Am I the only one who sees 'You gained 10 talent points' in that picture?

Anyways, I miss Plainsrunning and hanging around in Goldshire which is deserted nowadays...

Yeah... in the picture, why does he gain 1 skill point and 10 talent points???

This dates from Beta 4 (or so). At that time, you still purchased abilities with Talent Points (not coin.) and your Talent Trees were filled out with Skill points.

He's just earned enough talent points to purchase 2 of the three skills available at that level (there were always more abilites than talent points) and 1 "talent" (what we now know as Talent points).

Training in early beta work much more like training a hunter pet than the way training a character does now.


See how broken the game was back in the "good ol' days?" but it was still the best thing around, so we liked it!

Cleanse removing rez sickness is another one I remember...

Oh, and SWIRLY BALL!!!

I dont know how much time I spent glitched in the gathering crouch

heck yeah!!! the days before battlegrounds! i remember the "front" moving back and forth constantly between southshore and tauren mill. i think that was way more exciting than any battleground that followed. it was chaotic, as close to a real battle as this game has ever gotten.

i remeber i once joined an AV that had been going for 43 hours

I remember summoning the ice lord and having him break the alliance turtle. So much fun when something the size of a bunker starts plowing through a line.

"Keep him up! Keep him up!!!"

Such a shame this hardly ever happens, I didn't even know about the Ice Lord :(

This was my pick too, but see it's already been said. But yeah, this is my fondest old-school memory.

I remember being in 2 AV's, one of them 7 hours and one 9 hours, in both from start to finish. And every second FUN, unlike AV now. Back then horde and alliance actually fought each other, instead of just running by each other to kill towers and generals.

Back then there was a hard front line, and it took communication and a concerted effort to push it one way or another, both sides scrapping for every inch of ground. People used the wolves/rams and ivus/icelord help push the line. Mage bombs jumped down snowfall hill, sacrificing their lives to take 3 or 4 people with them to push the line 10 yards. A warriors would charge the front line with 3 or more healers spamming quick heals on him to keep him up long enough to push the line forward a bit. And the Shredder (THE SHREDDER!!!1!) could carry the whole team to the next graveyard, at least, as long as it got heals (are the mechanical repair engi thingys even in the game any more?)

And, perhaps best of all, you could mine rich thorium mines. ;)

Man, those were the days. It's absolutely un-friggin-believable how Blizzard destroyed AV a little more with each and every patch. Today it is a mere shell of what it used to be.

If I could have AV back to the way it was back then, but would have to give up all of the rest of WoW to do it, I would take AV. In a second.

well said zenpunk. /agree