So I was thinking about today, if not for pet guides like Petopia I would be completely unaware and lost about teaching my old dog new tricks.
When the game first came out, before guides, how did Hunters figure out to tame new pets to learn new abilities for their main pet? Seems like a lot of us woulda been running around level 45 or so with Bite 1s and such lol.
The game already made it obvious that you needed to go tame beasts to get skills. It simply didn’t tell you where any of them were. It dumped you into the world and expected you to scour every zone, taming everything in them, until you found whatever random beast that had the skill you wanted. Naturally, players said “to hell with that” and looked everything up. You ask how we did things “before” guides were made, but such a time didn’t even exist for most players. I started a few months after launch and there were ALREADY guides with all quests, pet skills, boss mechanics, and so on.
World of warcraft didn’t exist before the internet. That should have been obvious enough on its own.
Thottbot.
My first main was a hunter, I dinged 60 in Feb 2005. Good times.
Yeah right. What about before the internet?
Interesting stuff, thanks fellas
I remember early Molten Core strats were shared via MS Paint images, for group placements.
Then, if you were lucky, you could spend 2 hours downloading a crappy FRAPS 420x280 15FPS video, from some DPS mage, way in the back, to give some sort of laggy/pixilated view on RAID strategies from a guild that was clearing the content.
As for hunters? Thottbot/Alakazam, class discussion forums and the printed Blizzard Warcraft guides, for sale next to the 4-pack CD game disks, were your go to sources.
Hey, somebody had to be the first to figure it out. We stand on the shoulders of dial-up giants.
official forums were huge
Class subforums had insane theory crafting (especially warrior which always seemed to attract the older/more tryhard guys)
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