Share your Favorite WoW Memory. Mount Giveaway Over

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What a lovely fun idea Grimoire!

Ok…

Back before merged servers, I was trying to tame Skoll on another BM Hunter.

I would taxi to Frosthold, then fly to the spawn point at the base of Temple of Storms as a starting location.

From there I’d do a clockwise circuit of the three spawn points, herbing and mining along the way so it would keep my attention, and not be a completely pointless exercise.

As I left Frosthold and headed the first spawn point,
OMG I SEE THE TIME LOST PROTO DRAKE FLY BY!!!
:exploding_head::exploding_head::exploding_head:

…and my heart almost exploded out of my chest.

Not thinking (or planning, since I’d never seen it in person before), I took the shot from my flying mount which immediately dismounted me and like an idiot I fell to my death before I could think to drink a slow-fall potion (which I had, but seeing the TLPD caused my brain to jump out of my skull and onto the floor.)

I resed at the graveyard, and tried to catch up with it. Thankfully I caught it right as it was cresting Grom’arsh Crash Site, so not only did I survive the very short fall, I had enough health to make the kill, and get the reins!

I couldn’t believe it! My heart was beating out of my chest!

I learned it. Then flew it to check the easternmost Skoll spawn point, and he was there!

I got both the TLPD and Skoll within 5 min of each other.

It didn’t seem real!

Of course, that was my entire good luck with RNGeezuz spent in the same 5 minutes, which is fine, because that memory makes me smile to this day! :grin:

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Will do. Im sure she will like that. Thanks for your generosity.
:two_hearts:
Looks like you gave her a Bonus roll lol

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One of my long time friends Steve met me through wow and flew across the world to our wedding and out to different trips during the holidays with my college friends. Recently my friends and I did the same at his wedding thousands of miles away and his best man commented on how wow brought us together when Steve was still growing up and sometimes we might even be closer than plenty of the people Steve know in real life. Def better friends outside the game now but still play together when he’s online late at night as we both have full time jobs wife’s and kids on the way. I’ve made quite a few great friends in wow and the social aspect of the game prob is my most favorite part through chatting in elywynn to raids on discord, to the next season glad push you name it heck even banter and trash talk is fun in the right amount. There are great people still in this game just gotta keep trying to find the right crowd.

My favorite memory though outside first gladiator run in tbc was facing Reckful on his almost flawless run in cataclysm to rank 1. Although we lost, he inspired me to be the rogue I am today and helped me build a community guild of strong pvpers back in the day inevitably meeting Steve.

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I honestly have a hard time remembering any moments that stood out to me as really special. My memory is really bad lately except for some small splotches of very specific things that I can’t purposefully recall. They just come to me now and then. I’m honestly not sure to what degree I have positive memories.

I have a specific memory of going around the Timeless Isle, listening to calm piano music. I wasn’t going through a particularly good time at the time. I’m still not. But at that point I was specifically trying not to have a panic attack. I was leaned back in my chair, breathing calmly, probably the closest I’ve been to a meditative state before. It felt nice. And returning to the Timeless Isle recently felt sort of surreal, and calming in a way. I wouldn’t say it’s a favorite memory. It’s just all that comes to mind at the moment, it was pretty recent that I thought about it again.

A lot of stuff has happened to me throughout my playing of this game. None of it good, honestly. None of it I earnestly look back at with fondness. I don’t have a wistful nostalgia for the past most of the time. Despite starting WoW in 2005 I played Classic until about level 30 and just didn’t care to do much more than that. I wasn’t taken back to my childhood or to any good times. I think only those with a solid present or a future to look towards can look upon the past so favorably.

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If I win. Neat.
If not, I am just happy you made someone’s day.

I got my wife to play. She was new and we ran Gnomer for her.

Well coming upon Grubbis, the first boss, we killed all the waves of troggs. Eventually, we killed Grubbis, but before the gnome collapsed the second tunnel, I told my wife there was a chest with a chance for an epic at the end of said tunnel.

A few moments later, she died from the collapse. She was in so deep, the healer couldn’t rezz her and she had to run back.

My best friend was with me at the time and when we all come together, we will spontaneously bring up, “the epics” conversation. Got a lot of mileage on that since it was a vanilla experience.

My beautiful wife took it all in stride. I had to fill the car up with gas the next day in sub zero temperatures
She had the last laugh after all.

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You need to share your favorite wow memory to be eligible. Just add it into your post above :grinning:

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Disclaimer: Not responding for chance at mount.

Just wanted to say my favorite memory was simply first playing Lykopis (in 2005 iirc) in Dun Morogh, running around exploring and eventually taming Bjarn (which I named Lakota). A close second was first playing an Undead. The ambience of Deathknell (and Tirisfal Glades) was fantastic!

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One of my favorite memories and one we still laugh about in guild today actually happened way back in Vanilla.

It’s called - Buji and The Beast

First, let me clarify that most of us were noobs, new to MMOs and new to World of Warcraft. Some of us, including me, were brand new level 60’s. Our guild master decided to put together a UBRS raid and just invited anyone that was level 60 to come along. About half of us were clueless and just followed along doing what our raid leader told us to do.

We get to The Beast room and our raid leader says “Now there is a trick to this fight. We need a hunter to tame The Beast. This will make him smaller and easier to kill.” None of us had any clue that he was actually playing a joke on one of his IRL friends and noob hunter Bujijon. Some of us thought that that was the actual mechanic of this fight. So, the RL says “Okay Buji, get as close to him as you can without pulling him, set down a frost trap, and start Tame Beast!” So, here goes Buji, in his mish mash of quest gear including hot pink shirt (because Transmog wasn’t a thing then), inching closer and closer to The Beast. He asks if we’re ready and then sets down his Frost Trap and starts Tame.

BOOM! The Beast rushes him and literally punts him across the room and he dies mid air. All we saw was his pink shirt flying across the room. Most of us sat there with our mouths open in shock and then the raid leader yells “April Fools”

We all laughed so hard and I had tears running down my face and my sides hurt from laughing so much. Buji never lived it down and in fact another guildie photoshopped The Beast from Beauty and the Beast hugging the avatar of Bujijon wearing his pink shirt. I wish I still had that photo, but it’s long been lost. Every once in a while we’ll retell the story to newer members and get a laugh all over again.

But, this noob hunter has forever been immortalized as Buji and The Beast.

Good times! LOL

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Seriously?

People flagged my OP!?

I’m sitting here trying to do a nice thing and something positive for a change. What is wrong with people? I guess anytime you try and do something positive there’s always someone trying to derail your work just to be a jerk

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yo can i get a new mount im poor and ion wont even answer his phone i need a new plug

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That got flagged real quick.

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Yeah I wish blizzard would permanently ban people that constantly abuse the flagging system and use it incorrectly it’s not a dislike button. They literally do it just to be a jerk

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Honestly if they brought back the downvote option I think it might help to curtail some of those using the flag as one.

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You know it’s funny it’s almost like the internet enjoy being negative. Anytime you try and do anything positive online people pretty much fall out of the woodwork to try and derail you.

I did a fundraiser for st. Jude Hospital on Facebook and had the same thing happen.

But we are going off topic here. Let’s try and stick to the focus of the thread. I wish best of luck to everyone

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That’s no surprise with facebook. I stopped using social media entirely do to all the one sided bias it had and I felt tons better.

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I’m very pleased that it’s a random draw and not a contest. I respect the way you’re doing it.

If you had done it differently and made it a contest where you judge what you think is the best memory, or worse just made it a popularity contest of whose memory gets the most votes, it’s doubtful I would have ever bothered to share my sentiments at all.

Giveaways (and opportunities to share), I love; but ‘contests’ I have no interest in.

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I have a lot of good memories (and bad) but the singular moment that always come to mind first is the time I won a PvP Battleground single-handedly. It was Strand of the Ancients (I think that’s what it was called; it’s now defunct) and my reasonable well-geared Goblin Fury Warrior joined a match in progress. Battles were raging all along the right side, but the left side was empty and the first gate was open, so I skedaddled as quickly as my stumpy, little legs would take me. After going through the first gate I found the second gate to be open and unguarded, as I did all subsequent gates.

The door to the final room was open, too, and by now enemy troops were on to me and running towards me as fast as they could, but I was too far ahead and I waltzed into the final room. Much to my surprise and glee a bit of fanfare music played and “Horde Wins” flashed on the screen.

This was definitely my finest PvP moment (although I’m more of a PvE type of gal) and may just be the most fun of any sort I’ve had in WoW.

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Probably the Mists of Pandaria launch. I dabbled briefly in retail in 2009 (played in not-quite-legit servers before that), then joined for good in late Cata, so never got to experience a proper expansion launch.

I even got up in the middle of the night for the literal launch, was pretty funky being part of the literal first wave in a new world.

Well, sorta-first; my potato at the time had a hard time handing the airship ride from old world to MoP.

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Happy to see my ‘flamethrower’ didnt need to do much!

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