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WoW Was Funner When I Was a Newbie
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Jidor
If it makes you feel better, FinalCountdown, I've never heard of Zul'Mashar.
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Chaosangel
WoW was my first MMO (well, besides Runescape. but that doesn't count), and the first Warcraft game that I ever played. I immediately rolled a human rogue, and he has remained my main ever since. I remember the wow feeling I had questing through Northshire. I didn't know that the arrow on the minimap meant I was pointed that way. I just though that if North was on top, then I was heading North (basically I thought that the map itself rotated like a compass, not my arrow). This led to my adventure through the hills to reach that first kobold mine :)
For whatever reason, I thought that Northshire Abbey and the wall in between Northshire and Goldshire were Stormwind City. When I first reached the city itself and the incredible statues, my jaw hit the floor.
I thought I was in legitimate danger when I heard over LocalDefense, "Goldshire is under attack!" I remember spending about a half hour "hunting" this orc in Elwynn. Ha, I asked everyone I saw if they had seen an orc go by. That hunt quickly ended when I discovered Westfall over the bridge. My first battle over Sentinel Hill was pretty epic. I thought I was doing my part as a level 9 Defender of the Alliance by attacking those ?? Horde along with a bunch of other assorted newbies. Eventually, we managed to drive them over the hill by the graveyard with the help of some level 30-ish dwarves. The Horde mounted up and retreated. I thought I was on top of the world at that moment, having fought valiantly for my cause, until I remembered I had homework to do and that I was just an average teenager.
I don't think any game will ever replace that feeling of immersion, and I'm glad I began playing the game. Where others will say that they wasted months of their lives playing what they consider to be a stupid video game, I will be able to say that it was worth it. The adventures I went on, the people I met, the murlocs I aggroed; nothing else can replicate this feeling (except real adventures of course, but you can't go on those from the comfort of your swiveling computer chair!)
Thank you WoW, and thank you wowhead for helping me along the way :)
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Tmacca
While I still enjoy WoW, I often miss those newbie moments. I can never forget the first time I went to SW and me /kneeling before the gates. I also fondly remember the time me and four other NE lowbies grouped up to go inside that spider cave near Aldrassil and constantly got wiped. Good times :)
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Garet
I think the same dude i was having nice times when i swas with my troll mage at low lvl me and some friend was doing everything he had got banned for many times for exploring but now the only that they and me too want is epic items tier 6 and thing like that i want OLD TIMES BACK!
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PS- "Funner" is not a word.
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Izichial
Today I feel like a war veteran telling his stories, even more so when it comes to tales from Molten Core - most people I encounter never raided that hellhole and likely never will. We hated it with passion, but they missed oh so much.
Quoted for truth.
The people I learned to know during those early days of front line war versus the raid instances (that's right, UBRS & co) are in many cases still around and kicking, if perhaps more grim in demeanor; I'm quite certain I am. Perhaps it's the community eroding, the people that you never really knew but perhaps ran into from time to time dissapearing without you really noticing until the hole grows large, and/or just that the server is filling up with new and outside people - the community on EU-Kazzak where I play is
old
, protective of itself and very, very migrator tired.
And the magic is fading. Since a long, long time, replaced by numbers, facts, random memory images of unimportant places and a few, bright embers of triumphs past. Triumphs, sorrows, strange occurances,meetings.
And the exploration, oh the exploration.
It's just like real life, though. As a child you're amazed by cloud movement, jingling keys, Thomas the Tank Engine. Yeah, I think those times were great, but it's not like life is drab now that we've evolved. You move on to new experiences, neither forgetting nor wishing back those experiences.
I'm not sure I agree with you here - a child is different in mind to an adult, as you say we've evolved since that time - unless we're talking young players (who probably weren't around WoW for the betas anyway) it's more or less the same person who took those first steps in The Valley of Trials, or Dun Morogh, or like it was for me, the vast forest that was Teldrassil and for your life couldn't figure out how to talk in anything else than /s since that was default.
We can look back at that in a way very different than that in which we look back at our childhood. I can not remember much, if anything, of how I was feeling and experiencing the world as a child - but I can remember seeing the Teldrassil forest for the first time, getting to grips with a completely new game, slowly doing the first quests, meeting people - and it was glorious.
It was another world. A magical world.
It's still a world. But it's just that world. And the magic is fading.
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pelf
Thank you WoW, and thank you wowhead for helping me along the way :)
Very well said. I feel like the people who say "wow I've wasted x years of my life with this game" need to evaluate why it is they play and possibly come to terms with the fact that if it's fun and if you're consciously choosing to play the game, then it's no less valuable than any other activity that brings you enjoyment.
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Kazzalicious
Haha, my first day...I knew my rl friend Jake (we live in the usa) was on dunemaul, and my EU friend was also on dunemaul. And I wandered around looking for them for hours before jake logged on. He helped me out a bit..then I was on my own lol. I got like 5 more rl friends to play with me and we all still play. It took me like a month to figure out there was a US and EU dunemaul.. I do miss being a noob. I had all these goals set, such as getting the Lobotomizer. I wrote everything I wanted to do on paper. I was an UD rogue. I remember having to do 10 AVs all in a day (it was hell, I am sure people have done more than that though) to get the quest reward cross bow. When arena came out I got more excited about wow again.
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