20 Years of WoW: Reflecting on My First Character & Total Time Played

20 Years of WoW: Reflecting on My First Character & Total Time Played | World of Warcraft

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@sealight777 Ай бұрын

Lol this is pure gold. I'd love (and hate) to have a similar breakdown for my play history. Good stuff, Jeff! Your channel is a great mix of fun, informative and nostalgia.

@720zone Ай бұрын

legit made my day with this comment man. appreciate it so much.

@Jbayz Ай бұрын

You went even more straight obvious with your names than I did. My wow characters have always been some variation of Jbays. Jeff Bays

@720zone Ай бұрын

Jbays or Jbayz is a sweet wow name for sure.

@dlju8355 Ай бұрын

I have my dear orc rogue, named Rotgrim, with 95 days played. He was not created on day one, but pretty close, and is the one with the most played time that I have by far. Right now he's just level 70 because I haven't really played the new expansion. I really enjoy your content and your passion for this game. I was 20 when it came out, now I'm 40. The nostalgia I feel listening to your stories makes me feel warm inside.

@720zone Ай бұрын

Awesome you still have Orc #1. That RULES!

@TehPwnographer Ай бұрын

1:04 lmao I definitely feel this! My first week I had dreams about mining over and over again. Still get wow dreams around expansion launches to this day!

@Ryder385 Ай бұрын

Remember how common it was to get stuck in that kneeling position when you go to loot a mob? You used to just see people just sliding around on one knee 😂 The nostalgia

@EzGlad Ай бұрын

Actually no

@barfbot Ай бұрын

would make mobs slide as they were dying too, saw a lot in bgs good ol corpseslide

@TehPwnographer Ай бұрын

Haha yes! I remember this happening all the time

@Roshambo3 Ай бұрын

What an amazing journey very cool to see. When you finally secured the name “Jeff” (awesome btw!) all I could think of was that line from 22 Jump Street “My name is Yeff” 😂

@720zone Ай бұрын

Haha! mynameisjeff - its crazy how many people will randomly say that in game.

@dreijdreijdreij Ай бұрын

What a fantastic video!

@Spectacular66 Ай бұрын

I started WoW November 26, 2006. Like you, a lot of people still didn't understand the whole group mechanic including myself. I was in high school at the time, my junior year (pretty critical year then) and here I was spending nearly every waking hour of the next three months playing this game. From the moment I got home, boom, straight to the computer. My weekends were WoW. Most who weren't around then or were too young to play wouldn't understand just how addicting this game was. I underestimated it big time. I managed to hit level 60 around the week Burning Crusade launched and finally bought the expansion several weeks later in early February 2007. Took me nearly the rest of that month to reach 70. Found myself slowing down a bit after that because there isn't much to do at the level cap other than to pursue the endgame material. Finally got into a raiding guild that following May and the rest was history. I'll never forget my first night in Karazhan and the weeks that came after that until we finally cleared the raid. I continued playing into Wrath and Cataclysm but I started slowing down a lot more in that time to the point where I took breaks and returned. I prety much skipped over Mists of Pandaria because I did not want to drop $25 just to server transfer but bit the bullet and did it anyway for Warlords of Draenor. Spent that expansion raiding semi-hardcore and seeing Mythic-level content for the first time. Legion was where I burned out for the very last time and have no longer played since then. I spent a while playing Classic during Wrath from 2022-2023 and left it after Icecrown (I just wanted to see the heroic level stuff/Ulduar hard modes I missed out on back then) but I did log in to my retail toon after 5 years of not logging in and parked it in Goldshire, where I used to hang out all those years ago, just before logging out for the last time as I cancelled my subscription.

@720zone Ай бұрын

2006 start is still OG in my book. Thank you so much for sharing your history man. I'd like to think your character is happy chillin in Goldshire waiting for you.

@dannybodros5180 Ай бұрын

2006 Night Elf Rogue was my very first character. I remember jumping off Teldrassil and asking myself "WTF I was atop a tree this entire time???"

@ProJanitor Ай бұрын

I first began in February 2007 after a bunch of my friends were telling me about WoW. I came from a mostly FPS background and this was my first MMO, so I had no experience coming in. I made a mage and just stuck with it until 70. I ended up making one character of each role (tank and healer) as 2007 progressed. I too remember having intricate dreams based all around piecing together everything I learned about the structure of how WoW works. I remember how refreshing it was to play vanilla WoW when Classic was re-released, and I was especially excited about Classic TBC and Classic WotLK. My only criticism would center around the lack of expansion focused classic realms. I mean I logged onto two or three Classic Cataclysm realms last week and it was completely dead! Anyway, thank you for sharing with us your history with WoW. You might be the first person I’ve heard from who started at the very beginning!

@720zone Ай бұрын

Now you're an old-timer (in wow at least). Thanks for sharing man!

@ProJanitor Ай бұрын

@ well I must say I appreciate your videos. This video in particular I feel is a very important one. How has your success as a Warcraft player influenced your life experiences? How has it shaped your approach to everyday challenges?

@ianb.6582 Ай бұрын

I was on Suramar for a very long time myself! Wonder if we ever ran past each other in SW or IF!

@Kevin-uj4uu Ай бұрын

wow man you look so young! there was this 6 month period on anathema on elysium where i would farm black lotus 16 hours a day in burning steppes, and my dreams was just hours of the mini map with black lotus nodes appearing all over the mini map but i could only see the minimap and couldnt do anything

@720zone Ай бұрын

Thanks man! I abuse petri-flask and capcut face filter. Never heard of herbalism wow nightmares until now. Love it. Thanks so much for the comment.

@fritzschnitzmueller3768 Ай бұрын

It took me the whole of wow vanilla to level to 60. I remember that I dinged 59 when TBC launched, farming frostsabers in winterspring, without having any quest for them, nor farming for the mount Another good memory was when I fell down the gnomeregan elevator and could not get back at lvl 7 or so. Didnt know that hearthstones exists and deleted my character lmao

@phyein4815 Ай бұрын

Even back in the day I had already considered my first character's journey to 70 (i started early tbc) to be a collection of treasured memories, very detailed and complete in my head, and quite often i would try to repeat his wandering, carefree leveling path. Unfortunately nowadays im finding a lot of those memories are gone and reduced to a few snaphots in time here and there- doubly so for my 2nd (and new and forever main that i made after a brief raiding stint on my 1st). I feel like i have forgotten so many fun details and things.

@720zone Ай бұрын

Painful reminder of getting old - the fact that the detail memories turn into snapshots. Really well put man, appreciate this comment.

@Kraulenth Ай бұрын

Would love to run into you on Horde Doomhowl - 20 years of the game and I've never done a horde character past ~20...having a good time. I'll check if I have a day 1 character still (might).

@720zone Ай бұрын

Dude..same man. Never gotten horde much past 30 or so. Going to try on Doomhowl also.

@ddc2343d Ай бұрын

I had played a bit of EverQuest before wow, but I wouldn’t say I was a fan of the MMO generation. I was disappointed when Blizzard decided to turn one of my favorite games into an MMO. However, my best friend encouraged me to play, so he FedExed me a copy of the game from Indiana, as it was hard to find after its release. Once I logged in and started playing with him, I quickly progressed ahead of him. Within a week, I was ten levels above him. He lost interest shortly after, but I continued playing for 20 years. I always credit him for starting my World of Warcraft addiction. Like you, I didn't initially understand how groups worked. I vividly remember going to the Dead Mines on my mage for the first time and getting yelled at repeatedly by players telling me to "sheep" the enemies. At that time, I had yet to understand this was Polymorph. I remember having to crowd control (CC) every pack of mobs in each instance; everyone was inexperienced back then, which made it easy to wipe. One of my fondest memories is of the first epic item I ever saw: the glowing Brightwood Staff. It dropped during the pyramid event in Zul'Gurub. The mobs that came up the stairs used to drop loot, which they no longer do in the current version of Classic. When the epic dropped, we all passed on it to decide who would keep it, but the mob instantly despawned, and we lost the item. We were all so disappointed. Those were good times.

@Drluvv258 Ай бұрын

Only 2 years? Casual! 😎

@nonstopjoliver Ай бұрын

Good stuff. I have a bunch of fond memories of my vanilla and tbc days as well. Never raided until Legion though, bc I quit after Wotlk. My parents were pretty strict on my playtime. I busted my butt shoveling snow everywhere to make $800 to buy my own pc since I couldn't play on the family pc or fight my 3 brothers for usage. Seems like a pretty typical pattern for the OG players to quit around Cata/MoP, but still have hope with WoD and Legion, then that hope just died. Blizzard wouldn't understand or even acknowledge if they did. My fondest memory was my hunter, Arya, and my King Bangalash named Murtagh from the Eragon books that were really popular back then. The Wetlands run to SW was fun. I recall getting lost in Dustwallow and being chased by crocs and witches or something. Was trying to level my Dragonscale LW and killing Black Welps to skin for Worn Dragonscales and got a black welpling to drop before any scales. Sold it for what seemed like a ridiculous amount of gold to me at the time. Was definitely a lot more fun and have more fond memories when it was a game we knew little about, and when I wasn't able to think critically enough to understand "optimal."

@720zone Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for sharing that - I can totally relate to the pre-optimal days. :) My "hope" died exactly as you described unfortunately. Classic brought it back in a different way though!

@dreijdreijdreij Ай бұрын

My first character was made in May 2005 on a friend's account (EU). Then I bought my own account in June or July 2005, which exists to this day. It was not my most played character, but it accumulated to about 80 days or so. I think the "fattest" character I have, was my mage Oliver which had about 160 days of playing.

@Lemmings19 Ай бұрын

Awww, good times. The internet and games were so pure back then, in that era of technology, at that age, with it all being new. None of the optimizations in gameplay, so much less censorship and stress over little junk on the internet... just good fun and addiction to WoW hahaha Back when everyone was legitimately a noob. Priceless and impossible to reproduce today.

@liamvg Ай бұрын

Hey Jeff, Telli here - have a similar sheet! From 2004 Vanilla to Pserver to modern wow I'm at 16,260 hours

@liamvg Ай бұрын

I included a 4% across the board idle time estimation from that, so that's adjusted.

@720zone Ай бұрын

Hey Telli! Hope you're doing well man. That's an impressive hours total.

@Davivline Ай бұрын

Started around may of 05, i was 13 but already experienced somewhat in MMOs, played alot of Kal-online and MU-online. I was dissapointed by the lack of community features like player shops but the smoothness of the game was just a leap too far to come back from. Despite the fact i got 1-2 fps in ironforge while looking at the grates/ground. Still miss early AV. Fell asleep to an AV match at my keyboard, woke up requeued and got into the same match with the same people lol. That match lasted till monday morning starting around saturday afternoon. So many memories, dreams of the game...if i could play out an isekai wow would be a decent second home. I still talk and play with people i met from back then. Pvping with timesink, or against them was serious business. skywall will always have a place in my heart, may torag troll your trade chat forever. BEEP BEEP IMMA JEEP, phoenix rising, timesink, and so many more guilds i was a part of...i gotta start writing this stuff down xD

@720zone Ай бұрын

I absolutely love these old memories of the game; thanks so much for sharing. Those marathon AV matches are legendary now.

@ftur.4139 Ай бұрын

Good video. Video of your TBC experience sometime?

@720zone Ай бұрын

Maybe! I enjoyed TBC, but really love Vanilla.

@TrekandReflect Ай бұрын

love hearing peoples stories

@Eyevou Ай бұрын

Retail isn't as confusing as you'd think it is. The only major difference is that gear has "tracks" now at end game instead of relying on ilvls. Most characters and builds can be boiled down to around 6 or 7 buttons. It only took a few days to figure out how retail worked. Anyway - I have just over a year of playtime between all my toons (not counting the time I played on pservers, of course). I can still remember my first blue item! It was a ring and dropped from the naga in the north of Darkshore. My next major memory is making an addon that actually worked for tracking when Wintergrasp was happening. After that it's mostly a blur until raiding in pandaria and then quitting for a while in Legion. I came back for Classic and then messed around on DF until TWW and got back into retail~

@720zone Ай бұрын

Interesting. Appreciate the retail insights; maybe I'll give it another shot sometime. Love the recollections of the early days. Very cool that you were an early addon, creator. Your FPS addon is great!

@ДмитрийСавченко-ц8ь Ай бұрын

[Black Pearl Ring]

@Eyevou Ай бұрын

@@ДмитрийСавченко-ц8ь yep! That's the one!

@t0ksikk 23 күн бұрын

I actually just summed up all my played time just recently and clock in at 18136 hours total. I never deleted a char, there's only one char I couldn't check as it's on a second, inactive account. Possibly adds like 10-20 days I reckon. Played since day 1 EU release with a lot of breaks, especially since Legion I never tried another retail addon. Wasn't my game anymore.

@Rtzabel Ай бұрын

Ah good old classic Jeffart- Zpriest

@720zone Ай бұрын

F'ING LEGEND.

@lizardsoup6943 Ай бұрын

I also quit in sod because of the incursions. When i found out that a few players who spammed these hours after launch, got thousands of gold and were lvl 50 in 5 hours i had not interest in playing anymore.

@samuelaubrey2612 Ай бұрын

I was so disappointed in sod.... It was extremely lazy game design. Could have been great