How long have you played WoW? + more

I believe it's in the charter that we cannot, threads have been closed before because of it so I wouldn't to be safe.

killanena wrote: »

Not being aloud to talk about something is against some sort of human right or law Im sure

So is the stuff they are talking about talking about.

MagicIRL wrote: »

I've been playing since about 5/6 months pre-TBC. I leveled a Night Elf Hunter to 31 in that time. What a game it was back then. Stranglethorn Vale was the ****! I played on Bloodhoof EU back then. I had just started secondary school so I wasn't in to the whole raiding scene at that stage.

God I miss those days. No MMO to date has given me that same feeling when playing in a new world that Vanilla and TBC gave me.

Spot on. Played from launch until early WotLK, pretty hardcore - completed Ahn'Qiraj (weirdest place ever) and some of Naxx. TBC took things to a new level. I think the guild had had enough after TBC really. We all were a bit too old for it and it was pretty much just more of the same - new rep to grind, new items to farm etc.. We just moved on. Plenty of other games to play

Glebee wrote: »

Have not played in a while. Been around since the start but got board after Lich King. Thinking back the other day about playing WOW for the first time. No other game has ever created that experience and im not sure any will. There was just something about the game that sucked you in. Maybe it was the world creation but it just had something special.. Someone mentioned earlier about seeing the pirate ship in deadmines for the first time, that was epic... Every now and then Ill resub for a month to see if I can get back into it. But its just not the same..:(

yeah Deadmines was my first instance, I'll never forget it - didnt have a clue what i was doing so just mashed buttons and hoped for the best! Good times. Shame the game has become so diluted.

Challenge modes are insane but the gear looks great. There are so many short cuts to getting them done.

I recently purchased a boost as i wanted the gear before its removed in september, was run by an Irish guy and essentially showed that the runs can be done with a tank, 1dps and a healer.

jabberwock wrote: »

If the tank is a monk, only need a healer.

I havent seen a monk do it but considering that if they are not played right and are a very active mitigating tank i would say they could struggle.

The DK i did it with was doing over 250K dps thanks to vengence.

RopeDrink wrote: »

6+ years (vanilla). Nothing infuriates me more than knowing it took me weeks/months of hardcore playing just to get one particular reward in those days - but now everything is as good as 2/3 quests and a casual grind away.

Yes, I'm an old 'anti-casual' fart :pac:

The industry has changed and most of us have grown and got responsibilities, I think they might have gone a bit far in wod though.

mezzanine08 wrote: »

Since August 2009, I think it was right before or after patch 3.2.

I stopped playing in July this year and this is the longest I've gone without being subbed. I might get back into it again around Christmas.

I've been fighting not going back, i unsubbed around June and ive been kept busy.

I think after i Finish Starcraft 2 i may go back.

StinkyMunkey wrote: »

Hunter was my main, i stacked stam, thought agility wasnt needed :P

Seen a mage in ICC with agility gems, "to increase his crit":rolleyes:

Berns wrote: »

Seen a mage in ICC with agility gems, "to increase his crit":rolleyes:

I saw a level 70 warrior running around in a cloth dress in Stormwind before. You'd wonder how you could even get to level 70 when suffering from such stupidity!

Vicxas wrote: »

I love seeing paladins and warriors running around in mail because it has better stats.

They made me feel so much better about how I played my Rogue....

Paladins wearing mail is one thing, but a warrior with a cloth dress stacked with intellect is quite special!

MagicIRL wrote: »

He was obviously just raising his weapon skill quickly

ahh I remember those days. Trying to raise unarmed skill in fully kitted out int gear. What a pain.

Playing since vanilla.

Vanilla - First toon was a marksman hunter back when they had mana and could hold melee weapons and a ranged weapon at the same time.
Raided MC/BWL/ZG/AQ20/40 and never gave naxx a shot in vanilla at all. though i did solo Mister Bigglesworth!
Did the hunter bow&staff epic questline(ancient petrified leaf), which was truly epic. It's nice having that transmog too these days

TBC - switched main to Prot Warrior as Hunters BM was immensely buffed and marksman hunters just weren't in demand for raiding. Changed server from lightning's blade to bronzebeard and joined a semi-hardcore guild, manged to get a few server and faction firsts in SSC & TK, as well as one or two in BT. By the end of TBC with the changes and superbuffs to prot, managed to clear Sunwell.

Wrath - Stuck with prot, raided naxx finally.. no server firsts but thoroughly enjoyed that expansion. So much that i rolled a bunch of other classes and finally switched to resto druid for ICC25. That was a fantastic class to play in that expansion.

Cataclysm - Initially enjoyed playing cata as it was almost all back in the old world and ye could fly! The novelty soon wore off and i gave up, drifting back and forth whenever i was bored or broke enough to resub.

Pandaria Subbed for a month. Gave up. Subbed prior to WoD, gave up.

WoD Subbed for a month, really enjoyed it. Gave up. Subbed with tokens every so often to see what had been implemented, soon gave up as it was pretty much the same thing every time i logged in. And i've just recently upgraded to Legion out of boredom rather than fandom, and i fully expect Legion to be as dull as Pandaria and WoD after a month.

MagicIRL wrote: »

That's so unusual, that someone with such a raid background, didn't raid/play in Panderia. Throne of Thunder and Siege of Orgrimmar were excellent raid encounters, and has it not been the end tier for as long as it was, I think SoO could've gone down as one of the best raids ever made.

I don't think Pandaria raids were the problem, the actual Pandaria expansion was the problem.

I played with breaks since late vanilla and Pandaria was my least played expansion. I did not even managed to level up to max level before I gave up. The theme of expansion was just horrible.

My favourite one will still be wotlk. It was not technically best and had its share of issues, but theme killed it for me. I have completed original wc3 amd wc3 tft single player so many times. Those two games were the reason I even started wow! Lore was amazing!
ironically my interest in wow fiddled away half way to cataclysm. I still bought all expansions, but did not played them after first month. I guess original lore that was up to cataclysm made it more then a game and raid grinder. I loved to world it self.

Funny all the hate for Pandaria because allot of folk couldnt look past the black and white bears. It actually was a really decent expansion and was better recieved than WOD.

I much preferred Pandaria to Draenor. Thought the zones were beautiful and the questlines were mostly interesting and cool. The dungeon content was absolutely terrible in that one, but overall I thought it was a good expansion

Played since the end of Vanilla.

Wasnt into the Pandas, left, came back halfway through that expansion, gave it 3 months and left until coming back halfway through WoD.

Hoping Legion will be good and plan to enjoy it

killanena wrote: »

I just bought legion and downloading the WoW client now. What are your guys thoughts on it so far? Im kinda going in blind. Haven't been following it much other then the odd video here and there.

So far i've been loving it, a lot better than Warlords.

I've played since WoTLK and lost so much of my life to it I've gotten every x pack since then although I only play for varying amounts per x pack usually around the 6 month mark. Wasn't too much of a fan of Cata, I liked panda although maybe the outside world more than the dungs, WoD I felt was just okay, I really didn't like the garrison. Honestly loving Legion so far although I haven't dipped into it too much. I've picked Stormheim as my first area and obviously getting some uber Grizzly Hills/Howling Fjords vibes from it which is really floating my boat. Props you should come back, you might be pleasantly surprised.

I've been playing on and off since WoLK was released. Put a lot of time into WoLK, loved Cata, but spent much less time playing both Mists and WoD. Pandaria looked beautiful, but the grind bored me. Draenor had a good storyline, but I felt there wasn't much to do at max level.

Legion is great so far. My biggest gripe with the game is that my server (Wildhammer) has become a low population server. When I last played it was full! It hasn't bothered me so far, but levelling is starting to feel very lonely.

I really think Blizzard could offer a realm change to those who resubscribe; I can't justify spending another €50 on a realm change after buying the xpac and paying my sub.