I still see more people leveling in Classic than Retail. With everything timegated on live I have plenty of fun over there.
Paladins were mini bosses in Wrath, AOE tanks in BC.
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No idea why anyone would really want to revisit TBC. The zones are super boring, world PvP dissapears with flying, PvP in general is massively unbalanced especially arena, it’s the start of Dailies, and if they use the last patch as the starting basis then it will trivialize everything. I played both vanilla and tbc and while it was fun to revisit classic I have zero desire to visit TBC classic, the fact that they also botched Classic so badly doesn’t help that I will admit.
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I once read that when you enter a dance hall, you will see everyone having a good time.
But if you turn off the music and turn on the lights, you see all the warts.
Dirty floors, ugly decor and a bunch of people out of shape, sporting lousy makeup and poorly dressed.
Vanilla/tbc/wrath was the community that filled that dance hall before someone turned on the lights.
That community is long gone, and without them, the lights are turned on and you can see all the warts of Classic and TBC game itself
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That was the most convoluted analogy I’ve read, but I get the general idea. I feel like this is applicable to retail as well.
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While i think TBC will be fun, it will die much faster than Classic did/will
Maybe nostalgia will let me down, though for me, TBC was the best version of WoW, but I know that regular WoW sucks right now, so it’s worth a shot.
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Put in Tmogs and you have a deal.
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I’ll give it a try. Draenei enhance sham.
I remember playing for 8 hours and hitting level 61. Or maybe I hit 62? Can’t remember if it took 1 or 2 “days” of playing to reach Zangarmarsh.
Can you imagine that today? Taking two full work weeks to hit max level? There would be people whining on the forums within 3 hours.
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I couldn’t care less for BC. If that’s your saving grace for this game. It’s literally backwards logic lol.
I mean…classic had the same or more subs than BfA when it first launched so… they said classics released doubled the number of subscribers
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Oh you’re in for a rude awakening.
They will have to learn to slow the F down and CC mobs in dungeons.
None of this AoE spam. None of this AoE ignores CC.
Best WoW time was end of TBC and start of WOTLK.
How is that “backwards”? I used to like WoW. I no longer like WoW. Perhaps playing the version I used to like will be fun.
That seems pretty logical to me.
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Unless you have a competent pally tank…
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not really.
We all have a perception and if that perception is shared, no one is any wiser.
Ergo everyone having fun in a dance hall where the lights are low and the music is playing.
Like that dance hall, the community by and large shared a perception of how much fun it was because no one ever turned on the lights and dissected the game itself. The community was the face of the game as is the crowd in a dance hall.
But with all the expansions and the erosion of the social aspect of the game, the game itself comes under greater scrutiny.
So anyone thinking we will simply re-open the doors to TBC and expect the same feeling will only come to realize that without that same community, all the warts of TBC will come forward, because there is nothing remaining but the game itself.
Much like without music and the lights on, you will see a pretty shoddy dance hall.
Then stop playing now and wait for then to come back when they release legacy.
I have stopped playing. I can still be here though. Especially in a thread that interests me.
To me, retail has been the shoddy dance hall and Classic is like taking a time machine back to when the dance hall was in its prime but over time, people get tired of being stuck in the same time loop and that’s okay.
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