I wonder how you guys did it in the past ...

[Seldum]

The only hardcore thing about aion is trying to keep yourself entertained for more than a month after you hit 50

Epic comment.

Thanks for all the stories. Its really interesting to hear about the "old" wow.

I still find the current wow a grind, and i know its nothing like it used to be. But for a more casual player like myself it's nice not having to spend hours and hours doing some lame stuff to get some gear. Theres still alot of this around (rep grinding), but I guess its the never ending problem of wow, they have to try and satisfy players playing for 15+ hours a week to people like me who plays 5-7 hours a week.

A friend told me, that in the beginning (Beta maybe?) you had so swim between Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms.... lol... that would suck.

[Overpowerdin]

swimming to GM island was fun

and I miss my hunters shield!

[Fursphere]

Brute Force and Ignorance is how we used to roll.

5x Shaman > Burning Crusade

[falsfire3401]

I remember a patch note from 1.02 or something:

"Hunters casting Eyes of the Beast while on a flight path will no longer be dropped to the ground at their current location"


And another...AFTER I'd done the quest in question:
"The debuff cast by Felhunters in Desolace that causes 300 damage to a player when they cast a spell no longer affects non-spell abilities from non-spellcasters such as a rogue using Sinister Strike"

I hated killing those stupid felhunters then...I could only white attack them...300 dmg was like 1/4 of my health at level 38 or so IIRC.

[offive]

Man some of the comments in this thread made me think back to the old days, when I was one of the many NE hunters on my realm from day 1 of WoW.

Trying to pug as a hunter!
Leveling a holy pally blacksmith engineer. (money pit)
Zul'farrak temple event... oh i hated that fight.
Running everywhere until you could scrape together the money for a mount.
Rading Crossroads...serious business!
Watching my wife run Black Rock Depths soo many times on her rogue for the Ony chain
Watching my wife grind Timbermaw hold rep for the agi enchants for days (forming a continuous raid that lasted for days) no extra quests or nice things like that.
Killing the few mobs that were in SIlithus that didn't drop anything.
A content patch for Mauradon! oooohh ahhhhh
Being able to ace Baron timed runs in dungeon blue gear.
Running Scholo so many times my head hurts thinking about it for my Dungeon 0 helm! And never getting it
Teaching scores of people how to play a hunter (yes you can kite, yes you have to dismiss your pet before you jump off that)
Raiding 40 mans... what a cluster.

Then PvP really came to WoW with rankings!
The rolling South Shore battles week one before BGs! (the original concept for Wintergrasp lag fest)
The 4 hour AV queue times! Battlegroups what are those?
Rolled horde undead shadow priest, played the snot out of it for weeks on end and only got to Blood Guard. But queue times were instant (not 4 hour waits for AV on my main alliance toon).

Played TBC to 70 on several toons, took a break and came back to try out this thing called multiboxing (no RAF) because I saw a video of Zin.

[Kedash00]

the old days were definately good times,
i remember the crossroad raids that went so well we would head to Org and get our asses handed to us, back when there were only a handful of 60s on the whole server.
I remember mind controlling people in pvp situations and using their big abilities (warrior abilities come to mind but i can't remember the name)
I remember seeing a huge group of horde invade westfall and thinking i could take skulls when i was level 20ish.

I remember when i switched to horde i played a shadow priest, and i'll go ahead and say they were a bit overpowered right before the last patch came out that everyone got pvp gear with. Battlegrounds were still kinda new and i could take on 2 people with devouring plague before they nerfed it to shit. Man that one skill was ungodly. I thought i was really good at pvping but it just turns out priests were insanely overpowered at the time lol. good times, good times.

And the most rediculous, i remember rogues that got a new sword in MC and have used daggers the whole time, so they equipped the sword and leveled up their weapon skill inside MC cause they thought it was better because of the DPS than the dagger they were maxxed out on.

[Verriit]

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Some snapshots of moments I remember :


- Realizing at level 8 or something, that gear can be repared, no need to replace it.


Lol... I didn't realize until level 20 something that if an item was green that meant it was better then what the vendors sold. I was so excited to buy a full set of level 15 leather from a vendor in Auberdine... Man I looked cool in that set.

Some other highlights :

- Taking 13 months to level my rogue to 60 - I got very sidetracked in the beginning and didn't find Allakazam/thottbot (sp?) until I was level 47
- Leveling a rogue with daggers -- Gouge -> run behind them to backstab -> Kidney Shot -> run behind them to backstab
- My first pvp encounter -- A guilde and I saw a skull (turns out he was level 41) horde mage. We just ran BRD and thought, eh two level 24 rogues can kill ANYTHING. 5 corpse runs later we realized we should not attack things that had a skull by their picture.
- Level 1 enchant alt with bags full of illusion dust/GEE/and shards

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Ah, the Olde WoW(tm).

When a mage was decently geared in full Mooncloth tailored stuff.
When UBRS was a difficult 15-man raid.
When AV wars took over 24hours at times.
When www.wowhead.com/?item=Arcanite Reaper was uber.
When PVP in PVE gear wasn't a death sentence.
When it took more than one person to kill all the npcs in Crossroads.
When Flight Masters were mean and usually meant death by Enraged Wyvern.
When enhancement shamans were still interesting.
When having certain hunter pets was worth more than just "hey, nice color there."
When you had to reroll to respec (hope you like that prot warrior leveling LOL).

[Acidburning]

I remember doing UBRS with 30+ (all guild).

We were the first guild to enter MC on our server, and the 1st molten giant dropped the warlock epic belt.

[offive]

I remember mind controlling people in pvp situations and using their big abilities (warrior abilities come to mind but i can't remember the name).

Ah yeah the countless morons I would MC off the cliff at AB lumber mill. Man that was fun. Thinking ahead, how fun would 5 gnome shadow priests be in BGs with noggenfogger?