Give the newbs a break?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Yeah, this is why I usually remind folks about the google "site:xxxx.com" search syntax. It's pretty much all I use when I want to find something here.

[Wilbur]

Yeah, this is why I usually remind folks about the google "site:xxxx.com" search syntax. It's pretty much all I use when I want to find something here.

^^ Best way to find anything here.

[wetstreet]

Screw the noobs! *checks post count* 8| Wait... um...

You do realize that a year from now your post won't make any sense whatsoever.

I guess that means that I can't just write posts to boost my post count. ;(

[kadaan]

total noob

How many people know what that instance is? Have actually run it? When it was hard? When you could take 15 people? When you could take 40?

Originally UBRS was the only entrance to BWL, so you had to zone in, defeat Rend, and then you go gain access.

I'm not sure if it ever allowed 40, but it did allow 15 for a long time (when the release the dungeon set 2 quest line, it was capped at 10, WoW 1.8 I think?).

Same goes for BRD --> MC. MC (in beta I think? maaaybe wow 1.0) was part of BRD... so you'd take your 40 man crew, crush BRD, then enter MC.

Somewhere around WoW 1.0 or 1.1 or something they made MC a seperate raid entrance, then later added the "attunement" option.

UBRS was only the tentative entrance to BWL. It was never the actual entrance. When BWL was released you just did the attunement quest to use the orb. MC had a portal in BRD in the early beta, but the attunement quest was there the day the game went live.

Also _every_ instance was 40-mannable in live. I've got screenshots somewhere at home of a 40-man strath run . Back when it was common practice to drop the group before a kill so you'd get quest credit, then get invited before you got ported. When they fixed the drop-group-quest thing, there was tons of QQ on the forums because everyone thought Scholomance was IMPOSSIBLE to do as a 5-man. Heh.

[Stabface]

Scholo was 10 man.


Also, no break for the noobs, because in the first few days BEFORE anyone was abbreviating it RAF, you know when all the threads were getting posted every 2 seconds? You could find all those posts by searching on 'recruit' 'recruit a friend' 'recruit-a-friend' 'triple xp' etc. No one searched, or even bothered to look at the forum index, threads since your last visit, or threads of the past 24 hours. The only thing I'm willing to break is some heads!

Also also, if you really want the forum to be able to find RAF posts you can change the parameters on the indexer, by default it is probably 4+ or maybe 5+ letter words. You can set it to 3 but you may have performance issues as it builds indexes for things like 'the' 'and' 'you' and 'ass'.

[kadaan]

Right.

I thought Scholo was originally a 10 man instance?

Nope, ALL instances were originally uncapped. They only added the caps later.

Here's a SS from 2005-03-12 in scholomance, and you can see at least 14 people (12+2 in chat off screen). I had no raid frame mod at the time so I don't know exactly how many people were there.

[Stealthy]

Right.

I thought Scholo was originally a 10 man instance?

Nope, ALL instances were originally uncapped. They only added the caps later.

Here's a SS from 2005-03-12 in scholomance, and you can see at least 14 people (12+2 in chat off screen). I had no raid frame mod at the time so I don't know exactly how many people were there.

Yep, this is correct - originally they were uncapped. The caps were introduced very early on though (only 2nd patch after release) - patch notes here for those interested:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patch...-05-07-04.html

Ahh the memories...

Cheers,

S.