A fair warning on Classic WoW

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You are going to want to start you own guild early and recruit hard.
You are going to need to socialise early and often.
You are going to need to participate in non game events that reward nothing towards your progression
You are going to need to lay down the law and put your rules in place and stick with them.

Your main tank must be someone who is willing to be there for all raid nights, nightS, multiple of them, for the one raid and it may even have to be YOU.

You healers are going to need to be good friends, you top DPS will be your drinking buddy and the core team officers with as much power as the leader.

And you are going to learn to kick people out of the guild without a second thought.

Above all you must gear your core group or face the real prospect of never finishing a raid.

And for those who don’t want to put in that much effort, get ready to never see a purple in the entire time of playing classic. Accept the fact that a blue item is an upgrade and worth the effort to farm for. Choose wisely between the option of using or selling the BoE purple at any level.

Choose your class and spec wisely and be prepared to take months to level as a healer just to score a place in a guild raid spot, allow for this so you can gear in purples which can be used in off nights as DPS and remember that purple you luckily got early and decided to use? That was your ticket to the cost of switching specs for off nights.

For those of us who were there when it was live, unless they up the drop rate by ten fold, unless they change the cost to respec, unless they make some of the non vanilla options available early, it is an entirely different ball game that needs to be played accordingly.

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and thats part of what makes it so much better than what we have now.

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Okay? Why don’t you post this in the classic forum?

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You will one-shot Molten Core in greens and blues, unless your raid is full of people who’ve never been in there before (which could certainly happen).

BWL will be a bit more challenging, especially Nefarian.

ZG is when the fun will start.

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OP speaks the truth, I remember classic I love the nostalgia of it and bonds of friendships I made.

Wouldn’t go back to it though.

I do miss barrens and crossroad Chat haha

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Can’t wait to make a hunter

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As a huge classic fan, this belongs in the classic forum. Most of the classic things posted here at least have SOME relevancy to retail, but this certainly doesn’t.

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It I had to guess I’d say OP didn’t even play classic when it was live.
Let people enjoy the game however they want. No one has to do all those things.

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No worries, just guild jump for fame and fortune. Never remain loyal to a guild. Never provide your battle tag.

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Lol I was one of the lucky few who got to see all raid bosses when they were live and never had to backtrack to previous expacs to finish anything.

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I wont want to do any of those things because I wont be touching classic.

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I hope they will introduce personal loot in vanilla.

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Grats OP

You just spelled out why Classic is archaic and outdated.

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Classic was about community, not content.

Your reputation matters.
Your guild reputation matters.
The world is different.
Tradeskills are different.
PvP gear means something.
Choice(s) have consequences.

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Your warning would be better served here, in the forum it belongs:

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/c/community/classic-discussion

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A few more things to remember:

-There are classic forums
-Be prepared for a bunch of tedious trivial things
-Research the class you want to play. Classic class balance is even worse than Live.

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Did you wake up and think you’re supposed to take up the mantle of WoW coach today?

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No, you don’t need any of these things. Never seeing a purple doesn’t mean not having fun, far from that.

The thing about vanilla WoW is that it was perfectly balanced around your dedication to the game. Both casual and hardcore gamers felt it rewarding, unlike current WoW which feels like a welfare program.

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Everything will be fine and dandy once they cave and add LFG. :zipper_mouth_face:

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You mean, main tankS (with an s) since 40 man raiding isn’t like today’s raiding where you only need 2 tanks. Especially when you get to Naxx 40 and the 4 horseman. You need 8 tanks.

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