tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post2171507817887686065..comments2024-03-04T20:04:48.815+01:00Comments on Jinxed Thoughts: My Top 5 WoW MomentsZinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14935881612077507321noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-55868150775738763882012-11-25T15:44:44.000+01:002012-11-25T15:44:44.000+01:00I still have my Fiery War Axe on my pally (current...I still have my Fiery War Axe on my pally (currently in void storage). :)K. Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15136299705887104734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-30348393456521351322012-11-24T13:10:25.813+01:002012-11-24T13:10:25.813+01:00Ah the Tower of Althalax, I can't remember how...Ah the Tower of Althalax, I can't remember how often I died in there trying to get to the top. :-)<br /><br />On the other hand, I never really liked Silithus, although I really love the Star Troopers films, this "invasion of another lore into wow" / "reference to something sci-fi in a fantasy world" totally ruined this patch for me. :-/<br /><br />@Tanaris: I remember being totally awed by the shiny coastline of Tanaris with its crystal clear water (afaik that was the only place where the water was this way)<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14746885170283147350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-11066948015872166182012-11-24T13:01:58.794+01:002012-11-24T13:01:58.794+01:00@2:
/sign :)
I remember I was too afraid to spend ...@2:<br />/sign :)<br />I remember I was too afraid to spend my talent point while I was leveling up (because I didn't not know if respec was possible or I was expecting to not have the gold). So until around lvl 46 (I think it was in Stranglethorn Vale) I flat out refused to invest points into any tree until I finally sucumbed and skilled holy.<br />Up to this point healing dungeons was incruciating difficult but also due to this really a lot of fun. (Although I kind of feel sorry for all the ppl hat had to put up with me back than ^^)<br />I was amazed how easy healing was after I'd invested my talent point. (also it was not as fun [as in dwarf-fortress "fun"] after that) :DAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14746885170283147350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-42562425800031515542012-11-23T23:21:05.990+01:002012-11-23T23:21:05.990+01:00I recognize myself in all your points! I loved eve...I recognize myself in all your points! I loved everything about the BC expansion, from the pre-release event to running through the portal itself. It truly felt majestic. <br /><br />My first instance was WC and I was equally confused. Most of the time I didn't even manage to get into the instance because there were loads of elite guarding the outside caverns then and my group never went out to get me... It took me a long time to understand the concept of healing, I remember still in Sunken Temple I often offered to be the "secondary healer"! What the heck is that in a 5-man group? XD<br /><br />I remember Banethil! Such a confusing place (still is). And one of the first places I truly felt like WoW was a dangerous and challening place.<br /><br />My brother found out the hard way you did, and I recall him falling down in the same way trying to adventure around the edges of the tree, it was truly hilarious to see. I agree with you that there have been many more awesome moments in WoW since then... And hopefully more to come. I'll try to be more openminded about it.Zinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14935881612077507321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-3154594335259639162012-11-23T23:16:54.001+01:002012-11-23T23:16:54.001+01:00Yeah, I know exactly what you mean about getting t...Yeah, I know exactly what you mean about getting too focused on gameplay and missing out on everything around you. I try to take moments to take in the scenery in WoW, but obviously I will not be amazed in the same way I was when I didn't know what to expect. It's unfortunate, but at least I am glad I got to experience that much!<br /><br />I've had some sad moments in WoW as well, I suppose those are inevitable with the good moments, because you get sad when something good has to end. I've met so many awesome people in WoW, few of which I still have any contact with unfortunately. I still remember the guild leader of my first guild with whom I got quite closely befriended and have tried finding again but alas.... I have no idea where he is now.Zinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14935881612077507321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-63000392111090811472012-11-23T23:13:33.347+01:002012-11-23T23:13:33.347+01:00Haha I did that too, just chose whatever professio...Haha I did that too, just chose whatever profession I found first, which fortunately turned out to be tailoring and herbalism on my priest - quite suitable. I still get lost in SW every now and then :PZinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14935881612077507321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-70715468781081131212012-11-23T23:12:09.595+01:002012-11-23T23:12:09.595+01:00Indeed, joining a guild makes a huge difference fo...Indeed, joining a guild makes a huge difference for the experience in WoW and I can say I didn't really get into WoW until I got into a good guild (by good I mean with people I really liked playing with). Before then I had just randomly played WoW, trying this and that for more than a year!Zinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14935881612077507321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-36522676226939332792012-11-23T15:21:46.765+01:002012-11-23T15:21:46.765+01:004) The first time I realized I could "tank&qu...4) The first time I realized I could "tank". I had no idea at all about the existence of healers and tanks, for me we were all equal, all there to kill mobs. But then I think a shield dropped, and someone in the party told me to grab it so I could "tank". I was like "what?", and the reply was something like "equip a one handed weapon and a shield so you can tank". I didn't understand it, but I did as was suggested and kept performing my usual rotation. I used Thunderclap a lot, because those lightnings seemed very powerful. It was a while later that I realized that I had actually chosen the "Protection" spec and that it was related to tanking. I thought this "Protection" spec, was something of a "defensive" spec where I would take less damage (I don't like taking damage, but I got into tanking because I didn't know better, lol). In Gnomeregan, someone told me that I sucked because I wasn't holding aggro (I still didn't have a clue about a real tanking rotation, taunting, etc...), and eventually I got my first pointers as to what it meant to tank.<br /><br />5) The first time I realized that the elve starting zone was actually on top of a gigantic tree!!! I had done the trip to and back from Darkshore by boat and bird several times, but never realized what this looming shadow was. Eventually I walked past the teleporter in Darnassus, because I was curious and wanted to know where this led. And there was a river falling into nothingness, so I thought "Cool, there must be a big pond at the bottom" and I jumped. And fell, and fell, and fell. And died. I didn't comprehend it at first, it took me several ghost trips and missed attempts to get to my body to comprehend that this gigantic thing was a world tree!<br /><br />6) And so many other things. The first time I saw Silithus mobs (oooh Starship Troopers!), the first time I saw snowy winterspring, the first time I killed a lvl 20 crab (how can a crab be so hard to kill?), the first time I got into Stratholme "oooh undead everywhere, scary...", the first time I saw Zangarmarsh's beauty with those huge mushrooms, the first time I saw a Murloc, a Naga, a Satyr, burning legion minions, the first time I entered the Tower of Althalax, the first time the boat landed in Stormwind, ths first time I saw Alexstraza at the top of Wyrmrest temple "oooh sexy lady dragon...", the first time I saw a flying Necropolis, the first times someone congratulated me for my tanking, my first Dire Maul dungeons, Tanaris, Un'Goro crater, the Storm Peaks and its majestuous mountains, the Thorim quest line, downing Loken, the first time I took the tram from Stormwind to Ironforge...faltonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-92005159261697087022012-11-23T15:21:01.495+01:002012-11-23T15:21:01.495+01:001) Seeing the Dark Portal for the first time. I...1) Seeing the Dark Portal for the first time. I've played warcraft 2 and 3, and that thing is legen_wait for it_dary! But seeing it was just the beginning, I got to cross it, and got teleported to Outland for the very first time. Geesus, it was like hell behind, with a burning Legion army behind trying to assault it, led by a huge Pit Lord. I had never raided and he was probably the biggest dude I had ever seen. So I took the flight from the Dark Portal to Honor Hold, and got blown away by the scenery, it was so desertic, but also so beautiful. And those enormous Fel Reavers roaming the plain! Today whenever I get to take the Portal to Outland, I still get that little pinch in my heart.<br /><br />2) My first dungeon. I was around level 20, and it was the deadmines. I had absolutely no clue what we were doing, we didn't have a tank, I don't remember that we had a healer, but someone was probably healing, I think I didn't know that some characters were actually specced for healing :) This was the first time I met Elite characters, and I just couldn't understand why it was just so hard and long to down them, and that it took the effort of a group of 5 people to kill them, they seemed so op at the time. + Those tunnels were kinda creepy, with prisoners along the way, and at the end, what do you find? A HUGE pirate ship at the bottom of a mine??? We wiped on that boat and weren't able to finish the instance, but I was so freakin sold forever!<br /><br />3) The first time I got in a group. It was in the Ban'Ethil hollow in Teldrassil. It was kinda hard as you needed to down so many fast respawning mobs in there, + that cave is a bit of a labyrinth, so I got kinda lost. When someone sent me a group invite (I was playing on a free account at the time), it all became so easy, and those tunnels who were kinda gloomy and frightening had become a slaughter party. Mobs got down in a fraction of seconds and it was to the one who would be the first on the next mob!faltonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-40880302194796818652012-11-23T11:56:07.111+01:002012-11-23T11:56:07.111+01:00Top moment:
* My first (and last ^^) midnight rele...Top moment:<br />* My first (and last ^^) midnight release event with a few fellow university students and afterward meeting all at the same apartment and installing WotLK together. ("Oh look at this flying frost dragon, it looks so awesome!" "Hey, I'm still installing!!!" *arg*)(Commander) Sirow / Kaffkanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-50537137788545386312012-11-23T11:51:53.900+01:002012-11-23T11:51:53.900+01:00Quote:
"You will never ever be able to recrea...Quote:<br />"You will never ever be able to recreate this feeling. [...] knowing every single part of the world and even the advanced mechanics you realise that there are no wonders left."<br />/sign & /sign, totally agree. :)<br /><br />Building on that, have you every tried another MMO(RPG) and totally felt lost? But not in the same exiting way you did with WoW but more in a lost/stupid/infuriating way?<br /><br />A while back I tried several f2p MMOs and could not stick to them not because they were bad but because I felt I would never be able to reach that same skill/level of knowledge/profession I have/had with WoW.(Commander) Sirow / Kaffkanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-49105939017794569872012-11-23T11:41:59.881+01:002012-11-23T11:41:59.881+01:00Fantastic blog post!!! :)
I wish I could write ab...Fantastic blog post!!! :)<br /><br />I wish I could write about my WoW passion/favorite moments like you did, after so much time, all my favorite (first time) moments feel just like a blur. :(<br /><br />Sadly the moments I remember most are those most "heart-breaking":<br />* Loosing contact with some long time friends I started my "online life" with and I knew over a very long period of time (All the way from many years of Counter-Strike all through the early years of WoW). I'd really liked to get back in contact with some of those pals, but sadly those where the times before Facebook and real-id...<br />* The break-down of my very first wow guild ever due to "corrupt" leaders (They stole all of the guild money they earned from our 'guild tax', way back in vanilla). After that I never really felt at home anywhere for a really LONG time. (Until I joined a guild with my fellow university students, one of my top moments on the other hand)<br />* Seeing more and more friends leave the game at the end of WotLK and Cataclysm<br /><br />I wished I'd remember on which CD I burned all my WoW memory screenshots, I think those, while they definitely do not cover my full play cycle, would really help me remember some of those good moments...<br /><br />Quote:<br />"[...] like a game virginity, you only lose it once."<br />So true, this completely reflects my experience about this.<br /><br />I retired from WoW shortly before the release of Patch 4.3 I think and have since tried several free-to-play titles (since I didn't yet feel ready to resubscribe to another MMO(RPG)), including an overall really enjoyable Allods Online, but I never was able to feel that same "awe" again that I had with WoW. (Which than made me quit Allods at lvl 44 of 46...)<br /><br />Another insight I got when watching a 'Lets Play' of Rift, where at some episode the (female) player suddenly stopped at a slight hill-top on a "plany-field" while being on the way back from a quest and she turned backward ... and I was like <br />"WTF whats happening, why is she turning around? The path/task/goal to reach is the other way! Ó_ò" (*read* I mentally was stubbornly following quest directions)<br />And than she said: "Wau, look at that, this really looks beautiful"<br />That's when it struck me... Yes she is right that really looks "awe"-"some" (almost in the literal sense)... Why didn't I notice this???<br /><br />I think this is one of those examples where all those long time (only) playing WoW in way jaded/dulled you to certain stimuli, you stop noticing them, until maybe... until it is (forcefully) imposed on you again.<br /><br />Maybe I'll do another comment about better moments in wow once/if I can find my screenshot collection. :)<br /><br />Regardless, thank you for posting some of your favorite moments, they reflect some of my own experiences. :-}(Commander) Sirow / Kaffkanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-4484462604499627002012-11-23T11:25:30.933+01:002012-11-23T11:25:30.933+01:00Thinking of the first time logging into WOW brings...Thinking of the first time logging into WOW brings up some good memories. Nobody of us read the manual. You just opened the box and started installing the game. After that you just ran the wow.exe and waited for things to happen. "oh...I need an account...what name shall I choose..." back then I thought that this would also be the name of my character and I just searched for the best name possible. After one hour I had a name I thought would be sufficient only to notice that characters were being created in the next step. <br /><br />When I walked into the first small village I picked up the first two professions that I found trainers for...Mining+BS...yeah, my warlock was quite happy with my choice...at least for a few days. <br /><br />At about LVL10 I walked to IF for the first time. Damn I got terribly lost in that big city. A friend of mine gave me a complete tour. After that he took me to SW and I ended up in the trade district not knowing where I was and where to go.<br /><br />You will never ever be able to recreate this feeling. No matter how good a new MMO might be. A seemingly endless world and no idea what you are doing. 7/8 years later standing in SW knowing every single part of the world and even the advanced mechanics you realise that there are no wonders left. And even a new xpac has only a few days where things are new. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-84644844240031758652012-11-22T23:02:08.425+01:002012-11-22T23:02:08.425+01:00I understand completely what you mean about starti...I understand completely what you mean about starting and intially exploring. I started playing about a year ago (so still somewhat a nooby) and remember quite well the feeling of accomplishment when you get your first kill on a new type of mob (even though it doesn't take much). Figuring out where to go and haw to do the quests and such was quite fun and fulfilling. I aslo started on the starter pack so being able to go over level 20 and see new areas was also a treat.<br /><br />The other thing I have found is that my first guild invite came from a social guild member (they were just spamming invites but as a noob you don't realize that). I accepted and very much enjoy being a part of the guild. Chatting and joking with the members in guild chat, helping others with quests, professions, dungeon runs and such is also very rewarding for me.<br /><br />Keep up the great work, hope to hear from you soon.Just Menoreply@blogger.com