Earliest WoW Memory?

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I thought a campfire-like post may be refreshing in the midst of some apparent frustration as of late (not that it isn’t called for). Feel free to leave a memory and have a chat if you feel up to it. I apologize in advance for the long post, but by all means leave a novel of your own and share what you’ve got to say.

I played for an extremely short time back in vanilla. I was young, maybe 8-10 years old and spent a week at my grandmother’s house for Christmas. My cousins from out of state were also staying with her at the time and had just gotten into WoW, so they had shipped their computers to her house for the month they would be staying there.

I had another family member who was really into Everquest at the time and I spent quite a bit of time at his house screwing around making low level characters and never making it out of the starting area (as I’m sure you could imagine an 8-10 year old doing). He was also really into Starcraft and Warcraft II at the time and I remember him getting me my own copies for Christmas the year prior.

Seeing Warcraft in an Everquest-esque light made me absolutely giddy, and I begged my cousins to let me play for a bit. It was the first game I can ever remember staying up past midnight playing.

I made an Orc Warlock (believe I named him Muskles, yikes) and made it my life’s goal to get to level 8 (or whatever it was) and unlock the voidwalker before I had to go home.

I finally reached my goal and was proudly parading around Thunder Ridge doing some quests or something with my voidwalker when I was approached by another player, an Undead Priest. They kept following me and repeatedly challenging me to a duel. They were at least level 30 if I remember correctly, and I was terrible at typing and pretty much only knew how to move and click on the hotbar, so I avoided contact for a while.

Then, they pitched “50 silver?” in chat. I was now intrigued, and took the biggest bite of b8 you could imagine. I managed to type “If I win”, and they reassured me I would get it even if I lost. I of course could not see any way this could possibly go wrong and agreed to the duel. They let me throw a few shadowbolts at them before they mind controlled me, and walked me right off of the ridge where I died surrounded by thunder lizards. I would like to say that the fall did not kill me, but rather the horde of thunder lizards that were aggro’d shortly after my fall. My opponent /laugh’d in my general direction and I never saw them again.

This is not only my earliest WoW memory but also the first time I was ever trolled, so it was quite the monumental incident. The worst part is, I never got my 50 silver.

Cheers, and thanks for reading. Happy Holidays everybody.

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creating my first character (blood elf priest) and killing mana wyrms in eversong, having the time of my life.

I used to play on a dell mini laptop. I averaged 5-10 fps. Thank goodness i was too young to notice and remember how terrible that was to play on.

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The one that always sticks with me is how my internet and computer were so bad that I could barely raid in the early days. Everyone around me sounded like they were having so much fun and enjoyed being serious about the game but I was just along for the ride. My first real requirement was picking up the Rockies on garr and by the time is get threat on them the other ones would all be dead.

That was a key insight and inspiration for who I am today in this game and gives me a healthy appreciation for tech and infrastructure and how far it’s came in a decade plus.

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Making my first Forsaken and getting lost in those spooky woods near their starting zone… only to stumble across some huuuuge undead monstrosity :sob:

Was actually like pretty mortifying at the time

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My dad was a hardcore EQ player that did all the high end content, he was a ranger. I played EQ a little bit and liked it! Tried wow and it appealed much more to me obviously as a kid. One of my earliest memories was running around elwynn as a paladin and my dad kept having to remind me to buff up as blessing of might only lasted 5-10 minutes and I kept forgetting about it.

Another big one for me is how I put off warrior for so long. I had no interest in them at first I was like they cant do any magic why would I want to do that. I had never seen a rage bar in action. I finally got around to making it after trying all the other classes and I was like hmm okay this is actually pretty cool I like this build and spend style more I think. Then I learned “Charge” and it was all over I was hooked. Been playing warrior forever since except for dk.

I specifically remember running around in one of the kobold caves for one of those starter quests. I had just learned charge and was loving it. Met a mage fellow in the mine and there were some kobolds and I said “watch this” and charged the kobold. Dude was literally AMAZED he was like WHOA how did you do that!? The fact that you could truly wow someone with one of the most baseline class abilities is something that I will never see again in this game.

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Running around as a female tauren hunter

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Jumping into a small pond, swimming and going under water.

It was a big deal.

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My VERY first Wow memory is of watching my friend’s brother playing during Vanilla, just a nelf warrior or hunter mining in a cave somewhere. My first memory of playing for myself (a few weeks later) was creating a female dwarf priestess and running through the dwarf zone for awhile, then being told how to take the train to Stormwind, and from there running through Elwynn into Westfall at night.

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I remember seeing a demonstration game in a store and thinking how pretty it was and all the boys crowded around to play. I went and got a copy of the game to purchase, I’d basically just gotten my first computer and it was the first computer game I’d seen. (yes i literally grew up in a religious boarding school and was finally set free in the world) The guy at the counter laughed at me and told me girls don’t play wow, thought in my head, well they do now!

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My earliest WoW memory is making a Night Elf Hunter named Cyberling on my mom’s account back in 2006. I remember finding my way to the spiders next to that cave north of Shadowglen and promptly deleting and recreating my character after being virtually camped and not being able to find my way back to safety.

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Beta Phase 3, of Vanilla,

Running around in Darkshire with a Torch in one hand(the off hand), on my Night Elf Priest. Spirit was “king”, and the torch added spirit. Then I’d stop sometimes and make a “Bonfire.” Both the torch and bonfires were part of the “survival” skill, which was a “Freebie” like fishing.

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One of my earliest memories way back in BC was when I was leveling my first toon (warlock) it was a guild group run and we did the Temple of Atal’Hakkar back when it used to be longer and you had to do that one part where you had to turn on all the snakes and it was all of our first times doing that dungeon. Someone had an idea to attack the mobs from one podium to the next so they would just run to us. Little did we know the mobs pulled everything along with them from their podium and in the halls, that followed them to our podium. Needless to say we wiped but we all were laughing so hard. Good times…

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My earliest memory was my friend bought me WoW and wasnt gonna upgrade me to WotL until he knew I was going to play it. So I was stuck not being able to choose Draenei or B.Elf eventhough I really wanted it too.

So I ended up making a gnome. I went out into the snowy mountains around Ironforge killing bears with this tiny human and wondered about the scary lich king that lurk in these snowy lands not realizing that wasnt until northrend but ok.

I ended up deleting that gnome and making a draenei instead on a different server that was native english as my friend wasnt and I had no clue about people talking there on his server.

Now you know my dirty secret I used to have a gnome. Shame on me.

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One of my earliest good memories in WoW was leveling my very first toon (this guy) during Cata, and finding Mr. Grubbs in a hidden stash from a mob in Eastern Plaguelands! It was my first companion pet! On the flip side, I also remember getting killed by Murlocs along the lake in Elwynn Forest! :joy:

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I remember the very first character I ever made. I had just seen the “Make Love not Warcraft” episode of South Park, so I decided to try WoW out myself.

I made a Dwarf Hunter, because I thought the Dwarf from the intro cinematic was really cool. I had like… 10 FPS, and I quested with him through the Loch, taming the biggest bears I could find, unaware that it didn’t really matter which ones I tamed unless they were rares.

Good times.

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If I had pulled that stunt off, I would have mailed the victim at least 100g just for letting me do it (If he was an actual new player and an alt with millions.)

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I was in the Night Elf starting area and I was off to kill tiger runts. I was wondering why my character was bouncing. I thought it was a button on my mouse I was pressing accidentally.

I later learned that was my idle animation.

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Seeing my character lying on his back with his arms crossed and being told to get up by a member of the Apothecary.

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Defias mage level 15, killing my warrior with 2 fireballs at level 18.

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On my first acc back in Wrath going through Ashenvale at level 19 and getting oneshot by a DK. I was like awesome but what just happened lol.

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