Emblems of Conquest from Heroic Dungeons?

[Multibocks]

Ya that system was utter shit.

[Stabface]

I made a small fortune from the original Naxx thanks to Shadow Protection Potion and ninja-collecting Frozen Runes with my Rogue
Too bad they nerfed the Pure Saronite nodes in Ulduar before I could get in there and farm that.

[mmcookies]

Two characters in my old guild (60 days) had the Rank 14 title. It took 5 PEOPLE playing the accounts around the clock for about 6 months to pull it off.

Seriously, one would go to bed, another would login and take over...

Did they get banned for account sharing?

[Ualaa]

A current member of my guild has the Rank 14 title.
He basically was between jobs on Employment Insurance and has enough to get by on.

He played an average of 16 hours a day, every day for 3.5 months.
They did premades with others who played as often.
They used Flasks the whole time they were in the BG's.
To my knowledge he's never account shared, but not everyone can put that amount of time in.

Pretty insane to invest that amount of time, for that duration.
He's sitting at ~85,000 HK's on his main now.
Even today, when he wow's he probably plays BG's 3-4 hrs a night.

[Zub]

had a hunter in my guild become High Warlord. He got so burnt off that he stopped playing WoW the day he got the title.

[Multibocks]

Ya most people didnt realize that once they achieved the title, there wasn't much to do. As a guess I would say that 50% of the people that hit warlord quit immediately after and were never seen again.

[Tdog]

Leveling in bg's is gonna be bad ass. Youll get xp and by the time your done have all the BG gear lol.

That is another thing that made leveling in BG's so awesome. When i quit playing battlegrounds on my warrior I was Lt. Gen with all epics except my weapons ... and people know who you where because you pvp'd so much .... i dont know i really miss the pvp titles .. there was something really kewl about that ...

Actually the reason I think everyone knew who you were back then is because of the fact that you only competed against/with other players of your server.

[heyaz]

I remember how bad the old system was. I did rank 13 on my warrior and rank 11 on my rogue. I remember getting up at 8am to get into premade wsg/ab groups that would run all day and by noon would have waiting list 50 players long. The rank 14 candidates would keep playing pugs afterhours to get ahead of the rest of us, or camp out in searing gorge all night. I stopped at rank 13 because I had good 40-man raid weapons anyway, and I just didn't care enough to try to beat out people who were willing to do whatever it took.

What sucked the most is honor decay. You couldn't get away even for a week even if you wanted to or you'd lose weeks worth of work. Wow is still a grind these days and if you take a break you get behind the rest, but at least you don't lose what you worked for and it's still possible to catch up.

Almost all the rank 14s on my server quit within 2 days of getting it. A few bought the weapons, dueled a couple people, then quit the same day. Most sold their accounts for $1500+, others just uninstalled the game and never came back.

[Tdog]

The titles where removed like everything else. "Whiners!"

My original Rogue was GM and it was the worst grind you've ever could imagin. Only people that plays hours and hours for a weeks to get to GM level because how the old system worked. People would bitch and whine and so blizzard created the new honor system to make it "Easier" for casuals to get gear.

Just like now, blizz keeps dropping the epic hard stuff down to a casual level and I really hope the addition of the NEW** Heroic system that it's actually "Hard". Like Original Naxx Hard. Where guilds would dump 1000's of gold on a run to to and learn the bosses and how to beat them. Back when you killed a boss it ment something, not like it is now.

While I agree with you that WoW has become too easy, especially progression raids compared to say Naxx 40, that old rank 14 grind was beyond retarded. If it at least took skill to get rank 14 that would of been something, not saying that those who reached rank 14 sucked in pvp but skill had nothing to do with wether or not the reached that rank. All you had to do to reach it was give up RL for about 4-5 months and play non-stop.

[TeK23]

But wow has changed alot from back when it started too. The hardcore group is tiny only like 3-5% and everyone else is casual gamers and so I completely understand blizzards point on making it easier. Even myself, I have nothing to bitch about, because I'm casual now. I don't have 6-10 hours a night to dedicate to wow or any games for that matter.

So it's kind of nice that gear is cake. :P