First Expansion?

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Classic, but i guess my first xpac would be BC. Long, strange, annoying, frustrating, but for whatever reason, enjoyable, journey.

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Same for me. Ulduar had just opened when I started.

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Roommate showed me his character back in TBC. Ended up getting my own account so we could game together.

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Played in the beta test, didn’t actually pay for a sub till TBC.

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WCI for the entire franchise. Not when it first came out though since i was 2 years old.

Then Vanilla for Wow.

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I started right after Sunwell came out in BC.

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Vanilla, started in Feb 2005.

Forced to take breaks pretty much every expansion from MoP to Legion, then chose to skip the second half of BfA through the very end of SL. Enjoyed DF and Enjoying TWW (though I still miss the days of whole expansions remaining current, as opposed to “seasons mode” we have now).

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Cataclysm

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First expansion was TBC. But I started at the tail-end of Vanilla.

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Really started playing in Patch 1.3.0. Had dabbled a little before that but was playing City of Heroes more.

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I grew up with the game, but the first one I actually started PLAYING was Cata.
Before that I kind of played it at my grandma’s house (yes she did and still does play) but it wasn’t until I’d say towards the end of Cata that I actually got interested and started playing it on my dad’s account (Which is now entirely my own)

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Open beta 2004 - I was so proud of my level 26 undead mage that got wiped

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33

I started playing WoW in Cataclysm when they changed the free trial to be up to level 20 instead of a certain amount of time.

I started being able to afford an actual account around the very end of MoP.

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I started in Vanilla, which makes BC my first expansion.

EDIT:

I grew up on the RTS games too. WC1 came out when I was 5 years old, and my dad got the Mac client the next year. I played the first couple missions, but as a 6-year-old, I wasn’t able to understand it enough to progress further than that. :joy:

I did watch Dad play through all the missions.

I was able to progress further with WC2, since I was 7 through 9 at the time, but I always hit a wall in the last third of the campaigns.

I was thrilled when I was able to play WC3 all by myself (because at 13, I was able to understand the mechanics). So proud of myself, LOL. :grin:

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Vanilla, I was there from the beginning lol.

I had an older brother playing, got my own account a bit later and joined the fun, hit lvl 60 in Vanilla and none of my friends did until mid-TBC.

It was the best of times, even though the game itself might’ve been archaic by today’s standards.

I remember learning Thrown weapons on my Hunter, only to discover I couldn’t use any of my shot abilities with thrown lol, ah what could have been. (Why did they let us do that, lmao :sob:)

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I didn’t start in any expansion. I started the game in vanilla, you know, when the game WAS ACTUALLY GOOD.

some of you would never have survived. /lvl 58 dk

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37

Vanilla.
Started playing on Feb. 15th, 2005.

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Why have this posted? You and I know everyone here been playing “since Vanilla” or “for 20 years”
Actually, a poll with just those two choices would have been better
Judging by the Enders though apparently everybody began in TBC :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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It’s genuinely fun for me to see who started in which expansions. Some posters surprised me — I would’ve pegged them as earlier starts than what they said.

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I began in Vanilla.