The "I'm so old, I remember when WoW had.." thread

[TheAngryGazebo]

I am so old I was playing Warcraft 2 multiplayer on a 14400 baud dial up.

You're saying you're old enough to be a medieval man?

[Dawon]

I'm so old I remember being able to play for 12hrs straight with no wife or kids that magically turned that number into 27minutes (on a good day).

[Darkness2k]

bullets... so many, many bullets...

[Zalatoby]

I'm so old I remember telling my son he's too young to play the game.
He's now a better raider than I am...

[RadmaKanow]

- talent trees
- druid quests for forms
- warlock shards as non stackable items
- hunter arrows/bullets
- speaking of hunter/warlock: getting first pet/demon at lvl 10
- in general, lvl 10 was special as you get some iconic skill/ability
- priest endless wand-ing after going OOM after 2-3 casts
- OOM itself, anyone remember that?
- mana breaks in dungeons
- running till 40, later lowered to 30
- one spec for life, respec possible at trainer for an exorbitant cost
- selling all the graey items and amassing 20s from it
- having 1g total AFTER visiting trainer
- spells were bought, not auto learned
- spell ranks (warlock health tap rank 1 to get a buff trick)
- weapon skills

and the absolute best:
- ding! in /1

[Chonar]

I'm so old I remember eating carbon from fissure vents in order to satisfy an evolutionary need.

... too much?

[Synstir]

I'm so old that I remember my hunter pet having a xp bar

[Fewane]

I remember having to help my warlock friend farm a full bag of shards before every raid and also being the lock who had to farm shards for the raid too.

The shard grinds. <3

My memory is a bit hazy (except for remembering how tedious it was), but didn't you also need to get the killing blow with drain soul to get a shard, making it hard for people to assist in the grind?

[JoeGood]

I remember when 500g was a lot. And real talent trees where a thing. Terrible drop rates, terrible respawnrates.

[Kumorii]

I'm so old I remember when everything was a slog.

[Eggroll]

I am so old that I remember Dune II..
Which inspired old Blizz guys to make WarCraft 1 and WarCraft 2...
Which was the basis of WarCraft III...
Which was the whole foundation of WoW...

So, all hail Westwood Studios! RIP

Lol! I played DuneII back in the 90s at work, won against my boss He didn't like it, haha.
We played Lost Wikings there, too ...

[Devilyaki]

Looking up on thotbot to see where to go for a quest. Lol

[Itank]

I'm so old, I remember when WoW had extended maintance every Wednesday that I was not working.

[ldev]

Fond memory in TBC - leveling my BM hunter in Un'Goro crater, chasing a Gnome Warlock with my Troll Hunter on mounts - he gets dismounted when running through puddle, because Gnomes are short and mounts couldn't swim, he proceeds to cast Fear, I press Bestial Wrath - immune to fear, big red kitty shreds him.

[Eggroll]

I'm so old I remember when Blizzard actually engaged with the community art creators and there were machinima contests on a regular basis.

[Rokkuman]

Using mail armor as low-medium level warrior and punching mobs on Burning Steppes to increase my hand to hand (unarmed) skill

[Eggroll]

Using mail armor as low-medium level warrior and punching mobs on Burning Steppes to increase my hand to hand skill

I remember my priest punching murloc's at Lakeshire to max out the unarmed skill

[DonChalk]

When the boat from Menethil harbor to Auberdine was glitched and would just drop people in the middle of the ocean, eventually they just removed the boat and made it a teleport.

Oh man, captain placeholder. If you haven't, look up the song that was made in tribute to him.

[1 + 1 = 3]

I'm so old, i remember choosing my class only looking at the game rules book from the box.

[Eggroll]

I'm so old, I remember when WoW had extended maintance every Wednesday that I was not working.

I remember back when you got credited one day for the games' extended downtime on a regular basis.

I remember when the games' music composers were actually mentioned in the game credits. R.I.P.