Back in my day

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I had to walk until level 40 and then grind 90g to ride a horse. And 90g was a lot back then.

I had to take an hour away from questing when I got a new mace to level my mace skill up

I had to resort to melee abilities if mobs got too close to my hunter

Newly created night elf players got lost in the Ban’ethil Barrow Den. Some still have yet to return.

The Barrens was the first half of every Horde’s leveling experience. You spent days searching for zevhra hooves and making chuck norris jokes and you liked it

Night elves all died a hundred times over on the perilous journey from the Wetlands to Ironforge.

Ding! You have new abilities. Now return to the capital city and spend all of your gold on new ranks of spells. Don’t forget to put your talent point in the right spot for +1% to haste!

Mages fell to their death. Because they forgot to buy feathers for slowfall

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Might wanna try this in classic general discussion. Boomer wow is frowned on here

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Back in my day you lost exp whenever you die

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Back in my day you had to farm soulshards before raid.

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Ah yes, the Terror Run. Some of us did that in reverse to get to the Night Elf starting zone – back in the day, starting zones were a great way to build faction rep. And if you get bored questing in one continent, you could hop over to the other … but you had to make the run through the Wetlands first, and on a low-level character that wasn’t easy.

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The gold for the 60% riding skill & mount was totally doable by level 40.

The gold needed for the 100% riding skill & mount took forever. I started in August 2005 and it took until almost TBC’s launch for me to buy those.

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Was always fun to realize I didn’t have enough gold for that last spell I could learn. Knowing I’d end up putting it off until the next set.

And then being short on the next set because of it.

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OG EQ FTW!

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Totally remember doing this. But it was also a time when Fear was tops. Could fear juggle spiders and drain their souls. Man it was fun.

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Back in my day flying was 40% slower than an epic ground mount.

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8 hour maintenance was the standard back in the day. Every Tuesday, 8 hours like clockwork. People would be going completely ape shiz if that was happening today.

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Oh and don’t forget handing cookies out 1 by 1.

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Ugh.

/w level 50 cleric: “Hey dude, do you have the 98% rez stick?”

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Any SoW for CR please, will tip!!!

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Making food and water separately for the entire 40 man raid group…

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That is one of the reasons I could never play mage… yet there I was making a ton of healthstones…

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Honestly this just made my day +1 sir

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As a lock in a raid people would just run up and open a trade with you. Expecting you to be a good warlock and put a cookie in the window without saying a word.

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I’ve heard this before… you bought a burger, fries, milkshake and a 3bed/2bath house for a nickel–and you walked to school, barefoot, uphill both ways in the snow while getting pelted by hail from a tornado.

I will admit, I don’t miss the days of running out of ammo/arrows on the hunter… it’s like running out of toilet paper on the commode.

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How I don’t miss this or needing reagents for my teleports/portals.

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