World of Warcraft: Classic
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Fifey
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I did the same, luckily I had a group of friends at the time so i was the main dungeon healer but if I ever had to solo quest, it was a nightmare.
Once we had MC on farm, it was 2 days of MC and the rest of my days farming jujus or picking flowers.
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Quineloe
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Problem simply is that mana is not a resource, heals are just way too fast, therefore just tanking everything and taking assloads of damage is no problem.
Now, if mana were a resource, and a good heal took 10 seconds to cast... but no, that's just absurd.
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Quineloe
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Wasn't the problem with dungeon loot that it was far lower in level than the boss who dropped it and you had to be very close to the bosses level due to hard caps on damage?
Like level 35 bosses in a dungeon dropping level 27 blues, which were not as good as level 35 greens.
Nah. As an example, Herod in SM is level 37 and drops ilvl 42-43 blues that require level 37-38 to equip and are better than greens of the same ilvl.
There are plenty of blues throughout vanilla that have shitty stat distributions compared to greens, but in general dungeon gear was good.
James
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Naw, dungeon loot was mostly good in classic. I did a lot of my original vanilla leveling as prot and lived in dungeons, and when chaining dungeons I could get much better loot/experience than solo questing, but it was rare to chain dungeons.
a c i d.f l y
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You could also bring a level 27 healer in with a 32-33 group, but you had to be careful due to the ridiculously large aggro radius of lower level characters in dungeons.
But also mp5.
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Arbitrary
Tranny Chaser
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Croetec
Lord Nagafen Raider
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The one thing I'll enjoy is watching those that never got to experience the days of spamming flash of light and targets on decursive coming to realize how utterly shit Vanilla raiding was for a lot of classes. Not that I wouldn't hit BoP on the MT to keep DPS on their toes and alleviate the boredom in BWL, pretty sure the constant trying to sabotage a boring raid became a meta game with the guildies with everyone trying to get everyone else killed. Definitely a good time once it was on alt farm status.
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people are starting to stream the early beta. The Barrens only, but you can get an idea of what vanilla version they're using.
Caeden
Silver Baronet of the Realm
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I felt TBC was still boring on pally. I raid healed up to tide walker when we needed a Murloc tank. Our second warrior wasn’t good at ae tanking. Or main tanking really. But he did get gear to be uncrushable.....handed to him....by me...AE tanking instances on guild respec dime.
I still spammed FOL and made sure everyone had their 30 minute blessings. Sometimes I died so people didn’t have to run back.
I still spammed FOL and made sure everyone had their 30 minute blessings. Sometimes I died so people didn’t have to run back.
Warmuth
Molten Core Raider
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If I remember right I pretty much stopped even trying to raid when they broke decursive. My memory is fuzzy but I remember there was a fight where the whole raid or damn near it got a debuff, maybe the dog one. With the mod you spammed cleanse until the icons were gone. After the “fix” you had to manually target and cast and it was just fucking ponderous. One of the reasons I never liked raiding much was the whole all you do is look at health bars issue, the rest of the screeen may as well have been blacked out.
James
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Then imagine that the buffs were 30 seconds instead of 5 minutes, and it only worked in your group, and they had to be close by you. Paladins complaining about buffing, what was there a smudge on the silver spoon in your ass?
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They aren’t using a true vanilla version, it’s a Legion client. Talents are 1.12, items are 1.12, content will be gated, 16 debuff slots, etc.