WoW Insider’s first World of Warcraft memories

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World of Warcraft ‘s 7th anniversary took place earlier this week. Rather than the dry, impersonal WoW retrospectives you can find almost anywhere this time of her, the crew here at WoW Insider decided to hold our own retrospective instead, looking back on what pulled us so deeply into the game to begin with. Today we’re sharing our very first World of Warcraft memories, whether that was 7 years ago, long before the Shattering , or just last year. I’ll get things started, then the staff will join in afterwards. My first WoW memory is in Stranglethorn Vale . There are other events prior to STV that exist in some strange nebulous place in my mind, but Stranglethorn is the first event that I can really pin down. I was playing my very first character, my undead rogue on the Silver Hand server, trying to kill an elite alligator for the Excelsior quest. This was in December of 04, maybe January of 05. I was absolutely terrible at the game. I simply could not kill that alligator. Everyone I knew did it with no difficulty whatsoever, but I couldn’t manage it at all. The reason I couldn’t kill it? I was spamming Sinister Strike while dual wielding white vendor-bought daggers. That was the day I decided I should learn how to play the game rather than hope my friends take pity on me and fly across Azeroth to kill elites for me. Now I’m here, on this site, doing this. That’s one heck of a step up. Continue reading WoW Insider’s first World of Warcraft memories Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , The Burning Crusade , Cataclysm WoW Insider’s first World of Warcraft memories originally appeared on WoW Insider on Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink