Breakfast Topic: Old school
by Eliah Hecht 
May 16th 2008 at 8:00AM
At this point, the thread that inspired today's breakfast topic is, itself, pretty old-school, but anyway, here's the question: What is the most obscure old-school thing you remember? The OP's contribution is when he looted a BoP axe in his first instance, thinking he could give it to a friend, but he is quickly trumped by the second poster: dwarf mages.As for me, I have a pretty terrible memory, but I do dimly recollect taking tailoring on my first character, a Hunter, because I'd heard about shirts and they sounded cool. But that fits more in the "noob" category than "old-school" proper. Inner Fire raising attack power and not having charges? Throwing weapons that couldn't have their quantity refreshed? Reck bombs? Decursive? I haven't been playing since beta or anything, so none of this is too crazy. What's your favorite memory of WoW past?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 6)
Rhapsody May 16th 2008 8:07AM
Reincarnation giving a shaman rez sickness.
Druids before Barkskin.
Consecration being the 31-point Ret talent.
Never needing more than 17-20 points in Prot to tank as a warrior.
Thijz May 16th 2008 8:32AM
Am I the only one who sees 'You gained 10 talent points' in that picture?
Anyways, I miss Plainsrunning and hanging around in Goldshire which is deserted nowadays...
Zeplar May 16th 2008 8:53AM
Yeah... in the picture, why does he gain 1 skill point and 10 talent points???
Eliah Hecht May 16th 2008 9:07AM
As far as the picture goes, I found that in a gallery of beta screenshots. So I assume it's a beta thing.
Kaeb May 16th 2008 10:48AM
This dates from Beta 4 (or so). At that time, you still purchased abilities with Talent Points (not coin.) and your Talent Trees were filled out with Skill points.
He's just earned enough talent points to purchase 2 of the three skills available at that level (there were always more abilites than talent points) and 1 "talent" (what we now know as Talent points).
Training in early beta work much more like training a hunter pet than the way training a character does now.
See how broken the game was back in the "good ol' days?" but it was still the best thing around, so we liked it!
Halkthered Jun 2nd 2008 6:01PM
Cleanse removing rez sickness is another one I remember...
Coram May 16th 2008 8:09AM
Back in the beta they had a melee ability for pally's and replaced it with seals.
Khanmora May 16th 2008 8:08AM
Not having a need/greed window, druids sucking and pallies being awesome :), there being no such thing as Dire Maul or battlegrounds, hitting glitched mining and herbing nodes and getting stuck in gather position. I've been playing since January of 2005 so there's a lot of things that have changed since then.
Khanmora May 16th 2008 8:15AM
Oh, and SWIRLY BALL!!!
Jewbanks May 17th 2008 12:56AM
I dont know how much time I spent glitched in the gathering crouch
Kaervek May 16th 2008 8:09AM
the classic hilsbrad pvp, always miss that.
grravie May 16th 2008 10:48AM
heck yeah!!! the days before battlegrounds! i remember the "front" moving back and forth constantly between southshore and tauren mill. i think that was way more exciting than any battleground that followed. it was chaotic, as close to a real battle as this game has ever gotten.
Fauche May 16th 2008 8:09AM
Plainsrunning.
Kaervek May 16th 2008 8:11AM
oh god, then need before greed window. how i'd forgot running instances and someone looting mid combat ,with everyone trying to type N into party chat :p
classic.
Tridus May 16th 2008 8:36AM
LOL I forgot about the n/g thing! Good times.
SaintStryfe May 16th 2008 8:11AM
A few months ago I finished up the Frostsaber grind on my Draenei (how many Draenei do you see with THAT mount?) and I am still trying to use up the Juju items (lots of ones for STR and ATK).
Sorry, my WoW Experience started with BC.
jaykay May 16th 2008 8:13AM
my fave old-school memory would be that legendary griefer/ganker rogue Angwe (used to be on Dethecus) that used to camp nubs at Menethil.
He had a level 1 ally alt that he multiplayed on the same server so he could see the whines and moans of the nubs that went down.
He had a site once upon a time with various tells to his alt char that had me in stitches... damn people got worked up :)
anyway, i'd kill to see those chat logs again but the site has long since gone.
still.. memories..
Fizzi May 16th 2008 9:52AM
Oh man. The Dock Master is one of those things you don't really forget. The sheer amount of hate Angwe generated on a daily basis could fuel entire cities.
I miss old school Dethecus. It really has gone to the scrubs these days.
Coldbear Apr 9th 2011 2:32AM
http://liquidcode.org/~lostman/wow/dkeserver.se/stuff/angwe/
http://home.gwu.edu/~cssmith/gaming/wow/angwe.html
there ya go.
Kolky May 16th 2008 8:15AM
Wall-walking to Ironforge Airport & Mount Hyjal!