CONTEST: $20 B.NET for your favorite WoW story

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Hey all! I have a $20 Battle.net gift card that I would like to giveaway. I figured I’d do a contest and give it to a random WoW story in this thread. It can be a favorite moment, downed a boss, got Gladiator for the first time, reminiscing about the good ole days, anything as long as it is related to WoW. It can be any length - 2 sentences or 2 pages, doesn’t matter.

I will announce the winner this Friday, 1/29 at 9p EST. Please leave either your BattleTag or Discord in your post for me to contact you. My sub ran out so I don’t think I can contact you in game.

(Hope this is allowed and not removed)

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one time i went into a thread and won a gift card

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This is one of the first characters I started, way back in Cataclysm.

I’m Herbalism and Inscription, so I spent a lot of time farming Cata herbs as I leveled. Ah, the days farming Whiptail in Uldum! I remember creeping stealthily (Yes! I know I’m a Shaman and we don’t have stealth!) toward a node so as not to aggro the serpents and crocolisks. I remember battling down to 1/3 health just to get one precious node from those 8-legged demons (or is it six?)!

Anyhoo, I was approaching 85 in the fall of 2011, iirc. During Brewfest you could get Tremendous Tankard o’ Terror to drop from the holiday boss, and I carefully stockpiled two of them for the precious day when I dinged 85.

The day came. I equipped my dual-wield beer steins. I had even enchanted them with the Avalanche enchant, so they looked frosty-cold from the freezer.

Then I hit Uldum to farm some herbs.

First node, first crockolisk. He moved in for the kill, and my newly geared 85 shaman wound up and knocked him clean into next Tuesday! (You know the death animation when they flip over? I one-shotted him with one of those!)

To this day farming Whiptail in Uldum makes me smile. I’m still waiting for my dirndl transmog. When I get it, I’m set on this toon for life!

#stpaulidraenei

bnet: Athena#1962

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My favorite wow story; my last raiding experience; I’ve was in a raiding guild years ago.

Me and the GM’s fiancé became really good friends, she ends up ending her 7 year engagement because it wasn’t going anywhere. Her and I start dating; we get kicked from the raiding environment. The GM moves on during that time and dates another guild mate, has a a child with the guild mate. My and the girl date for about a year; doesn’t work out, we break up and stop talking to each other. Now we both are married to other people and don’t raid.

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No

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@Brucehornsby

Whelp, that’s just the way it is …

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One of my first characters was an Orc Warrior and I decided that he should live in the Swamp of Sorrows. I tried to just live a peaceful in game life there, doing what Orcs do in the swamp when I met a talking Donkey. This dude was the most obnoxious Donkey ever and wouldn’t stop following me around but I couldn’t get rid of it.

Long story short, we end up meeting this princess with a weird condition. She turns into an Orc at night and believed firmly that she would stop if she just received loves first true kiss. So she hires us to help her find some human prince (hurr hurr you know how that goes dealing with those racist) and the Donkey and I go on a bunch of misadventures with dragons and what not while being chased by some short king that wants the princess to himself. When we eventually do find the Prince, turns out he’s a royal douche and wants nothing to do with the princess cause of her affliction.

Well, I decided to buck up and take advantage of the situation and kiss her when she was vulnerable and guess what?!?!?! Turns out her true form IS THE ORC ONE! So we get happily married and now live in the Swamp of Sorrows but that annoying Donkey still lives next door (and he’s mating with the dragon we came across).

Somebody once told me that the world was gonna roll me.
Unfortunately, I am not the sharpest tool in the shed.

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Well, ain’t much of a story, but more like first experience with WoW but worth a shot.

During Legion, When I finally decided to play on a US server, Emerald Dream, I got invited to a guild while leveling my Guardian Druid. The Guild leader was really friendly and when I told him I was a fairly new player with very limited tanking knowledge he told me he would teach me how to tank. The guild was really small, we often had to rely on Pugs in Antorus, and let me tell you, the people at the guild were really friendly, me and the healer spent a whole day RPing in Booty Bay, leader taught me how to tank properly to a point where I unlocked the Mage Tower appearance for Guardian Druids and man, I was so damn happy about that werebear form, I could barely wait for raid night.

Regardless, that is by far the best experience with WoW I had, we fell apart during the Legion to BFA content drought, when our healer quit the game and had no interest in BFA. I felt comfortable and welcomed in that guild, I still have both the healer and the tank added, nowadays our Healer still barely plays, only joining in for a week or so before leaving again while the Leader is now part of a Mythic progression guild on Illidan, still, I guess I couldn’t have asked for a better experience, Legion felt so… Right from music scores, to people I’ve met, to server events… I can’t exactly recapture that feeling with WoW nowadays and I am not sure why.

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Back when we first started playing in BC, myself, sister, and bro-in-law didn’t know what the “holy trinity” was. So we ran dungeons at level, 2 warlocks and a mage. We healed with health stones and had our blueberries tank. Funny part is, we cleared dungeons like this.

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The fact that your guild name is not “The Range” makes me sad.

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I once sharted

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I once dueled my brother on top of the zep tower and lost, then took a single point of damage from a brazier and died.

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This one time the raid wiped on Fangkriss and I decided to Feign Death in front of him instead of running back. It was long way to get back to him and people had to do the gauntlet spawns over again. Well, while everyone was in the instance on their way back, I accidentally moved breaking Feign Death and aggroing the boss. This caused everyone inside the instance to ported directly in front of the boss and insta-killed one by one.

I had wiped the raid, all 40 players in a matter of 10 seconds flat. Nobody knew what happened, I kept quiet on the situation.

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If you’re familiar with my activity on the forums, you know I am not a nice person.

It’s not that I’m hateful. I just have very little patience for stupidity, gatekeeping, and elitism, things this forum is infested with.

Because these things are so prevalent in this community, I’m a little too quick to assume that’s what I’m seeing, especially when topics like LFR and limited time rewards come up.

One day while on the forums I got into an argument with a Nelf Druid who we shall call Sparkles for her privacy and also because I forgot her name. I don’t remember what the argument was about. Probably LFR, because she came out as a heroic raider and then my willingness to listen to her arguments completely disappeared.

Why should I care about the opinions of a group that regularly demands the content I enjoy be removed so they can feel more special?

Then she claimed she was running carries through Heroic N’Zoth for the mount to convince me she was not, in fact, terrible. I did not believe her.

It did not seem possible at the time that someone who was part of a group that tells me that I’m having fun wrong and shouldn’t be allowed to enjoy the game was even capable of such charity, much less regularly put aside the time for it.

But Sparkles left her BNet tag and it seemed unreasonable to not at least give her the chance to have lied, so I signed up for one of those carries.

I did not deserve Sparkles.

Despite the fact that I was nothing but rude to her, she took me on and let me be deadweight while her group tried to down N’zoth.

I never got the mount, because N’Zoth’s fight was designed by Satan himself, but it doesn’t matter because I was wrong. There is apparently one Heroic raider who isn’t a dirtbag who’s violently offended that I enjoy the same game as them, and to this day I’m still very sorry I was so rude to her.

Sorry Sparkles.

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I won’t even be mad.

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i had a dude mistake me for a “girl” and buy me things. kept all my gear gemmed and enchanted, even if i told him he was being too kind ect, he’d insist and throw a tantrum if i refused. even bought my winter flying for me

i logged on one day to see him bragging in trade about his girlfriend… he saw me log on bought be a certain item (robes of insight) demanded i wear it and started introducing me to the server via trade chat as his girlfriend (my guild mates were having a field day in guild chat)

Eventually one of them told him, and he never logged back on :frowning:

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I hope you realize what you just did but I’m not going to argue with your promotional .

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I was questing through Mount Hyjal, and I wasn’t getting credit for rescuing the baby bears who are stuck in a tree. I thought the quest was bugged until I finally noticed the trampoline. I had been sitting there chucking dozens of baby bears in random directions to their death.

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