Some things you didn't know about WoW...

[Supertramp]

[...]
-Wound poison would stack to 5 for 10/20/30/40/50% healing debuff.
-Dispelling poisons was actually a good tactic because it's application chance was much lower.
[...]

Would like to see these come back in Cataclysm when Cleansing totems are gone and dispels are more expensive. If rogues keep their 100% uptime, all is lost.

[DancingYeti]

Great reading! Gief more

[The Painkiller]

Here's some druid stuff I remember.


There was only one set of raid gear for each class so druids, priests, shamans, and paladins were kinda forced to be healers.

http://www.wowhead.com/itemset=494

and

http://www.wowhead.com/itemset=479


Say hi.

[deadlok]

i also remember from classic when hunters would go to some dragon i don't remember which and kite it all the way to ironforge and it killed everyone and a gm had to come in and give it the ban hammer.

[Mayhem]

someone mentioned AV lasting a maximum of 5 hourse, untrue, i remember AV´s which lasted more than 32 houres
warlocks could fear/dot enemies to death
will of the forsaken made undead immune to fear for about 2 seconds
forsaken racial underwater breathing lasted endless
during vanilla there was a statistics page on the warcraft homepage which showed the top playerkillers ... vaelastrasz was first place every week
warlocks could make enemies fear immun but lower their atp (curse of recklessnes)

[Tarindrella]

There was a time back when paladin seals lasted 2 minutes. And each time you casted judgement it would remove the seal and put the debuff on the enemy, so you would have to recast the seal again.

Seal of wisdom> Judgement> Seal of wisdom removed> Recast seal of wisdom

You had to do this each time you wanted to judge an enemy

It took me a long time to learn not to recast my seal when i judged (After they changed it)

[Harvesting]

Skinning in MC used to require max plus finkle skinner knife or Zullan Slicer from ZG. Zullan Slicer was obviously later in vanilla then UBRS Finkle oh how I farm to get mine.

Shadowmeld and Aim shot was 3 sec cast but 1-2 shotting clothies in BG's was epic.

Ques for bg's were hours long (4hrs on Dalaran) for AV and battles lasted literally 24hrs. Rare but did happen. Most lasted 2 hours or less.

Originally there were only 8 servers (the dirty 8)

Very cool collection thanks for posting this brings back tons of memmories and how much of a nub I used to be.

[Mayhem]

oh and blacksmiths had to run brd to smelt dark iron and to craft darkironparts... fun -.-

[Datub]

epic threat

[Aeolian]

We had an AV run 48+ hours a lot. It was generally every other weekend at least. I'd log off for the night, sleep 8 hours, log on and get right back into the same game. Also, on the subject of Hunters, using Shadowmeld/Aimed Shot as a Night Elf (when Aimed Shot had a cast time, and abilities wouldn't pull you out of Shadowmeld instantly) in PvP. Also, 1.0 Attack Speed pets. The bat out of Zul'Gurub and Broken Tooth from the Badlands.

[Coldkil]

great thread

[Orumis]

Will there be player housing?
Yes, we plan to include player housing as soon as possible after the game launches.

World dungeons, which are grander in scale than micro dungeons, are specifically designed for more epic encounters. World dungeons include places such as Medivh's Tower...

Even in beta... and apparently was supposed to be a 5-man...

Will players have the ability to change factions (for example: from Horde to Alliance)?
No, but it will be possible to learn languages and communicate with players of the opposing faction.

That changed a bit...

Is there a chance we might see Ogres, Blood Elves, Naga, Pandaren, Goblins, or High Elves?
World of Warcraft is an enormous universe filled with many different races. All of those named above can be seen in the game as NPCs

THEY PROMISED PANDAREN

Will there be different starting locations?
Yes. Each race will have a unique start location.

Lies, it even says it on that site

What classes have the power to bring someone back from the dead?
Priests, Shaman, Paladins and Warlocks all have the power to bring someone back from the dead. Their strength in doing so varies.

Interesting...

Will Druids be able to fight in their morphed forms?
Yes, including the underwater form.

Aquatic form is OP

How many characters are allowed per account?
The current limit is a total of 8 characters across all realms. This number is subject to change.

Good thing they changed that

How long can your name be and will last names be available?
Currently, all names are restricted to 12 characters. We are planning on implementing last names,

Last names, anyone?

Will characters require food and water to survive?
A character will never be required to eat or drink. Nor will there be negative consequences for not consuming food and water. While the specifics have not been determined, there will be benefits associated with eating and drinking.

They had planned Karazhan and Flight Form but not how their players would restore health and mana?!

Is there a limit on how much money a character can carry?
No.

They underestimated us lol

Will there be other things to do besides leveling?
There will be a huge variety of things to do to keep players from feeling like they just have to grind through one creature battle after another. Characters can craft items, fight in vast battles against other players, establish homes, and explore distant lands.

To think that just this sold the game to millions...

Will there be "crowd control" spells like sleep, confuse, mesmerize, etc.?
Yes. In addition to crowd-control spells such as these, there will be a wide assortment of other spells and abilities that will vary the tactics players use to defeat monsters. Some examples are Call Lightning, Fear, and Dominate.

What the hell is Call Lightning and Dominate?

Will there be Epic Quests?
Yes! We're calling them Life Quests.

Sure you are.

[Gimbles]

i love you

[Gaskal]

There was almost no spellpower on gear during early vanilla. It wasn't a strange thing to see a lvl 60 mage with less than 30 SP.

This one is actually not exact enough. There was nothing named as "Spellpower" until WotLK changes. In BC we had "Increases damage dealt by X spells by Y" (OR something like that I don't remember exactly) And "Increases healing done by spells by X" What you are talking about is that these two "Stats" (Increased healing or damage by spells) was very rare and low on Vanilla gear and intelligence did the job for casters back then.

[eflow]

- there was no Forbearance ... you could use bless of protection and then bubble (or the opposite).
- you could get killed as a ghost if Bless of sacrifice was still on the target (you still received dmg even dead)
- somewhere around naxxramas patch there was a bug with rampage that a guy stacked a zilions of charges and was oneshotting things on naxx.
- med pet scaled with +heal ... a hunter solo'd Azshara world boss with mend pet.
- Hyjal had Archimonde skeleton at the base of the World Tree.
- crit and hit itens were % not ratings ... like +1% crit etc.

[Kelnaath]

a nice read, thanks for the info .

[apepi]

In alpha the females where less feminine.

[Deleted]

Also, hunter pets were not normalized and had different attack speeds, the fastest being Broken tooth, a rare cat from the dunes just below uldamans 2nd entrance.
He had a 1.0 attackspeed, which made him a casters worst nightmare due to the insane interrupts. He spawned every 5-6 days, so it was not uncomming to see hunters lurking about to tame him.
I know I personally spent a week camping the spot to find him


Oh, and rogues had the ability to macro a weaponswitch into their ambush skill, which made it possible to ambush with a 2.6 speed sword.

[hermansen]

Same, it was a bitch with that change!

I loved spamming seals!

[Thrilhouse]

-Wound poison would stack to 5 for 10/20/30/40/50% healing debuff

That was done in BC. Prior to that, it had been a stacking, passive reduction of around minus 80 healing. Not 100% on the amount, going off of memory.