When World
of Warcraft Classic was first announced, it got a lot of people thinking of the
old days of World of Warcraft. I love reading stories about the early days of
the game, so I thought I’d write a short post about my memories from
Darkspear-EU to share them with others.
As it turned out, when I started writing it down, it got a bit lengthier than I had expected. So what I present here is The Complete History of Darkspear-EU. Since Wrath of the Lich King is generally regarded as the expansion where World of Warcraft stopped being good, I dare call it the complete history, since anything that happened afterwards is irrelevant. My intention is to share the history of the Horde side of the server, but it will obviously be from my perspective, and also the history of my World of Warcraft experience.
For those
of you that didn’t play back then, played Alliance, or just didn’t pay
attention to the raid guilds, I played from Vanilla to Wrath of the Lich King, and was a founding member, officer, and guild leader of
the guild that had every server first kill for the latter half of The Burning Crusade to the end of Wrath of the Lich King – that is more than two years – so I have a decent grasp of the events during those two expansions. To further amend the situation, a lot of the communication back then was made by e-mail, so I have been able to read through tons of old mails to refresh my memory and validate information. On top of that, I was a Fraps user and have loads of screenshots that I have kept to this day. Also, I have never played on another realm so the history of Darkspear is my history.
My intention is to make a post every day until the release of Classic. If you
played on Darkspear-EU during this period, I invite you to comment and share
your own memories. I would love to hear more stories from old Darkspear.
Flax@Darkspear-EU
