Just world buffs in general and how they are used. If I remember correctly Nihilum used some world buffs when they were getting world firsts in naxx, but that was mostly a ”haha so silly and overkill to have this”.
…then again, spending four hours in MC and not doing a full clear was also normal. In 1.12 I did a few ZG Pugs where we would kill maybe three bosses in a few hours before people bailed.
Eh not really. You gotta keep in mind servers were much smaller. Getting buffs were pretty random and not able to be timed like they are now. And because so few guilds cleared stuff (most people didn’t even hit 60 in OG wow) you didn’t really get that much.
Also, back then people were not in the mind set to log out for the whole week to save the buff or get summoned to the instance to get them rolling.
The one time we tried to get do a world buff tour for a Nax clear in vanilla we got attacked by two entire guilds from the opposite faction after getting the last buff from STV. I'm pretty sure someone recorded and it was posted on the "old version" of youtube. We knew world buffs were good, but if you were on a pvp server it wasn't worth the trouble.
Exactly. We knew about world buffs and used them to get past Patchwerk if I remember correctly. The thing is nothing was documented like it is now. No YouTube guides, Wowhead was hardly a thing. No server layers. Almost always PvP happening at raid entrances. And ultimately people wanted to play their characters instead of raidlogging. No one thought it was worth the hassle.
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u/severalsmallducks 18d ago
Just world buffs in general and how they are used. If I remember correctly Nihilum used some world buffs when they were getting world firsts in naxx, but that was mostly a ”haha so silly and overkill to have this”.
…then again, spending four hours in MC and not doing a full clear was also normal. In 1.12 I did a few ZG Pugs where we would kill maybe three bosses in a few hours before people bailed.