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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 2 of 8)
Chokaa Dec 4th 2010 8:18AM
I regret not leveling an alliance alt through old Azeroth. The last time I had an ally was 5 years ago when I started playing. (not counting the couple months i spent as a gnome; that was a faction change and i stayed in northrend and raided) And now I can't wax nostalgic about westfall or southshore or any of the other stuffs. :(
Oh well. At least we get Goblins. The best race ever.
exogenesis. Dec 4th 2010 9:13AM
I know that feeling. When I started playing WoW years ago, I began as Alliance. Highest I ever got was level 14 (it took forever, and I was super proud), but then I bought BC and rolled Horde. I've remained steadfast Horde ever since, and I simply could not level an Alliance through any of the starting zones. I ever made an Alliance DK and tried to go through all the lower level quests, but I got terribly bored in Darkshore and gave up.
Hopefully I'll have more luck playing worgen, but I am a bit disappointed I never got to see the old quests.
Straz Dec 4th 2010 11:22AM
I regret taking Fiora Longears and her gravity-defying wine glass for granted :(
Comito Dec 4th 2010 12:15PM
Yeah I came late into the game officially, and played around 1 years worth of horde side attaining loremaster, trialling all the quests I could do! Then I attempted to do the alliance char but kept getting distracted with my horde char to continue doing stuff with it! Now my Allaince char is L78 and got this weekend to L80 it, lets see if I can make it!
Sturmovic Dec 4th 2010 8:18AM
Not getting either the Time-Lost Proto or the Deathcharger despite massive farming.
>:(
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
/joins the Angry Marines
Maccabeus Dec 4th 2010 11:47AM
Good news everyone! The Deathcharger's reigns is still in-game as of last night! It dropped while on a run the Strat on my warrior alt. I rolled an 86!...the effing warlock rolled a 100 =(
Moomoo Dec 4th 2010 8:20AM
I wish I had finally caught that blasted Time-Lost Proto Drake. Saw it dead once, on my low-med. population server. Waited and searched for countless hours since the very beginning of Wrath to no avail.
Also wish I had raided just enough to get in a lich king kill on my paladin, but it's more the little stuff that I will miss about Northrend. The video showcased much of what I enjoyed most these last two years. Despite the hardships that my guild and friends had dealt with ingame, I'll always try to remember the small things that made this expansion so special.
razion Dec 4th 2010 8:20AM
"I... regret... NOTHING!"
Knob Dec 4th 2010 8:33AM
Funnily enough, it's the same for me. This is the first expansion where I accomplished everything that I'd set out to accomplish. All the raid bosses were killed at their highest difficulty at the intended time, and since I haven't bothered with PvP since classic and have only focused on PvE, that was a great feeling. Even in TBC, I had not killed M'uru or KJ before the great nerf patch of 3.0, so it left those kills feeling very hollow. I'm glad this time I got to complete the content when it was meant to be completed.
Also, days before the Shattering happened, I went and took screenshots of Cairne and of Camp Taurajo. So all in all, I'm content with what I did in Wrath and have no regrets.
phxroadrunner Dec 4th 2010 11:54AM
Also did screenshots of Cairne & the NPCs at Taurajo. Made the quest to set their spirits free with the funary totem more meaningful. I forgot about the guys at Freewind Post, though, and didn't get screenshots of them. Sorry, mesa dwellers. I'll go AoE the crap out of the Grimtotem when I can fly in there.
followthategg Dec 4th 2010 8:22AM
My regret was not being able to kill yogg-saron at 3.1. My guild at the time crumbled away after we killed venax.
Ulduar was the best raid instance in this expansion, with Icecrown just lacking behind it.
jishdefish Dec 4th 2010 8:58AM
Same. I wanted to finish Ulduar too.
Moofius Dec 4th 2010 9:16AM
The furthest in Ulduar I have come is the guy with lazers and when he dies he makes a bridge (yeah, that's how much I know about ulduar, only killed a total of 4 bosses so :P)
Would have been really fun to do the rest of the raid in 3.1, or even now at level 80, guess I'll try to find a group for it at level 85, sigh :/
Izaach Dec 4th 2010 10:42AM
My biggest regret also lies in Ulduar, and it just happened last night. While I was clearing out my bank, I decided to vendor/delete my Herald set. A couple of hours later, after talking about the achievement in guild chat, one of our members informed us that the achievement is still obtainable.
It turns out Blizzard changed it by adding a new requirement to the achievement: You have to be level 80 as well.
Contacting a GM to restore my set would take a while. Gathering nine other players who are geared for the Algalon fight would even take more time.
/le_sigh
Procrastination, how I loathe you.
Mkrah Dec 7th 2010 3:50PM
My guild did the SAME thing. they all went to play Aion. Never saw em again.... Ive been guileless ever since.
Straz Dec 4th 2010 8:27AM
My biggest regret is never being able to do Loremaster as alliance. I did it twice on horde characters (second time I did all the quests in order by level so the story would be more cohesive). The lore is what made me play WoW in the first place. I started this franchise from the beginning, begging my POS computer not to BSOD me (I shudder to think of trying to play games on Windows '95) while commanding all my units one at a time in Orcs vs. Humans. And Warcraft 3 was a gem of storytelling, and contained some of the most compelling storylines I've ever ran across in computer gaming (Dreamfall: The Final Journey is an honorable mention).
So when World of Warcraft launched, I was just thrilled about taking up where the story left off, and it just boggled my mind how immersive the world they had created was. I've always been more interested in the Orcs' storyline (Shadowmoon Valley questing omg) as theirs is a tale of glory, destruction, downfall, and redemption. So I quested every possible Horde quest I could find. Twice. I read all the novels I could get my hands on. Then I really got to thinking about it. I'm paying for a game I only play half of.
So I switched my hunter main to Alliance, only to find I had absolutely no way of keeping track of how far away I was from completing all the quests on each continent. Nevertheless I tried, using Carbonite's questgiver tracker. I knew the Alliance had great storylines of their own that I wanted to experience, to no avail. So I swapped back to Horde when I found out the Shifting Sands questline was being taken out and ran Blackwing Lair on so many alts I may have saved myself to that raid more than I did in Vanilla. Thankfully I finished the chain for myself, and helped a handful of friends complete it as well.
So yeah, missing out on Alliance Loremaster is my biggest regret. The thing I'll look upon with the greatest sadness is the ruination of two intriguing characters. They turned Sylvanas Windrunner into a preachy harpy, and Tirion Fordring went from being one of the most compelling characters in the game to being an absolute blow-hard tool.
Neseroth Dec 4th 2010 8:29AM
I'm pretty satisfied overall with the Wrath era - I came into the game a little bit after the release of Ulduar (may have the time frame wrong - but it was around march '09 when I signed up) and managed to clear it, obtain my mount, gain Starcaller, as well as progress through new content as it was released in order - even up to ICC. I think the one thing I wish I would've done was have built a guild with my old friends on BR so that I, as well as they, could have had a shot at building the Legendary Shadowmourne - that's one of my minor regrets despite having killed LK several times in 10 and 25. Now with Cata ever so close on our doorsteps, I look forward to the fresh content that we can all explore, and look forward to finally not having to worry about doing 25's (as far as I understand) to get the best gear thanks to 10's being equally the same now. Planning to stick to the DK and go goblin frost DW ftw - and tear it up from minute 1.
But Wrath has taught me several lessons and realities in obtaining goals both for personal and group gain - if you want to get the best of ALL worlds and full glory: make your own guild and make it equally fair for everyone to have a raid spot, and be casual cause even casual guilds can progress further than the dedicated hard-cores out there. That is something I believe in - takes heart overall.
Looking forward to war once again. Lok'Tar brothers and sisters of the Horde!
LOK' TAR OGAR! FOR THE HORDE!!
Gormaggus Dec 4th 2010 8:30AM
Never getting the group together to do Bane.
Jonny Dale Dec 4th 2010 8:31AM
I only needed to kill Kel'Thuzad for the Champion of the Frozen Wastes achievement.
Now finding a group is impossible.
Cetha Dec 4th 2010 12:09PM
It's Maly for me. I missed it when everyone was doing it, and even when its the weekly so few people do it and it was impossible for me to get a group for it w/out having the achievement. :(