren hunter, I got to level 15 and I thought I had the hang of the game, but I was wondering what all the spells I was buying where doing.
So I asked in chat. (yes barrens chat was actually helpful during the early days)
Turned out that there is a spellbook i have to open to put spells on my hotbar. lol.
I leveled 15 levels just with autoattack and that melee attack...and i loved every minute of it.
well if wow is the 1st mmo you ever played, i would agree... ifeel the same way aboot UO
I have played WoW from open beta, and really like classic WoW. Too sad it become more and more shallow with every expansion. Now the only reason to start playing WoW from time to time is Arena even it is not a MMO element at all. I understand why peoples like WoW, but many old school MMO lovers really miss the classic MMO elements like exploration, risk, adrenalin and freedom to have a choice. I think all this elements was perfectly balanced in classic wow according casual and hardcore players. Now the only meaning of "hardcore" that left in wow is time spend in game and mainly how long you are subscribed as everything is balanced around timers - weekly and daily.
Where themepark games try to hide that they are copying WOW, games like Mortal Online and Darkfall make no attempt to hide their inspiration
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LordOfDarkDesire
Music is generally one of the first things that I turn off in a game, and for the life of me - I do not remember the music in the least from WoW. If I am going to listen to music, I will usually stream it. Theme songs and soundtracks may work for cinematics; but for my character to be roaming around in the middle of nowhere and suddenly have music start or change...has always struck me as silly. It is funny, because in WoW - LOTRO - DDO - fantasy games, etc - I do not stream any music. It makes no sense to have music there. CoX - AO - EVE - modern or futuristic games, etc - yep, I will stream music because it may make sense that the character may be listening to music.
I suppose what I remember most about WoW early on was that it felt larger. It is hard to explain. Not sure if it was simply a case of having to walk most of it early on... the way the quests were set up - or even if they changed movement speeds... but it felt larger.
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
Explorer: 87%, Killer: 67%, Achiever: 27%, Socializer: 20%
Heh heh, nostalgia. I think my very first memory of WoW was entering Stormwind for the very first time on my L7 warrior and hearing that music and with all the statues on the pathway... That just made the character actually feel like he was bound for a great, heroic journey. Too bad I rerolled him for an Undead warrior when he hit 20 :P
The only other memory that stood out to me was back when all the farmers were always in Azshara (sp?). I ran a pug for Mauradon (sp? I've forgotten how to spell all these names). Anyways, we had this one hunter in our pug that was just absolutely atrocious. Spoke in completely broken English, rarely listened to any plans, pet ran wild, and she'd always back up in other mob groups. Surprisingly, the only thing she could do really well was trapping 1 target. Later figured she was a farmer since she was always in Azshara after that.
Only reason that memory stood out to me was because with all the damn mispulling from that hunter, we ended up wiping so many freaking times; but we still fought our way through that instance. It probably took 4 hours... but the grand thing about that is, I don't remember anyone sitting there complaining or threatening to leave, despite the troubles. I think that was my favorite time in that MMO. When people didn't take the damn game super seriously and just understood that shit happened. Not to say I never ran into a-holes though.
I think my outlook in that game started changing when raids started to become the "it" thing to do a few months afterwards. And I won't get into what it's like today.
But damn... that's some serious nostalgia ^ ^
music of Teldrasil/Ashenvale is what made it for me. i could have Ashenvale 10 times over just listening to it.
I remember how we made a group to kill Murlocs that first day and people kept dying because of the social aggro they had, I was the only one who somewhat knew what to do because of previous MMO exp.
Then the first deadmines runs... oh my, back then it did mean something to have the blue stuff from the deadmines
What I remember was our first run-in with the Horde, we were questing in Redridge when a couple of horde showed up in one of the castles to gank us, this went on back and forth until we chased them out of the zone; they then called reinforcements, as did we (running to the city and calling out "HORDE AT X!!", wouldn't cause much commotion now...) and it ended up with a rather epic battle around redridge, until we drove them into the burning steppes and all of us got killed by some elite lvl 60 dragon.
I also remember escorting countless nightelfs through Dustwallow Marsh and the Wetlands in order to reach the other races and the other way around with dwarfs, humans and gnomes...
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Sad thing for me is, I haven't touched WoW since US launch (EU player). I remember during the first few days of service there was an absolutely epic PvP battle at the crossroads on my server involving hundreds of people, and just being awe-struck about the unfolding events and the size of the world.
I played a Night Elf duing OB, and the music of Teldrassil has always stayed with me. The first time on a Hippogryph to reach Darkshore just blew my mind.
Sadly, I just never gave the game a chance, and instead played through a succession of sub-par MMOs in its favour (FFXI being an exception). I've only just now decided to to give the game a shot, but I really do regret not sticking with the game during its golden period.