Revive & Rejuvenate

Thursday, 5 April 2012

The Great Noblegarden Egg Hunt 2012

Just a quick note to let you know, if anyone is still out there!

The Great Noblegarden Egg Hunt is on again, hosted once again by the awesome Kamalia.

Sign up here, hide an egg on your blog and join in the fun on Noblegarden Sunday (April 8th)!

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

A Story for the Sproutling

This story was inspired by Big Bear Butt's writing challenge. Check his post for all the other offerings!

~o~

The calf gurgled and cooed as Leesah wiped the remnants of the juicy berries from around his mouth. She picked him up as she stood, kissed him on the top of his furry head and put him down on the packed earth floor of the house, smiling as he ran outside.

She walked over to the door and leaned against the wooden frame, shielding her eyes from the low sun casting its light across the Mulgore plain. A few children of the village were running around after a dog, trying to pull its tail.

Not for the first time, Leesah wished that her mate Melof could have been here to see how much their son had grown. It was already his first birthday and he was getting so tall - he would surely grow into a strong bull like his father had been. Leesah felt grief building up in her throat again. She glanced at one wall of the house where Melof's polearm hung, several charms hanging from the slender shaft, light winking on the keen blade.

She hadn't been up to Thunder Bluff in a while, but she had heard the rumours - Deathwing lay slain, the Twilight Cult scattered. She swallowed back tears and stood straighter, comforted that her mate's death at the assault on the Bastion had not been in vain, and had been avenged.

There was no use in dwelling on the past, though. Soon, she would have to leave the peace of Bloodhoof Village and rejoin her fellow Druids abroad. She could feel the urge to travel in her bones, the nature magic stirring, ready to heal and nurture the regenerating forests of Hyjal. She would have to leave her calf behind for a little while, but he would be in safe hands with the elders of the village.

As the sun dipped below the line of mountains to the west, one of the Elder bulls came around lighting the torches of the village. She nodded a greeting to him as she walked out across the grass. She called, "Come, little one!"

The calf ran over to her, reaching upwards and saying, "Num num num?"

Leesah laughed as she swung him up over her head and down again. "No, silly, you already had num nums. It's time for a bath and sleepy time." She carried him back inside their home and out to the hidden alcove that served as a bathroom.

Outside, stars began to appear in the evening sky and cast their silver light over the plains.

~o~

Yes, it's my Sproutling's first birthday today. It seems like such a long time ago that he was born, but at the same time it feels like just the other day! He's not quite at the running stage, but Tauren calves learn to walk a lot faster than human ones. He does ask me for num nums quite a lot, though.

Like Leesah, I've gone back to work and left Sproutling with the "elders". He's surrounded by an adoring fan club every day so I don't feel too bad about leaving him.

Don't worry, Mr Ang is still here... but he stopped playing Wow just before Sproutling was born so it fit well with the story for his Tauren to have died. I'm sure he won't mind me taking the liberty :)

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Guardian of Cenarius

I'm a believer of things being in their rightful place. Tonight I'm happy, because one of my Druids finally has the Guardian of Cenarius title - achieved for being exalted with Cenarion Circle and Cenarion Expedition.

I expected that the real grind would be in the Cenarion Circle in Silithus, but in fact it was the other way around. Allow me to share my path towards the achievement.

Cenarion Circle

The first thing I made sure of was that I had done all the quests that can give reputation. There are quests with CC rep in a lot more zones than just Silithus - a full list can be found on Wowhead:

Western Plaguelands
Southern Barrens
Un'Goro Crater
Desolace
Silithus

After the quests were done I was already into revered. The rest of the way to exalted can be finished in a few different ways:

Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj (AQ20) raid - I soloed this once as a Moonkin and had no trouble up to the final boss, and gathered quite a lot of reputation for doing it. The final boss is a bit trickier on your own, and I ended up running out of time due to server maintanance!
Hand in [Encrypted Twilight Texts]. These drop from Twilight Cultists and can be handed in in batches of 10 to an NPC in Cenarion Hold.
Kill Twilight Cultists. These guys have several encampments around Silithus and respawn quite quickly. They also give 10 reputation per kill, so if Encrypted Texts aren't dropping at least you're still gaining rep.
Wowhead also says that the PvP objective in Silithus, turning in Silithyst around the zone and turning it in to your faction NPC also gives reputation. Carrying Silithyst gives you a movement penalty when mounted up, so I doubt this is a very efficient method of collecting rep.

In all, the revered - exalted grind only took me a few hours.

Cenarion Expedition

Important Note: The quest to hand in Unidentified Plant Parts is only available until honoured. If you get any [Uncatalogued Species], wait until after you are honoured to turn them in to maximise your gains after honoured. I didn't realise this until after it was too late - all my Plant Parts were then useless and I added a large chunk of grind to the end of my journey. RTFM, Ang.

Hand in your Unidentified Plant Parts, then your Uncataloged Species. You can either buy the plant parts from the AH, or kill mobs in Zangarmarsh or Steamvaults, Slave Pens and Underbog to get them.
Once you get to Honoured, make sure you do all the available quests for CE rep. The Cenarion Expedition is based in Zangarmarsh, but there are also quests giving reputation in Hellfire Peninsula, Terrokar Forest and Blades Edge Mountains in Outlands, and also the quests from D.E.H.T.A. in Borean Tundra, Northrend.
Run Steamvaults, Slave Pens and Underbog. Do the quests inside the instances too - some of them give CE reputation.

Sadly, it is no longer possible to get the [Orders from Lady Vashj] quest item required to turn in Coilfang Armaments. Wowhead says it was removed due to an oversight in patch 4.3 - why they haven't fixed it again I have no idea. I guess the 65 Armaments I collected from my Steamvaults runs will have to be sold on, or passed to another toon in the hope it might be fixed one day!

In all, it took a few extra days to get to exalted with Cenarion Expedition. I ran a combination of heroic Coilfang instances about 7 or 8 times and got a few nice transmog pieces out of it as well.

So what are you waiting for? Make your Druid a Guardian of Cenarius today!

Saturday, 3 March 2012

Travel Snaps: Desolace and Un'goro

I've been back in Azeroth lately - gradually making progress on my Loremaster project. I thought I'd share a few snaps that Aoifen has collected on her travels.

Shadowprey Village

Thursday, 16 February 2012

The Sixth Meme

I'm a sucker for memes, especially ones involving screenshots. The most awesome Battlemaster Gnomeageddon brought this one back out of the box - cheers Gnome!

The lovely Windsoar tagged me, so I went a-hunting. My screenshots are scattered around quite a few different folders so actually finding the sixth folder was a challenge in itself, but I'm pleased to say that the sixth folder I found contained my screenies for my Burning Steppes post. The sixth file was this one.

Time to pass the meme along! Tagging six people means that the meme has spread like wildfire and I'm really late to post my reply. I'm just going to put it out there for anyone who hasn't posted about it yet!

What's the sixth screenshot in your sixth subfolder?

Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Why I stopped playing SWTOR

I apologise for the somewhat personal and non-WoW nature of this post. Just this once, honest.

Angelya the Sith Sorcerer

Last night I reached the end of my free month of Star Wars: The Old Republic and cancelled my account.

It's not that I didn't enjoy playing it - in fact I was having a great time cackling as I force-lightening'd everything in sight. I had just got to level 16 and my ship and headed off for my first taste of space combat. I had a few tiny alts that I mucked around on as well.

The Problem
Starting over from scratch in a brand new game requires a certain level of commitment and determination. The levelling process, especially in SWTOR where each quest giver speaks the quest text to you in glorious detail, requires concentration and attention.

At the end of a long day, when I'm back working in a job I'm not particularly enjoying where I'm away from my Sproutling for five days of the week and I've finally got him to go to sleep, I must admit that the last thing I feel like doing is sitting down to learn to play a new character and concentrate for a few more hours. A few times in the last couple of weeks I've sat down at the computer and thought about playing, but then fired up Skyrim and pootled around looking at the mountains instead.

That my main character only made it to level 16 in one month should tell you how long I've been able to actually spend playing the game (that is, very little), but from what I saw, it looks like a very detailed Galaxy and the Sorcerer gameplay and starting quests were very enjoyable (if you're into the dark side stuff, of course). I hope to go back to it at some stage once I can devote some more time to it, but at the moment, I'm just not playing it enough to justify staying subscribed.

But Skyrim is so pretty...

The Alternatives
So what to do instead? Skyrim is still holding my attention, but I may well resub to Wow sooner rather than later. The Wow-withdrawal didn't hit me hard this time at first, probably because I had other toys to play with. Now I find I'm really missing the small goal driven super-casual play I had been enjoying around Christmas time. Perhaps that's all I need at the moment - my attention span has shrunk and I need the small-project approach with a toon I already know how to play. I'll also admit that the prospect of running an old-school raid with a bunch of Twitter-folk sounds like a right knees-up. I'll keep you posted on that, internets.

A Small Yet Shameless Plug
The other diversion I've been working on gradually is a product of my new-found commute reading time - I've started another blog for Fantasy and Sci-fi book reviews at oakenbookcase.wordpress.com. Stop by and say hi if you're interested in that sort of thing!

So, what will I decide to do? I suppose I'll give myself a week or two of MMO-free spare time before I decide. Unless anyone wants to help Aoifen become a Kingslayer, that is. Aaaanyone?

Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Nostalgia: #playedinBC

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!

@_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