What’s your fondest WoW memory?

Community General Discussion
1

Let’s take a nostalgia trip on this Friday to answer this question:

Whats your fondest memory made in WoW?

Was it that one time your cat/dog/lizard jumped on your keyboard and wiped your raid?

Or maybe it was a questline you did during your first days that really stuck with you?

Could even be the moment you met your SO, accidentally or not.

For me, it was when I finished the Legendary Cape questline back one MoP. As a new player it was a big thing for me, and even though I did it primarily thru LFR, it was still a rewarding experience to me. I still keep the cloak in my bags and wear it any chance I get.

So what’s yours?

2 Likes
2

Being able to get pickup by a seagull and drop off in Ordos’ Sanctuary WITHOUT being teleported out by an invisible bouncer.

1 Like
3

I once got my PvE server to go to war and caused a massive body count on both sides. This was in that water zone in Cata, the horde and alliance starting area was separated by a curtain of seaweed. I was harassing a few flagged hordies, lured them over and before you know it there was a massive brawl of 50+ players on both sides going at it. Dead bodies floating everywhere!

7 Likes
4

I accidentaly hit my disengage button ( on my hunter) and pulled a pack of mobs that killed our group. Rezzed, came back and did it again immediately.

The fond part is not only did the group just laugh about it, they allowed me to live.

3 Likes
5

During the Burning Crusade expansion, when I completed the Season One Arena set during battlegrounds with honor. That set lasted me for seven levels into Wrath, before it was totally replaced.

Also during Burning Crusade, when I realized that Wow ran well enough in Linux that I could finally remove my Windows partition; So I’ve been “free” ever since (go OpenSuse, up to 15.0 now.)

6

The first time I entered the great forge in Ironforge. When I got into wow, I told my friends I would “only play if I could be a blacksmith” because that was my favorite thing to do in Runescape. When I saw that forge for the first time…it was everything I ever wanted as a blacksmith and then some.

2 Likes
7

the Warlock epic mount quest chain back in the day… Good times.

3 Likes
8

That’s something my friends wouldn’t let me live down, glad yours are more forgiving!

Thanks for sharing!

9

Back in Mists, beating Normal (now Heroic) Garrosh with the help of a bunch of forum-posters. Mostly because it was the first (and still only) time I’ve beaten an expansion’s final raid boss on Normal while it was current.

10

I remember a similar moment, though it was in the Jade Forest rather then Ironforge.

After making my way to 85 and finally being able to make my way to Pandaria, stepping off the zeppelin into the Jade Forest blew my mind. It’s still one of my favourite locations to this day, and every alt I level does the whole zone, tip to stern.

11

One of them would have to be playing with a guildy when I first started many years ago. Based on everything I suspected he was about 10-12 years old. He was hilarious though and had no problems dying many, many times trying to help out.

Bearclaw (if that’s how it was spelled lol) wherever you are, I salute you and your pet BOB.

:cookie:

2 Likes
12

It’s hard to pick a single moment, but I can offer you a memory that really stands out to this day.

I was in Alterac Valley and had been there for hours, unlike modern AV that lasts 20 minutes or less. I was following our ram riders towards the center of the map where Ivus and Lok were both rampaging. There were gryphon riders firing from above and I was furiously typing in chat to launch the ground troops.

I stopped at the crest of a hill looking down on the battle and just stood in awe, and thought to myself “Now THIS is epic!”.

Still remember it to this day and it’s why so many old schoolers miss old AV so much.

9 Likes
13

One of them lol…

Is when I was a human priest and I got my first horse. I loved the sound of it’s hooves when I rode around on it.

:racehorse:

14

I can relate in a way, I’ve been doing a side levelling project with some co-workers. 2 of them are experienced players, the other 2 have played since Wrath, but couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag.

Needless to say, the whole experience is like corralling chickens, but we’re having fun questing and doing dungeons (We even walked into the Deadmines and did it proper!)

Thanks for the cookie, chocolate chip? It’s good!

2 Likes
15

Realizing that WoW didn’t trigger my photosensitive seizures was one of my best gaming memories of all time.
I had had to give up playing EQ and was reduced to logging into the game, stretching the blackened chat window to totally cover the game area and communicate with my guild like that. A gamer who can’t game is a bummer. I know several other players who stopped playing other games and came to WoW because back in vanilla there weren’t very many flashy areas. I have a few places I tend to avoid after numerous Xpacs but all in all, almost 15 years in and only 2 mild seizures while playing. I’m calling it a win :wink:

3 Likes
16

Looking back this was kind of mean but it’s still pretty funny.

In Vanilla, the Mt. Hyjal zone was under development but it was sealed off by mountains. You could run around the backside from winterspring and fall through a crack in the rocks and go explore the zone.

I was on my warlock checking it out and ran into a couple other random players. We went to the pool under the world tree and it was SO DEEP. Your breath would run out before you could swim to the bottom but I had underwater breathing.

We had this idea and grouped up and swam to the bottom of the pool. Then we just did /who Orgrimmar and started inviting random people and they actually joined. And they actually accepted the summons.

We ransomed them for underwater breathing and a lot of people didn’t pay. I remember by the time I ran out of soul shards the pool was littered in drowned bodies.

The mean part was they had to spirit rez since the zone wasn’t open yet.

1 Like
17

Getting flight in TBC.

Semper Fi! :us:

1 Like
18

Well I have a few fond memories that standout, and kudos to Blizz for making a game that makes me give enough of a crud to hold on to them.

One that really stands out to me puts my first ever warrior, a female worgen, in the Arathi Highlands in that one farmstead worked by peons. Ran into a Belf monk and we wind up squaring off and after a bit of posturing start fighting, I charged immediately when he did a battle cry.

There was two rounds to this. First fight I won handily because I think I caught him flatfooted. When he rezed we fought again, could have gone either way though he tried to run away and he nearly did, I had just rebound a bunch of my keys and forgot about Darkflight so he was outpacing me. But I nailed him with Mjolnir (forget the name, but always call it Mjolnir) which slowed him down enough for my slow butt warrior to jog over and give him the last few needed whacks.

This still stands out to me because it’s one of the very few instances of WPvP (started playing a month before Legion was released) that I experienced where an actual fight happened instead of, you know, getting jumped by some max level guy who drops out of the sky and knocks me over with a sneeze before flying off again.

Also, REALLY hating the language filter on these forums.

2 Likes
19

My days raiding in Firelands.

When I was 14th best dk on my server, I was part of a super tight guild, pushing heroic Firelands. I miss it so much some times…

Two memories stand out in particular. One was my best wow friend who played a priest. We we’re doing Lord Rhyolith, and hit phase two where his armor broke. So I popped all my CDs ready to burn the mother trucker down. Next thing I know I’m 40 ft away from the boss. She life gripped me out of range >.>

It was hilarious.

My other favorite memory…was kind of a jerk move but still fun. My friend was a dk tank and I was a dk dps and we were both geared in 50/50 heroic raid gear vs normal raid gear. For shiggles we would queue for heroic dungeons completely naked with grey weps and immediately pull every room possible. After wiping, we would flame the healer until they left. Once the healer was gone, we would re equip our gear and carry the dps with no healer.

Was it a jerk move? Yeah. Was it fun? Yeah. Do I regret it? Nope.

3 Likes
20

3 fond memories.

During Alpha, Just casting a frost bolt with my Dwarf Mage in Dun Morogh at a wolf. Just the sounds, the snow, the place. Just pretty neat.

The time near The Den in Stonetalon, when I was with a bunch of folks. We were walking up towards the opening, when my VW suddenly vanished. I bleeted out in chat. “RUN!” moment before every elite Druid from within the entirety of the Den came vomiting out that hole in the mountain, looking for blood. Somehow, the VW found a gap in the terrain and dropped down in to the Den, and agro’d EVERYTHING.

Watching my imp on Active chasing and being chased by Centaurs while I peacefully fished outside of Wailing Caverns. I’d be fishing, and, off screen a Centaur would spawn or path close enough to get the ire of my imp. He’d start blasting away and chase after the centaur. Eventually he’d run out of mana, then run away from the centaur. So this imp running for its life, being chased by the centaur would run across my screen. I’d then here the sounds of mortal combat, only later to be rejoined by my imp – victorious.

A minute or so later…the Centaur would be back!

4 Likes