Board 8 > We've now beaten World of Warcraft

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As part of our journey to beat all 128 games from the 2015 Best Game Ever GameFAQs Contest, we had to conquer World of Warcraft. As none of us had played the game before, we asked for your advice on a win objective, and eventually settled to beating all non Legion dungeons/raids (Justification: Legion was not released at the time of the GameFAQs contest). I am happy to report that last night this win objective was met and the game has officially been beaten, bringing us to 63/128 games completed. The second tab on our spreadsheet has the list of dungeons and raids that were beaten (the first tab is the list of games we've beaten and some other stats):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_SKvnMZTbqzkwbA1fEUfJ3ITIVLm3sZY_Gb62Tizamk/edit#gid=0


Notable highlights of our journey:

- getting invited to a guild and becoming professional role players in a non-rp guild, to the point where they created discord channels for us
- role playing with the community while trying to find the outlands (I made a youtube video of some of the highlights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt13qeVIlhs )
- doing our first dungeon was a really fun experience
- doing some of the dungeons/raids that are references to wc3 levels.
- during a dungeon, having our tank stop and tell the group "brambleblast doesn't do enough dps, i'm not tanking for him" and go afk. (we had to kick him and wait for another tank to join to proceed)
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Going to Northrend at 60. Lucky you didn't agro stuff from a mile away.
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Oh cool

Hope my advice early on was helpful (I was valantgramarye on twitch, though I only watched for a session or two while you guys were trying to figure out dungeons)
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That video was great, can't believe no one bothered to help you out though... guess it's a different time now and everyone just assumes you're trolling.

What was your favourite raid/dungeon that you completed? I just got back into the game a few months ago after taking 8-9 years off and one of the best parts was going through old expansions and seeing all the raids I missed.
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It's a shame that Everquest was not in that contest
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Maybe, but perhaps, it could be that World of Warcraft has beaten you?
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thundersheep posted...

That video was great, can't believe no one bothered to help you out though... guess it's a different time now and everyone just assumes you're trolling.

What was your favourite raid/dungeon that you completed? I just got back into the game a few months ago after taking 8-9 years off and one of the best parts was going through old expansions and seeing all the raids I missed.

Modern WoW is very anti-social and the game holds your hand too much. It almost feels like a single player game half the time. Part of the reason I quit recently.
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LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

It's a shame that Everquest was not in that contest

Masochist.
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thundersheep posted...

That video was great, can't believe no one bothered to help you out though... guess it's a different time now and everyone just assumes you're trolling.

What was your favourite raid/dungeon that you completed? I just got back into the game a few months ago after taking 8-9 years off and one of the best parts was going through old expansions and seeing all the raids I missed.

The problem with the raids was that we couldn't get 10 or 25 people for them, so two of us just did them while we were really overleveled. So we didn't really get the epic experience unfortunately. With that said, Battle for Mount Hyjal was my favorite. It was really cool to me to basically do the WC3 mission it references up close, see all the units and buildings up close, stuff like that.

Trying to think of favorite dungeon.. sticking with the lore theme, Culling of Stratholme was pretty fun since you, again, get to witness Arthas's downfall up close. Also our first dungeon was a really fun experience as I've never really played an MMO before so it was something completely new to me, Dabu, and Ringo.

Random thoughts:

I will say that the dungeons improved immensely after vanilla, they did really well at nailing what made the dungeons fun. The enemies were much more interesting, the boss battles were a lot more fun, and there was a lot less random walking around which was nice.

Absolutely hated the scenarios in Mists. Like I can appreciate that they're unique and add lore and what not, but no rewards or experience for it at all? Like I think I got one drop out of the 5 we did and we concluded they just weren't worth our time.

I overall had a very positive experience with the game, I can see why people love it and are willing to pay for it every month. I'm not at a point in my life where I wanna dedicate a bunch of time to an MMO, but I could see myself doing it down the road. The guild that we joined was pretty cool and it sounds like a blast to join a guild, make a bunch of friends, and do runs/PvP together every night