I was in Panda Attack for a while. Were you there for our faux AV up in the Ironforge Airport? One of my favorite memories from vanilla.
Another Scarlet Crusader! One of us! One of us!
LOL OMFG Yes that was hilarious. Of course my favorite memory is attacking sylvannas and lagging to hell for Operation Everything Must Die when we got 8 full raid groups to attack every horde city at the same time lol.
Throughout Vanilla, BC, WOTLK, and Mists of Pandaria, it was “Altar of the Storms”.
I was part of those cat RP guilds during WoD. Too bad they withered away, they were lots of fun.
Durotan. Defenders of Valhalla was the guild and damn if those weren’t some of the most enjoyable times gaming I’ve ever had. Rahammer, if you’re out there, the guild you created and ran kindled lifelong friendships that still exist to this day, even a relationship and resulting children. In large part possible because of the community made possible in Classic WoW.
What Classic WoW was, in short, a community. The game’s structure and slow pace of advancement, grueling as it was, forced people to work together. Having to actually travel to find a group and get to the dungeon was such a great deterrent for just dropping players or leaving groups on a whim, and encouraged everyone to really try to make each group activity a team effort for the win they all worked so hard to achieve. Blackrock Depths was the epitome of this. I’ve never had as much fun in any dungeon as I have with the runs I have done through BRD. A 4-6 hour grind that would have to be prepped for, a danger only the brave or stupid dare face at a whim. Sometimes a run to repair equipment and dealing with respawns, so much work, but eventually a group of us would get to the end and sit upon Emperor Tharussian’s throne in turn, taking screenshots and recounting the battles fought and loot plundered. Made all the sweeter by the adversity we met every step of the way; it was something to be achieved, not something to merely be done.
When the Looking For Group group system was introduced, it removed a vital aspect of the community from dungeoneering, raiding, and questing: communication. As a player in a main city, looking for a group, or joining the ad-hoc LFG chat channels, you would have to actually communicate with someone, at the very least to tell them what role you performed, and more to coordinate arriving at the dungeon. Interaction was between a player and another player directly. It was essential for at least one message to be sent either way to accomplish any multiplayer tasks. With LFG you can run an entire expansion’s worth of dungeons and never have to speak a word to your fellow players. Not that some would not anyway - but I believe that the necessity of that first message(if not more) is one of the crucial ingredients in the authentic Classic experience. The system of communal punishment introduced in a later version of the LFG had a huge hand in the undoing of the tighter knit communities of earlier versions of WoW, and were only necessary as a response to the LFG system.
Despite my fears, I think we can all agree that Classic WoW is an exciting prospect and many hours will be spent building and testing the community. Blizzard should expect a lot of backlash if they keep the game as close to Classic as possible and forego things like realm-mixing and LFG, but also should expect to build, albeit slowly after the first initial jump, a growing, dedicated, and passionate supporter base for Classic WoW. This base will not be competing with retail WoW, but rather complementing it. I would totally play retail WoW for the cool graphics and fast pace, a quick beat em up, but that gets tiring and repetitive like it will in any game. What kept me coming back to WoW Vanilla was not necessarily the gameplay, but the people with whom friendships were formed. Many introductions between my friends to be were only possible because of difficult situations that could only be overcome together.
This probably wasn’t the right thread for this, but oh well. I definitely needed to say these things. Thank you Blizzard for the awesome experiences this company has provided its customers and fans. And a thank you to the other players who have put up with my in game antics through the years!
Shoutout to Neilias, fellow Durotard!
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I played on Khadgar all the way up til MoP then I finally switched to Frostmourne
Yes. Yes we did.
Warsong until mid bc. Undead rogue
Hakkar US PVP
Stayed there with the guild until it died off and moved to Korgath in MoP.
Kargath, was in a guild called Outriders…some of the best times in my video game life.
Server - Shadow Council
Guild - Exiled
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I was also on Kargath, Horde side.
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Server- Shadow Council
Guild- Exiled
Original toon- Fawenda
Stonemaul US PvP - Horde
Started there in Vanilla. Still there. Stonemaul4Lyfe
I started on Uther. I am hoping to play on a PVP realm this time, come at me bro!
I am running a survey to gather info on what to expect at launch.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X2QZ328
I will be posting the results next week.
Catch me on twitch @MarkTatsu
For the Horde.
That survey only allows 50 people per go. We hit that in 10 minutes so I made a better one.
https://marktatsu.typeform.com/to/xTYgLQ
I still have night sweats over Kuroma. I blame him for me not ever being able to get rank 14
wrong toon
My first character–a female Dwarf Paladin–was created on the Bloodhoof server shortly after the game came out. The first thing I saw upon logging in was a massive number of Gnomes and Dwarves dancing naked in the starter area. Wasn’t sure if it was a special occasion or what, but I wound up rolling a female Tauren Druid and never looked back.
Transferred to Mal’Ganis around Cataclysm and have been there ever since.