This topic is more of a story about my gaming history in general and not about Kronos as a project. I wanted to post something like this in an Off topic section but there was no relevant area for it.
I yesterday broke up for my Christmas break, something I've not had the pleasure of experiencing for the last few years. I was randomly searching on YouTube and suddenly got the erge to search for my old vanilla world of warcraft guild called Divinitus.
I found a video of when the guild defeated Ragnaros before the son's spawned and I remember my younger brother was the main tank in the guild. He was actually in this video main tanking Ragnaros and it just made me feel a little emotional when I remember all this. My brother was well respected in the guild and everyone in the guild relied on his decent tanking skills.
I remember the times coming back home from college, my brother would be sitting at home after school waiting for me so that we could both log on and play together along with his friends. I remember at the weekends he and I would log on at around 11:00 and continue until 03:00, hell sometimes even later.
My parents were both getting rather unsettled by our endless hours playing on this game, but to be honest with you they did not mind to much as we both were not getting into any trouble.
My main character was a shaman and my brother and his friends helped me kill a summon able boss in UBRS so that I could complete my tier 0.5 set. I am very sure it was the five elements set, the helmet looked like a wolf's head and it was a different colour to the standard tier set.
I remember doing the quests to obtain this gear and it cost so much in materials that I actually had to buy gold just to be able to do it. Along with completing this tier set I also got the best elemental damage gear you could obtain. I could even two shot someone in a duel if two of my spells critted against poor gear, that would rarely happen but when it did it was very satisfying.
By the time I had achieved all this gear which took me 6+ months of avid playtime I remember hearing that TBC was going to be released in the autumn. On my shaman main I had only got up to Raganaros in Molten Core and I was rather displeased to hear that all my gear was going to useless when the first expansion released. I didn't even get to complete or even see all of BWL, AQ20, AQ40 and NAXX.
What blizzard should have done before TBC released was to offer one or two original vanilla servers where I could have transferred my shaman and Alliance Warlock onto and finished of all the content I wanted to do. If I had completed all the content then I could decide if I want to transfer onto a TBC server or stay on a vanilla server.
I started playing WOW about a year after it released in the UK and still to this day if they had offered what I mentioned above I would still be a paying customer. When TBC released I did purchase it but I was so disappointed that months of hard graft was for nothing I decided to un-subscribe. I was not alone in my feelings others obviously would have the felt the same as me. I would feel even more sorry for the people who got legendary weapons and tier 3 which takes a lot of investment all for it to overnight become rather worthless.
Over a period of time I did eventually come back but my guild had disbanded, I made it to lvl 70 with power levelling the last few levels but this in the end wasn't worthwhile as I didn't stay long after. It was all rather pointless. My brother was not interested any more he was fed up with the expansion as he had only finished the BWL content. Because I enjoyed playing WOW with my brother, after he had stopped I did officially give up at this point. I since this have never subbed again.
Over the years I tried out various private servers on the top 100 wow private server list but they are so abysmal it's not worth even playing unless you want to mess around for an hour and wander about the environment, wishing it was 2006 again staying up late and talking on teamspeak 2.
It's not that I am some person who cant let go I can but when I think of vanilla wow I compare it to looking at old photographs of me and my family. It's natural to get upset and a bit emotional because they were times you enjoyed and felt happy in. Now that I am in my late 20's and so much has happened since then, when I look at vanilla WOW I just wish that I could go back in time even for a day or so to relive probably some of my best gaming moments I have ever experienced.
I miss playing WOW with my younger brother and yes I can still play games with him and I have done, but we both played something we enjoyed and with lot's of others to. Working as a team to kill a boss was always a great achievement, I still can remember all the screeching and cheering down the microphones when HAKKAR was downed. I can even remember when a guild member played the song 'Celebrate good times come on' when a major boss was killed and everyone loved it!
Since WOW I have tried various other MMO'S, RIFT was enjoyable and Guild wars 2 not as good as anticipated with end game content being the main flaw. My main other long term MMO experience was Warhammer Online and I was devastated when EA closed that down Last year. The best PVP MMO I had experienced playing.
Lot's of other games have released since WOW and I have played some of the main hit titles and some are very good but they don't give me the same experience I had with WOW. It could be that I was young then and had no responsibilities in life which I do now.
I am very much looking forward to Kronos, I do hope it will be as good as the promotional videos make it out to be. I am not looking forward to the 1 to 60 levelling but if I make some friends who I can level up with it makes it much better. I also pray that the raiding experience is of the highest quality to the original blizzlike version.
It would be nice to hear about other peoples experiences with the vanilla wow and if you have any stories of what you miss and remember back in 2005.-06
I yesterday broke up for my Christmas break, something I've not had the pleasure of experiencing for the last few years. I was randomly searching on YouTube and suddenly got the erge to search for my old vanilla world of warcraft guild called Divinitus.
I found a video of when the guild defeated Ragnaros before the son's spawned and I remember my younger brother was the main tank in the guild. He was actually in this video main tanking Ragnaros and it just made me feel a little emotional when I remember all this. My brother was well respected in the guild and everyone in the guild relied on his decent tanking skills.
I remember the times coming back home from college, my brother would be sitting at home after school waiting for me so that we could both log on and play together along with his friends. I remember at the weekends he and I would log on at around 11:00 and continue until 03:00, hell sometimes even later.
My parents were both getting rather unsettled by our endless hours playing on this game, but to be honest with you they did not mind to much as we both were not getting into any trouble.
My main character was a shaman and my brother and his friends helped me kill a summon able boss in UBRS so that I could complete my tier 0.5 set. I am very sure it was the five elements set, the helmet looked like a wolf's head and it was a different colour to the standard tier set.
I remember doing the quests to obtain this gear and it cost so much in materials that I actually had to buy gold just to be able to do it. Along with completing this tier set I also got the best elemental damage gear you could obtain. I could even two shot someone in a duel if two of my spells critted against poor gear, that would rarely happen but when it did it was very satisfying.
By the time I had achieved all this gear which took me 6+ months of avid playtime I remember hearing that TBC was going to be released in the autumn. On my shaman main I had only got up to Raganaros in Molten Core and I was rather displeased to hear that all my gear was going to useless when the first expansion released. I didn't even get to complete or even see all of BWL, AQ20, AQ40 and NAXX.
What blizzard should have done before TBC released was to offer one or two original vanilla servers where I could have transferred my shaman and Alliance Warlock onto and finished of all the content I wanted to do. If I had completed all the content then I could decide if I want to transfer onto a TBC server or stay on a vanilla server.
I started playing WOW about a year after it released in the UK and still to this day if they had offered what I mentioned above I would still be a paying customer. When TBC released I did purchase it but I was so disappointed that months of hard graft was for nothing I decided to un-subscribe. I was not alone in my feelings others obviously would have the felt the same as me. I would feel even more sorry for the people who got legendary weapons and tier 3 which takes a lot of investment all for it to overnight become rather worthless.
Over a period of time I did eventually come back but my guild had disbanded, I made it to lvl 70 with power levelling the last few levels but this in the end wasn't worthwhile as I didn't stay long after. It was all rather pointless. My brother was not interested any more he was fed up with the expansion as he had only finished the BWL content. Because I enjoyed playing WOW with my brother, after he had stopped I did officially give up at this point. I since this have never subbed again.
Over the years I tried out various private servers on the top 100 wow private server list but they are so abysmal it's not worth even playing unless you want to mess around for an hour and wander about the environment, wishing it was 2006 again staying up late and talking on teamspeak 2.
It's not that I am some person who cant let go I can but when I think of vanilla wow I compare it to looking at old photographs of me and my family. It's natural to get upset and a bit emotional because they were times you enjoyed and felt happy in. Now that I am in my late 20's and so much has happened since then, when I look at vanilla WOW I just wish that I could go back in time even for a day or so to relive probably some of my best gaming moments I have ever experienced.
I miss playing WOW with my younger brother and yes I can still play games with him and I have done, but we both played something we enjoyed and with lot's of others to. Working as a team to kill a boss was always a great achievement, I still can remember all the screeching and cheering down the microphones when HAKKAR was downed. I can even remember when a guild member played the song 'Celebrate good times come on' when a major boss was killed and everyone loved it!
Since WOW I have tried various other MMO'S, RIFT was enjoyable and Guild wars 2 not as good as anticipated with end game content being the main flaw. My main other long term MMO experience was Warhammer Online and I was devastated when EA closed that down Last year. The best PVP MMO I had experienced playing.
Lot's of other games have released since WOW and I have played some of the main hit titles and some are very good but they don't give me the same experience I had with WOW. It could be that I was young then and had no responsibilities in life which I do now.
I am very much looking forward to Kronos, I do hope it will be as good as the promotional videos make it out to be. I am not looking forward to the 1 to 60 levelling but if I make some friends who I can level up with it makes it much better. I also pray that the raiding experience is of the highest quality to the original blizzlike version.
It would be nice to hear about other peoples experiences with the vanilla wow and if you have any stories of what you miss and remember back in 2005.-06
It's kind of weird getting emotional and nostalgic over a video game, but I still do.
