What is something in WoW you are pretty proud of

[ivan2]

down the she dragon first, down Rag first. Raided the horde towns countless time, had a few 80-120 man raids, first one we had 3 raid groups went to undercity and actually took the server down.

 

[msi1337]

my favorite part was leaving it and playing Guild Wars for 3 years

 

[Baked]

Getting Salty w/o cheating?

I enjoy talking to a few people I consider friends in the game, it's the reason I still play it.

 

[Beev]

Originally posted by: Baked
Getting Salty w/o cheating?

?

 

[nanobreath]

Originally posted by: Beev

Originally posted by: Baked
Getting Salty w/o cheating?

?

The title/achievement. It is a PITA.


Killing Onyxia was prolly one of my favorite moments. Next to that is our second killing of Ragnaros. Mainly I guess because I was raid leader at the time and the work getting 40 people together for that really made it something. Why the second kill you ask? because on the first one the sons never spawned. We got our first legit kill the next week. This is probably the main reason it's not my #1. A bugged first kill really took the fun out of it.

 

[Beev]

I was questioning the cheating part. I assume it has to do with the fishing tourny?

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: Beev
I was questioning the cheating part. I assume it has to do with the fishing tourny?

Indeed. It's very common for people to bring a lot of friends to block tasty fishing pool on their giant mounts to prevent the competition from fishing in them. Very classy. In addition, people like to give out false info on general chat to confuse the competition, such as "you'll need 50 fish to win the tourney now, WLK change."

 

[Beev]

Ah, underhanded tactics. I was afraid there was a game mechanic that was being exploited. The only thing I do for help is get my DK buddy to follow me so I get path of frost

 

[Golgatha]

Playing it for 2 weeks on a 14day trial with a friend and then quitting. He was amazed I could do this.

 

[Fardringle]

Originally posted by: Chriscross3234
Biggest achievement was actually quitting WoW

I'm rather proud of the fact that I have never played WoW, and never will.

 

[Vortex22]

I don't think there's much left worthy of being 'proud of' at 80 (at least at the current state of the game), however I am pretty proud of my 2350 3's team back in season 2/3.

Oh yeah, and tanking Nef with my druid back at 60. That was pretty sweet.

 

[shortylickens]

The fact I never started.
Probably extended my life expectancy 20 years.

Before anyone shits on me: Neffing is not as bad. I only need anandtech for about 30 minutes a day.

Theres no way I could live healthy if I did WoW 12 hours a day.

 

[Dorkenstein]

I stopped playing a few months after release, following my guildmates stabbing me in the back and leaving me in the middle of a dungeon.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Here is some nice Sinister Strike action, how about that 33k dmg.


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[Dangerer]

Back during mid BC. I blew a huge chunk of DKP on my 2nd piece of Tier 5 for my mage. Everyone thought I was a stupid retard when I told them that I'd be topping meters with that single piece. But the next raid came about, and I introduced my oblivious guild to the world of arcane blast mages. The other DPSers didn't even come close to catching up until late T6 content (about 6 months of being top dog)

 

[DeadBatteries]

Originally posted by: Chriscross3234
Biggest achievement was actually quitting WoW

QFT

 

[vhx]

I have to agree with my Talbuk mount. That I have my Talbuk mount on my Draenei Warrior. I dreamt one day of riding a Gazelle type creature and behold there it was.

The best part of Talbuk mounts is actually fitting through doors and other areas now without having to dismount with a lame Elephant (I pitty Taurens more). It's also awesome making a macro that randoms all the different Talbuks, random awesomness with each cast.

Also pre expansion was amazing. I quit before BC, but I was proud of being in a guild that had so much fun doing the 40 man raids. Doing MC on alts (when people were having trouble doing it with mains) was actually fun messing around. "Got mana?" "No not..." "HERE I GO!!!" and we'd still down them. AoE killing Majordomo's adds for shits and giggles. Trying new strategies on bosses that were cleared by the very few was very exciting as well as well as being in the 4th US guild (6th world) to down C'thun was pretty amazing. That and the fact my guild got quite a bit of attention (was even in a gaming mag last I saw) for starting the 'AQ ransom' fad. Although we were never serious about ransoming it spread like crazy. Ahhh the good 'ol days in IO.

I have yet to hit 80 since coming back yet, but I hear the 25 man raids pale in comparison to the good 'ol days where it was actually challenging.

 

[JKing106]

Originally posted by: DeadBatteries

Originally posted by: Chriscross3234
Biggest achievement was actually quitting WoW

QFT

I second the motion.

 

[dclapps]

I watched "Make Love, Not Warcraft", does that count?

 

[BassBomb]

Killed Vashj
Got exalted with all Horde long before it mattered
Explored Azshara at level 11
Swam from Swamp of Sorrows to Hinterlands (plenty of extra long swims I did)
Solo'd Scholo, LBRS, Strat at 70
Got to 2000 quests
Jumped off Winterspring into Azshara
Visited dancing troll land

I quit though

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: Saga
The thing I am most proud of is coming to my senses and realizing just how bad the game is. Unfortunate it took two years of hardcore raiding to accomplish. Now I happily play far superior games.

I'm failing to detect any sarcasm here, but this reads pretty disingenuous. I have no interest in mmo gaming so I don't play them, but there's a name for a crappy game that you play for two years. It's called a great game.

 

[ggnl]

Originally posted by: jonks

Originally posted by: Saga
The thing I am most proud of is coming to my senses and realizing just how bad the game is. Unfortunate it took two years of hardcore raiding to accomplish. Now I happily play far superior games.

I'm failing to detect any sarcasm here, but this reads pretty disingenuous. I have no interest in mmo gaming so I don't play them, but there's a name for a crappy game that you play for two years. It's called a great game.

Heroin is also great by that definition.

 

[Saga]

Originally posted by: jonks

Originally posted by: Saga
The thing I am most proud of is coming to my senses and realizing just how bad the game is. Unfortunate it took two years of hardcore raiding to accomplish. Now I happily play far superior games.

I'm failing to detect any sarcasm here, but this reads pretty disingenuous. I have no interest in mmo gaming so I don't play them, but there's a name for a crappy game that you play for two years. It's called a great game.

Take some time to read my later posts and you will be enlightened, my son.

 

[guitarslingerchris]

I'm proud I was able to quit before WotLK came out! In all seriousness I spent way too much time in that game and I regret it alot until I remember how much fun it was pioneering alot of the theorycraft and competing on WWSScoreboards.

Some of my accomplishments I'd never trade:

World 2nd Patchwerk
Killing C'thun and Viscidus the first time
Paladin tanking flames on first Illidan kill
MT'ing first kill for all of Sunwell minus KJ
Killing original M'uru - Later killing 3.0 M'uru before the timer on the first void sentinel came up
Vashj kill was pretty good but Kael'Thas was one of the top experiences in WoW for me
First 4H kill

Probably my proudest moment, and most shameful at the same time... Actually grinding Grand Marshal on my Paladin BY MYSELF
Season 1/2/3 Gladiator on Paladin, Season 2 Gladiator on my Warrior alt

After 11 months of killing Illidan and Archimonde, I finally won our guild's first Tempest of Chaos for my main-tanking weapon the same night I took our 8th Kalecgos tank sword



Make no mistake I played WAY too much, I dropped out of college for that shit...
Just recently beginning to make up for lost time.

 

[guitarslingerchris]

Originally posted by: Saga
The game was amazing when raids were 40-man. The game got sloppy and began catering to the lowest common denominator, and by 20-man raid caps it started to get old. Then, once any 7 year old could come home from school every day, AFK grind BG's or buy gold with daddy's credit card and pay someone to PL their arena team and get the exact same items as I was getting from my raids via badges, that was it.

I agree with this 100%, I stopped displaying my Grand Marshal title for a good while after I realized that a large majority of them had either been paid for, grinded by multiple people and whatnot and the players were just generally not worthwhile. Arena solved this somewhat, but stacking combos just made it a joke alot of the time. I feel I really earned my Gladiator title in 3v3 and 2v2 in season 2/3 on my Paladin, in 5v5 it was a joke and a monkey could have done my job.

4H, Kel'thuzad, C'THUN especially and fights like M'uru and Kil'Jaeden were fights to be truly proud of to accomplish. From what I hear that's all but gone now and that's probably why I was actually able to quit the game. I spent almost a year farming Illidan and Archimonde before new content, and while Sunwell was a masterpiece imo it was also a sobering stab into all of the guilds that had become complacent over time.

I think EJ boards had a good thread on Sunwell as a "guild-killer" and someone said that that was not the case at all. A good portion of the great players had quit from all of the down time between new content and their spots had been filled by so-so players that when tasked with fights like M'uru specifically just couldn't stand up to it and so the guild crumbled. The lax feeling of TBC raiding until Sunwell is what I feel was responsible for the eventual downfall of WoW in my eyes. It's pretty much a forced casual game at this point, there's no way to truly cater to the hardcore crowd and the casuals and ultra casuals at the same time, someone is going to get screwed.