World of Warcraft: Classic

Fair few TiG players are rolling Horde on Pyrewood Village. Or being from the north I've called it Palletwood Village.

Reserved my names for this but not really sure how much effort or attention I'll give it. Classic was breathtaking and mindblowing at the time, but I find it dreadful in comparison to retail. And that's saying something, BFA has WoW at it's lowest ebb.

Classic was a great RPG game, but not what I've been doing or seeing wow as for so long now.

Going to play as plenty of my guild and friends are, but have a feeling once it hits the infamous 40 bracket people I play with will start dieing off, and imagine I will too

Will not be able to play till the weekend, but how are people finding it?

I decided to give it a try with a friend, the leveling process is rough, even if you managed to find a mob that hasnt been killed by the dozens of people farming them also around you, you have to deal with terrible drop rates on the quest items, partying with a friend makes it even worse.

I wonder what they were doing all these years getting "Wow classic" ready, surely in the state it was in they just had to release the game in the final state it was in before TBC expansion, which they should have in their archives. I honestly thought it was taking this long because they were actually doing stuff

Outside of that i was enjoying the game more when i hit lvl 10 and was looking over the old talent trees, a lot of OP abilities in them i had forgotten about

Sonics2k wrote: »

A key difference between Classic/TBC is that you had to be aware while questing, plan your route and be aware of respawns, this isnt something to consider in retail. I made a fresh Monk on retail and was pulling 6+ mobs at once and bored. In Classic, especially as a Warrior I need to carefully pull mobs or run away.

Blizzard spoke about the process quite a lot, essentially the core right problem was while they had the original source code part of the problem was getting it to work on a modern infrastructure and server system. I don't know what 'stuff' you expect them to do, they're committed to making Classic a 'true experience' as close to the original as possible. They have loads of IAMAs done which talk about the challenges.

Oh ive no problem with the one mob at a time, thats the way i prefer it also, more challenging, but the quest items for the lvling process is far too rough, and im sure easily tweaked. Keep it rare for the end game quests and crafting materials. I'm just saying the harsh drop rates on the starting level quests so far paired with the massive population is making progressing far too slow.

For example me and a friend were farming tigers yesterday, we needed 4 pelts each, we gave up for the night after about an hour as he had 3 pelts and i had 1.. It was woeful.. They may be have been going for the "true classic" experience but thats no longer possible with the amount of people that play the game now vs back then (at vanilla launch/early days anyway)..

Maybe im alone in this? but i cant see myself continuing for much longer if its this kinda slog all the way up until 60, and i remember back in the day 50-60 was an absolute mare for the xp gains :pac:

nix wrote: »

I leveled to 60 in vanilla, two toons actually before TBC hit (didnt get to raid much), i do remember abandoning quests at certain points, but i wasnt doing that in the early levels, not in Tirisfil glades or Durotar anyway..

I'm sure if i wasnt scrounging for mobs it wouldnt feel as bad, i actually got a load of quests done there, but as soon as 18:00 hits its gonna be chockablock until 1am And then the weekend :eek:

I'm not saying this isnt how classic was, but with the amount of players now and the amount of players trying to level, maybe it'd be a better experience to increase drop rates on quests, at least for the first few zones until the questing can spread out more..

They added layers as a way to hold all the players and ensure people could still quest normally, without being over crowded.

Ironically, people complained about the layers because they didn't believe it would be needed.

Been playing on Nethergarde Keep most of the night, really enjoying it and it is bringing back some fond memories, so many people milling about but I am not having any issues leveling or with quests, just hit level 10 after a few hours and enjoying the chat going on.

Deleted User wrote: »

No, I pointed out that the WoW devs have been clear and consistent on what WoW Classic is, but you somehow missed all that and think WoW Classic should be 'Vanilla revisited and made to be more like later expansions'.


Thanks for telling all 7 or 8 million people who played Vanilla what they enjoyed it for btw, speaking about 'talking down' to people. Just a note: the majority of players in vanilla never even got to experience MC, nevermind more advanced 'endgame content'. There were always far more social guilds than raiding guilds.



Is this the Unregistered Hypercam one that's on Firemaw now? That's the one I was thinking of when I messaged you! :P It's great if there's two.

Right me saying drop rates should be less cruel is me saying the entire game should be revamped to my liking :rolleyes:

And yeah i missed the meeting where the dev said the drop rates for quests will remain terrible, i prob didnt get the invite because im not a "everything is awesome" fanboy :pac:

And eh, Thanks for telling all 7 or 8 million people who played Vanilla what they enjoyed it for btw :rolleyes:

And eh, Molten core is end game content

End game = everything you can do at max level.

Or did you miss the meeting where the computer game devs said that? :pac:

Deleted User wrote: »

I see your comprehension skills are absolutely dire.

WoW devs have repeatedly been clear on what Classic is and isn't. Beyond allowing people to use the more modern graphics engine, it isn't aiming to be anything beyond a faithful recreation of the vanilla experience (though with end of vanilla talents). This has been said many times, publicly, and at great length. That isn't 'my feelings' or 'my interpretation', that's the developers stated aims and intentions.

If you don't like the devs' vision & the finished game, stop posting stupid nonsense and go play something else. No-one is forcing you to embarrass yourself on a public forum.

I'm giving an opinion on a public forum, in hopes to start a discussion, pretty much what a forum is for, which you're having trouble grasping/accepting and being a total ass about i may add, tell me, who should be embarrassed?