Stitches, Duskwood and Old School

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Just wait; the folks all hyped for classic and who never met the lug will be crying on the forums when Stitches runs them over.

EDIT: The thing i remember most about that quest was how it had you run from one end of Duskwood to the other completely, about four times getting the materials for the embalmer. And this was before riding levels.

…I also remember going back to kill Stitches on this very rogue after I hit 60 and got some gear. Revenge was sweet.

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Watcher Jordan was “the man” when it came to Stitches.

I loved that quest line, and it’s oneof the ones I miss most from old WoW.

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Or the original Hogger … or those damn escort quests all over Azeroth, especially that one in Darkshore near the border with Ashenvale.

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Lol I found Felwood, The Plaguelands, and the Blasted Lands to be some of my favorite zones. The questing and stories so rich in Lore.

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Even on my pvp servers, Duskwood was one of my favorite zones.

I remember cheering with other lowbies when we heard a Horde party was going after Stitches: “Did they get him?” “YES!”

And the Bride of the Embalmer rare, too.

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See, now you guys are giving me a reason to want to play classic again. I miss the warlock questlines so badly. Also back in the day for me soloing Hogger was my litmus test for whether I would play a class beyond Elwynn Forest.

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In Eastern Plaguelands on that road heading to Stratholme, there used to be these level 60 elites, Scarlet Crusaders, that would path up and down the road and give holy hell to any player questing around that area.

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Hey, current WoW developers…learn from this. Make us some new memories we will talk about years from now.

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I remember…

Game was much different then…

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This, right now we have Zappyboi, and Dolly and Dot. Even Cata gave us Thassarian and Koltira and Zankiki.

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Yeah i hated that I remember doing the questline for my wand back in the day.

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Good times, good times…Back when an area was level heavy restrictive. I swear I have stitche’s femur from back in the day in one my toons’ bank :hugs:

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Roads are safe the loading screen says.

Sees Stitches lumbering down the road.

I’ve determined that was a lie.

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I say this all of the time! Holy cow I miss stitches and the chaos…

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I don’t think they can. They can’t bring back the people we were then or how amazing and epic WOW was to was to the people we were . Nostalgia is a dangerous and sorrowful drug, my friend.

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Compare the current stitches to the primary. They never should have changed him.

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I still have my Stitches’ Femur from my first Stitches fight way back then. It was just that memorable.

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For future needs of throwing a pitbull into a group of kittens you can say a Kindle of kittens. Gaggle is for geese.:scream_cat:

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I miss walking about Duskwood and seeing all those skeletons on the floor. That sense of danger is long gone from this game.

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Duskwood remains my fav zone and my fav memories from Vanilla.

It started just looking across the river and seeing that dark scary forest with critters walking around who were labeled red. Deadly for lowbie me. When they became orange swam across and tried my luck, nearly died.

Finally, I was ready a few levels later. Was as dangerous as advertised. The silently patrolling Mor’ladrim killed me a few times, walked up behind while I was fighting a mob and just smashed me. Great quests, great NPC’s, gorgeous art. The first time I saw the black widow spiders and the worgen??? Unforgettable.

Then suddenly one day everyone is screaming about “STITCHES” and I have no idea what’s going on. Was not prepared for what I saw. He was doing his thing, flinging bodies left and right, gigantic and horrifying. My little hunter shot him a few times, he killed my cat in one swipe. Finally, it felt like the whole zone teamed up to bring him down.

I was sweating, shaking a bit, definitely in awe. Where did he come from? What the hell was he? Would he come back???

Vanilla WoW felt huge, dangerous, and mysterious. There was so much out there that you didn’t know or understand, and most of it could kill you. There was no talk of “tuning”; Stitches and Mor’ladrim were there, they were real and in the world. You either came correct with allies or you ran for your life.

And the cherry on top of Duskwood? When it was finally revealed to me much later in end game what was behind those mountains in the center of the zone.

Stitches and those memories are the best argument I can muster against mob scaling. That feeling of being small and awestruck in a huge and deadly world has been lost as WoW has progressed. I don’t want to be THE Hero, I want to be A Hero. The game should not revolve around me, I should be a part of the world. One soldier in an epic confrontation(s). With that formula legendary moments happen when something like Stitches happens to you.

tl;dr - Stitches is one of the main reasons I will play Classic.

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