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  1. #41
    I started in Vanilla, joined my friend's guild who mainly consisted of previous MMO players. I was a huge fan of Warcraft RTS, so jumping into WoW was exciting, but a lot of work to understand. The stats, DPS charts, Threat control, min-maxing... especially the min-maxing.

    I rolled a Druid. As a Druid I wanted to Tank in raids. I levelled up to 60 over a course of months, and got my gear up to par while pissing off all the Rogues along the way by rolling on Shadowcraft gear. I even dropped max-level Herbalism, just to take up Enchanting so I could craft the Smoking Heart of the Mountain, a trinket that added 60 Armor. It was Best in Slot for a Feral tank.

    Well after gearing up to as best as I could, I was ready for raiding! Zul'Gurub was the latest content, and my guild was partnered with another guild to attempt the raid. I was finally raiding!!! - As a Resto druid popping innervates when the priests were low on mana -_-;;

    TL,DR - Vanilla sucks balls.
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  2. #42
    I was a Holy priest who managed to solo heal last few bosses in UBRS (back when it was a 15 man pug raid) at level 58, early in Vanilla history. It impressed a couple of people so much that I had multiple guilds trying to recruit me right away. Decided to go for it, never looked back.

    Edited: I was also raiding in EverQuest before WoW came out, both leading and following. I was in a guild and they decided to do an old school raid that should have been easy. We wiped zoning in and had to pay a ton to get another guild to come rescue us (your gear stayed on your body and it would decay if you didn't recover it). Left the guild, but remained intrigued, did some pug raids, and fell in love.
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  3. #43
    Let me start by saying I've been playing since Vanilla, but never got to max level until Wrath. I would get most of the way to level cap, then quit because I don't find leveling very fun.

    Anyhow, I had been researching my class quite a bit while nearing level 80, and by the time I hit level 80 I was pretty proficient in it. I grinded out dungeons for gear and badges, and eventually I joined a guild one of my real life friends was in. Then one day they needed a dps for ToC. I joined up, and to my (and their) surprise, I was second in dps despite my shitty dungeon and badge gear. I've been playing ever since then, though recently I've moved over to a more serious raiding guild.

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    I was a Shaman running around in Vanilla, and I had 0 clue what to do. I was invited to a guild by a real life friend and just mainly ran around doing quests farming materials for my friend and other things I found fun back then. One day I got whispered by our guilds best pvp Warrior who was on his High Warlord grind if I pvp'ed. I said no, he asked what spec and I said elemental, he told me go resto gave me some gold, and said follow me. I was told to take off my gear and chill out in Arathi Basin, when people came to nuke me, the warrior and his hunter friend would start owning faces. Slowly I learned to pvp and one day I was asked to come to Molten Core.
    Kept raiding from there, with those guys until TBC came out, then slowly moved out on my own way.

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    I started pretty much at launch at the request of my BF '42 clan members. I was never thrilled at the idea of having to buy the game, and then paying monthly to play it. Gave it a try, hated it for a few hours, took a break, came back to it, and kept at it. I leveled my mage frost, cuz my friend was a mage as well, but fire... and we did questing and random pvp ganking together and we figured fire + frost slows would be awesome right? WELL.. it was, but then i noticed frost dmg was turd and used my fire spells instead... still in frost spec... lol.

    So i got that out of my system, figured out stat priority and what not, got to 60... and did dungeons. Then I saw a few people from Death n Taxes running around IF in some pretty pimp looking gear (at the time, when raiding was released) and i was like... oh fuck ya i want some of that! Joined a pug MC raid (we got like, 2 bosses i think? lol) And was hooked.

    That was my first taste and i was hooked from there on (didnt raid really in BC Tho)

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    I when I was in junior high I had friends that played since release and tried to get me to play. I played console games at that point and had no real interest in WoW. Eventually, I caved and tried it out. It was wrath by now; I leveled up to 80 and did 5mans and some pug runs until one of my IRL buddies got me a guild invite as a friend rank. Later, I started raiding with them and was hooked, since then I have raided as each role in the game and look forward to raiding for years to come.

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    I started back in 2006. In fact, I wasn't even level 60 yet, but my friend had a 60 Resto Shaman that he raided with his guild on. I was in the 8th grade and he was in the 11th grade. Back then his parents made him take piano lessons every day for an hour, which was right in the middle of his guild's raiding time, so what he would do is ask me to play for him on his character during that one hour until he was done, and then he would take over again. I had no idea what to do but he told me "just target the main tank and keep pressing 4", which he had Lesser Healing Wave bound to. So that's what I did for an hour every raid day until eventually his schedule worked out so that he didn't need me to do it anymore. Once I hit 60 I joined his guild and raided with him and that was pretty much it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by flam View Post
    I started pretty much at launch at the request of my BF '42 clan members. I was never thrilled at the idea of having to buy the game, and then paying monthly to play it. Gave it a try, hated it for a few hours, took a break, came back to it, and kept at it. I leveled my mage frost, cuz my friend was a mage as well, but fire... and we did questing and random pvp ganking together and we figured fire + frost slows would be awesome right? WELL.. it was, but then i noticed frost dmg was turd and used my fire spells instead... still in frost spec... lol.

    So i got that out of my system, figured out stat priority and what not, got to 60... and did dungeons. Then I saw a few people from Death n Taxes running around IF in some pretty pimp looking gear (at the time, when raiding was released) and i was like... oh fuck ya i want some of that! Joined a pug MC raid (we got like, 2 bosses i think? lol) And was hooked.

    That was my first taste and i was hooked from there on (didnt raid really in BC Tho)
    You must of been on Shattered Hand

    I think DnT was probably the first geared out people I can remember back then lol

  9. #49
    Classic, everyone wanted to raid, everything was a raid.
    I didn't mind Scholo, Strat, UBRS/LBRS, but MC, Onyxia, etc just put me to sleep.
    Now I only do it if they truly need me. Well not now but soon. I'm just going to be farming heroics like I always do.

  10. #50
    I joined a casual 25man guild as a Prot Paladin tank at the very beginning of Wrath, as I never got the opportunity to raid during BC (dat barrier to entry). We were one of two raiding guilds on our low-population server, and we were super tight knit even though progression was super slow. We raided all through Naxx, then Ulduar, then ToC, then half way through ICC we transferred the whole guild to a high population server. We raided ICC to completion but the guild fell apart during the wait for Cata. I managed to fluke my way into a US top 100 guild that was pushing Heroic Sindragosa and I managed to be their off-tank for a few months. I stuck with them, but I went on vacation for a few weeks and by the time I got back I was already replaced by some guy with a number of Heroic LK kills. I spent the next few months gloating my 6.3k gearscore or something and racking up gold through GDKP's. When Cata hit I lost touch with raiding completely and found myself spending all of my time nearly exclusively in rated BG's as a holy paladin flag carrier (it worked ok), and it wasn't until MoP I raided again as a Blood DK.
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    It was the way to advance my character, and I wanted a Deathbringers will to pwn face in BG's.
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    I only raid for chances at the mounts and pets. By chance, I'm not to bad at raiding.

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    Started in classic. Always wanted to raid, but most friends (and our guild) was super casual. Organizing a ZG or someting was a real effort and there was drama everytime about the dumbest things.
    Back then server communities were important, you could make friends during random instance runs. Especially if you could show above average performance. That's how I got close to the server first raiding guild and I was often invited to their raids (including progress). Great times they were!
    Later on I had enough of dicking around and rerolled on another server and became a maintank in a less casual raiding guild, we had super great fun in BC. Best times ever in any game.
    IRL kicked in later on (kid and even more work) therefore I'm "retired" and dicking around again

  14. #54
    I knew a guy, who knew a guy ...
    Basicly had a friend in a guild that was raiding (best on the realm iirc), Joined them as a social while i was leveling then started raiding. Then Gearscore came. The end.

  15. #55
    I was taking Law in college, and my days were full of extensive study time and heaaches. I got into raiding as a tank for Ahn'Qiriaj and continued to tank until they guild collapsed in Cata.

  16. #56
    When I started in BC I pretty much played alone, I traveled alot for work and not a big TV fan so my wife seen the southpark episode about WoW, thought it was funny and bought me the game. I got bored one night and installed it and stumbled onto a hunter and started playing pretty much solo and figuring things out as I went, didnt know about professions or silly things like that till 20+ lol. When I hit 70 I was hanging out in org and some random hunter started talking to me, telling me about things I could do with gear and stuff, told me about heroics and generally teaching me what the next level of the game was. We did a few heroics together and even dispite my gear, gem and enchant issues he said I did really well and he went afk for a few minutes came back and said he talked his GM into inviting me to his guilde. I kinda knew about guilds but not a lot so I joined then a week or so later and after I fixed my gear and fine tuned some stuff there main hunter for 25 mans up and quit the game so they were short a person so the GM asked me to go and not even really knowing what a raid was I said "derp, derp sure", got my ass handed to me the first few times, found out about sites like this and other research sites, educated myself and then raided all the way through WOLK with the same guild.

  17. #57
    through a portal in black rock mountain! /scnr ;-)

  18. #58
    I remember watching a warcraftmovie of Discordia vs Onyxia and decided i wanted to raid

    I leveled in my husbands guild and at lvl 58 i decided to go my own way and join a raiding guild. I was a little warlock and ran UBRS with DKP System!!!! even if they were blues they felt like epics Then it was Onyxia, MC, BWl ... and since then every single raid every single boss every single difficulty Raiding is my passion

  19. #59
    BC. Was already interested in it and got my Kara attunement which I did along with friends as well and it was not as bad as the flow chart made it to be. I did a PuG Alcatraz group with three players from a guild that had the strats down for that place which to this day was among the best I have seen. Later on that week or so that guild was recruiting for Kara and was still progressing in it. I went into the guild and was on wait list for a week and during that time I continued to farm my shadow weave set. Then I got to raid and held a spot. Sadly a few weeks after killing prince I had a schedule change. I felt bad but IRL over WoW. I came back months later to one of my friends who was getting a late night raiding group together and then later that group formed their own guild. I continued to raid with that core group for years and enjoyed playing with those players. If it wasnt for them I wouldnt have picked up WotLK, Cata, and MoP. To those who said LFR kept them in the game, well in-game friends obtained from being a team player kept me in the game despite my IRL friends leaving the game.
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    "Hey Hrug, we're going to raid Molten Core tonight."
    "Oh, what's Molten Core?"

    and thus I was introduced to perhaps the most addictive yet least entertaining part of WoW.

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