I normally use Claude for programming, and it's one of the best AIs for the job. While I typically use ChatGPT for everyday tasks, I already had Claude open, so I thought, 'Let's ask my good ol' friend Claude instead.' When I first read the sentence, I was stunned, thinking, 'What did I just read?' I just wanted to share this experience with you all. Have a good one!

With how realms have only 1 anniversary server each, and players being unable to make a horde and alliance character on the same server, that player needs to have 2 accounts subscribed.

The money you spend on a subscription ($12.99) to cap people for 50g once every 3 hours per layer can buy you around 1300-1400 gold on g2g lol.

Looking to start a new character and level it primarily in dungeons. Server I picked seems dead. What’s a good server to level a healing priest on currently?

Used to play on US now I play on an EU server for the first time.

Gotta say, compared to what I'm used to from the US servers, nobody here really talks much in say, in generals, in party chats when questing/ doing dungeons, etc.

I guess it has to do with how not everyone might know english that well on European servers? Never realized that might make a huge difference in a game like this, but I guess yeah it makes sense.

The economy on anniversary realms is the worst active economy I have ever seen. I have heard people say, and it seems to be the case, that Blizzard has made it so when you kill enough mobs in 1 area they stop dropping as many items for you for a while in order to combat botting. I just farmed a level 60 area with level 58-60 mobs in my decked out warrior for 1 hour and basically made 14g, I have flask with a healing set so my downtime is minimal too. It was common to kill 10+ mobs and only get silver, often 1-2 silver per lvl 58+ mob, literally dropping no items for 10+ mobs at a time. Back in classic i farmed the same area and was getting 60+ gold an hour consistently. Something has been done this doesnt feel right at all. And i know for a fact they have at least target nerfed some mobs, the cats in swamp of sorrows used to be a popular spot to farm gold for your mount for your last few levels before 40. now they average about 2 silver per mob because they hardly ever drop their claws or anything else. Also they were open about nerfing pickpocket in BRD, so we know for a fact they are nerfing things regualr players farm to combat botters. World drops being nerfed actually hurts regular players more than it does the bots, sophisticated bots can farm dungeons in groups of 2-3.

Keep in mind boosting is still a thing, and mages are charging 150g per person for a 5 reset lockout of Strat boost, so gold sellers are still making serious bank doing dungeon stuff, and select world drops are nerfed into the ground? Not only that but bots are into the herbs as well, I spent an hour running around in a circle in a zone and found 4 herbs. Many bots are going for herbs, you can hardly get them and they can got for up to 2g each for 1 basic herb, its crazy.

It seems the only way to make gold is doing dungeons and winning a lucky roll on boe or spawn camping certain mobs that are rare, like the winterfall chieftain, who has someone camping their spawn 24/7 for the firewater.

The gold is being spent on consumes for raids and boosts for alts, with raw gold being nerfed from regular mobs this really just encourages more gold buying and more botting.

My suggested solution would be to use some of that sub money to pay for actual moderation. The fact that blizzard makes balance changes instead of using real moderation is one of the most egregious things the company has ever done.

The funniest thing about this thread is all the replies saying how much they make grinding in dungeons when i specifically said open world drops.

I'm a level 51 dwarf warrior and no training I can find has the starter quest for this chain, A Troubled Spirit. I've checked IF and Stormwind. What the hell do I do?

I have an idea for a theme based guild and I want to gauge interest.

It is common knowledge Vanilla PvE is pretty easy strategy and gameplay wise, however it requires grinding and a gearcheck.

I never really raided Vanilla and I am annoyed by the tryharding requirements and am looking for a community driven adventerous experience.

So I had an idea.

What about a guild where DBM and watching boss tutorials is forbidden?

Instead, it is about playing the game as if it was year 2004, nobody knows anything, and we learn and progress as a guild together?

The guild would be for people who either never played Vanilla, who just want to chill and experience the lore, or for people who played Vanilla but want play the game as it was intended.

I was thinking about calling it <Virgins>, <Classic Virgins> or <Back to the Roots>.

Would there be any interest for this?

I am based in Europe so the server choice is either Thunderstrike or Spineshatter.

P.S. I am also interested in starting a Cataclysm version of the guild.

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I am trying to get into gnomer but snotty no longer exists so how does horde get into gnomer

TLDR: Many of the partners Microsoft uses for support are suddenly going to fall under the classification of "foreign entities" with new federal guidance. When that happens, the current teams who work tickets for wow, may get decimated, and will take time to find new partners/staff. I expect that to go into effect next week.

So i will be the first to say this is going to be a bit of extrapolation on my part, but hear me out. I work in IT as i am sure many people who play this game do. My company is a partner and reseller of Microsoft cloud products, and as such we carry a unified/premier support contract with Microsoft. If you have worked with Microsoft support for the last X years, you probably noticed a trend that they have been offshoring more and more of their support. One of our clients had a major outage and I have been working a Critical support case with Microsoft support for the last few days.

At the end of today, the support tech we had been working with (who worked at a partner of microsoft who provided premier support) let is slip that with some recent change in federal guidelines, microoft had notified his company that they were being forced to stop using several of their partners they had been using because under the new guidelines they would be classified as foreign entities. His bosses were telling him to expect the support workload they had to quadruple or more starting next week, and he warned us that he expected wait times and response times to crater.

Now this is for Microsoft's super expensive support for their cloud technologies. Unified support contracts run 5-6 figures minimum. I dont see any way this doesn't also impact the support partners they are using to handle blizzard requests.

Extrapolating that out, i expect the little staff we have doing support right now is about to get gutted.

I've been farming greens in WF because of the huge mobs/camps and I've been having decent luck.

But I've been wondering if there are better places? I'm looking for a relatively low lvl area to farm greens. Around lvl 20 pref.

My wife had never played wow or even much video games and when classic launched I had talked up a lot of the aspects and she was excited to try. She got really into it, there was a group of us playing daily and doing dungeons. We had a blast. But she didn't want to raid, rhe idea of 40 people all together sounded like a social anxiety nightmare. So we played and leveled, swapped to alliance and played more. I started to lose interest our 3rd time getting into the 40s, I took a break and she tried retail. Had a great time solo leveling a mage to max. Another month goes by and we decide to give more time to our toons. We get into the upper 50s and I'm drawn to other games but she's still enjoying it, so she plays her alt and leaves her mage to play with me. Another couple weeks and she is ready to max level her mage. We join join some random guild, she hits max while I'm lvl 50 and feeling meh about it.

Then she says... I want to try this raid thing the guild is talking about. So she spent the afternoon in molten core and she was more hooked than ever. I spent the week aoe grinding my mage to max. We spent the next 2 months raiding zg aq bwl mc. The gates were opening soon so we did it all.

We have raided with out team 2 days a week since the gates opened 5 years ago. I'm sad to say this is my wife's last week on wow. Cata and dragon soul has caused her to lose interest. She has promised to level in MoP and see how it goes.

But holy fuck, it's been amazing. Just the raid team alone has been 3 hours 2x a week for 5 years. That's over 1500 hours together on a shared hobby. Honestly, probably 3x that because we still played or did alt raids.

She was #4 ele in the world during black temple. We had so many first time kills where just 1 person was alive. Or she ahnked at the last second and got a killing blow before a wipe. Getting revenge kills in world pvp.

So many good times.

So, no matter the issues wow/blizzard have. They gave me thousands of hours of a shared hobby with my wife that we have loved and for that, I am incredibly grateful for classic.

Hi all, I play another MMO and it has very unreliable VOIP. Seeing as WoW is such a big MMO, I thought I might ask the question here for those of you that play in large groups/raids. How do you do your voice comms?

Our guild is starting to grow quite rapidly, and we've come upon an issue where voice comms on Discord are just a complete mess when there's a lot of people on to run raids. We can split people up into separate channels by groups but then cross-communication becomes an issue. We thought to use ingame VOIP for team leads to communicate but VOIP is unreliable at the best of times.

Has anyone found an effective way to combat this? I appreciate your responses in advance.

I just want to play some Arathi Basin on my gimpy rogue. That’s all.

I asked this question on discord and was told that off hand weapon speed didn't really matter until TBC. I play mainly daggers but would be looking to play daggers for pve and swords for pvp.

Should I take the two R14 daggers at 2 sec weapon speed and am I selecting the correct swords? Or is it preferable to have two of the same type of sword?

Thanks for your time, folks o/

Are you guys having trouble getting into raids lately? Feels like the raid leaders require a college degree and 8 years of experience..

I feel mislead. Talent description says "Gives you a 100% chance to gain an extra attack after being the victim of a critical strike." but I just confirmed that the mechanic for the ability essentially causes you to insta-auto attack, setting your weapon swing at zero.

Essentially if you are at a 1.8 sec of a 2.0 sec weapon swing and you get crit, you instantly hit with your weapon and the swing time resets at zero.

WTF?!?! That's not worth a penny in talent points. I feel mislead carrying this talent all this time. Is this something that is fixed as classic goes on? This is stupid.

"Your recent reports led to actions against one or more players and accounts" Sure it did

Just wanted to confirm, any of the 5 satchels (shoulders, cowl, etc) of the flickering has a chance to drop either the Flametalon of Alysrazor or smoldering egg of millagazor? Had no idea!