You’re right – old-world content is a blast, and more guilds should think about doing it for fun. :)

At the moment people have heard about achievements, but don’t know how retroactive they are in terms of instances right now.

I would like to do two^H^H^H three ^H^H^H^H^H among the things I’d like to do before WotLK are:
– ding 70. Likely to happen, as my (casual) guild is helping to get my wife (Warrior) leveled ASAP to start Kara raiding.
– get a bear mount. Not likely to happen, am I’m not qualified by time or temperment to be in a serious raiding guild. Don’t know if I’ll have time to gear up. Although there is a group doing runs on our server for 10K gold…..
– see Nax and Onyxia in their original splendor.

I’ve seen some discussion on our server’s forum about old-world raids and there is an Alliance player (I’m “For the Horde!”) trying to up for PUG runs. One I ding 70, maybe I’ll try to do the same for Horde…..

CoH is actually a lot of fun and a different than I expected. It’s sort of a super hero game, but mostly it’s a design whatever the heck you want and blow stuff up big time right out of the gate. And the community is really nice so far. Plus you can actually get a group for things without waiting an hour and group makeup isn’t as critical as it is in WoW.

I went ahead and bought the box (and a new video card) after doing my first level 2 Sewer team. Fire/Fire ftw!

Moving on, our guild did a retro raid of Molten Core over the last couple days and cleared the place tonight. We did so with around 10 people over each night, generally in Kara level gear. It was good seeing what all the fuss was all about – i never got the chance to see the old world raid instances as i did not hit 60 till just after BC.

Its interesting seeing the various boss fights, story lines, quests and how little things have changed, such as Blizzard’s improved armor and weapon design, improved itemization for classes and specs (booo lack of feral gear in the old world) and improved handling of respawns.

I also look forward to the forthcoming widespread introduction of 10 person raids in WotLK. I saw my brothers and friends guild collapse under the weight of raiding Molten Core – and many did not come back for the expansion after that. The 10 person format is just so much better for small guilds like ours which are more casual oriented. They are easier to organise and coordinate, let you see more of the end game, and you get to know better the people you raid with.

Cheers,
Ashendar – Bloodscalp

I think its a shame that with the gear gap that people don’t run any of this stuff anymore, it can be a lot of fun and its still “new” content for a lot of us.

Great post and great blog.

it seemed to me ‘more’ fun in those days as people we actively interested in doing most instances and some you had to for attunements for other places like MC or you needed to run them to get your class gear set like our druid Wildheart one !

its funny but a couple of guildies who have only played since BC ended up with some people they know in MC at the weekend. they were not there for any reason other than they had not seen it.

i’d still like to get together with people and hit Naax – i got attuned about 18 months ago but my raid guild folded and i then have not raided properly since. i’d also like to go back and visit Neffy again as well as Ony.

and another guildie whose played since the start did suggest we spent a bit of time and just went to have a look around the likes of Strat / Scholo / DM etc

had some really fun times doing guild runs in U and L BRS. UBRS for a time was a 15 man place wasn’t it ? Then reduced to 10 man? Or am i going nuts ?

Having said that, I can honestly say Kara is a blast. ZA is a blast. My guild is made of mostly people that are just in the game for fun. There are maybe 20 of us, MAX, that have any inclination to raid. We do Kara weekly. We have recently added ZA to the mix. However, we just do not have the manpower to try anything more. We are not really a raid guild. We are geared… but we are there just to have fun.

I greatly look forward to LK, hoping that it will offer many more Kara experiences.

Currently we have an OSN (Old School Night) set up just to do old content. We have a slow growing group of people we are moving through this stuff. Lots of fun BBB, great post.