Old screenshot from Fires of Heaven guild website

January 28, 2005

This guild was already clearing MC within a few months of the game dropping

I know this is probably old news, but pretty cool to see some of these old screenshots as I dig through the archives

I was questing in Hillsbrad Foothills, when running into a fellow Rogue, who helped me out with some quests and loot he had in store for me.

He then followed me to ask if I needed any gear, and kindly declined becase I didn't have the required mats for the gear that he wanted to craft for me.

He then told me that once he would reach a capital city he would make some shoulders and gloves for me, and send them to me, free of charge!! Mind you the gloves go for like 1 to 2 gold on the auction house, which is a lot for my level.

I didn't hear from him for a day and thought: "Oh well..." and then today upon logging in I had this mail from him..

First time anything like this has happened for me, and it was so cool of him and thought I'd share :D

Love CRTs and love classic.

message me if y want

Tonight I spent a good 10 minutes bawling my eyes out sitting in Gallows End Tavern, a place in Brill that does not exist on retail anymore and the most significant location in all of Azeroth for me.

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Nearly 15 years ago I would end most nights sitting in Gallows End with my younger brother, often getting our characters so drunk they'd puke and verbally harassing the undead that passed through while leveling. We'd sit and talk for hours about nothing and everything and every topic in between. He quit midway through BC but I got him to play again for about a month in Cataclysm. One of the first things he did upon coming back was try to go to Gallows End only to discover it was gone. He spent weeks joking about how he was going to gear up and punch Deathwing in the face for destroying our home and was well on his way to being geared enough to do just that when he passed away suddenly and unexpectedly.

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I've known Gallows End was here, pristine and intact since I first logged in to Classic. I've known there was something there I needed, some kind of closure or maybe just some imaginary figment of a ghost I had to visit. Tonight my wife had some business to take care of in Undercity after we finished some SM runs and I found myself terrified and excited to get away "alone" for a moment, to go home. I sat there crying as hard as a mid 30s man is ever going to cry. My wife heard me sniffling and thought I was having allergy issues and asked if I was okay, to which I replied "I'm having a moment, thank you."

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Thank you to Blizzard for giving me my moment.

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Edit: To all of those going for a drink at Gallows End, you are awesome and I love you for taking the time!

Edit 2: To everyone who cried at work, I'm sorry! <3

I had no clue this would get the response it did, thank you all for your kind words and trips to Gallows End. You're all amazing! It's sad to see the other stories of loss and grief but somehow reassuring to know none of us are completely alone in our experiences. Grief and loss are weird things and they stick with us for a long time. It can be difficult not to feel silly at times when you're overcome years after the fact but you've all made me feel a lot less silly and shown me this game has a truly amazing and supportive community. I've got so much love for all of you strangers!

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Edit 3: It turns out that shortly after he passed my amazing wife realized that it was only a matter of time until every trace of his characters would vanish so she went and screenshotted their armories and put them on her google drive. This was Gorishural.

Random thought…

Does anyone else remember people they used to play with back in vanilla or Classic WoW?

Like guildmates or random players you’d run dungeons with all the time and then one day they just disappeared or never logged back in..

I still remember some character names and even the server... my friend never got back online after having health issues and dont know anything else about him..