How to know if someone played vanilla!

[khalltusk]

I remember having to SNEAK past Undercity to get to SM. I was really scared I would be ganked. Summoningstones were unheard of.

I remember walking to Booty Bay to get a boat to get to a Thousand Needles... that was a LONG run. I didn't really quest in Stranglethorn. So I did not have many if any Flight Paths.

I remember feeling very nervous landing with the boat at the Barrens... knowing I was in the "enemies territory". I felt like a trespasser.

Once I got my paladin 60% speed mount, I felt really lucky, as other people needed to pay a lot to get the riding skill + mount. I just got it for free as a quest. The 100% mount was a different story. Altho cheaper (I found a Black Pristine diamond) it was a very hard quest. And when I first used it, I felt like I was as fast as the wind!

I remember seeing an alliance person for the first time. In Ashenvale. It was a druid and I was on my shaman. Battle lasted for hours! Tried to get to gnomeragen or w/e its called. Took ages did it once and never again XD

[Vaelorian]

I remember participating in a "charge". All mounts in a straight line before we attempted to thrash Crossroads or Tarren Mill.

It was an awesome sight. I can't recall feeling more pride in being Alliance (even if we got butchered by the guards). Never saw the horde make such a line.

Ofcourse making the line was just for show... it didn't have any effect.

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I remember seeing a Tauren for the first time. It was in Scarlet Monastery. WoW was just a few weeks old and this guy (Nez, Aggramar EU) was a few levels higher then me. I opened the door with the key from the library, and voila this HUGE Tauren was staring at me. I ran like only a little paladin could! He seemed to be afk at the time, but I didn't know that.

Scared the hell out of me.

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I know some of these things and I am not a vanilla player.

I did one walk through all of Mulgore with 3 friends, 2 of them being players since Beta and they were all like "Oh and this place is where there was a massive fight!" "THIS IS THE ROCK WE USED TO SIT ON OMG!"

Robin also went: Oh... Sander, Wait... Come to me now.

Sander: Wut?

Robin: If I am correct, there's a mining node in a few meters, it was my first node ever.


We walk a bit further and surely, Robin shouts: FUCK, THIS IS MY FIRST MINING NODE!

Awesome how stuff like that happens. :P

[Vaelorian]

I remember seeing an alliance person for the first time. In Ashenvale. It was a druid and I was on my shaman. Battle lasted for hours! Tried to get to gnomeragen or w/e its called. Took ages did it once and never again XD

Haha yeah I remember battling a druid aswell as a paladin. It took indeed HOURS... and since we were in such a remote area (in the plaguelands somewhere), no one came to help either of us.

Actually created a toon on the horde side later on, to talk to this guy/girl. We greeted eachother ever since and refrained from battling eachother again haha.

Good times

[khalltusk]

Haha yeah I remember battling a druid aswell as a paladin. It took indeed HOURS... and since we were in such a remote area (in the plaguelands somewhere), no one came to help either of us.

Actually created a toon on the horde side later on, to talk to this guy/girl. We greeted eachother ever since and refrained from battling eachother again haha.

Good times

It was all about IRC back in the day. PVPing and suddenly I notice the other teams names on IRC we get a message *whelp* its GTK (grand theft kodo our pvp guild) !

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... when guards gave honor.

Dont remeber guards ever gave honor. All i remeber was alot of NPC's was dishonorable kills and you lost Points for your PvP rank. Also for most of venilla there was no Honor. there only was the ranks and you had to buy your PvP gear for gold

[Kodenanet]

i can remembe a time in vanilla when there was a patch that swapped the price for the mout with the proffesion, so mounts were 1000g a pop and the tallent was a lot cheeper then they changed it after so the talent cost more and the mounts were alot cheeper...... also farming dire maul for the epic book to get quell'sera. or how labourious it was to lvl a pala and get its mount!

[khalltusk]

Dont remeber guards ever gave honor. All i remeber was alot of NPC's was dishonorable kills and you lost Points for your PvP rank. Also for most of venilla there was no Honor. there only was the ranks and you had to buy your PvP gear for gold

The honour system came out with ranks on one of the patches afaik. Prior to that there was nothing for pvp. Just you and the other players. The 1st night pvp honour came out my word did TM/SS get a beating!

Also I remember when a few friends killed some NPCs and even though I did nothing I was in the same group and I got the DK flag lost a lot of my work that week! :P

[rad586]

Yeah, the paladin mount quest could be very expensive at that time if you weren't lucky with the drops, but it was really fun to do a 5-paladin Scholo run Especially using different seals and their judgments on mobs on the special boss fight.

Also, if you played Vanilla as a paladin, you remember that seals had short duration and were consumed when Judgment was used Also, Seal of the Crusader, Seal of Command (aka Seal of Casino) and Seal of Fury

[Vaelorian]

Yeah, the paladin mount quest could be very expensive at that time if you weren't lucky with the drops, but it was really fun to do a 5-paladin Scholo run Especially using different seals and their judgments on mobs on the special boss fight.

Also, if you played Vanilla as a paladin, you remember that seals had short duration and were consumed when Judgment was used Also, Seal of the Crusader, Seal of Command (aka Seal of Casino) and Seal of Fury

Seal of Wisdom - Seal of Light

Remember standing in the corner ontop of those piles of skulls/bones, waiting for the next wave to come at us. It was pretty difficult and you couldn't do it alone... you needed atleast 1(2?) more paladins to complete this.

Yeah resealing was a bitch... Think you had 30 seconds per seal... and it costed a lot of mana too.

[khalltusk]

Seal of Wisdom - Seal of Light

Remember standing in the corner ontop of those piles of skulls/bones, waiting for the next wave to come at us. It was pretty difficult and you couldn't do it alone... you needed atleast 1(2?) more paladins to complete this.

Yeah resealing was a bitch... Think you had 30 seconds per seal... and it costed a lot of mana too.

OOOO also

Carrot on a stick trinket + mount speed enchants on gloves I think. Made you just a tiny bit faster

[Deleted]

Mind controlling people and deleting their gear.

[Vaelorian]

OOOO also

Carrot on a stick trinket + mount speed enchants on gloves I think. Made you just a tiny bit faster

You had (have?) spurs on your boots... Think they acted as an enchant aswell. People used to macro to swap boots and trinket (carrot indeed) upon mounting.

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Mind controlling people and deleting their gear.

What.... what? This gotta be a Beta thing.... never ever have I heard this.

[fangless]

Mind control and zone the opposing team out of the battleground :P


Being a warlock and remembering how much gd work it took to get ANY of your pets unlocked (god forbid you want infernal or doomguard).

Or doing any of the original dungeons with way too many people, like 40 man brd.

[Ciddy]

When you remember getting dishonorable kills for killing lowbie, opposite faction, non-guard NPCs (like vendors).

You won't have to ask, they'll remind you every opportunity they get.

Also this.

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Grinding for months before the game felt available at all.

[Faesroll]

You won't have to ask, they'll remind you every opportunity they get.

[khalltusk]

You had (have?) spurs on your boots... Think they acted as an enchant aswell. People used to macro to swap boots and trinket (carrot indeed) upon mounting.

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What.... what? This gotta be a Beta thing.... never ever have I heard this.

That was it enchant on gloves trinket and the spurs on boots. You were like shit off a shovel XD!

[Deleted]

Easiest way to tell someone who played in vanilla is that they quit playing during/shortly after wrath.

While simultaneously reading up on the game every day, and visiting a plethora of WoW related forums to whine and moan.

Minor Beastslayer.

[JudgePayne]

While simultaneously reading up on the game every day, and visiting a plethora of WoW related forums to whine and moan.

Minor Beastslayer.

Its like looking in a mirror