TBC Classic

[unsunghero]

If I remember that pvp vid got like 250,000 downloads from warcraftmovies.com

[Botten]

I had so many fond memories of classic going into TBC and TBC.

I also got into Black Temple two bosses from Illidan.

Was in a small guild of 20 or so at first where I proved to the guild leader it was his priest that was the problem why they couldn't finish even getting a 1.5 gear speed run done. His heals gain aggro and often he couldn't take hits (this was with a Prot warrior protecting him), a ice mage CCing, Warlock and Feral Druid. He was terrible and often his fade meant nothing to help him. Had my rogue tank the run and a paladin heal me and then ran everyone else through it. Knew the priest in RL and never saw the wind bag cringe so badly then that day when talking about.

Later switched to horde had a blast on my prot pally as I even was dual speced healing and tanking heroics to get badges to eventually be accepted by a high end raiding guild. Gear really made the class. Once had a groupie go wait paladins can heal or tank heroics with out respecing?

Much later, God it felt great when our geared prot tauren warrior was rushing through Black temple saw him aggro a bunch of mobs (he had niche of life) and LOH him which crit for 25K (back in TBC).

My guild lead drop his prot warrior that day and started a prot pally. He could never believe that they could tank really well and had that kinda of get out jail card and much more.

Great times. But now with a family and more I don't have the time to do this. *sigh

[Toxigen]

i killed m'uru pre-nerf

not v1.0 where negative energy had spell pushback (like 3 guilds did that)...but i slayed the guild slayer before blizz had to come in and nerf it

it was the most tightly tuned, beautifully crafted fights ever implemented at that point...i know bosses got mechanically much harder/complex in later expansions...but for TBC...your entire 25 man team had to play near perfectly for the entire fight and that was new for WoW

[Byue]

TBC arena in roughly one minute.

I thought it was funny good enough to share and it's one minute.
I'm more of a pve player, even though i manage the pvp.
sort of like a lover more than a fighter but also a fighter so don't get any ideas.

[Gravydoo II]

I dont understand any of this.

Could you like hide, then play an instrument to convince a nearby monster to attack a player, then loot their dead body?

[Byue]

Originally Posted by Gravydoo II [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I dont understand any of this.

Could you like hide, then play an instrument to convince a nearby monster to attack a player, then loot their dead body?

more like either instant gimp someone or long drawn out battle that often result in which healer gets oom first. which also means which team has the better hunter, to put that draining mana mark on the healer. you're full mana then the next ten second, not. you got to go and hide and try to drink but that hunter don't leave you alone so you die in a corner with your team getting slaughtered ithout heals because you are oom and oh my god early pvp sucked balls in mmo except in DAoC.

In that game, there was tons of op shit but tons of counters an the field was absolutely littered with combatants. it was insanity for the era.

the sheep and music part was a mage ability to mez 1 target.

[unsunghero]

For a brief period of time we held the highest 5v5 rating in the world at the start of TBC, and that was with a conventional comp

We eventually became the first team in the USA that I was aware of (and I STUDIED arenas back then) to pioneer the 3 healer 5v5 team: sl/sl lock, mm hunter, disc priest, resto sham, resto Druid

It took our bracket by storm, although we were already rank 1, with this comp we had a 95% winrate and were so far into r1 it wasn’t worth it to queue anymore. We used to get tells from level 1 alts of the top 5 teams asking us when we were going to be done queueing lol. The comp has a lot of cc, and it’s incredibly hard to burst someone down vs it. With 2 people healing, it almost always freed up a healer to assist on dps. But the real threat was the priest. Our priest was stellar, one of the best in the game IMO, and if he was left alone with bloodlusted mana burns + viper, it means one of their healers was oom in literally 25 seconds. But we didn’t need to mana drain, we could win a surprising amount by just staggering cc chains

I did well as HLD in 3v3, was usually between r5 to r3, but there was an alliance hunter named Megatf who was my arch rival in a mirror comp. We lost more than we won to him, and he held the r1 3v3 spot

2v2 I didn’t care much about bc I didn’t have a healer, our Druid was playing with a war friend of his in 2’a. Hunter/Druid was the power comp, but I was very active on Arenajunkies and met one of the best holy paladins in the USA there, and he told me he was playing on like 7 different accounts at once, and to see about getting him an account for hunter/holy pal 2v2

So I started asking all the paladins I could “hey do you want to get a free glad title?”. Didn’t take long for one to say yes and give me his account info. His gear was mediocre, but it didn’t matter. We went from 0 to 2500 in one week. The problem was his guild asked him how he had such a high rating having never been into pvp and he made the mistake of telling them the truth. And some jealous nark in his guild anonymously ratted him out to blizz. He got temp banned for 1 week and a GM deleted our 2v2 team [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I really didn’t like 2v2 anyway, even with such an amazing paladin. That was were without dampening (invented much later), a team could just turtle and run almost indefinitely. Extremely frustrating...

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by Byue [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

TBC arena in roughly one minute.

I thought it was funny good enough to share and it's one minute.
I'm more of a pve player, even though i manage the pvp.
sort of like a lover more than a fighter but also a fighter so don't get any ideas.

Lol good stuff, I’ve seen many of that vid creators’ vids. He funny

[unsunghero]

Continuation of the story...

So mid-season I was posting on the official WoW forums that I thought our 5v5 team might be the best around. And the general consensus was “you aren’t on BG9 therefore you aren’t the best”. So we did some research and yes, a trend had began a while back of everyone super serious about pvp migrating to either tichondrius or blackrock. The team that won the first blizzcon, (and became the first sponsored WoW pvp team and brought the concept of e-sport sponsorship to WoW) tournament was from a pvp guild on Tich during classic called <Notorious>, Noto for short. That became their arena name too

So anyway we xferred to BG9. We were featured briefly in Worldofming’s blogs, which was one of the most popular WoW sites at the time, talking about our comp, and I got my 15 minutes of WoW fame. Unfortunately we were convinced that we were going to be rank 1 in BG9 or at least top 10, and the competition was just on another level. We lost to the best 2 healer 3 dps 5v5 teams. To give an idea of the competition, there was a time I was in a guild on Tich that had only gladiator as its requirement. It had something like 200 gladiators. To get that title you needed about 2300+ rating

Anyway, we got cockblocked around rank 20 and nerd raged at each other so hard that our priest and Druid quit the game. I quit WoW soon after, until classic WoW came out, but I quit that when I discovered how shitty the “premade meta” BG’s were. Doing casual BG’s was all I wanted to do and it sucked

[Shawk]

Originally Posted by unsunghero [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If I remember that pvp vid got like 250,000 downloads from warcraftmovies.com

Totally forgot that we use to have to download vids this way. I remember this series of videos oddly enough while it was popular to watch these and copy strats, builds etc. The music just transports me back, get the same thing with DAOC videos but damn it was actually hard to record videos back then.. Let alone upload them etc.