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All of the latest Mists of Pandaria newsBreakfast 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?
Filed under: Breakfast Topics, Wrath of the Lich King, Guest Posts
Reader Comments (Page 4 of 8)
exogenesis. Dec 4th 2010 9:21AM
I think for me, my biggest regret is that I didn't really become a skilled "endgame player" until late last year. I got my first ever character, a DK, to a level cap last May, and while I celebrated my first "final ding" with a run to Naxx with my new guild, I was - to put it kindly - terrible. No idea about anything, and I could barely do any decent damage. I generally was the one who stopped our group getting any of the boss achievements, and I almost quit playing my 80 because I felt so useless.
It wasn't until my FOURTH 80 (and second endgame hunter) that I've become skilled at playing the game at level cap. Sadly, while this new main has shiny gear that's on par with (and better than) many of the Kingslayers, I've never set foot beyond Marrowgar in ICC. Heck, I haven't even managed to kill Marrowgar, because my rusty old computer can't handle the graphics. For the vast majority of this expansion, I've trailed behind everyone else, completing raids later, getting achievements later, and needing my hand held. I missed out on most of the content at its prime - I never did Ulduar until months after its release, and while I did manage to get to Yogg-Saron, I can't say I've killed him yet. And I probably never will.
I missed vanilla content. I missed prime BC content. I was late into Wrath content. I'm just pleased that finally, I can experience Cataclysm with everyone else.
Paul Dec 4th 2010 9:22AM
Biggest regret in wrath. Well, I'm not going to go anywhere near the unsettled raiding experience we "suffered" throughout the expansion because, to be frank, it was unavoidable considering Blizzard's goal for raiding (which is a goal I actually agree with, as long as it's distinguished better in future).
I'm not going to single out any of my regrets, I'm just going to try to list and summarise them, otherwise we're going to see a post that I longer than any article that has every been posted here.
Icecrown and The Storm Peaks being available upon release - Two major reason for this regret:
1) If these were part of the content patches, the wait between content patches wouldn't have seemed as bad as they did.
2) By not focusing on getting those two zones ready for release, we might've been able to see Azjol Nerub as a zone (in either 3.0 or as the main content for 3.2 instead of ToC) as well as the "War on Magic" being a more significant story.
Also, by saving Storm Peaks for 3.1, we would've also been given the Halls instances at the same time as the raid, giving us more to do and bridging the gear gap between 3.0 dungeons and the 3.2 dungeon.
Aedilhild Dec 4th 2010 9:24AM
My characters couldn't save Emmy Malin.
Draol Dec 4th 2010 9:32AM
I regret being the sole cause for why my guild never got The Undying before the plagued proto-drake was removed.
Yeah. An otherwise perfect run. I panicked on Thaddius and got killed.
Never got undying. *sigh*
(on a side-note i don't regret their reaction, which was for one of the officers to kick me from guild and the raid group summarily refusing to go to the next naxx run. Even though we weren't SPECIFICALLY trying for the Undying.)
Draol Dec 4th 2010 9:32AM
Refusing to go if i was there, i mean. WTB edit button
Nodonn Dec 4th 2010 10:40AM
Unless you caused every single Undying fail before that that hardly seems like an appropriate response.
Draol Dec 4th 2010 11:20AM
No. I hardly ever died to anything in Naxx. I was reinvited by the GM afterwards, but still wasn't allowed to be brought to the next run, or any later Naxx undying runs.
The same officer who gkicked me later quit, transferring off server. He specifically told me that I was a worthless raider (in more colored terms) before he left.
...considering in my current guild I am the Hunter Class Leader and participated in our guild-first kill of The Lich King (20% buff) I like to say that he was wrong.
Paul Dec 5th 2010 6:44AM
He holds personal grudges, that's out of your hands and certainly not worthy of your guilt.
Shit happens. When it happens once, the appropriate responce is to forgive, not rage over it unless there was malicious intent from your part (which certainly doesn't seem like it.
In the same vein, I regret that our raid leader wasn't able to get the Undying achievement (like the rest of the raid did) because she disconned during the Sapphiron fight :( She hasn't really played since for personal reasons so we haven't had the chance to help her get the achievement since. The only blessing was that the mount was already unavailable by the time we attempted it.
xenothaulus Dec 4th 2010 9:32AM
Due to a schedule change and lack of patience during tier 9 I had to give up on raiding, so I've never been through ICC. :|
Hiwa Dec 4th 2010 9:35AM
I regret that I got sidetracked by two ugly guild drama/breakups, one at the beginning of the expansion and one just before yogg-saron.
I regret that I had a low-performing laptop through the whole expansion so was barely able to do 25 mans. I finally quit doing them altogether.
I kind of regret the time I wasted, bored, reading trade chat while hanging out in front of the Dalaran bank.
Rakah Dec 4th 2010 9:39AM
Not doing algalon when he was relevant. just got to him then toc came out so the guild skipped over to that >_> went back later though.
Arbolamante Dec 4th 2010 9:40AM
Long Strange Trip not finished. If I'd known I'd save on 310% riding, I'd have worked on it more. But that's not that important, as the only toon I do achieves on seriously also has a fat bank account.
Pwnzoar Dec 4th 2010 9:43AM
I regret a lot of things, really. I regret never managing to get a Lich King kill. I regret never getting that gorgeous tiger mount from Zul'Gurub. I also regret never managing to get my Alliance alts to 60 to enjoy the old world Alliance side to its fullest extent.
Vektorix Dec 4th 2010 9:48AM
When Wrath began, I was co-GM of the #2 guild on my server. We had collected folks who hadn't found homes in other raiding guilds, or had been in guilds that had never succeeded, and forged a team that came from nowhere to succeed in everything Burning Crusade had to offer. Wrath began with promise, with successful Immortal runs and Black Protodrakes.
Then it all fell apart, due to real-life time conflicts, serious injury, and the constantly shifting dynamic of how Blizzard approaches the game and its players. We were slow to adapt to the ease with which players can change servers and factions, and poor in how we dealt with the increasing casualization of progression. We were an old-school guild in a new-school game, and we simply did not adjust fast enough to survive.
My biggest regret is that our guild didn't survive Wrath, or even the first year of Wrath. Losing that group of friends and partners seriously undermined the level of fun I was able to have through the remainder of the expansion, tinging everything with regret and might-have-beens. Now with Cataclysm around the corner, I dink around in the game out of habit more than anything, and that is sad. I miss what got me excited about World of Warcraft in the first place, and most of that is the friends who are long gone...
Hiwa Dec 4th 2010 10:41AM
Amen to that.
I miss leveling guilds that actually leveled together, where you made friends and questing buddies. Ever since my last guild breakup I've been very careful about how far I'm willing to take a wow friendship, since it's obviously so very easy for people to abandon it.
Comito Dec 4th 2010 2:32PM
I'm planning to disband our guild just before cataclysm, can't be helped when things aren't so successful! But its been a good run and those things that have happened in the past will be memories and experiences to what I do in the future!
Dragoniel Dec 4th 2010 9:48AM
I regret having failed to get the raptor and the tiger. I've started the grind way too late.
Second things I regret is for not having the patience to come up with a good arena team. Most I did was Wintergrasp and open world hunting, spending more hours in Orgrimmar than in Stormwind (being an alliance druid). It was fun, but it was pointless.
gamerunknown Dec 4th 2010 9:51AM
Missing shen'dralar rep due to 3 weeks without internet, missing Salty because of $&(£ing RNG(). I was hoping the Shattering would distract people from the competition, but if anything, there are more people per pool this side of the shattering.
SaintStryfe Dec 4th 2010 9:56AM
That heroic RS is such a goddamn picky, random fight that is needlessly complicated. Seriously. It's terribly unfun to have one person completely wipe an attempt in a completely non-recoverable way.
Vorenos Dec 4th 2010 10:02AM
my biggest regrets are:
1. no Kingslayer on my DK tank main.
2. no spirit beast for my hunter.
3. no "guardian of cenarius" on my shaman.
4. my "why do they call it the Armani War Bear? Does it dress well, or something?" /2 troll never panned out.
5. never killed Algalon on any of my toons.
6. no Swift Zulian Tiger :(
but, enough of this "woe is me" crap... things i LOVED about WotLK
1. I KILLED ARTHAS!!!!! he's been on my shit list ever since WC3, so that was a huge achievement for me (though i would have loved to get it on my DK, not my shammy, but alas, it wasn't meant to be.)
2. I got the Swift Zulian Raptor :)
3. Blue Proto Drake on my hunter.
4. Epic flying on all my 80s.
5. Headless horseman's mount on my shammy.
6. killed all bosses (except Algalon, /sadface) during their time.
to sum up, i LOVED WotLK. it had amazing scenery, awesome lore, the best raid in the game so far (Ulduar), fun quests and sweet collectibles. to quote the comic book guy from the simpsons movie, "life well spent!"