Nixxiom, I've been a follower from the very beginning. For years I was just horrible heroin addict using his cheap cellphone at wifi hotspots to watch YT videos to take my mind off my shitty situation. I did that for literally 6 years, but 2 years ago I finally got my act together and now I'm 2 years sober with my own house and a 15 month old son. This may seem exaggerated but if not for you, moocluck, Oxhorn and his Fallout knowledge, and many others, I seriously would've just killed myself from the misery I put myself through. Thank you, THANK YOU, for just being you man. You've never failed to make me smile. God bless man, and don't stop what your doing.
A good friend of mine used to be addicted to heroin, so I can really express some strong empathy. Not everyone would have the strength to pick themselves up by their own bootstraps, pull their act together, and overcome the enemy within themselves - but that's what you did. You succeed where others would've failed, so for that you have some massive respect from me. Thanks for the comment and thanks for being an inspiration to not only myself, but to others who might be suffering from the same problem.
+Nixxiom thanks man, and to anyone else, no matter how low you go you can ALWAYS make it back. Addiction is a disease, not a mental defect or lack of control, it can be treated and needs CONTINUED treatment. Im not saying AA or NA is the answer, nothing truly is. I went through the whole rehab circuit in the ventura county area, and it honestly didn't help, i just met more people with better dope to shoot up. It may sound cliche but YOU have to want to stay sober, and I finally pushed myself to real sobriety, 2 weeks before i found out my wife was pregnant. Now im a welder and im still getting more certifications, and im making a decent living enough for me to start up blacksmithing part time! Basically, from my personality experience, dreams DO come true, but you have to work HARD to obtain it. And I don't consider myself special, I believe ANYONE can do it
If you're from the scarlet crusade server, that wasnt a troll shaman, that was my troll hunter Njord. I was like the go-to troll of my guild for pvp stuff, since i did that far more than any of my other guildies. I organized that raid as part of a rp-pvp event between a collection of horde guilds called "Unity" (The Darkspear, Storm Wolves, The Impalers, and Savagarl) and our rivals on the alliance side.. I'm having a brainfart on their guild names. But yea, it was a RP PVP war that had been going on for quite some time. If im remembering right, I planned this assault after an assassination attempt on my character. Such good memories. Wish i still had the contact info for some of my guildies, they'd love to see this video. I LOVE How this is being recalled on youtube so many years later. I feel... a sense of pride. Sidenote: Now that i recall, that "Shaman" could have also been Zulazeel or Hakanti if it was a woman troll. They helped me quite a bit with setting up and organizing the raid groups
Gaaaaaaa, im mad i cant remember the alliance guild's names. Particularly the main one. Their guild leader was good IRL friends with the original leader of my guild, The Darkspears
Ohh yea, this was second battle in this war. Our first one was in Arathi Highlands i think... wherever the gryphon mountain thing was. We dominated that place, took screencaps and had dinner at the bottom of their keep.
I was lvl 70 and traveling for Tanaris i meet a lvl 50 and saw he was running trying to escape and i remember i help him, i was a warrior with talents in proteccion because i want to protect the players so my honor was prove that day, y charge the scum aliance and star fighting i didn't know that the enemy was a pvp pro player and he crush me like a grave but when i was almost dead the 50 priest heals me with all his strength and we made it kill that dog and escape for that place, that sealed my destiny. Today i am a warrior tank and remember the low priest of that day
You are not just a Warrior, but a true member of The Horde. Always help and stand up for each other. That's how I play and that's how everyone who picks that red and black banner should.
I was there, alliance side, been playing since day one, and this experience you described it spot on, and yes, if I had not experienced this, I would have quit the game long ago. but since I was there trough out wow's evolution, I will see it through, yes I still play non stop since day 1, and will continue. till the end.
I remember my first battle. Early BC, I can't have been more than lv30, a dorky dwarf hunter noob with a forest spider and a gun. Someone in my guild "united force of Sweden" had gathered a whole bunch of european nationality leveling guilds in Ashenvale. We must have been over 160 players there, nobody bigger than lv45, and we formed a whole bunch of raid groups. Balls of Brittish Steel were there, the Greek Alliance, guilds from Germany, France, Hungary, the Neatherlands, Turkey, Russia... I had never thought about how people from all over europe played this game on my server, Hellfire EU, at the time. We charged on the Crossroads, killing everything in our path like a flood of death. The NPC's were low enough level for us to kill off easily with those numbers, and it only took a few minutes for us to kill almost every NPC in the crossroads. Players from the horde started pouring in. Same level range as us at first, and we all fought hard to keep control of the area. Then he came. One single tauren. I couldn't even determine what class he was. All I saw was the giant shoulderpads on this already giant beast of a man. We all stopped our fighting, and this army of the united european alliance stood before him, having grown to over 200 strong since the havoc began. And he stared us down, preparing. Some tiger-looking beast attacked him from the flank, and in his moment of seemingly insignificant distraction, everybody charged. The beast-man, this mighty minotauric soldier, started to mow us down with gory efficiency, even though it looked like he carefully, almost surgically, cut us down one at a time. After ressurecting twice, he was finally down to really low health. I remember running up to him, seeing suicidal fighters from my side throwing themselves at him to just maybe land a single additional blow to him. Enough of us must have done that, because he actually started to loose gear pieces, and by the time I had landed only two more shots in his hide, he fell at the overwhelming force of my n00b countrymen. After that, several more of them flooded in, max level players of every race the horde had to offer (except blood elf, I explicitly remember a disturbing lack of blood elves in general), and we were effortlessly beaten back. In my final moments before realizing we had been beat, I looked back on that tauren. He ressurected, and uttered a few words in the orc tongue, and then got on his enormous (even for him) mount, and rode off in the direction of orgrimar. I never really did any PVP since then, and I'm honestly kind of sorry as to how it's not really a thing anymore, world pvp. But i do look back fondly on that day still.
I would tell you that you should play vanilla wow right now, but the stability of the current vanilla servers arent that great. But I can assure you, on vanilla servers this type of stuff happens every day or two. I was in a 100 v 100 hillsbrad battle myself a few weeks ago.
I had something happening like this aswell, not on retail, It was on a private server. Some guy asked for more people to do the achivement [For The Horde] , and I was like "Yeah I should lend a hand...can't take long" , So we all form this raid group of 40 ppl, and we head to bootybay, grab that portal to Gnomergan. And then we start to plan an attack, we all disscused to keep a low profile, since most players hang in Dalaran we thought we could do it without bringing attention on us. Then we charge in Ironforge, no resistence, we easily kill thei leader, then we head for the tram. But we did not go unoticed, The Alliance discovered what we were doing. We are in Stormwind now, we head into the Keep to kill Varyan, The Alliance put some resistence, but nothing major, we now know their are fully aware of our intention. We quickly take the boat to Teldrasil, and there we are meet by an 40 man alliance raid that was tracking us from Stormwind. We fight, and die, and fight more, but in the end we kill the night elf leader. Now we have to head to the Exodar. We go in there, hoping to get it over quick, but they were waiting for us, we are pushed out. So now, the dk in our group give us Path of Frost, and we make a base on the sea, and now... we wait, we send rogues and druids inside to see if they left. A rummor started between the raid members, that there was a snitch. But it became clear that a snitch was having his way when we heared on the world chat the words "Orgrimmar is under attack" , It was a sock, we were no longer a single 40 man raid, we were 2 full 40 man raids, we were literally all the max lvl characters on the server, and we were so far, the city was defensless. But we finally find a warlock to summon us, we reach the city, just in time to see that we were late...Thrall was dead. We all disbanded, it was over. But then, we heared the Alliance is heading to ThunderBluff, we will not stand for this. The calls to arms filled the world chay, and in 5 minutes we were infront of Cairn, making our last defense, then a player, orc warrior If I recall well, step forward, and gaved a speech "There will be a day when we will fail, when we lay on the ground, and everything is lost, when our spirit will be broken, But, that day is not today, TODAY WE WIN" (at least That's what I recall he said), Everyone was yelling "FOR THE HORDE!" And when the Alliance showed itself, we slaughtered them, they didn't even lay a finger on Cairne, maybe a few arrows, but no fingers. Now we had the upper hand, we all move as the Alliance makes their move, and we charge into the Exodar, kiling the prophet. The day is ours... Did we just start the 4th war? Maybe Was it worth it? You can bet your arss it was!
Yknow my most epic battle was back in WoTLK, it was on my lvl 80 Paladin human, and it was beautiful. First thing to say, this was guild vs guild rppvp, only way to really get big pvp goin on back in the day, I was a part of a guild called the Scarlet Crusade, and we of course, were rp based in the non-destroyed part of the Scarlet Enclave, as a remnant group of the crusaders who managed to either go into hiding, or mobilize from the Monastery. Back then we had a pretty big feud going on with a horde guild that If i can remember correctly was named "Plague Inc" or something like that, they were a pvprp based group, as the name kinda sudjests. However they loved the idea of having 'crusaders' as rivals, and we managed to use some warlocks to chat with eachother to organize a fight (remember the good ol days of demonic speak between factions, i miss those). We had the grand idea that Plague Inc, would run in and take over lightshields tower, and begin making their move on Lights Hope Chapel. Once they hit the tower we would be notified via gryphon to intercept the foul undead, so we made haste for Lights Hope chapel, and began to build up our defenses, we had a formation made up and everything for this. Our healers would take the rear, holding the line ahead of them, in the middle was our warriors/paladins. ill get to their purpose in a second. In the front lines we had all of our hunters/mages and a few shadow priests. They were there to rain hell on them from a distance at the start of the battle, then fall back behind the Paladin/Warrior line once the real fight began. We had roughly 300 ppl in the guild at the time, only 120 or so of them were online for the event. I was one of the guilds commanders, in charge of my own platoon. The way the fight would be settled is we were to push the undead as far back from Lights hope Chapel as possible, if we managed to push them back to Corrins Crossing then we would 'win' in a sense. however if they managed to completely decimate our defenses, and be able to enter the walls of Lights hope, then we lost. and by enter i don't mean 1 or 2, but about 80% of the enemies team would have to be residing in Lights hope. Anyways so, our hunters are using their eagle vision to scope out where the enemy will come from, and im sitting at a campfire with my squad, chatting and awaiting the coming battle, when one of our hunters gives the signal, "Death coming on the horizon, from the roads" another hunter sounded off "Deathknights leading a small group from the north of the lake, across the water". in response to that, I took my group and we marched around to the north gate, along with a solid amount of people. We found they gathered roughly 100 ppl of their own, a little under the numbers we had, but they had more Class diversity among themselves. so it balanced out. My team consisted of another paladin, a warrior, a priest, and a hunter, two healers, a tank, and two dps (one of which is me). We stand guard as the deathknights approach, one of them doing a mount taunt in the distance as he motivates his troops with a quick yell of their guilds battle anthem, and before long we see them charging in. All of a sudden the light is clashing with Plague Inc, and it was quite the bloodbath. however, we had the upper hand, we had the better engage and lockdown, as well as the fact we were better organized. alot of their squishy dps bolted in first, getting pelted by hunter fire before succumbing to paladin burst and warrior beat downs. As we were gaining a foothold against them, a hunter from the other side came to our battle to inform us of how the fight was going on the other side (even if we had guild chat, we enjoyed the small rp moments we could find even in battle) as he spoke of the line taking a bruising from an unexpected ammount of force, we got a guild wide message telling us to converge. So in order to do so, without losing the northern wall, we made a plan to "Push" the enemy wave in a small crest, to wrap them into their main group, and in turn give us a flanking position on the enemy. It worked like a charm, the group they sent to the north had already dwindled down in size, and was easy to push around, anyone respawning was forced to run around and rejoin, because they couldnt just walk into the chapel and say they won without suitable numbers. As we pushed them back into their group, Plague incorporated began to make a mad dash straight for lights hope Chapel, trying to push through our lines without any regard to the battle, just to say they won. However, sadly as most people must know. When you blatantly ignore a paladin, mage, warrior, or hunter (esspecially hunter) in WoTLK, there was hell to pay. The members charging through were getting stunned and burst down left and right, however the backline to the enemy was trying to curve around us to get to our healers in the back. many of our healers began to get singled out as our guild was getting to focused on killing the defenseless, instead of aiming for the ones attacking us. I had to begin yelling in guild chat to regroup and fight back at the ones casting spells, and the deathknights pulling our healers away one by one. We finnaly regained our senses, losing roughly a third of our forces (due to respawn timers), however they had lost about half of theirs, and we began pushing them back.we were winning easily, as they ran away, it made it easier to single out and target those we would kill. And shortly after they had started being pushed back, we were at Corrins Crossing, and in surrender, the leader of Plague Inc. a warlock who, sadly I cant remember the name of, came forth and bore the white flag (a duel flag with another horde member lol). We of course, being crusaders, weren't having a surrender. We killed the leader of Plague Inc. and burned his body in holy light, one of our guild commanders (a warrior of course) took his charred head as a trophy of battle. The remainder of the enemy guild went into a rage about the death of their commander, or simply began wallowing in the buildings, trying to hide from the 'cleansing' that we had began to do. That's my favorite pvp story ive ever had. Sadly after Cataclysm, my Scarlet Guild disbanded, I cant say anything about Plague Inc, seeing as how i stopped playing recently, however I still enjoy talking about the fun times ive had on the game :D hope you all enjoyed the story.
"At the time, I didn't even know how to SHIFT-click a name" Wait. I've been playing WoW for about 7 years now. What happens if you SHIFT-click a name? 😂 😂
TBC was when I started. My most epic pvp experience was already some time into the game. I was leveling in stranglethorn vale, small skirmishes started and I started gathering my horde lads to overcome the alliance. We ended with a raid group literally hunting alliance all over stranglethorn. Was bloody awesome.
its not about the game, its about the community. and when was the last time you opened up a raidgroup for big open world pvp? last time i did it was in WoD when we gathered in warspear and marched over the water around ashran to stormshield. thats nothing blizzard could fix or even needs to. those are COMMUNITY events. so just get them going.
This is what was so awesome about old vanilla, like other people mentioned. The community, and the feeling of camaraderie. People were invested in the world and cared about each other. I have a similar experience from Tarren Mill fights throughout my years of playing. But my very first pvp experience was in Ashenvale around level 24. But that wasn't as grand a scale as the one you talked about
I remember being in Wintergrasp on my disc priest. I was inside the keep with an alt's guildie that i didn't know, he didn't even know I had a toon in his guild. There was a dwarf priestess and a male human prot paladin fighting us. We 2v2'd for like 15 minutes. I went oom (it never occured to me to run off and drink) and my arms warrior finally fell. It was such an amazing feeling, I never did arena. It was only just things like WG and random bgs back then. We got so close to downing them and the warrior, his name was Chainsaaw, says to me one of the coolest things. "That was -don't remember dwarf name- and she is among the top pvpers on alliance side on this server. You did really well there, do you have an arena team?" I was literally dumbstruck...I just said no and thanked him for the fun and left. Was a mistake, I bet we could have grown into a solid team if I had even been considering arena at the time. There was also the time in wrath that my prot/ret pally, friend's holy pally, and his friend's prot/ret pally went and killed the draenei Phropet. It took over two hours. It was such a drawn out fight that my shield and my back up both broke. Then I ran back and changed to ret on rez and his friend fought until he died, then ran back and fought as prot. It was so fun.
My first PvP experience was kind of similar. I was somewhere around lvl 47 on my Undead Warlock, and I joined a raid group which also turned out to be several raid groups. We got on a ship that went to Stormwind, but jumped into the ocean before it made it to port, then cast waterbreathing on everyone, and attacked from the sea like the undead pirates in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. It was awesome seeing tons of players just walk out of the ocean and attack the city like that, especially when I too had never even seen an alliance player before.
My personal favorite has to be when I hit level 30, my friends were called by a few other groups to try and lure out one of the biggest PVP groups, Overdose. We were bait, they were the prey for four guilds that were laying in wait. There had to be nearly five hundred people waiting while our small group of thirty attacked Westfall. It wasn't long since an alt of the Guild's leader was there in Westfall, which I was told is why we were attacking at that moment, and he logged off. Few minutes of slaughter and we see a line of Gryphons, Alliance PVPers, Overdose. We had done our job, and now we were going to die. Except, we didn't die, we were decimating by focusing on healers and ripping apart tanks. The Guild leaders were shocked that a group of Nonpvpers were just taking it to these guys, so they came in with reinforcements when our numbers dwindled. The server lagged so much we had people disconnecting and people having to leave because of the lag. All the while I was in awe at all of this, we had taken Westfall, and not only did our siege succeed, our occupation of Westfall lasted three whole days before we were kindly asked by a GM to stop. We of course obliged, but we came back after a month had past to do it all again. We got destroyed the second time. Vardak - Mutiny of Thrall US was my name.
This is what WoW was all about, I had a similar experience. Shame the game is changed to a point where this never happens any more, everyone levels up far too fast.
Vanilla WOW: Un'goro Crater - I was Human Paladin level 53 vs Undead Mage level 55. He was from the guild "Juice" and Juice was THE horde guild on Stormscale - US. I was questing in the tar pits and he shot me in the back, I looked and saw it was not only a mage, but one 2 levels higher than I was...so I ran my ass off. He came after me, we're both running bc we're both still in combat and neither of us wants to stop to mount, we run from just outside Marshal's Refuge to near the beginning of the incline exit to Tanaris. I turn around because I realize he's going to follow to the ends of the earth, and there isn't a base until Gadgetzstan, so I curve behind a tree and stop, I need melee distance. I jump him and the battle starts. We're running around in a tight circle for what seems forever, I have this big 2H sword that I'm swinging once a year or something and he has his bolts of all sorts he keeps jumping backwards to shoot at me. Sometimes when the circle gets too tight I cut the corner and melee him right in the face. He's a mage out leveling me, so I've popped all my oh crap buttons including lay on hands, bubbles, potion, and bandages (yes healer using bandages) and I'm down to my very last health and mana and everything is on cooldown, but I see so is HE! So I think he's down to enough health for my Hammer of Wrath to finish him, but that means I have to stop to cast the spell and let him get away from me, at which point I will never melee him again because he's going to turn around and bolt me in the face from 30 yards, so I have to commit to it on faith and faith alone that the hammer will reach him and that it will be enough, just like a REAL PALADIN. So I stop and start casting Hammer of Wrath, he doesn't realize I've stopped for just a split second, then he breaks left to get behind a thin tree to maybe block my line of sight, so I wouldn't be able to get my shot off, and then he would pop back out and ice me out bc at that point I'd just be standing in the middle of a clearing doing nothing. Finally, my GLORIOUS HAMMER OF WRATH starts flinging through the air more slowly and beautifully than I had ever noticed before, however, while it is flying so slowly I realize this could be a MISS, and then I would be so dead. So I'm hoping, hoping, hoping it is not a miss, and the Hammer of Wrath arcs left to follow him, this sizzling chain of wrathful light blue lightning trailing it like in a comet, that might miss. And you know what happened?! It hit him in the face and killed him mid jump, so his body froze and fell to the ground, lifeless. He left his body instantly so I couldn't taunt him, which I was totally going to do. Instead of pondering that victory for one second longer, I rode as fast as I could to Gadgetzstan and logged because I didn't think I could win that again, plus my lay on hands, bubbles, potions, and even bandages were on cooldown (yes in vanilla I bandaged while I bubbled to save mana on heals and to not be interrupted by anything and get the full effect of the bandage, 2000hp for heavy runecloth bandages! Potions and bandages were on separate cooldowns, I think). Plus, I totally needed to come down from that high and I didn't want to see that guy ever again, and I never did. So for all eternity he, a level 55 undead mage who shot me in the back and wouldn't let me go, got his comeuppance from a lowly 53 ret pally how had only two range abilities, Hammer of Wrath and the 1% chance in my infinite range imagination that I could actually kill a (vanilla wow op) mage one on one who already had the upper hand and was 2 levels higher than I was, as long as I jump him from behind a big ass tree. Thanks, Nixxiom for reminding me of this.
I had experiences like that. Being a lowbie Undead Warrior on Boulderfist. Just doing my questing, and I got to Hillsbrad. I just remember seeing level 60 horde and this Tauren just stops next to me and says "hey little buddy, its best that you don't go any farther. There's a battle ragging up ahead." I was so confused, I asked if I could go see and he said to be careful. I run behind them and see the fighting spread out between South Shore and that tower. Just raw fighting with spells flying everywhere. I just watched in amazement and suddenly. Killed. Happened so fast I didn't know what hit me. A female human mage just smacked me with a frostbolt. I eventually joined in the fighting and I couldn't wait until I hit 60. I eventually switched sides since my friends played Alliance and we would fight in those battles from Vanilla up to the end of BC. The most fun I had in the game was World PVP big battles.
So it was BC on a private server if I remember correctly... I was a human warlock, around level 30 and in stranglethorn vale, just starting with the quests at Nessingwary, you know... and I was killing some tigers, when suddenly 2 horde players attacked me and absolutely crushed me, one of them was around level 50 or something probably helping out his friend who was around level 30 just like me. So I was like damn... I can't level here, they will kill me again! So I asked in my guild if someone could help me out, so 2 lvl 70 guys flew over from Stormwind and obliterated the 2 horde guys. But this is only the beginning. Turns out those 2 also asked in their guild, and suddenly 3 or maybe 4 of level 70 horde guys came over and killed us again. So we also asked for support, our guild was only very small so we asked in general chat in Stormwind for just a little help. Half an hour later - around 30 to 40 horde soldiers versus me, my guild friends and random guys from Stormwind, we were also around 30 to 40 but the battle was very even then... it was just a massive battle around the nessingwary camp (the server population was very low, so 30 to 40 people from every faction was about everything we had) and it was all because some random dudes attacked me while leveling and I called for help. :D
As an alliance player, I remember raiding Crossroads for the first time. I was around level 45, during that time there were very few 60's so it was mostly people around that range. We had maybe 4 or 5 level 60's in our raid. It was a small raid. When we clashed with Crossroads, we held it for a while, until the Horde started to show up. I remember seeing the first enemy level 60. It was a Troll Rogue decked out in Shadowcraft set. He was accompanied by an Orc Shaman who was rocking his Elemental set. I won't forget all these low level players trying to take down these two, they were like raid bosses. Although we did manage to kill them a few times, soon more Horde started to show up, and after a few skirmishes here and there, and the level 60 rogues popping out of nowhere to kill the backlines and lowbies, we had to retreat. I'll never forget that Troll Rogue and his Shammy friend, and that one cool ass female Undead Rogue who came out of nowhere.
sadly experiences like this just don't happen anymore. not only because of all the changes to the game but because the old fantasy D&D style RPG'ers have long since given up on it.
Omg,the memories...thank you! I did a few southshore raids back in vanilla :),and also there was an elite undead you could summon from the graveyard,he could alone wipe all the npc's...good old times. And Alterac Valley,you was battling all night,get to bed,vent to school,come back and the same battle was still on :)
Ik im late but my first battle was losing a duel with my (lower than 15lvl) tauren monk against shaman with the same level, npc guys were helping me at the beginning but then they started attacking me and i ran away, after the battle i deleted my monk
I remember I was a Night Elf Rogue, still am actually, same character so many years later. I was in Astranaar in Ashenvale. I can see the robot chat spam that where I am is under attack. So I start looking around to see what was going on and since my computer was a potato I had my view distance on super low. All of a sudden I get to the bridge leading out of the town that would eventually lead out of it and in to wherever the Horde came from. My screen exploded. When I say hundreds and hundreds, I literally mean it. THERE WAS TONS OF HORDE. I got randomly invited into a group so of course I hit accept. I couldn't have been more than level 15. I get told that Horde is trying to take Ashenvale. Long story short, they kicked our ass and all I could do other than die was to sit back and throw knives. We decided we needed revenge, and with what you just said in this video is exactly what happened to us. We ran to Tarren Mill and proceeded to nuke them, with the Horde at one point pushing us out. I think it must have lasted for 3 hours. It was so much fun.
Yo that shit used to be insane fun! You just left out one part...The server wide lag that shit would cause. I remember you could 8 zones over and can tell when there was a raid due to the server lag.
My most epic PvP experience was on my Gladiator Warrior in the Temple of Kotmogu. At the time Gladiator Warriors were very overpowered and so I was kicking ass and taking names. If you know that battleground then you know that when you hold onto the ball you get a stacking buff increasing the damage you do and the damage you take as well as decreasing the healing you take. I held onto that ball for so long that I grew to about 20 feet tall. All the healers were trying to keep me up. I ran over to get to get the Berserker buff and this made me grow even taller and turn red. So I was a 25 foot hulking warrior killing everyone until the entire enemy team had to focus me to take me down. But I didn't go down with out a fight. I killed at least 17 players on my rampage and continued to kill more after I was rez'd. This was my most epic PvP experience.
For me it was when we groped Orgrimmar for the first time. I remember we carefully planned that we enter on the back door, and slowly make our way to the front gate, because all we presumed of orgrimmar at the time is that it probably looks like Stormwind: the main square being overpopulated, and the rear areas somewhat empty. It was epic. Around 80 ppl (2 raid groups) came together, and it was just awesome :D
My VERY FIRST pvp experience was epic too. It was in Redrige Mountains. I was going back to return my quests and all of sudden a fucking lvl 40 guy ran out of bushes and one shot me fucking awesome....
I love this video man. It is so well done.. I love how you put those live images and narrated it so that we can imagine with our imagination how it really was,.. the War, Chaos, true Battle happening all at the same time.. Great stuff and times!
My most fond PvP experience was when I discovered the battlemasters in Ironforge during Wrath as a level 11 gnome mage. I didn't know about queuing back then (this was before the random dungeon queue) so discovering it was pretty remarkable. I remember waiting on the third level of your flag room, jumping down and frost novaing anything that touches our flag. Another big PvP experience I had was on a low level rogue questing in Stranglethorn. The battlemaster chest or whatever even popped up so I checked it out. It was only me and a max level horde rogue who sapped me and toyed with me. However, I managed to sap him and immediately begin to open the chest. I didn't have the glyph so I wasn't able to click the confirmation dialogue box before he killed me, but it was so close. A couple people watched and whispered me if I got it saying that was awesome and I felt pretty proud of myself.
I also remembered when I first tried keybinding. It was on my tauren resto/ele shaman back in Wrath. Still have that Shaman too, he just sits on a random server by himself.
I wish I could experience something like that, but sadly, wow has changed a bit and people did aswell - they got lazy. If I asked in Guild chat, or any other chat for help, to make a big glorious raid group and fight for hours -- the reply would be clear. ' Just wait for level 110, noob. you can pvp in BGs through the BG finder.'
I just discovered your channel. I'm loving to hear those stories as they make me remember my golden days. Only those who loved stuff like that can fully understand. Thanks dude!
My most epic pvp experience was in BC. We were raiding Ironforge, and we some how got our warlocks on top of the AH. So we all got summoned by the locks. The Alliance couldn't attack us up there, but we could attack them from where we were. We had two full 40 man raids on top of the Ironforge AH just killing everyone underneath. After about 10 minutes everyone started getting spam tells from the GM saying if you don't get down in the next 10 seconds Blizz will take action in discipline (aka Banhammer). So as soon as we all got the tell, everyone just jumped off the AH. I'll never forget the picture of 80 Horde just scattering down. It was a bloodbath. Horde and Ally fought for a couple hours after that. More Horde came, and then more Ally came. We eventually got outnumbered and destroyed, but it was the funnest wpvp I have ever been apart of. just hundreds upon hundreds of skeletons littered the floors of Ironforge. Good news was, I got my black war bear! haha The IF boss was the last one I needed at the time.
My best PvP moment was in Eye of the Storm on my Dwarf Hunter. It's getting late into the game and I was defending the Draenei Ruins. Alliance is close to winning but the Horde is making a strong comeback. Capping the flag more and more and they had started taking Mage Tower. Then I notice it, the Horde were so spread out that they only had one guy running back and forth to cap. So I run out to mid just as the dude is capping, a few guys in the back defending see me there and try rushing me down but I lay out my traps. As I'm grabbing the flag my Frost Trap goes off slowing them down and the first guy through end up getting Freezing Trapped. I have the flag now and use Disengage (with Posthaste) to high tail it out of there throwing on Aspect of the Cheetah. Just as they start catching up I throw down a Binding Shot which catches everyone chasing me and make it back to DR! I cap, we win the game, and I've never felt more in tuned with my class or as untouchable in WoW since.
Despite w/e someone achieved on arenas. Nothing compare to the old fresh pvp. Specially that feeling when you don't really know what's going on. The old organic world pvp is lost since then, and if you lived it, good for you. Because it won't be back.
I had several epic pvp experiences. At least three epic Southshore vs TM battles. Many many fun lesser battles of the same. Glorious world pvp! Splintertree Outpost, Crossroads, Astranaar, Auberdine, horde trying to hitch rides on boats from Auberdine to raid Darnassus. Is it Lazy Peon that posted the video of the epic horde raid that ended in the massive battle outside Ironforge? I was there as Alliance. From dying in Astranaar, and Auberdine to eventually crushing the horde at the gates of Ironforge. Aaarrgghh the nostalgia! World pvp was honestly how and when I really fell in love with wow. BGs, as epic as some of my Arathi Basin and Alterac Valley memories are, I still hold world pvp more dear.
your story is almost identical to my days of when I started playing in BC and the horde decided to raid every alliance city, i was level 50 but I'd be damned if I wasn't gonna help my horde brethren. Much love and for the horde! The war is ever waging.
playn wow in the oldd days had one of the best feeling i ever had by playn video games. i mean, you took months to lvl up, and there was toooo many quest that required a group! and everyone feel noob and you were like "yeah man help me, with friendship we can go far!!" and the most awesome part it was when from a 1v1 in open world it went ib like a 20v20 from both faction hahaha even duelling on the great wall during pandaria was fucking good! i dont know how, but wow lost his magic! tecnically it get improved patch by patch BUT the people, the attitude of players, the atmosphere is changing in bad :(
I know I'll get hate for this, but my most epic was on my 29 twink nelf rogue back in BC, when the battle ended I had 42 kb's and 2 deaths.. I was so in the zone that game. But then there were sooo many awesome world PvP battles, man.. Nothing will ever compare.. Wish Blizzard would eventually say fuck it and make legacy servers, I'd pay a sub for those til the day I die..
Greetings Alliance twink brother :) I started out with my twinks on Alliance side as well. I had so much fun with all kinds of classes. I had a level 19 hunter, 39 warlock and mage, 69 paladin, druid, and rogue, 10 priest and hunter. But then blizzard forced leveling in bgs on us, so I tried to level twink many of my characters. (You thought twinking a few characters was hard, try constantly twinking all of them whenever they reach a new or every other bracket, or when a new BIS gear item is available.) Sorry to say this, but even if Blizzard did do the right thing and brought back legacy servers with old talents and old pvp rules and gear, there is no guarantee that enough of the player base would go there and bring back everything that was good about WoW. Epic game experiences are much like life, once they pass, you can never go back to exactly the same thing. I regret that I didn't record hardly any of my epic games, sadly my pc probably wasn't good enough for that, nor was I tech savvy enough.
This sure brought back some good old memories from June 13, 2005 when Crossroads was being raided. I went there cause a couple of friends at the time were asking for help cause they were being ganked over and over so I showed up and they were able to rez. I killed the rogue and druid couple of times then 20min rolls by and here they come again and with 17 more friends with them they eventually got me so I asked for help from both guild mates and people in Org. I got 34 people to respond which surprised me cause I didn't think anyone would show. Well the battle went on for 2-3 hours and more alliance showed up coming from ashenvale. There was also some coming from wailing caverns so we ran to meet them and had a huge battle at the Forgotten Pools I think it was called. Then once we won that battle we headed back to Crossroads and we then fought even more alliance coming from Ashenvale we pushed them back to Ashenvale and the battle continued at SplinterTree Post in Ashenvale this battle went on and on for half the night like 7-8 hours. This was the most memorable wPvP moment I had don't get me wrong I had some pretty nice ones in Hillbrad Foothills also Eastern PL but this has stuck with me even to this day.
New camera of couse i was like "wtf is this in HD or what?" My most epic pvp experience was getting the achievement of killing all the horde kings as alliance. It was bassically the same but we were all flying around the continents and summoning in other players Orgrimmar was the most epic. We killed our path in start the fight with Garrosh i belive he was war chief back then and we were fighting the boss on the front and the horde on the back it was awesome f ing awesome. After that we went to all other chiefs and kill them all lol. Never got to experience something like that again. and i got the mount to always remember it
My most proud PvP moment was on the Gilneas CtF map. People were looking for a plan and no one had an idea. I stepped up and said "Okay guys, here's the plan." I do a whole spiel on capturing this point, then this point, etc. I had complete control of this group and the PvP match was ours with so little effort. It was such an epic feeling to lead a successful crusade after so many straight losses.
One thing I remember fondly was a specific scene in arathi basin. At that time I played a Warlock and I had a fondness for destruction (16yr olds loved drakedog!). I remember charging up the hill to the sawmill when this rank 14 warrior came at me. He was very well known ofc and I kind of was prepearing to die, but I wanted to give him a fight. Immolate -> 700 crit, Conflagrate 1,7k crit, searing pain 700 crit, Shadowburn 1~ and a something crit. And there he layed before me. It was that kind of critluck you get once in a livetime, and I had it in the right moment. It felt so extremely good
vanilla servers wont bring back the 13 year ago community by magic. People have changed, they just want to show off, that wont make vanilla better than legion (which objectively is a much better full game) In fact i did see lots of wpvp in legion, not on that level tho, and unlikely bringing up vanilla server will do the trick. Because its the people that has changed.
You know when you like some song or some movie and you get pumped up and get that chills? that happend dude epic story ive already heard some stories about this but this is the best ive ever heared
My story is one I like to call Anne Frank. We had kind of an experience like that, I was with about 3 of my other online friends and we were questing in the zone for the first time. We got to Tarren Mill, sat in the Inn for about 5 minutes waiting for everyone to get the quests and such, and right as we were about to leave we see a large number of Horde players retreating into town, being chased by straggling Alliance players. We had no idea what to do, there were tons of level 60 players of both factions duking it out on the outskirts and we didnt want to be caught up in it, but we had a bit of a dumb thought. We thought that we wouldnt be able to escape because they had mounts and they could just hunt us down so the only real option was to hide inside the town. We ran as fast as we could towards the Tarren Mill barn, and hopped up some of the wood pieces until we were on one of the beams in the barn, hoping that if they came in they wouldnt see us. All 4 of us sat up there talking and just waiting for the bloodshed outside to stop. It may have been about an hour of just waiting for it to stop, we keep seeing people /yelling "PUSH ON" and "FOR THE HORDE". One of our friends gets a little too patriotic and decides to hop down and run out of the barn, and into the fray. After about 3 seconds of running outside we just see his health bar go from 100% to 0, almost a 1 hit kill. We figure that they saw him run out of the barn so they may come in to see if there are others. We decide we need to move farther north into town so they dont find us. we jump down and run towards the inn, but a hunter spots us and sends his pet after our friend. she figured if its targetting her she can draw it away while we run. she runs off in a separate direction and we watch her health bar drop to 0. we get inside the Inn to find maybe 14-15 other low leveled players hiding in the upstairs. What we didnt know was the hunter was still following us. He came upstairs behind us and killed us all. #goodmemories.
My first big pvp battle was at Crossroads, it was pretty damned intense. Hours spent fighting for nothing but the fun of it. This was back when I would keep both world and local defense channel open. So whenever it started spamming "under attack" notices I would always at least try to respond if I could.
I want to hear about your first raid experience! Mine was on my first character ( Paladin named Castiel ). It wasn't so great at first due to the guild I tagged along with telling me straight off the bat that all gear is preserved, but it eventually got better due to the experience. It was back in wrath of the lich king in ICC. I was never in a raid before and it blew my mind how big it was. Outside of the citidel I nearly shit myself as this 20 man raid was summoned. These huge rooms with huge bosses and all of us being told the tactics and what to do. It was nuts to me! We wiped halfway through too many times though, and the guild eventually gave up, but I snuck a roll in and actually won a trinket. The lootmaster thought I was in the guild :P My next raid was an all 70 black temple ( a lot of death knights ) and we ended up wiping on trash mobs after the second boss and the grouped players lost interest and left. There was a lvl 58 dk dwarf yelling at people about not knowing the game and how much better vanilla was...
my best experience was a while ago before i realized how shitty Alterac Valley is for horde. I was young, so when i entered the battleground and realized i was the BG leader, i took up the mantle of being the Orc Warrior in charge. Naturally, i gave a rousing speech which was responded to with either "THIS GUY'S GREAT" or "WHAT A FAG", but i didn't care. I was a proud soldier of the horde that day, and even today i am proud of what i did. The battle started, and the alliance started just DESTROYING us. by the time we had made any ground at all, we had maybe 40 reinforcements left to their 300. However, I realized even at that young age, that this was my moment for glory. I managed to organize EVERYONE in the BG into one crucial spot, 300 spartans style, to hold the alliance in a glorious last stand. our 40 reinforcements against their 300, we fought for what seemed like hours. We had good healers, and even better DPS. They were formidable, but they refused to disengage from the fight and go around for some reason. i like to think they had a sense of honor that we shared, and they would not back down from a challenge like this. Eventually, against all odds, we slew them down to the very last reinforcement they had. The horde won a glorious and bloody victory that day, thanks to our sense of unity and my own leadership, even though i was only 14. Lok'Tar Ogar to anyone who remembers that day. May our warsong never fade.
I fell upon this tonight at random. This brought back great memories of the game for me. I participated in those massive SS v tm battles. They were epic, I remember one in particular that last like 8 hours on friday night. Because reinforcements kept flowing in on both horde and alliance sides. some of the most fun I've had in WoW (or really any computer game) -- I miss those epic town battles.
AV was my most favourite epic PVP moment. The battle where both sides would be locked in combat for hours in the middle. Glorious times. For the Alliance!!!
My most epic PVP experience was actually in Alterac Valley during MoP if you can believe it when I was in highschool. Somehow both teams ended up on that long road just before the alliance stormpike area and we were duking it out like crazy, trying to get a foothold. Horde had managed to backcap everything so Alliance were stuck rezzing at Stormpike. It was absolutely insane. All teams were going for it and we were all yelling "For the Horde" and we finally ended up pushing them back bit by bit until we'd taken SPGY and then we did a mad zerg to cap the final towers and aide station. They had almost no resources left, and then we did a crazy rush to take out the boss and we won with ridiculous numbers. It took an hour and I was very late for a piano lesson but I didn't even care because it was so much fun and it was my first experience of what WoW really could be. I wish I could experience something like that again.
Back in Cataclysm my guild held the Stormwind cathedral for the better part of a Saturday evening. We had out of combat ressers tucked away neatly with the magic of wall jumping, and it was just something magical to see when the near 60 dead horde all popped up from two well timed mass resses to the surprise of the boys in blue who thought they were sipping at victory. After a while the Alliance got bored, and lost interest trying to push us out. As we ourselves were getting bored of bashing down npcs we were assaulted by waves and waves of level 1 gnomes.
That's exactly how it happened for me, the attack on Southshore, pushed back to Tarren Mill, made the "lord of the rings line" but sadly it ended with the server crashing. But yeah, felt exactly like you describe, it was amazing. The sad part you only get to feel that way the first time.
I once saw one such beautyful line of Gryphins... ...Sadly it was during the start of WoD when we were all stuck above the flight path by the Garroison.
This gave me goose bumps man! As someone who wanted nothing more than to play wow during vanilla days (but due to a spud P/C and tight ass parents I never got to) and only got into the game during TBC I wish I got to experience this phenomenon
I have two pvp memories which stick really well with me, although neither are from WoW and I will only be talking about one memory as it's the only one worth writing home about. The singular, best, and most interesting memory is in Star Wars Galaxies, some time in 2004. I was a maxed out creature handler and carbineer with some points in Bounty Hunter, and had four rancors, two of which I could have out at the same time. My guild and our ally decided round up a bunch of other GLORIOUS IMPERIAL MASTER RACE guilds to do one massive raid across Tatooine against those sub-human Rebel Alliance players. My guild attacked Anchorhead, the Rebel Alliance hub city on Tatooine. I, for the most part, sat back letting my largest rancor (whom I had named Odin. He was bigger than most buildings in the game) do most of the work while I killed Rebels who were trying to escape. At some point, a higher level Rebel player snuck up on me and hurt me pretty bad. The fight was fairly even. We were both on our last bits of health, and were completely at the mercy of each others' RNG... before he knew what it felt like to be snuck up on. Odin, the beautiful bastard that he was, came up behind him right at the last second and immediately smashed him into the dirt and let out a triumphant roar during it, potentially saving me as well (the other player and I were both one-shottable for each other at this point). The rest of the Imperial forces on Tatooine faired well, and were it Planetside 2, the Rebel Alliance sub-human scum would have been locked out of Tatooine. They ended up scattering across the galaxy, mainly sticking to Lok after that.
I love everything about this story! It's so true to the feel of classic WoW world PvP. I clearly remember being low level and "helping" in these fights where I was absolutely useless too, but I ALWAYS joined in, and faithfully watched my LocalDefense channels for new chances. Most of my attacks usually missed as I was way out of my lvl league, but I was passionate, dammit! Haha You described the build up, beautifully. As it progresses from a couple of players, to waves upon waves of Horde and Alliance joining in the fight. Fields of bones, arcane missiles, and aoe's in every direction. Thing of beauty. Your story sounds exactly like usual events of classic WoW, and what amazing days those were! Like the damn bridge in AV lol! It didn't even matter if your toon was a baby, EVERYONE was in the fight. And omg how annoying was it, walking into a town just to find your flight master, quest givers, and vendors all dead? And they didn't exactly rush in respawning. Ahh, so brutal was it all :) Thank you, this story made my day and gave me the nostalgic warm fuzzies. P.S. Warmode in BFA has given me a lot of flashback feels from this time. A lot of the same vibe, people actually talking in questing areas, hunting down groups, etc. I put a message in general the other day, that some 120s were camping and banking an area and left coords, and OMG A HUGE group actually showed up!!! I took screen shots I was so happy and excited. Community happened, and these two packs were chasing each other all over. We were all talking, joking, and planning in general chat, and even some Chuck Norris jokes! So yeah, I love warmode (most of the time lol, sometimes it gets my angries going :D)
I do not have any epic world pvp to share like you. Just some short moments that felt epic. The one i remember as very gratifying was acctually in WoTLK. I was peacefully fishing in Wintergrasp on my holy undead priest. An alliance DK showed up probably thinking I was an easy kill. What he didn´t check was my gear. Full pvp set. He got the first hit then I feared him constantly and melt him down in a few sek. He did not come back. (I hated DK's) The other moment I can´t forget was in Vanilla. I used to ride down to the pool in Valley of Honor to fish while queueing for the next bg. This time on my undead mage. I had just left a bg so I was flagged. I mounted up and halfway down the slope I got catched by an alliance solo rogue that instantly killed me and then vanished. That was a true kill of honour and teached me a lesson. You can´t feel secure even if you are in a horde city.
I think one of my favorite pvp experiences was in this expansion. I main a holy priest and was in shadow while doing a free for all pvp WQ, i was minding my own business and killing the npcs instead of anyone else. Then this DH on Horde (im horde as well) started to camp me and trash talk me in general chat and all that fun stuff, so in guild chat i was like "Hey guys this horde DH has been camping me for like 10 minutes can i get some help?" We had our GM, a really really good frost mage, one of our officers, a super good ret pally, and a pvp main shadow priest come help me. I swapped back to holy and started healing them when they showed up. We wiped the area of all horde and alliance repeatedly to the point where it was only us four in the entire zone as far as horde went. No alliance were in sight for miles around the world quest either. It felt so amazing, i think i was the only one who died during that and it was because i ended up having like five people on me chain ccig me too haha. It was really epic to have our guild smash their faces in and claim the whole zone for ourselves.
For me, when questing on my Dwarf Hunter in the Night Elf zone back in WOTLK I crossed paths with a Night Elf Druid who asked me if I wanted to come along to raid Horde territory. At this point I never even seen a Horde player yet and accepted his invite despite having no idea if we were even up to the task. A little while later he found three other players questing in the same zone for the party and we were off. They were all Night Elves with me being the only member of a different race. We then spent a very long time hoofing it on foot towards Horde territory in Kalimdor since all of us were too low level for mounts yet. We hoofed it all the way to Durotar in one big running marathon. When we got there we eventually got into fights with low level Horde players within our level range which resulted in a big battle between our party and a party of horde players. Eventually though two level 80 horde toons showed up to spoil the fun so we got the heck outta there. They caught and kill those in my party but I somehow survived since I booked it in a different direction than the others, and they must have decided to go for the group instead of the straggler.
Really cool story nixxiom! My best PvP experience is probably a bit of a bore to you, but I have always been fascinated by the fact that sometimes you encounter horde/alliance and choose not to attack them, so my story is quite typical. I met and did some quests alongside a tauren around BC times, we /waved to each other and started clearing a questarea without killing each other, he pulled a bit much and I decided to help him and he helped me on some mobs before /waveing goodbye to me. I really enjoyed the aspect of knowing we could kill each other but instead helping each other out.
Smolderthorn was awesome in vanilla. This kind of stuff happened all the time. Also the 3 man Onyxia kill, the 25k chain lightning crit, and one horde guild managed to kill Thrall using a quest that turned you hated with your own faction. Shout out to Nightmares Asylum, Exo, Transedence and Beyond Reckoning.
This made me cry because of how amazing this story is I wish I got an experience like this
You think you do, but you DON'T.
EHHEHEHEH LUL
Sadly there is no world pvp of this caliber anymore.
Shrek The Ogre sadly
wPvP guilds do this sort of thing.
ED is the place to look from my experience. Division VII And WSB do lots of huge wPvP.
Nixxiom, I've been a follower from the very beginning. For years I was just horrible heroin addict using his cheap cellphone at wifi hotspots to watch YT videos to take my mind off my shitty situation. I did that for literally 6 years, but 2 years ago I finally got my act together and now I'm 2 years sober with my own house and a 15 month old son. This may seem exaggerated but if not for you, moocluck, Oxhorn and his Fallout knowledge, and many others, I seriously would've just killed myself from the misery I put myself through. Thank you, THANK YOU, for just being you man. You've never failed to make me smile. God bless man, and don't stop what your doing.
A good friend of mine used to be addicted to heroin, so I can really express some strong empathy. Not everyone would have the strength to pick themselves up by their own bootstraps, pull their act together, and overcome the enemy within themselves - but that's what you did. You succeed where others would've failed, so for that you have some massive respect from me. Thanks for the comment and thanks for being an inspiration to not only myself, but to others who might be suffering from the same problem.
Jaime Perez well freaking done on your real life epic battle win
+Nixxiom thanks man, and to anyone else, no matter how low you go you can ALWAYS make it back. Addiction is a disease, not a mental defect or lack of control, it can be treated and needs CONTINUED treatment. Im not saying AA or NA is the answer, nothing truly is. I went through the whole rehab circuit in the ventura county area, and it honestly didn't help, i just met more people with better dope to shoot up. It may sound cliche but YOU have to want to stay sober, and I finally pushed myself to real sobriety, 2 weeks before i found out my wife was pregnant. Now im a welder and im still getting more certifications, and im making a decent living enough for me to start up blacksmithing part time! Basically, from my personality experience, dreams DO come true, but you have to work HARD to obtain it. And I don't consider myself special, I believe ANYONE can do it
Jaime Perez Life is a fucking roller coaster man
Respect bro, We're all proud of you. (: keep it up like that
My first PvP experience...?
*Vietnam flashbacks*
My first pvp experience...?
*concentration camp flashbacks*
Bidmartinlo lol
Faez recovery woah to far
@@goonz3l687 whats the difference, people died in both wars, its offensive ot agree with a joke about one but not another
@@smuttul2200 says the ballsack
Make a full machinma of this memory please :D
Holy fuck that would be sick
LagKingS.O.S. yes
LagKingS.O.S. Yes please.
LagKingS.O.S. make this Happen!!!!
Make this happen!!!
I think it is so sad how newer World of Warcraft players will never experience something like this.
Mangs all this makes me want to play WoW since I play hearthstone too but it sucks if new players like me will never get to experience this
Thicc Ass Lord xD you will now, when Classic releases :D
or cause drama with crossroads with group of players harassing quest givers until hordies come and defend
New players are daft cunts. They'll never experience anything like this because the community is a pool of toxic waste
Im gonna troll the barrens chat with my troll, remember me
If you're from the scarlet crusade server, that wasnt a troll shaman, that was my troll hunter Njord. I was like the go-to troll of my guild for pvp stuff, since i did that far more than any of my other guildies. I organized that raid as part of a rp-pvp event between a collection of horde guilds called "Unity" (The Darkspear, Storm Wolves, The Impalers, and Savagarl) and our rivals on the alliance side.. I'm having a brainfart on their guild names. But yea, it was a RP PVP war that had been going on for quite some time. If im remembering right, I planned this assault after an assassination attempt on my character.
Such good memories. Wish i still had the contact info for some of my guildies, they'd love to see this video. I LOVE How this is being recalled on youtube so many years later. I feel... a sense of pride.
Sidenote: Now that i recall, that "Shaman" could have also been Zulazeel or Hakanti if it was a woman troll. They helped me quite a bit with setting up and organizing the raid groups
Gaaaaaaa, im mad i cant remember the alliance guild's names. Particularly the main one. Their guild leader was good IRL friends with the original leader of my guild, The Darkspears
Ohh yea, this was second battle in this war. Our first one was in Arathi Highlands i think... wherever the gryphon mountain thing was. We dominated that place, took screencaps and had dinner at the bottom of their keep.
bloodydove5718 He said smolderthorn US
It sounds like so much fun seems a big change from now
Wrong server dude lol
Yeah a lot of old WOW was pretty bad, but the feeling of community was always strong.
Felippe pretty much the only real thing i missed about it.
True
Felippe nowadays there is no more capital city raids :S
carlos lfr yeah i try to made some capital raid but no one is following thats pretty boring
carlos lfr it only ever happens to expansions that have your main capital city be elsewhere or new content contained within the new zones
I was lvl 70 and traveling for Tanaris i meet a lvl 50 and saw he was running trying to escape and i remember i help him, i was a warrior with talents in proteccion because i want to protect the players so my honor was prove that day, y charge the scum aliance and star fighting i didn't know that the enemy was a pvp pro player and he crush me like a grave but when i was almost dead the 50 priest heals me with all his strength and we made it kill that dog and escape for that place, that sealed my destiny. Today i am a warrior tank and remember the low priest of that day
Sorry my english i'm from argentina but your videos inspire me
Arkael Games What the fuck?
Arkael Games you are a trully warrior my friend.
Un argentino aca tambien.
What the fuck indeed...
You are not just a Warrior, but a true member of The Horde. Always help and stand up for each other. That's how I play and that's how everyone who picks that red and black banner should.
I was there, alliance side, been playing since day one, and this experience you described it spot on, and yes, if I had not experienced this, I would have quit the game long ago. but since I was there trough out wow's evolution, I will see it through, yes I still play non stop since day 1, and will continue. till the end.
You fucking liar no you werent
I remember my first battle. Early BC, I can't have been more than lv30, a dorky dwarf hunter noob with a forest spider and a gun. Someone in my guild "united force of Sweden" had gathered a whole bunch of european nationality leveling guilds in Ashenvale. We must have been over 160 players there, nobody bigger than lv45, and we formed a whole bunch of raid groups. Balls of Brittish Steel were there, the Greek Alliance, guilds from Germany, France, Hungary, the Neatherlands, Turkey, Russia... I had never thought about how people from all over europe played this game on my server, Hellfire EU, at the time.
We charged on the Crossroads, killing everything in our path like a flood of death. The NPC's were low enough level for us to kill off easily with those numbers, and it only took a few minutes for us to kill almost every NPC in the crossroads. Players from the horde started pouring in. Same level range as us at first, and we all fought hard to keep control of the area.
Then he came. One single tauren. I couldn't even determine what class he was. All I saw was the giant shoulderpads on this already giant beast of a man. We all stopped our fighting, and this army of the united european alliance stood before him, having grown to over 200 strong since the havoc began. And he stared us down, preparing.
Some tiger-looking beast attacked him from the flank, and in his moment of seemingly insignificant distraction, everybody charged. The beast-man, this mighty minotauric soldier, started to mow us down with gory efficiency, even though it looked like he carefully, almost surgically, cut us down one at a time.
After ressurecting twice, he was finally down to really low health. I remember running up to him, seeing suicidal fighters from my side throwing themselves at him to just maybe land a single additional blow to him. Enough of us must have done that, because he actually started to loose gear pieces, and by the time I had landed only two more shots in his hide, he fell at the overwhelming force of my n00b countrymen.
After that, several more of them flooded in, max level players of every race the horde had to offer (except blood elf, I explicitly remember a disturbing lack of blood elves in general), and we were effortlessly beaten back.
In my final moments before realizing we had been beat, I looked back on that tauren. He ressurected, and uttered a few words in the orc tongue, and then got on his enormous (even for him) mount, and rode off in the direction of orgrimar.
I never really did any PVP since then, and I'm honestly kind of sorry as to how it's not really a thing anymore, world pvp. But i do look back fondly on that day still.
This story makes me wish if i played vanilla wow ..damn
I would tell you that you should play vanilla wow right now, but the stability of the current vanilla servers arent that great. But I can assure you, on vanilla servers this type of stuff happens every day or two. I was in a 100 v 100 hillsbrad battle myself a few weeks ago.
Shrek The Ogre well after seeing ur comment i think i rly need to .. cheers mate .. btw in what server are u playing ?
Elysium is your best choice right now, I recommend playing on the Anathema or Elysium realm.
Elysium it is .. so excited for this 😊 playing wow like i never played it before it should be great .. cya there my freind ☺
Hope you enjoy it... although I wish you played on original nostalrius when it was out! Elysium is still good, but old nostalrius was at the top.
I had something happening like this aswell, not on retail, It was on a private server. Some guy asked for more people to do the achivement [For The Horde] , and I was like "Yeah I should lend a hand...can't take long" , So we all form this raid group of 40 ppl, and we head to bootybay, grab that portal to Gnomergan. And then we start to plan an attack, we all disscused to keep a low profile, since most players hang in Dalaran we thought we could do it without bringing attention on us. Then we charge in Ironforge, no resistence, we easily kill thei leader, then we head for the tram. But we did not go unoticed, The Alliance discovered what we were doing. We are in Stormwind now, we head into the Keep to kill Varyan, The Alliance put some resistence, but nothing major, we now know their are fully aware of our intention. We quickly take the boat to Teldrasil, and there we are meet by an 40 man alliance raid that was tracking us from Stormwind. We fight, and die, and fight more, but in the end we kill the night elf leader. Now we have to head to the Exodar. We go in there, hoping to get it over quick, but they were waiting for us, we are pushed out. So now, the dk in our group give us Path of Frost, and we make a base on the sea, and now... we wait, we send rogues and druids inside to see if they left. A rummor started between the raid members, that there was a snitch. But it became clear that a snitch was having his way when we heared on the world chat the words "Orgrimmar is under attack" , It was a sock, we were no longer a single 40 man raid, we were 2 full 40 man raids, we were literally all the max lvl characters on the server, and we were so far, the city was defensless. But we finally find a warlock to summon us, we reach the city, just in time to see that we were late...Thrall was dead. We all disbanded, it was over. But then, we heared the Alliance is heading to ThunderBluff, we will not stand for this. The calls to arms filled the world chay, and in 5 minutes we were infront of Cairn, making our last defense, then a player, orc warrior If I recall well, step forward, and gaved a speech "There will be a day when we will fail, when we lay on the ground, and everything is lost, when our spirit will be broken, But, that day is not today, TODAY WE WIN" (at least That's what I recall he said), Everyone was yelling "FOR THE HORDE!" And when the Alliance showed itself, we slaughtered them, they didn't even lay a finger on Cairne, maybe a few arrows, but no fingers. Now we had the upper hand, we all move as the Alliance makes their move, and we charge into the Exodar, kiling the prophet. The day is ours...
Did we just start the 4th war? Maybe
Was it worth it?
You can bet your arss it was!
Yknow my most epic battle was back in WoTLK, it was on my lvl 80 Paladin human, and it was beautiful. First thing to say, this was guild vs guild rppvp, only way to really get big pvp goin on back in the day, I was a part of a guild called the Scarlet Crusade, and we of course, were rp based in the non-destroyed part of the Scarlet Enclave, as a remnant group of the crusaders who managed to either go into hiding, or mobilize from the Monastery. Back then we had a pretty big feud going on with a horde guild that If i can remember correctly was named "Plague Inc" or something like that, they were a pvprp based group, as the name kinda sudjests. However they loved the idea of having 'crusaders' as rivals, and we managed to use some warlocks to chat with eachother to organize a fight (remember the good ol days of demonic speak between factions, i miss those). We had the grand idea that Plague Inc, would run in and take over lightshields tower, and begin making their move on Lights Hope Chapel. Once they hit the tower we would be notified via gryphon to intercept the foul undead, so we made haste for Lights Hope chapel, and began to build up our defenses, we had a formation made up and everything for this. Our healers would take the rear, holding the line ahead of them, in the middle was our warriors/paladins. ill get to their purpose in a second. In the front lines we had all of our hunters/mages and a few shadow priests. They were there to rain hell on them from a distance at the start of the battle, then fall back behind the Paladin/Warrior line once the real fight began. We had roughly 300 ppl in the guild at the time, only 120 or so of them were online for the event. I was one of the guilds commanders, in charge of my own platoon. The way the fight would be settled is we were to push the undead as far back from Lights hope Chapel as possible, if we managed to push them back to Corrins Crossing then we would 'win' in a sense. however if they managed to completely decimate our defenses, and be able to enter the walls of Lights hope, then we lost. and by enter i don't mean 1 or 2, but about 80% of the enemies team would have to be residing in Lights hope. Anyways so, our hunters are using their eagle vision to scope out where the enemy will come from, and im sitting at a campfire with my squad, chatting and awaiting the coming battle, when one of our hunters gives the signal, "Death coming on the horizon, from the roads" another hunter sounded off "Deathknights leading a small group from the north of the lake, across the water". in response to that, I took my group and we marched around to the north gate, along with a solid amount of people. We found they gathered roughly 100 ppl of their own, a little under the numbers we had, but they had more Class diversity among themselves. so it balanced out. My team consisted of another paladin, a warrior, a priest, and a hunter, two healers, a tank, and two dps (one of which is me). We stand guard as the deathknights approach, one of them doing a mount taunt in the distance as he motivates his troops with a quick yell of their guilds battle anthem, and before long we see them charging in. All of a sudden the light is clashing with Plague Inc, and it was quite the bloodbath. however, we had the upper hand, we had the better engage and lockdown, as well as the fact we were better organized. alot of their squishy dps bolted in first, getting pelted by hunter fire before succumbing to paladin burst and warrior beat downs. As we were gaining a foothold against them, a hunter from the other side came to our battle to inform us of how the fight was going on the other side (even if we had guild chat, we enjoyed the small rp moments we could find even in battle) as he spoke of the line taking a bruising from an unexpected ammount of force, we got a guild wide message telling us to converge. So in order to do so, without losing the northern wall, we made a plan to "Push" the enemy wave in a small crest, to wrap them into their main group, and in turn give us a flanking position on the enemy. It worked like a charm, the group they sent to the north had already dwindled down in size, and was easy to push around, anyone respawning was forced to run around and rejoin, because they couldnt just walk into the chapel and say they won without suitable numbers. As we pushed them back into their group, Plague incorporated began to make a mad dash straight for lights hope Chapel, trying to push through our lines without any regard to the battle, just to say they won. However, sadly as most people must know. When you blatantly ignore a paladin, mage, warrior, or hunter (esspecially hunter) in WoTLK, there was hell to pay. The members charging through were getting stunned and burst down left and right, however the backline to the enemy was trying to curve around us to get to our healers in the back. many of our healers began to get singled out as our guild was getting to focused on killing the defenseless, instead of aiming for the ones attacking us. I had to begin yelling in guild chat to regroup and fight back at the ones casting spells, and the deathknights pulling our healers away one by one. We finnaly regained our senses, losing roughly a third of our forces (due to respawn timers), however they had lost about half of theirs, and we began pushing them back.we were winning easily, as they ran away, it made it easier to single out and target those we would kill. And shortly after they had started being pushed back, we were at Corrins Crossing, and in surrender, the leader of Plague Inc. a warlock who, sadly I cant remember the name of, came forth and bore the white flag (a duel flag with another horde member lol). We of course, being crusaders, weren't having a surrender. We killed the leader of Plague Inc. and burned his body in holy light, one of our guild commanders (a warrior of course) took his charred head as a trophy of battle. The remainder of the enemy guild went into a rage about the death of their commander, or simply began wallowing in the buildings, trying to hide from the 'cleansing' that we had began to do.
That's my favorite pvp story ive ever had. Sadly after Cataclysm, my Scarlet Guild disbanded, I cant say anything about Plague Inc, seeing as how i stopped playing recently, however I still enjoy talking about the fun times ive had on the game :D hope you all enjoyed the story.
This took me quite some time to read, but God, am I jealous. This story sounds A W E S O M E!
As a new player I'm extremely jealous. I don't need to know much to know I won't get to experience this.
Just try a private server and you might experience something similar.
try nostalrius
not in a million year. A private server no matter how big will never be able to compare to the real deal
Care to explain why you think that it cant compare to the real deal?
there wont be enough players as there is a lot more players in real wow than in private server
"At the time, I didn't even know how to SHIFT-click a name"
Wait. I've been playing WoW for about 7 years now. What happens if you SHIFT-click a name? 😂 😂
TBC was when I started. My most epic pvp experience was already some time into the game. I was leveling in stranglethorn vale, small skirmishes started and I started gathering my horde lads to overcome the alliance. We ended with a raid group literally hunting alliance all over stranglethorn. Was bloody awesome.
Why is this not in the lore of Warcraft
Dr. Pig it is In my heart my guy FOR THE HOARD
Skela Ton *hoard* really?!
@@Vinnyzzzz He just wants more treasure.
"Get f*cked from behind"
That explains my first pvp exp...
Sad, isnt it?
#bringbackclassicwowback
*Cricket sound*
its not about the game, its about the community. and when was the last time you opened up a raidgroup for big open world pvp? last time i did it was in WoD when we gathered in warspear and marched over the water around ashran to stormshield.
thats nothing blizzard could fix or even needs to. those are COMMUNITY events. so just get them going.
Make WoW great again!
bring back classic back wow back
#Elysium
This is what was so awesome about old vanilla, like other people mentioned.
The community, and the feeling of camaraderie.
People were invested in the world and cared about each other.
I have a similar experience from Tarren Mill fights throughout my years of playing.
But my very first pvp experience was in Ashenvale around level 24. But that wasn't as grand a scale as the one you talked about
I remember being in Wintergrasp on my disc priest. I was inside the keep with an alt's guildie that i didn't know, he didn't even know I had a toon in his guild. There was a dwarf priestess and a male human prot paladin fighting us. We 2v2'd for like 15 minutes. I went oom (it never occured to me to run off and drink) and my arms warrior finally fell. It was such an amazing feeling, I never did arena. It was only just things like WG and random bgs back then. We got so close to downing them and the warrior, his name was Chainsaaw, says to me one of the coolest things. "That was -don't remember dwarf name- and she is among the top pvpers on alliance side on this server. You did really well there, do you have an arena team?" I was literally dumbstruck...I just said no and thanked him for the fun and left. Was a mistake, I bet we could have grown into a solid team if I had even been considering arena at the time.
There was also the time in wrath that my prot/ret pally, friend's holy pally, and his friend's prot/ret pally went and killed the draenei Phropet. It took over two hours. It was such a drawn out fight that my shield and my back up both broke. Then I ran back and changed to ret on rez and his friend fought until he died, then ran back and fought as prot. It was so fun.
My first PvP experience was kind of similar. I was somewhere around lvl 47 on my Undead Warlock, and I joined a raid group which also turned out to be several raid groups. We got on a ship that went to Stormwind, but jumped into the ocean before it made it to port, then cast waterbreathing on everyone, and attacked from the sea like the undead pirates in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. It was awesome seeing tons of players just walk out of the ocean and attack the city like that, especially when I too had never even seen an alliance player before.
i wanna hear about your first dungeon experience.
Oh gosh. It was a mess. I shall provide.
ill hold you to it you glorious creature you.
ricky phillips here is mine...tbc deadmines....4 warriors and me on a hunter...all noobs
please do it Nixxiom. man you really have a talent for storytelling.
Can you do how you a moocluck (whenever he uploads) met?
My personal favorite has to be when I hit level 30, my friends were called by a few other groups to try and lure out one of the biggest PVP groups, Overdose. We were bait, they were the prey for four guilds that were laying in wait. There had to be nearly five hundred people waiting while our small group of thirty attacked Westfall. It wasn't long since an alt of the Guild's leader was there in Westfall, which I was told is why we were attacking at that moment, and he logged off. Few minutes of slaughter and we see a line of Gryphons, Alliance PVPers, Overdose. We had done our job, and now we were going to die.
Except, we didn't die, we were decimating by focusing on healers and ripping apart tanks. The Guild leaders were shocked that a group of Nonpvpers were just taking it to these guys, so they came in with reinforcements when our numbers dwindled. The server lagged so much we had people disconnecting and people having to leave because of the lag. All the while I was in awe at all of this, we had taken Westfall, and not only did our siege succeed, our occupation of Westfall lasted three whole days before we were kindly asked by a GM to stop. We of course obliged, but we came back after a month had past to do it all again.
We got destroyed the second time.
Vardak - Mutiny of Thrall US was my name.
Where are the screenshots you took at huhhh
Nonoun on his old PC :D
Čech?
Nonoun ne, nejsem Čech...
Sorry :D jen koukám že někdo od nás taky sleduje Nixxioma.. :D
Jakub Jindra Čechů je 10 milionů, dost lidí se najde
This is what WoW was all about, I had a similar experience. Shame the game is changed to a point where this never happens any more, everyone levels up far too fast.
if only people were this organized now
GamerSix66 yes
People ar eretarded now
I love how positive your viewer base is and how kind they are to eachother c: great story by the way
damn Nixxiom, this is some historical shit right hear.
Vanilla WOW: Un'goro Crater - I was Human Paladin level 53 vs Undead Mage level 55. He was from the guild "Juice" and Juice was THE horde guild on Stormscale - US. I was questing in the tar pits and he shot me in the back, I looked and saw it was not only a mage, but one 2 levels higher than I was...so I ran my ass off. He came after me, we're both running bc we're both still in combat and neither of us wants to stop to mount, we run from just outside Marshal's Refuge to near the beginning of the incline exit to Tanaris. I turn around because I realize he's going to follow to the ends of the earth, and there isn't a base until Gadgetzstan, so I curve behind a tree and stop, I need melee distance.
I jump him and the battle starts. We're running around in a tight circle for what seems forever, I have this big 2H sword that I'm swinging once a year or something and he has his bolts of all sorts he keeps jumping backwards to shoot at me. Sometimes when the circle gets too tight I cut the corner and melee him right in the face. He's a mage out leveling me, so I've popped all my oh crap buttons including lay on hands, bubbles, potion, and bandages (yes healer using bandages) and I'm down to my very last health and mana and everything is on cooldown, but I see so is HE! So I think he's down to enough health for my Hammer of Wrath to finish him, but that means I have to stop to cast the spell and let him get away from me, at which point I will never melee him again because he's going to turn around and bolt me in the face from 30 yards, so I have to commit to it on faith and faith alone that the hammer will reach him and that it will be enough, just like a REAL PALADIN. So I stop and start casting Hammer of Wrath, he doesn't realize I've stopped for just a split second, then he breaks left to get behind a thin tree to maybe block my line of sight, so I wouldn't be able to get my shot off, and then he would pop back out and ice me out bc at that point I'd just be standing in the middle of a clearing doing nothing. Finally, my GLORIOUS HAMMER OF WRATH starts flinging through the air more slowly and beautifully than I had ever noticed before, however, while it is flying so slowly I realize this could be a MISS, and then I would be so dead. So I'm hoping, hoping, hoping it is not a miss, and the Hammer of Wrath arcs left to follow him, this sizzling chain of wrathful light blue lightning trailing it like in a comet, that might miss. And you know what happened?! It hit him in the face and killed him mid jump, so his body froze and fell to the ground, lifeless.
He left his body instantly so I couldn't taunt him, which I was totally going to do. Instead of pondering that victory for one second longer, I rode as fast as I could to Gadgetzstan and logged because I didn't think I could win that again, plus my lay on hands, bubbles, potions, and even bandages were on cooldown (yes in vanilla I bandaged while I bubbled to save mana on heals and to not be interrupted by anything and get the full effect of the bandage, 2000hp for heavy runecloth bandages! Potions and bandages were on separate cooldowns, I think). Plus, I totally needed to come down from that high and I didn't want to see that guy ever again, and I never did. So for all eternity he, a level 55 undead mage who shot me in the back and wouldn't let me go, got his comeuppance from a lowly 53 ret pally how had only two range abilities, Hammer of Wrath and the 1% chance in my infinite range imagination that I could actually kill a (vanilla wow op) mage one on one who already had the upper hand and was 2 levels higher than I was, as long as I jump him from behind a big ass tree.
Thanks, Nixxiom for reminding me of this.
What an amazing story LMAO. Respect!!
damn this shit gave me goosebumps
Truly a glorious tale. Brings me back to the organized raids on Orgrimmar I used to take part in as a nelf druid during BC and Wrath of the Lich King.
Your story takes me back man, it was great to hear! Nostalgia yo
I had experiences like that. Being a lowbie Undead Warrior on Boulderfist. Just doing my questing, and I got to Hillsbrad. I just remember seeing level 60 horde and this Tauren just stops next to me and says "hey little buddy, its best that you don't go any farther. There's a battle ragging up ahead." I was so confused, I asked if I could go see and he said to be careful. I run behind them and see the fighting spread out between South Shore and that tower. Just raw fighting with spells flying everywhere. I just watched in amazement and suddenly. Killed. Happened so fast I didn't know what hit me. A female human mage just smacked me with a frostbolt.
I eventually joined in the fighting and I couldn't wait until I hit 60. I eventually switched sides since my friends played Alliance and we would fight in those battles from Vanilla up to the end of BC. The most fun I had in the game was World PVP big battles.
So it was BC on a private server if I remember correctly... I was a human warlock, around level 30 and in stranglethorn vale, just starting with the quests at Nessingwary, you know... and I was killing some tigers, when suddenly 2 horde players attacked me and absolutely crushed me, one of them was around level 50 or something probably helping out his friend who was around level 30 just like me. So I was like damn... I can't level here, they will kill me again! So I asked in my guild if someone could help me out, so 2 lvl 70 guys flew over from Stormwind and obliterated the 2 horde guys. But this is only the beginning. Turns out those 2 also asked in their guild, and suddenly 3 or maybe 4 of level 70 horde guys came over and killed us again. So we also asked for support, our guild was only very small so we asked in general chat in Stormwind for just a little help. Half an hour later - around 30 to 40 horde soldiers versus me, my guild friends and random guys from Stormwind, we were also around 30 to 40 but the battle was very even then... it was just a massive battle around the nessingwary camp (the server population was very low, so 30 to 40 people from every faction was about everything we had) and it was all because some random dudes attacked me while leveling and I called for help. :D
As an alliance player, I remember raiding Crossroads for the first time. I was around level 45, during that time there were very few 60's so it was mostly people around that range. We had maybe 4 or 5 level 60's in our raid. It was a small raid. When we clashed with Crossroads, we held it for a while, until the Horde started to show up. I remember seeing the first enemy level 60. It was a Troll Rogue decked out in Shadowcraft set. He was accompanied by an Orc Shaman who was rocking his Elemental set. I won't forget all these low level players trying to take down these two, they were like raid bosses. Although we did manage to kill them a few times, soon more Horde started to show up, and after a few skirmishes here and there, and the level 60 rogues popping out of nowhere to kill the backlines and lowbies, we had to retreat. I'll never forget that Troll Rogue and his Shammy friend, and that one cool ass female Undead Rogue who came out of nowhere.
sadly experiences like this just don't happen anymore. not only because of all the changes to the game but because the old fantasy D&D style RPG'ers have long since given up on it.
Omg,the memories...thank you! I did a few southshore raids back in vanilla :),and also there was an elite undead you could summon from the graveyard,he could alone wipe all the npc's...good old times.
And Alterac Valley,you was battling all night,get to bed,vent to school,come back and the same battle was still on :)
wow your lucky my first PvP experience was getting killed, in outlands, in hellfire peninsula, by a level 110.
multiple fucking times
same lmao
Ik im late but my first battle was losing a duel with my (lower than 15lvl) tauren monk against shaman with the same level, npc guys were helping me at the beginning but then they started attacking me and i ran away, after the battle i deleted my monk
I remember I was a Night Elf Rogue, still am actually, same character so many years later. I was in Astranaar in Ashenvale. I can see the robot chat spam that where I am is under attack. So I start looking around to see what was going on and since my computer was a potato I had my view distance on super low. All of a sudden I get to the bridge leading out of the town that would eventually lead out of it and in to wherever the Horde came from. My screen exploded. When I say hundreds and hundreds, I literally mean it. THERE WAS TONS OF HORDE. I got randomly invited into a group so of course I hit accept. I couldn't have been more than level 15. I get told that Horde is trying to take Ashenvale. Long story short, they kicked our ass and all I could do other than die was to sit back and throw knives.
We decided we needed revenge, and with what you just said in this video is exactly what happened to us. We ran to Tarren Mill and proceeded to nuke them, with the Horde at one point pushing us out. I think it must have lasted for 3 hours. It was so much fun.
Yo that shit used to be insane fun! You just left out one part...The server wide lag that shit would cause. I remember you could 8 zones over and can tell when there was a raid due to the server lag.
My most epic PvP experience was on my Gladiator Warrior in the Temple of Kotmogu. At the time Gladiator Warriors were very overpowered and so I was kicking ass and taking names. If you know that battleground then you know that when you hold onto the ball you get a stacking buff increasing the damage you do and the damage you take as well as decreasing the healing you take. I held onto that ball for so long that I grew to about 20 feet tall. All the healers were trying to keep me up. I ran over to get to get the Berserker buff and this made me grow even taller and turn red. So I was a 25 foot hulking warrior killing everyone until the entire enemy team had to focus me to take me down. But I didn't go down with out a fight. I killed at least 17 players on my rampage and continued to kill more after I was rez'd. This was my most epic PvP experience.
Well that was just amazing. It sounds like lots of fun. Why don't you try to recreate it? I'm sure many people would participate in such an event.
For me it was when we groped Orgrimmar for the first time. I remember we carefully planned that we enter on the back door, and slowly make our way to the front gate, because all we presumed of orgrimmar at the time is that it probably looks like Stormwind: the main square being overpopulated, and the rear areas somewhat empty.
It was epic. Around 80 ppl (2 raid groups) came together, and it was just awesome :D
My VERY FIRST pvp experience was epic too. It was in Redrige Mountains. I was going back to return my quests and all of sudden a fucking lvl 40 guy ran out of bushes and one shot me fucking awesome....
I genuinely cried, thank you for bringing back some memories. Pvp used to be a lot more fun when things were simpler.
And I'm not even part of the notification squad
#Represent!
Wrathguard1 Same
I love this video man. It is so well done.. I love how you put those live images and narrated it so that we can imagine with our imagination how it really was,.. the War, Chaos, true Battle happening all at the same time.. Great stuff and times!
Why Nixxiom is night elf when you are such a horde fanboy?
He couldn't resist those Night Elf babes
But for real if I had to guess it was to play with friends or a guild on the Alliance side.
My most fond PvP experience was when I discovered the battlemasters in Ironforge during Wrath as a level 11 gnome mage. I didn't know about queuing back then (this was before the random dungeon queue) so discovering it was pretty remarkable. I remember waiting on the third level of your flag room, jumping down and frost novaing anything that touches our flag.
Another big PvP experience I had was on a low level rogue questing in Stranglethorn. The battlemaster chest or whatever even popped up so I checked it out. It was only me and a max level horde rogue who sapped me and toyed with me. However, I managed to sap him and immediately begin to open the chest. I didn't have the glyph so I wasn't able to click the confirmation dialogue box before he killed me, but it was so close. A couple people watched and whispered me if I got it saying that was awesome and I felt pretty proud of myself.
I also remembered when I first tried keybinding. It was on my tauren resto/ele shaman back in Wrath. Still have that Shaman too, he just sits on a random server by himself.
I wish I could experience something like that, but sadly, wow has changed a bit and people did aswell - they got lazy. If I asked in Guild chat, or any other chat for help, to make a big glorious raid group and fight for hours -- the reply would be clear. ' Just wait for level 110, noob. you can pvp in BGs through the BG finder.'
I just discovered your channel. I'm loving to hear those stories as they make me remember my golden days. Only those who loved stuff like that can fully understand. Thanks dude!
if only this shit still happened.
My most epic pvp experience was in BC. We were raiding Ironforge, and we some how got our warlocks on top of the AH. So we all got summoned by the locks. The Alliance couldn't attack us up there, but we could attack them from where we were. We had two full 40 man raids on top of the Ironforge AH just killing everyone underneath. After about 10 minutes everyone started getting spam tells from the GM saying if you don't get down in the next 10 seconds Blizz will take action in discipline (aka Banhammer). So as soon as we all got the tell, everyone just jumped off the AH. I'll never forget the picture of 80 Horde just scattering down. It was a bloodbath. Horde and Ally fought for a couple hours after that. More Horde came, and then more Ally came. We eventually got outnumbered and destroyed, but it was the funnest wpvp I have ever been apart of. just hundreds upon hundreds of skeletons littered the floors of Ironforge. Good news was, I got my black war bear! haha The IF boss was the last one I needed at the time.
This is why i wish i played in vanilla, I will NEVER see this in live wow.
My best PvP moment was in Eye of the Storm on my Dwarf Hunter. It's getting late into the game and I was defending the Draenei Ruins. Alliance is close to winning but the Horde is making a strong comeback. Capping the flag more and more and they had started taking Mage Tower.
Then I notice it, the Horde were so spread out that they only had one guy running back and forth to cap. So I run out to mid just as the dude is capping, a few guys in the back defending see me there and try rushing me down but I lay out my traps.
As I'm grabbing the flag my Frost Trap goes off slowing them down and the first guy through end up getting Freezing Trapped. I have the flag now and use Disengage (with Posthaste) to high tail it out of there throwing on Aspect of the Cheetah. Just as they start catching up I throw down a Binding Shot which catches everyone chasing me and make it back to DR! I cap, we win the game, and I've never felt more in tuned with my class or as untouchable in WoW since.
Despite w/e someone achieved on arenas. Nothing compare to the old fresh pvp.
Specially that feeling when you don't really know what's going on.
The old organic world pvp is lost since then, and if you lived it, good for you. Because it won't be back.
I had several epic pvp experiences. At least three epic Southshore vs TM battles. Many many fun lesser battles of the same. Glorious world pvp! Splintertree Outpost, Crossroads, Astranaar, Auberdine, horde trying to hitch rides on boats from Auberdine to raid Darnassus. Is it Lazy Peon that posted the video of the epic horde raid that ended in the massive battle outside Ironforge? I was there as Alliance. From dying in Astranaar, and Auberdine to eventually crushing the horde at the gates of Ironforge. Aaarrgghh the nostalgia! World pvp was honestly how and when I really fell in love with wow. BGs, as epic as some of my Arathi Basin and Alterac Valley memories are, I still hold world pvp more dear.
"I was doing like 10 damage" no, nixxiom, you weren't. You saw "Resisted" because this is classic and resistance was a thing.
You liar.
your story is almost identical to my days of when I started playing in BC and the horde decided to raid every alliance city, i was level 50 but I'd be damned if I wasn't gonna help my horde brethren. Much love and for the horde! The war is ever waging.
playn wow in the oldd days had one of the best feeling i ever had by playn video games.
i mean, you took months to lvl up, and there was toooo many quest that required a group! and everyone feel noob and you were like "yeah man help me, with friendship we can go far!!"
and the most awesome part it was when from a 1v1 in open world it went ib like a 20v20 from both faction hahaha
even duelling on the great wall during pandaria was fucking good!
i dont know how, but wow lost his magic!
tecnically it get improved patch by patch BUT the people, the attitude of players, the atmosphere is changing in bad :(
Watching this made me tear up. It took me back, way back!
I know I'll get hate for this, but my most epic was on my 29 twink nelf rogue back in BC, when the battle ended I had 42 kb's and 2 deaths.. I was so in the zone that game. But then there were sooo many awesome world PvP battles, man.. Nothing will ever compare.. Wish Blizzard would eventually say fuck it and make legacy servers, I'd pay a sub for those til the day I die..
Nickolas Red Bear the only good thing about vanilla was the community, and thats already gone.
Nickolas Red Bear why would you get hate?
Redfield because rogue twinks are retarded and overpowered and there was a 9 lvl difference in vanilla -burning crusade
Greetings Alliance twink brother :) I started out with my twinks on Alliance side as well. I had so much fun with all kinds of classes. I had a level 19 hunter, 39 warlock and mage, 69 paladin, druid, and rogue, 10 priest and hunter. But then blizzard forced leveling in bgs on us, so I tried to level twink many of my characters. (You thought twinking a few characters was hard, try constantly twinking all of them whenever they reach a new or every other bracket, or when a new BIS gear item is available.)
Sorry to say this, but even if Blizzard did do the right thing and brought back legacy servers with old talents and old pvp rules and gear, there is no guarantee that enough of the player base would go there and bring back everything that was good about WoW.
Epic game experiences are much like life, once they pass, you can never go back to exactly the same thing.
I regret that I didn't record hardly any of my epic games, sadly my pc probably wasn't good enough for that, nor was I tech savvy enough.
Remy Lebeau No one knows but us, I had different classes too..
Haha, the feels bro.. God I miss those days, so sad that I'm sure that I'll never experience anything like that ever again...
Do a machinima about that and put the noob in the front line.
This sure brought back some good old memories from June 13, 2005 when Crossroads was being raided. I went there cause a couple of friends at the time were asking for help cause they were being ganked over and over so I showed up and they were able to rez. I killed the rogue and druid couple of times then 20min rolls by and here they come again and with 17 more friends with them they eventually got me so I asked for help from both guild mates and people in Org. I got 34 people to respond which surprised me cause I didn't think anyone would show. Well the battle went on for 2-3 hours and more alliance showed up coming from ashenvale. There was also some coming from wailing caverns so we ran to meet them and had a huge battle at the Forgotten Pools I think it was called. Then once we won that battle we headed back to Crossroads and we then fought even more alliance coming from Ashenvale we pushed them back to Ashenvale and the battle continued at SplinterTree Post in Ashenvale this battle went on and on for half the night like 7-8 hours. This was the most memorable wPvP moment I had don't get me wrong I had some pretty nice ones in Hillbrad Foothills also Eastern PL but this has stuck with me even to this day.
Do a machinima with this,but instead of the troll shaman it's a lvl 58 death knight
New camera of couse i was like "wtf is this in HD or what?"
My most epic pvp experience was getting the achievement of killing all the horde kings as alliance. It was bassically the same but we were all flying around the continents and summoning in other players Orgrimmar was the most epic.
We killed our path in start the fight with Garrosh i belive he was war chief back then and we were fighting the boss on the front and the horde on the back it was awesome f ing awesome. After that we went to all other chiefs and kill them all lol. Never got to experience something like that again. and i got the mount to always remember it
Nixxiom, that beard! God, it's majestic!
My most proud PvP moment was on the Gilneas CtF map. People were looking for a plan and no one had an idea. I stepped up and said "Okay guys, here's the plan." I do a whole spiel on capturing this point, then this point, etc. I had complete control of this group and the PvP match was ours with so little effort. It was such an epic feeling to lead a successful crusade after so many straight losses.
Team Alliance!!!
One thing I remember fondly was a specific scene in arathi basin. At that time I played a Warlock and I had a fondness for destruction (16yr olds loved drakedog!). I remember charging up the hill to the sawmill when this rank 14 warrior came at me. He was very well known ofc and I kind of was prepearing to die, but I wanted to give him a fight. Immolate -> 700 crit, Conflagrate 1,7k crit, searing pain 700 crit, Shadowburn 1~ and a something crit. And there he layed before me. It was that kind of critluck you get once in a livetime, and I had it in the right moment. It felt so extremely good
I want official Vanilla servers so bad..
Even if they come back It will never be the same
Primož Sever well the best pvp I ever had was in Warhammer Online
i guess your wish came true friend :)
vanilla servers wont bring back the 13 year ago community by magic.
People have changed, they just want to show off, that wont make vanilla better than legion (which objectively is a much better full game)
In fact i did see lots of wpvp in legion, not on that level tho, and unlikely bringing up vanilla server will do the trick. Because its the people that has changed.
You know when you like some song or some movie and you get pumped up and get that chills? that happend dude epic story ive already heard some stories about this but this is the best ive ever heared
For the alliance, now, and forever!
The hotstepper yee
The hotstepper Gross
Until you make a horde💀
Man raiding cities was so much fun back in the day. Gathering at the start point then travelling as a convoy was amazing.
printscreens or it didn't happen
should be easy to provide, you said you took some.
this was the normal back in vanilla wow lol
They even made Battleground based on this
lol this used to happen constantly back in the day
My story is one I like to call Anne Frank. We had kind of an experience like that, I was with about 3 of my other online friends and we were questing in the zone for the first time. We got to Tarren Mill, sat in the Inn for about 5 minutes waiting for everyone to get the quests and such, and right as we were about to leave we see a large number of Horde players retreating into town, being chased by straggling Alliance players. We had no idea what to do, there were tons of level 60 players of both factions duking it out on the outskirts and we didnt want to be caught up in it, but we had a bit of a dumb thought. We thought that we wouldnt be able to escape because they had mounts and they could just hunt us down so the only real option was to hide inside the town. We ran as fast as we could towards the Tarren Mill barn, and hopped up some of the wood pieces until we were on one of the beams in the barn, hoping that if they came in they wouldnt see us. All 4 of us sat up there talking and just waiting for the bloodshed outside to stop. It may have been about an hour of just waiting for it to stop, we keep seeing people /yelling "PUSH ON" and "FOR THE HORDE". One of our friends gets a little too patriotic and decides to hop down and run out of the barn, and into the fray. After about 3 seconds of running outside we just see his health bar go from 100% to 0, almost a 1 hit kill. We figure that they saw him run out of the barn so they may come in to see if there are others. We decide we need to move farther north into town so they dont find us. we jump down and run towards the inn, but a hunter spots us and sends his pet after our friend. she figured if its targetting her she can draw it away while we run. she runs off in a separate direction and we watch her health bar drop to 0. we get inside the Inn to find maybe 14-15 other low leveled players hiding in the upstairs. What we didnt know was the hunter was still following us. He came upstairs behind us and killed us all. #goodmemories.
Ever notice how none of these great stories or memories are coming from Legion...or any recent xpansion?
Who looks back fondly and feels nostalgic for the present time? " man I remember yesterday as if it was yesterday".
Notice no one cares? Stop being a little bitch.
I made some great open world PvP experiences in WoD............. until they brought flying back....
Hey if they want to kick out a good raider then let them.
If they are seriously like that they don't deserve you and you should find a better guild.
Notice legion hasnt been out long enough to create anything to look back on?
My first big pvp battle was at Crossroads, it was pretty damned intense. Hours spent fighting for nothing but the fun of it. This was back when I would keep both world and local defense channel open. So whenever it started spamming "under attack" notices I would always at least try to respond if I could.
Why WoW is not a MMO anymore...
Is a MSO
MSOI?
I want to hear about your first raid experience!
Mine was on my first character ( Paladin named Castiel ). It wasn't so great at first due to the guild I tagged along with telling me straight off the bat that all gear is preserved, but it eventually got better due to the experience. It was back in wrath of the lich king in ICC. I was never in a raid before and it blew my mind how big it was. Outside of the citidel I nearly shit myself as this 20 man raid was summoned. These huge rooms with huge bosses and all of us being told the tactics and what to do. It was nuts to me! We wiped halfway through too many times though, and the guild eventually gave up, but I snuck a roll in and actually won a trinket. The lootmaster thought I was in the guild :P
My next raid was an all 70 black temple ( a lot of death knights ) and we ended up wiping on trash mobs after the second boss and the grouped players lost interest and left. There was a lvl 58 dk dwarf yelling at people about not knowing the game and how much better vanilla was...
FOR THE ALLIANCE!
Nailed it
my best experience was a while ago before i realized how shitty Alterac Valley is for horde. I was young, so when i entered the battleground and realized i was the BG leader, i took up the mantle of being the Orc Warrior in charge. Naturally, i gave a rousing speech which was responded to with either "THIS GUY'S GREAT" or "WHAT A FAG", but i didn't care. I was a proud soldier of the horde that day, and even today i am proud of what i did. The battle started, and the alliance started just DESTROYING us. by the time we had made any ground at all, we had maybe 40 reinforcements left to their 300. However, I realized even at that young age, that this was my moment for glory. I managed to organize EVERYONE in the BG into one crucial spot, 300 spartans style, to hold the alliance in a glorious last stand. our 40 reinforcements against their 300, we fought for what seemed like hours. We had good healers, and even better DPS. They were formidable, but they refused to disengage from the fight and go around for some reason. i like to think they had a sense of honor that we shared, and they would not back down from a challenge like this. Eventually, against all odds, we slew them down to the very last reinforcement they had. The horde won a glorious and bloody victory that day, thanks to our sense of unity and my own leadership, even though i was only 14. Lok'Tar Ogar to anyone who remembers that day. May our warsong never fade.
4th day and not max lvl
Filthy casual
I fell upon this tonight at random. This brought back great memories of the game for me. I participated in those massive SS v tm battles. They were epic, I remember one in particular that last like 8 hours on friday night. Because reinforcements kept flowing in on both horde and alliance sides. some of the most fun I've had in WoW (or really any computer game) -- I miss those epic town battles.
Wtf is that tumor on the bottom of your beard?
AV was my most favourite epic PVP moment. The battle where both sides would be locked in combat for hours in the middle. Glorious times. For the Alliance!!!
My most epic PVP experience was actually in Alterac Valley during MoP if you can believe it when I was in highschool. Somehow both teams ended up on that long road just before the alliance stormpike area and we were duking it out like crazy, trying to get a foothold. Horde had managed to backcap everything so Alliance were stuck rezzing at Stormpike. It was absolutely insane. All teams were going for it and we were all yelling "For the Horde" and we finally ended up pushing them back bit by bit until we'd taken SPGY and then we did a mad zerg to cap the final towers and aide station. They had almost no resources left, and then we did a crazy rush to take out the boss and we won with ridiculous numbers. It took an hour and I was very late for a piano lesson but I didn't even care because it was so much fun and it was my first experience of what WoW really could be.
I wish I could experience something like that again.
Back in Cataclysm my guild held the Stormwind cathedral for the better part of a Saturday evening. We had out of combat ressers tucked away neatly with the magic of wall jumping, and it was just something magical to see when the near 60 dead horde all popped up from two well timed mass resses to the surprise of the boys in blue who thought they were sipping at victory. After a while the Alliance got bored, and lost interest trying to push us out. As we ourselves were getting bored of bashing down npcs we were assaulted by waves and waves of level 1 gnomes.
That's exactly how it happened for me, the attack on Southshore, pushed back to Tarren Mill, made the "lord of the rings line" but sadly it ended with the server crashing. But yeah, felt exactly like you describe, it was amazing. The sad part you only get to feel that way the first time.
I once saw one such beautyful line of Gryphins...
...Sadly it was during the start of WoD when we were all stuck above the flight path by the Garroison.
This gave me goose bumps man! As someone who wanted nothing more than to play wow during vanilla days (but due to a spud P/C and tight ass parents I never got to) and only got into the game during TBC I wish I got to experience this phenomenon
I have two pvp memories which stick really well with me, although neither are from WoW and I will only be talking about one memory as it's the only one worth writing home about.
The singular, best, and most interesting memory is in Star Wars Galaxies, some time in 2004. I was a maxed out creature handler and carbineer with some points in Bounty Hunter, and had four rancors, two of which I could have out at the same time. My guild and our ally decided round up a bunch of other GLORIOUS IMPERIAL MASTER RACE guilds to do one massive raid across Tatooine against those sub-human Rebel Alliance players.
My guild attacked Anchorhead, the Rebel Alliance hub city on Tatooine. I, for the most part, sat back letting my largest rancor (whom I had named Odin. He was bigger than most buildings in the game) do most of the work while I killed Rebels who were trying to escape. At some point, a higher level Rebel player snuck up on me and hurt me pretty bad. The fight was fairly even. We were both on our last bits of health, and were completely at the mercy of each others' RNG... before he knew what it felt like to be snuck up on. Odin, the beautiful bastard that he was, came up behind him right at the last second and immediately smashed him into the dirt and let out a triumphant roar during it, potentially saving me as well (the other player and I were both one-shottable for each other at this point).
The rest of the Imperial forces on Tatooine faired well, and were it Planetside 2, the Rebel Alliance sub-human scum would have been locked out of Tatooine. They ended up scattering across the galaxy, mainly sticking to Lok after that.
I love everything about this story! It's so true to the feel of classic WoW world PvP. I clearly remember being low level and "helping" in these fights where I was absolutely useless too, but I ALWAYS joined in, and faithfully watched my LocalDefense channels for new chances. Most of my attacks usually missed as I was way out of my lvl league, but I was passionate, dammit! Haha
You described the build up, beautifully. As it progresses from a couple of players, to waves upon waves of Horde and Alliance joining in the fight. Fields of bones, arcane missiles, and aoe's in every direction. Thing of beauty. Your story sounds exactly like usual events of classic WoW, and what amazing days those were! Like the damn bridge in AV lol! It didn't even matter if your toon was a baby, EVERYONE was in the fight. And omg how annoying was it, walking into a town just to find your flight master, quest givers, and vendors all dead? And they didn't exactly rush in respawning. Ahh, so brutal was it all :)
Thank you, this story made my day and gave me the nostalgic warm fuzzies.
P.S. Warmode in BFA has given me a lot of flashback feels from this time. A lot of the same vibe, people actually talking in questing areas, hunting down groups, etc. I put a message in general the other day, that some 120s were camping and banking an area and left coords, and OMG A HUGE group actually showed up!!! I took screen shots I was so happy and excited. Community happened, and these two packs were chasing each other all over. We were all talking, joking, and planning in general chat, and even some Chuck Norris jokes! So yeah, I love warmode (most of the time lol, sometimes it gets my angries going :D)
I do not have any epic world pvp to share like you. Just some short moments that felt epic.
The one i remember as very gratifying was acctually in WoTLK. I was peacefully fishing in Wintergrasp on my holy undead priest. An alliance DK showed up probably thinking I was an easy kill. What he didn´t check was my gear. Full pvp set. He got the first hit then I feared him constantly and melt him down in a few sek. He did not come back. (I hated DK's)
The other moment I can´t forget was in Vanilla. I used to ride down to the pool in Valley of Honor to fish while queueing for the next bg. This time on my undead mage. I had just left a bg so I was flagged. I mounted up and halfway down the slope I got catched by an alliance solo rogue that instantly killed me and then vanished. That was a true kill of honour and teached me a lesson. You can´t feel secure even if you are in a horde city.
I think one of my favorite pvp experiences was in this expansion. I main a holy priest and was in shadow while doing a free for all pvp WQ, i was minding my own business and killing the npcs instead of anyone else.
Then this DH on Horde (im horde as well) started to camp me and trash talk me in general chat and all that fun stuff, so in guild chat i was like "Hey guys this horde DH has been camping me for like 10 minutes can i get some help?"
We had our GM, a really really good frost mage, one of our officers, a super good ret pally, and a pvp main shadow priest come help me. I swapped back to holy and started healing them when they showed up. We wiped the area of all horde and alliance repeatedly to the point where it was only us four in the entire zone as far as horde went. No alliance were in sight for miles around the world quest either.
It felt so amazing, i think i was the only one who died during that and it was because i ended up having like five people on me chain ccig me too haha. It was really epic to have our guild smash their faces in and claim the whole zone for ourselves.
For me, when questing on my Dwarf Hunter in the Night Elf zone back in WOTLK I crossed paths with a Night Elf Druid who asked me if I wanted to come along to raid Horde territory. At this point I never even seen a Horde player yet and accepted his invite despite having no idea if we were even up to the task. A little while later he found three other players questing in the same zone for the party and we were off. They were all Night Elves with me being the only member of a different race.
We then spent a very long time hoofing it on foot towards Horde territory in Kalimdor since all of us were too low level for mounts yet. We hoofed it all the way to Durotar in one big running marathon. When we got there we eventually got into fights with low level Horde players within our level range which resulted in a big battle between our party and a party of horde players.
Eventually though two level 80 horde toons showed up to spoil the fun so we got the heck outta there. They caught and kill those in my party but I somehow survived since I booked it in a different direction than the others, and they must have decided to go for the group instead of the straggler.
Really cool story nixxiom! My best PvP experience is probably a bit of a bore to you, but I have always been fascinated by the fact that sometimes you encounter horde/alliance and choose not to attack them, so my story is quite typical. I met and did some quests alongside a tauren around BC times, we /waved to each other and started clearing a questarea without killing each other, he pulled a bit much and I decided to help him and he helped me on some mobs before /waveing goodbye to me.
I really enjoyed the aspect of knowing we could kill each other but instead helping each other out.
Smolderthorn was awesome in vanilla. This kind of stuff happened all the time. Also the 3 man Onyxia kill, the 25k chain lightning crit, and one horde guild managed to kill Thrall using a quest that turned you hated with your own faction. Shout out to Nightmares Asylum, Exo, Transedence and Beyond Reckoning.