So that's where it was. I did a search for a couple months ago and turned up nothing. I thought it fell off the end of the queue. Now I have to free up some time to be nostalgic.
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So that's where it was. I did a search for a couple months ago and turned up nothing. I thought it fell off the end of the queue. Now I have to free up some time to be nostalgic.
yeah i forgot to unsticky these >_>
I was looking for this a while back. This is probably the most legendary thread this board has ever seen.
Yeah, plus it's fun to go back and read about what the game was like in the very early stages.
Nah. It would need Paris Hilton or shampoo for that. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Vladius
This was worth a re-read. The magic and polish of the early game is strong, indeed!
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Originally Posted by Ringo
Most users ever online was 4,505, March 19th, 2004 at 12:02 AM.
That was an awesome re-read. Thanks so much again to Ringo for posting it all those years ago and getting us all so excited for the game.
Anyone else really curious what they planned for things like Cartography? And crying a little inside when reminded of the planned but cancelled Life Quests?
Cool stuff.
Seriously, this thread sucked me into WoW, and made me roll a warlock.
Your fault entirely Whizbang. :grinyes:
It was going to fill in the info on your zone map that gets added automagically for everyone now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Polynices
Three and a half years later and I'm still waiting for this damn skill, Blizzard!Quote:
Originally Posted by Flingo
Really. Looking at the size of those pipes, I find it hard to believe that the Tauren wouldn't take brewing pretty seriously too.
too bad priests lost their sleep spell
I'd like to add a thank you to Ringo for this thread. It's what got me interested in WoW, and here I am still playing to this day and having a blast.
You can all feel free to send me gold for my epic flying mount. :grinyes:
Yes send it to his alt Gyorgi - that G-Y-O-R-G-IQuote:
Originally Posted by Ringo
:grinyes:
Reading this for fun made me realize one thing: What happened to dwarf mages and why can't they come back!?
They were removed because Blizzard decided they didn't like that big of a shift from traditional (AD&D) racial roles, according to an explicit post during alpha.
Horde/Alliance partisans invented that it was about keeping the number of classes available to each race and side "even," although that was notably absent from the original rationale. I've seen Blizzard CMs bring it up since, but none of them were around during alpha. (That was the long-gone Donna Anthony.)
Bah, this is the exact reason that I was excited about dwarf mages to begin with. Blizzard has done a fairly good job of putting their own spin on the races of Azeroth. Orcs, trolls, minotaurs and undead are pretty much one-dimensional monsters in most fantasy settings, but in Warcraft they all have their own well-defined, non-villainous cultures (okay, so the Forsaken are pretty nasty, but they're still not the staggering mindless zombies you usually associate with "undead").Quote:
Originally Posted by Ringo
The Alliance races are pretty stereotypical though, or at least the original four were. Night Elves might not look like Tolkien's elves, but they're still basically just wood elves with rainbow-colored skin, outlandish hair, extra time at the gym and a moon fetish. Still, they're probably the most unique among the pre-TBC Alliance races with regard to other games of the genre. Humans, dwarves and gnomes, however, are pretty much just what you'd find in your average fantasy setting. It would have been nice to have the fairly nonstandard twist of allowing dwarves to be arcane spellcasters.
Norse mythology has quite a few spellcasting dwarves, if I recall correctly, so it's not unprecedented.Quote:
Originally Posted by Widge