I remember the first time we did Deadmines as a bunch of lvl 15 and lvl 16 characters, and how we wiped out instantly on the first pull of mobs 
We were fine - up until the moment i ran out of mana. Which happened about 20 seconds after we started the fight.
I forgot, that in this version of WoW, you canāt simply put your character on follow and spam 1 healing spell, while watching Netflix at the same time. Turns out that mana is a very precious resource in Classic.
We ended up wiping about 6-7 times - barely enough to finish the dungeon without having to come back to Sentinel Hill for repairs. But it was one of the greatest moments I ever had in years of playing not just WoW, but video games in general.
I still have all the people who were in that team as my friends on Discord, and we regularly chat about random stuff - even though we are playing on different servers now.
What was your most memorable moment during the launch of Classic?
Are you still in contact with the people who ran the first dungeon with you?
How many times did you wipe during the first Deadmines / Ragefire Chasm / Wailing Caverns?
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How easy it was now that Iām not a clueless kid playing his first MMO.
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Not being able to play because the queue lasted from the time I got home from work till the time I had to go to sleep because I had work in the morning.
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I remember, not being here.
I had ceased following the development and did not realize it was launched until like october/november?
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The number of people in a single zone. It reminded me of standing in line waiting to be the first group to buy something new.
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I remember coordinating my remote desktop login with the time I left to try and perfectly land myself in the game once I got home. I actually got pretty good at it, most days Iād be around the last 100 in queue or in the game still not afk.
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I guess two things come to mind.
First, the sheer number of players in Dun Morogh on launch night. Despite the sharding, the crowd was insane. Iāve never been so desperate to kill a wolf or a boar in my life, lol. Glad I was able to witness that.
Secondly, I remember bumping into a newbie human rogue in Elwyn Forest. He was new to the game and had no idea what he was doing. I helped him with a quest, then discovered he wasnāt wearing any pants! He had no idea what he did with them, lol. I stitched him some trousers from some spare linen and sent him on his way.
None of my groups wiped in Deadmines, honestly. I was surprised how easy it was compared to my traumatised memory. Gnomeregan, however, was every bit the trench war that I remembered it to be.
I kept in touch with a few of those guys, but somehow we lost touch as we leveled at different paces. One guy even put me on ignore after kicking me from a ZF group. I made one small mistake, and that was that I guess. We were battle buddies, man! We survived the gnome apocalypse together!
Ah, well. Iāve made some other friends over the past few months, and Iāve had a great time playing classic.
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Not a good one, sadly. Layering. I agreed to play at launch in spite of it because I would be playing with my brother and sister-in-law. The queues were expected. I was working from home, so I was logged in much earlier than them. Several hours later, they finally got through the queue. We were on Discord, and trying to meet up ā¦ but not seeing each other. Because layering. So weād have to group up and have that moment of everything phasing away for whomever got moved.
Yep. Thatās my brother, my sister-in-law, and one of her cousins. Sometimes it mixes up and includes another cousin and her husband, sometimes we grab a couple pugs to fill out the group if weāre not all on.
However, Iāve done enough dungeons with them to not really remember what our first dungeon experience was.
RFC - 0
DM - 1
WC - 0
Honestly, while I love getting the original dungeons back, they feel easier than they did even during TBC and Wrath post-nerfing. The NPCs outside hit hard, but otherwise it has felt like tank and spank, ignore mechanics, handle overpulls.
Iāve had one wipe in WC since, and that can be entirely pinned on saying okay to taking a level 15 enh shaman as a pug. We managed to only wipe once, but that guy could attract the attention of half a room just running into melee range with the tankās mob. The tank was a true hero for not complaining, just adapting by pulling instead of charging in most cases.
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Not being able to cast fireball fast enough to mark skeletons at Deathknell.
Had to start meleeing nearby targets to complete the quest.
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I remember not being able to play for more than 2 hours total the first week, because by the time I got past the queue I had maybe 15 minutes before I had to log off and go to bed for work in the morning. The following week was much better, as I had work off for it.
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Making linen bags at Razor Hill 5s each or free with your mats.
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Defeating the queue boss is my most memorable. Followed closely by at level 5 I made it to menethil harbor on opening night as the likely first character to do so on my server. I was heading to darnassus as a gnome to meet up with my brother who made a Druid.
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Already nostalgia on your nostalgiaā¦?
I actually have the opposite story.
I was on my character screen 2 hours prior to the launch - ready to go!
But about 45 minutes before the āEnter the worldā appeared, I decided that it is a good idea to reserve the names for the characters on other realms.
I clicked on āchange the realmā, and when i returned 1 minute later, there was already a 5 hour queue
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I got to level 14 on a Night Elf Priest. I maxed fishing. Someone told me that the next level fishing trainer was in booty bay. So I swam from Darkshore to ratchet on this NE priest, took a boat to booty bay, was too low a level to get the skill, (and lacked the gold to boot), then failed to find the flight master after looking an hour, and hearthed home.
Many hours lost for no gain of any description. It makes an interesting memory though. I wonder how many more stories I donāt get to have just because looking stuff up is so easy now.
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Listening to teldrassilās music while picking mushrooms on my warrior. It started to rain at some point and it was basically bliss. I remember it because I couldnāt play my priest without my brother who couldnāt login due to queue, but I was still having a great time. Still am having fun too, but nothing beats foresty zones for me.
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Joining Thalnos and walking into quite literally a million people forming legitimate physical lines for creep quests. It was a huge social experiment. I ended up taking like 3 hrs to get to level 7 and was killing random mobs in order to level up. I ended up rage quitting (for literally 30 sec) because of the lag and getting my creeps/quest items stolen, then logging back on only to have an UNGODLY LONG queue time. As Iām sitting in queue, I come to find out that Thalnos is the designated Brazilian server for the night and (no offense) decided to reroll on Kirtonos as the new realms started rolling out immediately. It was a match made from heaven and Iāve been there ever sinceā¦
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Same I loved it so much I bought the album and the Teldrassil tune has like the top number of plays.
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I got a rogue to 12 on whitemane before leveling this one. Screw queues lol. Then the guild i was leveling in was cool but as i got closer to 60 people stopped logging in. Now Iām in an awesome raiding guild with active members!
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