Yea, WF was mean, but Reckoning Pro pallies were scarier. They could virtually 1 shot you and could TAKE a hit. Either way. Being on the receiving end of the shaman or the pro pally hurt back in the day.
When my first toon, a human mage, was below 20 I was questing in Redridge and decided to sneak a peek into that interesting looking zone to the north. At that level you aggro those level 50-ish fire imps in Burning Steppes from about four miles away.
This made me lol because I did the same thing
Also, the hunter epic quest was still the best quest I've done in the game.
i did the same thing right there in RR but i aggroed the fire ele that used to pat there, and this was before tidy plates so i didnt see its level till it one shot my druid.
The cornucopia of awesomeness that is Black Rock Depths. You could literally spend months in there, and I certainly did.
And Onyxia……omfg what a fight. First time ever in a game I actually thought “I have literally no idea how we are going to kill this fucking thing!”.
Onyxia will always have a piece of my heart in this game forever. My first fight with her I tanked, and as I ran in to grab her it seemed to take forever… all I could hear was that sound she made, to me it sounded like purring….everyone went silent, my heart actually raced during this and just when I was going to pull I hear from our GM offers “Dude, you are soooo going to die….”
And seeing her eyes open for the first time, I actually felt it. Fun stuff.
Oh God I forgot about the weapons training. That was such a pain in the ass when I started tanking. Get an upgrade, threat goes in the toilet. Glance at the combat table Your skill in 1h axes increased to 2 /facepalm
as a level 50 paladin, i'd go back into rage-fire chasm (instance in ogrimmar for the allys in this thread) and swing and miss at the level 13 elites for 1/2 an hour to level up my weapons. 1h maces/1h swords/2h maces/2h swords/polearm...
oh sh!t, remember when pally's used polearms
i miss when pallys were exclusive to the alliance and shamans were horde only.
I miss ... um ... to be honest, there's not a lot I miss.
Well, I miss dungeon sets. I did like those. In fact, there's a lot fewer sets in the game as a whole, discounting the crafted sets, which only require 2 for a bonus. I'd like to see dungeon sets make a comeback in MoP. Gives you something to shoot for as you gear up for raiding. Weapon sets, like Dal'Rend's, or Eskander's Claws. Even the weapon/ring/cloak combos from AQ20.
While I didn't have a hunter or priest in Vanilla, I've never really heard anything bad about Rhok'delar and Benediction quests - except for the difficulty. Dragonwrath and Fangs of the Father help alleviate that somewhat, as they too require doing things - tough things - solo, outside of the raid instance. The Wrath legendaries didn't feel quite as epic (or legendary, as the case may be).
I definitely do not miss looking for a group in trade, being stuck in a guild full of 60-80 people if I wanted a chance at raiding (and usually hearing the dreaded "Full on rogues"), or same-server only BG queues.
I get more camaraderie out of my smaller guild than I ever did in the 60-80 man guild I was in before.
I seem to recall that gear and equipment upgrades were really felt in vanilla. When you finally got that new piece of gear, you could tell a big difference in performance. I swear when I got Rhok Delar Longbow of the Ancient Keepers and Lok Delar Stave of the Ancient Keepers my dps shot through the roof. Now you get an upgrade and yes you have improvements, but they are not orders of magnitude better.
And you get upgrades so much faster now. I remember times when I would raid five nights a week and would think it was a good month if I got two new upgrades.
remember that recockulous( worse than rediculous) questline for the nogginfogger elixir, cant tell you how many of those eles i killed to get that damn mfin dew gland
I remember on my first toon, a human pally, with no friends no guild and having to walk everywhere, then quests to get the regular horse and the epic horse, that took a lot of effort, gold and multiple dungeon runs..
Also wondering into zones way above your level and getting one shotted by mobs.
I clearly remember when I wondered into the Twilight Groove where this big dragon was and destroying people who aggroed him.. once there was a raid going, I got invited, 40 people couldn't kill it...
Also remember countless runbacks to the dungeon entrances, hated those some like Deadmines, BRD, Maraudon, etc required several mins of runbacks (many people rolled Belf for the increased runback speed LOL)..
Ah and when druids couldn't res, or had a big arse res CD.. (don't remember which).
said by Cranius :I've seen a great many things that cause a man to wonder I've seen a great many things that can tear a man's heart asunder But the day that will not let me go, it haunts me to my burning soul Is the day I found Pamela wandering Darrowshire
Can you help me find my dolly? I left her by the window sill Have you seen my daddy? I think he went off to war And can you tell my family I've been missing them for oh so very long Ask them why'd they leave me here alone in Darrowshire
I bring word from your sister, she's alive and well in Winterspring Here I found your dolly, it's up to you to keep her safe And your father's coming home again. The war for him is over And your spirits once again may be at rest in Darrowshire
In Vanilla you knew who the top pvpers in the opposing faction were... by name! My first character was a Paladin. I made him because I played Diablo 2 forever til wow came out, and in D2 Paladins were the shit! So I made my pally Ret..... and as soon as I hit 60 I was constantly being bitched at cuz I was a ret pally. My guild leader basicly told me go holy or go home lol. I spent many many nights in UBRS.
Hunter kite Drakk anybody? "Hunter, kite Drakk out of the room while we kill the 2 adds".... "Fuck I died, Drakk inc" wipe!
In Vanilla purples meant something! That's the main thing I really miss. If you had an epic item you were in a good guild. Thank god Pallies Judgement set was hot! Now all you have to do is have a mouse and keyboard to get epix. Lame
Now all you have to do is have a mouse and keyboard to get epix. Lame
You are right, Epic gear should be reserved for the great players such as yourself, all others should be in blues and go fishing amiright? Epic gems are the new epix as you speak, and the elitist view of WoW (stop giving things away except to me cause I deserve it) is gone, thank goodness. There are ways to increase difficulty without limiting content to everyone, and I believe that Blizzard has done a good job at appeasing several levels of gamers. Besides, rose-tinted glasses are just that.
Having the quest line to upgrade your Tier pieces, including having to spend I think it was 200 Gold in gagetstan along with other things.
seeing WPL and EPL for the first time.
5k health was Awesome
UBRS was the place to go to.
Killing 4 dragons all around the world to complete that 1 quest. Forget what it was. Last dragon was in between the gates of Trolbard If I remember right.
Summoning stones put at the entrances of Instances.
Running across the Barraons for the first time to get to the crossroads at lvl 14-16 and getting killed as soon as you passed camp t.
Really good gear should be really hard to get. Else you're playing tick-tack-toe. Three year olds play that. Content should be difficult, then once the new one is out, the old ones get easier. If you keep nerfing the same active content, what the hell is the point of getting the same reward if it's getting nerfed eventually for almost free.
SWTOR does this differently. Each raid has three difficulties in instances and applies to the entire instance. Derp, Hard, and Nightmare. Same content, same fights, different loot table.
Now all you have to do is have a mouse and keyboard to get epix. Lame
You are right, Epic gear should be reserved for the great players such as yourself, all others should be in blues and go fishing amiright?
If your skill to fish is even high enough. Oh wait you can fish in any water now. I guess enjoying a challenge is being an elitist? Most the candy purplez now should be blues anyways. They just make the name in purple to make people like you feel like you accomplished something for doing a 10 minute dungeon.
- running from capital city to capital city to learn your weapon skill, having to level that skill in order to hit with it. - hunters had to tame pets to get abilities to teach their main pets - broke ie. no gold...ever - pallies were still OP - STV gankfest - stopping at every flight point, needing to visit all of them. - Running to SM (was still best place to level in 40s) from Southshore after waiting to get a group for 30 min - 1 hour (WPL was too high level) - Night elf huntards - Pallies had to refresh seals after judging, they had to auto-attack for first 15 levels - Learning to wand was essential for casters - Polymorph was actually used while leveling - Rogue stunlock was even worse
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