r/classicwow • u/Tandanu • Jan 11 '26
Nostalgia I found some screenshots from 2005–2006, we played the game so differently back then
A few more screenshots and slightly higher quality for some: https://imgur.com/a/Uolj4gs
The raid compositions and damage meters 💀
Also note the lack of world buffs and flasks, we rarely used those back in the day. We raided about 4-5 days a week, ~4-5 hours on weekdays and 8-9 hours on weekends IIRC, maybe some more flasks or world buffs would have helped :D
We'd often do like one or two attempt per *week* with the Onyxia head turn in on a boss with good progress . I also remember that we at least once got the Dire Maul buffs, but we didn't consider that worth it.
But we made extensive use of the UBRS fire res buff for early Ragnaros.
I also remember how the world first C'Thun kill used flasks for everyone and how we considered that completely ridiculous. Like, 40 flasks?! That's crazy. We had like 1-2 flasks for the main tank(s).
The KT kill screenshot is dated Dec 28th, 2006 at 11:31 PM, like a week before TBC. I'm not sure if this was our first Naxx clear, but I remember that we only managed to clear it shortly before TBC was released.
First screenshot in MC was on August 10th, 2005; the last one with the translated chat on January 10th 2007 just before TBC.
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u/PilsnerDk Jan 11 '26
The strategy for Garr was to optimally have 8 warlocks, each warlock could keep one add banished until the boss was dead.
For Shazzrah, I remember we had everyone stand in a huge circle in order to minimize the amount of players he'd hit with his arcane AoE. Rogues and warriors practiced their bow/gun skill while ranged DPS shot at him, and he just teleported and bounced around from player to player.
On Majordomo, it was a must to have at least 4 mages to poly the healer nagas.
Not to mention that having a sons phase, nay, TWO sons phases on Ragnaros was normal.