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If you arent playing Vanilla WoW in some capacity right now, your doing yourself a disservice.
sludgebeard
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Honestly, I wont go into specifics on servers and what not, but I will say that is currently very easy to play Vanilla WoW and in flawless condition.
It's not a Nostalgia Bomb, its not "Just a themepark", its literally the MMO that became a cultural revolution in its prime and its incredible.
I grouped at level 4 you guys, LEVEL 4! To kill a spider boss mob that aggro'd on me and almost killed me in a few hits (Am Druid).
The combat for me is what I really missed, especially playing a Night Elf. Double Jumping back in forth between enemies for a quick hit and the wonders of a competent tab-target system make me wonder how so much has been lost in translation since WoW became a mega-success.
Simply put, its an experience, and if you never had it, its damn good, if you already had it, its still just damn good.
It's not a Nostalgia Bomb, its not "Just a themepark", its literally the MMO that became a cultural revolution in its prime and its incredible.
I grouped at level 4 you guys, LEVEL 4! To kill a spider boss mob that aggro'd on me and almost killed me in a few hits (Am Druid).
The combat for me is what I really missed, especially playing a Night Elf. Double Jumping back in forth between enemies for a quick hit and the wonders of a competent tab-target system make me wonder how so much has been lost in translation since WoW became a mega-success.
Simply put, its an experience, and if you never had it, its damn good, if you already had it, its still just damn good.
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Couldn't agree more. I log on every now and then and it never ceases to amaze me how active the entire world is. Because of no phasing, every zone is popular and the difficult nature of a lot of quests make it so grouping becomes second nature. It is a great game.
Want to know something cool? i thanked my friend for introducing me to WoW then bought the official game and left him behind. I'll take current WoW over classic WoW any day, but i wouldn't mind if they put instanced content in the back shelf and focused on the open world experience instead. I would resub more often if that ever happened.
Just my thoughts.
EDIT: it would be nice if BLizz slowly started introducing more sandbox-ish features to the open world.
Leveling was the same awful experience as when you played up an alt, slow, tedious and it depended on the class you were playing. I was interested to test healing in vanilla zones because I only played main tank during those years and this time I hated leveling the priest even more than I did originally, to the point where I simply stopped playing.
I did my time in vanilla wow, alliance first warrior on an original eu-server, bunch of server first kills as main tank and led a raid group during bwl and beyond. You didn't start a new character because you wanted to experience leveling again, you did it because you wanted to play something new at endgame.
At the end of vanilla you couldn't find anyone that didn't want the vanilla experience to be over and don't get me started on the molten bore, the boring core or whatever you want to call the first raid dungeon. Dear god what awful boss mechanics MC and BWL had. The potion madness of naxxramas wasn't any better.
With your first character it was an interesting experience, with alts the game started at the endgame, with the endgame being raid or die.
/rant off
What I feel is not there anymore is the exploration, the unknown, the cool item you would not have expected. You can play on one of these servers and have fun leveling to 60, make friends and re-experience something nice, but when you hit cap it's all about BiS farming and doing it in the most efficient way. It is as if there is a crowd of players who constantly move from one of these servers to the next, only to see how fast they can level up, get their bis gear fro mdungeons and clear all raid content available.
I couldn't find the feeling I had in 2004 about end game dungeons.
I am really happy these people are trying to safe me and I feel great respect and gratitude towards them.
Hunter the most easy , yet boring too used mostly autoshot because mana was all the time low some arcane shot here and there and heal the pet , mages frost and frost, stoping to drinking more than in New year
That being said, the trouble I had with the server I played on was as someone above me mentioned: at some point, you hit a wall, and your only rewarding activity is to farm BiS gear. Once you do that, there is honestly little left for you. I always kind of wondered how many of the people on that server were going to get bored and then go on to the "next" expansion-dedicated realm. It's a fun idea, and I loved me some BC, but you just can't play it forever.
I don't encourage bad behavior in real life generally. Especially if you can go to jail for it. This type of stuff used to be pretty normal though. I remember a time where people actively torrented music, movies, games, and it was acceptable to talk about it on forums. Now you will be suspended for doing so. It was a reprehensible environment, but it was also fun to watch the chaos. People should be able to unleash their inner beasts/emotions in video games. That is the only place it's safe (though not anymore apparently).
Shouldn't you have post this on a forum saying that all sandbox MMOs need PvP or something?
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I think it is a symptom of they don't have enough sheep to kill and life among the few wolves isn't that fun.
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Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
I have respect for copyright/trademark laws so I will not be, and will never, play it unless it's either given the blessing of Blizzard or done by Blizzard itself. With all of the threads around here surrounding the ethics of payment methods/microtransactions and KS/EA I don't think my position is unreasonable.