My favorite memory has to be around the time I first started playing. My friend (who was also new to the game) and I went to explore the world on level 1 characters. Riding random boats to see where they went, ghost running all the way through high-level zones, taking tourist pictures of ourselves in front of places we deemed awesome... I kind of wish I didn't know the world so well now. It's not as much fun knowing where I'm going before I get there.
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My best memories are newbie ones. :3 My first guy was an engineer gnome, and When I learned how to make the mechanical squirrel, man, that was the best. It took forever to find that second gem for the eyes, and when I made it, I was sooooo proud! I walked slowly around Ironforge, my new little robot trailing along behind me! :V
To name one's favorite memory after playing for more than 6 years is rather difficult, but I guess it isn't actually something I achieved in the game.It's probably that I could convince my father (who is already more than 70 years old) to change realms and faction to join my guild and help us with raiding.
My favorite single moment in WoW was when my guild finally killed The Lich King with me in the raid. Happened on the eve of Cataclysm, but I was soo happy to have actually downed the last boss of an expansion while it was current, not after it was old news and we were all 5 or 10 levels higher than the content was made for.
Questing in Ashenvale on my first toon (a NE druid that now sits retired in Darnassus) years ago. That experience, with the environment, the quests and the excitement of sudden PvP, was all I ever hoped for from a game. The wonder of new places, quests and npc:s and the fear of dying (which decreases a bit after you passed a 1 000 deaths...). The game is still great but I miss the innocence of those moments./A
It was a cold winter day, back in Feb 2009, when I put on the headphones and started up the game without knowing what to expect. It was my first online gaming experience.I had been wanting to try out WoW for a long time but unfortunately never got the chance till that day due to real life constraints.Upon creating my 1st toon (a paladin dwarf), I just stood there... in Dun Morogh for several minutes without having the slightest idea what to do.Oh you mean there's a quest and I should pick it up from the NPC ? What's an NPC ?All those exciting new things to learn, how to attack, what gear to use, what do all those stats mean, where are the big cities, how do I make gold ?Then, after playing for a while, I hit the gates of Ironforge and, to my amazement, that huge dwarf statue at the entrance appeared while the music in the background switched to a more "grandiose" theme.Simply put: It was overwhelming !That's how World of Warcraft feels to newcomers (especially people who had never previously played any MMO).That's how it felt to me as well: An epic and thrilling adventure ! But I knew it was not just the newness of the game... I mean I had previously played a lot of games but it never felt like this... so there had to be something missing !What makes WoW (and any other MMO for that matter) so unique, even for hardcore gamers, is the fact that you actually have to interact with hundreds of real people. Some are nice, some are mean and some are just... well... trolls.There's a real market (the auction house) where prices follow the supply and demand rules and can sometimes be monopolized ... there are dungeons where team play matters a great deal and there are guilds where a certain sense of "belonging and collective achievement" can often be found.I stayed up very late that night... wandering in a fantasy world, fighting ruthless monsters and trying to make new friends, a world where the right decision can seldom save a life and a nice gesture can sometimes elicit a smile or a cheer... the World of Warcraft.I still play WoW to this day, but nothing compares to that first night... literally nothing !
It has to be hitting 85 on my Undead Warrior. I had spent so much time on that character and now he's all I play!
My favorite WoW memory has to be one night in Molten Core we were playing rather badly that night and had just wiped on Garr. As we were waiting for everybody to run back, one player in the raid noticed a dead hunter pet by the boss and bet all our healers on vent that we couldn't res it. Being the guild that loves to screw around like we were, one of the healers took him up on that and ran up there. He started casting the res and everything seemed fine, then the little rock elementals patrolled into range, pulling the boss. We wiped again and I believe we called the raid right there, a lot of us were starting to get pissed off. I don't remember how the rest of the week went, but that moment stuck with me how we were all so mad about it when it happened, but thought it was the funniest thing in the world the next day. Most of that guild has quit the game entirely and the ones that still play have filtered off to other servers over the years, but every time I run into one we have that story that will always be hilarious to us, even if nobody else gets why we think it's so funny
Popping in my trial code and playing the game for the first time. Roughly twenty minutes in I had a moment of sudden enlightenment about why this game was so popular. Sort of an "I-get-it!" moment. Sadly, the magic has faded significantly since then.