TBC Classic

[Shawk]

I remember getting into beta after they did a stress test and if you got to highest level you were given access into the actual beta or something.

It was weird seeing the changes, the one big one I miss is UN-Instanced Battlegrounds. They were so much better, more like playing a Warcraft 3 match but you are just one of the players harvesting/gathering the things needed to make your units stronger. Lots of things like this changed in beta that made me lose interest before BC.

WoW originally in development was a totally different concept.. Where some players were "Hero" types and the rest were "Peon" "Soldier" types that were no where near as strong, mages transported people obv but it was more a crutch players depended on heavily for example, It was a weird mix of Lineage 2 and Everquest originally at least in early beta etc.

I remember watching tons of nda streams on winamp shoutcast and downloading vids from MIRC, now that I am thinking about it lol.

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by Shawk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Totally forgot that we use to have to download vids this way. I remember this series of videos oddly enough while it was popular to watch these and copy strats, builds etc. The music just transports me back, get the same thing with DAOC videos but damn it was actually hard to record videos back then.. Let alone upload them etc.

Ty

And oh yeah on the hard to make make part...for a number of reasons. People didn’t give a shit about watching you if you weren’t outnumbered. There were a few extremely skilled South Korean mages who were posting vids of them pulling off 1v4’s and killing all of them, and those were the vids you knew you were going to be side by side with. The problem was that when battlegrounds were released in WoW, world pvp pretty much completely dried up, except for some rare spats at blackrock mountain. So if you wanted footage of pvp it had to be in battlegrounds. And since all battlegrounds were team vs team, people were constantly running up and jumping in to help. I had to scrap so much footage where I was pulling off a great 1v3, but then all of a sudden 3 horde run up and kill everyone

Also, the uncompressed fraps footage was enormous in size, and my computer wasn’t great. I had some times during extended fights where my computer literally froze and gave me a message that my HD was full and there was not enough memory to continue operating windows lol

I pirated (not proud of it) a jailbreaked copy of Sony Vegas video, which was a professional and extremely not user friendly video editing software that normally ran for about $500. I had to spend a week just learning the basics of the damn thing, and I only scratched the surface of what it could do. Spent hundreds of hours editing, and you actually grow to hate your favorite songs that you selected because you hear them 100 times in a row trying to line them up with the action [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Toxigen]

Originally Posted by unsunghero [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ty

And oh yeah on the hard to make make part...for a number of reasons. People didn’t give a shit about watching you if you weren’t outnumbered. There were a few extremely skilled South Korean mages who were posting vids of them pulling off 1v4’s and killing all of them, and those were the vids you knew you were going to be side by side with. The problem was that when battlegrounds were released in WoW, world pvp pretty much completely dried up, except for some rare spats at blackrock mountain. So if you wanted footage of pvp it had to be in battlegrounds. And since all battlegrounds were team vs team, people were constantly running up and jumping in to help. I had to scrap so much footage where I was pulling off a great 1v3, but then all of a sudden 3 horde run up and kill everyone

Also, the uncompressed fraps footage was enormous in size, and my computer wasn’t great. I had some times during extended fights where my computer literally froze and gave me a message that my HD was full and there was not enough memory to continue operating windows lol

I pirated (not proud of it) a jailbreaked copy of Sony Vegas video, which was a professional and extremely not user friendly video editing software that normally ran for about $500. I had to spend a week just learning the basics of the damn thing, and I only scratched the surface of what it could do. Spent hundreds of hours editing, and you actually grow to hate your favorite songs that you selected because you hear them 100 times in a row trying to line them up with the action [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by Toxigen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah saw that one when I was playing back in the day. There was a rogue named Neilyo who did professional-quality videos as well, I think he was one of the most well known vid maker back then

[Nocht]

Drakedog was my hero back in the day.

https://youtu.be/NZIg4OZlA-4

[Botten]

This Rogue inspired me so much.

Just able to move on from one kill to the next 5 times straight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OdgWLXV5Ro&t=600s

[unsunghero]

I’ve been getting the itch to re-activate and see if BG’s are still as shitty as they were a year ago. Problem is i have nerve damage I’m my left elbow and until I get it operated on, my left hand isn’t as nimble as it was

Memories of classic WoW: I got insanely lucky and had the blue dragon sinew for the 15% haste quiver drop in the first 45 min of killing scalebanes. The average drop rate is about 1 for every 5000-6000 so people had been farming them for months with no luck. It was super fortunate I got it because at the time the only other way to get a 15% haste quiver was AV reputation, and the queues for horde for AV were 1hr 45 min....I think I did 5 AV’s my whole time playing classic

My buddy also had an edgemaster’s handguards drop for him. At the time those sold for ~7k if I recall. One of the most expensive BoE items in the game. He quit soonafter he sold it, and that mountain of gold is now rotting ...

[Nocht]

The only boe epic I ever had drop was a Kang the Decapitator for my enhancement shaman. The timing was uncanny because I wanted to level out of the 30's pvp bracket after being 39 for months and it dropped around the time I hit level 44. Ended up turning him into a 49 twink and had a blast erasing people with windfury in AB. Good times all around!

[Byue]

in original wow, those gloves were shit.
I mean they would be on the AH for 10-15G.

It's the illegal server meta that made that item good.
Nobody used it back then.
A lot like boosts are a thing now but not back then.

But wow that is very lucky for you!

I remember looting those edgemaster's handguard and it was the first epic i ever seen and I was leveling my shaman and made sure everyone green rolled (because it was classic we were still nice to each others, reputation was big) and I won it. (greed too!)
Remember leveling with those was a lot of fun i was so proud to have an epic.

[unsunghero]

Memories of vanilla WoW: I installed a PvE mod meant to alert groups that my pet had taken a pre-set % health of damage and needed a heal, intended to be use at like 30% health or whatever

One night I was drunk doing BG’s and I decided to see what happened if I set it to alert at 99% or less, so every time it takes damage below 99% it alerts, then I changed the channel to /yell

Plops yells “KITTENS Needs healing! Currently at 99% health!”
Plops yells “KITTENS Needs healing! Currently at 98%health!”
Plops yells “KITTENS Needs healing! Currently at 89% health!”
“Yo shut the fuck up about your pet!!!”
Plops yells “KITTENS Needs healing! Currently at 86% health!”

So dumb looking back. But drunk me thought it was hilarious

I also used to pvp so much in the world and make so many enemies that a guild named <Red Army> that was the largest alli pvp guild on the server would devote a full raid of 40 to sitting on my dead body for an hour, with a group at the closest spirit healer. Had pics of that, but lost em