What are your earliest memories from vanilla?

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For the old schoolers like myself when 1.12 comes out that is not going to be our actual earliest wow classic memory as we played much before 1.12. What do you guys remember?

Here is my list:

  1. The original bloodlust. 100% crit after a killing blow.
  2. A completely empty silithus and confused why that zone existed.
  3. Warriors class design bugged where they would miss way more than they should.
  4. No diminishing returns, no pvp trinket where you could be perma sheep’ed.
  5. No connected flight paths. You had to manually toggle each flight.
  6. No DM, no ZG
  7. 15 man UBRS
  8. Original warrior talents were terrible. The best dps spec was 31/20, the best tank spec was 31/20, and the best pvp spec was 31/20.
  9. Warlocks pre death coil
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Playing Burning Crusade :slight_smile:

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5 minute paladin buffs
rogues thinking slice and dice made them miss more
hammer bombing other guilds banks so they’d have to log them on and delete blacksmith hammers before they could receive mail.

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Big av Boss batlle

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My earliest memory of vanilla was when my cousin bought it not knowing what it was after having played WC3. He had dial up and ended up returning it before it was fully patched.

I didnt start until BC was out.

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Barrens, mostly. Since, that’s about as far as I got in original Vanilla.

Not going to lie, it honestly felt like that sometimes.

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i remember i got lost in badlands at lvl 17 or something, didnt know what hearthstone was xD i rage quitted, deleted my character and made a Night elf hunter haha

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I was such a newb I would constantly die when I rolled paladin or hunter.

But when I tried warrior I somehow figured things out and that was my first 60

/boggle

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Killing spiders (and probably dying) in the cave in the Teldrassil starting zone.

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Tarren Mill vs South Shore , massive world pvp raged on all day on my server. When an Onyxia kill was a great sense of achievement and hearing the rallying cry of the dragon slayer.

Anyone remember how the Horde Rallying cry went?

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Falling off of Teldrassil while exploring. Not knowing about Rut’theran Village to be able to get back up and having to put in a ticket.

The GM was nice about it though. LOL

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Probably the first time I logged in and had to have my brother explain to me to click on the guy with the Exclamation mark to start quests.

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Rolling an nelf some class, and seeing a lot of people dancing.

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Getting my first Gold by selling Brown Linen Robes for 5s a pop to people in Gold Shire.

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The one thing I don’t think we can get back - the community.

I remember asking questions and having people help out and answer. I remember going to Ironforge for the first time, and it was absolutely packed with people. It was my first graphical MMO (I’d played MUDs) and I remember being completely overwhelmed by it and lost. I remember asking for a little direction and a bunch of people responded and one guy even gave me a little tour to show me the bank, auction house, the area where I had to go for some Warrior thing. I remember coming back later and someone random person saw I was of a certain level and had no shoulder armor, so he gave me a white set.

I doubt any of that will ever come back. It wasn’t the game that was amazing back then - it was that the community of people actually cared about each other. How do you restore that in a game that has been out for so long, with a community that has become so rude to one another? I have no idea.

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Earliest memory? It’s been a long time… I’d say walking into Stowind for the first time. It’s was awe inspiring… the music the entrance. I was WoWed (pun intended)!

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Earliest memory of WoW in general- Seeing screenshots of the mechanical golems in westfall in some magazine.

Earliest memory playing- Sliding across the ground as a noobie night elf trying to loot dead grelks.

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Leaving the Nelf starting zone for the first time and seeing all the mobs with the red names and thinking “holy sh1t, this just got real, I could die out here!” It was my first MMORPG and I was feeling pretty awestruck.

After that, my newb run to Ironforge was unforgettable and actually walking through the city blew me away. I was hopelessly hooked after that.

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I was so excited to play I went through the character creation screen so fast that I didn’t even know that I picked my class in there I thought I picked it in game. What a noob haha

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My very earliest memory was when I was in my apartment browsing gaming websites and saw an article about wow being an upcoming mmo game. I remember seeing a picture of a Tauren in the article and I glanced over it and though “looks like yet another mmo”. At that point I never though I’d even be playing it much less be playing it 15 years later.

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