It depends on what you’re expecting to get out of it.
Classic much like EQ 1999 was a community-driven game. Meaning that much of its charm and value was derived from the social value people got from it. The game wasn’t “hit max level / get max ilvl / repeat” process.
If you just want a space where choices are meaningful and the community matters again then Classic is the space to be. I mean nobody signing up for Classic cares that it takes 3 months to get max level. They’re not doing it for that reason specifically. Most probably already know what they’re going to play and have already mapped out their approach based on years prior.
Yes, that’s true, but on the other hand there are plenty of people who seem to have forgotten vanilla’s good parts and can only remember its bad parts. Bias cuts both ways.
It’ll be a fun side venture. In vanilla, my cousin and I leveled up as a duo, him a paladin and me a warlock. Weird combo, but we bubbled and feared our way through zones way out of our level, died a lot, had some wild shenanigans, and otherwise enjoyed the heck out of the experience.
IDK, I don’t have huge expectations, I’m realistic about my nostalgic indulgences. I’m just looking forward to spending some downtime on it when I’m tired of running mythics/doing all my daily BfA chores. /shrug
Classic better have our entire raid fall through the ground when zoning into BWL and being stuck there for an entire day otherwise it just wont feel authentic.
One time my guild was fighting Shazz and he just straight up walked away. We watched him leave the room and recede into the distance, never knowing where he went or why. We were all stuck in combat and he didn’t come back for like 5 minutes. We were discussing what to do when he just reappeared in the middle of the room and killed everyone.
I’m not saying you aren’t going to enjoy it so your tool bag attitude can find itself out. I’m saying alot of people posting and commenting about it didn’t survive it. They came in wotlk or later and it was a different world then. Wait till people come complaining that they can’t raid as shadow at 60… Or can’t be any tank other than warrior. It’s going to be fun but alot of people aren’t ready.
I didn’t run into any raid bugs quite that good, but there were a couple times where my guild raided ZG and some interaction between the mobs around the spider boss, the hoodoo piles, and ice trap caused one of the raid members to have the ice trap visual stuck on him for the rest of the night. It was funny to see this person encased in ice moving around and and shooting stuff.
There’s more than end game in Vanilla.
There’s zero balance in retail and the story’s so putrid that I honestly have zero lore connection to anybody at this point. Every NPC could use the exact same model. If the raiding wasn’t fun, I wouldn’t be playing at all.
Yeah, there’s tedium, but this goes back to the first RPG I played in Final Fantasy 1 (and have replayed a million times over) to farm enough Gil to buy the silver sword for both of my warriors.
There’s a feeling of reward. Now I really only look at i-level and the abominable Azerite traits. And this goes all the way down to lower levels.
Let’s get one thing straight here. I do not have a “tool bag attitude” - the ones who do are the ones sitting in here implying no one is going to enjoy something just because they don’t like it or are afraid of it or whatever reason they don’t like Classic. I’m just pointing out that people can and will enjoy it.
Now that we’ve got that out of the way…
I know people here will rejoice when that one inevitable “Classic wasn’t what I expected” post comes but for that one poster there will be tons of people that have fun with it.
I don’t get the whole “survival” mentality either. It’s a game, if you don’t want to play it, don’t play it - but don’t try to get in the way of others enjoying it. There’s no masochistic aspect or survival to it - you either have fun or don’t.
Haha, I remember lots of visual glitches like that. One time my friend logged in and instead of his regular undead face he had an orc face stretched across his features and it looked all distorted and terrifying. I also remember a bug during BC that gave every draenei a moustache, even the females.
