What's Your Mandela Effect on Vanilla WoW?

[Nozuka]

It was so annoying not being able to rez as a druid! It always reminded you that you are not meant to be as good as the „real“ healer...


Apart from that, it‘s really hard to think of things i‘m remembering wrong without playing the game

[Sorcereria]

Were there target dummies in Vanilla? I honestly cannot remember.

There were no target dummies in Vanilla. I guess they were added in Cataclysm.

Yes there were 'target' dummies.
Blasted lands had mobs that would never die around the creater. On top of that you didnt really need target dummies.
All DPS math usually could have been done on piece of paper.

[Erous]

I didn't do a whole lot of wotlk PvPing, which is when apparently the spell in question was introduced. I have fond memories of judgement of justice owning druid flag carriers in WSG and I've been told and shown it didn't exist in vanilla.

[SinR]

Leveling was fun!

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I seem to remember hunter's being able to wield [Lok'delar, Stave of the Ancient Keepers] and [Rhok'delar, Longbow of the Ancient Keepers]. Was this after our patch or even another expansion?

I do remember being able to equip both at the same time

[Contego]

It would be abit paradoxal if I knew which exact memories were the result of a Mandela effect, because then it wouldn't be the Mandela effect. But I definitely should have some from BRD and Sunken Temple - those dungeons have changed so incredibly many times over the years it's impossible for me to remember which detail belongs to which patch.

[SinR]

Oh daiiimm it was repentance as the last talent lol i forgot that ... god so they really didnt have anyyyy skills did they just judgement juggle.
Woooow you just blew my mind and i am not sure if Paladin is my charecter for vanila hahahhaha

Paladin Leveling:

Judge Crusader, Seal of Command, AFK 10 minutes. Repeat until mob is dead

[Soeroah]

I don't really think it counts, but I totally forgot about having to fly from one point to the next instead of picking a flight point 5 exchanges away and letting it go automatically, and I completely forgot that druids couldn't talk to NPCs in shapeshift form.

[Schattenlied]

There were no target dummies in Vanilla. I guess they were added in Cataclysm..

They were added in the Wrath prepatch(patch 3.0.2).

[Animalhouse]

Mine is learning different pet skills by taming specific pets so I could teach them to other pets.
Specifically King Bangalash with his Cobra Reflexes and the Worg from LBRS with Bite 4.

I guess they were only usable by that specific pet and not trainable on others till later...I suppose I was remembering TBC? Cobra Reflexes was thought to be a bug and not meant to be left on pet after train but it remained.

[Xemioza]

I remember all of it clearly, thats why im not going to play it again xd broken and unbalanced

Talents giving more wand dmg, priests inner fire giving attack power, etc

Ppl saying lvling was fun in vanilla must be on drugs, it took me 1,5 month to get to 60 for the first time ( dinged in EPL killing mobs without q ). You made some friends for sure ( social aspect of the game was better than now ) but you rly wanted to ding 60 and forget about it.

[seleri]

Won't know until I play again but I'm betting it's mostly damage immunity stuff. Were dragons (at least black and red) immune to fire damage? I feel like they were but I also remember a mostly fire mage in our guild raiding BWL with us and I also remember him farming for a tiny crimson whelpling (though I guess he could have just used non-fire spells for that).

[huth]

It would be abit paradoxal if I knew which exact memories were the result of a Mandela effect, because then it wouldn't be the Mandela effect. But I definitely should have some from BRD and Sunken Temple - those dungeons have changed so incredibly many times over the years it's impossible for me to remember which detail belongs to which patch.

Well, the name comes from somebody "remembering" Mandela to be dead when he was alive. So it's quite possible to know, just look for memories that cannot be true, like playing an Alliance Shaman in vanilla, or somebody "knowing" there is no evidence for evolution.

[Contego]

Well, the name comes from somebody "remembering" Mandela to be dead when he was alive. So it's quite possible to know, just look for memories that cannot be true, like playing an Alliance Shaman in vanilla, or somebody "knowing" there is no evidence for evolution.

But you either believe it's true, or you know it isn't. It's really only when you believe you remember something, and someone tells you it didn't actually happen, that you have the Mandela effect. If you "remember" playing an alliance shaman, but you by now know there were no alliance shamans, it's not the Mandela effect :/ hence why it would be paradoxal to know you misremember.

[Deficineiron]

I didn't do a whole lot of wotlk PvPing, which is when apparently the spell in question was introduced. I have fond memories of judgement of justice owning druid flag carriers in WSG and I've been told and shown it didn't exist in vanilla.

the judgment was introduced as a separate item in wotlk but didn't it replace seal of justice?

[huth]

But you either believe it's true, or you know it isn't. It's really only when you believe you remember something, and someone tells you it didn't actually happen, that you have the Mandela effect. If you "remember" playing an alliance shaman, but you by now know there were no alliance shamans, it's not the Mandela effect :/ hence why it would be paradoxal to know you misremember.

You're using the wrong criterium. It's about remembering things that didn't happen, not believing those memories to be correct. Whether you know it is true or not is irrelevant.

If you remember playing an alliance shaman in vanilla despite knowing that can't possibly have happened, you're still affected.

It should be noted that the correct term for a single person having false memories is Confabulation. Mandela effect is when groups of people misremember something, i.e. collective confabulation.

[Armourboy]

I didn't do a whole lot of wotlk PvPing, which is when apparently the spell in question was introduced. I have fond memories of judgement of justice owning druid flag carriers in WSG and I've been told and shown it didn't exist in vanilla.

Judging Justice in Vanilla kept mobs from being able to run away, handy in 5 mans sometimes. The seal proc was a stun.

[czarek]

can't remember did shaman sets drop for alliance in raids ? I think they didn't but some ppl claim they did, others swear they didn't until TBC patch 2.0 before the storm
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Yeah shaman items drops on alliance side and pala on horde side. That was pain :P Cant remember when they fix that.

[Xemioza]

They dropped in TBC prepatch

[Onikaroshi]

Hunters were able to use both at the same time.

Not prior to 1.8, at that point it was 1 item that transformed, much like Anathema/Benediction

[Thage]

My Mandela effect is remembering Warriors being able to Thunderclap in defensive stance--they couldn't in Classic, but it's been a feature for so long that my brain keeps telling me it's a thing in Classic, too.