A moment I will never forget is when I finally got this silly trinket. I wanted it so bad, heh... and my guild was absolutely cursed. We simply did not see it drop a single time, for the entire patch 3.2 (Trial of the Crusader was 3.2 right?). It finally dropped after ICC has been put into the game, and it was not all that good anymore... but I was the one who got it, and it just made me happy. The best part is that it dropped on December 24th, Christmas :D (Because some people raid on christmas ukno /nolife.)Somehow, not even Realm First! Sinestra is rooted this good in my memory.
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Although there have certainly been many memorable moments throughout the game for me, I think my favorite so far has to be completing the Wrathgate quest line in Dragonblight on my main. At that time I had no idea about the cinematic, and seeing the Horde and Alliance team up to assault Arthas (and what immediately transpired) felt really epic. Having played Warcraft III out completely, and having done a lot of the quests around Northrend that connected up a lot of the canon regarding Arthas to the current storyline, the culmination of what essentially sets you up to then go on Icecrown caps it very nicely.There are a LOT of people playing WoW that haven't played a previous Blizzard game, and I often try to impress upon folks I meet that they will get much more out of WoW by checking out Reign of Chaos and the Frozen Throne, if they care about the lore, that is.
My favorite moment in Wow is when we killed Heroic Cho'gall, it's such a well tuned fight.
My favorite memory is definitely the first week after creating my first character. I was new to MMO games and exploring the huge world was an amazing experience. I remember walking around those huge trees in Teldrassil as a level 2 Night Elf Warrior, exploring caverns full of spiders, dancing in a moonwell, killing furbolgs, swimming in lakes...Now that I think about it, I wish I was still a newbie who didn't care about progressing in a new raid or farming for another achievement. I felt like I was a Night Elf in a magical world, now it's all about progress and arena rating.I miss the time when I walked into Darnassus for the first time. I was amazed when I saw those big stone bridges, temples, houses inside trees, etc. Now I hardly notice anything while flying on a fast mount, and the only thing I care about is getting to my destination as fast as possible.I also remember taking a boat to Darkshore, having no clue what I'm doing and where I'm going, but still having a lot of fun. Discovering another zone and feeling like an adventurer, not like a bunch of pixels killing Internet dragons.Yes, definitely, this is my favorite memory. I am glad that I started playing the game when it felt like a fantasy world, not a bunch of places connected to Stormwind with portals and LFD tool which teleports you everywhere. Of course, those things made the game easier, but is it better now? I don't think so.
My favorite memory has to be the first time I completed Deadmines. I knew when I started that I wanted to play a healer class, but didn't realize just how much of a pain questing as Holy priest would be... However, I did it for a while, smiting everything, until I got to the defias questline... it took me 3 hours to get a group of 5 people who would stick together, and we had no tank (Shaman kinda filled the role of holding aggro), but I remember healing the group, and loving every minute of it - I was a dungeon addict afterwards, spending most all my time in the LFG channel, begging friends to run instances with me, even begging high level locks/hunters to come to 'tank' for us (I was sooooo naive then, lol)Anyway, things have changed a lot since then, but that first dungeon completed will always be special to me!
Has to be when i got Ambassador.I was only level 30-35 at the time and it felt like a real accomplishment and I was really proud of myself because I was the first of my friends to get it. :PLooking back at it, I'm still a bit proud of myself doing this with only a 60% mount and with the knowledge of a newb.
My favorite memory is easy. When I joined my first guild, I was level 53 and Burning Crusade had been out for a couple months. I would watch the level 70's in guild chat throw themselves at Karazhan repeatedly 2-3 times a week. It sounded like a blast but they always had trouble. They would always skip Netherspite and Nightbane (they considered them functionally impossible for their raid), and would wipe endlessly on Prince every week (they simply could not keep their Warrior main tank alive). When I finally dinged 70 and started gearing up (I played a Feral Druid Tank), they still had never downed Prince Malchezaar. One night the usual Warrior main tank didn't show up; so they had the normal OT (also a Feral Druid) be MT, and asked me to OT for the night. I was pretty worried, but I figured I would give it a shot, I had already gotten most of the "best pre-raid gear" out there (which I researched at the www.wowhead.com/classic Druid forums). Things went really well, and we got all the way to Prince. They said they would try it a few times so I could see the fight, but they all pretty much thought we had zero chance of actually killing him without the usual Warrior main tank (most of them considered Druids to be strictly inferior to Warriors). They told me to go Cat and DPS, so I did. After we wiped 5 or 6 times, one of the healers said in guild chat that he thought I was easier to heal than the MT in earlier fights, and said I should try tanking Prince before we called it for the night.I was pretty nervous, but I did my best. We wiped the first try because of a poor infernal drop killing most of the raid, but all of the healers agreed that I was taking far less damage, and that we might have a chance. On the 2nd attempt, we killed him! It was my first time ever being in a raid, and the first time the guild ever downed him.I can still hear the nerd-cheers on Vent as his Health bar hit 0% =)
My favorite memory of WoW: It was a dark stormy night.... ACtually no it wasnt :P, it was a nice day in Tirisfal Glade (Like always) i was heading to Scarlet Monastery with my 3 friends that i started playing with. We ended up finding this flagged level 40 tauren and charged him!. We killed him, and continued on our way to SM, then as soon as we arrived there he was at the summoning stone with 2 friends and a level 70. We all bolted all different directions trying to lose them but it didnt work, we all died and laughed about it. Good times.
My favorite WoW memory would have to have been when a couple of friends and I decided to work on our Glory of the Hero achievement. It was a random, spur of the moment sort of thing. So we all headed out to Northrend completely unsure how or why we were planning to do this.I remember spending the whole time trying not to laugh as we all attempted to get impaled by Gal'darah, or rushing to defeat Ley-Guardian Eregoswithin 4 minutes for our Make it Count chievo after two of us were D/C'ed and somehow sent to the barrens. We weren't able to finish the meta,but we all had an amazing time, and most of us were in stitches afterwards, recalling many of the humorous encounters we had during that time.But what really put the icing on the cake, was that after leaving Gundrak, my Silverdragon picked up Gondria. The hunter in my group was estatic,and I cheered her on as she tamed the little beastie. Seeing her so happy just put the biggest smile to my face. Giving an absolutely perfect endto an absolutely perfect day. :)
The night I got Ancient Petrified Leaf, of course :) That long night hunting and waiting for the demons to respawn until dawn came was without doubt the best hours I passed on WoW. Ah, the nostalgia for such an epic and amazing quest...
Narrowing it down to just one? So hard!Probably when I got the “killing blow” in Wintergrasp. We were in the final seconds, playing defense, and Horde was barreling through the keep. Our victory depended entirely on the fall of the towers. I had been down there fighting the whole game and we had one tower left barely hanging on. I had a little Plague Barrel Catapult and was on my way down to that last tower. My husband and I had the last two vehicles that could possibly make it before the timer ran out. He had gone ahead of me and I couldn’t even see his vehicle anymore. He yelled out to me, “I’m dead and horde is all over!” I was our last hope.I came upon a huge pile of horde and of course they were all over my vehicle. As soon as I came into range of the building I fired relentlessly. But my vehicle fell……with one little barrel still soaring through the air.With my vehicle down and that many horde surrounding me, it was nothing for them to immediately pummel me, but they didn’t. We all just stood there watching that one little barrel fly through the air. It crashed upon the tower and…Surely it won’t do it. One dumb little plague barrel.BAM! ALLIANCE WINS!It was UNBELIEVABLE. I just stood there surrounded by hordies and it all took us a minute to come to our senses and for them to just pummel me. I know they were like ZOMGNOWAYWTF. I was a rogue and could have vanished or something but I was just too stunned. I didn’t care anyway, let them kill me, I had saved the day!I have had many great and epic moments in WoW, but this one always stands out to me because it was so amazingly awesome. We’re talking SECONDS left on the clock. I will never forget that.
Would definitely have to be seeing "Insane in the membrane" Pop up on my screen.HistoryI farmed Librams on my previous server and had 80 Librams and 3 Pristine Black Diamonds stored up and ready for turn in.Farmed DM north for 3 months everyday just to get the Librams bt couldnt Get Pristines fast enough and there was nothing on AH.Then a friend that i met in game mentioned that he is changing servers and asked if i would like to come with.And i agreedI completely forgot to take over my Pristine black Diamonds and gold(10k) i had reserved on my bank char.Starting on my new server.Total of 1.5k Gold, 0 Librams, 0 Pristines.I redid the Entire Shen'dralar again from Scratch(Another 5 months)After completing Shen'dralar. I never stopped farming DM north for Gold for DMF.Bt seeing that Achievement Pop after persistently doing Shen'dralar twice. Was absolutely Exciting and best thing to ever happen to meSanguinezor The Insane
My favorite memory in wow was when you still had to do the quest chains as Shaman's to get the totems to allow you to activate certain spells. I had finally finished the last quest chain for the last totem and just the completion of all the story, running and hard work felt tangible and real. It was like the actions I took actually meant something and that all the hard work had payed off. I think its all about walking the fine line between hard work paying off and giving a real feeling of success and bashing your head against the keyboard asking for something to be easier. Just about anywhere in life when hard work pays off it feels good :)
My favorite moment has to be when I discovered battlegrounds on my first toon. I had never been in one, was terrified to participate because I had no idea what to do and I didn't want to mess anything up and have everyone angry with me. My boyfriend finally convinced me to try it when I was lvl 38ish. I queued up for WSG and got in. I just kind of blindly followed the pack until we got to the other flag room and I saw something I could click on....and suddenly I have a flag attached to my back. Luckily my boyfriend was there with me and told me it was a capture the flag game while I was frantically yelling at him asking what do I do now. All he told me was it's capture the flag, run back to our flag room and don't die....Ran out of the room as fast as my kitty legs would take me and started making the trek back to out flag room. Saw almost my entire team rally to help me get back safely and managed to capture the flag. It was a great feeling and most of my fear died right there, I loved it!It was after that match that I actually decided to read up on BGs and PvP in general. I ended up spending about a month doing nothing in game but BGs. This was before BGs gave exp so Leveling my first toon took a lot longer than it should have. I am glad I got that experience though!
I think my favorite memory was back in Sunwell. After working on M'uru for 13 weeks straight, finally downing it was just... an amazing feeling. I had never worked so hard on a boss before then (and haven't since) so it was just a total sense of accomplishment to see that boss die. Even though we wiped so long, that fight, and that instance as a whole so far has been my favorite place. :)