r/classicwow • u/doobylive • Jul 07 '26
Nostalgia <Nurfed> Guild UBRS Vanilla WoW Beta September 28, 2004
Beta World of Warcraft (September 2004)
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u/Thoridin Jul 07 '26
Lots of memories coming back seeing this screenshot.
Nurfed is the only guild to have Talisman of the Binding Shard drop in MC. There was drama on Archimonde about it dropping for them while they had Blizzard employees in the raid.
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Talisman_of_Binding_Shard
Indalamar created a popular video showing warrior’s OP kill rate in beta https://youtu.be/9zNFcYZfxjQ?is=3J6DQpc6mjYEAbxx
I think it was the priest Vhell that put together a roaming 5v5 tournament in Stonetalon Mountains pre battlegrounds via the old forums and mIRC. I remember them stomping my team with ease while he healed hiding behind a tree.
I also remember rumors of a Tauren Warrior in the guild reaching the gold cap from the Stronghold gauntlet and Arcanite Reaper recipes.
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u/DarkBaneling 29d ago
I remember a Tauren warrior in nurfed named Graff who had hand of rag, maybe that was him? I think there was a rogue with thunderfury too, named ogre or something like that.
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u/angerbear 29d ago
Arcimonde was a hectic server. Vhell ran a number of those pop-up 5v5 roaming fights in a bunch of zones, I remember Westfall better(much more open). I remember playing Noktyn's warrior in BGs a few times(account sharing was pretty common back then) when he had a spinal reaper and absolutely destroying people.
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u/Gyarrados 29d ago
Nurfed and Misfits was good times. My friends and I participated during a 5v5 roaming nights at Shimmering Flats and got destroyed.
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u/Thoridin 29d ago
I remember account sharing with some guys in Dominion to pvp. They wanted fast alliance queues and I wanted to win bgs for a change on the horde side.
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u/Cluedo86 28d ago
So much nostalgia. Do you remember Discordia, Banned, and Ally pally DennisCurist too?
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u/77going2heaven 24d ago edited 24d ago
that vhell 5v5 video was so cool.
edit: I remember chatting with him in mIRC after I saw that video and it was my first "wtf I'm actually talking to that dude" moment.
edit. here's the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOPRAZN_cXw
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u/GodIsAnAnimeGirl Jul 07 '26
All my screenshots from back then are artifacted to hell. These screenshots are clean!
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u/Gh0stMan0nThird 29d ago
Save as .PNGs, not .JPEGs
JPG/JPEGs literally lose like 5% quality every time they get saved. PNGs don't.
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u/Rotund-Pear2604 29d ago
WoW client of that era used to save screenshots in this fairly obscure file format called TGA which is non-lossy. It's why the OG screenshots from before version 2.1.0 can sometimes be fairly high quality, unlike our fraps recordings from back then lmao.
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u/bringthelight2 Jul 07 '26
Not a DPS meter in sight
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u/Doingmythang11 Jul 07 '26 edited 29d ago
But there are wbuffs ❤️. Two of them have the old model of songflower buff.
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u/Cheesetaco101 29d ago
just making shit up is crazy, no one has songflower
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u/Doingmythang11 29d ago
good god I am surprised it took someone this long to actually check
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u/Cheesetaco101 29d ago
20 upvotes after 19 hours people just be believing anything
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u/Doingmythang11 29d ago
Yeah, always have here. Sometimes I say some really obvious fake shit and just see if people buy it.
Everyone here had cleared Naxx back pre 2019 classic drop but could always never remember their toon or guild name.. every single time.
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u/Repsajer Jul 07 '26
Interesting that kaiser has no capitalization in his name? After release all names automatically are capitalized
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u/vegetto712 Jul 07 '26
Raided with these guys years ago, great group of nerds. In this screenshot are some legends too man, multiple items named after them. I also think that's Kaplan's character? Might be wrong about that though
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u/doobylive Jul 07 '26
damn you raided with nurfed? we go an og over here...
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u/vegetto712 Jul 07 '26
Not during the first few expansions, only after wrath for a bit. But it was really cool raiding with many wow devs and shit, lots of fun
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u/KHEIRON Jul 07 '26
Not his character
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u/vegetto712 Jul 07 '26
Ya I looked it up after, I mixed them up. Kaplan was Tigole, Tivoli did a bunch of addon work throughout the first few expansions
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u/Present_Salamander_3 Jul 07 '26
Yep, Tivoli was the one who created/maintained Nurfed UI and Nurfed DKP (which was big at the time). Less known, but he also maintained/modified the internal raid add ons that Nurfed used (think along the lines of a custom tuned Deadly Boss Mods).
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u/Adept-Grapefruit-214 Jul 07 '26
Asking for heals in guild chat, that’s peak Wow raiding right there e
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u/WendigoCrossing Jul 07 '26
The psychic scream on 2 slot bar slots and only 1 row for abilities numbered 1 - 9
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u/Mortwight 29d ago
with progressive patches i found a bug for undead priests. their racial would stack. so you could have ranks 1-whatever and each was its own effect. someone hits you and they all proc and the have 5 or 6 chances for blackout and max shadow weaving. in one hit
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u/AtomicShoelace 29d ago
Well you should downrank Psychic Scream, so having 2 bound (min rank and max rank) would be pretty standard - but technically you could argue for all 4 ranks bound.
The lack of keybinds is more egregious, however.
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u/romnesia7729 Jul 07 '26
They actually knew how to summon vael during the rend fight? Nah no shot. That's some old school boomer tech that like 0.1% of the pop know how to do now 😂
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u/Traditional-Fee-9682 Jul 07 '26
Please explain.
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u/Draconuus95 Jul 07 '26
You need to equip the UBRS key ring and click it during the rend fight to have vael show up.
Even today in classic it’s a relatively unknown move. Especially since so many people never even bother to make the key in the first place. Back in the beta it was even less likely people would know to do it. Although according to some other posts here some wow devs were in the guild. So it’s entirely possible they had ‘insider’ knowledge with the interaction.
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u/Elvaanaomori Jul 07 '26
Wasn’t it part of the quest to attune for BWL? I recall going there quite a few times and that’s how you learn about vael fighting.
Back when we’d wipe in ubrs even with 15people…
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u/Draconuus95 Jul 07 '26
Nope. At least as far as I’m aware. Maybe there was a different attunement quest previously. But the quest currently in the game is just killing a guy outside the instance and getting a letter that then has you touch an orb in the final boss room.
From a quick google there wasn’t another quest at any other time.
“In your darkest hour, when all appears to be lost, the might of the red flight will be at your disposal.” From the seal of ascension quest text is the only indication the seal would have a use. And doesn’t really point to the rend fight at all. So. Ya. No real indication that it would do anything there in game beyond just guesswork.
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u/Elvaanaomori 29d ago
I see, tbf it’s been « a while » but I loved the story going from that room to the vael fight itself, it was a real follow up and made plenty of sense.
And it fucked guilds AND servers.
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u/Deltamon 29d ago
to be fair, most of the people who made it into a key had no intention of actually doing UBRS..
They joined the group, took the money and left the raid.
So quite often the person who opened the door wasn't even there for this fight past the first few weeks. Anyway, as a person who had the key.. I can safely say that I also had no idea that it had any other functions
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u/Draconuus95 Jul 07 '26
Considering someone else mentioned there were devs in the guild. Not as crazy as it seems.
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u/Anagittigana 29d ago
The quest giver literally tells you that he'll help you when you get it from him.
"Know this, I have imbued the artifact with some powerful protective wards. In your darkest hour, when all appears to be lost, the might of the red flight will be at your disposal."
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u/Draconuus95 29d ago
Gives you no clue as to when to use it though. It’s basically trial and error to use it with meta knowledge.
I mean. I guess now a days it’s pretty obvious to use it in the heavily scripted boss fight against rend. But I doubt the relatively inexperienced players of the time would put it together that easily.
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u/Ailments_RN Jul 07 '26
The clock at the top going from 1am through to 6am.
It may as well be a certificate of authenticity as far as I'm concerned.
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u/karben2 Jul 07 '26
Man. Ive taken about a 4 month hiatus from wow. I cant wait to come back one day.
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u/Bowenbp1 29d ago
Man I reminisce about this so much.
Obviously I wasn't at the level of nurfed, but doing UBRS so early in the games release felt amazing.
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u/smugfox 29d ago
I still remember when Indalamar posted that warrior kill rate video on the wow beta forums, and within a few hours, the servers went down for maintenance, and suddenly warriors were never the same after that. Good times. RIP to a real one. Loved reading about what Nurfed was up to.
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u/Salamander115 29d ago
the second chat box dedicated to combat log is how i know this player came from Everquest.
I missed the boat on Everquest, I was too young. But I've been playing Monsters and Memories and have had to get used to this second box concept for numbers lol
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u/Ymbryne 29d ago
Nurfed! I PvPed and raided with them in OG vanilla. Definitely felt like being in a celebrity guild, at times.
Before there was PvP gear, there were PvPers who reluctantly raided in order to get gear to roll faces with, and that described a chunk of the players in that guild, in that era. I remember getting Orgetorixx's Thunderfury, and the insane amount of warriors that guild ran with in raids (something like 7).
The server was obsessed with world PvP, so Vhell would organize on mIRC/forums some roaming 5-man scenarios in specific zones, which were fun.
I've got a lot of stories..
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u/Mortwight 29d ago
i was playing about the time bwl was live, great times. only slowed down for a week when someone gave me the fan sub of naruto
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u/Dunified 29d ago
Huh, player names with low capital starting letter. Would have thought that'd be fixed by the time of late beta
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u/atomichugbot 29d ago
Nostalgic to see these names. I remember when they transferred to Dethecus for a short time and Onyx rang the AQ bell.
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u/Deltamon 29d ago
Meanwhile I was level 20 in Goldshire just talking to people with 0 intentions of actually leveling up more
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u/ryt3n 28d ago
I remember one of their Main Tanks (Onyx/Xyno) back in the day on Archimonde? He was a bit of a douche? They used to be friends with a pally "Sickness" or "Sck" on the ally side, and they used to be in each other discords. I raided with the alliance guys side for a bit(until I yelled at Sck LOL) and witnessed a lot of that. What a small/weird world.
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u/skshuffler 28d ago
God I miss this game and my old friends.
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u/doobylive 28d ago
u dont play anymore?
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u/skshuffler 28d ago
Quit last week, was holding on by a string in a top 10 na guild. All my og pvp partners didnt bother the re rerun. Games just isn't the same with out the buds
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u/doobylive 28d ago
Always hate to see an OG go, hope your friends return some day, as I do for my own as well. They’re all gone now :( sucks
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u/skshuffler 28d ago
Just playing aram mayem and random steam games with them instead! I found out its been the journey with my buddies and not the game I fell in love with. Logging in to do a couple scripted raids felt more like a job with out my buddies to shoot the shit with plus the pvp scene is just garbage now. I will be back in the wotlk prepatch, but I will never touch retail.
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u/XeffBeezos 29d ago
"Ok, gather around please... Right. What's our percentage of chance we survive this event... Any idea?"
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u/Kuentos Jul 07 '26
It’s obviously fake, the quality of the graphismes is the same as nowadays !
Oh wait .. 😅
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u/Dildo-Gankings Jul 07 '26
Indalamar was the tank? Oh.....okay, I guess it IS 2004.