25 World of Warcraft Players Tell Their Best Stories
By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on January 01, 0001
World of Warcraft lives up to its name in that it is a vast world of its own. There’s so much more to do than just grind your way up to the latest level cap. You guys shared some fascinating stories involving everything from friendships to deaths to glitches. Here are the best ones, in your own words.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); Expansion Launch Day Pandemonium My single favourite moment was when Burning Crusade was released. My brother and I both had free time on launch night and were present at the sight of the portal with half of the rest of the server at the time when the server crashed and the update hit. Then there was the ensuing chaos of running through Helfire peninsula with absolutely everybody else. It was chaos yes, it caused the server to crash and disconnects to occur sure, there was some waiting for respawns, but it was fun. For the first time a massively multiplayer game felt massively multiplayer and it just felt awesome. There was tension, cooperation, actual, spontaneous, player to player interaction. We stormed through the content together quickly and as we started to get a lead on the average player level and started moving into the next zones it felt like we were exploring something new, (those zones were beautiful I recall), and not something trod by hundreds of thousands daily before us. We both managed to hit level cap very quickly while 90% of the server were still casually catching up. Never had that again, Wrath of the Lich king was split over two massive zones that, coupled with “phasing” made everywhere feel desolate and quiet and I’d basically clocked out before the Desolation of Smaug and Pandaria. A Close Call That Would’ve Cost 1,000 Gold The time I lost a rare 1000 gold item and had to race across Azeroth in a desperate attempt to retrieve it. At the time I didn’t have much money, maybe 10k gold to my name, and I wanted more. I happened across a valuable item drop on one of my alternate characters, an Alliance alt. I want to say it was a Sulfuron Ingot from Molten Core, which at that point in time was worth about 1000 gold on the Auction House; a lot of gold to me. Seeing how valuable it was, I wanted to transfer this item to my actual main character, my Undead Mage. This meant transferring the item cross-faction, and the only way to do that was to utilize the Neutral Auction House. So I enlisted the help of a trusted friend. I traded him the item on our Alliance alts, then I logged into my main Undead character, and we both ventured to Booty Bay, one of three locations in Azeroth containing meutral auctioneer NPC’s. Sure, the mean streets of Booty Bay had a somewhat negative reputation among WoW players, because sometimes high level players would go there to get their jollies by attacking low level victims and NPC’s, but we figured we would be in and out quickly and smoothly. The plan was simple: my friend, playing a low level Alliance alt, would list the item on the Neutral AH for a tiny 1 copper buy price, and I would be there waiting to snatch it up as soon as it popped up on the auction list. The moment arrived. We stood together, next to one of the neutral auctioneers. I watched as my friend interacted with the auctioneer. For a moment, it seemed like it would be an easy transaction. Then, suddenly, and to my horror, I saw a high level player run up and, in a flash, kill the poor auctioneer right in front of me. At that moment, I hear over the Ventrilo, “Alright, I put it in.” Shit! My friend had listed the item, but a fraction of a second later, some jerk had run up and killed the auctioneer. I had no way of getting my item, and, worse, this valuable piece was now just sitting inside the neutral AH system for the grand price of 1 copper, a ridiculous bargain, freely available to anyone who happened to snoop around the auction house. I scrambled. Briefly, I thought I’d be able to avoid disaster. After all, there were two other neutral auctioneers who stand in Booty Bay. But as I ran around the city, the realization came: the NPC-murdering ruffian had killed them all. Now there was no way to access the AH at all in Booty Bay for a time: I would have to reach another neutral AH location. There was no time to think, I was panicking. I looked around and saw a boat arriving at the Booty Bay docks. Yes, of course! The boat to Ratchet! I could take it, then board a wolfrider and taxi my way down to Gadgetzan, which also housed neutral auctioneers. Then I remembered, as a Mage, I could teleport myself to Thunder Bluff. I couldn’t remember which city was closer to Gadgetzan, but I figured teleporting was faster. So I beamed myself over to the continent of Kalimdor, and boarded a flight down to Gadgetzan. The flight felt like the longest ever. Every moment, I was aware, “Oh shit, oh shit, I’m going to lose this item. The first guy that checks the Neutral AH before I get there is going to nab it! Shit!” I was convinced I would arrive at Gadgetzan, check the auction system, and find my item gone. Finally, my taxi landed in the Tanaris desert, and I mounted up, bolting through Gadgetzan to the low building that marks the entrance to the town’s subterranean neutral Auction House. I ran down the steps, my eyes darting, looking for anyone who had beaten me to the punch. At first, I saw no one. For the briefest moment, I was filled with hope, my heart thumping in my chest. I might get away with this! Then, disaster: as I reached the landing at the bottom of the steps and the space in front of me came into full view, a Tauren player came sauntering out of the auction room. He waddled past me on his way out, and I was filled with horror. I knew there was no way I would get lucky, no way he hadn’t seen my 1 copper Sulfuron Ingot, there for the taking. I ran up to an auctioneer, clicking and typing madly, looking for my item. Then my heart sank and my worst fears were confirmed: the item was gone, snatched up, no doubt, by the Tauren I had seen. I was horrified. I couldn’t believe what had happened. Unwilling to give up, though, I wheeled around, darting for the exit. I figured the lucky bastard would be stopping at a mailbox to retrieve his new item. I emerged from the Auction House and, sure enough, he was still in town, standing at the mailbox. I checked his name, and did the only thing I could: I messaged him in a desperate attempt to appeal to his kindness, hoping he would act as a good Samaritan and give me my item back. I had my doubts, rummy star obviously. I didn’t recognize the guy’s character name or his guild. And mind you, it wasn’t my character name on the auction, remember that my friend had actually put the item up for sale. This guy would have no reason to believe my story. So I message the guy, explaining that the 1 copper item worth 1000 gold did in fact belong to me, and that I was trying to transfer it to my main when the Booty Bay auctioneers were killed. He turned around, looked at my Undead Mage for a moment, and replied, “I’ll give it back if you can tell me which player I was in .” A MIRACLE! Unbelievably, this guy recognized my character, and remembered me as an old guild mate of his, from a long-disbanded guild we both belonged to years earlier. He was playing on an alt, though, so I didn’t recognize him. In the end, he didn’t hold me to his challenge. He explained who he was, and kindly gave me my item back. The whole thing was unreal. To this day, this turn of events stands as probably the craziest thing to happen to me in 10 years of playing WoW. Trying To Game The Auction House I remember my friend getting me the game sometime between the vanilla launch of Burning Crusades. I remember being overwhelmed at the size and connectedness of the world and the community. I remember thinking there were endless battles and adventures to be had… And then my friend, a level 40 hunter, told me about the Auction House. Long story kind-of-short, we spent the next three months, GRINDING, on leather. Every upgrade or useful skill I could get was tempered with the amount of leather I could get for it. At some point we also made “mining” accounts and went with those. And for a WHILE, Wool was more valuable than damn near any other resources or weapon in the game (something to do with a quest around X-roads). Anyways, we inadvertently crashed the leather market on our small server (shouts out to Steamwheedle Cartel!) and pissed off a number of people in the process. We had filled the first few pages of the AH with reams and reams of leather, wool and various metals. If you wanted those, you had to buy from us. And you’d have to pay a fair amount for it. At some point, over the course of two days, we watched the prices nosedive, and made the last three or four months seem completely pointless. Hours upon hours of seeking out stupid ass animals for their dumb leather, literally made pointless as our system we had spent so long developing became meaningless in front of our eyes. A Server-Crashing PvP Fight Best time I had was being the sole scepter holder of a PvP server during the Ahn’Qiraj event. We were able to do the 5 hour BWL run on our second full clear ever. Everywhere I was turned into a war zone at that point. Horde guilds would try to wipe us on world events to buy time until their top guild could do the BWL clear. Our team would be escorted to events by a dozen other raiding groups. I remember a chain of hippogryphs heading into moonglade that stretched as far a I could see in front and behind me. Finally, we collected all of our resources and all the events were done. We went for an evening gate opening. We landed in Gadgetzan and rode through Un’Goro with several full raid groups. The horde was waiting with every person they could muster from level 30 to 60. They just needed to keep me from reaching a gong and ringing it with my scepter. Mayhem. Frame rate was in the single digits. The continent crashed every 5 to 10 minutes. Resets would roll you and all trades back a couple minutes. we fought through and I made a break for the gong and the gates opened. What was waiting on the other side was a fresh new hell. several raid boss level anubis guys came charging out and began one-shotting anything that wasn’t wearing plate. Mish-mashed groups from both sides began working together to take these giants out. Griefers were trying to gank tanks. The decision was made for my raid group and we retreated into the raid dungeon that just unlocked. An anubis followed and was squashing every straggler in the chain. It was like the T Rex in Jurassic Park. For our guild, it was months of work and the final event was a legendary end. Trying To Outsmart the Enemy I remember playing a game of Arathi Basin back during the Vanilla WoW days. I was in an organized PVP group and we were trying to help a guy wrestle Grand Marshal away from some old retired guy who had a death-grip on it on our server. We kept getting put up against other organized groups that were all better-geared than us and it was getting frustrating. We get into a game and see it was one of the best PVP guilds on our server cluster. Finally the leader says, “Screw it, lets just ride our mounts in a circle around the map the whole game and see if they chase us.” So we ran counter-clockwise around the whole map, capping a point and immediately leaving it, running to the next, etc. By the time we complete our circle we realize that we’ve got 4/5 points capped and the enemy team has been camping the center point watching us and not moving. So we charged the point and overwhelmed them, and managed to set up a spawn camp in time to win by a complete shut-out. One of the few fond memories I have of that game. The Naked Gnome On launch I was a night elf, so we were all very far away from the rest of the Alliance. At one point people in the local chat were all very excited as someone had seen a naked gnome running about our starting zones. Lots of us would chase that gnome, it was the first character not of our species we saw. An Epic Battle, Only Slightly Offset By A Glitch One of my favorite WoW moments came when I got into a random raid to go kill all of the Alliance world leaders so we could get the achievement and the war bear mount that came with it. I can’t remember which order we completed them in, but basically this large chaotic mess of Horde players steamrolled from one Alliance city to the next to take down the leaders. By the time we got to Stormwind, our group was massive. Dozens upon dozens of Horde players were in the Stormwind palace trying to kill King Wrynn, and there was a sizable garrison of Alliance players trying to stop up. The throne room was literally full to bursting, spells and attacks flying everywhere. And then all of a sudden, the game went out. Too much for the game to handle, and a lot of players got disconnected. Thankfully the fight was still going on, but by the time I actually got control of my character, I was no longer in the throne room. I had fallen through the world, and was in some vast, hilly desert. Around me were random props and characters that had been in the throne room and had fallen through the world with me. I battled a few Stormwind guards and then watched a chaotic battle above me. I couldn’t see the throne room or anything, but every single character and King Wrynn were right there above me, appearing to stand on some invisible platform in the sky, fighting it out. Eventually the Horde killed Wrynn, and I got the achievement for it as well. Easily one of the most out-there experiences I’ve ever had in World of Warcraft. Unlikely Friends There’s a bit of a back story here. Feel free to skip the following and start at the next single line. I was 16 or so at the time I started playing in 2006. I had an Undead Rogue on a friend’s account (of course I did) before I finally got my own. Rolled on Bleeding Hollow horde and joined a very small family guild. I can’t remember specifically when I started but I broke level 50 during the Naxx patch event. I was 60 a few weeks after it ended. I won’t lie, I was garbage. I was completely and utterly terrible at playing a Rogue. This was the case for a long time, months even. The family guild I was in wasn’t doing anything worthwhile so I decided to leave them and join another guild after doing UD Strath with one of the officers. I started getting into ZG/AQ20/Public MC groups, nothing amazing but you know it was tougher to gear up then. Somehow we began to work with one of the top guilds on the server. If my memory serves correctly they were pretty deep into Naxx at this point. Our officers and their officers got to be pretty friendly so one in particular decided to come with us on one of our ZG runs. He was a Rogue and he went by Vipersvnk. It was a jerk move to be sure but after the raid he tore me apart. He called out every terrible thing I did and told me that I was probably one of the worst Rogues he’d ever seen. In fact I was one of the worst players he’d ever seen. He may have told me I should’ve quit the game, I don’t recall. I felt terrible. Luckily, I’m stubborn and I wasn’t gonna let some asshole over the internet get me to quit this game I loved. So I asked him if he’d teach me or help me learn to be better. He was reluctant at first but he agreed. Fast forward a month or two, we had just finished ZG again where both Viper and I were present. At this point he was practically an officer in our guild so he pulled me into his Vent Channel and I’ll never forget what he told me. “Lucinth, I was wrong and I want to tell you I’m sorry. You’re not a terrible Rogue and in fact you have the potential to be one of the best. I’m impressed at all of the progress you’ve made in the last few months and I’m honored that I was the one bring this out of you.” After that I would go as far to say he was one of my closest friends. We lost him for a time during BC and when he came back I quit the game. I know he played as recently as August of last year and I hope that one day I’ll be able to show him just how far I’ve come since that day. I am the owner of the Amani War Bear. I got to raid Sunwell when it was still current content. I got to be one of the best geared Paladins on the server. I got to be in a cutting edge raiding guild. I was the raid leader for my little group of idiots. I got to see and kill Mythic Garrosh (after 6.0 but before WoD). I’ve completed CM Gold in both Mists and Warlords. I have every class at 90+ and I have the ability to play every single one of them in every single spec at a level enough to push content. And it’s all because of you. I miss you buddy and if you’re out there somewhere I hope you’ll get in contact with me. My battletag is Clvr#1627. When That One Ability Makes The Win Best moment for me was our first Lich King 25-man server first heroic kill. We had been attempting to take him down for months until one fateful attempt. We had somewhat perfected all 3-5 (can’t remember the exact number) phases of the encounter and at this point just needed that final bit of push to down him. What actually happened on our kill attempt was just beautiful. We had hit the enrage timer. After working so hard to get to the final phase, it turns out we weren’t doing enough damage to down him before the hard time limit. It’s at this point most raids will get utterly wiped out by the boss going berserk and attacking like a crazed madman with the sole purpose of crushing your hard work and effort into a pile of nothingness However this was different. Through a lot of improvised actions, the tanks and healers quickly came up with a plan to extend the fight as much as possible. In addition to the pressure bearing down from the enraged madman once known as “The Lich King”, we still had to deal with all the other mechanics still in play. Despite our best efforts however, one by one, we started falling to the Lich King’s blade. Despite the utter chaos of what could be called a one-sided killing spree, somehow we had managed to buy enough time during the enrage for the Lich King to use his “shadow world” ability (can’t remember the precise name of this move). Usually when this happens, the Lich King would CC the entire raid in place and while ticking away at their health, move them to an alternate dimension for a short side-encounter. Somehow, a lone death knight (with aid from our healers and support), managed to survive the drain and enter the shadow world. At this point, we all thought that all hope was lost. There was only one lone death knight and he could not deal any damage to the Lich King (as he was in another dimension). Most of us watched helplessly as we saw the Lich King continue to channel his ability which kept the death knight in the other dimension. However what happened next was nothing short of beautiful. A shaman, rose from the grave, using his reincarnation ability. He proceeded to finish the job the rest of us tried to do. He buffed himself and, while the rest of us cheered on over teamspeak, worked his way through DPSing the Lich King. When the Lich King finally released his ability, we watched helplessly as he struck down the Shaman using an ability. It was at this point it dawned to us… We had done it! We managed to take him down to the final 10% required to actually defeat him. At the very end, seeing the server first achievement after going through that epic final encounter was definitely the greatest defining moment I had experienced as a
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