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Returned to the Crack (Warcraft)

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Kozilek

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Not to diminish the problems people have with actual crack. Back in the day of vanilla WoW my friends and I used to refer to it as 'the crack'

Anyway, I probably played too much, an escape from RL pain and chronic illness. I quit in 2009, after doing the Meta Achievement for Ulduar in wotlk. I got Agalon to 2&, although my guild did finish him the next week when I could not make it.

I have been playing again as quite frankly I have been up at night, on my own, in pain.

It is really weird, I am nowhere near as good as I was, 6 years of rust and a fuzzy head from meds I guess.

Anyway, with nobody left from my glory days, it is almost like a single player game. Nobody to talk and mess about as you go through whatever in game.

Not quite the escape from pain I was hoping for.

Does anyone else use games well to escape. I feel I have played my escape games to death, namely WoW and XCOM (impossible Iron Man = roar).

Sorry if this is a bit rambly, meds are kicking my ass.
 
Sucks about your chronic pain and illness, there was once a guy who passed away(alliance) right? So they held an in-game funeral right? Well, the Horde found out and raided the poor guys funeral, killing folks left and right. Lol, it was pretty funny as fuck.

I would play wow with you, hell i'd even sit indian style across from you playing gofish! Whatever to get me out of the reality that i'm in.
Right now, all I got to do to escape the pain of reality is to read, and journal.

Kind of sucks for being a gamer, and reading insperational books. Hell, I know that things will improve in both of our lives, its only a matter of time.
 
I've always fantasized about going back. I quit about 5 years ago I think. I was playing between 8 and 10 hours a day at one point. It is a lot like an addiction. It pretty much owned my life. I still want to play. Only thing thats stopped me is what you said. I doubt it would be the same without my old character/guild. :(
 
I tried going back. I played for a while. Got a few characters to 90 if I'm not mistaken (Panda upgrade). Then, just kinda lost it. It's not the same if you were used to old-school guild raids. It's just a clusterfuck of noobs now and no real bonds with team mates in your guild. No real server competitions like before between guilds. It's fun to play casually, but the "fun" to me is gone.
 
Lysis said:
It's not the same if you were used to old-school guild raids. It's just a clusterfuck of noobs now and no real bonds with team mates in your guild.
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This is true. It's a shame. And I don't believe that bond between team mates and guild competition will ever be re-established in the MMO genre in the same way it was in the early 2000's.

I played from launch: November 2004 to December 2006 very competitively which were the golden days for me. It was a race to the top tier raid dungeons and the competition between guilds made it that much more enjoyable and because there was no cross-server PvP or realm transfers you were able to develop a personal reputation among other players on the realm which made pursuing and collecting the top tier items even more rewarding. There was some sort of euphoric rush to be the first person on a server of thousands to have an end-game item. I look back extremely fondly on those years, great times.

I slowed down after the expansion when everything was reset and played casually; I lingered for a while until WotLK and played that even more casually for a short time and then lost interest. I came back for Cataclysm just until I hit the level cap then dropped out permanently.
 
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Aww I empathize so much. I loved vanilla. Raiding zg Mc ony aq20/40 was like crack, It has changed alot though use to actually be much more mature. Now alot of troll kids play it that get 90s and 100 handed to them. Funny story use to be able to pay Asians to level you to 60 when it was tough shit. I made pretty a fake website. Convinced this one company level one guy to 6o and j will advertise on your site. They did it, lol. Anyways ya after chemical use wow lacks some of the creativity it once held and life changes and it's crazy growing older not a kid anymore . Atleast me having a wife n kid, now I play cs go lol
 
Yeah, guild bonds were awesome and the server rivalry. I saw that they got rid of server forums too. I used to love talking shit in the server forums. I was part of one of the more notorious guilds on my server, because we'd do drunken nights of stupid shit. lol We crashed the server once raiding the other side. Got all the big boys to play on the server and the server just died. Bliz was not amused. lol

My guild was also the first Horde guild to kill Thrall. lol Blizz was not amused! Patched that shit quick. FUCKING YEAH! This was so awesome! Fuck I miss this guild.

First Horde clan to kill Thrall motherfuckerrs!




The game used to have some type of social element. It was great. now, it's just a clusterfuck.

It sucks so much. RIP Blunt Logic.
 
I remember this video, people were talking about it in our guild chat.. I love the the little speech bubble: "WTF nubs I need to turn in a quest".

I don't think we were ever involved in world-first's but we were the top leading guild on our server and we eventually absorbed players from the second and third top guild's. I miss the ventrillo strategizing and banter the most.. we would run drunk Zul'Gurrub runs on our off nights and PvP team's.

Our guild actually had a PvP team during the honor ladder era which had become so notorious on our server, that the opposing team would all just sit down and let us win. Because they knew it was quicker to lose to us and join another game, then to fight us and lose. This made it impossible for anyone on our server outside of our PvP team to ever hope to reach Rank 14 because we were having games handed to us.. and had a total monopoly on the honor ladder. That was a powerful feeling..

Yeah, I can reminisce about this forever.. so much nostalgia.

This still makes me laugh, all these years later.. back when Onyxia was the most complex and difficult raid boss available. (somewhere in early 2005)

 
Use to spend a grip of time on raiding. And other then guild groups would have to work trade and shit to build groups
 
this is awsome.. a thread about WOW on bluelight! I started playing when wrath came out and have played up till recently with really no breaks. But seriously WOD was horrible, garrisons ruined the game, the content sucked. I mean draenor? so fucking lame they could have done anything... legion looks ok i guess.

TBH tho Ive just lost interest in the game lately, idk its just not fun anymore. Way back I used to be the off tank for my guild and then as time when on became the main tank. PVP was hella fun I loved getting my rating up in 2s, 3s, and even 5s, but the game just kinda lost its appeal. I used to collect all the rare mounts and now I really don't care if I get the time lost photo drake... fuck.

anyone else feel this way? For the past like 7 years or however long its been, WOW was the only video game I would play (crazy right). But now I realize theres soooo many other good games out there. Lately I been playing Heroes of the storm, diablo, and my latest fav star wars Battlefront. These games are sick

I highly recommend playing HoTS, it is a moba, but its very simplified.

Ill never forget the glory days of WOW... like leveling my first toon it was absolutely an awsome experience haha and then eventually just nodding out in stormwind for hours lol
 
malakaix said:
I remember this video, people were talking about it in our guild chat.. I love the the little speech bubble: "WTF nubs I need to turn in a quest".

I don't think we were ever involved in world-first's but we were the top leading guild on our server and we eventually absorbed players from the second and third top guild's. I miss the ventrillo strategizing and banter the most.. we would run drunk Zul'Gurrub runs on our off nights and PvP team's.

Our guild actually had a PvP team during the honor ladder era which had become so notorious on our server, that the opposing team would all just sit down and let us win. Because they knew it was quicker to lose to us and join another game, then to fight us and lose. This made it impossible for anyone on our server outside of our PvP team to ever hope to reach Rank 14 because we were having games handed to us.. and had a total monopoly on the honor ladder. That was a powerful feeling..

Yeah, I can reminisce about this forever.. so much nostalgia.

This still makes me laugh, all these years later.. back when Onyxia was the most complex and difficult raid boss available. (somewhere in early 2005)

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This was great! HAHAHAHA I remember those times!
 
We called it the World of Warcrack

I quit playing out of disgust after my first end-game dungeon raid when I hit level 60 in 2005. It felt like hours and hours of grindy bullshit just to chase an item drop, and my "time played" showing 17 days was enough to make me cancel my subscription.
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