It started with an idle wondering what people remembered most:
Thanks so much to everyone who joined in! It was nice to look back and remember good things, and those not so good.
I do apologise for the formatting, but twitter doesn't play nice with copy and paste. You can see most of the tweets at #playedinBC although I believe protected tweets don't show up in hashtag searches.
There was also a #playedinWrath but that's a whole other subject for another time!
Thanks so much to everyone who joined in! It was nice to look back and remember good things, and those not so good.
I do apologise for the formatting, but twitter doesn't play nice with copy and paste. You can see most of the tweets at #playedinBC although I believe protected tweets don't show up in hashtag searches.
There was also a #playedinWrath but that's a whole other subject for another time!
- @_Angelya: You know you played WoW during BC when: Points, Emblems, whatevers... they're all Badges.
- @DEazeroth: You know you played WoW during TBC when you'd walk over a sewer grate and think of Magtheridon. "Vermin, LEECHES!"
- @_Angelya: You know you played WoW during BC when: The sound of Fel Reaver still makes you jump and pan around in a panic
- @DruidMain: You know you played WoW during BC when: Your mana regen was based on your strength in bitch-slapping. #PanzerkinFTW
- @WowOhnekase: Two words: Flash Powder.
- @third_torch: Chain Heal was the only macro you needed.
- @hazz0r: you start missing pom pom specced mages
- @GimpsGold: hear someone screaming at a fruit vendor in your sleep!
- @_Rades: You had to tame the ONE BOAR IN THE GAME WITH RANK 5 GORE OR CHARGE OR WHATEVER, BELLYGRUB #notbitterno
- @DruidMain: Idol-swapping meant juggling while spellcasting
- @fallen_tree: Consecration was a worthwhile spell.
- @fallen_tree: Clown suits were end game fashion
- @DruidMain: Caster leather wasn't in vogue
- @fallen_tree: Your guild could down Illidan but still wiped on Kael'thas.
- @_Angelya: You have a macro to deal with tainted cores
- @e_man41: Heroic mode? There's only one mode, and it will make you cry.
- @perculia: Raiding was fun.
- @_Angelya: Your friends list was full of tanks and healers
- @fallen_tree: The Fel Reaver noise still haunts your dreams.
- @perculia: You encountered elites while questing.
- @e_man41: "Kazzak is up!"
- @_Angelya: "Run away little girl, run away!"
- @perculia: Engineering had BiS helms
- @snack_road: I got spit on for being a warlock - even though I never PVP'ed at the time.
- @madsushi: You killed Gruul every week for two years, because someone still needed a DST.
- @perculia: Garrosh lives quietly in Nagrand.
- @SturgarHawkwind: Clearing the current tier of content took more than one night.
- @HayFayFay: You trained weapon skills and did questlines for mounts
- @HayFayFay: You had resist sets and farmed gear #playedinBC
- @LiteDoctor: Seeing someone on a Nether Drake was a rare and awesome sight.
- @Karen_Finn: My rogue had a secret hideout, was difficult to find & had to turn in badges for rep w/ Ravenholdt. She mixed her own poisons!
- @_Luthvian: Also, a high-five to anyone that's had a party in Allerian Stronghold with Aeman and Theine Brightsong.
- @Mauvanah: I had to pvp in order to do my pve job... the joys of being a bear tank
- @taufmonster: I was too afraid to run an Outland dungeon
- @tartdarling: You still cringe at getting a PuG for H-Shattered Halls.
- @_Angelya: The daily heroic was Shattered Halls: "FTS."
- @Druidis4fite: Red Yellow Yellow Red Green Green Blue FUCK
- @Achloryn: Feral parry. Leather gear with defense rating. Resilience was USEFUL in PvE.
- @perculia: Every melee DPS wanted agility leather.
- @fallen_tree: Gear with Strength and Intellect was worn without irony.
- @_Luthvian: Resist, resist, resist, resist, resist.
- @MostlyBlissful: When it literally took months to down a single boss.
- @perculia: 5 minute Elixirs of Demonslaying were essential to progression.
- @claylevering: You remember what it felt like to find out DK's start at 55
- @zotica: Fucking Corki.
- @fallen_tree: Only blood elf paladins got Seal of Blood. Alliance used Righteousness.
- @NavimieDruid: having a flying mount was so OMG
- @HayFayFay: Mana tap.
- @magicbites: Netherwing drake grind, nuff said.
- @_Luthvian: Equip: Increases healing done by spells and effects by up to 334. #thatsahealerweapon
- @SunnierBear: Feral PvP gear had +healing on it.
- @SerenitySaz: Enhancement gear had nearly every stat knowing to man on it, including +Str and +mp5
- @tartdarling: "It wasn't my turn to click the cube, I swear!"
- @_Angelya: Rolled your eyes at the poser outside the bank wearing Warglaives
- @fallen_tree: Summoning Anzu required a Druid who was on or had completed her epic flight quest. It was the only way to get the form.
- @WoWMiri: All the good gem cuts came from rep grinds or world drops
- @HayFayFay: You summoned the Ice Lord in AV and battles lasted FO'EVA!
- @Esoth: My hunter had mp5 on some of his gear
- @mwjn: Only one heroic dungeon quest per day and you had to pick up from a guy.
- @SerenitySaz: Waiting for sunders so that you could DPS, only to crit one too many times, pull threat, and die anyways.
- @perculia: oops Sunseeker Netherbinder summoned adds.
- @HayFayFay: Wand Spec
- @Achloryn: Ridiculously long questlines just to get keys to the ENTRY RAIDS (i'm looking at you Karazhan)
- @WoWMiri: When your crafted cloth gear was BiS for a long while
- @SerenitySaz: It took 10-15 minutes to ride a mount across Shattrath because of lag. Lowering your settings didn't always help at peak hours.
- @Achloryn: Unlocking all the stations of Shattered Sun Offensive took 6 months cause you were on a pvp server.
- @zotica: Arena gear was bear tanking gear.
- @Aleanathem: When raiding was good. Attunments were good and WoW was at its peak.
- @SunnierBear: Crushing blows.
- @WoWMiri: Shattered Sun Offensive: Daily Hub and Honor Grinding location. Come as a party, hope to not get ganked. (Bloodscalp represent!)
- @GottaHaveFaythe: Wore PvP gear for the first boss in BT..
- @verylemonade: ALL the attunements. ALL OF THEM.
- @TassadarWS: Always choosing the wrong entrance for the instances in the Hellfire Peninsula.
- @SerenitySaz: Only being brought to raids because they wanted your totem buffs. #shaman
- @_Angelya: Spent way too much gold respeccing (dailies in heal spec suck)
- @Achloryn: Having a Netherdrake/Nether Ray mounts made you somewhat godlike.
- @donaldroeber: Was surrounded by fire, and did not move
- @SerenitySaz: Having to visit certain locations to make flasks, potions, or to transmute.
- @EWOKinLA: Grabbed the wrong ring at Kara because PVP was all around the Vendor
- @ImRonBurgondy: Cried when replaced Benediction/Anathema on first quest in Outlands
- @chrisocallahan: Living in BM because every DPS needed an Hourglass of the Unraveller.
- @Aleanathem: Knowing a person in epic gear actually put forth effort.
- @ImRonBurgondy: Stacked bandages for Magtheridon.
- @ImRonBurgondy: I will not move when flame wreath is cast, or the raid....blows....up.
- @SerenitySaz: *Shade of Aran casts Flame Wreath* DON'T ANYONE FUCKING MOVE!
- @msherretz: keys.
- @Pathanther: You got insta queues as a hunter because you would advertise you knew how to CC and kite
- @Dakotarik: Anyone up for taking Halaa?
- @ImRonBurgondy: Leveled a Shaman for Shade of Aran earth-shock interrupts.
- @HayFayFay: Mounts and pets stayed in your bags
- @Pathanther: when you could use pvp gear for raiding
- @perculia: +Spellpower was different from +Healing.
- @fenjayminor: LF1M DPS/CC
- @joboy77: quoted Hamlet with Illidan
- @riftmaker: Blue trinket was best in slot through 3 tiers
- @SerrinneWoW: Fang of the Leviathan went to pally tanks
- @chrisocallahan: Every Hunter was BM. Everyone had a Hunter. Hunter pets ruined everything
- @NDMiko: You had a stack of weapon oils.
- @Skechek: Traps broke early and got you one-shotted before the cooldown was up. Every pull. #stillbitter
- @iilusionofchaos: You looked like the offspring of a clown and a hobo most of the time.
- @nyxy: Running heroics and praying that the *gem* you needed dropped.
- @Pathanther: hunters had mana, and aimed shot would destroy any cloth wearer
- @msherretz: Shat killed computers
- @DraccusDruid: 15 minute blessings from Palis
- @_Angelya: Bags full of Green Hills of Stranglethorn
- @SunnierBear: Who could forget this face? twitpic.com/8azj5g
- @DraccusDruid: Back when rep was grinded out w/o talbards.
- @DraccusDruid: You actually took a break from raiding & played a game of chess in Karazhan before clearing rest of the night
- @boozekin: Halaa! Halaa! Murda'd :(
- @_Angelya: Wiped over and over to Murmur because one person couldn't get out of the sonic boom
- @SerenitySaz: When alien worlds captured the imagination. bit.ly/zGJn0a
- @msherretz: Stealth slowed you down
- @runycat: Shear through Shield Wall.
- @Tainothetank: I had 5 blessings and everyone wanted a different one. Getting Bop'ed removed your blessing.
- @Tainothetank: World PvP actually happened.
- @DraccusDruid: Leatherworking had 3 distinct specializations: Tribal, Elemental, & Dragonscale
- @Aleanathem: When feral meant hybrid.
- @Phaedra220: ferals couldn't use pots or soulstones in forms
- @_vidyala: Looking for Netherdrake eggs wasn't so easy because the place was always swarming with people!
- @beattyj: you fell off the Great Lift
- @PrimaryProcess: Cube-clicking rotations 15 people deep on Magtheridon.
Feel free to add any more that you can think of!
Edit 25/01/12: My goodness, there was a lot of twittering overnight (mostly from Cass by the looks)! Here's most of what was added to #playedinBC.
- @CassDots: Honor ticked over once a day and practically shut down the server when it was happening
- @kurnmogh: If you ran Heroic Shattered Halls without a pally tank, you were screwed.
- @CassDots: You had to summon people using summoning stones. Even for dungeons. Yes even then
- @CassDots: You had to pay guild dues or at least chip in gold when your tanks needed Nature/Fire Resistance gear
- @CassDots: People raved about how much better WoW used to be. Oh. Wait.
- @CassDots: ZA was a raid
- @CassDots: Cube clicking was impossibly hard to coordinate.
- @CassDots: The Elemental Plateau was more hotly contested than Halaa
- @kurnmogh: I remember feeling sad that mages were THE BEST CC CLASS EVER while I was a hunter. I DO know how to trap, thanks!
- @CassDots: You cared how fast your server could unlock the Isle of Quel'Danas compared to other servers
- @Sephrenia17: Come closer, come closer and BUUUURNNNN
- @CassDots: Your pally tank took off his pants before beginning a dungeon. So he could still be hit and generate threat
- @CassDots: You felt superior if you had the fp to take you from Skettis straight to Ogrilla
- @CassDots: You used KTM. Had not heard of Omen.
- @CassDots: Dr Boom was a target dummy
- @CassDots: Wore a Tabard of the Illidari
- @CassDots: Didn't consider Of The Shattered Sun to be a REAL title
- @palmetto_rose: Still wear a Tabard of the Illidari
- @Kenichan: Prefered to use own crafted weapon for raiding rather than the loot dropped in raids
- @Kenichan: There was no such thing as GearScore to gauge a player
- @CassDots: Entered and completed entire raid zones out of sequence
- @palmetto_rose: You would laugh when people were disappointed about not keeping the legendary weapons from TK
- @CassDots: You knew how experienced a player was by the gear they wore
- @Linedan: You were a protection warrior and left tanking heroic 5-mans to the pallys because they did it 100x easier. #damnrightimbitter
- @AlternativeChat: Monthly Consortium Gem bags. Nagrand's rolling green hills. Zapthrottle's Mote Extractor!
- @CassDots: used the Caverns of Time rep port to get to anywhere in Kalimdor
- @Kenichan: Grinded my pally's face off in instances to get dungeon gear to be 'passable' tanking Karazhan and 20k Hp was a big thing.
- @CassDots: You only wanted one Disc Priest to hand out +spirit buffs to other healers
- @palmetto_rose: Warlocks were the DoT Gods
- @Kenichan: 'Tempest Keep was a minor setback!'
- @CassDots: You yelled at people in Vent for edging over the hill in the Mount Hyjal Night Elf camp. "Let them come to- damn it!"
- @jaedia: I was a Shadow Priest. My guild note said "duracell: lasts longer".
- @CassDots: You knew Akama was a VIP but couldn't really care if his Shade was good or bad
- @Aggrokitty: You were a druid and ran Heroic Sethekk once a day whether you needed it or not because SOMEBODY wanted the damn bird.
- @jaedia: I couldn't change my hairstyle D:
- @Kenichan: Warlocks were made good tanks (for certain bosses)
- @wingtipswaltz: I expect to have to work hard with the same two dozen people over two years for any great reward... and bloody well enjoy it!
- @Linedan: Taking a month to down a current progression raid boss was no big deal. #sevenweeksonvashj
- @CassDots: Heavy Clefthoof Leather was pure gold. And you spam clicked your Drums of... icon mid-fight
- @Kenichan: I never knew about ERP, until the rumors of Moonguard being ERP central came about in Wrath
- @palmetto_rose: You bought a Mage as a tank for Gruul's Lair.
- @CassDots: You had to defend your right to swim down the Coilfang Reservoir pipe #pvp
- @Guillin: As a warlock you could set your minion loose on a zone, make a cup of coffee, come back and loot.
- @palmetto_rose: You would get annoyed if skinners stole your kills at the lake around Shattrath.
- @jaedia: And don't get me started on Ret.
- @NforNihilism: you spent an entire evening with a whiteboard, markers, and camera, solely to kill one single fucking dragon
- @Guillin: You line up a fireball only to find out a warlock had already tapped the entire continent.
- @CassDots: The most progressed casters were in Heroic SP looking for a rare +haste trinket to replace their epics
- @CassDots: A Resto Shaman could get recruited at level 70 straight into t6. Chain heals plz
- @palmetto_rose: There were no auctioneers in Shattrath
- @NforNihilism: you called yourself a black temple progression raid after you killed doomwalker
- @CassDots: The Mallet of ZulFarrak was pulled out of the bank for every alt run
- @CassDots: Carrot on a Stick was your first and most loved trinket
- @Kenichan: Remember when shamans could DPS with just daggers as enhancement?
- @jaedia: Oh god keys and attunements and and.. Ugh! That darn Nightbane urn. *growls*
- @kurnmogh: Shadow priests were awesome mana batteries, particularly for holy paladins
- @CassDots: You could never get a group for h Arcatraz. Or h Slabs.
- @_loug: Varian Wrynn was still missing #wishhewasstillgone #garroshtoo
- @Achloryn: Everybody was jealous of druids because they trained flight form at level 68, where everyone had to wait till 70.
- @Kenichan: Anyone told you about the elevator bug in Undercity or Shattrath until you found it accidentally?
- @CassDots: You couldn't believe that Chess was at the END of Karazhan and not at the beginning
- @palmetto_rose: Falling through the elevator in Undercity. Huh?! Wait! Where did the floor go?! *SQUISH* :(
- @shivamLM: Asking people on Trade to join a group for xyz instance. Hunter whispers "Sorry only need melee"
- @shivamLM: Arcane mages. Exactly.
- @healbot: When Flash of Light bound to a very warn out #1 key
- @CassDots: You loved it when Mark of the Illidari kept dropping mid raid. Free flasks!
- @shivamLM: Getting to level 60 and getting the tour of Shattrath
- @CassDots: Healing power was for healers and spellpower was for spell casters and Shadow Power was for me!
- @CassDots: Nobody ran Shadowfang Keep.
- @blamesquelchy: Rogues were Combat in PvE. That's all.
- @Somnar_SWC: Wore cloth on a holy pally
- @Somnar_SWC: MAGE TANK
- @darthregis: I was too intimidated by heroics to run them.
- @Arrens: Tier sets were individual to classes. Clothies, regardless of class, didn't look like every other clothie.
- @LodurZJ: I used to sit at the coilfang entrance and sell water breathing for a small fortune.
- @Linedan: Garrosh Hellscream was still sitting in Nagrand, listening to Evanescence, and cutting himself.
- @Aleanathem: So who brought their urn?
- @Linedan: Being a prot warrior on Leotheras the Blind meant if you got a demon, you were dead. Not enough DPS to down your demon.
- @kikibunny_: THAT GAHDAMN FIRST AID TRIAGE!!
- @Half_empty: you wish they had a reputation after exalted for the number of times you ran Black Morass to attune guildies
- @MostlyBlissful: Heroics were literally five man raids. And if you werent careful you died just as fast too.
- @DruidAmorgan: Finding out it was Romulo and Julianne, Big Bad Wolf, or Oz and explaining the fight in under a min
- @DruidAmorgan: Epic Flight Form Quest
- @DruidAmorgan: Knowing just how far you had to be from Cosmowrench for PvP without guards joining in
- @morynne: When raiding as a hunter meant Beastmastery was topping meters with a 1-button macro.
- @Supah1337: Eating our pets mana
- @CassDots: All your power came from your weapon enchant. Double Mongoose anyone?
- @CassDots: You used WoWs new, built in voice chat when it was released. Then went back to Ventrillo.
- @CassDots: The forests of Terrokar were terrifying and prime ganking territory. Level 70 swoops down behind you...
- @CassDots: You bought arrows and ammunition. Lots of it. You had to take a raid break to hearth and repair.
- @CassDots: You only left Outlands to visit the Auction House.
- @mortiganthelock: As a Warlock, you had to EARN your Dreadsteed by completing the longest, most grueling, expensive quest chain EVER
- @CassDots: You couldn't stop running Karazhan every week. You were secretly thrilled when badge vendors and gear was introduced
- @napkinpoem: Had to be careful about aggroing hostile things in starting zones.
- @theeriver: You couldn't get enough of Gruul's huge crotch while tanking
- @RollWarlock: 60 bag slots, all full of soul shards
- @CassDots: Archmage Vorgath followed you and your friends wherever you went... :p
- @CassDots: Your entire guild could be found farming Motes of Mana at the edge of the world (Netherstorm) before/after raid time
