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WoW Classic

Crovax

Crovax

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Anyone playing the WoW classic?

I started up a character for fun I dont think ill have the time to make it a serious thing
 
I use to play back in the days when you had to pay $14.99 a month to do so. After I leveled my character up as far as I could I couldn't justify spending the money anymore -- lost it's entertainment value. But let me know what you think. I might consider it again if I ever get bored with ESO.
 
I have an inkling that I may want to but I can’t justify the time commitment and just the whole MMO format, way back in the day I played lord of the rings online with three top level characters with top raiding guilds putting in insane amounts of time in crafting and raiding and I just know that as much as I’d like to have a guild and maybe raid again as that would be the ultimate goal and the good thing with WoW classic is it would remain fairly stable to learn how to do all the stuff with any class... again I just know I physically cannot put in the time.

I like Warcraft, love the lore, played the game ages ago and it is somewhat tempting.
 
I almost feel light firing it up just to play the old Alterac Valley 40x40 fights. Those were fun.
 
I doubt it. I played 2007-2014, then on/off for two years (ie, letting sub lapse periodically when I got sick of it). My old friends still seem to play for a couple months after each expansion but I just don't see the point. It's the same damn thing over and over again.

My father got me into ESO last fall and I've been playing that. It's different enough that I can enjoy it, especially in the sense that it's very much designed so you can focus on single-player stuff. Though I probably want to start doing dungeons. Don't think I'll ever get back into anything like proper raiding (they don't have raids in ESO, but there are various tiers of difficulty for dungeons and "pledges" whatever those are...haven't looked into it). But then, I think I've reached the point where I don't actually have the drive to be at the "top" in any game. Now I just screw around and enjoy myself.
 
Mr Person said:
I doubt it. I played 2007-2014, then on/off for two years (ie, letting sub lapse periodically when I got sick of it). My old friends still seem to play for a couple months after each expansion but I just don't see the point. It's the same damn thing over and over again.

My father got me into ESO last fall and I've been playing that. It's different enough that I can enjoy it, especially in the sense that it's very much designed so you can focus on single-player stuff. Though I probably want to start doing dungeons. Don't think I'll ever get back into anything like proper raiding (they don't have raids in ESO, but there are various tiers of difficulty for dungeons and "pledges" whatever those are...haven't looked into it). But then, I think I've reached the point where I don't actually have the drive to be at the "top" in any game. Now I just screw around and enjoy myself.
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ESO has raids. They’re 12 man instances they call Trials, and they have different difficulty levels. The mechanics are a lot simpler than retail WoW. I’m in a couple of trading guilds that does Trial fun runs during the week.
 
Crovax said:
Anyone playing the WoW classic?

I started up a character for fun I dont think ill have the time to make it a serious thing
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I have a couple of characters and started leveling one, but honestly I’m just not feeling it. I get the whole nostalgia thing for some, but it’s not really my thing since I didn’t start playing until Wrath. I raid in retail now and have been playing a lot of ESO.
 
Moon said:
I have a couple of characters and started leveling one, but honestly I’m just not feeling it. I get the whole nostalgia thing for some, but it’s not really my thing since I didn’t start playing until Wrath. I raid in retail now and have been playing a lot of ESO.
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Well that explains it, wrath was a big step down in difficulty from BC and Vanilla. It was just a completely different style of play
 
Crovax said:
Well that explains it, wrath was a big step down in difficulty from BC and Vanilla. It was just a completely different style of play
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True, but there are still a lot of similarities that I recall from when I first started playing.
 
Jetboogieman said:
I have an inkling that I may want to but I can’t justify the time commitment and just the whole MMO format, way back in the day I played lord of the rings online with three top level characters with top raiding guilds putting in insane amounts of time in crafting and raiding and I just know that as much as I’d like to have a guild and maybe raid again as that would be the ultimate goal and the good thing with WoW classic is it would remain fairly stable to learn how to do all the stuff with any class... again I just know I physically cannot put in the time.

I like Warcraft, love the lore, played the game ages ago and it is somewhat tempting.
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Twink out a character at 19, 29, 39, 49 lol.
 
jmotivator said:
I almost feel light firing it up just to play the old Alterac Valley 40x40 fights. Those were fun.
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I remember some AVs lasting more than a day. I got an epic caster necklace from a mob at one of the mines and the whole raid saw it and started getting offers to buy it. It paid for my epic mount, lol.
 
Fishking said:
I remember some AVs lasting more than a day. I got an epic caster necklace from a mob at one of the mines and the whole raid saw it and started getting offers to buy it. It paid for my epic mount, lol.
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That is the way it should be. The game really felt epic back then. They lost that mojo in the expansions. Everything got bigger while the feel got smaller.
 
jmotivator said:
That is the way it should be. The game really felt epic back then. They lost that mojo in the expansions. Everything got bigger while the feel got smaller.
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BC was pretty good but Wrath is where it went off the rails. I understand why they made the changes but it was a big shift away from the traditional MMO
 
Crovax said:
BC was pretty good but Wrath is where it went off the rails. I understand why they made the changes but it was a big shift away from the traditional MMO
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Well, I should also point out that I am only remembering the good times. I suppress the Thorium Brotherhood grind, for instance. :lol:
 
Started playing WoW again after quitting a few years ago. Playing classic on a private server. I had forgotten how hard it was to level in old WoW.
Managed to level a hunter to 10. Not easy, no pet till level 10, all solo play so far.
 
Found out there is a market at the auction house. Made enough gold to upgrade my weapons and armor, and train up me and the Ice Bear.
 
Crovax said:
BC was pretty good but Wrath is where it went off the rails. I understand why they made the changes but it was a big shift away from the traditional MMO
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I think the issue for me with the expansions was that the original game was built around a constant economy of resources and skills that were spread out across a gigantic map. Part of he epic nature of the game was trying to find a quiet place in a huge world to gather resources. Each expansion introduced new resources that only spawned in the expansion zones, which then crammed everyone into those smaller spaces.
 
jmotivator said:
I think the issue for me with the expansions was that the original game was built around a constant economy of resources and skills that were spread out across a gigantic map. Part of he epic nature of the game was trying to find a quiet place in a huge world to gather resources. Each expansion introduced new resources that only spawned in the expansion zones, which then crammed everyone into those smaller spaces.
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Well what's insane is at this point, I am playing some BfA, resources mean nothing, crafting is basically useless with SOME exceptions, the armor system now is crazy and doing dungeons is like playing Destiny 2 or something.

In Classic, you gotta gather the group, go to the dungeon, people chat, in Retail it's, sign up for dungeon finder, jump in, do the dungeon in about 5 - 10 minutes, rinse repeat, which isn't totally devoid of fun, like, there's a reason I'm playing retail, am having a bit of fun with it, but that's the real difference.

Playing classic reminds me of the old days when I used to play old school LOTRO, good times.

Rare to find it these days.
 
Jetboogieman said:
Well what's insane is at this point, I am playing some BfA, resources mean nothing, crafting is basically useless with SOME exceptions, the armor system now is crazy and doing dungeons is like playing Destiny 2 or something.

In Classic, you gotta gather the group, go to the dungeon, people chat, in Retail it's, sign up for dungeon finder, jump in, do the dungeon in about 5 - 10 minutes, rinse repeat, which isn't totally devoid of fun, like, there's a reason I'm playing retail, am having a bit of fun with it, but that's the real difference.

Playing classic reminds me of the old days when I used to play old school LOTRO, good times.

Rare to find it these days.
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Yeah, that was the other thing, pretty much from the first expansion crafting became pointless. Essentially there were a few craftable items that people wanted. The Engineering motorcycle that was BOE, but most of the gear was BOP and it was terrible.

Alchemy was like the only crafting profession that could turn a profit. Armorsmithing and weaponsmithing were just dumb.

I'm almost ready to re-enter the MMORPG world again after years of burn out, but I think I want something that actually has an economy and crafting system that isn't awful.
 
jmotivator said:
Yeah, that was the other thing, pretty much from the first expansion crafting became pointless. Essentially there were a few craftable items that people wanted. The Engineering motorcycle that was BOE, but most of the gear was BOP and it was terrible.

Alchemy was like the only crafting profession that could turn a profit. Armorsmithing and weaponsmithing were just dumb.

I'm almost ready to re-enter the MMORPG world again after years of burn out, but I think I want something that actually has an economy and crafting system that isn't awful.
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Classic is good for that.

One thing I thought was interesting, one wow YouTuber highlighted gamers are way more goal orientated than they were back when WoW first came out, they have a better understanding of game mechanics and have way more resources available to understand the game at a more fundamental level, not to mention add-ons, people are playing classic wow in a far, far more optimized way than anyone could have ever dreamed of 15 years ago.

Me and my friend were chatting about that and you gotta think, take some of the best players from true vanilla and put them against the best players today, hey, some might be the same people, but today, they’d probably wipe the floor with the true vanilla players or versions of themselves I reckon, no problem.
 
Jetboogieman said:
Classic is good for that.

One thing I thought was interesting, one wow YouTuber highlighted gamers are way more goal orientated than they were back when WoW first came out, they have a better understanding of game mechanics and have way more resources available to understand the game at a more fundamental level, not to mention add-ons, people are playing classic wow in a far, far more optimized way than anyone could have ever dreamed of 15 years ago.

Me and my friend were chatting about that and you gotta think, take some of the best players from true vanilla and put them against the best players today, hey, some might be the same people, but today, they’d probably wipe the floor with the true vanilla players or versions of themselves I reckon, no problem.
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Honestly, I don't think the only experience from Classic WoW that I couldn't get anywhere else is Alterac Valley, and even that isn't what it used to be.
 
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