By whatever metric, when do you think Argent Dawn’s roleplaying scene was at its best?
This might just be me, but I’ve noticed there’s a slight nostalgic sentiment on this forum, so it’d be interesting to hear what your personal thoughts are.
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There was no real ‘best’ time, to be honest. The best times that people think of are the moments when they were RPing and having fun.
Which is why you see many people talking about different period of times as being the ‘best’. It wasn’t really a timeframe but more when most were engaging and having fun with guilds, community events and random hub interactions.
The reason it is often looked upon so fondly because RP has admittedly decreased in number, and for a number of reasons it has decreased:
- People got older and moved on with lives
- Work became more time focused than being able to organise RP
- People lost interest in the game
There isn’t a real ‘one reason’. But personally, I think the ‘golden age’ that most think of is when events had nearly hundreds of people, which means they aren’t thinking of the RP itself, but the numbers of people and size.
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Aside from the brilliant post above, I also think the term “Golden Age” is very subjective. Personally it could go down to, well, it being personal. For example, my “personal Golden Age” was when I jumped server from The Sha’tar to here in 2015 after a long hiatus from the game.
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MoP - Legion easily between them select years.
The community was thriving, numbers were everywhere, political assassinations were great between guild policies and leaders. But, the RP was there as well. Horde was a beautiful place back then and Silvermoon was a bustling hub, Orgrimmar was a bustling hub and there was people all out and around the world.
This to me was Horde’s golden age there was so many mini campaigns. I remember the Opening of the Dark Portal Campaign for the Iron Horde and WoD (Aswell as the drama that came after it with some Iron Horde suddenly joining the actual Horde).
I just remember such great character concepts, people scooting past and around. It was a good time and easily the time to be about.
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I arrived and then it all went downhill for everyone involved.
See I arrived at the end of Legion, there’s my evidence.
But no really I don’t think the server has had or ever will have a golden age, because while it was more popular X years ago that doesn’t mean that the concepts and ideas being put forwards at the time were ones that everyone necessarily enjoyed. Like currently there’s a lot of goblin-related stuff going on because of the Undermine patch, so for goblin players maybe this is their golden age.
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For me, TBC. I remember when it was released and honestly, looking at that portal in Blasted Lands and rp’ing a Blood Elf. Then there was SM and the place was buzzing, overcrowded even. There were large guilds but loads of smaller ones too. The Conclave happened (I remember my first one, terrified to speak but everyone was lovely. If Itharie is about, I’d be more than happy to help if you were to host another), nearly all belf guilds rp’d together in one form or another. I’m hoping in Midnight, there may be a chance of going back to these times. Never been a better time to roll a Belf and get them established, ready for the expac.
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Late MoP / Whole of MoP.
Without a doubt.
Frozen Heart 1 and 2, Red August, Song, Slithering and Symphony of Soggoth, Legacy of the Saurok, the Zephyr, Spine of Kalimdor, Vile Fumigation, etc, etc… Too many to name.
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I really liked the assassinations in the form of people being paid to destroy other guilds OOC!
Numbers-wise, it may have been the best but it was also extremely volatile behind the scenes (I say behind the scenes but so much of it leaked on the forum, too).
I’ll echo the sentiment it’s pretty subjective. For me, late WoD and early Legion felt like things were pretty huge. Lots of the bigger campaigns happened in that span too, iirc.
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As everyone said, there was no real ‘Golden age’ but the best time was The Frozen Heart II and Drums of war 1 & 2. They were some of -the- best server wide campaigns I have ever been apart of.
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The golden age was when I did a lot of rp and had fun and the bronze and silver is every time I didn’t.
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Funny, that’s exactly when I had my golden age too, when I did a lot of rp and had fun.
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The golden age, for me; When I could stay up till 3 am to roleplay during summer vacation’s with no obligations.
But, I have to say… I very much enjoy roleplay now too, just different aspects of it and with less time 
For me it’s always been about the people I keep company with.
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MoP - Legion for me.
MoP because I was still new to RP and thus RP was more fun with shenanigans than anything super serious and it absolutely would’ve been cringe to anyone outside.
WoD - Legion because of The Cenarion Guardians. Miss them every day x
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It’s why I mentioned it can’t take all the good got to bring up the bad as terrible as it was the meltdowns were quite humorous to watch.
Thornroot was a real king.
Also unironically one of the best part about most campaigns was the forum drama!
The current drama on these forums is nothing but a spark of the roaring furnaces that once brought life to the forums.
Objectively MoP through to Legion with outlier periods being the latter half of Cata - after the server finally unsharted itself to the fact Worgen were going to be playable, and sticking about along with Dragon Soul which introduced LFR (which brought a lot of people back into the game) and the upper limit being BFA pre-Azshara patch which for some reason just seemed to kill people’s interest in the game.
It’s not even hard to have easily observable metrics either, as mentioned above, lots of server wide RP campaigns were going on, the volume of people getting sweaty over thing were much greater.
Oh and Discord wasn’t a thing most people used until the back end of Legion, which a bit funny that it coincided with a drop off in community cohesion afterwards. 
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The time when you, dear person reading this, spent more time roleplaying than checking in with these forums.
Log in.
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A lot of people are going to say MoP through to Legion because that was the time a lot of people (myself included) moved full time over to AD as the other RP realms dried up. Barring vanilla, which was as much to do with being a teenager living in the middle of nowhere with a lot of time on my hands and very limited responsibilities, the times I’ve had the most fun on AD with RP have been as much to do with the people I’ve been able to RP with as with the state of the game itself, the two are linked because when the game/server are healthy people are more likely to be about but they’re not a 1 to 1 relationship.
If I have to name a time - Late Cata/MoP for how lively the world was even if there was a lot of fairly naff drama, was in some pretty fun guilds at the time too. Legion because I managed to play with a bunch of people who were really fun and kinda now, for the same reason
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Now.
Whatever you’re doing now -if and only if you’re making sure you’re having fun- you’ll remember that fondly in few years.
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Think it’s had a couple of golden eras, as activity goes up and down with each xpac and even each patch sometimes.
I have a lot of nostalgia for the tbc to cata era, because that’s when the old troll guilds were active and later a massive surge in night elf sentinel guilds, darnassus project etc. Had ooc issues to be sure but the rp scene in those areas was very much alive.
Bfa always had something going on as well, ignoring a particular negative influence naturally.
I’d argue we’re entering a minor one now as rp is steadily picking up again, especially amongst goblin enjoyers.