Today, I realized that the seventh of July passed me right on by without my doing any more to recognize it than making sure a certain bill got paid. Such is my life lately.
The seventh isn’t really all that significant in the grand scheme of things. It was just the day, four years ago, that I first got Alas to the then level cap of 70. I recall this because of all the 7′s and 0′s that go into reaching 70 on 7.7.07.
I remember being elated to finally be there, at the top. And then mildly depressed for several days after because, after all, what was there to do once you had hit 70 if you didn’t intend to raid?
My alts got a lot of play time in the following weeks and eventually I did discover raiding and the frustration of heroics. It just amuses me that past me thought the game was over at level cap and current me realizes just how much of the game doesn’t really start until then.
When did you first hit the level cap and how did it make you feel?
Goodness! At first I was all excited because I could finally play with the rest of the guild (hooray!), but then they refused us raid spots (MC) because we weren’t geared, and also refused to run 5 mans because they were bored of them. The husband and I were both dps (mage/rogue), so we spent many long hours spamming trade looking for group mates.
I don’t miss those days at all.
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Hah, and I thought I was weird. I hit 70 and I got depressed too. I had a guild, but I knew I was such a noob and I shouldn’t be in raids… so what point was there to the game? My gear was still bad and those stupid blood elves in Netherstorm (or was it SMV?) still killed me, I didn’t see the point of questing anymore and I couldn’t see myself in a heroic, let alone in a raid.
Then, of course, my boyfriend talked some sense into me and a very nice guildie helped me sort my gear and introduced me to gems and enchants. I don’t remember how I got into my first raid… but I guess it happened at some point and I’ve been hooked ever since. (After 1.5 years of raiding on that character, til mid Ulduar, I realized I sucked at melee in a bad way and I still wonder how the hell anyone let me raid with them. I’m very happy I decided to roll a healer on a whim…)
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I started playing and first hit the level cap during Wrath of the Lich King. Oddly enough, I too was more than a little sad when it happened. I enjoyed my leveling experience a lot and was scared that I wasn’t good enough for level 80 normal dungeons, let alone heroics or raids. I was also dumb enough to ding 80 while none of my friends were on to congratulate me, so it was an empty achievement. Luckily the two people I leveled with, my husband and a good friend, didn’t share my neuroses and coaxed me along. I still think I enjoy questing more than dungeons or raids, so I’m especially grateful for all the daily content available at the level cap. Otherwise I’d probably be a serial alt-leveler!
Heh – I was utterly terrified as I’d levelled in a guild just to raid. My poor little priesty was all grown up… that meant that I had to put my money where my mouth was. I think I hit 70 and was ‘loaned’ enough mooncloth to make the entry level raiding BC epics and was expected to raid that night… Fortunately I started raiding in the good ole days of Kharazan so it was all good, and because of attunements etc I had some idea of how it all worked. Allegedly. I miss raiding sometimes, but in the main I’m cool with not having a toon at level cap nowadays…
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I hit 60 a couple months before TBC in a guild where the people at level cap all raided as part of a collective. I’d do the occasional instance with them but they had their MC epics and no ambition to raid as a guild.
I remember the first time a mostly guild group I was leading with a friend cleared venoxis, bat, spider and mando. There was a small group of us who were clued up enough to want to raid properly and it was that group of people plus friends from other guilds that formed the first guild I led.
My GM had begun to act differently around me and kept pulling half assed power trips like insisting on leading our ZGs and then introducing her own rules halfway through the instance. It was also small things like mentioning that the long standing hunter member (who levelled maybe a month before me) was the only decent person to speak to about huntering in the guild. He was a nice chap but mostly clueless (days before EJ where the official forums and fansites were the places to go for theorycraft) and because she thought DPS meters were nasty evil things refused to acknowledge that I was blowing him out of the water despite his enormous gear advantage.
So we left just before the dark portal opened :)
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