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This is in response to the Blog Azeroth Shared Topic Top 10 WoW Memories from Cathmor of Eye for an Eye.
- During the last few hours of the open beta, Phaelia was level 12 and fishing in the lake in Moonglade. I pulled up a Golden Pearl which sold for a whole GOLD to the vendor. I used the proceeds from my find to buy a dress and some flowers so I’d “go out in style.”
- Back when Scholomance could be raided with up to 40 people, I was there with my first guild. In the last room with the balconies overlooking where Darkmaster Gandling eventually spawns, we were standing outside of the room with the ridiculous number of skeletons historically used by Paladins to pad the DPS meters. I had a cosmopolitan (cranberry juice and vodka) sitting beside my keyboard and, in the process of standing up from my desk, my leg bumped the keyboard tray, pushing it into my desk and knocking over my drink. Frantically trying to mop up the mess, I must have hit the autorun button on my mouse because before I knew it, I was charging into the room alone. I’m pretty sure we wiped.
I’m sure that most Druids would agree that one of their most memorable moments was turning level 68 and training Flight Form. Flying was (and still is) one of my favorite things in Warcraft. And the feeling of freedom from insta-cast Swift Flight Form is far better than the casting-time based mounts that other players get. They can’t jump off of Aldor Terrace and shift halfway down (just make sure you don’t shift into Tree form like I did earlier this week).
- During my single season as a “hardcore” Arena player, my husband and I played a 2v2 game against a 2-Rogue team. Now, I know that some people say Druids are OP in Arenas (and they must have been for me to be able to reach 1915, to be honest), but that doesn’t mean that playing one isn’t incredibly stressful. Melees were the worst for me. I hated the feeling that someone was trying to kill me/not letting me heal my partner (yeah, I was definitely not cut out for PvP). Anyway so we play this 2 Rogue team and I’m terrified. Despite this, I think I played my best Arena game ever, keeping away from both Rogues, keeping Abolish Poison on both me and Mr. Phae, and rolling HoTs at the same time. When we won, we got 28 points from them, which means they were much higher rated than we were. I have to keep telling myself that they weren’t the alternates on a “farm team.”
- Phaelia is a Tailor/Leatherworker. I was one of the first players on my server to craft the Primal Mooncloth set. I remember sinking 800 gold or so into buying enough cloth to craft the belt (I made the robe first) so that I could complete the set bonus. Putting all three pieces on was a huge accomplishment and set me belt and shoulders above most of my guildmates at the time.
For weeks, I diligently did the Daily Fishing Quest, hoping to get one of the cute little baby crocodiles (I’m from Louisiana originally, so it has sentimental value as well as matching my robe). I was beginning to get really discouraged as day after day I got the same junk: hooks, elixirs of water walking, and the occasional fishing knife. One Friday afternoon, though, Valenna was over to play poker with Mr. Phae. I turned in my quest, asked him to cross his fingers (which he did), and lo and behold out came Toothy! Now if only he could help me get a Fishing Hat!
- Like many guilds, Aegis Hestia stalled out on the Gruul encounter since it was really the first raid we tried in 25-man progression. I think we probably worked on him for 6 weeks before finally downing him, so that first victory was extra sweet.
My very first non-combat pet was the White Kitten, given to me by my good friend, Fikus. I guess he camped Lil Timmy, Boy with Kittens enough times to get kittens for several friends. “The Abominable Snowball” is still in my bank’s kennel and retains her sentimental value.
- I got my introduction to MMOs in EverQuest, playing for five years as a Ranger (ouch). My limited experience with healing in an MMO came in the form of raiding with Clerics. The raid content in EverQuest 1 was relatively shallow, with corps of clerics dedicated to casting their Complete Heal spell in regular intervals. So that other Clerics could keep track of their place in line, they would make simple macros like:
/rsay ~* Casting COMPLETE HEAL on %t ~~ 10k HP in X seconds! Primadonna, you’re up next!! *~
/cast Complete HealWhen I first started instancing with my friends, I made similar macros for all my heals:
/p Incoming Healing Touch on %t!! 500 hp in 3 seconds!
I was promptly informed (by Valenna) that this was annoying and that if I didn’t stop, he would put me on ignore.
- Last month I was standing outside of the Magister’s Terrace instance, waiting for my group to do whatever it is that group’s find to do while you’re waiting at the summoning stone and some random person of some random class came up to me and said, “/cheer I love your blog!” That made my whole evening.
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/cry I love you, ty for everything.
Congratulations on Toothy! Those little crocolisks always seem to evade me every time (although I suspect I have gotten most every type of junk there is, except for the monocle!).
Love that you spent your first gold on a nice outfit as well! Sounds like something I would do
Oh man,#9 brought back some memories. I loved EQ. The feeling it gave me of total immersion in a truly brutal online world brings back some fond memories. I’m so glad WoW smoothed out all of those rough edges, but I do miss EQ at times.
I still remember me first group in East Commonlands farming mobs. I promptly grabbed aggro and was beaten down by a dervish. I some how survived and panicked like mad from the bleed effect. I’ll never forget my buddy telling me to calm down as he bandaged me.
The feeling of guilt from missing a heal and watching someone die is something I don’t think I’ll ever get in a video game again. Knowing that I’d just cost someone a solid four hours of xp grinding really hurt.
I kind of miss the brutal style of EQ at times. That being said I don’t think I could ever go back to a game like that.
rofl phae, (meef from 7th hammer here)
#9 classic, C L A S S I C
cute post
40 people and you wiped in Scholo? Even an accidental pull and the bad gear of the time… my mind is boggling. Unless I misread and you didn’t actually have 40 people. In any case, Scholo was insanely hard back then.
I loved number 9. Good old Oddmole.
One of my top WoW memories was pre BC when i had just got my rogue to 60 about a month gone and i just got into my first raiding guild a week ago and not expecting any invites being in blues i was astounded to recieve a whisper asking if i wanted to come to BWL because they were short DPS. Cleared up to Chromaggus we killed him and then went on to Nef. Though we didn’t down him that night (we got him down the next night) i really felt like the little gnome i was in blues just coming in to my first 40 man in WoW. Nef’s room is freaking huge to a gnome.
The next night, the rogues are the first ones called, we all die in front of him and sit there for 25 minutes watching the fight. Through the entire 25 minutes i was never bored watching, getting more excited as he finally went down.
Your Alligator is the bomb, I’m trying real hard to get my fishing up to get one too. And getting Gruul down did rock, even though I think I joined the guild about three weeks before we did, my awesomeness must have tipped the scales!
@Saresa: The monocle is actually the item I’ve gotten a couple of times (and saved on different characters because it looks so cool). Good luck with your crocodile.
@Bolshevism: I can’t say that I miss the brutality of EverQuest. I was always so terrified of dying in that game, and that part wasn’t something that I enjoyed. I can remember levelling up to 51 in North Karana killing griphons and hill giants because I was too scared of dying trying to find my way through Sol B to get to a group. I can remember the first day I played WoW and discovering that you could drink water to restore your mana and thinking “OMG this is so OP! It’s so getting nerfed!” That was the kind of mentality that EverQuest instilled in its players. ^_^ If it’s too convenient, fun, or nice, it’s clearly not making the cut.
@FB: MeefMeef!! Good to see you again. =)
@Awlbiste: I didn’t say we *brought* 40 people to Scholo. ^_^ I said it was back in the beginning where there were no limits. I imagine we probably had 20-25. And we didn’t wipe on Gandling. We wiped on one of the trash rooms. Good times!
@Zackoria: Sounds like you have more experience in BWL+ than I do. I only went through once, though it was a similar situation with a group of experienced, geared players. I was incredibly lucky though. The Stormrage tunic dropped, and no one else needed it! P.S. – A Rogue? Ew!
@Abagoo: Clearly, we are overwhelmed by your awesomeness, Abby! =)
Re: #9
I still see some priests that do this when they cast Gheal. >.<
@Kaera: Ha – I wonder if they don’t happen to have a background in EQ, as well! ^_^
/cheer I love your blog too! *hug*
Yours, Nebesa from DarkmoonFaire.
Re: #3
I had a friend who had played a feral druid all through 1.0 and through most of TBC. When his guild got to MH/BT, he respec’d to restoration and…well, the default hotkey for flight form becomes the one for tree of life. He would regularly leap from the Aldor Rise and, by memory, hit Ctrl+F5. Splat.
He quickly coined this mistake “planting”. ^.^
@Neb: Why, thank you. =)
@Athanyel: ROFL