World of Warcraft: Classic

Most of my desire to play vanilla is linked to my brothers and I all playing together in the same house between the date the game came out and New Years... then going back to college and having like 8 of us on the same floor always playing together.

Without that type of in person community I think I’ll get bored pretty quickly... maybe Discord or having voice chat will replace that.

Getting in some value time in preparation of paternity leave

Levelled a druid to 15 on a private server, wondered why natures grasp talent never procced even with all talent points in it. Had forgotten it was a skill not a passive lol

pharmakos said:

never played WoW other than doing the level 1-20 trial a couple times

but lately my gaming time is devoted to doing The Al'Kabor Project, which tries for total accuracy Planes of Power / year 2002 era EverQuest, and gets pretty close, including the actual client from 2002

vanilla WoW should still seem like an upgrade in QoL for me?

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So as a P1999 player, does that mean I'd need two clients?

I've been playing on these private servers regularly since Emerald Dream and most recently on Northdale (Light's Hope). As time has passed, i've changed my approach to the game and have progressed to being able to raid regularly while having a full time 9-5 job, a wife and 2 kids.

In reality, most of us remember the 2004-2006 WoW in a neckbeard light, but only because most of us WERE neckbeards back then and a lot of us were coming from EQ - which was the epitome of neckbearding if you wanted to be successful. Most of us were 15-25 year olds in high school or college, playing 12 hours a day and failing at everything BUT the game. Meanwhile, it took some time to figure it out, but the game is super fucking easy. MC + Ony take under 2 hours and that's in a mediocre guild. The prep for MC and Ony takes a few hours per week. Getting to 60 can take about a month, but that's the standard curve. There's no realistic rush. And taking all of this into account, Classic will be exactly the same as these private servers have been.

The current 20-30 year old neckbeards who grind ranks, farm Devilsaurs, split raid etc. shouldn't be the standard, so no one should worry about having the time to play. Shit is ez.

Chanur said:

I forgot how much of a twat people are about spawned mobs and quest items. I have had spawned quest items looted a bunch of times while I cleared the mobs guarding it. Today I had a spawned mob taken three times in a row by people. Pretty annoying.

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Just invite people. I've found people on Lights Hope to be very friendly and co-operative.

Origin said:

I've been playing on these private servers regularly since Emerald Dream and most recently on Northdale (Light's Hope). As time has passed, i've changed my approach to the game and have progressed to being able to raid regularly while having a full time 9-5 job, a wife and 2 kids.

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I'm Alliance on Northdale, you?

Origin said:

In reality, most of us remember the 2004-2006 WoW in a neckbeard light, but only because most of us WERE neckbeards back then and a lot of us were coming from EQ - which was the epitome of neckbearding if you wanted to be successful. Most of us were 15-25 year olds in high school or college, playing 12 hours a day and failing at everything BUT the game. Meanwhile, it took some time to figure it out, but the game is super fucking easy. MC + Ony take under 2 hours and that's in a mediocre guild. The prep for MC and Ony takes a few hours per week. Getting to 60 can take about a month, but that's the standard curve. There's no realistic rush. And taking all of this into account, Classic will be exactly the same as these private servers have been.

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Good to know

If BoA subs are really only 1.4 million then I think Classic is actually going outpace the main game. The only question is how much higher can it go. If it happens I guarantee there eventually be a 1.13 patch with new content.

There were so many untapped zones that had very light content.

Chanur said:

Ossoi You cannot invite people for ground spawns.

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You said spawned mobs, if there are people around clearly waiting for an npc to spawn then start a group. I did it today in Darkshore for that collector quest and the grimclaw one.

Dom said:

I think classic will outpace it a fair amount for a while, but will die down hard once people get tired of the issues that come along with it. The inevitable WOTLK sequel expansion (Warlords of Northrend?) will be the thing that brings standard back to the forefront.

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I very much hope Classic outpaces whatever internal estimates Blizzard has, even the most optimistic ones, so they have to face up to the indisputable proof that they've been on the wrong track and have been for a while.

"Let's just branch off with an entirely new expansion and time line" levels of success is what I want to see.

I'm sure I'm going to load this up, but the reality is I have a wife, two kids, two business, and a shit ton of other stuff going on. There is just zero way I can be competitive. It's very difficult for me to go from my original Vanilla experience to being some uncompetitive and unreliable person who can't even make half the raids due to RL stuff. I can't be the only one in this type of situation.

Arbitrary said:

I very much hope Classic outpaces whatever internal estimates Blizzard has, even the most optimistic ones, so they have to face up to the indisputable proof that they've been on the wrong track and have been for a while.

"Let's just branch off with an entirely new expansion and time line" levels of success is what I want to see.

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We have to go back

Ossoi said:

I'm Alliance on Northdale, you?

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I'm on Alliance also. Rogue named Origin. Hit me up if you're a lowbie and need some help or whatever. Also goes for all other bros here.