The Backstory Shorts is a series of short posts about things I have experienced in Warcraft that don't warrant a full post but are too numerous to make a compilation post on and something I started up in 2010 and then neglected. Way to go!!
Now I'm reviving this feature and along with this 3 installment I thought I'd share the previous 2 posts to give a refresher! The first was titled
Introducing.... which covers my top 3 mobs I enjoy killing because of the hatred I have built up for them over the years and the second was about me completing the grind for my
Winterspring Frostsaber, done the old way without the fancy schmancy easy mode daily quest! Damn you Blizzard!
Anyway this installment is inspired by a post on my realm website
forum that I was reminded about after a recent
MMO: Champion post included a
blue post about how things have changed. I'm sure us old timers are just looking through rose tinted glasses at these times but memories are golden!
- LF1M UBRS - must be a key holder and you NEEDED a hunter in the group to kite Drakkisath;
- People didn't whine when wiping in an instance AND you got respawns;
- Mining, one ore at a time - and then fighting over the node could be a multiple round encounter;
- Mages had to conjour water 4 at time and hand out to all the mana users in a 40 man raid;
- Warlocks needed to farm soul shards to create health stones;
- Paladin buffs were 5 minutes long;
- Shaman and paladins were faction specific;
I'm sure there are hundreds more examples of small changes that have vastly improved our convenience, feel free to post yours in the comments below.
Have fun folks,
Evlyxx.
About the Author
By day I'm an IT Server analyst for a major telecoms compnay in the UK and I've been playing World of Warcraft since November 2005 when a pair of colleagues bullied me into playing! I have evolved into a raider (summer 2006), an auction house wheeler dealer (2007), a guild officer (2007), an altoholic (2008), a raid leader (2008), a Warcraft blogger (2010) and a PVPer (2012)
My main has, and always will be Evlyxx, a priest and I love to heal. I started as Holy in vanilla, dabbled with the shadow side during the middle part of Burning Crusade, before returning to Holy but I have been mostly Discipline since mid-Wrath.
Yeah I did the Winterspring grind the old way. Trying to kill those giants as a Holy Priest was not fun I can tell you. Many a happy day spent in UBRS though :)
ReplyDeleteWhat about Inner Fire originally only being a 10 minute buff?
Holy priests and them giants were rough and yes the 10 minute Inner Fire was not fun when fights were 15+mins
ReplyDeletePaladin seals being 60 secs? That's one reason I never rolled one until they became 30 mins.
ReplyDeleteI started playing at the end of Vanilla. I did go back finally and get the ring to open UBRS on my lock. Epic questline!