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>>15670137

>Barrens chat was a negative

outside of that this is an accurate summation of why this is gonna be dope.

And all the soy boy cuck magnets are gonna cry about how "boring and tedious it is" and how "they never run into their friends from other servers" and "hate that they can't use LFG portal".

FUCK LFG,LFR, Cross-realming

>>15670137

>he didn't know when and/or timed his healing spells correctly and ranked #1 in efficiency and in the top 3 total healing every raid

Fucking pleb.

>>15670070 (OP)

Classic was baby's first mmo for a lot of people, those same people are chasing that nostalgic euphoria they experienced when they first picked up wow and got hooked.

Classic servers are going to see a massive drop off in players shortly after release when these idiots start leveling and realize how much of a pain in the ass it was, even worse is that the community that existed during classic wow is gone and never coming back.

Any sense of exploration will be gone as every aspect on vanilla has been autisticly analysed.

TLDR: The only people that care about it are wow addicts chasing after their next high.

Its hoping and pray for that old world before smartphones Before normalfags got onto the internet.

It won't happen anons. Until we build a mmo where you ethier are gud or die in permadeath.

>>15670070 (OP)

Sure, I can explain it.

>Gear Permanence

In BFA, that Heroic raid gear you worked so hard for (or M+ gear you didn't work particularly hard for) is always mere months away from being obsolete. In vanilla, a raid upgrade could last over a year. Gearing up was both difficult and sufficiently rewarding, now you can gear up inside two weeks and obviously gear is completely disposable as a consequence of that. There's no real feeling of character progression.

>Community

In BFA, just like gear, players are completely disposable. Why treat random players nicely when you're never going to see them again? Hit a minor speed bump in a dungeon? Prepare for someone to throw a shit it and either try to kick someone, and if that doesn't work, they'll pull a bunch of mobs and drop group. In Vanilla, if you were a trash player or a sperg, you became known as a trash player and a sperg and couldn't hide behind the pseudo-anonymity afforded by cross-realm.

>Overall World Difficulty and Tagging

In BFA, nearly every class can solo all non-raid world content. Even "5 man" world quest bosses with a couple million health aren't an issue, so the only reason you group is to just make it go faster. There's also faction-wide tagging, so as long as the person who tagged the mob is on your side, you can tag it and get credit for the kill as well. In Vanilla, you had to group with players to share tags, so people would work together as opposed to just tagging everything with instant ranged abilities and letting other players do the work.

There's other reasons, but those are the primary ones. As for whether or not Classic will be successful in the long term, I'm sure it will, it'll cost basically nothing to maintain it and there's plenty of whales who will sub forever to keep it profitable.

For what it's worth, a lot of retailfags weren't going to be bothered with classic, and the classic community is looking to be somewhat less pozzed than retail. Thread related.

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20769737689

>>15670137

>LFG and LFR are a bad thing

No fuck you. Getting carried by literal expendable NPCs is way more fun. And because they aren't people, you don't have to worry about hurting anyone's feefees, so you can call them out on being fucking SHIT. Boy I sure do love getting bkackballed from a server because I yelled at some guild leader's kid for not wanting to learn how to play their fucking class. Get fucked.

>>15670150

Sure ya did, buddy.

If you didn't get the addons, you weren't shit. WoWs default interface is garbo, and playing with it only puts you at a disadvantage and makes you a liability. Try again.

>>15670207

Maybe if you weren't underage and played through MC and BWL progression where autists had yet to theory craft the game to oblivion and made all those mods you rely on because you were bad at a video game.

>>15670215

Yeah, no you didnt. Quit trying.

>>15670207

>>15670243

Fuck off underage.

>>15670243

I bet you were a shaman or a paladin who raided wearing cloth and leather gear too. What a faggot. Go kill yourself.

>>15670243

You sound like the guy who joined <infinity>, gets upset GMs on the server would mute you for being loud and stupid without being a hint of clever about it and then claiming the server is cucked and dead forever.

Please don't post, my retarded child beefstacks might see your low quality post

>>15670261

Cool projection, kid.

>>15670243

I was a combat mace rogue you cuck. Keep trying though. Let's see those screens, champ.

There are plenty of vanilla private servers that work fine.

Anyone who pays money for this shit is gonna regret it when they get permabanned for offending some tranny.

>>15670137

>>The Thunderfury meme will never die

Oh fuck, that takes me back.

People would spam it in trade chat even during BC and WotLK.

>>15670315

Because I played to win, pal. Not to make friends.

The whole point of WoW was to roflstomp kids, bads and minorities and grief them into uninstalling forever. If someone didn't quit by the time I finished facefucking them, then I didn't do a good enough job. I got blacklisted by plenty of salty fags on Illidan, but that didn't fucking stop me. It just gave me more incentive to get better so I could facefuck them on my second acct.

>>15670368

Win what? PvP encounters?

You can grief your group in a dungeon by pulling trash (or ninja'ing everything) or gank lowbies of the opposing faction in Ashenvale.

Is there even anything else? Trade scams maybe?

>>15670368

Fucking hell, you are a faggot. Go back to wherever you came from sperg.

>>15670435

eat shit, pve kid.

>>15670467

I bet you think arenas are a good addition to the game

>>15670070 (OP)

Who? Nobody that is a person cares about Marxistcraft.

Blizzard has already ruined modern WoW and now they're going back in time and rape the old WoW people love. They love fucking over people who loved their stuff once upon a time, they can't get enough.

Diablo 2 Remaster goddamn it no why

>>15670207

Best part of vanilla WoW is playing a Warlock: http://www.ropetown.com/shared/warlock101.html

This guy really sums up the experience. One thing I disagree with him about, I've had dungeon runs where I would give the tank a healthstone and he would die, multiple times, while forgetting to pop healthstone. Anyway when the tank dies I often found myself offtanking as the Warlock before the mage or whatever died from aggro.

>>15676299

>Best part of vanilla WoW is playing a Warlock: http://www.ropetown.com/shared/warlock101.html

>

>This guy really sums up the experience. One thing I disagree with him about, I've had dungeon runs where I would give the tank a healthstone and he would die, multiple times, while forgetting to pop healthstone. Anyway when the tank dies I often found myself offtanking as the Warlock before the mage or whatever died from aggro.

Woops, meant to reply to >>15670137

>>15670194

Gear upgrades were rare, usually gave you a massive power boost, and you usually had to compete or wait your turn for them due to low drop rates (2 drops for 40 players).

>>15676786

There was some blue post saying that their sharding shit was still undecided and that they were strongly considering using it on release. But I don't trust Blizzard to just stop to release. They're now a company that makes their design decisions based on twitter posts. "igot bck from wrk n spend 1hour in q but server crash now back in q plz fix blizz #shardclassicplox". And when some limp wristed 20 something mobile gamer inevitably comes up with that complaint, Blizzard will inevitably comply because they're fucking clueless. Then you'll have sharding in towns, TM/SS, and BRM. Then people are going to cry about not being able to farm their animal parts in Blasted Lands or their juju in Winterspring, so Blizzard will put in sharding everywhere. Worst part is that what I've typed out isn't even prophetic, it's just how Blizzard operates.

>>15670137

>Cites Barrens Chat as a bad thing

fag.

>>15676870

>Gear upgrades were rare, usually gave you a massive power boost, and you usually had to compete or wait your turn for them due to low drop rates (2 drops for 40 players).

Also important to remember is that this was before everything was normalized and weapon speed played a huge part in item selection so finding the optimal gear was a much more "interesting" proposition. Items themselves meant more just for that aspect alone. Every sword lets say wasn't 2.6 some were fast and made a great offhand, others slow for those hard special main hand hits. Just the whole nature of items in classic were of a diff mindset instead of everything just being a stat stick. Heck, they even had items with no stats and proc chance on hit. ahhhh, them were the days.

>>15677518

you also had the problem that nearly all the blue and green caster drops were itemized under the old "spirit is awesome" beta mechanic, and so caster gear was almost worthless beside a few tailoring items, until you got to Dire Maul.

>>15677623

Lol yeah.

>Hey guys, lets make spirit something every class will love to have!

>Does really nothing

Checks out.

Was going through Reddit so see what they think and saw this comment. Made me laugh tbh

>>15670070 (OP)

Because it's babby's first MMO. Most of the faggots here didn't even hit max level I wager.

>>15677660

No, see that's the thing it *was* awesome in the beta,it was the basically the most important caster stat, so much so in fact that they actually nerfed the ever loving fuck out.

Back then if you had enough spirit, your mana regen was so fast that you just did not run out of mana at all. Which meant you could spam all those high mana burst spells as much as you wanted, and healing was just about keeping health bars up rather than conserving mana. It was a major boost to your ability.

But it's blizzard, and they can't design a fucking monster encounter for shit if they're not balancing it entirely on the backs of healer's mana bars so spirit was over crippled and the 5 sec rule regen added. But most of the cloth gear was already itemized by then and they had too much other shit to do, so they left the spirit loaded gear as is. And that's why vanilla caster gear is basically useless until you hit the post release areas like Dire Maul and Molten Core.

>>15670070 (OP)

It waas a lot of people's first MMO. Amongst all MMOs at the time though it was the shitiest and most casual, it;s just people didn't know others existed.

>playing WOW at all

Fucking faggots.

>>15670070 (OP)

It's fun with friends.

>>15670268

i bet you were a shaman or a paladin who wore cloth for pvp lmao

>playing MMOs

>>15670070 (OP)

i only have 2 questions about it and they are out of curiosity and not interest in playing.

1- how are they going to handle tuber farming

2- how are they going to handle spell power/downranking for healers

>>15670158

This. It’s people seeking an old internet they nostalgia after where gaming was fun and shitposting on oldchan didn’t get you doxxed and your family murdered by communists. Sadly that world has been killed and nobody has been resourceful enough to revive it in some new corner of the internet

>>15677678

I never understood the appeal of the game after seeing a friend play to level 10. You don't lose anything when you die. There is literally no consequences in this game. I just stuck to Tibia until it got invaded with a BR blight.

The only fun of vanilla was one-shotting people as an overgeared warrior with a Strong 2h weapon from Grand Marshal/Nax and killing many people with a sweeping strike cleaves.

Besides one shotting people in PvP, I really don't miss the tediouness or the PvE content. Alterac Valley was the best experience for PvP in Vanilla. That's about it. The rest of the game was a tedious chore and the PvE was a chaotic mess

>>15687097

I've probably beem here longer than you, you maggot.

>>15676786

I don't know what's more cancerous, the state of the game or these profile names.

>>15670070 (OP)

I'm glad they're going through with classic for those who want it, but I would be much happier if they actually took a look at *why* there was such a demand for classic and then take that knowledge and use it to fix retail.

>>15670070 (OP)

It was my first MMO admittedly and I played it while I was 14. I still remember enjoying the world around it, but no doubt, I can't look back on the characters fondly.

I remember running through Deadwind Pass to get to Swamp of Sorrows and getting spooked by a high level giant buzzard within aggro range on the roads. There's also a lot of you-have-to-here-but-run-the-fuck-away-from-x. Even if current WoW had that shit, it's just too tacky nowadays for me to bother engaging.

One revisit of the leveling zones is all I need and I can pretty much do that on any private server.

>>15670070 (OP)

I just liked the game, what's so wrong about that? Would you fault me for playing fucking Dig Dug?

>>15670137

>barrens chat

>a con

chuck norris roundhouse kick ur mom fag

As far as gameplay goes, like balance, how classes feel etc, cata was the best

Fite me

>>15670194

>In Vanilla, if you were a trash player or a sperg, you became known as a trash player and a sperg and couldn't hide behind the pseudo-anonymity afforded by cross-realm.

This basically. Vanilla was objectively hard and more tedious in many ways but in spite of it or maybe because of it people had to take part in the community. And since the internet was very different back then if you wanted to know something you had to know the right people.

>>15688221

>Would you fault me for playing fucking Dig Dug?

I would.