Comments on: MMO Expansions and Sequels

By: female

female — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:13:00 +0000

Thanks,very interesting and useful post

By: GoW

GoW — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:25:21 +0000

@Everyone - I’ve revised the article and included a revision note. Thanks much for the suggestions and corrections!

By: Hiryu

Hiryu — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:55:53 +0000

Tauren didn’t have racial mounts, and used to have the ‘Plains Running’ ability to move at high speeds.

By: Din

Din — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:31:18 +0000

Paladins used to be able to use holy abilities (such as exorcism, etc. that are only usable now against undead/demons) on the hordes very own undead players. After that was changed, they were only usable on undead npcs, but later was updated to include demons.

By: Kyladar

Kyladar — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:30:05 +0000

Yeah, I was raid leader for MC back in the day, and remembered the Garr fight. Had four targets hunter marked and the other four had tanks. Actually had a system on how to mark it which made it easy to get all those adds tanked/banished too.

Also, from a warlock standpoint, no 20/24/28 slot shard bags, so we had most of our bag slots full of these non-stacking purple crystals especially before a raid. Also, remember that originally the shard bags were going to be 20/30/40. SO wish they’d kept them with that many.

By: GoW

GoW — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:39:58 +0000

@Hellscreamy - Ok, ok. I’ll revise the article. :)

Thanks much for the suggestions!

By: Hellscreamy

Hellscreamy — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:22:37 +0000

Don’t forget:
Paladin buffs only lasted 5 minutes, there were no 30min ones.
Flightpaths took longer (Darkshore - Gadgetzan could take half an hour).
You HAD to stay while flying, because everytime you passed a town you had to choose the following town.
It took people months of nonstop PvP to get their PvP Epics (Grand Marshal/High Warlord anyone?)
You could get your Epic Mount cheap by becoming Rank 12.
UBRS was considered hardcore and it was a 15man raid.
In Beta, Ironforge had bridges and it was a maze to most.
Healers didn’t have any +Healing on their sets.
Shamans were all Enhancement and they were OP (Windfury proccing on Windfury, oneshotting people).
T1 and T2 both dropped in Molten Core and looked like your pre-60 uncommons.
Hunters were always afk during raids because Auto-shot did tons of damage.
Blackrock Mountain always had 50 stealthed rogues around the corner.

Can’t think of more than this.

By: GoW

GoW — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:57:53 +0000

@BookhouseBOy - Wow, and I really loved Zul’Farrak, too. That pyramid fight was my first really epic feeling in the game. Thanks for the reminder!

By: BookhouseBOy

BookhouseBOy — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:27:39 +0000

That long wait between Scarlet Monastery and Sunken Temple ?

You forgot about *two* dungeons in the 40s-ish range that were there at launch: Uldaman and Zul’Farrak.

By: Matias Ocner

Matias Ocner — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:33:19 +0000

Great post bro, it really brings me back to what wow used to be. I kinda miss it in a way. Even though it was hectic and almost always frustrating it was fun to be part of that and just knowing where the game has evolved from is a rewarding feeling . Hell you just finished proving that even though we all like to think we know what blizzard is going to do next its all a huge mystery. Either way, awesome post!

PS: I also felt old as I finished reading what you wrote. LOL (LF9M UBRS)