Those specs sound about right Green2711! I think the original World of Warcraft had a 2004 graphics engine. My Geforce 5600 ran so-and-so on on medium game settings and later I had the Geforce 6800 and that thing flew on high settings. The Geforce 8800 would be a touch higher still.
To keep the nostalgia going, which years did you all play Warcraft and how far did you get in the game?
I played from late 2005 to late 2009. I rolled 2 warlocks up to around level 20 to try out both factions, then carried on with the Alliance warlock thereafter. I hit level 60 in mid-2006 (max level back then) and joined an up-and-coming social/raiding guild. It was pretty good as none of us had raided before so we were all in it together, got each other attuned, Jailbreak etc. Then we went on to complete Ony, MC, ZG, AQ20, BWL – all of them on farm. Most were geared up in T2 by the end of 2006. We got halfway through AQ40 then the clock stopped as it was Christmas and the Burning Crusade was around the corner. So yes the Warcraft base game had my fondest memories. While I liked the content from the Burning Crusade, there were some guild politics due to the reduced raid sizes and it meant that a lot of the players got left behind. Then Lich King came out in late 2008, did Naxx (which I never saw the first time round) but lost interest soon after.
I originally rolled a Warrior in Vanilla and started raiding with a social guild at first then joined a more hardcore guild (not as hardcore as the guilds who cleared Naxx) and became Main tank we cleared everything in AQ40 up to Twin emp and C’thun and killed 2 bosses in Naxx before TBC but the guild went inactive by that time and no one was really that fussed at doing Naxx with TBC round the corner. I also had a gnome mage alt that I used to pvp I got to rank 10 and was pushing for grand marshal but ended up getting burnt out.
I stayed with that guild through TBC and it became a bit more casual then but we managed to clear everything other than Sunwell. After TBC the guild I was in since vanilla disbanded. I also met my first GF whilst playing TBC started out as friends running dungeons and helping her farm and eventually she moved over here and we was together for 5 years, how romantic eh ??.
Im Wotlk I rerolled a night elf hunter for the first few raids into Naxx then whilst waiting for more raid content I rerolled a blood elf holy paladin and mained that up until Cataclysm clearing all raids on heroic difficulty.
After Cata I decided to quit because the game had lost its charm by then. I was defintely what you would consider a no lifer and I shudder to think of /played time with all my mains and alts combined haha.
Thanks Seedy I’ll message you when I get back from work or tomorrow ?