Chris
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Did you do a l33t private server strategy on Sapphiron like wearing Frost Resistance Gear/Potions that nobody did when it was first released?
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World of Warcraft: Classic
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The speedrunning community has a huge number of trannies and social rejects. Just saying.
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Big Phoenix
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It makes perfect sense when you realize no mentally sane person would put literally hundreds to thousands of hours into trying to figure out a trick or a shortcut to shave 1-2 seconds off of a "speedrun".
Its kind of sad when you think about it. Imagine how many new advancements we would see if these people put their energy into discovering a better way to treat cancer or build a better rocket. But nope, gotta figure out if its possible to make this jump on a 35 year old game. Idiocracy in action.
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Uber Uberest
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Never forget, the people that care so much that they take time out of their day just to tell you no one cares.
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I don't care that you care about people not caring about people caring
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Merrith
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My old guild has existed in some form or another pretty much since Vanilla, we were something like top 40 to kill KT 40 back then. The Classic version of the guild had trouble getting through Heigan night 1. Was interesting to listen to those who had played Wrath Naxx and never experienced getting teleported into the eyestalk room which for whatever reason they didn't keep from Naxx 40 to Wrath version. Also just struggles to do the dance in general.
Not surprised in the slightest guilds cleared it in one night, though. With enough prep can figure out how to beat Sapph without all the frozen rune frost resist, and have always noted the whole "need 8 tanks with 4/8 bonus for 4H" was a crutch. Crazy to hear stuff about raids stacking 8 fury warriors, though. We had at least 3 good ones back in the day. Everyone has probably been farming all the world buffs and mats they need for awhile. Good shit, though.
Not surprised in the slightest guilds cleared it in one night, though. With enough prep can figure out how to beat Sapph without all the frozen rune frost resist, and have always noted the whole "need 8 tanks with 4/8 bonus for 4H" was a crutch. Crazy to hear stuff about raids stacking 8 fury warriors, though. We had at least 3 good ones back in the day. Everyone has probably been farming all the world buffs and mats they need for awhile. Good shit, though.
Ossoi
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We wiped on saphh until we brought in two more healers to take it to 14, crippled today's split raid but needed to be done.
And, we bring 2-3 rogues and probably 16 warriors for world first/speed runs. Top 9 in damage were all warriors. We had one Rogue who could compete with warriors, but he was an Officer and Raid Leader, got tired of the organisation and transferred to Salad Bakers as he just wanted to focus on his own DPS
The reason warriors are so strong that is because:
A) world buff meta, pointless getting full world buffs for every raid when you're still learning it and will likely wipe for a long time on most bosses
B) 1.12 talents
C) better knowledge in general, re specs, BIS items, etc
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I watched a video on Mario speed running on switch yesterday. People spend 16 hours learning to play the second controller with their feet so they can do some Cappy exploit to teleport.
Pretty much what I think about wow speed running.
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Ossoi
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Gavinmad
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More accurate to say the speedrunning community is full of autists, who are subject to all sorts of other issues.
But what I actually came here for was to ask if Blizzard has said anything about classic expansions? I had zero interest in replaying vanilla, but I would absolutely come back for WotLK and maybe TBC/Cata as well.
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I would have thought TBC would come during period between the last SL patch and the next expansion to give people shit to do, but they just released Naxx within two weeks of the release of SL so they can't be that concerned about overlap.
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This is the most likely scenario. Blizzard has as usual been awful about any sort of communication but people are treating TBC as a forgone conclusion and they are probably correct because it's super easy phone it in money for Blizzard in that they can milk a few years of content out of TBC and Wrath with minimal effort, but then again when does current Blizzard do anything that would resemble basic common fucking sense.
uniqueuser
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Yeah, it requires way less skill despite a similar degree of autism.
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Ukerric
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Yes. It's too early to announce WoW 10.x, there's no SC4 or anything else visible on the horizon. Some D3 schedule news, but nothing else. Classic BC is the only strong possibility I see for an announce.
There might be a surprise announce on something out of the left field, like "Warcraft 4!!!" (although I think all of the warcraft-related energies are consumed into WoW), but I doubt it.