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topjben OP t1_je9232e wrote

Reply to comment by Zero1030 in Wow fans might recognize the place. by topjben

"Well met!" Yes, in Kharanos exactly.

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Theycallmetheherald t1_je9cb83 wrote

Wow this was exactly the inn i though about before opening... crazy after 15 years..

That game was special.

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topjben OP t1_je9k4y1 wrote

- Running through the tunnels dodging the troggs to leave coldridge valley.
- Drinking a dwarf pale ale while learning brand new spells.
- Taming your first pet.
- Aggroing 3 Frostmane trolls at once on the hills.
- Fishing on the ice lake.
- Fighting gnomes near Gnomeragan
- Discovering the ram mounts in the little farm, just under the yeti lair.
- Mining in the excavation site.
And finally stepping into IronForge, damn!

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Shoopbadoopp t1_je9tv59 wrote

I remember when people would finish their quest in the yeti lair then just sprint out aground s bunch of yetis. Eventually they would aggro leash, but then all aggro to whoever was still around and likely kill them. This was before they made changes to aggro

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milkman1218 t1_je9xxg1 wrote

I will forever remember the night elf starting island. Such a great memory of a young me getting addicted to the most popular mmo at the time.

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The-Cynicist t1_jea0y8j wrote

Tirisfal Glades and Silverpine Forest were always my starting areas (Undead). I loved those areas so much especially coming off the high of WC3. The early years of WoW really were something special.

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milkman1218 t1_jea5r44 wrote

Tell me about it, I can still remember thinking how am I going to get 100 gold for my first mount! I remember it taking ages back in vanilla not only getting to level to 20 but grinding gold unless you were a high level crafter was such a pain. I was always jealous of druids, eventually made a druid tank for cata.

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ReallyGargoyled t1_je9vv5p wrote

i've sat on top of that barrel on the roof so many times, drinking dwarven ale.

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right_foot_down t1_jea5ros wrote

You have hit me right in the feels, haven’t logged since 2009(ish), and I was right there again. Thanks for that

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hoes-in-this-house t1_jec9jzu wrote

You nailed it! Stepping into IF though..its like the most unique feeling I've ever had

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domestic_omnom t1_jed9hf0 wrote

I grew up playing the original warcraft 1,2, and 3. To actually walk through the dark portal and return to the orcs' homewold was pretty damn epic.

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Psychic_Jester t1_je9ugsc wrote

From the thumbnail I was thinking that or Winterspring. Spent many an hour farming thorium and the dragon sinew for my hunter. I finally got it the last few weeks it was available and never got the drop from Domo

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Availaber t1_jeawede wrote

Would much prefer to poke around storming as a blood elf than an alliance race.

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uzasno t1_jebryzf wrote

So lucky to have been there day 1 in 2004

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itsafuseshot t1_je9nokw wrote

It still is. Wow classic is alive and well.

(Not wotlk classic, there are official vanilla servers with great populations)

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UrBobbyIsAWonderland t1_je9rpr1 wrote

Nah, the internet ruined it.

Original WoW came out even before YouTube. People don't realize how old it is. Gaming culture was different. there was no meta. It was pure discovery. It just doesnt work like it used to.

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itsafuseshot t1_je9ta0w wrote

That’s fair, it’s not the same, but classic era servers (vanilla, not wrath of the lich king) are well populated, and still a lot of fun

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The-Cynicist t1_jea1jnr wrote

I’m with you on this. The sense of wonder and the unknown was vast in the original game. At best you had some spotty article pages on Thottbot if you were lost. Now every inch of the world map has been marked and gone into detail by thousands of YouTubers. Not to mention every min/max guide for the flavor of the month so your character just ends up being uncompetitive or a complete cookie cutter. Really I wish we could go back to 2000s era internet in general, it was a lot more exciting.

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Shibbystix t1_jea26ph wrote

Yeah, the thing that made wow so special is the thing that cannot exist anymore BECAUSE of the times.

The best thing about wow was exploring out in the wild and randomly seeing someone else doing the same. I made my first long term net friend running from troggs near Karanos.

Now, everyone is using the same speed Lvling guide to level as fast as possible, and people run right past everyone because everyone is trying to max lvl as fast as possible. It's so streamlined that most of the servers are on the exact same paths to get to places, doing the exact same quests and skipping the same quests.

You don't randomly meet strangers in the wild anymore to team up

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MajinBuuMan t1_jeac72y wrote

That's what made me stop playing most MP games in general.

Meta this, meta that, find the most efficient ways to do things and stick to that.

Even first person shooters are going that way...

I like my sense of wonder and adventure in video games and that's gone from most multiplayer now.

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Cooleybob t1_jeaga9p wrote

"Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game."

It's essentially an inevitability with competitive multiplayer games. If the goal is to "win", then the most efficient method of achieving that will be found and dominate the scene. For MMORPG's like WoW, that really sucks when the whole point of the game was to explore, quest, collect gear, and build your character however you wanted.

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JanGuillosThrowaway t1_jedud0w wrote

I did get that feeling again when WoW classic dropped. There were so much activity in the world. someone posted about grouping for the elite quests in Loch Modan and I dragged my NE priest up there and completely but barely saved a group consisting of three warriors and a hunter.

That was such a great time. I'd like to get back into classic now but I guess the experience would be very different from those first months.

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holdit t1_je9ueh2 wrote

The first couple months of WoW Classic gave me the same feeling as back when it first came out. Was incredible

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JobsInvolvingDragons t1_jeb4ay7 wrote

Nothing has been ruined, you are just ignorant and cynical. The magic is still very much alive in classic wow, if you choose to minmax the fun out of it that is on you alone.

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agamemnon2 t1_jedpwd4 wrote

I think you're mistaken. It's completely different to go back to a "classic" version of a game that's no longer being developed, than it was to explore the same MMO when it was still active. It's the difference between visiting a famous artist's house when they're alive, and visiting it 40 years later when it's been turned into a museum.

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