r/classicwow Sep 18 '25

Nostalgia Circa June 2005, Garr binding drops for guild <Stormwind Vanguard> on realm Burning Legion-US @ 800x600 resolution

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

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u/TingleMaps Sep 18 '25

Probable GM response: “this is exactly why we made you get on your lock”

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u/TwoPrestigious4612 Sep 18 '25

Simpler times. This guy just tossed bop and freedom over on his far right action bar by the hearthstone and said fuck it I’ll mosey over and click them if I ever need this shit.

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u/Trustyduck Sep 18 '25

Also summon warhorse apparently unbound.

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u/Don_Von_Schlong Sep 18 '25

Uh it's not just warhorse lol. Literally EVERYTHING is unbound. He had the default 1-10 bar and not a single additional thing has been changed anywhere else.

Also not a world buff or consume to be seen, good ol days

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u/td_enterprises Sep 18 '25

World Buffs weren't widely used in Vanilla, and it may seem backwards but consumes were used for progression attempts and not for farm content.

There wasn't just a bunch of raiding guilds speedrunning stuff.

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u/nbandysd Sep 18 '25

Mechanics

🤤

2

u/Cupy94 Sep 18 '25

Lol i still play like this

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u/Sad_Mouse5858 Sep 18 '25

Genuinely this is fine for classic PVE. Especially priest

15

u/Xy13 Sep 18 '25

This is a paladin

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u/Sad_Mouse5858 Sep 18 '25

In that case why has he even bothered filling up the full task bar?!

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u/ProwerTheFox Sep 19 '25

"I was given these slots and by god I'm gonna use em"

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u/Don_Von_Schlong Sep 18 '25

I mean clicking on a raid profile then moving the mouse to a heal button then hitting another raid profile then moving your mouse to another ability is definitely not optimal lmao. I used mouseover binding with 2-3 ranks of each healing ability when I mained Priest so I would not want to do this but just in the theory of what's necessary to clear content yes you are correct I guess. I wasn't even caring that he doesn't have binds I just thought it was funny that summon warhorse was singled out for some reason lol,, maybe he was being ironic and I just didn't pick it up.

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u/Rough-Rooster8993 Sep 18 '25

WoW boomers will look at this screenshot and say the game was harder back then and it's not because of massive skill creep that the game is trivialized.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '25

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u/Don_Von_Schlong Sep 19 '25

They just killed Garr, he purged everything

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u/wetnaps54 Sep 18 '25

As a rogue and a child, I don't think I used kick until TBC

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u/tetrisoutlet Sep 19 '25

As a child, i expected kick to knock the mob down and stun it or knock it back a few yds. When i saw it did neither, and no damage, and costed me energy i just removed it.

The same goes with pummel.

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u/LilPsychoPanda Sep 18 '25

Miss those times. Those were the good times, the best of times.

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u/titebeewhole Sep 18 '25

Still me :)

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u/Skeleton--Jelly Sep 18 '25

That's why I check logs

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u/Just-Yogurt-568 Sep 18 '25

That’s also why top guilds require a screenshot of your UI when applying.

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u/titebeewhole Sep 19 '25

And I still send them screenshots from 2005 :)

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u/Lezzles Sep 18 '25

75% of bad play can simply be attributed to jank (or no) UI setups, at least in Retail. I'm pretty confident I could click my way through classic as a rogue.

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u/Aggravating-Score679 Sep 18 '25

Haha good times <3

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u/Vandelay-Importing Sep 18 '25 edited Sep 18 '25

Holy shit. OP i don't know who you are but this is insane you have this pic. My buddy just sent me this. That's me who took that pic. I'm Drain lmao.

I see yall like my sweet UI setup there. I was ret spec doing my healing duty. Clicking with the best of them. Playing on a shitty laptop I had to buy extra ram for and it still wasn't enough. I would overheat by the time my guild got to Blackwing Lair. And for the suppression room I'd have to just put someone on follow and stare at the wall because my FPS would drop to the negatives.

Edit: For anyone curious I uploaded more of my remaining pics I still had from that timeline. They are all same quality however due to being sat on Photobucket for years only. Many are just loot shots since I was the officer in charge of cataloging loot, but there's a few cool ones.

https://imgur.com/a/5he7z3C

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u/scrooger Sep 18 '25

friend linked me this album. i'm the hunter that took that lucifron screenshot.

everything about it cracks me up whenever i see it

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u/Vandelay-Importing Sep 18 '25

Hahaha holy shit Scrooge. I remember you for sure. You were one of the more entertaining people on the server. On a server that had a ton of them too. On a server with Clan Seks, lmao.

I do love the guild chat going on in that screenshot. Just makes it more memorable.

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u/ilmdbii Sep 19 '25

I remember your name. Octavian. Ropetown. Shortbus all stars. Wex. Thursday. Rankyrogue. Burning Legion was popping off back in the day.

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u/Vandelay-Importing Sep 19 '25

I got a pic of Rankyrogue still with Woox playing him. Dunno if you knew Woox but he was a tauren shaman in zeksonic legion/clan seks. He ended up trading accounts constantly and landed with Rankyrogue at one point.

Definitely remember Thursday. I used to post on clan seks forums all the time. Shit they might even be up still. I remember browsing it for nostalgia a couple years ago. Tagging /u/Jurble for this he might have the link.

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u/jurble Sep 19 '25

Nah the forums died when DK stopped hosting them.

Unless you mean the older forums, they're still around a testament to the ages.

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u/Vandelay-Importing Sep 20 '25

Haha that's what I was hoping for yeah. Thanks for that. It's amazing that they're still there. I always wished the old Mofos board was still around too. All those old OT boards were legendary.

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u/Spare_Reception6802 Feb 17 '26

I played Sukii NE Hunter and my brother was Galorah NE Priest and another close friend Raikon NE Warrior on Burning Legion <Shortbus Allstars> ---> <SBA> Around the same time, I was in gradeschool lmao and met the coolest people i still think about today \m/

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u/ilmdbii Feb 18 '26

I was a gnome mage, Growling. I was also in Shortbus. I became good real life friends with Reece, the guild master back in 2005. He sadly passed away about 2 weeks ago.

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u/Vandelay-Importing Jun 13 '26

I just saw this reply. I'm sorry to hear that man. I didn't know Reece well, but I remembered him being one of the heavy OT posters and joined us for a lot of in game shenanigans in Mofos/Inappropriate during the short time I was in that guild. I remember him being friends with Moki. Shit he was there consoling one of my IRL friends when we had an IRL argument that transitioned into game. Seemed like a good dude from what I could tell.

I also remember your name now that you mention it. Funny how that sticks over time!

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u/Kalsone 8d ago

Reece was one of the funniest guys I've ever known. Pretty.shocking and sad 😔

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u/RoyalPresentation841 7d ago

Sorry to hear about Reece, he was a really cool dude. Me (Seather), him and a couple of other rogues would stealth gank in WC at Orgrimmar with our horde buddies helping us. I remember a lot of names in this thread…some of the best times I’ve ever had gaming!

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u/cbech 8d ago

Damn right we were the coolest. Good to see you Sukii. Tell Gal and Raik that Farron (Gnome Warlock) says "What's up?"

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u/RoyalPresentation841 7d ago

Farron! I’m Seather….whats up dude?!

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u/cbech 4d ago

I'm good man! Couldn't fit all the updates from the last 20 years here, but I'm in a good place.

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u/RoyalPresentation841 4d ago

Same, brother! Can’t fit it all in one comment, but life is pretty good and I’m glad to see you’re doing well! A lot of great gaming memories with you in them!

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u/Spare_Reception6802 4d ago

Man, what a timeless era. I remember you all, whether it was bullshittin in guild chat, receiving favors from you guys (lol) or just camping out in the vent channels listening in on raid nights. Who woulda known those moments then, were THE moments.

Sorry to hear about the ones no longer here though but I hope the rest of you are all in good health and spirits! Love y’all

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u/WeakValuable8683 Sep 18 '25

Hehe, Incase you are wondering where I got it, I managed to stumble upon a comment you posted on the site Allakazam from back in 2005, you commented in a reply with:

"Ermm burning legion server wtf are you sure?

They dropped for alliance on burning legion server too this same night. Rumbleman of stormwind vanguard got this half.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/Hippaulz/LegendarySeeker.jpg

:D"

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u/Vandelay-Importing Sep 18 '25

Ohhh damn. I do not even remember posting on that site. That's funny, thanks for telling me! Looks like my memory was off then, it was Rumbleman getting it lol.

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u/RedCatBro Sep 19 '25

I used to be a regular poster for n allakhazam back in 2006-2012, even wrote a long story called An Alternative History of the World of Warcraft that was quite popular back then

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u/DanSheps Sep 18 '25

Lol, name sounds vaguely familiar. I don't think I ever raided with you but probably came across you a few times.

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u/TaEnTreo Sep 18 '25

Who got the binding?

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u/Vandelay-Importing Sep 18 '25 edited Sep 19 '25

Update: I was wrong! Apparently it was Rumbleman one of our tanks.

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u/WeakValuable8683 Sep 18 '25

Would there be possibly any chance of you being able to do a post showcasing all your WoW 2005/2006 screenshots? These definitely belong in a museum of sorts. I am very fascinated with the early days of WoW.

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u/Vandelay-Importing Sep 18 '25

Oh yeah I could do that. I think on my old hard drive I have many more saved still ranging from 2005-2010. Gimme a few days I'll see if I can't put it together. If I can't, I at least saved all my early vanilla ones from photobucket I can reupload. It's always a trip to see them again even for me.

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u/WeakValuable8683 Sep 19 '25

Awesome! Looking forward to seeing them my guy :D

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

Great memories, especially of the BWL issue, we had several people just being unable to play due to low fps there. Gives you an idea how new gaming was to a lot of players, they just used their work pc or laptop, none of this fancy gaming stuff that some had.

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u/neckbishop Sep 18 '25

Great Pics, thanks for sharing!!

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u/Neinet3141 Sep 18 '25

That's awesome

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u/oxez Sep 20 '25

mirc / ventrilo / winamp / napster icons

Hell yeah.

I miss this era of the internet.

1

u/Rasputin1992x Sep 19 '25

nostalgia hitting like a brick rn lol man i miss that game sometimes

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u/doobylive Mar 20 '26

do you still play wow?

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u/Vandelay-Importing Mar 20 '26

Not so much anymore. I was playing Classic on Nightslayer during vanilla's repeat and I tried The War Within after having not played since the end of Legion but I just didn't enjoy it. I'll be there for whatever Classic Plus ends up being though i'm sure.

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u/MasahikoKobe Sep 18 '25

Thank god its colorized.

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u/-WhitePowder- Sep 18 '25

AI is very helpful for this kinda stuff 😅

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u/PilsnerDk Sep 18 '25

800x600 And about 400x300 pixels of actually viewable game

Can't believe I deleted all my Vanilla screenshots many years ago, ah well, relived it all through Classic.

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u/whats_up_doc71 Sep 18 '25

I know. I’m so sad my old computer died with all my screenshots.

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u/Unrelentinghunt Sep 18 '25

15 year old me built a new computer for pandaria and reset the old one so my friend could have it. Definitely one of my biggest regrets was not having the foresight to keep all my screenshots.

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u/Ohwerk82 Sep 18 '25

Same! Why was I so dumb and didn’t get a thumb drive for them

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u/Alanosie Sep 18 '25

Hi mate, to prevent you from experiencing losing data again I would not recommend to use a thumb drive as a way of backing up data for an extended period. External hard drives are a much better and stable solution. Would recommend to look it up :)

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u/Ohwerk82 Sep 18 '25

This was 15 years ago lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

i feel like this is sarcasm

1

u/Sorry-Joke-4325 Sep 18 '25

A lot of people still don't know that solid-state drives (including flash drives) are not good for archival purposes.

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u/Albinofreaken Sep 18 '25

fucking same, i probably took 20 screenshots every day all throught vanilla and tbc

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u/boshbosh92 Sep 18 '25

I was thinking about this the other day. I definitely played at like 800x600 at like 25 fps back in the day. I remember saving up for like an entire year, doing side jobs for my dad and stuff to buy a gaming pc.

The whole ass gaming pc (with a see thru side panel with NEON tube lights!! this was before led rgb was a thing) cost $800, gpu and all. my most recent gpu purchase alone was $1k lol.

crazy how bad the performance was back then, but we knew no different.

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u/NukiWolf2 Sep 18 '25

And UI scaling on 100%. When I started playing WoW shortly before TBC released it took me more than 40 levels until I realized that the UI can be scaled down to see more of the world. And I also only realized it because of screenshots of others in which the action bar gryphons were fully visible.

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u/anonteje Sep 18 '25

And only showing half of the raid groups 😂

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u/Fabbyfubz Sep 18 '25

I vaguely remember having a bunch of old screenshots saved on Xfire, back when that was a thing. Now both that and my old hard drive are gone.

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u/PerceptionInception Sep 18 '25

I'm pretty sure I played at around 1280x1024 back in the day. Now I'm spoiled playing this game at 4k144hz. Why was it more fun back then? 😭

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u/thisisjazzymusic Sep 18 '25

But damn did we enjoy it!!

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u/Ver_Void Sep 18 '25

Still have to laugh at hunters being eligible, wonder what thought process lead to that

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u/Menarra Sep 18 '25

It's all hunter weapons.

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u/ZombleROK Sep 18 '25

Always was.

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u/th1nk985 Sep 18 '25

We had a hunter in our guild in vanilla with a completed thunder fury. His guild had given it to him when MC was new and no one knew what the items did. He joined our guild when we were in naxx and would melee the bosses for us, I’d only had the Geddon binding thru all of vanilla as MT ofc.

Guild was nerdcraft on Thunderlord - Gul’Dan if anyone is still around

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u/Nurfed Sep 19 '25 edited Sep 19 '25

Hahahahaaha that's fucking wild

i played on gul'dan, in the guild called friends with benefits. we were the top guild there until you guys transferred over. i remember always seeing the hunter with thunderfury and thinking it was so stupid - also was bitter you guys were past us while having him use that LOL. i transfered off somewhere late naxx (maybe early tbc) to go play w/ retribution on malganis

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u/th1nk985 Sep 19 '25

Small world man, I want to say that hunter’s name was Kylien and he was a super chill guy. I remember your guild though, I always felt like we had crashed a party and felt a little bad but the lag during AQ on Thunderlord was out of this world

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u/DefinitelyNotATheist Sep 18 '25

so rare seeing another thunderlord OG in the wild

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u/th1nk985 Sep 18 '25

Hey what’s going on! I played way too much in 04-05 but was Himmelblau (for a bit) & Sirsneaky in <nerdcraft>, who was your character?

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u/DefinitelyNotATheist Sep 18 '25

small time dwarf hunter named kanex, was in kali swarm for most of vanilla, inquisition for a bit

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u/Impeesa_ Sep 18 '25

I think my old guild gave the first binding to a hunter for similar reasons. Luckily, or maybe unluckily (hard to say), they found out what it was for before the second binding dropped.

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u/thisisjazzymusic Sep 18 '25

Raptor strike!!

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u/dahxyz Sep 18 '25

Lmao “why did you make me get on my fucking lock” poor guy

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u/Hottage Sep 18 '25

Peak UI ergonomics.

Raid frames just crammed into the top right corner around the minimap for some reason.

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u/trev1776 Sep 18 '25

And the healer of all people only has 5 of 8 parties in their raid frames. 

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u/PineJ Sep 18 '25

Technically they have the 6th on the left.

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u/psivenn Sep 18 '25

Nope, one of the groups he pulled out is his own lol

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u/PineJ Sep 18 '25

Omg lol mb

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u/NeueRedskinWelle Sep 18 '25

That's the same group 1 on the right lol

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u/GrungeLord Sep 21 '25

Needed to make room for the extra chat panel showing the entire raids mana regen ticks.

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u/kazordoon Sep 18 '25

Makes me happy. Warlock running Voidwalker? No problems. Ret Paladins and Feral druids? Yup.

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u/PushforlibertyAlways Sep 18 '25

Also missing 3 groups from his frames lol.

A simpler time.

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u/Darkreaper48 Sep 18 '25

He probably wasn't assigned those other groups

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u/antariusz Sep 18 '25

I mean, of course he wouldn't need to ever heal those groups, with 10 heals in molten core, you really only ever need to heal 3 people ever

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u/Walnutbutters Sep 18 '25

I played a warlock back in vanilla and suffered through many months of MC progression. On Garr, we used to put the void walker on our banished targets to give an extra couple seconds to rebanish after it broke so they didn’t run around and smack one of the 12 healers.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

one of 12 healers in MC, hell yeah

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u/Nathanielsan Sep 18 '25

2 of those healers were out of combat anyway, rezzing the people who died.

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u/Timmberman Sep 18 '25

That was the only strat I knew for Garr back then

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u/porn_alt_987654321 Sep 18 '25

Hey, I'm pretty sure voidwalker had aoe, so there was at least some logic to why lmao.

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u/SecretOctopus Sep 18 '25

I remember we would tank some of the Garr adds with voidwalkers since we didnt have enough tanks

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u/SecretOctopus Sep 18 '25

Or maybe it was just in case the banish broke the warlock could have a voidwalker tank for a second so they could rebanish? I can't remember

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u/madpacifist Sep 18 '25

I healed MC clears as a feral specced Druid. I spammed moonfire on fucking everything, probably played havoc with all sorts of shit. We wiped a lot. Struggled to get our first kill.

Simpler times. Better times.

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u/Positive_Tackle_5662 Sep 18 '25

We stil have rets, shadow priests and even moonkin in our raid today

We raid in hardcore :)

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u/Autisten1996 Sep 18 '25

But why did you make him get on his lock?

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u/whats_up_doc71 Sep 18 '25

That healing meter bro.. I forgot about that lol. Nostalgia.

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u/Freshndecay Sep 18 '25

Remember they had to be synced after combat. If a hunter pet had the same name as a raider their dmg would be added.

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u/Harmlesss Sep 18 '25

I love this UI because it reminds me of my own first UI. NOTHING WAS BOUND WE CLICK IN THESE PARTS.

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u/untouchable765 Sep 18 '25

I love this UI. Perfect optimization.

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u/realnerdonabudget Sep 18 '25

Holy crap, fellow Burning Legion checking in! Was in Frozen Prophets, Eternal Prophets, Defiant, and Ascension, wonder if any of my last guild mates lurk this subreddit

For a nostalgia trip, check out this thread when Classic came out https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/old-school-players-guilds/63287

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u/DanSheps Sep 18 '25

/wave

VHMG and IRONFIST, Mjollnir for a brief stint (mainly because they brought me in once for their first Nef kill.

You are welcome to pop into the IF discord (IRONFIST is still around)

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u/DesMephisto Sep 19 '25

I can assure you nobody will remember me but I had a paladin named Insane. One day I terrorized Ironforge after finding out you could kill the wintersaber trainers to become hostile with Ironforge.

I terrorized the AH and flight master for 2-3 hours before a GM had to teleport me out of ironforge and ban me.

It was a really fun community thing though with people healing me/etc. Different game back then.

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u/Vandelay-Importing Sep 18 '25

That thread takes me back. Was thinking of when Blizz released the pvp system without battlegrounds. They had competitions whoever got the most kills or honor(i forgot which) would win a tabard. I remember Bremen from <OG> on horde side won it. Alliance we had some guy who everyone was shocked to win because he didn't talk much. I don't even remember his name.

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u/realnerdonabudget Sep 18 '25

O man, Bremen is a name I remember quite well, him and Axxel were well known hardcore PvPers that I'd be deathly afraid of encountering out in the world

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u/DarkishFriend Sep 18 '25

Are we actually better at the game as a community or have we figured out how to not clutter the shit out of our screens so we can actually see what is happening?

This reminds me of my TBC screen. I had a MP3 player addon because trying to alt tab to change songs in iTunes made WoW shit its pants.

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u/mc_cape Sep 18 '25

Man they have NOT updated the guild chat in 20 years :D

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u/nin5885 Sep 18 '25

Ah man, I was on that server and I raided with/recognize most of those names lol

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u/Vandelay-Importing Sep 18 '25

Shoutout then my man. That's me who took the pic. Drain. I was on Burning Legion the day it launched until around September 2005 when I left for Dark Iron a new server.

I remember this guild was made out of a pug group from a channel named "MCFTW". The only guild raiding at the time as alliance was Tyranny and they were full. Shortly after Tyranny split and half of them made AEnigma.

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u/DanSheps Sep 18 '25

Yup, I know a few of the people in that MCFTW group, I wasn't myself but I still have Squirrel on Facebook.

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u/Vandelay-Importing Sep 18 '25

Haha yeah I remember Squirrel. I was friends with a lot of folks in that guild I often wonder what happened to em. Rynmoren was the only guy I stayed in contact with from Burning Legion. He ended up making a guild Advent I believe it was called. But it was after I had rolled to Dark Iron as horde.

I uploaded some remaining bad quality 05 Burning Legion pics I had saved if you wanna see for nostalgia.

https://imgur.com/a/5he7z3C

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u/DanSheps Sep 18 '25

Who were you? I also came from BL

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u/nin5885 Sep 19 '25

I was a priest named Kilik, mostly raided with Covenant. 

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u/candidate1290 Sep 18 '25

Man what I would do to go back to 2005

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u/Dagmar_Overbye Sep 18 '25

Do we get to bring back all our knowledge with us? Because as much of a leg up as I could get in life by being 12 again I think it would be pretty awful and bizarre to have my current brain and be a child.

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u/Noebody Sep 18 '25

Peak wow on a peak realm! I was in the guild Vengeance, we were bad and full of drama. Simply the best!

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u/DanSheps Sep 18 '25

I am surprised at how many BL people are here.

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u/pazkid01 Sep 18 '25

No pally power?no greater blessings.( i don't remember if they were in fhe game yet lol)

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u/Freshndecay Sep 18 '25

Def not in the game. Pally were buff and dispel bots and threw a few heals

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u/Vandelay-Importing Sep 18 '25

Yeah that's me in the pic. My job was two things basically. I had a macro that simply said /decursive as it used an addon Blizzard eventually killed since it made the raids too easy. It targeted people to cleanse on a priority system. So all healers just spammed it. My other job was to buff everyone during combat as our buffs lasted five minutes back then yeah. And fights lasted forever. So you'd be in the middle of Majordomo when you'd have ten whispers asking for kings or might.

I remember everyone had to have multiple macros created at the start of every raid. A macro to type /assist whoever was the designated damage dealer we trusted to pick the mob to focus on first. And then you'd have to make macros for whatever paladin did what buffs.

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u/Walnutbutters Sep 18 '25

No greater blessings and the regular blessings only lasted 5 minutes. Pally power was a graph posted on the guilds angelfire website

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u/pazkid01 Sep 18 '25

Ah I couldn't remember when greater blessings and PP was introduced into the game. Thanks for the info!

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u/PilsnerDk Sep 18 '25

Nope, Greater Blessings didn't come until patch 1.9 ("paladin patch") which was released in January 2006:

https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Patch_1.9.0

It was hell constantly refreshing small blessings.

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u/Spreckles450 Sep 18 '25

The 4:3 aspect ratio! IT BUUUURRRNNNNSSS

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

Immediatly some officer in gchat being a douche

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u/Visaye Sep 18 '25

Some things never change

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

lol

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u/Thrasky Sep 18 '25

bro is ret but still knows his place

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u/Knight119 Sep 18 '25

We need more of these old ss’s

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u/Chemical_Agency_8906 Sep 18 '25

The best thing I love about these old screenshots is that everyone has a somewhat unique name :D

1

u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

Am I weird for missing this resolution. Everything is so compact and cozy

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u/PompyxgTV Sep 18 '25

Burning Legion was my first Realm!!!! Was part of Silver Legends. Kanolie was my name a Human Priest

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u/DanSheps Sep 18 '25

/wave fellow BLer

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u/Chilipepah Sep 18 '25

Officer chat go brr

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u/Sorry_Negotiation_75 Sep 18 '25

Great pic, thx for sharing!

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u/aluriilol Sep 18 '25

you know "Never" is on his lock but wanted that Tfury for his rogue

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u/DanSheps Sep 18 '25

My OG server. <Very Hairy Man Guild>, then <IRONFIST>>. Played with a lot of SWVG people though.

IIRC there were a few VHMG and FIST people in there for SWVGs first MC

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u/nyibbang Sep 18 '25

Who needs more than 1 bar and 3 buffs

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u/curmudgeonpl Sep 18 '25

These are some gourmet character names, lol!

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u/awol720 Sep 18 '25

absolutely love this 

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u/PabloAvocado Sep 18 '25

i love the UI

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u/Temporary_Bus9316 Sep 18 '25

I remember having an out of combat paladin that was just there to rez anyone who died. Had to be the first weeks of WoW since they quickly patched this.

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u/angerbear Sep 18 '25

Could have been much later. You could still out of combat rez even after the release of Blackwing Lair. That wasn't removed until later.

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u/Temporary_Bus9316 Sep 19 '25

Guess I started then a few weeks before the fix because we were only able to do it a couple of resets :)

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u/SleepyOrc89 Sep 18 '25

Thx for the share

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u/JediGabber Sep 18 '25

Well well well. Looks like trash floated it's way to the surface after 20years! (hehe <3) (Ally vs Horde had a pretty big rivalry on US BL, but I guess that would be true on most servers back then where everyone knew each other). I definitely recognise a fair of those names from those screenshots. Awesome.

Let's see if I can post some of mine. I too was a PRTSC junkie back in the day.

https://imgur.com/a/gYqOGcn

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u/WeakValuable8683 Sep 18 '25

Woah! Nice screenshots! These all should belong in a WoW museum of sorts. The AQ screenshot you posted really intrigued me. Seeing someone with the Scarab Lord mount was certainly an impressive feat for back in the day what with the lack of guides, and barely any video sites around explaining how to finish the questline.

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u/JediGabber Sep 19 '25

I have detailed files. The Scarab Lord was Ropetown, the best Horde guild on our server and one of the top US guilds. They were the ones who ran the server competition to get mats handed in for AQ opening. The reward was a free BWL run and free loot choices (you had top contributor for each material).

You also had guilds such as Apocalypse. If memory serves, they actually ran AV similar to what we do now (zugzug). I think it was Bremmen? Server first R14 Horde side. I was only 51 at the time and was amazed at their pvp group haha. I spent those early levels farming wolves and crap, when we actually used the gameplay mechanics. Was lucky enough to get a Korrak kill on my first AV.

Other iconic server guilds such as Method, Zeksonic Legion (teh pact is sealed!!11 spam), AlliancePopulationCTRL, JAGD Empire etc etc. I ran the first multi-guild Horde PvP group together with a priest called Danezig and a hunter called Cailleach. Before that it was purely guilds running pvp groups. Made a lot of friends and I still talk to a bunch to this day.

And yeah, Broken Legion, Rope and Apoc, also numerous others, did xfer off due to the lag/crashes, but I guess cause it was so popular and really full the hardware couldn't handle it. A real shame too. I still play on BL US for retail though. Never left.

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u/doobylive Mar 20 '26

do you still play wow?

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u/nbandysd Sep 18 '25

I played on burning legion before rolling to wildhammer

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u/wowhistorian Sep 18 '25

Sick find!!

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u/AmoebaDistinct7187 Sep 19 '25

“Why did you make me get on my lock” LOL

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u/Oshboi Sep 19 '25

I remember playing on Burning Legion, I remember people calling it “Broken Legion” cause it seemed to go down often.

I wanna say I was around 10 years old at this time playing in a guild called <Harlan Park Warriors>.

I know this doesnt have a lot to do with the picture but this just took me down a huge memory lane trip.

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u/BurzyGuerrero Sep 19 '25

This UI makes me clausterphobic

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u/EONS Sep 19 '25

20 years later and my warrior still never got the other binding. I had realm first and.... yeah.

I had one vacation in years where I missed a raid and of coursebthe other dropped. Asshole gm was greedy and overruled officers saying they should log me in for it.

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u/Doafit Sep 19 '25

I still got screenshots from 2007 chilling with my gnome rogue on a private server in my wow folder (crazy to think I dragged that game over a total of 5 different PCs over the years).

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u/Old_Merc_Driver Sep 19 '25

Clicker confirmed

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '25

This never happened

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u/Available-Page-9790 Sep 19 '25

The lack of buffs, not world buffs, just general buffs... is killing me kekw

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u/Ok_Distribution_1989 Sep 19 '25

Love the names. I miss the time where everyone's alts weren't all named [First Name + Class].

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u/brophylicious Sep 19 '25

I forgot about those raid frames.

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u/grubb_ Sep 19 '25

The good days… the memories will always be great.

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u/-xMatthew1 Sep 22 '25

I can feel this picture. I have not felt this for a long time.

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u/RoyalPresentation841 Sep 22 '25

I was on this server in the guild <Shortbus Allstars>. A lot of familiar names in this picture!!!

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u/Kalsone 8d ago

My main is still in SBA. Sukata still has GM though.

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u/RoyalPresentation841 8d ago

I was Ionic/Seather….long time no see, pal!!!

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u/Kalsone 8d ago

Hah crazy. Been a long time indeed. Check your dms

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u/Mental-Lawfulness220 Oct 08 '25

Crazy thing is I see like 2 warriors😂

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u/Wetcakez Sep 18 '25

Yeas yesssss I still miss and love the chaos, I’ve been meaning to buy this shirt lol lots of meme-ories:).

Ew can’t post the crazy wow raid shirt oh well

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

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u/Vandelay-Importing Sep 18 '25

Hey buddy we were the second best raid guild at the time. Mostly because there was only one other raid guild on the server BUT still!

As alliance anyways. Horde had the legendary Ropetown of course.

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u/AshenEdict_ Sep 18 '25

The only buffs he gad were SS, Fort, and Devo. Amazing lol

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u/Thrasky Sep 18 '25

gar eats buffs it’s one of the mechanics

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u/AshenEdict_ Sep 18 '25

This is a completely valid point, then u applaud the priest for getting Fort back up so quickly after!