I'm surprised how many people don't know about the level squish. Shadowlands did a level squish, hence why the level is 32. And the character names got flagged for a name change after not being used/logged into for so long.
I play mainly for the story and team ups and guild buddies, not collecting every last bit of rare armor. I've been playing constantly since 2006 and still enjoy Shadowlands! My main character has 58 days worth of gameplay on him total. If you type /played you see the exact amount of time that character has spent logged in! ANyhows, that orc warlock outfit at the start: Great job!!1
that's how it was for me and literally like this guy i logged back in ten years later... except i left wotlk and returned in bfa . the game was a disturbing contrast of what it used to be lol
A very dear and close (best)friend of mine died during the middle BC. We had played on one another accounts back then, checking out different characters and helping where needed. When he died, the account was unintentionally left behind with me. I had talked with his family, went to dinner with them, etc. I even offered them his account information but none of them cared about a game. I continued to pay for the account until some changes were made making it impossible to log into the account - I was devastated and would have likely continued paying into the account to keep it active for many years, I didn't want to lose the last piece that remained. He was one of those guys that everyone loved and would do anything for anyone without question or expecting anything in return. I logged into the account every now and then for a while, just didn't have the heart to change a thing. I informed his guild what had happened to him, gave them some information about when, where, how, etc. RIP Luke. Miss hanging out, talking wow, snowboards, hunting, and girls.
I logged into characters I hadn't played in 10 years or so to see that I was still in guilds. Some of them have actually pruned so much over the years that I was the guild master of now derelict former super powers. One of them had 999 members back in Cata. It was really sad. They weren't entirely empty or anything either. Some still had hundreds of neglected alts and mains. It put a lot into perspective for me. WoW isn't dead - it's still the biggest MMOPRG available. But the WoW those of us here from the early stages of the game experienced is loooong gone. Most of the people I ran into up until calling it quits for good last month were either newer or classic/tb/wotlk vets that can't shake up their obsession (addiction, really.) All of the people I enjoyed this game with are gone. After 15 years I signed my main off in a little lake in Teldrassil. The last screenshot I took that wasn't charts, achievements, or flexes, but entirely just me having fun in the game was from over 5 years ago when I took a selfie at that same lake with my best friend. Literally all I have of that friend is a damn selfie and now my mage will forever by sitting at that lake entirely alone. I love/hate WoW. I love my memories of this game but after spending half of my entire life on Azeroth, I've found leaving it to be painful. I feel home sick in a way that is very real. I stopped enjoying WoW a long time ago. It took years for me to realize that I had been spending every single moment of my free time sitting on WoW hoping that I would be catapulted back into 2008 when my friends and I would sit on tinychat all night just being kids. That won't happen and it leaves an empty feeling behind on some days.
Reading this made me feel sad and I relate to it a lot. Especially you logging off at the Teldrassil lake. I too have some amazing memories from playing this game back in the day, and it's depressing knowing that I'll likely never have similar experiences as I did back then.
You put my feelings towards wow into words. Not gonna lie I cried a bit. But life goes on and you will find new things that will fulfill you. I came back to wow every expansion in the hopes, that it will reignite the passion I had for this game between 2006 and 2012. But the most important thing that was missing was the players I enjoyed the game with back in the day. That and the tons of free time I had. But all those people moved on, studied and got jobs. And I to will be start working end of the year and wont have any time for games such as wow. Its time to move on for me too. It is hard to accept that. I just wished I had my screenshots from back then..
yeah will I still enjoy the lore a lot even though many conisder it to be trash I kept coming back many times. But that las paragraph you wrote was painfully true, I think my biggest motivation for coming back was the nostalgia, trying to capture this feeling one more time that I used to have all those years ago when I first jumped into Azeroth in 2006 and was entirely overwhelemed by this huge world and opportunities and stumbled my way through it until I found a very great gild where I made lots of new friends. Luckily the guild lead is still one of my closest friends today but this magical time isn't coming back, i don't think I will ever get this much joy out of gaming like I used to. I'm just trying to hold on to this feeling.
When I see a title like this (logging in after TEN YEARS) my mind assumes that its gonna be filled with Vanilla characters but now I'm getting so old that the vids are starting to be Wrath and Cata characters. You've no idea how many gray hairs this video gave me.
@@denisbaz6682 Right? That world revamp being advertised as 'the new age of WoW'...already a decade old. WoW was just past half that age when it launched.
I spend over 3000 hours in this game. It is like another life I've lived. With friends, family, work, adventure, a home, interesting places... Even 16 years later I sometimes think of this world. I quit because I had to take care of my real life, and I am glad I did.
You had the best time in it and you experienced something, which millions of people couldnt experience before computer gaming was born. Be proud, that you were part of it. Nowadays games are boring asf and were getting scammed by these companys.
I had 110 days play on may main hero, and a had a few more heros. I'm guessing I had 150-200 days of playing in total of the game. And I quit playing 11 years ago.
I keep going back..but only for like a month or so then i quit again. There is so much to do, but i don't want to spend my life in it again. Plus, the community is different than it was around Wrath.
I have no idea how many hours I logged, or even how one would know that, but I certainly sank many hours into this game from BC to Wrath, maybe the beginning of Cata...don't really remember. It was a dark time and WoW got me through it. I've thought about checking it out again, but honestly I do not have the time nor the interest in relearning everything + whatever is new. Yes, real life is so much more important and should be a primary focus.
I used to play a Druid in BC. Then I switched to a Paladin in the next expansion, I also leveled my old Mage from vanilla and used those two in the following expansion as well. During the winter 2020/2021 I decided to play again for a week or two. This time I started a new Druid. After 1 or 2 hours I noticed that I did press the letter C prior to attacking a mob while in cat form. Then I did it again, and again. Then I remembered that C were the key I used for prowl on my original cat back in BC. For some reason that button had been saved in my muscle memory since BC. I think starting a new mage would result in similar lost memories as I played so much PVP with that char back in the days. I can tell you how to do it right now, but I'm quite sure that if a warrior would charge me my brain would remember how to frost nova + blink without thinking about it at all.
My wife has a vanilla/TBC account. We logged onto it a few years back and her lv 50(then I'm sure its like 20 now) was decked in old greens and blues from pre naxx 40 patch. Crazy to see some of that stuff . Thanks for taking us down memory lane.
I had last logged out after a week into cata. Just logged back in last week. The experience of going back to Undercity and seeing it gone was... there's no way I could put that feeling into words. Although you can go back in time to see what it was, it certainly is not the same as just having it as a standard.
@@wzx6x6z6w Yeah. After seeing undercity gone I came onto RUclips to catch up on lore and what not. I've always played horde so it didn't hit me all that much to see an alliance place hit but Undercity... so many memories.
@@knellknell939 BROs. I just came back from WOTLK (even have the same blue proto as OP in the vid and was my prized mount during wrath) and I've been playing Shadowlands since December, already 9/10 H on CN with an IO just hovering 900-I HAD NO IDEA UNDERCITY IS/WAS GONE. WUT. :O
It’s rare to see many accounts like this being logged into. Most of the people who had any interest in coming back have done so since then. So cool to see :)
i've also logged into WoW few days ago since MoP - after reaching 2991 Rating in 3vs3 Arena (we reached also Gladiator lol) in WoW there wasn't anything interesting for me anymore. Both of those guys i played with, passed away -but i can still remember how we flamed eachother - or laughed about some stupid shit... We planned a comeback but sadly one got cancer and the other one died in a car accident... I will never be able to play with them like i did back in the days but no one can steal my memories
Man, your comment gave me some serious feels. It's really unfortunate how your old friends passed away. Thanks for sharing. On a nicer note, I completely agree. The memories and experiences I gained from playing WoW back in the day are truly special to me as well. And deep down I know I'll never have an experience quite as "magical" as I did playing WoW all those years ago.
@@redb8053 thats true, i started on the same server we played on back in the days some fresh characters - i wanna leave those old ones we used to play like they were in a time capsule, i dont wanna touch them.
dude i have played lock so many years and i just melted when you remember your imp's name, i know how important is a pet to someone who had have a pet in the game. Glad to see ppl coming back to the game
I’m sad I don’t remember mine off the top of my head. 😢 My Warlock “Dieyoung” was my very first toon in Dec 2004. I leveled her up to her 20s with my boyfriend who introduced me to the game, but he ended up getting busy with work and I didn’t want to level without him, so I ended up making a shaman named “Booyakasha”and he ended up being my main, wherein at lvl 60 I earned rank 14. My bf dumped me during that many months long rough grind because of that time suck (lol I deserved it), so after I got r14, I finally leveled my warlock. And oh man did I _LOVE_ playing that toon! My shaman was definitely fun, but warlocks just had so much more going on for them as a class. I know I would definitely recognize her pet names names if I logged in though… All I can remember is that my imp’s name definitely started with a Z too. I was shocked to see that this guy said he didn’t ever play with his fel hunter doggo or succubus or demon - I used them regularly in pvp (man those priests and mages especially would get so pissed with the fel hunter munching off all their bubbles/buffs lol) - the voidwalker and imp was really only used in pve (the VW didn’t do much damage so he would just be ignored), and the imp was easily one-shottable by a player). So I guess this guy must have been on a carebear pve server guy lol. I was very happy to recognize the server he mentioned though… Blackrock! That server had been around since vanilla. Even though it is a dead server here, it is cool that it is still around at least. Whenever I watch videos on modern day World of Warcraft, I don’t think my server is still around when the server lists are shown in them, and my server was awesome. 😢 It was Bloodscalp (wicked name too!).
I stopped playing at the end of Cataclysm, right after my daughter was born. I logged in in December as well and had the same exact feelings as you. I also had to rename all my toons and used their original names from many years ago. It was so strange seeing all of the various changes over the years and feel as though I had no idea how to play my characters anymore. She is 9 years old now and watched me logon to show her my stuff and witness my mass confusion. Glad to see I was not alone. :)
man I can't wait to be that dad to do those things, I'm gonna give my kid the playstation one that I had growing up and they're gonna play those old games before they get new stuff.
@@nacure360 the original names were still there on login. There was just a bunch of numbers added to it which is just a flag for reset when you try to log into a character after many years.
I read 10 years and I was like oh okay probably some wrath or TBC toons but then you said CATA ....wow bro I need to get my shit together I'm no longer a youngster lmao.
Please make more videos as you keep playing and progressin, you sound like a pretty chill guy, I'm pretty sure more people will keep watching! Best of luck mate
I remember I quit WoW because, I was too scared of doing dungeons to progress the game, because that would mean I had to play with other players. And like OH LAWD I must have social anxiety or smth
I feel that, raiding way back in the day was super spooky. Could never really bring myself to quit playing the game tho lol. If you're ever looking for a homie to run some dungeons with tho, hmu 🤙
@@invadersharie Thank you very much for the kind words, but I have since last playing uninstalled the game as it took up too much space on my computer! And I doubt I'll install it again in the near future, though thank you a lot!
I'm in a similar boat. I stopped playing around halfway through WoD and came back only fairly recently for Shadowlands. So much is different; some changes not that great, but many that are. It was a trip for me to go through all my items, gear, and bank just to see what on earth I had and why I even had it. Hope you're enjoying the expac!
i dont know why but videos like this interest me so much, but its just so fun watching old players reintroduce themselves to the game and see all the changes.
Insane, I’m 19 and remember playing cataclysm on my Tauren paladin. It’s crazy how little we notice time passing as we get older! I’ll be 90 with a few days left and life will feel like it lasted one day
Welcome back, Man! I quit in Wrath because I got my account hacked. Came back eventually and still raid. Really nostalgic seeing your character! Hope you enjoy the game! If not, was nice seeing you come back even for a minute.
This is so relatable. I quit years ago but I had so many wonderful memories with friends and some family that played. I log back on to check out the game a couple years ago because I was feeling homesick but it was just not the same.
Oh Geez... I myself have startet playing WoW again after 7 Years. I finished near the End of Pandaria. It took me a whole week to get back into the game. What I did was going to a "new" Server, creating a new Character to get myself into the Game again and then took a week on my old Main Character to sort Bags & Bank and get new bags. Going through all the Skills and Talents and it was very nostalgic, sad & depressing at times. But I do like the new Look of the Game during the Shadowlands-Squish with Chromie-Time etc. It's so weird to be back and yet it feels like home^^ (Like when you go traveling for years and then return home to see if you still got those Jar of Pickles in the Fridge xD) It's really weird to come back after a long time ^^
It’s crazy coming back from legion, it’s like a whole new game! That’s nuts you’re starting from scratch basically. The talents and spell rotations have changed a whole lot. I haven’t even really done much on my Lock yet. I got pretty into my Demon Hunter
I stopped playing 10 years ago, and picked it back up. It was weird to see all the changes, the nostolgia hit hard getting on my Main that I made back in 2006. I was a dumb kid who didnt know you could get more exp from quests, but it brings back a vivid memory of me thinking the best place to grind for lvls was in stranglethorn vale, I killed gorillas for hours to get to the level to be able to buy my first mount. Insane. just crazy coming back to all this crazy stuff.
Lol! Oh you poor dear! That is a brutal way to level! I played so many toons back in the day, and I only recall needing to grind on a bunch of mobs endlessly for the last couple of levels to hit 70 in TBC on one of them (I think it was my priest), because I ran out of quests that weren’t dungeon related. Just those two levels were rough! I still remember feeling like 70 would never come with just how slow the experience bar was moving per mob lol.
Welcome back!! I play mainly for the story and team ups and guild buddies, not collecting every last bit of rare armor. I've been playing constantly since 2006 and still enjoy Shadowlands! My main character has 58 days worth of gameplay on him total. If you type /played you see the exact amount of time that character has spent logged in!
@@michaelflores9220 My main had 374d /played, 450ish total on all toons and I quit in TBC in late 07. Your approach to the WoW drug is much better than mine.
@@pullt To be fair, my main character was made in 2011 and I probably only started seriously playing him in2 013. Before that I had human mage and dwarf paladin mains.
I only left mine for 5 years, I was still there, standing like an idiot in dalaran. I started playing again, this time I know more english words and can finally talk to people lmao
Had the same experience as you, I stopped playing late into Cataclysm and had been playing before vanilla wow was popular. Logged on about 8 years later to see if I would get back into the game and it was such a VAST difference between what I remember and what was the current game. Wow Retail will never be fixed and I am happy classic and TBC is a thing now because those gaming experiences where awesome.
I quit after playing through Cataclysm, I was crazy addicted prior to that point. Really glad I quit when I did and have never looked back but I do still remember very, very clearly the wonder of levelling up your first character (mine was a night elf rogue) and the magic of breaking through to a new zone. I never even used to read the quest text but I was 100% immersed all the same. I never 'got gud' and was only ever a decent dps guy at best, shit at PVP, many long lonely nights one-manning lower level dungeons but always grinding, always working toward that next piece of GEAR! That was what it was all about.
"Oh no.. He's not like me... He played during BFA so he's not crazy like me." If only you knew how crazy that person actually is for playing through BFA. lmao
@Zandeel Remmington I agree Legion was enjoyable, WoD not really. Anyway the corruption system (when they added a vendor for it) was the most fun I've had in wow in a minute. Prior to that, the expansion wasn't the best for sure. However the 4th affix in mythic+ was a good addition to the game.
I seen all your characters were like level 30 ish, I haven't played shadowlands so I was thinking "what the hell was he doing the whole time he was playing the first 3 expansions?" Nice video man, I love stuff like this
i wanna check my first toon as well as my parents, now thats gonna be a trip down memory lane for me, stopped right before MoP and came back for classic, cant wait to see the memories
my best friend used to live next dorr. id carry my pc to his house and wed play WOW all night long....i miss those days more than anything..wow just isnt fun without him
I did a similar thing last year, I hadn’t played since mist of pandaria and went back in BFA, I remember having absolutely no idea what anything was and all my friends were gone. Was a mixed nostalgia trip because I did miss them :(
I grew up watching my dad play WoW, and I remember wanting to play it so badly. I began in 2012(I was 11-12 at the time) after my dad let me make my first character(a goblin shaman). I played and played until around 2016 - 17, where I essentially had burnt out on the game after doing everything I wanted to do. I had become a pretty good mage player, I was strictly a caster type player because I sucked at melee. I had many good times and some bad times, and I almost always played with my best friend and my brother. After almost half a decade of being off the game I recently decided that with the new expansions, stories, lore, art styles, effects, and races, I'll be getting back into it...probably as a caster again because fuck fighting rogues in CQC honestly.
I grew up watching my dad play WoW, and I remember thinking and then when I was 9 years old at 2018 My dad let me his account and I leveled his lvl 12 gnome mage up to 110 veeeeery slow and then I got bored at 110 because i didnt know what to do. Then my dad and I moved to a private server in cataclysm and I was a draenei paladin and he a draenei Hunter. We were very slow very very slow leveling and I got bored when we finished northrend. Then I moved to Minecraft for a while and after my dad and my sister started playing in a WotLK (I was a draenei mage, my father draenei paladin (tank) and my sister shaman (healer), so i joined them and we stopped at half northrend because my sister started college and she couldnt play so se moved to a TBC server and I knew more of WoW than before so my tauren druid and his belf paladín reached 70 fastly (and some alters). Now we are doing endgame content together at that server (atlántiss WoW) and we're having fun at both PvE and PvP. :D
Fucking hell I wish I could get my parents to play any game with me. The most they could stomach is probably pong or something ancient. Glad to know you can spend time with your parents in a relatively modern way.
Jeeesh It'll have been 17 years if I log again here in '22. I remember building my first PC in 2005 (in fact the 1st computer I'd ever had) just for this game lmao. I was in the USAF in Japan then. Didn't keep me from becoming a hikikomori haha. God the memories. Thanks for sharing your return.
I felt this pain. Classic TBC will open a path for Classic WOTLK. If they're smart they'll stop there. It still won't ever be the same though. Original blizzard is what made WOTLK a wonderful experience.
Dont think they ll stop. They just keep going while giving you the opportunity to stay on wotlk. Just like in classic. They trying to get rid off private servers and cash grab. All about the money 😊
@@paugasolina5048 why not play both private and public servers? The private severs are free and very powerful, blizzards is paid service and clunky slow servers
I've been playing WoW since TBC (with some breaks here and there) and I still have a level 70 alliance gnome rogue that still has original, unobtainable Zul'aman gear/weapons. I started as alliance but then made the change to horde in MoP, I plan on never leveling my gnome Timmybin and will just keep him as a memento from a long, truly missed past.
I wouldn't even have the courage to reactivate my account and to log on my TBC characters from 14 years ago. I just can't. I'm too afraid of not being able to survive the tsunami of emotions.
I logged into my character for the first time in 9 years the other day and man the memories of the mounts is the one thing that sticks after all the years.
IT kinda nice to see something like this. My own account according to a friend who was playing at the time, apparently resubbed, and grinding low level players in dungeons on 24h basis. Ended up messaging me (via other S.Media) after how many years since we parted ways and just told him that i didn't start playing WoW again. Account is banned after that. So I lost my WoW account in a sad fashion. At the very least im talking more actively with my friend from that time again more often.
I haven't logged since MOP and I'm nervous I won't be able to get into my account. Hoping to get back into wow soon but wish me luck. I had an authenticator too which might prove to be aids to deal w/
Just your daily dose of making you all feel old, Cataclysm is more than 10 years old and MoP is about to hit its 10 year anniversary! Legion is already coming up on its 5th birthday btw!
I find it interesting that the account is still as it was when last touched, after all these years. I wonder how many Vanilla accounts that were abandoned are still just sitting in deep storage somewhere, lol.
I once had a couple of Hearthstone accounts and those cant simply be erased. So i asked blizzard how to do it and they told me that i should not worry. Just let it be there and move on, they have millions and millions of dead accounts on servers. They dont care.
I logged back in recently after 10+ years, only on a lvl 1 alt I had as I wasn't paying sub to see characters above lvl 20. I was expecting to crack a wry smile and be like "oh yea I remember that haha" as I walked around, yet all I felt was deep sadness. The way things looked, the people I used to play with long gone, the silent general chat on a full server, even so much as the screen resolution showing a tiny action bar on the lower side of the screen compared to lower res back in the day all made me realise (again) that it's gone....it's gone for good and you can never get it back...I cherish the memories I had when I was younger and don't regret any of the days I spent 10 hours playing. I've learned in the past with nostalgia you can try to relive things or try to bring them back but even if you manage to bring something back 99% of how it was you will always feel empty and that there is something missing, so for a lot of things it's best to remember fondly but don't try to keep hold of it or bring it back.
"Pretty sure blue proto drake is the only really rare mount I have" *casually bypasses headless horseman's mount* Edit: a year later and people still commenting to say the mount isn't rare 😂
I really wish I could find my old wow account. I for the life of me can’t even remember the email I used for it. I’ve had my new account for a few years now but I’ll always miss my OG paladin and hunter
Ill nevr forget being a young teenager, i never understood the concept of making gold. I was mainly into PVP, one day someone yelled they were quitting wow in front of storm wind, i messaged asking if i could have the gold, he gave me a mount worth 200k gold, and 151k gold in one trade. One of the best days in WoW for me. Went to buy myself the chopper i always wanted and got my cousin one too
I keep coming back. I still play other games along side of it, but sometiimes I come back to binge for a month or two. Can't even be a kid again, but I can still enjoy the game as an adult!
It's so cool watching vids like this. Someone who didn't play in 10 or + years and logging in the first time. So cool. Me myself played from 2009 to right around 9.1 or something and just quit the game and started playing FFXIV. I have zero hopes for blizz or the game, but if 10.0 is good I'm back baby. I WANT TO play WoW again, the game has just been shit for years now.
I played from Dec 2004-winter 2008. I think it would hurt too much to see my toons so stripped down if I were to log back in. It killed me just seeing this guy’s hotbar and to see what talent trees have become, etc.. As much as I want to play again - the game is just absolutely ruined these days from what I have seen in videos. So I think I will leave my beloved toons retired. I miss them so very dearly though! I wish I could visit them as they were back in time.
I'm surprised how many people don't know about the level squish. Shadowlands did a level squish, hence why the level is 32. And the character names got flagged for a name change after not being used/logged into for so long.
I play mainly for the story and team ups and guild buddies, not collecting every last bit of rare armor. I've been playing constantly since 2006 and still enjoy Shadowlands! My main character has 58 days worth of gameplay on him total. If you type /played you see the exact amount of time that character has spent logged in! ANyhows, that orc warlock outfit at the start: Great job!!1
I haven't played wow in years and i thought what was going on a lvl 32 with a mount 😭😭😭
you can average that, not much people play wow, so most of the world dont klnow bout this
You didn't miss anything. You actually stopped playing at the perfect time.
I also stopped playing around Cataclysm after starting in Vanilla, I am tempted to check it out after all these years myself.
sometimes you log out not knowing it will be the last one
bro...
that's how it was for me and literally like this guy i logged back in ten years later... except i left wotlk and returned in bfa . the game was a disturbing contrast of what it used to be lol
Sometimes you fall asleep not knowing it will be the last one
that's deep
them feels
It's really been 10 years since WOTLK? Ouch. My brain...
Yeah, ouch. It makes me feel old.
has been 13 years
It's been 13 years, actually
10 years since MoP
Ouch, my wallet 😣
A very dear and close (best)friend of mine died during the middle BC. We had played on one another accounts back then, checking out different characters and helping where needed. When he died, the account was unintentionally left behind with me. I had talked with his family, went to dinner with them, etc. I even offered them his account information but none of them cared about a game. I continued to pay for the account until some changes were made making it impossible to log into the account - I was devastated and would have likely continued paying into the account to keep it active for many years, I didn't want to lose the last piece that remained. He was one of those guys that everyone loved and would do anything for anyone without question or expecting anything in return. I logged into the account every now and then for a while, just didn't have the heart to change a thing. I informed his guild what had happened to him, gave them some information about when, where, how, etc.
RIP Luke. Miss hanging out, talking wow, snowboards, hunting, and girls.
That's a sad thing to hear, my condoleances. I hope he's on some epic raiding parties somewhere, though.
Good friend
rip Luke
RIP Luke🕊
I've almost went to tears after reading this. You are a good guy and undoubtely a best friend anyone could wish for!
They should revamp the archeology skill into this. Digging through the true ancient history of WoW: this guy's bank.
Genius.
CITRINE!!!!
You can take a look at my bank, lots of vanilla stuff there
I have about 6 characters with banks full of original classic,bc,wrath items I can't bring myself to get rid of it. Also void storage is full AF
I logged into characters I hadn't played in 10 years or so to see that I was still in guilds. Some of them have actually pruned so much over the years that I was the guild master of now derelict former super powers. One of them had 999 members back in Cata. It was really sad. They weren't entirely empty or anything either. Some still had hundreds of neglected alts and mains.
It put a lot into perspective for me. WoW isn't dead - it's still the biggest MMOPRG available. But the WoW those of us here from the early stages of the game experienced is loooong gone.
Most of the people I ran into up until calling it quits for good last month were either newer or classic/tb/wotlk vets that can't shake up their obsession (addiction, really.) All of the people I enjoyed this game with are gone.
After 15 years I signed my main off in a little lake in Teldrassil. The last screenshot I took that wasn't charts, achievements, or flexes, but entirely just me having fun in the game was from over 5 years ago when I took a selfie at that same lake with my best friend. Literally all I have of that friend is a damn selfie and now my mage will forever by sitting at that lake entirely alone.
I love/hate WoW. I love my memories of this game but after spending half of my entire life on Azeroth, I've found leaving it to be painful. I feel home sick in a way that is very real. I stopped enjoying WoW a long time ago. It took years for me to realize that I had been spending every single moment of my free time sitting on WoW hoping that I would be catapulted back into 2008 when my friends and I would sit on tinychat all night just being kids. That won't happen and it leaves an empty feeling behind on some days.
Reading this made me feel sad and I relate to it a lot. Especially you logging off at the Teldrassil lake. I too have some amazing memories from playing this game back in the day, and it's depressing knowing that I'll likely never have similar experiences as I did back then.
You put my feelings towards wow into words. Not gonna lie I cried a bit. But life goes on and you will find new things that will fulfill you. I came back to wow every expansion in the hopes, that it will reignite the passion I had for this game between 2006 and 2012. But the most important thing that was missing was the players I enjoyed the game with back in the day. That and the tons of free time I had.
But all those people moved on, studied and got jobs. And I to will be start working end of the year and wont have any time for games such as wow. Its time to move on for me too. It is hard to accept that. I just wished I had my screenshots from back then..
yeah will I still enjoy the lore a lot even though many conisder it to be trash I kept coming back many times. But that las paragraph you wrote was painfully true, I think my biggest motivation for coming back was the nostalgia, trying to capture this feeling one more time that I used to have all those years ago when I first jumped into Azeroth in 2006 and was entirely overwhelemed by this huge world and opportunities and stumbled my way through it until I found a very great gild where I made lots of new friends. Luckily the guild lead is still one of my closest friends today but this magical time isn't coming back, i don't think I will ever get this much joy out of gaming like I used to. I'm just trying to hold on to this feeling.
This is the truth brother, simply as tht and sometimes the truth hurts
Nostalgia great bedtime story
When I see a title like this (logging in after TEN YEARS) my mind assumes that its gonna be filled with Vanilla characters but now I'm getting so old that the vids are starting to be Wrath and Cata characters.
You've no idea how many gray hairs this video gave me.
Rest assured, I feel like an old man now that I did this.
The kicker is 10 years ago was also closing in on... MoP. So that makes you feel even worst.
@@mankrikswifey Ten years since Pandaland... And back then, I thought it was crazy the game had gotten to 4 expansions.
For me cata is still a new expansion 😂
@@denisbaz6682 Right? That world revamp being advertised as 'the new age of WoW'...already a decade old. WoW was just past half that age when it launched.
I spend over 3000 hours in this game. It is like another life I've lived. With friends, family, work, adventure, a home, interesting places... Even 16 years later I sometimes think of this world. I quit because I had to take care of my real life, and I am glad I did.
bro.. high five man. amen to all you said
You had the best time in it and you experienced something, which millions of people couldnt experience before computer gaming was born. Be proud, that you were part of it. Nowadays games are boring asf and were getting scammed by these companys.
I had 110 days play on may main hero, and a had a few more heros. I'm guessing I had 150-200 days of playing in total of the game. And I quit playing 11 years ago.
I keep going back..but only for like a month or so then i quit again. There is so much to do, but i don't want to spend my life in it again. Plus, the community is different than it was around Wrath.
I have no idea how many hours I logged, or even how one would know that, but I certainly sank many hours into this game from BC to Wrath, maybe the beginning of Cata...don't really remember. It was a dark time and WoW got me through it. I've thought about checking it out again, but honestly I do not have the time nor the interest in relearning everything + whatever is new. Yes, real life is so much more important and should be a primary focus.
I did this yesterday. Haven’t logged in since wotlk. I felt like a dude from the 1700’s walking around in 2021
This is so accurate ! :D
lmao
Kekw as the kids say nowadays
@@JackEdgren that saying is like 6 years old
@@venth6 god damn im a fakking boomer 😆🤭
i like how even after not playing for 10 years you still know how to navigate the interfaces. its like a 6th sense
Once you're at the point where you're making macros and using add-ons etc it is embedded.
No back pedaling. Switching target with tab or whatever etc double mouse to move forward etc.
I used to play a Druid in BC. Then I switched to a Paladin in the next expansion, I also leveled my old Mage from vanilla and used those two in the following expansion as well.
During the winter 2020/2021 I decided to play again for a week or two. This time I started a new Druid. After 1 or 2 hours I noticed that I did press the letter C prior to attacking a mob while in cat form. Then I did it again, and again. Then I remembered that C were the key I used for prowl on my original cat back in BC.
For some reason that button had been saved in my muscle memory since BC.
I think starting a new mage would result in similar lost memories as I played so much PVP with that char back in the days. I can tell you how to do it right now, but I'm quite sure that if a warrior would charge me my brain would remember how to frost nova + blink without thinking about it at all.
its like farmer strength, do it long enough it changes you.
14:47 "I'm used to destruction you just cast Chaos Bolt" Ahhhh yes, some things never change.
Lock was my first ever toon. My young mind was awestruck seeing the beautiful chaos bolt for the first time
My wife has a vanilla/TBC account. We logged onto it a few years back and her lv 50(then I'm sure its like 20 now) was decked in old greens and blues from pre naxx 40 patch. Crazy to see some of that stuff .
Thanks for taking us down memory lane.
"you have an open ticket" lol Took 12 years to get support lol j/k
I had last logged out after a week into cata. Just logged back in last week. The experience of going back to Undercity and seeing it gone was... there's no way I could put that feeling into words. Although you can go back in time to see what it was, it certainly is not the same as just having it as a standard.
Yeah, I feel you. Almost feels wrong how drastically some things change.
You can blame Sylvanas for that, Teldrassil is gone as well after BFA happened.
@@wzx6x6z6w Yeah. After seeing undercity gone I came onto RUclips to catch up on lore and what not. I've always played horde so it didn't hit me all that much to see an alliance place hit but Undercity... so many memories.
what. You still alive ?
@@knellknell939 BROs. I just came back from WOTLK (even have the same blue proto as OP in the vid and was my prized mount during wrath) and I've been playing Shadowlands since December, already 9/10 H on CN with an IO just hovering 900-I HAD NO IDEA UNDERCITY IS/WAS GONE. WUT. :O
It’s rare to see many accounts like this being logged into. Most of the people who had any interest in coming back have done so since then. So cool to see :)
My first character an alliance dwarf was logged into the other day. Had things on character you cant even get anymore was so weird
@Reclusiarch Grimaldus thats a lie because demon hunters start at much higher level than than that lol...
@@brettpatrickmueller Demon Hunters start at level 8 smartass😂
Dude logged in and probably went like "wtf is this?" to everything going on.
i've also logged into WoW few days ago since MoP - after reaching 2991 Rating in 3vs3 Arena (we reached also Gladiator lol) in WoW there wasn't anything interesting for me anymore.
Both of those guys i played with, passed away -but i can still remember how we flamed eachother - or laughed about some stupid shit... We planned a comeback but sadly one got cancer and the other one died in a car accident...
I will never be able to play with them like i did back in the days but no one can steal my memories
Man, your comment gave me some serious feels. It's really unfortunate how your old friends passed away. Thanks for sharing.
On a nicer note, I completely agree. The memories and experiences I gained from playing WoW back in the day are truly special to me as well. And deep down I know I'll never have an experience quite as "magical" as I did playing WoW all those years ago.
That's fucked up man but atleast you've got the good memories that you can look back on forever
@@VividVoid thanks dude - I appreciate it
@@redb8053 thats true, i started on the same server we played on back in the days some fresh characters - i wanna leave those old ones we used to play like they were in a time capsule, i dont wanna touch them.
Logs in after 10 years:
Blizzard: Here are 5 bars of rested experience :)
I think its bugged
Probably because of the level squish
Hes also not in a rested area
@@michaelblakley845 ofc but you still get some rested even if not in a city, it is just a lot slower. But 10 years and 5 bars? Cmoon 😂
That made me lol hard
my rogue is still standing in the old dalaran with T7.5
dude i have played lock so many years and i just melted when you remember your imp's name, i know how important is a pet to someone who had have a pet in the game. Glad to see ppl coming back to the game
I’m sad I don’t remember mine off the top of my head. 😢 My Warlock “Dieyoung” was my very first toon in Dec 2004. I leveled her up to her 20s with my boyfriend who introduced me to the game, but he ended up getting busy with work and I didn’t want to level without him, so I ended up making a shaman named “Booyakasha”and he ended up being my main, wherein at lvl 60 I earned rank 14. My bf dumped me during that many months long rough grind because of that time suck (lol I deserved it), so after I got r14, I finally leveled my warlock. And oh man did I _LOVE_ playing that toon! My shaman was definitely fun, but warlocks just had so much more going on for them as a class.
I know I would definitely recognize her pet names names if I logged in though… All I can remember is that my imp’s name definitely started with a Z too. I was shocked to see that this guy said he didn’t ever play with his fel hunter doggo or succubus or demon - I used them regularly in pvp (man those priests and mages especially would get so pissed with the fel hunter munching off all their bubbles/buffs lol) - the voidwalker and imp was really only used in pve (the VW didn’t do much damage so he would just be ignored), and the imp was easily one-shottable by a player). So I guess this guy must have been on a carebear pve server guy lol.
I was very happy to recognize the server he mentioned though… Blackrock! That server had been around since vanilla. Even though it is a dead server here, it is cool that it is still around at least. Whenever I watch videos on modern day World of Warcraft, I don’t think my server is still around when the server lists are shown in them, and my server was awesome. 😢 It was Bloodscalp (wicked name too!).
you getting side tracked before checking the bank killed me lol
It was bound to happen ngl
When that guildmate logged off for the last time 10 years ago, then logs on to make a video about how long he has been away.
I stopped playing at the end of Cataclysm, right after my daughter was born. I logged in in December as well and had the same exact feelings as you. I also had to rename all my toons and used their original names from many years ago. It was so strange seeing all of the various changes over the years and feel as though I had no idea how to play my characters anymore. She is 9 years old now and watched me logon to show her my stuff and witness my mass confusion. Glad to see I was not alone. :)
That sounds extremely wholesome.
A man has to grow up someday for his family, to later come back
man I can't wait to be that dad to do those things, I'm gonna give my kid the playstation one that I had growing up and they're gonna play those old games before they get new stuff.
How do you remember their original names
@@nacure360 the original names were still there on login. There was just a bunch of numbers added to it which is just a flag for reset when you try to log into a character after many years.
I read 10 years and I was like oh okay probably some wrath or TBC toons but then you said CATA ....wow bro I need to get my shit together I'm no longer a youngster lmao.
Oh lord; just realized what you meant 🥺
Holy shit WoW has been around a long time now
Please make more videos as you keep playing and progressin, you sound like a pretty chill guy, I'm pretty sure more people will keep watching! Best of luck mate
I remember I quit WoW because, I was too scared of doing dungeons to progress the game, because that would mean I had to play with other players.
And like OH LAWD I must have social anxiety or smth
I feel that, raiding way back in the day was super spooky. Could never really bring myself to quit playing the game tho lol. If you're ever looking for a homie to run some dungeons with tho, hmu 🤙
@@invadersharie Thank you very much for the kind words, but I have since last playing uninstalled the game as it took up too much space on my computer!
And I doubt I'll install it again in the near future, though thank you a lot!
I feel like this every 4 years or so. what a game
I love the excitement for the Imp! There is no way I could ever forget my Imps name Tarkin straight outta Star Wars!
i never remember any other demon name then my felpup Phuukun as affliction he was the best in both raid and pvp :)
I'm glad youtube decided to recommend me this
Blue Proto-Drake, Headless Horseman mount... Nothing too fancy I guess?
And I still got none of these T_T
I'm in a similar boat. I stopped playing around halfway through WoD and came back only fairly recently for Shadowlands. So much is different; some changes not that great, but many that are. It was a trip for me to go through all my items, gear, and bank just to see what on earth I had and why I even had it.
Hope you're enjoying the expac!
I can’t believe I ruined my social life because of this game back in the day 😆
I haven’t played for 9 years. Still don’t have a social life. So i can’t blame the game for that ;-)
@@drussthelegend3919 POg
I wouldn't have had one anyway. At least I had a little with my guild
As a disabled person, this game gave me a social life I otherwise never would have had. I'm grateful for that.
Voidheart was easily the best looking of all of these Warlock sets.
i still to this day preferred the pvp version of that set was less purple xD and it is my most common tmog
jesus, this made my day! if more people can do videos after returning to wow would be so cool!! playing for 15y and not regretting one day!!
This was absolutely fantastic.. thanks for posting and reminding me why I haven't logged into my account since WoLK.
i dont know why but videos like this interest me so much, but its just so fun watching old players reintroduce themselves to the game and see all the changes.
Welcome back champion, we kept your crown warm
Insane, I’m 19 and remember playing cataclysm on my Tauren paladin. It’s crazy how little we notice time passing as we get older! I’ll be 90 with a few days left and life will feel like it lasted one day
Welcome back, Man! I quit in Wrath because I got my account hacked. Came back eventually and still raid. Really nostalgic seeing your character! Hope you enjoy the game! If not, was nice seeing you come back even for a minute.
This is so relatable. I quit years ago but I had so many wonderful memories with friends and some family that played. I log back on to check out the game a couple years ago because I was feeling homesick but it was just not the same.
Oh Geez...
I myself have startet playing WoW again after 7 Years. I finished near the End of Pandaria.
It took me a whole week to get back into the game. What I did was going to a "new" Server, creating a new Character to get myself into the Game again and then took a week on my old Main Character to sort Bags & Bank and get new bags. Going through all the Skills and Talents and it was very nostalgic, sad & depressing at times. But I do like the new Look of the Game during the Shadowlands-Squish with Chromie-Time etc.
It's so weird to be back and yet it feels like home^^ (Like when you go traveling for years and then return home to see if you still got those Jar of Pickles in the Fridge xD) It's really weird to come back after a long time ^^
I can't believe how addicted I was to this game 10 years ago. Patch 3.3.5
It’s crazy coming back from legion, it’s like a whole new game! That’s nuts you’re starting from scratch basically. The talents and spell rotations have changed a whole lot. I haven’t even really done much on my Lock yet. I got pretty into my Demon Hunter
Welcome back mate thanks for sharing with us
I stopped playing 10 years ago, and picked it back up. It was weird to see all the changes, the nostolgia hit hard getting on my Main that I made back in 2006. I was a dumb kid who didnt know you could get more exp from quests, but it brings back a vivid memory of me thinking the best place to grind for lvls was in stranglethorn vale, I killed gorillas for hours to get to the level to be able to buy my first mount. Insane. just crazy coming back to all this crazy stuff.
Lol! Oh you poor dear! That is a brutal way to level! I played so many toons back in the day, and I only recall needing to grind on a bunch of mobs endlessly for the last couple of levels to hit 70 in TBC on one of them (I think it was my priest), because I ran out of quests that weren’t dungeon related. Just those two levels were rough! I still remember feeling like 70 would never come with just how slow the experience bar was moving per mob lol.
Been 10 years since I played WoW, too. Crazy to think... time flies!!!!
I started in late BC when Wotlk was close to coming out. I had a lot of good times on WotLK.
This really took me back, thanks for this video!
Man, I also logged in after 10 years this January. Felt awkward even moving my character, but now Im up to speed :D
Welcome back!! I play mainly for the story and team ups and guild buddies, not collecting every last bit of rare armor. I've been playing constantly since 2006 and still enjoy Shadowlands! My main character has 58 days worth of gameplay on him total. If you type /played you see the exact amount of time that character has spent logged in!
@@michaelflores9220 My main had 374d /played, 450ish total on all toons and I quit in TBC in late 07.
Your approach to the WoW drug is much better than mine.
@@pullt To be fair, my main character was made in 2011 and I probably only started seriously playing him in2 013. Before that I had human mage and dwarf paladin mains.
@@pullt I quit mage and switched to paladin tank since it's way faster to get picked up for dungeons.
@@michaelflores9220 I was holy priest....
I only left mine for 5 years, I was still there, standing like an idiot in dalaran. I started playing again, this time I know more english words and can finally talk to people lmao
Had the same experience as you, I stopped playing late into Cataclysm and had been playing before vanilla wow was popular. Logged on about 8 years later to see if I would get back into the game and it was such a VAST difference between what I remember and what was the current game.
Wow Retail will never be fixed and I am happy classic and TBC is a thing now because those gaming experiences where awesome.
I quit after playing through Cataclysm, I was crazy addicted prior to that point. Really glad I quit when I did and have never looked back but I do still remember very, very clearly the wonder of levelling up your first character (mine was a night elf rogue) and the magic of breaking through to a new zone. I never even used to read the quest text but I was 100% immersed all the same. I never 'got gud' and was only ever a decent dps guy at best, shit at PVP, many long lonely nights one-manning lower level dungeons but always grinding, always working toward that next piece of GEAR! That was what it was all about.
"Oh no.. He's not like me... He played during BFA so he's not crazy like me." If only you knew how crazy that person actually is for playing through BFA. lmao
@Zandeel Remmington it wasnt as bad as people make it out to be
@Zandeel Remmington I agree Legion was enjoyable, WoD not really. Anyway the corruption system (when they added a vendor for it) was the most fun I've had in wow in a minute. Prior to that, the expansion wasn't the best for sure. However the 4th affix in mythic+ was a good addition to the game.
I seen all your characters were like level 30 ish, I haven't played shadowlands so I was thinking "what the hell was he doing the whole time he was playing the first 3 expansions?" Nice video man, I love stuff like this
His toon levels got squished down by Blizzard.
i wanna check my first toon as well as my parents, now thats gonna be a trip down memory lane for me, stopped right before MoP and came back for classic, cant wait to see the memories
What a great video. I played mostly wrath/cata as a warlock. Even though I play SL, this was really cool to hear your reaction.
i dont even play wow stayed for the asmr lol
Bronzebeard was my server back in the day FOR THE ALLIANCE
Also a "Bronzebeardean" ...
i still play on bronzebeard :O
RAGNAROS!
my best friend used to live next dorr. id carry my pc to his house and wed play WOW all night long....i miss those days more than anything..wow just isnt fun without him
I did a similar thing last year, I hadn’t played since mist of pandaria and went back in BFA, I remember having absolutely no idea what anything was and all my friends were gone. Was a mixed nostalgia trip because I did miss them :(
I grew up watching my dad play WoW, and I remember wanting to play it so badly. I began in 2012(I was 11-12 at the time) after my dad let me make my first character(a goblin shaman). I played and played until around 2016 - 17, where I essentially had burnt out on the game after doing everything I wanted to do. I had become a pretty good mage player, I was strictly a caster type player because I sucked at melee. I had many good times and some bad times, and I almost always played with my best friend and my brother.
After almost half a decade of being off the game I recently decided that with the new expansions, stories, lore, art styles, effects, and races, I'll be getting back into it...probably as a caster again because fuck fighting rogues in CQC honestly.
I grew up watching my dad play WoW, and I remember thinking and then when I was 9 years old at 2018 My dad let me his account and I leveled his lvl 12 gnome mage up to 110 veeeeery slow and then I got bored at 110 because i didnt know what to do. Then my dad and I moved to a private server in cataclysm and I was a draenei paladin and he a draenei Hunter. We were very slow very very slow leveling and I got bored when we finished northrend. Then I moved to Minecraft for a while and after my dad and my sister started playing in a WotLK (I was a draenei mage, my father draenei paladin (tank) and my sister shaman (healer), so i joined them and we stopped at half northrend because my sister started college and she couldnt play so se moved to a TBC server and I knew more of WoW than before so my tauren druid and his belf paladín reached 70 fastly (and some alters). Now we are doing endgame content together at that server (atlántiss WoW) and we're having fun at both PvE and PvP. :D
Sorry for my bad english, im spanish and only 12y old
@@worldofwarpool5379 Your English is almost flawless. Very impressive, especially for someone who's only 12!
@@crelgen1588 Thanks! ^^
Fucking hell I wish I could get my parents to play any game with me. The most they could stomach is probably pong or something ancient. Glad to know you can spend time with your parents in a relatively modern way.
Today I just logged in the first time since 2007...the feels....
It's cool man i'm glad that you returned to wow after so many years, nice video too !
Jeeesh It'll have been 17 years if I log again here in '22. I remember building my first PC in 2005 (in fact the 1st computer I'd ever had) just for this game lmao. I was in the USAF in Japan then. Didn't keep me from becoming a hikikomori haha. God the memories. Thanks for sharing your return.
I felt this pain. Classic TBC will open a path for Classic WOTLK. If they're smart they'll stop there. It still won't ever be the same though. Original blizzard is what made WOTLK a wonderful experience.
Dont think they ll stop. They just keep going while giving you the opportunity to stay on wotlk. Just like in classic. They trying to get rid off private servers and cash grab. All about the money 😊
@@paugasolina5048 why not play both private and public servers? The private severs are free and very powerful, blizzards is paid service and clunky slow servers
They should make Cata, MoP and Legion as well, but nothing else.
Seeing a lot of these make me wanna just come back and play
made me so happy to see you almost queue up a dungeon -- i did the same thing after not playing for like nearly a decade lol
Uff... that's crazy :O Welcome back m8 ❤🔥💪🏽
I've been playing WoW since TBC (with some breaks here and there) and I still have a level 70 alliance gnome rogue that still has original, unobtainable Zul'aman gear/weapons.
I started as alliance but then made the change to horde in MoP, I plan on never leveling my gnome Timmybin and will just keep him as a memento from a long, truly missed past.
I love the fact that Blizzard kept the account even after that long period of time
Why wouldn’t they?
@@sveik_ other games dont
@@sveik_ Innactive accounts brings a lot of problems related to data analysis and business intelligence in order to take managerial decisions.
It always feels like a different world the nostalgia I would get 10 years ago playing games. Life truly flies by
That Persona song won me over, great video!
Try exploring new Ogrimmar without a flying mount. Music isn't going to matter anymore.
I wouldn't even have the courage to reactivate my account and to log on my TBC characters from 14 years ago. I just can't. I'm too afraid of not being able to survive the tsunami of emotions.
I logged into my character for the first time in 9 years the other day and man the memories of the mounts is the one thing that sticks after all the years.
I have been playing wow since Pre BC......damn.......I feel so old now.....lol Welcome back! :)
Wasn't ready for that hit of Persona 5 music
I would love a part two of you leveling a new character through new content to see your opinion
Dont waste a mans time like that
IT kinda nice to see something like this. My own account according to a friend who was playing at the time, apparently resubbed, and grinding low level players in dungeons on 24h basis. Ended up messaging me (via other S.Media) after how many years since we parted ways and just told him that i didn't start playing WoW again. Account is banned after that. So I lost my WoW account in a sad fashion. At the very least im talking more actively with my friend from that time again more often.
As a player who've only played shadowlands, I must say the transmogs looks so much cooler from this era than what we have nowadays.
I haven't logged since MOP and I'm nervous I won't be able to get into my account. Hoping to get back into wow soon but wish me luck. I had an authenticator too which might prove to be aids to deal w/
Just your daily dose of making you all feel old, Cataclysm is more than 10 years old and MoP is about to hit its 10 year anniversary! Legion is already coming up on its 5th birthday btw!
Same with me. I just logged on to it last week since 06.
When he opened up his bags I literally thought "omg... he quit in wotlk..." *sheds tear* the good ole days
I find it interesting that the account is still as it was when last touched, after all these years. I wonder how many Vanilla accounts that were abandoned are still just sitting in deep storage somewhere, lol.
Yea, I'm sure there's plenty of fossil accounts out there with some really neat stuff.
I once had a couple of Hearthstone accounts and those cant simply be erased.
So i asked blizzard how to do it and they told me that i should not worry. Just let it be there and move on, they have millions and millions of dead accounts on servers. They dont care.
this was cool lol thanks for sharing
I logged back in recently after 10+ years, only on a lvl 1 alt I had as I wasn't paying sub to see characters above lvl 20. I was expecting to crack a wry smile and be like "oh yea I remember that haha" as I walked around, yet all I felt was deep sadness. The way things looked, the people I used to play with long gone, the silent general chat on a full server, even so much as the screen resolution showing a tiny action bar on the lower side of the screen compared to lower res back in the day all made me realise (again) that it's gone....it's gone for good and you can never get it back...I cherish the memories I had when I was younger and don't regret any of the days I spent 10 hours playing. I've learned in the past with nostalgia you can try to relive things or try to bring them back but even if you manage to bring something back 99% of how it was you will always feel empty and that there is something missing, so for a lot of things it's best to remember fondly but don't try to keep hold of it or bring it back.
So cool that you can pick up where you left off ten years ago lol. I love wow! I’ll play until I physically can’t lmao. Been playing since 2006
"Pretty sure blue proto drake is the only really rare mount I have"
*casually bypasses headless horseman's mount*
Edit: a year later and people still commenting to say the mount isn't rare 😂
and green proto, sunreaver dragonhawk, argent hip lol
its not really a rare mount tbh but yeah, its a classic
If you played in WotLk then you had the headless horseman mount, it was not hard to get during the event.
And brewfest kodo
I want blue proto Drake so bad man. I've done over 50 runs and haven't got it.
I really wish I could find my old wow account. I for the life of me can’t even remember the email I used for it. I’ve had my new account for a few years now but I’ll always miss my OG paladin and hunter
I was in a similar boat. It took a lot of digging and work before I was able to find my old account.
if you still have the cd key you can get it restored with that
Ill nevr forget being a young teenager, i never understood the concept of making gold. I was mainly into PVP, one day someone yelled they were quitting wow in front of storm wind, i messaged asking if i could have the gold, he gave me a mount worth 200k gold, and 151k gold in one trade. One of the best days in WoW for me. Went to buy myself the chopper i always wanted and got my cousin one too
I started playing around the same time you stopped. Hard to believe I've played for almost 10 years now.
I went on a death knight i made way back and i`m the only active member in the guild and it says have fun in wod! lol
I just did the same thing. Hadn't played since the first raid came out in cata.
I keep coming back. I still play other games along side of it, but sometiimes I come back to binge for a month or two. Can't even be a kid again, but I can still enjoy the game as an adult!
It almost feels like everything is new. The level cut on my toons broke my heart a little bit.
Hilarious my roommate in college was on Bronzebeard and that was 15 years ago...
It's so cool watching vids like this. Someone who didn't play in 10 or + years and logging in the first time. So cool.
Me myself played from 2009 to right around 9.1 or something and just quit the game and started playing FFXIV.
I have zero hopes for blizz or the game, but if 10.0 is good I'm back baby. I WANT TO play WoW again, the game has just been shit for years now.
I played from Dec 2004-winter 2008. I think it would hurt too much to see my toons so stripped down if I were to log back in. It killed me just seeing this guy’s hotbar and to see what talent trees have become, etc.. As much as I want to play again - the game is just absolutely ruined these days from what I have seen in videos. So I think I will leave my beloved toons retired. I miss them so very dearly though! I wish I could visit them as they were back in time.
The feels man. The feels. I've been there multiple times.
It's been 84 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint.