The Daily Quest: In days gone by
by Anne Stickney 
Jun 20th 2011 at 5:00PM
WoW Insider's on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative, and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.
Come sit down for a spell, and I'll tell you a story about way back when. Back in my day, if you wanted to raid Onyxia there was no namby-pamby walk right into the dungeon and punch the dragon in the face. No, if you wanted to face that old dragon in her lair, you traveled all over the damned planet killing other, smaller dragons and putting together a raid group for UBRS so you could kill General Drakkisath. And then you wandered around Desolace until you found Rexxar, which usually took hours. And you liked it.
Flying? Pff. We didn't need flying to get anywhere. We just had a trusty ground mount, purchased for a substantial amount of gold that we'd been squirreling away all 60 levels of our existence. If you could buy your mount when you hit 60, you were lucky.
All right, you can leave. Go back to your fancy new Azeroth and fly around in Orgrimmar, queue up for your dungeons and wait for them to come to you. But before you do, how about you check out a few posts from around the blogosphere, regarding days gone by?
Is there a story out there we ought to link or a blog we should be following? Just leave us a comment, and you may see it here tomorrow! Be sure to check out our WoW Resources Guide for more WoW-related sites.
Come sit down for a spell, and I'll tell you a story about way back when. Back in my day, if you wanted to raid Onyxia there was no namby-pamby walk right into the dungeon and punch the dragon in the face. No, if you wanted to face that old dragon in her lair, you traveled all over the damned planet killing other, smaller dragons and putting together a raid group for UBRS so you could kill General Drakkisath. And then you wandered around Desolace until you found Rexxar, which usually took hours. And you liked it.
Flying? Pff. We didn't need flying to get anywhere. We just had a trusty ground mount, purchased for a substantial amount of gold that we'd been squirreling away all 60 levels of our existence. If you could buy your mount when you hit 60, you were lucky.
All right, you can leave. Go back to your fancy new Azeroth and fly around in Orgrimmar, queue up for your dungeons and wait for them to come to you. But before you do, how about you check out a few posts from around the blogosphere, regarding days gone by?
- Armaggedon's Coming revisits a very old alt and ponders the old days as opposed to now.
- Priest With a Cause regales us with an annotated history of the badge system, from TBC to now.
- Troll Racials are Overpowered takes us back to the very first heroic dungeons, before heroic was even a term.
Is there a story out there we ought to link or a blog we should be following? Just leave us a comment, and you may see it here tomorrow! Be sure to check out our WoW Resources Guide for more WoW-related sites.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Blayze Jun 20th 2011 5:16PM
Heh. I wrote a blog post myself earlier today about this very subject. Must be one of them thar psychic waaaaaaaaaaavelengths.
Vitos Jun 20th 2011 6:00PM
Another blog for you guys to read on a semi-regular basis.
http://addictcraft.blogspot.com
I only have a few posts, but I should be updating it a few times a week right now.
Blayze Jun 20th 2011 6:14PM
http://tankoutofwater.blogspot.com/
Mine as well, please. Just be careful of the casual swearing. I hear it causes cancer and blindness.
Ez Jun 20th 2011 9:58PM
So true, i remember just getting to the entrance to Mauradon or Scarlet Monastery, or say- Gundrak- was a challenge! And that was part of the fun.
Knob Jun 21st 2011 2:36AM
Seriously, what makes people think TOR is any different? Have people not been seeing gameplay videos and instead only watching the retarded CGI pre-rendered videos? It's exactly the same as WoW and even worse in places. Look for some E3 gameplay videos floating around on the internet.
TOR's budget and the expectation for it to succeed are way too high for it to be any good.
Angrycelt Jun 21st 2011 3:32AM
I'm not expecting SWTOR to be the end-all be-all of gaming. But I'm weary of doing the same things over and over. I want a new experience, I want good vs. evil, I want *different*. I'm not going to delete all my WoW characters and walk away, because the game is still fun for the most part.
I'm looking at 5 years in playing WoW. My main has cleared everything the game has to throw at me at this point. I've got numerous maxed out toons, and I'm leveling my third post-Cata toon now. I'm bored. I absolutely appreciate all the work put into the game, I love its sense of humor about itself, but Just walking into an instance feels anti climactic. Yes the old huge quests were hard, but that's why they were epic. You were in guilds to help drive towards big goals, not because you get an XP bonus. You grouped with people on your own server and built alliances and friendships. Now you're just an anonymous PUG, never to see these people again.
I did the Onyxia attunement chain, and I still have the screenshots from confronting Lady Prestor the first time. I earned my paladin mount the old way, at level 60, with a lot of help from guild members and friends. Even my druid's epic flight form questline was fun. My guild worked to get my wife's priest Benediction.
I look at the Firelands and all I see is a lot of red. Fighting a boss we've seen before, killing heroes gone bad, and hoping for some epic loot and maybe a special mount. It's deja vu all over again.
Bloodthorn Jun 21st 2011 3:50AM
You need to do wowcrendor's attunement videos, they catch the spirit of those days pretty well:
http://youtu.be/vyQ-7o397Uk
Bynde Jun 21st 2011 9:09AM
"Flying? Pff. We didn't need flying to get anywhere. We just had a trusty ground mount, purchased for a substantial amount of gold that we'd been squirreling away all 60 levels of our existence. If you could buy your mount when you hit 60, you were lucky."
Heh heh...I think I was level 65 before I could afford my first mount. You kids today have it easy, why back in the day we... Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...and wore an onion on our belt , as was the fashion of the times...Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
The Dewd Jun 21st 2011 12:26PM
I scrimped, scrounged, and saved to buy my first mount at 40. I bought my fast mount at 60 because, well, there was no level 61. That took a lot longer, of course, because getting together 1000g back then was an accomplishment. I still cringe a bit when I buy mounts at 20 or 40 (or flying at 60) for my alts with money from my main.
Liyly Jun 21st 2011 3:11PM
I have two recent posts that I'd love to have featured:
http://liyly.wordpress.com/
One is a guide for the Outland Gourmet Achievement, and the other discusses ways for mages to reach the raiding hit cap.
Thanks!
-Liyly
Bynde Jun 21st 2011 3:59PM
@nikdaheratik
I am measuring it by acting , direction and special effects. It was bad on all three, but most distressingly, bad special effects and the movie could not conjure up any of the gravitas or drama of the book.
Look at the scene of KL jumping on the worm he's suppose to ride. Looks like something Ed Wood would have come up with...it's laughably terrible, even for the 80s.
Bynde Jun 21st 2011 4:02PM
Do I have to mention the above is a reply fail? No? Good.
Corath Jun 21st 2011 11:14PM
By far, the worst part of the Horde side for the Onyxia chain was finding Rexxar. Apart from that, it was just time consuming.
I have a new post up, part of a Blog Azeroth Shared Topic. All about the penalty for characters dying, and what it's worth compared to other games.
http://corath.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/death-penalties/
Enjoy!