Best time spent in WoW.

Jackio81

For me I'd have to say it was a specific time during Vanilla WoW.

Before battlegrounds came out and after the honor patch....nothing comes close and you had to be there to know what I'm talking about....lol

Palebane

I was just going to reply with the exact same thing. Tarren Mill/Southshore was the most fun I've had in WoW, and the best PvP I've ever played in an MMO. Alot of people were complaining because the factions weren't balanced number wise (and of course shaman were still horde only and pallys on the allys then). Also, people didn't like it because there was no material reward and it was pointless to them.

 

For me, the pointlessness was the best part. And the faction imbalance was never so bad that whichever side was getting beat down, didn't eventually turn the tides (with NPC help) and push them all the way back, if only briefly. Yes, there was no way to really win. No there was no material reward. That's the best kind of PvP in my opinion. Some may call it mindless, but for me, it was fun as hell. One of the best things about it was that BWL had not yet been introduced, so MC was the highest gear anyone could get. And most max level characters had access to that, so the playing field (gear-wise) was probably the closest it has ever been since launch day.

 

EDIT:  If I remember right, there were rewards for a short while before Warsong Gulch was born; the cape and a few other things, And the rankings started before WG also I think. But there was also a short time when you could collect honor, but there was no way yet to spend it. Why oh why did they make it all about loot? For me, that was the real turning point in this genre. When I started noticing that gear meant everything to so many players.

Jackio81

Originally posted by Palebane


I was just going to reply with the exact same thing. Tarren Mill/Southshore was the most fun I've had in WoW, and the best PvP I've ever played in an MMO. Alot of people were complaining because the factions weren't balanced number wise (and of course shaman were still horde only and pallys on the allys then). Also, people didn't like it because there was no material reward and it was pointless to them.
 
For me, the pointlessness was the best part. And the faction imbalance was never so bad that whichever side was getting beat down, didn't eventually turn the tides (with NPC help) and push them all the way back, if only briefly. Yes, there was no way to really win. No there was no material reward. That's the best kind of PvP in my opinion. Some may call it mindless, but for me, it was fun as hell. One of the best things about it was that BWL had not yet been introduced, so MC was the highest gear anyone could get. And most max level characters had access to that, so the playing field (gear-wise) was probably the closest it has ever been since launch day.
 
EDIT:  If I remember right, there were rewards for a short while before Warsong Gulch was born; the cape and a few other things, And the rankings started before WG also I think. But there was also a short time when you could collect honor, but there was no way yet to spend it. Why oh why did they make it all about loot? For me, that was the real turning point in this genre. When I started noticing that gear meant everything to so many players.

 

Actually during the period of time I mentioned there were rewards to be earned considering the honor patch just kicked in, and since there were no battlegrounds yet you can imagine how ridiculously awesome open world PvP was like.

Never liked battlegrounds, and in WAR their scenarios were the first sign Mythic had no clue what they were doing.

LoL

drbaltazar

 true npc  was a big balancing factor 

Josexph

I think the best time i had on WoW, would have to be pvp in Silithus or the AQ doors opening on my server (Sargeras). Talk about server rape that day.

Blazi3

Yes Southshore is one of my Fav PVP battles - i remember big ass battles were happening between tarren mill and SS lol so i flew back to ironforge and told everyone in general chat (this is the day were people actually cared lol) - next second 30 other allies fly to SS lol almost hour into battle  there was a hugggggggeeeeeeeeee ass war going on.

luciusETRUR

Release to patch 1.9 was when I loved WoW. I am not going to say it was my favorite MMO, because of the MMOs I played prior to WoW, I only liked it more than Lineage II.. after 1.9 and the awful Paladin changes and the end of AQ Live Event, the game has just got worse and worse, and I haven't enjoyed it since. I have sold my account and am done. The memories, oh the memories.

Fledo

Originally posted by Zorndorf


To all those concerned.
We are 4 weeks away from patch 3.3.
You know "the one" with the clustered server dungeons giving you access to a LF group play of 80K people. You say what ? solo play now ?
Just having had 3.1 and 3.2, you know "the ones" with the leveling through PvP, joining PvP (BG's- from ANYWHERE
... and ... the dual specs (giving you a tank, a healer anytime in its end game to do dungeons/raids with).
-----Get over it ------
Blizzard had to reprogram the servers because of the "too many instances are being launched" play.
In a game that is celebrating its 5th anniversay, NEVER before were so many peole playing in a GROUP in its end game.
--- And then ____
---And then ___
Then came CATACLYSM (Azeroth redone ...)
CU on Apr 20th .... (with all the above of course).
 

Wow... what the fuck are you even talking about... Not being sarcastic I honestly had no clue what you were saying dude...

Xasapis

He's talking about the future, while this thread is about past best experiences.

Moonkin

I agree with op...back in vanilla when i took my first steps away from Barrens starting area to x-roads.

General chat full of enemy warnings and lots of chuck norris jokes^^

It was all war after that for some time:) Allways had to look around when doing q's if there was an enemy

Again Zorn...wtf!? Even once...stay in topic please and stop advertising!

luciusETRUR

Originally posted by Zorndorf


To all those concerned.
We are 4 weeks away from patch 3.3.
You know "the one" with the clustered server dungeons giving you access to a LF group play of 80K people. You say what ? solo play now ?
Just having had 3.1 and 3.2, you know "the ones" with the leveling through PvP, joining PvP (BG's- from ANYWHERE
... and ... the dual specs (giving you a tank, a healer anytime in its end game to do dungeons/raids with).
-----Get over it ------
Blizzard had to reprogram the servers because of the "too many instances are being launched" play.
In a game that is celebrating its 5th anniversay, NEVER before were so many peole playing in a GROUP in its end game.
--- And then ____
---And then ___
Then came CATACLYSM (Azeroth redone ...)
CU on Apr 20th .... (with all the above of course).
 

 

Can you get from level 1 to level 80 without ever grouping? Can you get epics without ever talking to a single person? Yes and yes.

Also, friendships aren't really as readily made in WoW as they used to be, raiding has become more and more arrogant and selfish, this LFG tool is not going to garner you more meaningful relationships, it makes doing group-content less personal, just like Battlegrounds became less personal with cross-server functionality. You could say, yeah we are grouping up! 

Back in the day of WoW, and in a lot of other games, I meet nice people and forge friendships with people and end up questing with some them often in those games and even talk to them outside of the games even! In WoW, this is rarely the case.. I am not saying it doesn't happen, because there is nice people anywhere, but WoW has turned into something else, I don't really feel like I'm playing an MMO anymore on that game.

Sure, you are grouping with people, but the whole fun of grouping isn't there, so what's the point?

Palebane

Originally posted by Zorndorf

Originally posted by Fledo

Originally posted by Zorndorf


To all those concerned.
We are 4 weeks away from patch 3.3.
You know "the one" with the clustered server dungeons giving you access to a LF group play of 80K people. You say what ? solo play now ?
Just having had 3.1 and 3.2, you know "the ones" with the leveling through PvP, joining PvP (BG's- from ANYWHERE
... and ... the dual specs (giving you a tank, a healer anytime in its end game to do dungeons/raids with).
-----Get over it ------
Blizzard had to reprogram the servers because of the "too many instances are being launched" play.
In a game that is celebrating its 5th anniversay, NEVER before were so many peole playing in a GROUP in its end game.
--- And then ____
---And then ___
Then came CATACLYSM (Azeroth redone ...)
CU on Apr 20th .... (with all the above of course).
 

Wow... what the fuck are you even talking about... Not being sarcastic I honestly had no clue what you were saying dude...

Perhaps if you would follow the game and reread the things above, you would know the "best time spent" is right under your nose these days.

 

 

I have to humbly disagree with you. Things are so out of whack right now in WoW, there is no way they can ever fix it. And God forbid them to ever admit when they make a mistake. All the cataclysm stuff is just fluff. It's hype. It will only add to that which has caused the decline of WoW and the entire genre, in my opinion.

Thenarius

During BC, Black Temple and S3-S4 Arena were great fun.

Alandora

I am really enjoying Wintergrasp PVP at the moment.   It might be my server, but most of the battles are now being won or lost in the last minute.   When the games are that close, you really feel like you can decide the outcome (even though they are 120 vs 120).

Also as a player who can't schedule raids, I'm very happy that they are allowing 'progression' for us Puggers (emblems).   Vanilla WOW at the end was very bad because there wasn't much you could do to progress your character.  With BC, and even more so with WotLLK.. even towards the end of the expansion, there are still many ways for casual players to advance thir character.

 

With Cata, and the whole mastery and path of the titans thing, it will be even better.

WOW just has so many different options for player development.   

Unknown

It was when I was leveling my first character. It was a night elf druid, resto specced since feral and balance were broken beyond belief. I was going into Uldaman with a group as the healer, and I was the only one who knew about threat and aggro.

The tank was a warrior, who would run up and hit on a mob. Then he'd take damage and I'd cast a heal, and for the rest of the encounter all mobs except the one he was hitting on would be on me. I did my best to survive - HoTing myself up and going into bear form to have a small chance of surviving the onslaught of elite mobs. Eventually people in the group would start dying while I was busy tanking the mobs and trying to keep myself alive with heals.

Quickly the warrior's mantra, whenever we made a pull, became

"NO BEAR NO BEAR!!! HEAL!!!", as the tank had noticed he couldn't survive the one mob he was soloing, without healing.

Ah those were good times.

 

 

But seriously my best times were when Zul'Gurub came out and no one had done it before, so we had to come up with our own tactics for the bosses there. Unfortunately it got too repetitive over time and caused me to burn out.

Kyleran

For me it was back when Molten Core first came out, and my guild was one of the first ones to fight their way to Ragnaros.  Back then, we had no guides on how to kill him, and no one who was in competition with you would share.

We gnashed our teeth when two other guilds got him down before us, but cheered when we became the 3rd guild on our server to do so.

It took a lot of persistance, and truth is, I got so burned out (this was back when Pally's had to rebuff the raid every 5 minutes, good times, good times) on it that i quit raiding and  leveled an alt for about 3 months to recover from the stress.

Jackio81

Originally posted by Kyleran


For me it was back when Molten Core first came out, and my guild was one of the first ones to fight their way to Ragnaros.  Back then, we had no guides on how to kill him, and no one who was in competition with you would share.
We gnashed our teeth when two other guilds got him down before us, but cheered when we became the 3rd guild on our server to do so.
It took a lot of persistance, and truth is, I got so burned out (this was back when Pally's had to rebuff the raid every 5 minutes, good times, good times) on it that i quit raiding and  leveled an alt for about 3 months to recover from the stress.

Loot the core hound...lol

Anyways, for some reason I always loved when my guild started raiding BWL, the Razorgore fight....something about it I simply loved...=)

Razorgore vid

 

 

Morkreth

The best time was just a few months after release before the big alliance guilds started to discover and farm molten core. My guild had a core group of about 15 members. We held the Lakeshire inn against 80+ alliance. At least half of them were 60. After 2 hours of constant struggle they finally rooted us out with an 8+ pally bubble rush.

Once epics were released that was it. It was all downhill from there. It didnt take long for most to discover the insidious gear grind built into the game. I'm glad Mortal Online is about to come out. Beta is doing very well.

Anyway that was my best time.

wrockholz

 Yeah, original WoW was the best. it was actually WARcraft. Now its QueueUpForABGForHonorPointsDoARaidForEasyBadgeGearCraft. I miss when people would actually bother to get groups together and attack cities and tows for reasons other than an achievement and a stupid looking bear with a saddle. OP is right, post honor patch, pre battleground patch was, in my opinion, WoW's finest.

EDIT: Even early BG's were great to be honest. WSG was awesome when it first came out, and I never really got into AB but Alterac Valley's 4 to 5 hour matches were freaking awesome, especially when players took time to make use of all the cool features that Blizzard put in, like the cavalry units, air strikes, and frost giants. They, like all of the bosses you used to have to fight to control towers, have disappeared because that was clearly just... too hard for some players? IMO bring some classic concepts back into WoW and I'll consider going back to it.

dmcg

Proble the time progressing through TBC endgame I really liked the way it was structured it made it more rewarding to progress with the attunements from dungeons to black temple that satisfaction no longer exists

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Geeves

Originally posted by templarga


For me, it is right now.
My wife has been playing WOW with me and a lot of my friends have come back for one last hurrah before Cataclysm. We started over on a new server, playing Alliance again (I haven't played Alliance since about March of 2005), and taking the game slowly and having fun.
We are not twinking ourselves, we are doing every dungeon as we get to its level, everyone has taken a different crafting profession and we are helping each other out, etc.....Many of us have limited our addons to things like action bars and not like DBM or Questhelper. 
Its a totally new approach to the game, free of the level 80 raid drama and guild drama. Just a bunch of friends hanging out in a game and having fun. And in the end, what is what it should be.

Doing pretty much the same thing atm (barring the new server business). It's refreshing how much can be achieved in WoW just with small groups of friends.

I've got 2 best moments.

The first time I logged in was spectacular. I had never played an MMO, and the look, music, ambience were all spectacular and foreign to me. The game was new (this was launch day), the world was fresh and full of exciting challenges. It was at least an hour before I would see my first server crash and a full day before I would discover the fabled Warrior miss bug. Good times.

Dropping Ragnaros for the first time would be the other. As an Australian guild on an American server (not Blackrock) we were a bit behind the progression curve, but the wait was worth it. We had to farm FR gear for months, and spend weeks on the fight but at 1am that fateful morning vent nearly exploded. I had a hard time stopping myself from screaming "YEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" and waking up my housemates. I was on a high the rest of the week. Couldn't stop smiling Only other time I got that feeling was from Vazsh interestingly.

Scalebane

There was this human female..and we happened upon Goldshire...ah the memories...

mrroboto40

Vanilla, Tarren Mill when I was like 14 and had no clue what the hell I was doing.

seabeast

Man, I hate to admit it, but since we talkin about the best time in WOW, I did not start playing this game for a couple of months after it Launched. I thought it was to "cartoony". Nevertheless, the best time was when there we not resorces to end AV, it did not end until the general died making AV the best of all bg's. If you bailed out, u lose what you earned and games could go on for an extended amount to time.

greed0104

Few months after release, Tarren Mill, me and a buddy questing, we finish up our quest logs started heading back to town. I was playing a mage, him a rogue. We finally reach town and we see nothing but red name tags bouncing around everywhere, our first reaction is turning and heading for a mountain, one of them mounted starts charging towards us, he was a paladin.  Friend vanishs and walks up the mountain, I then commence a 5 minute game of blink tag until about 20 of his friends show up to corpse camp me. Great times.