What is your biggest, most deeply held grudge in World of Warcraft? What is a painful memory?
Mine would be from WOTLK right before the Cata Pre-Patch. I wanted the “Undying” Title so bad. That was from killing all the bosses in Naxx without any player deaths. I finally found a good group, and then at KT, someone trolled and got himself killed on purpose. It was the last lockout period before the Pre-Patch also, and I lost out on that title forever. I won’t forgive that individual.
I don’t think I have one? I have amusing anecdotes, but nothing I hold a grudge over.
Druids
Always played on pvp servers and the single class that was more annoying than the rest of the options combined was druids
So after years of conditioning dealing with druids spam jumping with insta casts, I just hate them all
someone sniped my tlpd
we had a group of 4 camping it for days, it spawned, someone logged right in front of it and killed it.
tbf he did repent by camping it with us for almost the same amount of time we camped before it spawned, but we never saw it again.
cries lol
You can cook the food but you can’t eat it.
I let the TLPD go once because I didn’t know it dropped a mount.
Whatever Blizz keeps doing to WW so the other classes are more viable by comparison.
Also putting rewards in WoW behind Plunderstorm.
The fact that Frost Mage and BM hunter still exist.
Windwalker too, but I’d accept them if they’d get a rework.
Not unlocking all the mage tower appearances. I had just started playing the game in Legion. I barely knew what I was doing on the two classes I DID play, much less the other ones in game. I was leveling up each class and exploring the game/figuring things out. And then towards the end of expansion I worked on the mage tower. I think I got… 3 appearances? I wanted soooo many more, but my toons weren’t geared and I didn’t know how to play them.
I think it’s unhealthy to hold grudges, especially for almost 20 years, but I guess the closet for me is missing out on Hand of A’dal… twice.
I had the Lady V portion done then took a break when my guild moved on to Kael because my father passed away. Then in frustration I dumped the quest out of my log because I didn’t want to look at it, not knowing it could have been completed at anytime.
But I just don’t think about it. The only time I do think about it is when this thread topic comes up about once every 3 months.
Don’t have one.
I tend to forget about things if it was a random stranger who pissed me off. No big deal long-term.
If it’s someone I was going to need to interact with at least occasionally, we usually resolved whatever our issues with each other were eventually. Maybe not in the most graceful way but we’d get there.
Still remember arguing with a lady at the end of Raid Night once during MoP. Started as basically a shouting match. It wasn’t about that night’s Raid in particular, it was about about some garbage she’d spewed and claims she’d made, mostly about someone I cared about. Of the people in Voice who were sticking around, some of them went afk, and were very confused when they came back and we were just casually chatting like nothing happened.
So, like I said, not graceful, but do tend to resolve the kinda stuff that would linger if it’s gonna matter. I don’t have any grudges with anyone.
The closest thing would be toward Blizzard, for removing my Endless 30 (Healer - Lvl 90) Achievement and the associated title and refusing to reinstate it. I assume something happened going into WoD when they bumped up the level and moved the old achievements to Legacy. But they claimed there was no record of me completing it so they couldn’t help. I didn’t main a Healer anymore at that point so I had no interest in re-earning it in WoD. Still kinda miffed about that. It should NOT be possible to lose something like that.
The unsatisfactory (for me anyway) conclusion of the burning of Teldrassil story.
People twice my HP in epic battlegrounds.
I share that pain.
When arenas first appeared in TBC, all you had to do was be a Resto Druid with a Warrior friend, and all you’d do, is Cyclone the enemy healer and HoT up the warrior, sit back and enjoy your carry.
Even now, they still do that lol. Can’t catch them, either. Immune to poly, and will shift out of roots, every time.
I dislike Arena pretty much because of Druids.
I like battlegrounds much more, no pillar-humping and thus Druids are automatically less powerful there.
I can’t even bring myself to play one, because I dislike them in PvP so much.
Ret Paladins and DHs are similar. Annoying, unkillable, and do insane damage for how defensive they are- unfun for anyone else.
As a close second, I have a grudge against Blizzard for canceling the Dance Studio.
Shadowlands S3-4 Fury warriors for PvP. There is nothing in this game more that has enraged me then that. I will not go into detail but I will say that on my push for that some of the worst things a human can say came out of my mouth while fighting them.
I dropped the quest when I was partway into it— a few days before they announced that if you still had the quest you could still get the title.
The only reason I wasn’t mad was because a guild on our server renamed themselves to poke fun at their own titles.
Hand of a Doll
It made me laugh so hard and I can’t see that title any other way now. lol
Nothing that stopped me from continuing to play, obviously. With that said, there are three distinct things that are on my list:
1. The Cataclysm:
Most of my favorite old-world zones were destroyed, and even now, well over a decade later, none of the damage caused by the Cataclysm was ever fixed...2. Removal of Spirit & MP5 (mana regen stats on gear):
It used to be possible to have much more control over your mana regeneration. You could choose between a play-style where you were casting a smaller number of powerful spells or a larger number of weaker spells depending on whether you focused on regen or throughput. Removing the ability to gear for regen, aside from an occasional oddball trinket or borrowed-power ability, significantly homogenized the way healing worked.3. Plunderstorm:
I only play a healer, and I’ve played the same character since Vanilla. Plunderstorm was a huge slap in the face, and isn’t even really the same game as WoW. To have something hyped up under a veil of secrecy and then end up with that was disgusting. Add on top of that, seeing developers now focusing way more time on what was initially branded as a “limited-time event”, instead of ACTUALLY IMPROVING THE MAIN GAME, is extremely insulting.
They
keep
adding
ELVES.
I’ve never been a huge fan of elves, but by the time they added FOUR PLAYABLE ELVES I’d had enough.
update about my TLPD woes: my friend found a screenshot of the selfie cam pic the sniper took with the TLPD corpse (next to us malding in the background).