Cata for me. The server was so alive with RP no matter what time it was. Gods, it was amazing. The highlight of my gaming life to date.
I miss it.
What do you guys think?
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When I played
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I honestly donāt know; I have played long enough to experience the ebb and flow activity near across the span of a decade. No singular point stands above others, but the cumulative memories point relentlessly to the past. Yesterday always looks better, but I hope, though it is a fickle thing, that tomorrow comes in such a way to permit new memories. If not, I am thankful for the experiences past.
Yes, even unspeakable atrocities that took place beneath the cathedral. That was a good laugh for everyone loitering in the square.
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That point in time around, oh, mid-to-late MoP where it seemed like we were having a plague event every other second was kinda fun. It wasnāt, like, good. But it WAS amusing.
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2008 wyrmrest accord
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In terms of RP? Iād have to single out MoP or BfA actually!
MoP was when I was a fresh-faced new RPer, and mainly allyside at the time, funnily enough. I was studying at university so despite being an Aussie I was able to pop online at peak time most days. I met a lot of people who are still good friends. I have an Alaskan pal who sends me Salmon Jerky once a year. So good 
But yeah honestly I loved MoP. The story was good, the RP was good, and I had some longlasting plots with friends. I really enjoyed my guild at the time too!
BFA ranks easily the same level though in terms of RP. With much pestering from my friends Otielle and Cadias I made Lordaeron Unbound a guild, and while it was only really super active for a bit over a yearā¦ it was the first and only Australian-timezone guild Iād ever been in! For quite a few years Iād been working full time and thus not really able to properly engage with American guilds, so building plots with Aussie friends and crazy American night owls was a really special thing, and something Iāll always remember fondly.
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Idk if youāre memeing or not Liotuse my lad, but Iām gunna have to agree here.
I came to the server 6 days after it opened way back yonder. I canāt say I was ever a popular or known person, but I had plenty of friends, raiding, and RP to keep me satisfied. For where I was in life, it was the best time and I never wanted.
Second best would be MoP, but that was more the group of friends I found myself with at the time, rather than the overall server.
Wrath will probably always be my favorite WrA time. I had a bit of a WoW RP renascence in WoD as well.
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nyehehehe
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Hysterical.
Iād say Wrath or at various points in MoP for me personally. The server had itās usual fights during Wrath (way more drama than now) but it felt so alive in terms of not only RP, but PvE, PvP, server identity, etc. You had HORDE and You had ALLIANCE. Everyone was so protective.
The craziness that was WG would spill over onto the forums. People were passionate about it to the point of accusing others of somehow cheating the system. TM vs SS before it became a BG and was still just a great place to fight in the world.
Hard to believe it was so long ago.
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Wrath & MoP
Bold move, you got me.
I will pass into the East, and become of those loser wizards that never bothered to help out in the entire LotR.
In my defense though, 2008-2009 was a rough time for me so Iām not surprised I messed that up.
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Wotlk and AAO in Wintergrasp against the overwhelming Horde numbers. After weeks of getting GY camped and demoralized some Alliance players met in Darnassus and formed Against All Odds under a player named Xara. I donāt remember all the founding members but I think Thane was there. Under Xaraās leadership and using guerrilla (and often wacky) tactics we managed a few wins. I remember one time we took one of the southern pointsā¦built a siege and ran it all the way up the backwoods out of sight while distracting the horde elsewhere and was able to take out a few walls. A certain very loud and obnoxious Orcish armchair general accused us of exploiting.
It was a toxic mess at times but gods it was fun.
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I have ridiculously fond memories of WrA during MoP when I finally returned to the game after Cata drove me away the first time.
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Joined in Cata, joined Against All Odds and had the best PvP times of my life, lots of events were run around that time and I became friends and rivals with a bunch of people on the server. Kind of checked out in Mists due to a toxic relationship that I got into because of WoW and every time Iād come back AAO was having a slightly harder time hanging on or bouncing back.
Over time, all my old server friends, allies, and frenemies were gone and while I tried to rekindle some of that in BfA with War Mode it didnāt take long before a lot of the ārah rah, server prideā RP-PvP guilds couldnāt be found without half a raid group from [Insert 8:1 population imbalance server here] backing them and even a fair fight would end up with spam whispers, spits, or blood elves / void elves screaming out of character obscenities in Thalassian when they started losing.
Looked around one day and realized I didnāt know anyone anymore, joined Hammer of Dawn which is a great group of lords, ladies, and maybes but I think at 36 and almost half my time on earth being spent on this game itās just lost the spark and rebuilding that sense of community every couple of months got old and Iād rather be building settlements in Fallout 4.
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how many times did they blockade both the cathedral and the gates
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itās okay champ to be honest because of some mental health/depression stuff from back in the day iāve got really patchwork memories of some times
Iād be kind of inclined to agree but personally more roleplay from me back then was pretty impulsive āit would be cool ifā that I never thought of past that initial step. Plus I had less of a backbone and feel like, especially as an eventual officer of this now-defunct guild, I shouldāve raised much more hell over some stuff.
like retroactively i can chuckle at the cringe but it also still aggravates me
I think thereās something good to be found in every āgenerationā of Wyrmrest whether itās the natural shifting and cycling of the community or if we wanna break it up by expansions.
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Late cata and MoP, without a doubt. I have fond memories in just about all of the expansions, but those times during MoP were the best.
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donāt forget stashing all the sick people in the crypts beneath the cathedral!
a very normal and hygienic practice
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