My nostalgia isn’t related to my char, an item , a zone, it is related to how those years were for me and my loved on at that time and for a few people,I got the chance to play with and a different mentality !
Ofc they were terrible people that I don’t miss and I am not happy but relieved they are gone or finally got what was coming to them in life, now it’s show your achiev, show your rio, show your strange/stupid mount, get on discord and all that s*** for a community and an experience that is not worth the deal and that I want nothing to be assiociated with.
I’ll wait TBC but it will in no way ve the same experience that died long ago and the circle will be complete.
I kinda feel this. Even in classic wow theynow check your logs, your parses, pure raw output and this for content that is cleared the first week it’s out. People are crazy about this and I miss a time where just your gear would matter, and your friendlyness in a group + ability to listen to basic tactics.
I miss old guild spams that consisted of nothing more than
“Guild Name” is looking for new members. We have a tabard and are very close to our 3rd bank tab. Free repairs avaliable for higher ranks. /w for info.
Logs for checking how good you are at spamming 1 single spell all over again. I have to say…it’s a nonsense.
Because it’s typically a retail thing. I mean, listening on retail is just not enough, it’s quite fast paced game, so not reacting on time and it’s wipe. Adding the fact that some people just can’t properly play their spec and are performing poorly, which explain why we struggle on some bosses. For instance, I was in a guild where 9 out 11 dps were parsing grey, 1 green and 1 purple. The next day, we were only 9 DPS but this time, 3 grey parses, 3 green, 2 blue and 1 purple.
Why is this relevant ? Because in the first case, we lacked DPS to successfully pass the execute phase which was an heavy DPS check. The second time however, even if those parses are not that great, that was enough to kill that damn boss.
If raiding remained as mecanically easy as in Vanilla, we would not need that amount of tools, but it would mean that raids would be way too easy.
For me is the blood elf starting area. Sometimes I want to roll a new toon just to quest there again. Sometimes I do Going through that zone, just feels like coming back home in game.
Well I started playing just before TBC came out. A group of friends from work (about 10 of us all in all) got me in to wow. We were all in the same guild together.
I had some catching up to do as they had been playing longer but they was a grate help with DM boosts and so on.
I havent spoke to them in years and dont even know if they still play or not, we all moved on in life got married had kids new jobs.
Best moments was TBC karra, black temple etc. Full raid group of friends, BBQ on the weekend around kim and Dave’s house.
Good times !!
Then at the release of wrath we was all at the local Tesco at midnight to buy the copy ( dont know why we had to have a disk copy may be downloaded wasnt available back then ) and we all raceing back home to see who could get it installed first and start playing.
Hope they may see this and remeber me so
Dave
Kim
Stuart
Alex
Delo
Gray
Matt
If any of you see this get in touch
The wolves in dudkwood with a skull instead number… never knew what it meant… a long corpse run…
Or the defias in westfall
Or the barrens music
Or the belves starting zone music like korrina.
Then came wotlk and wrathgate cinematic. Or the first time i saw the death of arthas. As an old w3 player this meant the end of a cycle.
Wotlk was my happiest period: good friends, good guild and good laugh.
Nostalgia… damned nostalgia.
With World of Warcraft just having celebrated its 15th anniversary last year, it’s absolutely awesome to see such a huge range of people sharing their fond memories of the game from various periods in its life.
Keep them coming, and here’s hoping we can bring you many more years of awesome moments with your friends and guildies!
Running into Darnassus for the first time and getting excited seeing a hunter riding a cat…with a cat hunter pet…and a pet cat too (which was when I sealed my fate as a BM hunter!LOL).
That moment of panic in Duskwood when you knew Stitches was lumbering up the road towards you.
oh, and the pain of endlessly farming Basilisks in STV for my lvl40 mount. That kind of nostalgia is less ‘rose coloured glasses’ and more ‘walking 15miles, in the snow…barefoot to get to school’ type of a thing!
Oh yeh, my first character was this warrior and all my friends came to meet me in daranasus when I first logged on they were all on mounts running around me showing me the ropes. Kim was a shadow priest, looked so cool in shadow form.
And the " OH MY GOD " moment when you first seen stitches running at you in dusk wood and you try to take him on
" being Billy big balls " not realising what the skull ment …
I can take him
" oh no I cant"
So many people bringing memories from a looong time ago, in these times i was a literal kid, when WoW was released i was 6. I only started playing on Legion, and even though it wasn’t that long ago, i still have bits of nostalgia, from doing Stormheim for the first time with no flying and having to use the grapple launcher to get into some spots, from walking on the beautiful Azsuna, and Suramar, man, i loved every second if it, many people hated it because of the amounts of mobs on it, but i liked the challenge, it was challenging for a beginner like me. I have nolstalgia feelins for hearing Legion music, specially the login screen theme, the following parts always get me:
For azeroth! 1:25
Who goes there! 2:45
The feelings… 4:43
One of my favorite themes in WoW 5:45
Canticle of Sacrifice 7:54
:') 8:54
My first character was human and my earliest nostalgia was walking towards Stormwind for the first time. The huge buildings then being hit by that soaring choral-sounding music.
I don’t play with sound on any more except when I go to Stormwind where I have to hear it for the nostalgia.
I remember being at school in like 2007 or 2008 and some kids at school played wow… and they tryed to convince me to also go play wow and quit the game i was doing at that time (runescape) I did not quit I continued to play that other game like the big nerd i was.
Years later in like 2012 end of the year or beginning 2013 when mists of pandaria was the current expansion I finally started playing wow and after several chars I made my draenei paladin which was my first char ever that I got to max level. But yeah… thinking back on all those hours leveling not having any friends to help me out it was fun but i could be boring at times as well.
Back in Wrath when I’d attack the Crossroads with my friends almost daily and spend hours fighting everyone who came to stop us.
Eventually recognizing the Horde who would always come first to stop us, almost as if they knew the routine by now. After months of this, our group had grown a bit, but not enough to totally overrun the place. We’d always be outnumbered and have incredible fights that lasted ages until eventually we’d be overwhelmed and receive petty whispers from Alliance alts, which was always an indicator of a job well done for me. Had no need for PvE or anything rated, it all felt hollow in comparison (and still does).
Gained server infamy and begrudging respect from the players who knew and hated us. This went on for what felt like years and it was a pretty magical experience having other players be my arch rivals who felt like the villains in my story. I’d assume they felt something similar.
We’d log our level 1’s and rub in our victories or deny our losses and they’d do the same. Eventually I grew to know them as people, but the rivalry and faction hatred never went away. We were all true enemies.
Having people hate and hunting for me is what made me strive for in game achievements so I could be instantly recognizable (and secretly try to impress them) when we’d run into each other. I never would have cared enough about any of that stuff if it were just for my own sake.
I’ll never forget them and wish I could get those old hateful whispers again.
Going through that zone, just feels like coming back home in game.
) and we all raceing back home to see who could get it installed first and start playing.
