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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 6 of 6)
mdmadph May 16th 2008 4:59PM
I remember Focused Casting being one of the coolest learned talents for priests. :(
...and then Blizzard removing it. :(
Warlock May 16th 2008 5:02PM
I remember Combat Ressurection being a useful talent for Priests during the beta :D
Milkingit May 16th 2008 5:39PM
When Paladins could use their Undead only abilities on Undead Players.....
Blackthorn May 16th 2008 5:52PM
For those who have not been playing since release, Wowwiki has a great listing of all previous patches, going right back to the original beta:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Patches
Some of the oldest are rather hilarious. My personal favorites (from patch 0.6-0.1.1):
Druid:
• Now available as a character class!
• Shapeshifting will no longer cancel all buffs on the Druid.
• Shapeshifting cooldown reduced from 10 to 1.5 seconds.
Mage:
• New Spell: Sleep is gained at levels 8, 20 and 40. Sleep duration has changed to 20, 30 and 40 seconds.
• Dwarves can no longer be mages, however all existing Dwarf mages in beta can remain.
Paladin:
• Holy Strike: Removed.
• Crusader Strike: Removed.
• Seal of Reckoning: Removed.
• Healing Aura: Removed.
• Dominance Aura: Removed.
• Wisdom Aura: Removed.
• Redemption: Removed.
• Resurrection: renamed Redemption, no longer useable in combat.
Priest:
• Renew is now an instant cast spell.
• Sleep spell removed.
Rogue:
• Feign Death has been removed.
Shaman:
• Molten Blast removed.
• Reincarnation no longer causes resurrection sickness.
Warlock:
• Fear can only be used on one target at a time.
• Banish can now only be used on one target at a time and has a 30 minute cooldown.
• Soulstones have been changed to now resurrect the soulstone holder automatically 5 seconds after death.
Warrior:
• Charge no longer teleports you to the target, but speeds you along a path towards the target.
• Charge can now be done during combat, but the target must still be within the 8-25 yard range.
Soriel Angelfyre May 16th 2008 6:59PM
crashing US Dark Iron because we had at least 4 raids full heading to moonbrook (the webcomic wars if anyone is familiar)
Paros May 16th 2008 7:45PM
Farming the pages that dropped off Twilight mobs in Silithus and not knowing why they were worth so much.
Comparing /played times and only having 13days or so.
Taking forever to level to 60 because everytime you leveled there was something new to do besides killing more mobs
Microx May 16th 2008 9:18PM
When 1g was a lot of money.
Jason May 17th 2008 1:11AM
I remember being so proud when I got my first gold ever. ^_^
Super Guest Man 9000 May 16th 2008 9:57PM
I started playing back in November of 04 when the game launched.
I remember when Maraudon was released.
When they added the Pvp system.
When AV and WSG came out (and AV games that literally lasted days)
And one thing I didn't notice anyone else saying: I remember old school Andorhol before they changed the layout.
Catwyn May 17th 2008 1:46PM
The giant infernals and felguards sundently swaming all the major citys at the ending of us beta and eu..
oh and out of combat ressing in MC..
Moovover May 18th 2008 4:08PM
I don't think anyone has mentioned this but it was removed from the game.
/runtocorpse
i4c8e9 Jun 8th 2008 9:09AM
Spamming General Chat in IF, "LF1M have WARLOCK"
Six Mar 24th 2009 9:23PM
Boy oh boy, reading these has brought back a lot of late nights and 12 packs of coke. Not so sure this one was said, but..
Before the boats had been fixed the portals back and forth from Azeroth docks and Eastern Kingdom docks. Im not sure why, but that one is over looked quite often.
jaykay Jul 28th 2011 8:37AM
U legend! Man that's funny