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What is something in WoW you are pretty proud of

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WaTaGuMp

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I am proud to be the 1st on my server at the time to have the Talbuk mount, I no longer play WoW but I wont forget this. I got the mount before I even maxed my level. 😀


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Biggest achievement was actually quitting WoW 😉

My second biggest achievement was when my guild downed Ragnaros for the first time... good times.
 
Here is some fun using Noggenfogger Elixir, these are not photoshop screenies. I use to jump off the top of Iron Forge and float to the harbor area, I forget the name of it. 😀


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Originally posted by: Chriscross3234
Biggest achievement was actually quitting WoW 😉

My second biggest achievement was when my guild downed Ragnaros for the first time... good times.
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I quit and sold my account for a nice tidy sum of 1k and I even think that was too little considering I had over 14k gold.


Here is me using the Snowman trick on Ragnaros, till they made it so you couldnt.



Snowman
 
One thing I recall was when I killed a ?? Hunter with my 55 Warrior. I armory'd him later and found he was a level 67.

He was attacking the flight master guy in Blasted Lands I think, so his pet was occupied.
 
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.
 
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.
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I still think its an amazing game, I also was into raids. It just got old to me like most games do. The itemization always sucked, which was kinda ironic since when I bought the game the guy at gamespot said blizzard always had that kind of issues with other games. No game is perfect but WoW was the best MMO I ever played.
 
Originally posted by: WaTaGuMp
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.
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I still think its an amazing game, I also was into raids. It just got old to me like most games do. The itemization always sucked, which was kinda ironic since when I bought the game the guy at gamespot said blizzard always had that kind of issues with other games. No game is perfect but WoW was the best MMO I ever played.
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I could write a book to respond, but I've done it before in other threads so there is no need to beat the dead horse.

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.

At least other games give you challenges you actually consider to be accomplishments long-term, and not for brief three month periods of time until anyone else can get the exact same thing. I do not want to play a game of getting there first. I want to play a game of it's so hard to get there, quite simply very few will.

WoW is amazing. But it concedes far too much, and far too often to it's casual player base. I remembered days when raiding meant you were a god among men, not someone to be ridiculed by the hip PvP arena crowd as being carried by 19 other guys for your epics. The irony between the two sides (PvE and PvP) and their bitter hatred for each other absolutely amazed me, though I quit during the Sunwell beta so things have probably changed quite a bit since then.

I'm now quite content with EVE. If I need to commit to my professional life I can play a total of 2 hours or less a week and still accomplish massive amounts via simple skill training alone, market manipulation, or just plain cloak-ganking. When I want to get hardcore I can hop in a Dreadnaught and engage in massive fleet battles where true combat tactics are used vs. large groups of other players where you can actually be outgunned 5 to 1 and still win via superior strategy - and not a game where I run the same scripted events two-four nights a week to get the same shitty 8 billionth drop for a class that already has everything so things rot and go to alts while I patiently run week after week for my last upgrade, or where hamstring-cyclone spam is simply superior to everything else in my 2vs2.

In a nutshell, I play grown up games now. I reflect upon WoW as sort of the rebellious stage in high school when you try and make a name for yourself by being unique; I'm just past that now.
 
Saga you pretty much summed up the exact same reasons why I quit WoW, which was right after BC released. The days of playing WoW pre-BC were the greatest the game ever was and ever will be.
 
Originally posted by: Saga
Originally posted by: WaTaGuMp
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.
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I still think its an amazing game, I also was into raids. It just got old to me like most games do. The itemization always sucked, which was kinda ironic since when I bought the game the guy at gamespot said blizzard always had that kind of issues with other games. No game is perfect but WoW was the best MMO I ever played.
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I could write a book to respond, but I've done it before in other threads so there is no need to beat the dead horse.

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.

At least other games give you challenges you actually consider to be accomplishments long-term, and not for brief three month periods of time until anyone else can get the exact same thing. I do not want to play a game of getting there first. I want to play a game of it's so hard to get there, quite simply very few will.

WoW is amazing. But it concedes far too much, and far too often to it's casual player base. I remembered days when raiding meant you were a god among men, not someone to be ridiculed by the hip PvP arena crowd as being carried by 19 other guys for your epics. The irony between the two sides (PvE and PvP) and their bitter hatred for each other absolutely amazed me, though I quit during the Sunwell beta so things have probably changed quite a bit since then.

I'm now quite content with EVE. If I need to commit to my professional life I can play a total of 2 hours or less a week and still accomplish massive amounts via simple skill training alone, market manipulation, or just plain cloak-ganking. When I want to get hardcore I can hop in a Dreadnaught and engage in massive fleet battles where true combat tactics are used vs. large groups of other players where you can actually be outgunned 5 to 1 and still win via superior strategy - and not a game where I run the same scripted events two-four nights a week to get the same shitty 8 billionth drop for a class that already has everything so things rot and go to alts while I patiently run week after week for my last upgrade, or where hamstring-cyclone spam is simply superior to everything else in my 2vs2.

In a nutshell, I play grown up games now. I reflect upon WoW as sort of the rebellious stage in high school when you try and make a name for yourself by being unique; I'm just past that now.
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I also enjoyed the 40 man raids over the smaller ones, but of course as a business they are going to cater to the masses they make the most money off of. I enjoyed my time, I did things I loved doing and I don't have any regrets. If anything WoW got me over the whole MMO thing, cause even going and playing LOTRO I got bored faster.
 
Originally posted by: Chriscross3234
Saga you pretty much summed up the exact same reasons why I quit WoW, which was right after BC released. The days of playing WoW pre-BC were the greatest the game ever was and ever will be.
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Yeah. What I posted above was about as slimmed down of a summary I could accomplish while both keeping it short enough for most to read without demanding cliffs and at the same time trying to convey all of my many points in as few words as possible.

If you search for my username in PC gaming I have a few threads where I wrote five-six page essay's on this subject and how from a hardcore gaming perspective WoW sort of ate itself from the inside out. It's not to say it's not a great game, I just think over time they've turned it into an entirely different game while at the same time completely alienating their initial customer base. WoW pre TBC was absolutely amazing. TBC went downhill slowly, and then sharply with the onset of Sunwell and raid armor for heroic badges. I didn't even need to bother with WotLK to know it would simply be more of the same, and from all I've read to date, it has.

It's quite a pity, really. From the standpoint of a hardcore MMOer who had (multiple) characters in EQ with 400+days played, WoW was conceptionally amazing in the beginning.
 
Yea, I think all of us that played the game pre-bc could definately agree to that. And to a point, pre-battlegrounds.

I remember the days of standard world pvp where there would be random people grouping up for a raid on southshore/tarren mill for no reason whatsoever. No honor points were even available yet. Hours upon hours of just standard world pvp.

As with most mmorpg's, the game eventually evolved into what was needed to attract more and more gamers.. and the crowd they needed was the casual crowd since that is the largest base available.
 
I think the first time beating Nefarian was the most satisfying thing for me. The whole guild got on their mounts and paraded in a giant circle inside Orgrimmar after that. Of course nothing really topped fighting/beating Ragnaros for the first time. I played since closed beta phase 2 (back when there were skill points so you could learn and master every single craft and before talents were in the game) up until sunwell was released. We beat every raid in BC before they were nerfed to infinity. We beat Archimonde and Illidan. Neither were very satisfying fights and Illidan got boring real fast. The only thing I was proud of was being the first horde guild on our server to clear BT. We were in a race with another guild and we were shit talking back and forth until of course we prevailed. It seemed a hollow victory though because by that time I had become extremely bored with WoW and raiding in general (I was never into pvp that much). Also since I was the only enhance shaman and I was there since the beginning I basically had to raid every single night we raided. It burned me out and I haven't touched WoW since.

I think one of my main beefs was how long it took Blizzard to respond to problems including game breaking/balance related ones. Also I was a life long shaman and I saw my class go through the cycle of destruction as I like to call it.
 
Originally posted by: Chriscross3234
Saga you pretty much summed up the exact same reasons why I quit WoW, which was right after BC released. The days of playing WoW pre-BC were the greatest the game ever was and ever will be.
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Yep, BC sent WoW downhill, and fast. I too miss the Tarren Mill World PvP and the MC/BWL raids. I am still proud of my lock: first lock on the server with full Tier 1, 6/8 Tier 2 with the Staff of Dominance. I don't have time for WoW these days anyhow, so it's probably best that I quit.
 
1) I sold my closed beta account to some guy in England for $300. A week later, the beta was opened to everyone

2) I made it to the airfield by IronForge and the Mods came on and yelled at me for being up there.
 
in game I guess I would say having success in seasons 2 and 3 of Arena in BC. Seemed to be the good time for arena, if you can even say that. That and helping run a WSG group that led HWLs prior to AV picking up.

Overall tho, I have to say quitting. What I do with that time now is just... better for me.
 
Finishing MC with my current guild the week before BC launched. I hopped from server to server beginning with launch but the guild I'm currently in is the same guild I found towards the end of vanilla. Great times.

I think most people look back on vanilla with a lot of nostalgia. Funny thing about nostalgia... it seems a lot better in retrospect than it actually is/was. Ex-gf's have taught me that. 🙂
 
Using a bugged quest near the orcs main town and getting 50 - 60 pets following me and confusing the hell out of people as I lead them through the town shouting the invasion is beginning.
 
/shrug

I've been playing since beta phase 1 (about 5 years now) and I'm still as in love with the game as I ever was. Probably more now, actually. I was part of the server first Sartharion kill (best title reward imo), I was the server first 450 tailor, and I'm currently the best geared player on the entire server (based on total iLevel). I also think the game has improved with every patch and expansion. Then again, I don't pvp because I hate it with a fiery passion (in nearly every game), so maybe from a pvp perspective the game sucks.
 
I crafted the rocket launcher from engineering profession.
In auchindoun meeting stone I got an ally down to about 15% hp and he flew up in the air thinking I couldn't reach him.
I busted out my rocket launcher and killed him in mid-air, his corpse was just hanging in the sky.
 
Since most people keep saying they are proud they quit, I will just post some more fun screenies.


Snowman fun off the top of IF. Text

Showing the horde who is sexier. Text

Some kinky raid chat. Text

Last but not least, mah kitty mount. Text
 
Mmm I think maybe the Nefarian kill was my top thing. I wasn't there for our first Ragnaros kill because I got subbed for someone else... I was actually really pissed off about that. Mainly because they said whoever was there the first night of attempts got priority the second, but I got subbed anyway 🙁. I think the other rogue had 10 more FR than me or something silly like that.

But you know what also makes these old raids a little more interesting... we didn't have the game play it for us. We didn't have boss add-ons... we didn't have threat meters. Well, we eventually got those in vanilla WoW, but I remember downing Vaelastrasz the Corrupt every time and no one used a threat meter. That supposedly being the boss where you need a threat meter on your tanks and DPS :roll:. No, perhaps you need to learn to play your class a bit.

Also, raiding was quite a bit harder back then... we had no true stepping stone into raiding. You raided with fuckin' crappy blues from Strat, Scholo, DM. Zul'Gurub wasn't introduced until the patch after BWL was introduced. In a way, I think the introduction of ZG was the right thing to do, but that also started the downhill of difficulty of content. Anyone could begin to blaze through with that gear because some of the ZG gear rivaled even 40-man raid gear!

Off that diatribe.... I think my second most proud event was when I finally hit 70 on all of my alts... which was one of every class (and a second rogue). Then I realized I'd have to level them all to 80 and I wept 🙁.

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
I think most people look back on vanilla with a lot of nostalgia. Funny thing about nostalgia... it seems a lot better in retrospect than it actually is/was. Ex-gf's have taught me that. 🙂
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Yep, I mean we talk a lot about raiding, but Blizzard has made some very nice convenience changes and are still doing so! Sure, you may dislike the raiding, and that's fine... but at least they're making a lot of those horrid annoyances go away. Although, there are some people that like the annoyances... they see them as hurdles to achieve a goal. I think they're kinda weird 😛.
 
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