Breakfast Topic: Your biggest regrets from the Wrath era
by Nico Deyo 
Dec 4th 2010 at 8:00AM
Despite the fact that most of the WoW-playing population is eagerly looking forward to and enjoying the content that Cataclysm has to offer, there are still many things that one could look back upon from the previous expansion and feel sad about. Whether it was a missed opportunity or perhaps an achievement that didn't quite get accomplished, I think all of us have something that we feel sucks amid all the hubbub over Cataclysm.
I myself have quite a few things I miss, now that they are no longer obtainable. While it wasn't from lack of trying, the fact that both the Swift Razzashi Raptor and the Swift Zulian Tiger are not part of my massive mount collection is saddening. Both my friend and I went to try for them on every reset, even sometimes on multiple characters, but to no avail. Hopefully, Blizzard will bring them back in some form, but like the Amani War Bear, it feels a little unrealistic.
Second, and while not as tangible as missing a chance at something rare, the fact that I spent the last day before the Shattering doing a long, painful rep grind instead of getting out and enjoying the last vestiges of the old world will forever go down in my gaming career as my biggest Cataclysm regret. As a proud explorer and mystery hunter, I should have been out in the world those last couple of hours before the server reset, grabbing screenshots and visiting familiar faces before they were erased permanently from the landscape I've been enjoying for the past six years.
Instead of looking forward, I ask you this: What do you look back upon from your time in Wrath and wish you could have done over? Done differently? What do you most regret now?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 8)
Gammarey Dec 4th 2010 8:05AM
I wish I had killed the Lich King at level, at expansion. I only really got into wow seriously about three months ago. That's a big regret of mine
Ad134 Dec 4th 2010 8:14AM
I managed to kill ol' Arthas on the FINAL LOCKOUT before the shattering. I felt so happy...
Jarvish Dec 4th 2010 8:43AM
I'm in a semi-social guild with a couple of 10 man raid teams. My team is the best of these, and we just recently got our drakes for everyone, including subs.
There was this guy who just - well - fell through way back when we wiped for 7 weeks on PP and then for another 4-5 weeks on Sindra. If someone made a mistake, 75% of the time it was him. So he got replaced. There were no harsh words, but we could feel his disappointment whenever some achievement popped up in gchat. We're all friends, so it's been kinda hard.
This thursday we got the last of our wrath achievements (earth, wind and fire) and when we talked about what to do on sunday - the last raid day before cata launch - we decided to invite him along for a full clear so he can finally get his kingslayer achievement. We might have to wipe a few times on a defile, but we kinda feel like we owe it to him.
OT; My biggest regret in this expansion has been abandoning my horde alt. I've always been ally, so I figured I wanted to see the other set of quests. But then 4.0.1 hit, and I had to learn druid healing again :-/ At least I got to see the first 15ish levels or so...
transrelativity Dec 4th 2010 8:54AM
I also killed Arthas not just on the final lockout, but the final NIGHT before the shattering! It was the last achievement I got before the patch went live, and all the more exciting for that.
I regret not getting the raptor and tiger mounts and not starting the Scepter chain just one week earlier so that I could complete it.
edgeblade69 Dec 4th 2010 11:12AM
I switched servers and guilds earlier this year as I was fed up with some of the BS in my previous guild (cliques, exclusionary practices, etc.). On my current server and guild we're still working on 10N LK. We can get him to around 40% or so in our best pulls and keep wiping to defile usually. I'm the OT so fortunately those wipes are usually not my fault. But it makes me feel better when I logged on my old server to prep the toons I wanted for transfer to see that my old guild still hasn't downed LK and I think they started on ICC way before my current guild did. Take that! :-p
Harvoc Dec 4th 2010 11:35AM
Same. I started playing about one and a half years ago but only played for a little each day. After hitting endgame and discovering that I couldn't raid because of tight schedule, I felt so crushed that I couldn't kill the Lich King.
Matthew Dec 4th 2010 12:25PM
I needed to kill Arthas before the shattering. It was really bothering me. And so, it seems, many puggers on my realm.
I'm proud to say he fell before Azeroth did.
Haden Dec 4th 2010 12:56PM
hey Ad134 you on the Shandris server by chance? i got the Lichking with a pug at about 1:00 AM server time on Tuesdays, was soooo awesome!!
Freakprince00 Dec 5th 2010 5:43AM
I started playing WoW after Wrath came out. I am not sure of when i started exactly, but i was a level 23 running around ashenvale when my level 80 girlfriend was doing ToC10 with her guild. My first raid at 80 was Ulduar.
After hitting 80 and seeing some content, i made a promise to myself that i would kill the LK before cataclysm was released.
Last week, i killed him on my tank alt, for a bittersweet ending to the game for me. Until last night when my guild got together for one last attempt of ICC10 on our mains. My co-tank from the last week was confident we could do it again, and thanks to some magnificent performance we (my main included) were able to complete the instance, three-shotting the king.
We had set several goals as a guild. My co-founders finally got one his Insane title, the other her Main (pally tank) LK kill, we completed undying and 8man naxx simultaneously, and generally had a great time together.
Our only regrets were that we were unable to complete our herald of Ulduar gearsets (despite completing all the keeper HMs while farming the gear), not getting our rusted drakes (damn you kologarn and your left arm dying half a second after the body), and not getting our ZG mounts (which we farmed religiously).
Luckily, regrets aside, we completed many of our goals and had fun doing it. All those nights laughing in vent, swapping playful insults and generally enjoying each others' company makes me glad that we were able to accomplish what we did, and even if we hadn't killed lichie, i'm sure we would have had just as much fun.
detects Dec 4th 2010 8:11AM
I was never a raider and never really had time to play wow late at night, but I regret not being able to finish off the Lich King. I could have tried harder but it got to a point where the only way to get into a Lich King group was to have the achievement to prove it. I enjoyed a lot of things but I've never been able to nab the last boss in any expansion..
Danny Dec 4th 2010 3:27PM
Took the words right out of my mouth, plus my shifts at work are all over the place and hange week to week so I could never set aside time to try with my guild. Ah well, there's always Deathwing!
ducss750 Dec 4th 2010 4:47PM
Hallelujah!!
I desperately wanted Kingslayer but with my very-social not-very-active guild it wasn't even am option. I'm not a fan of GS but I'm sitting at 6k and throw Druid heals I should have been able to get a pug; alas, no. If you don't already HAVE Kingslayer, you won't get invited - Catch22
Oh wait, yes you could. Going rate was 10k-15k gold to buy a spot.
*~*sigh*~*
Davidelle Dec 10th 2010 1:02PM
Yeah it bugs me a little tbh ive basically given up on trying to achieve anything in wow nevermind downing Lich kings and Illidans etc, i have a wife job and 3 kids and at least in my own experience its virtually impossible to achieve much of anything with those time sinks in your life! I've become like Joseph Stalin i have a series of 5 year plans - in about 10 years i can throw the eldest out, 15 for the next and 20 for the last, and in roughly 40 years i can (maybe) retire, so perhaps on the 18th/20th expansion i might start seriously looking at achieving things in-game. I actually find it a bit depressing seeing people talking about life at 85 etc i havent even been able to play it since the expansion came out - if it wasnt for achievments i'd probably have bailed long ago.
And yet when i was single and had plenty of time for wow i wanted a wife and kids hows does that work!?
PEPTIM Dec 4th 2010 8:12AM
I wish I would have raided more. I only did Naxx and skipped directly to ICC. What has happened to raid progression?
Pat Dec 4th 2010 9:45AM
Same here, Naxx and then straight into ICC pretty much.
RL comitments got in the way and I wasn't around for Ulduar or anything, Unfortunatly the guild I was in had no desire to run Ulduar and finding a group to do more then just the weekly raid boss was impossible.
I did manage to do TotC a fair bit though and yeah.. Naxx again in better gear for achievements.
Upsetting that I'll never get to raid Ulduar at level and tier, sounds like it was alot of fun.
MightyMuffin Dec 4th 2010 3:10PM
This sounds exactly like what happened to me. I started raiding with Sartharion and VoA, and did Naxx. Problem was my guild was way too casual to actual get through Naxx because we had too many new players who weren't geared enough for Naxx. I then leveled 3 alts to see if I could find another role that would fit me, and only got to see one bit of Ulduar as I leveled these alts. When ToC had fully opened up, I finally joined a progression guild and got to see the end of Wrath that way. The only problem was the only raids in Wrath I have seen from beginning to end is Sarth, Naxx, and ToC. All the others I haven't tried, or I had quit during ICC raiding.
Its weird...it felt like a lot of players suddenly had real life hit them in the face and prevent them from seeing all of the game. But real life is important, and we can't ignore it. Let's hope Cataclysm will be something of a gold mine for raiding since each patch will have multiple raids.
Takaeda Dec 4th 2010 8:14AM
i regret not playing wrath. started to and then just quit, but i'm back now. if i knew then what i know now...
Ricohardt Dec 4th 2010 8:15AM
Stuck with the wrong groups of people, never got the King either.
Vogie Dec 4th 2010 1:04PM
This is me as well. I love my wife and kids... but I really want to kill the lich king.
dinnercoat Dec 6th 2010 10:59PM
I'm glad to hear it isn't the other way around Vogie.