I knew one day, I would catch a WoW thread. FML!
On WoW, I used to play a Tauren Druid on Twisting Nether, and my name was Commack. I'm a Vanilla player. I was the only cow druid on my server back in vanilla who actually completed their Tier 0.5 Quest Line. I, for some reason even after BC hit, decided to keep all 8/8 pieces, and throw it in the bank, as I worked SO hard on this quest line, and cost me around 800-1000g during the whole quest line, and let me tell you, back in vanilla, 800-1000g was A LOT of gold. NOTHING COMPARED to when BC hit, and Outlands just RAINED gold. I was one of those people during BC that if you knew me, and my grind, and my gold income, even if it was by word of mouth, you would be whispering me asking me how I do it, and my answer was ALWAYS simply be.
You wouldn't believe the number of people who didn't believe me meanwhile there I was on my 280% flying mount only 2 MAYBE 3 weeks after BC hit, and still sitting on like 2,000g. I'm honestly not typing this to brag at all, I'm typing this as it's what went down, it's the truth, and it can STILL help people. Even current WoW, questing, and vendoring yields SO MUCH gold that people just don't realize.
Not only did I push myself to complete the 0.5 chain, but I remember the first time I saw it.
The Swift Zulian Tiger. I remember I was a COMPLETE NOOB back during this time I'm now discussing, I remember I was on Vent with my RL friend who got me into WoW, and I said, yo, I want that mount, and he's like which one? I read him off the name, and he laughed at me, and said, yeah....good luck, and the typical response from me was. Why? Anyway, long story short, I really got into the game, I eventually learned SO MUCH, that I did obtain the original ZG Tiger. It wasn't during Vanilla, it was during BC. The story can't be short, it must be long. A week or two before BC hit literally a week or a week and a half AFTER completing my tier 0.5 quest line, and spending all of that time, and gold, and wearing my FULL Feralheart 8/8 in Orgrimmar for a good 7-10 days until one day I logged on, and my cow was butt naked. Could it be? Was Commack hacked? It could not be, I'm on top of my computer security, I couldn't of possibly got a keylogger....unfortunately, that was indeed the case, and I somehow got keylogged, and my Tier 0.5 was stripped into meaningless gold by vendor, and my remaining 860g was GONE. This was BEFORE I obtained the ZG Tiger, this was like 7-10 days before BC hit, and my cow was NAKED. I contacted the GM's, I did the whole damn 9 yards, and I finally got a reply back from Blizzard, I can't remember word for word but something like
I logged in, and found myself without my 860g, and no more Tier 0.5. Instead, I got hooked up with a bunch of CRAPPY GREEN ITEMS, the most BASIC GREEN DROPS YOU COULD POSSIBLY fukin' GET. I never felt SO SHITTY EVER over a game. The amount of time, and dedication you NEED to put into WoW to even be ANYTHING is a little bit idiotic.
The outcome, and rectification I received, no no no, I wasn't having it, and I remember emailing a BOOK to them. A few days later, I got whispered by a Senior GM. I never even knew a Senior GM existed as I ever only spoken to regular GM's. I told him right off the bat, I'm so FRUSTRATED, I can't believe after all that hard work, my stuff is gone, and the GM said it can't be verified. Then I said stuff like, if I never completed the quest chain, how would I have this item? and I linked him in-game items that were used to summon the rare bosses such as the very last boss you needed to kill for the Helm, and Chest upgrade in UBRS, Lord Valthalak, and as I kept going, and proving to him, I did it, next thing I saw was my log getting flooded by You Receive Item: Feralheart Cowl, etc. Without hesitation he gave me my Tier 0.5 set back as it was easy to see I really did complete the chain. I never received the gold back by him. I ended up sending another LONG email saying something like, if anyone of you have the HEART to just check my logs before the day I got hacked, you'll see the gold was there, just please check, and then one day I logged in, and my gold was waiting for me in my mailbox by blizzard. Even though by this time, It was RAINING gold, but that 860g meant something to me, hard work, and it was rightfully mine.
Here's what the set looked like.
I'm currently not playing as my computer is in FL in storage with my authenticator and I don't want to remove it right now and use this current computer to play so I'll wait to log in even though my Zulian Tiger misses me dearly. I use that set as my transmog so I'm SO GLAD I kept it in the bank. Such a sexy set, and it's SO RARE to see someone with it, especially having the ZG Tiger on top of it. Very rare to see both together like that. I know my account is there, and I miss it dearly. I also have a bunch of the other rare ground mounts such as the horse from UD Strat, Raven Lord, Karazhan Horse, White Hawkstrider, ZF Bear, not the original bear but the other bear. I also have the new ZG Panther they added after removing the original ZG Tiger. I also have the Spectral Tiger.
FFS, I want to play now. FML!!!
Here I am, about a year or so ago.
Commack @ Twisting Nether - Community - World of Warcraft
I'll log in again one day