Classic needs its own guild recruitment forum

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Non subs can’t use the existing one, and even if they could, it would be confusing to combine them. The number of guild recruitment posts is only going to increase as the months pass, and so will interest in the forums. Imagine 50 guilds recruiting in this forum, each feeling obligated to constantly bump their posts.

I can only assume that when classic goes live it’ll get its own forum section anyway, since it is in a very real sense an entirely different game. (Honestly, at this point it feels like combining classic and retail makes about as much sense as combining retail and warcraft 3)

On a semi-related note… looking for pve server hardcore progression guild! Extensive vanilla experience!

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I agree, but I think it’s still a little early yet. Even the guild recruitment discord is a little slow at this point.

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we’re still 11 months out from classic. cool it

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11 months would imply late november/early december. seeing as they said summer 2019 i’d say were closer to 5-8 months.

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whats this classic guild recruitment discord?

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“Classic WoW Guilds”

Edit: there’s no invite link :frowning:

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I do not understand the comments of “too early”. If it exists people will use it.

The likely reason it doesnt exist, along with vanilla class forums, is that the new horrible “forum” software either cannot support it or blizzard cannot figure out how to do it. This mess of a forum isnt much good for anything but a catchall.

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Just an opinion, man. I went by the activity on the discord. Obviously that isn’t the end-all and be-all because not everyone even knows about the discord. I think Blizzard will eventually give Classic its own section with a guild recruitment forum. I don’t know about dedicated class forums though. Maybe one just for Paladins (joking, joking)

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If there are class forums for modern, there should be class forums for classic. Moreso, given the number of people who never played the old system prior to the garbage spec system in place now.

I think a not small number of modern players do not realize what a vastly different game classic/vanilla is from bfa.

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Once game goes live it definitely does, for now no it doesnt

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Having recently played on private server, playing actual vanilla and BC at the time, and just returning to the game after 10 years away (so didnt exp the gradual changes) the game is not massively different. Specs work differently but largely feel the same (except hybrids, the pulled a lot of the hybrid out of them :frowning: ), getting ready for content is less grindy, and until you get past normal difficulty content is easier but the game itself still “feels” the same.

A lot of what is different now is not the game itself but the community is completely different, vanilla had lots of communication and social aspects outside of guild chat that are largely lost now

Hopefully classic can recapture the community

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I wouldn’t expect it until they release the server name lists.

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I would not expect server name lists until they can answer the simplest question:
Will there be PVE, PVP, RP, RPPVP server types?

Being unwilling to answer the simplest of questions like that is why my ire for blizzard is on a slow boil.

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I agree with the OP, we need a recruitment forum. We already have enough recruitment threads in here now, and it’s just going to increase as the days go by. I try not to move my recruitment thread for the Malicious Moogles up to the top to much, but I can see at some point this will be an issue.

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Perhaps a temporary fix until they get a separate recruitment forum is a sticky post where you can post recruitment discussions in the comments, maybe links to stand-alone threads with this kind of thing.

Not sure – they also need to re-think this whole rise-to-the-top form of attention seeking that causes people to bump threads to get noticed. There’s got to be a better way… Not that I can think of it off the top of my head. Much smarter people than me when it comes to this sort of thing so I’ll let them suggest an approach.

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Thing is you cannot bump your own thread unless someone else replies to it first.

The original wow forums were not broken. They should never have sliced it up and sewed it together into this abomination.

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I thought there was a way around this, using a different toon to bump than the one who wrote the thread. Or did they close that loophole?

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Oh I’m sure you can exploit it like that. But bumping for the sake of bumping is going to piss off more people than attract to a guild. This scrolling catchall of hell is akin to people that put every application shortcut and document on their desktops rather than in orderly folders.

Shortsighted, hipster crap is what we’ve got.
This is more akin to reddit, discord and twitter than a proper forum.

Give me a phpbb with sparing graphics and sensible forum sections.

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LOL I love the crotchety old-man “get off my lawn” version of desktop management you got going there. I’m in agreement with you, of course, just find it humorous how you phrased it. :wink:

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I mean there is a reason file systems exist on computers and proper filing systems on forums. Blizzard seem to think they are more clever than Woz and Jobs.