God I miss the days of being a noob who doesn't know anything
Nothing a little brain damage can't erase.
God I miss the days of being a noob who doesn't know anything
Nothing a little brain damage can't erase.
Pro tip: bingewatch braindead TV shows, like Keeping up with the Kardashians and Love Island etc. the months before Classic releases. Make yourself as stupid as possible and you can truly relive the Vanilla experience again!
Probably an unpopular opinion but I actually really liked Gnomeragan. It was so different in atmosphere and gave a really cool insight into Gnome lore and aesthetics that were at the time pretty lacking (they had no starting zone back then and were lumped in with dwarves in Dun Morogh).
It was also kind of huge and expansive, and had some pretty interesting quests. God it’s going to be hilarious when hunters forget to dismiss pets at the right time and they come running with half the dungeon’s mobs behind them hahaha
Probably an unpopular opinion but I actually really liked Gnomeragan. It was so different in atmosphere and gave a really cool insight into Gnome lore and aesthetics that were at the time pretty lacking (they had no starting zone back then and were lumped in with dwarves in Dun Morogh).
As a horde I have awesome memories of it: it was the first dungeon I stepped in (wall of text incoming!)
Back in the days, when the retail patch was around 3.1.0, I was already looking for Vanilla Wow Server (yep, a bit in advance :D). I remember stumbling on one called Enturion. We are talking of days when a non fun-server that had more than 100 players online concurrently was considered amongst the best. The scripting level was, of course, at least very bad. My comprehension of English (which is not my native language) was also very low for a game like WoW that has a ton of text!
So I was stuck around level 25 with many quests that I didn't know how to complete in The Barrens when I stumble upon one that seems easy: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=2842 . Eck, I just have to talk to a guy somewhere named Booty Bay, taking the boat from Ratchet! That should be pretty fast. I complete it in a matter of minutes, and I discover that he gives me another quest, https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=2843 . This time I don't understand exactly what to do, but that machine near him... it seems interesting, so I step on it. In a matter of seconds, the following happens:
A big error, of course, since the first group of Troggs kills me very quickly (What is that golden dragon along with their portrait by the way??)
At this point, I ress at the Kharanos Graveyard. I don't know where I am. Keep in mind that I'm veeeeeery noobish, so I don't know what the world map is AND I don't know what the hearthstone is.
Time to do some walk I suppose! I ress at the Spirit Healer and, thanks to I don't know which god, I make my way through Dun Morogh, Loch Modan, Wetlands, Arathi Highlands (where I die like 50 times to this bitch https://classic.wowhead.com/npc=2612 and his knights) and Tarren Mill in Hillsbrad Foothils. I then log out and never take back my character.
It was an awesome moment, and when years later I went back to kick https://classic.wowhead.com/npc=7800 ass, it was a very good sensation!
10/10 vanilla story would read again.
Black rock spire but particularly LBRS that place is a masterpiece of map design; layers up layers...UBRS is actually a part of LBRS and you can fall from UBRS to LBRS in a few places. The dungeon was practically a 5 man raid. So many challenges from how to pull, to CC, to boss mechanics.
I made all my new warrior recruits tank a LBRS run for me back during vanilla as a test of whether they were competent and it worked. It set the tone of seriousness and expectations and taught me a lot about their strengths and deficiencies as warriors.
It also didn't hurt that I was one of the tanks who was willing to help people with LBRS for the onyxia key chain (Warlord's Command) and few other people wanted to set foot in there.
SM is great for teaching people how to pull, by the time I start running SM is when I feel like I'm actually getting somewhere with my character. Love Zul'Farrak, the atmosphere is brilliant. Bums me out when people say the stairs event is tedious, it's great.
Least favourite probably the quillboar ones or the low level mazes, wc/mara.
Black Rock Depths. I probably ran this dungeon around 500 times back in Vanilla. It speaks volumes and I believe it to be the perfect five man instance. The size really showed what Blizzard tried to do with dungeons. I mean you had to go through there to get the Molten Core (obviously was scrapped early on). There was no fixed route and pretty much every group had a different way to run it. I remember knowing everything about this instance - be it boss, routes, keys or quests. I am not exaggerating. At the end of Vanilla I duo farmed this instance with my Warrior friend. Many crazy stories about this dungeon and a lot of gold was made.
Besides that, all the 10/15 Man dungeons were really well made. I loved running LBRS and getting the quest for the ring for UBRS. I began running this instance when the first Winterveil event started and being really jelous that I didn't win the green hat that drops during the event. It was funny to see the reaction of people when you used the ring during the Rend Blackhand fight. Stratholme had an amazing vibe, espacially knowing the WC3 story.
Maraudon's Earth-Song Falls is my absolute favorite in terms of design. I always wanted to travel around Desolace and see if I could find the massive chasm with a dungeon inside of it but never did.
Also Blackrock Depths for the sheer size and exploration aspect of it.
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Scholomance, it's just so gorgeous when you stop to look at the doodads and all the other things populating it.
But I must say, by concept alone BRD is very, very cool.
I'll seem like a simpleton when I admit this, but that's okay.
I love Ragefire Chasm.
It's so simple, easy, and when you're a low level you meet new friends through these dungeons so it's a pretty nice networking dungeon off the beginning.
Next in line would have to be Shadowfang Keep because of all of the interesting bosses and the size of the dungeon is a pretty good run.
I love every single one of them. Dire Maul and Maraudon are so beautiful and mysterious.
Maraudon for me, I love its varying aesthetics, and that it's segmented into all these different parts which can be accessed through each other. Usually Maraudon runs can also end up being very long when no one has the scepter, so lots of great memories have been made in that dungeon.
Sunken Temple would be my runner up.
BRD obviously, as many also chose. Needs no explanation.
Also really like Zul'Farrak. The theme and bosses were really fun. Have good memories of that place.
And Wailing Caverns is just a classic. I love how a group of 'noobs' with few skills run around that snake pit, collecting their first greens and occasional blue. Everything that drops there feels like such a big upgrade.