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u/DonsPizza0 19d ago
Am I old? Sometimes I'll just sit in Gold Shire INN and watch everybody run by and have fun.
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u/zibbydoo2221 19d ago
not just old, also brain damaged. :)
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u/imaUPSdriver 19d ago
*turns and looks at mom*
“Yeah these are all real people!”
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u/Own_Engineering_6031 19d ago
My brother said this to my mum and dad and my drunk dad spat in my brothers face I was 12 😀
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u/YebureYatog 19d ago
Back in my days we didn't have night elf's in Elwyn Forest, now look at them killing our wolfs and stealing our defias bandanas!
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u/IngenuityThink3000 18d ago
Wait .. LITERALLY?
Or are you watching something on your second monitor?
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u/Invoqwer 18d ago edited 18d ago
Even more than watching your BIS drop or downing a huge boss with the boys, it's really about all the little things, like seeing people dancing on mailboxes, a bunch of lvl1 bank alts by the auction houses, mages advertising food water and tailoring, lowbies running around questing, the occasional newb asking for some bags, people asking in [1]Zone Chat "anyone wanna group for X? (anyone wanna group for Hogger?)", "when is head drop again?", "LAAAAAAAAAATEEEE!!", etc etc etc.
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u/AdExpensive1624 19d ago
Classic WoW, for me, was more than just the game. It was being younger, with fewer responsibilities, and a huge community of my real-life friends who I was able to stay connected to after college even though we were in different cities by logging on and running an instance. I wish I could get them to play again.
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u/_teyy_teyy_ 19d ago
I think this sums it up for most of us. Being young with no responsibilities, just fucking grinding with the homies. Good times, man.
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u/Ascherict 19d ago
The closest I got was during covid, two whole shut downs. It was fucking glorious. Managed to clear most of classic content. Just missed AQ except for one run where I got the epic healing belt.
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u/Natural_Place_6268 19d ago
I remember early covid fondly bc of WoW. By the time I joined, ppl were raided out and bored , so we got free power level runs. Never knew that was possible, but it made my days easier and better
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u/IngenuityThink3000 18d ago
Oof. To each their own but being hard carried through a game is one of the least rewarding experiences for me. Sure your max leveled buddy can power level you but like... What's the point then? Would you type in "god mode" if you could and have unlimited gold and a weapon that one shits any raid boss? I know that's hyperbole but... The journey is the best part of Classic.
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u/Alyusha 18d ago
Yup, I would never have been able to raid at the level I was during Covid. It really was very similar to high school years where my responsibilities were limited and I had no where to be. At one point I raided every day of the week before cutting back significantly.
I honestly think it is why Classic Wow has been as successful as it has.
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u/RJ815 19d ago
I didn't mind AQ but a TON of my guild hated it. It was enough of a step up from BWL (without being true endgame like Naxx) that it seemed to grate on a lot of people. And to be fair, whether it was a lack of stamina or what, lots of people would get minced quickly on trash packs. Fortunately instead of raging over world buffs our leadership just tried to encourage people to keep what they can, but even "sweatier" players tended to relax on world buffs when they could be wiped SO easily without necessarily wiping the raid group too, just dealing with harsh trash or spiky boss damage.
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u/Rud3l 19d ago
Just get a job where you can play during home office. Play while working, spend the free time with your family. But don't tell them so you can play another 2-3 hours as you need some time to relax from work.
Easy.
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u/Vyncynt02 19d ago
"Grinding with the homies" we had different childhoods I think
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u/imisstheyoop 19d ago
Also, for a lot of us we were adults with jobs and responsibilities before Vanilla even launched, so yeah there's that. I'm bitter that so many got the experience being described the first time around though.
I'm starting to sound like a boomer sometimes despite being a millennial, but well, there it is I suppose..
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u/No_Cartographer7815 19d ago
This is it for me too.
I long to experience the game like I did back when Vanilla was still a thing. So I spend loads of time thinking about the game, planning my next character, what I want to do with it, etc. Even reading and commenting here. Then I make a new character, full of motivation, and get it to 20-30 and get bored and either take a break or reroll.
I'm starting to realize that I just don't get the same joy out of it as I used to, because it's not the same. I'm not 14 anymore.
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u/Kuppee 19d ago
I was the same til Hardcore came out. HC completely brings back that old feeling because you are so locked in at all times, and because every little decision matters. I'm levelling fishing and cooking because I need stam buffs, gathering enough pots before I quest etc. It really makes it about the journey again.
Combined with the voiceover mod for quests and the zone music cranked up, it's pure bliss.
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u/negitororoll 19d ago
Yep 😭.
In that way, I actually enjoy retail more. It's way more friendly for someone who is an adult with a lot of other hobbies and responsibilities (in my case, full time career and two kids). I raid once a week with my guild, run M+ here and there, and do delves. It's perfect. I can play for four hours straight or twenty minutes and it's fine.
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u/blewnote1 19d ago
Man SoD seems to make both of those possible... Can enjoy classic but with some fun new additions and QoL improvements that make it possible to play extremely casually.
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u/jehhans1 19d ago
Except theres nothing really challenging in SOD, it doesn't have to be that way in retail either, but you can even with limited amount of time
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u/DoubleTheGarlic 19d ago
This is so painfully relatable.
I spent most of my first year of WoW just running around the various zones just to look at them. Die again and again and again, just corpse-running from place to place just to look at the world. I got to level 32 and after having seen most of the world... stopped playing. It'd be a year later that I'd return to the game and cap my first toon for real, but I spent probably a good hundred hours just exploring the world and not bothering with quests or anything like that.
Those memories are irreplaceable, but... that comes with the knock-on of being irreproducible. What I wouldn't do to just wipe all my memories of playing the game that way just so I could do it all again.
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u/Daschief 19d ago
It was also the fact that no one really knew what they were doing in WoW. We didn’t have all these addons breaking down the game to the most minuet detail. Everyone was just out there doing their best and everyone thought everything was viable (for the most part).
Online gaming in the MMO platform was relatively new and making friends online was something new and unexplored. Rather people like to admit it min max culture ruined the magic of what made vanilla wow so great
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u/epandrsn 19d ago
Man, I remember I didn’t learn how stats really worked until my first char was like lvl 40. And I put in a bit of time in the original open beta. It was such a fun and carefree experience, it was enjoyable just to play and explore.
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u/TheDoktorIsIn 19d ago
Same. I haven't played games online with anyone since August, and I miss that connection. Sure I could hop into a random lobby for like Helldivers but I like playing with friends I already know. It was such a cool experience to log on and 5 people would whisper "yo" or "hey what's up" then we'd clear UBRS or farm something just to play together.
Wow that sounds extraordinarily sad! I have friends they just don't play the games I do!
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u/Pink_Flash 19d ago
Exactly. Then I log in, realize I don't know anyone and nearly all guilds are groups of RL friends so you'll never break that barrier and end up quitting at some point.
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u/AdExpensive1624 19d ago
Exactly. I tried to solo a while back, but the fun was missing because I couldn’t connect with anyone. And those who would PUG were sort of not so nice, and as soon as the quest was complete, I’d get booted from the group. (Granted, I’m a terrible player, so perhaps that’s why.)
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u/Teerubble 19d ago
This is me and my boys rn. Some have more time to play than others so we help farm for them so they can still raid with us :)
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u/Gouken- 18d ago
Yeah. Some of my most fond memories from my teenage years was going to LAN parties with my best buddies weekend after weekend. I didn’t play wow back then but just having a great time laughing and chilling with my guys playing wc3 Maps, cs, quake, diablo is something I will always remember.
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u/cseymour24 19d ago
I'm the opposite, thinking about what to play for the night - classic wow? Meh. Once I actually log in though - hours fly by.
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u/JoeFromBirdtown 19d ago
Same! I’ll be driving home thinking about playing something else, but queue up classic and have a great time.
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u/notsingsing 19d ago
Warcraft 3 is fun. But damn I’m missing a chance at my bis dropping
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u/scumruckus 19d ago
Does wc3 still have custom game modes? I remember playing footman frenzy in wc3ft and loving it so much
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u/notsingsing 19d ago
No clue I only ladder on WC3 champs when I do play. I haven’t played a custom game in maybe 10 years
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u/scumruckus 19d ago
Might be worth an install to see, anyway thanks for the reply!
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u/notsingsing 19d ago
100% is. Ladder is getting a resurgence with both WC3 champs and grubby just hosted a big only fangs tournament with streamers who are playing for the first time with pro wc3 coaches. So they are making mistakes every single player is and getting instant feedback for viewers
In turn their audience is playing it too and the surge of players is insane. Brought new life to the game.
I would recommend watching grubbys tourney from the start. I’m pretty sure it was only three days and his vods on twitch are free. Watching dendi play was a delight because I was a huge dota player
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u/Hairyhulk-NA 19d ago
grubby and friends did a 12 round Mario Party style event on WC3 custom games after their tournament, so I think yes!
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u/Latiesh 19d ago
Level 57 was enough for me. ”This was nice back to memorylane trip” Had fun for 2 month leveling hunter and priest like i used to do 20 years ago. No need to push anymore or minmax anything.
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u/wigglin_harry 19d ago
Pretty much. I ran Molten Core and remembered "oh yeah this is actually really boring."
I had some fun getting all my PreBis, but I ended up switching over to SoD after about a month of MC and now im having a blast
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u/YozaSkywalker 19d ago
Raiding in classic was by far the worst part of the game to me. Trying to wrangle 40 people into one activity 3 times a week was a huge task and you may go months without getting a single piece of gear. I had fun with my guild mates, sure, but actually leveling up and doing 5 man dungs was the best part of classic WoW
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u/AvgWarcraftEnjoyer 19d ago
I feel the same way, IMO the game peaks at around 35-49 and then after that when you start getting into the "being forced to interact with people who care about parses/raiding/ranking" level, the game starts to become significantly less fun
I'm honestly content being an altoholic and just partaking in casual low level wPvP
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u/IngenuityThink3000 18d ago
Is MC super boring fr? I imagine it's completely under tuned for a modern raid team and you just sit there and DPS it down for 10min? Only to watch gear that you literally can't use drop.
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u/voidlotus316 16d ago
My favourite combo was enjoying the leveling journey in hc, quit when I hit 60 and play sod endgame insted.
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u/NuklearFerret 18d ago
57-60 were pretty much the fastest levels above 10 for me, idk how you put it down like that.
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u/valdis812 19d ago
Skip the endgame and you'll feel better. Or at least don't take it so seriously.
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u/Zwiebel1 19d ago
For me its:
Happy side: "Playing classic wow."
Nightmarish side: "Checking the AH, being reminded of RMT hell."
Needless to say playing HC SF fixed it for me. You couldn't care less about a ruined economy if you're not even part of that economy.
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u/TaylorWK 19d ago
Stop min maxing and start playing the game. Are you actually having fun playing that class and spec? Then play what you find the most fun. The game isn't hard and doesn't require a full raid of warriors in order to clear it. I'm playing balance druid and it's fun without any guides to level or reading talent guides. Just pick what you think is fun. It's supposed to be a game, not a job.
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u/NukiWolf2 19d ago
That's why I play Classic hardcore :p
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u/Sikkus 19d ago
A self-found character, for an even better challenge.
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u/NukiWolf2 19d ago
Unfortunately, I don't like the restrictions regarding trading, the auction house etc. That's something I don't want to miss, because I want to be able to interact with others and contribute to the economy. Also, I am playing all classes simultaneously and I exchange quite a lot of items via mail among my characters. There are days where I only stay in stormwind to level professions with all the mats that I have farmed and just prepare for the next adventures which takes quite some time with all classes and professions. And should one of them die, then I still have enough other characters to continue my journey without asking myself if I want to go again. 😅
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u/chadan1008 19d ago
This is me especially with paladin. I love the class fantasy and the idea of it but obviously you can’t really play a Paladin unless you’re healing
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u/NuklearFerret 18d ago
Yes, you can. They make awesome dungeon tanks. Ret has some issues, though. Most of which are yet another plate wearer rolling on my leather.
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u/BBCDepartmentHead 19d ago
The same handful of points (which are all accurate) about classic wow are often made on this sub—but one large appeal for the older demo is that classic wow offers simplicity and relaxation. Life gets more complicated as the years tick—the itch to dive back into the familiarity and comfort of the game always rears its head when coupled with positive news or elevated brief popularity.
The problem is the relaxing element can often dissolve quickly when the games true grind mechanics rear its head around lvl 30. Then it’s just your job away from a job.
Find an enjoyable streamer or content creator and enjoy the game through another’s pov, one that you can flip closed at any moment.
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u/gr4n_master1337 19d ago
"The problem is the relaxing element can often dissolve quickly when the games true grind mechanics rear its head around lvl 30. Then it’s just your job away from a job."
Thats true. I find 1 to 30 is super smooth and fun experience. 30 to 40 feels more grindy, but with mount on the horizon, you still have good motivation.
But after 40, it gets really slow and feels more like work than fun. Thats where I often quit, arround 41 to 42.
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u/EggplantWriter 19d ago
Definitely this. 30-45ish for me was always a horrible slog, but on the last alt that I was leveling, I felt like 45-55 went by super fast. Then another slog to get to 60. Those grindy bits always felt like Blizz telling me to go repeat dungeons over and over which I find dull.
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u/SenorWeon 19d ago
Stop playing, take a break, do something else for a couple of months. You can easily come back to do piss easy content at any point in the classic era life cycle.
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u/Captain-Cthulhu 19d ago
I get it's not for everyone, but switching to SoD was the best thing I've ever done for my classic experience.
Vanilla is honestly so time consuming, it feels like I have to dump my life into it to get a drop of juice. With SoD, as a casual player, I can afford a mount, I can have alts at endgame, I can get into raids. Also the player base takes itself less seriously and the overall vibe seems better. Not to mention being able to bring any spec to a raid and be a legit contribution. Players are allowed to experiment with their builds, not locked into a boring meta rotation.
I have a soft spot for vanilla, but I'm past playing it.
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u/PK_Dreadlord 19d ago
I would play SoD 2 reboot if PVP got fixed somehow
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u/Captain-Cthulhu 19d ago
Yeah I'm sad to say sod pvp is cooked. Complete unbalanced mess. Thankfully that's a small part of my wow play style, but I do wish it was better.
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u/SnooFloofs6240 18d ago
SoD endgame is pretty bland honestly. Sure you can get into raids, but you'll likely be carried by people far more geared than you farming some token or other and have little to no impact.
That's the duality of token systems, you get populated but trivial content. It was much more fun and challenging actually contributing in dungeons levelling up. But no one does that anymore in SoD due to all the levelling skips.
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u/Zonkport 19d ago
Yes it is but this is more of a "I was made for more than sitting in front of a computer monitor for hours" issue.
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u/Fuwkeboi 19d ago
I feel like that when I reach endgame. This is why I play PVE server, and I am leveling 1 alliance and 1 horde char for TBC. I want to experience the story from both angles, and leveling in classic is best part of the game. Its chill and relaxing, with no min maxing, i just take time to smell all the flowers. Endgame feels like a job, its not like back in the day when we just showup to have fun no matter if we dont have 40 people we just run in and die and run back and have tons of laughs. People today consider endgame like military, which is why I turned to open world and leveling, I find it best for my nerves
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u/Rapethor 19d ago
It is such a weird feeling.
The whole day I’m thinking about how fun I’ll have playing classic wow in the evening, and then when I actually log in and play I’m like « nah actually I don’t feel like playing »
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u/GreenVisorOfJustice 19d ago
I’m like « nah actually I don’t feel like playing »
Then play something else to cleanse your palate?
I love WoW Classic, but that also just means every couple of years I'll resub for like a month or two, play for a while, and then eventually quit because I had my fill. Not every playthrough needs to have an end goal besides "Well, I'm not having fun any more"
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u/xXxWeed_Wizard420xXx 19d ago
then why even play? I’m sure rape-thor has better things to do
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u/Radiant-Guide9963 19d ago
20 years later and I'm more hooked than ever. This game will be coded in my DNA by the time I croak.
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u/eXistenZ101 19d ago
I'm this most of the time regarding WoW. When Classic / Classic TBC / SoD were announced I was hyped every damn time! I played quite some hours, but gave up at 60 pre-MC farm because tank shortage / months waiting for SSC/TK after Kara / phase 3 invasions and bugs. And every time I regret not sitting it out and just continue.
I blame others for it. I blame the tryhard min/max'ers, the phase preppers, the bots, the no-lifers, GDKP, the gold-buyers, the parsers, the bug-abusers, the guildies that form a clique and play 12h a day. I hate it when I ding 60 and I see someone full BiS next to me, it's demotivating.
But it's not everyone else but it's... me.
It's the hype, the FOMO, the Everest at a certain point. Having to work quite some hours to achieve something, when it's not even that meaningful. I wish I could turn off the switch and just enjoy the game at my own pace. And I need to stop comparing the community with Vanilla or original TBC. Everything was new and we will not get that feeling anymore. Everything is datamined before it even gets out. I'm not the student with tons of time anymore and that's a good thing. I cannot compete timewise with a large portion of the database and that's a good thing.
Oh well, maybe next time. So fresh SoD realms when? HYPE!
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u/Discombobro 19d ago
I love classic wow even though I was too young to ever play it when it was around. I played the demo as a dwarf hunter when I was a little kid and hated the fact I couldn’t chat with people outside of /say lol. I tried classic again a couple times with just a month sub now at 20-22 and it’s just boring because everybody’s so antisocial. I feel like it’s super hard to find people during leveling who are just enjoying the game and trying to hang out instead of rush to max.
I did find a super chill orc on hardcore once as a troll and we ran around saying dumb shit with roleplay typing accents. “Me hafta run ey-way!”
I died to a crab. Good times.
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u/XelGar256 19d ago
LoL there are times where I wish I could play classic wow even for free to lvl 20 for free but then I think I don't have time for that anymore.
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u/suciocadillac 19d ago
I was so pumped for tbc leveled 2 characters to 60 just to get them ready for next year and now watching karazhan runs on YT and remembering all the raid nights, the time spent there and the struggle of dinner with my wife while raid hours, I understood that this game is not for me or my time anymore.
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u/Minarick 19d ago
Then go old school.
Whatever you do, stay out of the World and LFG channels. If you’re looking for groups or want to buy something, go to the capital city and use the trade channel. Talk to people you meet along the way. Just write something—sometimes someone replies, sometimes a cool situation happens.
That’s what WoW is all about. That’s why we play it. For that feeling.
And honestly, when we first started playing, we didn’t know about all that stuff either. We just enjoyed the game and looked forward to whatever came next.
So why not just do it like that again?
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u/Immagonko 19d ago
Because everyone didn't have knowledge of the game, now when everything is known – you will never be able to experience WoW as it was before Unless you never played WoW before
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u/Minarick 19d ago
Of course! Leave out some add-ons, don’t play according to the meta, and just enjoy the game. Give it a try—create an HC character on solo and play without using LFG or world channels. Instead, chat in general or the capital city channels. That’s where the coolest things happen! It’s a great mix of both a new and old experience, even though you already know everything. That’s how I play, and sometimes it makes me feel like I did 20 years ago. 🥲
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u/Just_RandomGuy98 18d ago
For me its quite the oposite. Im a new WOW player and im enjoying clasic a lot. Sure im not lvl 60 after 2 months cause i don't have a lot of free time cause ""adult stuff"" keeps me from playing but i enjoy every part of the game so far. Even the Leveling
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u/trpclshrk 18d ago
If I put the energy into playing that I did thinking about the game, thinking about playing, on WoW Reddit, and watching YouTube classic videos, I might have actually completed the game by now. Instead I have 5 level 30s
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u/a_simple_ducky 19d ago
Try sod. It's about to be lit with scarlet enclave coming out. Ashbringer legendary, Hyjal opening
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u/Ifightforpie 19d ago
I really really wanna try SoD but fuck I'm so burnt out on leveling I just log into my 25 lock and go... Nah and swap to anniversary servers
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u/a_simple_ducky 19d ago
Haha the XP boost helps. And there's always invasion boosting if u just want end-game to do. It's just hype to have all the choices for which wow u wanna play rn
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u/Ifightforpie 19d ago
What's the xp boost? Joyous journeys in SoD? Or some other thing
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u/a_simple_ducky 19d ago
It's something like that. I think +50% overall XP? And you can get your runes from a vendor at the starting zone. So you can really get moving
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u/NaturalEnemies 19d ago
150% bonus xp at the moment. Also 300% gold increase from quests. I hit level 10 in like an hour I think the other day. Leveling is a breeze. I’m getting back in for the update and haven’t played since phase 1
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u/Suspicious_War_9305 19d ago
Okay convince me, because I am honestly wanting to be convinced. I’m trying to get back into sod as a level 50 BiS sunken temple player.
I have watched videos on what all the catch ups are and on paper it’s seeming like way too much to get back into it. To get back I have to level to 60 which shouldn’t take long. But then, I’m seeing at end level there’s a shit load of currencies I have to farm for, multiple sets (like undead slaying?) that I have to work for, old raids I have to do. Maybe it’s the videos I’m watching but no one is laying it out in a digestible way. It just seems like they mentioned a million things and threw it at the wall and said “do them all”.
Talking about sanctified gear like I have no idea what that even is, apparently giving you 100% bonus damage? Then there’s all these new buffs apparently that people get from invasions that also increases damage by like 30%? It seems like it’s a cluster fuck of bonus this bonus that bonus bonus bonus and even thinking about it is making me say fuck that.
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u/Freezing_Moonman 19d ago
Leveling is fast, all specs are viable in raid, mount chase rewards for hard mode, flexible raid sizes, active pug communities, and A NEW POST NAXX RAID IS COMING. SCARLET ENCLAVE. ASHBRINGER. FOR REAL.
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u/Suspicious_War_9305 19d ago
I don’t need convincing on what’s cool about it I need convincing on the path to make it relevant again because the videos and guides I’ve watched make it seem like a mess.
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u/rudnuh 19d ago
Uhh the only currency you really have to farm initially is reals to get your t1-2 pieces to get into earlier raids.
Sanctified gear does nothing on its own. There's an item you can use in naxx that gives you bonus DMG and hp per sanctified gear piece, up to 8 pieces. Invasions primarily give you the currency to upgrade that item, but also can drop pieces from a 3pc sanctified set. You can also just get the only 2 pieces of gear you need from that set for cheap off the AH.
So basically you hit 60, do dungeons for reals (they drop off bosses, which also conveniently drop the currency from invasions to upgrade the naxx item) until you have enough gear to do raids, then just kind of follow normal raid progression until you're interested in naxx, in which case you need to figure out where to get sanct gear from. 4 of 8 are covered from the 2 piece invasion set, and some drops from karazhan crypts.
Also a lot of guilds are blasting naxx and you can likely get in some pugs with less than 8 pieces anyways if you put some effort in.
The first week at 60 is basically just farming reals and trying to to get into mc/bwl/aq anyways, so you don't need to pay much attention to the other stuff.
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u/wigglin_harry 19d ago edited 19d ago
As far as catch up gear goes, endgame dungeons and raids drop "Reals" these are basically tokens you can turn in for a tier 1 or 2 piece or other similar gear (the vendor is in booty bay)
They are pretty easy to come by, MC drops 30 reals total, scholo and strat drop 12 each, etc. The pieces are pretty cheap too, like 35 reals per
The only caveat is that you need to be attuned to the specific raid to be able to buy the gear (MC for T1, BWL for T2 etc.)
From there you move onto AQ/Kara
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u/a_simple_ducky 19d ago
Well I'm not gonna convince you to play anything lol but it's not complicated.
The current raid tier is naxx, and in naxx there's hard modes. To scale with the hard modes you want sanctified gear. Sanc gear works with the seal you're given upon entering naxx. You can get sanc gear from doing the invasions, karazhan crypts, and naxx itself.
If you want or need previous raid tier sets, you can go do those raids or buy some of the tokens with Reals. Reals are a dungeon currency that drop in some old raids as well.
It's not too bad, but it's content. Friend of mine got lucky in karazhan and was full pre bis in 2 days after hitting 60
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u/No_Cartographer7815 19d ago
To me sod just feels like retail. I have little experience of both though, tbh. Tried leveling a bit in sod and with all the runes etc. it just takes the fun out of every class for me personally.
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u/a_simple_ducky 19d ago
Meh, I played retail, and retail is vastly different. I get what you mean, it's not classic. But it's not 2005 either. Sod feels like classic in 2025, there's some pace, QOL hasn't killed it, trinkets have reasonable CDs instead of 20-30 min, warriors aren't gods, more viable specs and classes.
I get what u mean though, I really do. It's not normal classic, and it's not supposed to be. but I hit that retail train hard when TWW launched. 3000M+ rating, SOD doesn't touch retail when it comes to how it really plays. Retail is break neck speed, complex rotations, very meta focused. I don't get that feel in SoD at all.
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u/ConfidenceKBM 19d ago
It really is the most comforting thing in the universe to think about. Sometimes the moments hit just right and the gameplay can live up to that feeling, like your first full scarlet monastery run on a fresh server, but most of the time...
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u/The-Tai-pan 19d ago
I wish I could still justify paying for retail to play classic. Every time I logged in I was transported back to 2004.
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u/Diabetesh 19d ago
What made vanilla wow cool was not knowing anything, having to thotbot quests, needing to research your class/spec, experiencing this large world for the first couple times.
Speedrunning and optimizing it now with complete knowledge of every experience is a bit lack luster.
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19d ago
left side: playing classic wow right side: thinking about TBC classic
W A I T I N G R O O M HYPE
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u/Commercial_Rule_7823 19d ago
I have trouble playing and overcoming the guilt of wasting time :( great game such a time sink but so fun.
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u/gubigubi 19d ago
Absolutely could not be me.
I hit honor cap on 1 character so I started leveling an alt in the downtime I now have.
If I didn't have to work I'd probably put 100 hours a week into AV and have a second account on another screen to level.
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u/Locke_Zeal 19d ago
This may be one of the reasons I played hardcore. The last time I died, I was just like nope, done. Makes it easier to leave.
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u/Francoporto 19d ago
Doing 10 raids on Classic without getting any loot vs raiding on Cata and getting 1 loot per raid at least
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u/queeblosan 19d ago
What ended me starting back were items not dropping from enemies and enemies not spawning. I get that’s how it was but it’s hard to grind mob after mob for them to not drop the non rare quest items
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u/Swimming_Support_433 19d ago
I’ve been so tempted to start classic WoW. I haven’t played since Cataclysm and I’m afraid it won’t be the same now as it was then.
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u/Pirth420 19d ago
I was set free died on my 52 warrior to a DC . Lost 200 hours . Thanks blizzard never unsubbed so fast in my life
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u/ConsiderationLeft437 19d ago
I just wish i could get stuff done in the little time i have during the week
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u/Briants_Hat 19d ago
I'm the guy on the right for both statements. But I'm still pretty new to the game so it's only a matter of time.
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u/sonicrules11 19d ago
I love Classic but as someone who likes Retail this is how I feel. I really wish there was incentives for playing Classic because I feel like I'm wasting my time after an hour or two 😭
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u/Forced-Anal 19d ago
Im playing with a couple of friends, and we are all tauren shaman. It's pretty fun. We just steam roll through quests, and we haven't died once. Lots of fun is being had, savory deviate delight dance parties, rescuing random people from mobs that are about to kill them, etc.
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u/ScreamHawk 19d ago
PVP was the fucking GOAT in SoD, annoys me that we can't go back to people grinding rep/honour when a new phase opened up.
Ah well, it was better to have loved and lost than to never have loved before.
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u/alan-is-away 19d ago
me but instead of classic wow is retail wow, I like to think about playing it but when I do I regret it
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u/Dependent_Link6446 19d ago
They dropped WoW classic at such a perfect time (pandemic, people working from home, basically all free time was at-home activities) that it managed to capture that early-adolescence feel that WoW had back in the day. I hate to say it, but we need another pandemic to capture that feeling again lol
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u/IngenuityThink3000 18d ago
This is SO incredibly true. The hype and anticipation of a fresh launch is unlike anything else. Theorycracfting, planning builds and races etc... seeing the starting zones flooded!
And then I burn out very quickly bc I'm an ultra casual (yeah yeah 3 wives 8 kids 4 full time jobs and 22min/week to play). I made it all the way through SoD phase 1 and raid logged for the first time in my life! I tried anniversary... Quit around level 20 :(
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u/Rejuve 18d ago
Play SOD, its classic with qol
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u/Nephraell 18d ago
I have tried to get back to SOD but the leveling zones were empty and no One were doing dungeons. Is still like that?
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u/Nephraell 18d ago
The only thing that keep keeping me from playing Classic Is knowing that i can't play Balance or Elemental
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u/NonFussUltra 18d ago
My dream mode is just classic class mechanics ported into the solo play story mode of retail.
Over the last 2 years on SoD and anniversary realms I can't help conclude that the class mechanics and leveling in Vanilla are what really shine but the endgame is all the horrible grind and token mechanics that bore me.
Endgame on retail is way better for a player like myself but the class play based on big smack, medium smack, little smack, whcak-a-mole feels monotonous and hollow.
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u/DistortedShadow 18d ago
I made the difficult decision to hand off my stuff and leave. The immediate relief once the trigger got pulled on that was memorable. There's other, healthier stuff out there. Don't let the game keep you in a toxic spiral. I promise you it'll be fine. If you have other people who count on you to play its harder, but you gotta do things for you first.
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u/santropez1972 18d ago
Its rough. I was out of wow for 20 years. Started back up with classic anni. Decided to give retail a try 2 months ago and now have a hard time going back to classic. It’s just so slow feeling now and all that time investment, knowing eventually there will be a dead end is a hard pill to swallow.
In retail things move faster (for good and for worse) and you can get meaningful skills and options with talents sooner rather than later. There are also just so many more things to do, I completely leveled from like 10 to 70 on a character just doing pet battles. Lots of variety of you get bored.
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u/Xfishbobx 18d ago
Yup, I picked up class wow and leveled a pally until level 20ish, got my nostalgia fix and moved on. It’s nice to think about the glory days.
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u/Adorable_Ant_3187 18d ago
Kind of beginning to wear me out playing (and paying 15$/month) for a game that functionally does not get dev time. It's just sad how little blizzard pays attention to classic compared to SoD or retail. Black lotus costs 300g. 1000g costs 15$ made from bots that just go unchecked. It's just utterly pay to win at this point.
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u/Motleyfyre 18d ago
Played from mid vanilla till late cata growing up. It’s now the perfect game to hop on and chill while aimlessly chatting with the boys in discord.
100% comfort food when I want to remember the days of minimal responsibilities, wish I could get the old group back together to run stuff but the questing experience has been hitting the spot.
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u/DrHizzle 18d ago
Playing classic wow can be on the right if you just dont interact with anyone else that plays classic wow.
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u/Blascomusic 17d ago
Playing Classic wow is actually sad because the community Made it that way. Unable to find a raid or dung groups because « I’m not full aq40 to rush strat and your class sucks, it’s not meta. » bro I’m just here to relax after work not playing MDI. Those who would say it’s only a bunch of players. It’s not it happens to me 70-100 times a week :)
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u/ssmit102 19d ago
Classic wow for me is like comfort food. It’s just chill and relaxing and no other version scratches the itch the same way.