Thread 723775486

I'd love to hear from someone who played the original vanilla World of Warcraft. What was it really like back then? I've seen old videos in 4:3 aspect ratio and footage of people lining up at midnight launches. It all looks so nostalgic and magical. If you were there, please share your experience. I want to hear everything, from interactions you've had with random people to how you figured out how to complete challenges in the game.

>>723775486 (OP)
>https://youtu.be/YRgNOyCnbqg
This one video sums it up.

Its just MMO slop.

>>723775486 (OP)
It was much better than it is now, but it already felt like it was trying to streamline the MMO experience too much. Everquest was where the real magic was, at least for me.

>>723775486 (OP)
>What was it really like back then?
It was shit

Information was much scarcer and less reliable, everyone was doing their own thing because nobody knew how to effectively play the game.

>>723775486 (OP)
ironforge and ogrimmar were the only cities that had an auction house for the longest time leading them to be the most populated for a while.

>>723775486 (OP)
you used thotbot to do quests
most raids were just tank and spank
vanilla had a huge raiding gap because people stopped doing mc/bwl so it was very hard to gear up to join a raiding guild
vanilla classic and other modern mmos dont work today because everything about the game is known before it releases
look at every wow expansion, there is a spreadsheet document that is basically a digital autopsy that tells you everything about the expansion and there is zero exploration
in other words, THE WEST HAS FALLEN

>>723776412
>everyone was doing their own thing because nobody knew how to effectively play the game
That's why it was better. Metafagging is a cancer.

i played towards the end of 2006 so it wasn't all that different to now compared to how i imagine launch.
thottbot was a thing where you could look up where to find everything and drop rates etc
getting continuously ganked in STV almost made me ragequit
general chat i guess was similar vibe to seeing old 4chan posts from that era
chuck norris jokes
origin of 'kek'
don't think there was as much gold selling but i could be wrong
can't remember much else

Nothing has surpassed the sheer wonder of it. It felt like a movie or manga where you’re the protagonist actually getting isekaid into the new fantasy virtual reality game. It may have helped that it was my first mmo, but it was for most of the userbase too.

In terms of “challenges” the first thing my brothers and i did was attempt to trek to captial cities, stupidly from our characters of factions that were far away (i was supposed to travel to Orgrimmar with my human paladin).

>>723776412
>everyone was doing their own thing because nobody knew how to effectively play the game.
That was by design. MMOs used to be crafted as a social experience, not a diablo-clone where you wait to go into the "zone" and start killing.

Needing to visit the cities for supplies and new spells was by design, not some overlooked tedium. That's where you hung out, you met people, you waited for the boat/zepplin together, chatted in trade. MMOs were at least 50% social back then. You wanted regular groups so you could experience new content, you wanted to join a guild so you had friends to pve/pvp with you. All of it intentional by the creators.

Killing shit was a secondary feature. It was so fucking easy in vanilla that if you had a pulse, you could kill stuff. It was about teamwork back then. You needed to bring crowd control, interrupts, buffs, debuffs. All you really needed to know was what your class brought to the group and what to look out for in that particular dungeon.

>>723775486 (OP)
For some reason, dungeons were super hard. I could never figure if people just got better or if the game got nerfed, but it was rare to actually finish a run of Scholomance or Stratholme, let alone UBRS.
No gearscore or achievement bullshit, everyone came in random greens. Sometime you'd get an amazing group and clear everything with ease, and it felt so good.
No shitty dungeon finder or dailies, people actually hanged in towns and talked, bargained to keep their unique gold coin. No TPs either, people had to move their ass to the dungeons, and would die half the time on the way so the others would sigh and had to get out and come help the loser faggot.
Traversing areas was a thrill, as you could get ganked anytime, anywhere. My fav story : I, a warlock, was strolling around the Plaguelands, when I suddenly got jumped by a faggot paladin, aka the most OP, unkillable class. So I ran away, fearing him away but he would immediatly come back on his mount. I arrived at Scholomance lake, cast water breathing on myself, and tried to hide in the water, but he followed me. So I started swimming in a straight line. After a while I wondered if he was still after me and turned around, only to see his corpse floating in the distance. I kek'd hard

Pic related, me being so proud after getting the ultimate rarest drop in the game, the infernal summon book.

>>723775486 (OP)
I was a little late getting the game, about 2-3 months or so in, so I just remember making my Dwarf and getting a quest to go to Ironforge and seeing all these fucking people outside in SICK armour dueling with all sorts of crazy spells, I actually just sat outside watching them and asking them about class abilities and what they could do for HOURS instead of going and questing myself. There weren't really a lot of videos about things back then so the only way to know a lot of stuff like spells in the game were to actually see them in person, before that i didn't really know what classes were going to do what. It was just cool to me, I still remember it like 20+ years later.

Also people here mention thottbot and stuff and yeah it was kind of around, but a ton of people didn't know about it, and also they had periods where they'd have really intrusive/malware ads you'd get out of the habit of ever opening it for a while.

>>723775486 (OP)
You were lucky to run it but overall it was very wonderful, a whole world that felt immersive ready for you to explore, getting nice loot was and still is a big dopamine spike

>>723775486 (OP)
it was okay because the quests would take you all over the place. getting a mount at 40 was a huge deal and saving for a fast one to have at 60 was even bigger. anyone who says nobody knew what they were doing is lying, between thottbot and allakhazam information was disseminated rapidly.

People used to be social. I was too, it was cool. Now everyone knows everyone else is a retard so none of us want to interact and also the game is solved, every game is solved, if you don't play right then people lose their minds.

Virtually all of the MMO players now just use social media all day as their MMO fix. Quite a shame

>>723777120
they're nerfed. the classic servers use a patch from the end of vanilla where everything, raids especially, were nerfed

Don't make the mistake of think thottbot or alakhazam was anywhere near as reliable as wowhead, there was so much missing, irrelevant, or straight up wrong information on there.
The current state of all information being readily available is one of the biggest issues with current wow, retail and classic.

WoW classic with less optimization and metagaming. Not complicated.

It was from an era where people thought Bigfoot was in San Andreas.

>>723777120
the dungeons were harder back then but I didnt have that much trouble with scholomance or strethholme. I guess you just met some pretty shit players who said that they 'can' do it?

Normal people left when social media took off, MMOs pretty much suck now when you have to play with the kinds of people who actually still play them

There's better MMO's today like OSRS hell even fallout 76 that reward you with new items, collectibles, rewards, new content, house building forever and a level system that means something but in the same world that WoW just can't do today because they boxed themselves into having a new area in every single expansion. WoW messed up since there's literally no content do to besides questing and grinding for mounts. Even FF14 knows this.

You can cope and say WoW has the most players of any MMO but I have more fun decorating, doing boss battles, quests and merching on fallout 76 than I do playing WoW, as a classic player. WoW is so boring and its not classic anymore so I won't play it.

>>723775486 (OP)
It was a strange experience because up until then the MMORPG genre had mostly been about "savoring" the game. Slow, methodical, community oriented, and favoring the journey over the reward. WoW came around and it's a solo oriented game where you level up by talking to a npc and turning in 3 bear asses and combat is just mashing buttons. Many people ridiculed it for it's mass market approach but there was still fun to be had, just at the expense of what you believed MMOs should be about. Frankly the game was too focused on you GETTING something, obtaining an item, getting a level, whatever, and that took away from the experience of just DOING something. The people that you see praise it uncontrollably had probably never tried a MMO before picking up WoW.

The thing I liked most about it was the scale, yeah it wasn't as satisfying as what I had been playing but there was a ton of potential, so much the devs could do because of the game being less serious than it's predecessors. The exploration movies from back then were simply magical, people clipping into forbidden areas, out of boundsing into unreleased zones, all this wacky shit that got your imagination soaring.

TBC killed wow

>>723777819
Oh and I forgot to add WoW has no real economy nowadays. OSRS has a thriving player driven economy, so does fallout 76 and FFXIV. There's people that are solely into merching rare items, rare collectibles, rare drops. You cant really do that in WoW these days and its not satisfying like in other MMO's, compared to classic.

>>723777865
WoW killed WoW, it was aimed at the mainstream market from the start, the course it took was by design and never could have turned out differently.

WoW was great when my friends played and I had the time for scheduling raids. Pretty much every game was great when my friends played. Too bad that was 15-20 years ago.

>>723777865
introduced flying (gay)
introduced daily chores (gay)
introduced a hot race to horde (gay)
yep fuck tbc

>>723776695
>>723776412
The things I would give to have modern MMOs not befall to metafags who need every iota of information datamined, collated and put up on a wiki to reference while leveling.

>>723777652
Back then people did 8-man runs, because no one wanted to compete with someone else for their T0 pieces. So that increased the difficulty quite a bit, lacking a healer and a second tank.

Also, in over 3000 hours of game, I have never ever seen the T0 warlock pants drop (on the baron of stratholme). I finally got it way later when doing solo runs during WotlK. And the fucking robe dropped ONCE in UBRS, and that motherfucker shaman Ultima from my own guild rolled on it "as a joke" and won. Never had it dropped again, and then they ninja-removed it from the game so I could never complete my fucking set. To this day I still fume.

Anyway, this is at midnight the day of the release of TBC, with alliance cunts stopping us from passing the portal. Alliance was outnumbering us 9 to 1 on all servers back it the day before the blood elf faggots ruined everything.

>>723778165
well you can thank WoW for that, and mercing, and a few other things

>>723777820
thanks for blog post gramps

>>723778242
not what you wanted to hear?

I remember getting on wow for the first time after playing runescape. I saw some dude mining and asked his mining level, dude freaked out and called me a hacker.

>>723777652
>Those ghouls with thrash hitting for 40% of geared tank's hp and they come in packs of five
>Enemies fearing you into other enemies (often multiple packs since everything is so closely packed)
>AoE stuns with 30yd range
You didnt play them before the nerfs

>>723776412
While I started right when BC, I played a melee warlock build with firestone. I pissed off so many people in dungeons needing on one handed stuff I could use like shadowfang dagger.

It wasn't until I reached outlands that I realized a melee warlock sucked.

>2007
>some shitty TBC pserver cause no fucking way my parents would pay monthly fucking subscription for some videogame
>my friend play nelf hunter
>in MM
>cause legolas is fucking cool
>i play mage
>fire
>cause pyroblast go boom
now imagine leveling hunter in MM or mage in fire in 2025
hell, people were REEEEEing about me leveling rogue in sub

Man, people keep talking about muh no metas or everything being OK are either fucking lying or weren't playing enough
If you played a shit class, and there were a lot, you would see shitters who were 3 levels below you just casually tanking and soloing that one weird mob or quest target using like two fucking abilities just going around or trying dungeons
If you were doing PvP you would gawk at the squishy motherfucker going through the whole deal and still somehow surviving through it with no assistance

Warlocks were a rare breed back then. I was the third to be lvl60 on my server, and I remember the others, we were all friends. Cheers Moandor and Sys, my boys.

The most fun I had in the game was when I and my friend (who had the infernal summon before me) went to the Crossroads, spammed Doom on critters until we managed to get a Doomguard to spawn, then released our doomguards and infernals in town, killing all the newbies. People in the Barrens chat were going apeshit, yelling "omg there's an event, devs are summoning demons, everyone come quick", while we were laughing our asses off hidden on top of the tower and watching the chaos below.

I had groups refuse me because "we need a mage". People had no idea what warlocks did, we were kind of a semi-mage. People really wanted their sheep. Funny when I would ban a mob, seduce another and fear the third, making dungeons an absolute cakewalk, I can't count how many times I've had my dick sucked after a successful run

Here's me doing the epic mount quest on the day of its release. I had to borrow 250g (a fortune) to a guildmate to be able to buy the components. Then I spent a good three days doing nothign in Orgrimmar, gloating on my mount in front of the AH with everyone stopping to take screenshots. Good times

>>723777820
This is incredible how true it is. I was playing FFXI at the same time, and the game was so much more of an adventure and a mystery. No faggy quest journal filled with green rewards. Nothing but exploration, danger and making friends.

>>723778483
I mean probably, its been like 20 years now so things get lost to memory.

>>723775486 (OP)
Game back then was full of kids / young adults who didn't min max the game or even know how to properly play their classes. You could spend months playing every day after school and be level like 20 or 30.
Now the games solved so people know what to do, where to go and how to play their classes well. I think it's still the best mmo and 100% the best version of wow.
I'm still happy to level to 60 all over again every once in awhile because the leveling journey is always fun and the best part of the game by far, wow never fixed end game. They just made it more and more end game focused which is putting you into weekly lock outs to try and keep you to keep paying the sub by giving you artificial timers keeping you playing.

>>723777865
WOTLK did more to kill wow than TBC ever did. it was also the year activision bought blizzard

>intelligence made weapon skills increase faster
To this day people refuse to believe it

>>723778853
Everything wrong with wotlk was a continuation of the mistakes of tbc.

>>723778853
TBC zones were literally less detailed than the fucking unfinished vanilla barrens with even worse questing so they could shit out more end game crap (which someone didn't even fucking work when they released)

>>723775632
wild to think people found this funny

>>723778973
shut the fuck up
Zangarmarsh, Terokkar and Nagrand were fucking great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H-vBEZdbzY

>>723778973
>someone
Somehow*
Also shit like giving both factions shammies and paladins to reduce the uniqueness of factions and races, the absolutely garbage dranei rework/rewrite and aesthetics
Stupid content island starter zones for the new races

World of Warcraft killed the genre BTW

>>723775486 (OP)
https://youtu.be/VChff4AWFpE?si=dl8B1kqRJRazzFK2

Like this.

>>723775486 (OP)
I joined because buddies at school were playing and we ended up finding like 20something others dudes from our school and 10 or so people from other nearby schools in the neighborhood and made a guild so at some point we'd meet in rl to talk about it and plan whatever and in-game would just go for it. I didn't pay attention to lore inconsistencies or gameplay bugs/glitches and balance issues because I was having fun with bros till Wrath of the lich king. Then after many attempts of trying to kill LK, we did it and we slowly stopped playing and migrate to other games.

What really sucks is you can do your best to ignore metafaggotry for yourself but unless you just solo everything you'll have it thrust on you with how other people behave.

>play meta
>get called "metasissy" and laughed at
>play non-meta
>get called "useless shitter" and laughed at

If you play classic and use addons you should kill yourself.

>>723775486 (OP)
Honestly I don't even have much nostalgia for it, granted I didn't actually play that much and only did one raid the whole of vanilla. Didn't really get into it properly until TBC.

>>723777120
>For some reason, dungeons were super hard.
>Classes were weaker.
Classes got buffs across the patching cycle, with 1.12 being a noticeable series of buffs. Eg Warriors were trash dps until about 1.6 when Fury really started to get buffs.
>Internet was far worse and less stable.
It was harder to react, easier to make mistakes.
>People were less knowledge
Far more people walking into dungeons without knowing what the fuck was going on. Even in the case were dungeons were understood, you didn't have shit like world buff stacking that makes things significantly easier.

This was always going to be the problem with launching the game on 1.12 with #nochanges. It was well understood from private servers. Game is significantly easier once you start adding all these things together.

>>723778501
I also leveled my dwarf hunter in vanilla in full MM spec. I'd start with Aimed Shot, send pet in by clicking on the pet bar attack button, and melee the mob down because obviously my pet couldnt hold aggro. Didn't see anything wrong with this playstyle back then. I also went with MM spec in TBC, and even though by then I had improved little, I still didn't know of meta specs, gears etc. and I kept wondering why I was always losing in DPS to another hunter who was spamming Steady Shot. I thought the skill sucked compared to epic huge Aimed Shot crits.

I was in highschool and doing homework, mma, playing ice hockey, and taking naps.
I got to lvl 40 in vanilla. Was way too busy to play this massive time sink of a game.
Too busy to play TBC more than a couple days.
In 2019 I got my chance to quit my job and actually play vanilla WoW.
Getting to 60 is a massive time sink and I'm glad I didn't play this game as much as some people have.
>it doesn't take long to get to 60
Proof you didn't play in 2004.
I have enjoyed HC a lot. Softcore is now unplayable.

basically the opposite of this https://youtu.be/BKP1I7IocYU?si=mJSq9a-pJeckXgsb

I played a fuckton of private servers in 2005-2010 and a couple months official servers cuz i was a broke teen but yeah everyone was playing at their own pace doing their own thing and experimenting, sure there were guides and thottbot shit but there was far less metafagging and most players played on feel even when half the time vanilla class balance made "feel" extremely inefficient, but yeah everything just felt more organic rather than current googling of things, already knowing what bis proffesions, gear, rotation, etc youre gonna be doing for raids before you even create your character.
It's just different, but we are also different.
Yeah I used to love levelling toons in the limited amount of daily time my parents allowed me in a day where even 3 hours of playtime felt like an eternity and if I managed to get a full level in those 3 hours it was already a huge achievement.
I was a casual playing with a lot of casuals who didnt know any better, I never raided only did a fuckton of dungeons and pvp.
Nowadays I play both Vanilla Anniversary realm and MoP Classic (started in wrath classic) and sure levelling a fresh character after all those years of being a noob is great and I have been mainly heroic raiding since wrath classic, I do dislike WoW's endgame and think the og trilogy adventure feel of levelling is the best thing about it, yeah the raids are good and class balance/fantasy is fun but only logging in for 3 hours a week to blast through a raid im near-bis gear with equal minded near-bis people who are minmaxing for 99 parse sure is a different vibe.

>>723780124
>Eg Warriors were trash dps until about 1.6 when Fury really started to get buffs.
They were also stupidly gear dependent even in the end

Try it yourself on official classic or some private server. It's the greatest mmo of all time and one of the best games of all time

like all old things, people deify the good parts and downplay the bad parts

>>723775486 (OP)
i attended my first wedding in wow. my guild master's and his gf. held first in wow then they made some trailer trash tier irl wedding

good times

>>723781373
we got an addict here

>>723775486 (OP)
>What was it really like back then?
no real youtube ecelebs/tiktok/streaming so metafagging wasn't common knowledge

>>723777120
>For some reason, dungeons were super hard.

because randoms were literally clicking buttons with their mouse and keyboard turning, the amount of people who had strafe keys bound at all was abysmal

>>723781529
Strafe was bound to q and e by default, idiots unbound them to put spell there instead.

>>723781325
Yeah, but they were genuinely trash as far as PvE dps went prior to 1.6 (or whatever patch it was). Good in PvP (arms) and great tanks (Prot), but fucking awful dps. If you wanted damage you stacked Rogues and Hunters.

>>723777025
Sounds normie and gay.
I'd rather play alone.

We won't see the next WoW until they make a competent and high budget VR MMO

>>723775486 (OP)
It was incredible. A world of possibilities opened up. Sure, it wasn't the first MMO ever made, but for a lot of people it was our first MMO (me included) and I just couldn't believe it. Like a whole fucking country of a video game to explore and see. I played an undead rogue and I remember attacking a level 60 alliance human mage just wondering what would happen (I was level 11) and I remember him charging up his big move (looking back it was most likely pyroblast but I didn't know it at the time), I hit fucking sprint to dash but couldn't make it away in time kek. It was like... the coolest fucking thing.

World pvp was so fun back in Vanilla. It's why I got into it and played a rogue. So much fun was had on those Alliance ships hehe.

>>723781506
It's true

>>723776695
true, but its a malignant cancer, there's no way to remove it now that its fully ingrained itself into society.

>>723775486 (OP)
it was magical... we can never go back... LET ME GO BACK

>>723779134
>Also shit like giving both factions shammies and paladins to reduce the uniqueness of factions and races
really they did this because they couldn't balance shamans to save their life. twenty years later Blizz still has no fucking clue what they want that class to be.

>>723779051
you had to exist before the internet to get it.

I was in college at the time and watched my friends play it long before I could afford it. They were in a guild doing Molten Core progression and needed a healer, so I got drafted. I had an awful time leveling a priest to 60. Around that time Leroy Jenkins got popular and because he was a local and an alumni it was particularly special to us. We cleared Molten Core and the entire guild, all 40 people in the raid, congregated at a bar downtown and celebrated over drinks and arcade games. There will never be an experience like that in my life again.

>>723775486 (OP)
You could sit in crossroads and call anyone and everyone a faggot and a nigger without getting b&. It was a different time. Now everyone is a literal faggot and nigger and all the straight white men are b&.

>>723782985
>the best thing about early internet interaction was throwing slurs at everyone
you're the reason everything went to shit

>>723783230
You don't belong on the internet.

>>723783230
Faggot

>>723782985
That was pure kino indeed.
What could they do? lmaooo

>>723783363
Nigger

>>723782985
>sit in crossroads and call anyone and everyone a faggot and a nigger

>>723775486 (OP)
It was many peoples first exposure to MMORPG's in a new internet medium. The novelty has long since worn off for a ton of people as you naturally just become more jaded as time progresses. but for a time it was magic. data miners and players just wanted to have fun and go on adventures instead of running simulations and being meta slaves. People would play for hours together to try and figure out bosses and game mechanics and then keep the results secret for as long as possible. it wasn't all solved and data mined before it even got off PTR. It was a mysterious wonderful time where to possibility of anything could happen. it was something that cannot be replicated no matter how many times I play private servers so the only thing I have to remember are the memories.

>>723783230
faggot nigger spotted

>>723777865
For me Cataclysm killed WoW. Burning Crusade was just vanilla with blood elfs and draenei. Wrath of the Lich King was epic as fuck and made my child brain very happy. Cataclysm changed way too much and the worgen characters felt not as cool as the enemy worgens. Then Mysts of Pandaria was fully casualized slop. Downhill from there.

>>723775486 (OP)
I was just a low level entering a stormwind for a first time (or so) when I saw a huge gathering at the gates, a huge dragon head was handing above them, they were all shooting fireworks
I shyly come closer and some of them start jumping around me and waving a shooting fireworks above me
it felt so magical and warm, like I had been given a share of personal celebration even though I was just passing by, I'll take that moment to my grave

>>723779051
Avenue Q as a whole alongside stuff like The Guild is a time capsule for early millennial culture when they were 20 somethings.
Chringeworthy as it might be it was fun. Its just been retroactively tainted because its cultural excesses led directly to modern reddit humor.

>>723777236
>instead of watching gameplay trailers before release or reading wikis or copying build guides you actually just see another player do some crazy cool shit and ask them about their powers
Fucking hell something has definitely been lost. I don't know if this can be recreated ever again

>>723778165
At a minimum you would need truly godly coders to make the game into a interconnected mess of steganography so that anyone looking into the files would be unable to read it while also still having the game run.

>Raid Azuregos
>He's bugged and won't move
>Contact support
>Meanwhile everyone starts leveling hand-to-hand on him
>10 minutes later, he suddenly starts moving and breathes on everyone
>Entire raid wipes in 2 seconds
>GM whispers me : "Hey there I fixed him, have a good day!"

>>723782985
not true, zoomfaggot

>>723782985
>>723784984
Unironically happened to me :
>Raiding Kazzak in Blasted Lands
>Tons of people want his ass, several raids from both alliance and horde
>Anytime someone engages him, the others would attack to piss them off and everyone dies
>Funtimes
>Yell in yell chat "Vote Clinton"
>GM /w me immediatly "Please do not talk about politics in World of Warcraft"
>Y-Yes sir sorry sir

There were literally GMs hidden around and watching people play, SOVL

>>723784954
lol I never saw this warcraft 3 inspired UI, interesting.

>>723783625
because they're niggerfaggots

>>723782985
I whispered random people and told them obscenities and Blizz perma banned my account. Vanilla WoW.

>>723775486 (OP)
It was magical.
Nothing will ever compare.

You had to be there.

>>723779051
it's still funny

It was aight because there weren't content parasites and alike full of guides and information everywhere. Add-ons weren't a staple and game-breaking thing. This applies to many games in general now too. Total rot and decay.
>inb4 shitter!
Quite the contrary, but I'm now well aware of the damage these do to games, players, and developers.

>>723776640
>Quests used to not point where you needed to go, not even mark on the map
Shiiiiet
Also mmo's worked because there was no social media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eOrVnK0V5M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9iGRexhz_4

>>723790271
the healing pants still pops into my head from time to time

There weren't any huge databases telling you how to play the game or where everything was. The closest we had was Thottbott, which is kind of like Wowhead, but that database was built around word of mouth and anecdotal evidence and a lot of the time, shit was just plain wrong.
It was the golden age of OC and machinimas. There was a site called WarcraftMovies that, on its own, competed with fucking Youtube in terms of views and engagement back in the day. Absurd that a video website devoted to a single game went head to head with Youtube.

Addons were a lot more rudimentary, less complex, and not as widespread back then. You didn't have all of these complex player-made systems helping you play the game.

My first WoW experience was as a fucking Tauren warrior who spent the first 30 minutes of the game not being able to tell the difference between an NPC and a player and getting angry that everybody was ignoring me, running off into the greater expanses of mulgore at level 3, dying to a level 5 wolf, and then corpserunning to the barrens, thousand needles, feralas, desolace, stonetalon mountains, the barrens, durotar, the barrens, and mulgore again to get back to my corpse.

this was the greatest video on the internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drrvQliCvB8

>>723790271
"cmon baby I got blessing of protection!"
roflmao

To be honest it’s more about who you play with. I had more fun on ScriptCraft doing raids with old /v/tards than in Vanilla. 2019 was also a blast as I played with a close friend who didn’t know anything meta. We both made an aim to be shitters that tried to engage with people in game chat, which was sometimes difficult.

At this point I only enjoy leveling and the 60 pre raid grind if I boot up a server.
Blizzard refuses to challenge players and this just makes it mindless slop. The things that made the game feel alive (open world danger, vague quests, community lead events etc) have been ignored since Wrath, and BC was barely there.

>>723777120
Good work saving this all this time. Brings an autistic tear to my eye.

>>723783625
Why not?

I played it for the month it came with and then went back to XI. I don't remember shit other than Ganklethorn Valley, and my distaste for how people never partied up for X of Y shit so none of us had to wait around on respawns.