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Back in the days of the Burning Crusade, I was leveling my first toon in Nagrand, and was attempting to do a group quest in the demon area by myself. I was getting my butt severly kicked, but then a perfectly timed heal saved my life. I thanked the paladin, and we continued to quest together. Shortly after, he invited me into his guild - little did I know back then that 4 years later I would still hang out with them! I love the guild, with them I had my first opportunity to experience raids, they cured me from many simptoms of noobness I had, and they gave me many, many good laughs. I stil like remembering how it was that bit of noobish overconfidence that got me here - and I also like reminding the guild leader how he managed to walk off the edge of the continent that day in Nagrand :)
Undoubtedly, the best memory I have of wow comes from back in vanilla. I was pretty young back then, a mere 13 years old. Thus I was too young to maintain attendance were I to join a real raiding guild. My irl friend on the other hand, was in one and doing very well, so he got me into the alt guild where I was allowed to join some of the raids that were on farm status. So I was with them one night in Molten Core and it was 10 PM so my parent were screaming and shouting at me to go to bed, so I pretended to listen to their orders. Without them knowing I quickly snuck back to the raid, and we procceeded to kill Garr who dropped a piece of my Giantstalker gear, gloves I believe it was. Seeing an epic like that made me so excited as I sat there in my undies trembling from anxiety and I ended up winning the roll and I just couldn't believe it - I had won and epic, a part of the tier set that was mean ONLY for my class, the hunter! Back then as epics were much more difficult to obtain I was so thrilled, never enjoyed looting an item as much as that day.. Snuck back to bed and I was SO tired the next day at school :D
When Burning Crusade came out, I leveled to 70 with the guild master of our mostly-disbanded vanilla raiding guild. We even made sure we dinged on the same quest turn-in. I had come to vanilla late, and it was nice to see all those zones and quests and dungeons for the first time with a buddy.
My favorite memory? I think it is taming Mazzranache as a Tauren hunter before the Shattering; back when Mazzranache was the only pink battle flamingo around. I remember fighting my way through the taming quest by tooth and nail getting knocked on my ass by Swoops interrupting my tame spell. Then, I scoured the lands, still pet-less, until I found Mazzranache. It felt so good to tame that Tallstrider, and I was so proud of it. This hunter was my first character, and I remember spending so much time trying to choice my race and class. There were so many I liked!
Best moment for me was the first world event ever put into the game - the opening of AQ. It was cool to see horde and alliance in so many numbers in the same place and somewhat working together...then quickly turning on each other once the event was complete. Brought a figurative tear to my eye (it was actually tears of laughter at the quick change of atmosphere).
Way back in Burning Crusade, me and some of my close IRL friends went to Karazhan for the first time. Using an entire night, just raiding along, having a ton of fun. But I must say, the best thing about it was when I won an item right in front of one of them, and to see him toss himself outta the window next to where he was sitting. Best... LAN Party, and wow memory. I have.
my favortie moment of wow was the first time i went into a raid. i was a meer 60 going into aq 40 with somefriends at there level 70 guild. the raid itself is not my favorite memory but what happened right before. after we were all summoned we made a train from all our munts and walked into the instance one after another. this was my favorite moment watching 30+ people slowing march upto the gates.
My favorite moment in wow was when my guild first downed Illidan, it was really close near the end and everyone was on edge, had a bit of trouble when he was low and most of the raid died, one of our lone hunters managed to save it, epic feeling.
I remember my first lich king kill, right when cataclysm came out, i was so proud of myself :D
Having played since near release there's a few memories I still relish, but the quest lines and full server coordination for opening the gates of AQ was the most epic. Watching the entire screen in front of me filled with players taking flights and even with constant DCs, probably 90% of our server was in Sithilus. World pvp, guilds and pugs fighting to down new content, those first few days were incredible.