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16 sats \ 4 replies \ @gnilma 23 Jun \ on: What has been your longest gaming session? gaming
World of Warcraft 40 men raid, I believe it was our first few MC full runs, before we got it on farm, still had wipes, but we knew we could do it. Our raids start at 6pm PST and at times run until 2am. We would run instances to farm reputation and mats for guild raid consumables afterwards. We usually stop playing at around 6am and would meet up at a local McDonald's for breakfast before heading back home for bed. You can be reckless and abuse your body when you're young.
From what you're telling me, you're talking about World of Warcraft vanilla, or rather when WoW was just released, which was when 40-person raids were possible, that time was incredible, I understand how you got to play so much, I lived something similar, I arrived in TBC.
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Yea, I should have been more specific. It was Vanilla Vanilla WoW, during 2006 when a few friends and I grew our little guild from PUG-ing AQ20 first boss to having our own regular raids on ZG and AQ20. We started with killing a few bosses then eventually clearing both 20 men raids. Then we grew to having enough player to do our own 40 men raids and started with MC, eventually moving onto BWL and parts of Naxx. Our guild also crafted both OG legendary weapons, Thunderfury and Sulfras. They took a lot, seriously a lot, of effort to craft back in vanilla.
We had the whole thing running, guild website, ventrilo server, DKP system and the lot. I was running a lot of the back end stuff for our guild on top of playing hours and hours each day. I was also the guild alchemist and was farming and crafting potions to hand out in raids. It was probably more work than a full time job, I never knew where I found the time to do all that on top of going to school. I guess it was because I was on my co-op term and only had to worry about showing up to work and not need to worry about studying.
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I never became part of such a structured and well-formed guild, but I did have a similar experience with some good friends, we left school and it was play, play and play, think only about WoW and play until late at night, to go back to school and repeat the same thing, although it was crazy, I remember it very fondly.
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I think having real life friends playing it together makes it so much more fun. I'm still very close with these friends to this day, and we still hang out often. The history/experience gives us an extra thing to talk about. We are now just a bunch of old fucks that talk about the "good old days" all the time haha.
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