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by Jason Christ 
Sep 9th 2011 at 8:00AM
I joined World of Warcraft on the Recruit-a-Friend program. After talking about race and class with my friend, I finally settled on a Human paladin as my first character. He was going to level a Night Elf hunter.
We joined up together in Goldshire and completed a few quests; then it was time for bed. He offered to take me to Stormwind to log out in the city. I had to take care of some real life stuff, so he walked me through the auto-follow function and started running.
A bit later, I returned to the computer and remember being overwhelmed with the sheer size of Stormwind. The auto-follow had been broken and I was standing near a canal, lost and confused. How would I ever find my way around this vast metropolis? Of course, the luster wore off as I became familiar with the city, but it's been my home ever since that moment. I proudly wear the
What was your first awe-inspiring moment? Was it a place? A quest chain? A task you completed in game?
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Reader Comments (Page 4 of 7)
Arghor Sep 9th 2011 9:04AM
Going through the Dark Portal and entering Outland for the first time, when Burning Crusade was the last and only expansion.
Mikkhail Sep 9th 2011 9:04AM
Two things. First ... Iron Forge was my first capital to enter back in Vanilla ... it was a little overwhealming at first. Second (and definately the biggest!) ... First time through the Dark Portal absolutely blew me away!
... outside the game, but WoW related ... First time I saw the "You are not prepared" trailer gave me goose bumps!
Gendou Sep 9th 2011 9:05AM
Seeing Undercity for the first time, and wondering if I was even allowed to go inside.
Mortenebra Sep 9th 2011 9:12AM
A lot of the previous posters remind me of my personal moments of awe in the game. But one thing I will never forget is encountering an outdoor world boss for the first time.
Up until I'd met one, I was under the impression that big, evil bad guys only existed in instances, if not solely in raids. So here I am, levelling my little warlock, when I see a huge black dragon razing a corner of Blasted Lands. His name was Teremus the Devourer. And devoured, I was.
I think what completely floored me was the fact that such creatures existed. There was an entirely new level of depth added to the world. I really started to feel like a bona fide adventurer. It was also like a taste of raiding for those of us who weren't lucky enough to be in a raiding guild. Ever since, I dedicated myself to seeking out those world bosses when they were still around. The four Dragons of Nightmare were especially my favorites.
lord.laer Sep 9th 2011 9:16AM
The first time I get to ThunderBluff, when i get to te top suddenly i see this masive city over the mountain. It was love at first sigh.
Taino Sep 9th 2011 9:15AM
Stormwind filled me with awe when I first entered. To this day I turn off itunes and turn in game music on when I enter. I still love the music, and scope of the city. The first quest to garner that same reaction was the quest line to get the Dreadsteed. My first toon was a warlock and that was the first real epic quest line for me. Traveling around the 4 corners of Azeroth for ingredients, and the absolutely disgusting amounts of gold spent on mats at the time. It was quite a moment when I finally got the mount. The Doomguard and Infernal questlines were also good but nowhere near as epic IMO.
Dragoniel Sep 9th 2011 9:17AM
Awesome comments.
I can't remember very well my start of the game, but I think it had to be the first time I reached the Orgrimmar and was completely stunned not so much of the city or the size of the map itself (I came from Lineage II and was used to huge maps and big cities), but the other players equipment. Compared to my plain level 10 troll outfit, they looked like from another game. I still have the very first screenshots I made and they contain for example a skeleton (noggen fogger elixir) equipped with the blue staff from Hyjal raid and the mages in their shining PvP staves (AK47 of TBC - the merciless staff).
And I still remember the first time I saw the alliance female druid in PvP set riding a Raven Lord. That mount is to this very day my grand favorite... altho during all these years of daily farming I had it drop just once. Back in wrath.. on MY feral druid.
Verine Sep 9th 2011 9:22AM
I know going in that SW and If were big cities with lots of npcs and stores, so for me it was leaving Dun Morogh and entering Loch Modan though the south side. The change from snowy grounds and pines to grassy ground and green trees and the two big statues was my first big "Wow!" moment in WoW.
DarkWalker Sep 9th 2011 9:27AM
Given my background, my moments of awe with games usually revolve around exploring the inner workings of games through cheats/modding/etc, something I obviously can't do in WoW (or most other MMOs, for what matters).
Pick a BioWare game, for example: my moments of awe with one of those usually come from abusing cheats and save games to, in quick succession, explore each and every outcome from a given choice in the story, under all circumstances, and try to garner up the motivations and reasoning behind those story choices. It's something I, obviously, won't be able to do as easily in SW:TOR.
Not that I dislike MMOs. I really like them. But, more often than not, they aren't able to really awe me, with very few exceptions (revolutionary games, mostly indy ones; WoW is not one of them).
Sunaseni Sep 9th 2011 9:40AM
Doing my first raid: Molten Core. Seeing 40 people work together to defeat difficult challenges (my server found it difficult even at level 70) was something that made me realize the scope of the game.
Then the luster wore off after the 3rd or 4th time, because it was all red and black and brown, and no other color. And I had about 20 more runs to go to get to exalted with Hydraxian Waterlords. (Only 2 runs left!)
llcjay2003 Sep 9th 2011 9:45AM
No exp loss upon death (I used to play FFXI). Trying to get people to help you do something that risked death was a pain in the @$$. Worst idea ever for an MMO.
llcjay2003 Sep 9th 2011 9:46AM
I'll also add my first epic - Bloodrazor. I was like, "whoa...purple."
Mike Sep 9th 2011 9:47AM
When I upgraded my computer and was able to get the full graphics for the first time. Talk about night and day!
Abbadon Sep 9th 2011 9:47AM
Going through the gates into Blackrock Mountain for the first time... The gates, the carvings, the size! I felt so little in this magnificent work of art!
Bhally Sep 9th 2011 9:50AM
Moment in WoW that amazed me was when i was leveling my first character - a dwarf hunter through duskwood, and a friend i had made in my guild showed me the twilight grove, I'd never seen that sort of night-elf style landscape, and when he told me there was a massive dragon that spawned there i couldn't believe this was hidden away in a very dark zone.
Also the first time i seen the gates of Ironforge blew me away :)
Prelimar Sep 9th 2011 9:49AM
my VERY first was leaving Northshire and getting to Goldshire. new to MMOs, as i ran there (getting lost along the way, lol) i thought, "holy crap, this place is HUGE!" : )
i had NO idea....
gina Sep 9th 2011 9:56AM
For me it was walking up to Stormwind the very first time as a total noob human mage back in TBC. Now I've been Horde side for what feels like forever, but never had a moment like that one.
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Shoryl Sep 9th 2011 10:01AM
For me, it was entering Molten Core for the first time. I had no idea how Blizzard had made 'instances' big enough for 40 people to see what was going on. The sheer size of the raids was just so epic.
Grims Sep 9th 2011 10:06AM
Seeing Ragnaros in Molten Core come out of the lava pool for the first time, and my first encounter with Nefarian in BWL. Seeing him land and the tank start attacking him felt so epic for me.
walker.kyle13 Sep 9th 2011 10:08AM
I had plenty of moments where i went "ooh neat" but my first AV an i felt like this was something very special, and then we lost.