Hey everyone! I came up with a “Survival Guide” for Classic WoW.
This is intended to teach new-comers about the game, if they weren’t around for Vanilla WoW, or to refresh the memories of the veteran players.
It isn’t an ultimate list, just a bunch of tips that could come in handy.
Enjoy! 
*I haven’t posted in the forums for quite a while, so I hope it is okay that I posted this in General as well as in “Classic General”
The forum dwellers won’t touch classic with a ten foot pole
It is challenging gasp
And requires social interaction gasp!
These too things do not mesh well with most of the retailers
It actually wasn’t challenging, nor did it require social interaction. There was just really nothing to get/do, after a point, if you were not in a raiding guild. That was kind of a game flaw, since everyone could not really be in a raiding guild or had the time.
“Classic” will actually exist at a later time than the Vanilla game I remember. I actually thought about trying it, on a BM NE Hunter again, easily soloing to 60 just for the heck of it. Then I could do battlegrounds, for that gear set, never really interacting with other players much at all. By the time that was in the game, back then, I was already pretty jaded with it (over the “raiding only” thing.)
I don’t think I’ll “waste” the time to do that, though. I know I’d not have the time for a raiding guild and there is nothing else in the game.
I remember stagnating on my two “mains”, being out of the raiding game due to my work/life schedule, never going to log into Wow again until I got an invite do the BC beta. Then I kind of lived in that, on my Hunter, nearly up until the BC release. I only logged back into “Vanilla” to get my character in order, knowing what I knew about BC, then took a brief “Wow Break”, until BC released (it was a pretty long beta, so I remember that as a fun time.)
Edit: missed the last sentence. Nevermind.
You and I remember the old days quite differently. I found it plenty challenging, if not necessarily difficult. At least at the time, leveling was a journey in itself not just something you had to get out of the way. I don’t think Classic will have that same ‘magic’, but I do think that the people who have jaded attitudes because of the current community issues will be much happier there.
Umm… what? I have no clue why you would say such things but to each their own. I played for a couple of hours this past stress test and will most likely give some time to classic, for old times sake. I think a lot of peeps here are going to give it a go. Now, will they keep playing? Whole other question. Also, Vanilla was not anymore or less “challenging” than current wow. But that is just my experience. Vanilla was infinitely more grindy though. If that is what you meant. GL & HF!
Yeah, we were in that “raiding guild” and even got to at least level 45 in the Wow beta. So it was kind of a strategic leveling to 60, ASAP. That was really when the game “began” (well, and ironically kind of ended if you could NOT raid 
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In playing the stress test, on my recreated BM Vanilla era Hunter, the only challenging parts were the absence or things that were really needed.
Gray mobs, even if people from your own faction were killing them.
Hunter dead zone, shooting something maybe once or twice then having to melee it as a hunter! Of course, once you get the pet you’d not notice that as much.
There is going to be a lot of disappointment, about “Classic.” It won’t be what a lot of people think it was. Blizzard is making it EXACTLY like it was, back then, as much as possible. When it doesn’t live up to what people think it was, they’ll blame Blizzard (or possibly the community, doing something "wrong.) They won’t blame the fact that it was flawed in the first place.
My own classic strategy would only be:
Do not spend JACK ALL; Save all that gold/silver and pennies.
DO NOT buy the 100 gold mount, it is 1/10 of the cost of the Epic 1 K mount! This is HUGE. You will regret it, barely getting around better anyway. It would not be difficult, to hoof it to the areas where you’ll be soloing mobs for that Epic mount money.
Get mine AND herb! You could not track them both at the same time, back then. So set up macro buttons, one for track mine and one for herb. Alternate them as you run along, in certain good areas. Sell ALL that on the AH, again you are trying to get that Epic mount gold.
At least we know where Mankriks Wife is now.
My god that was a pain in the days of no coords and Thottbot giving directions like an overly excited 5 year old.
No it isn’t.
I looked at the “advanced elemental dps guide for Classic” that was just put out.
“Cast nothing but lightning bolt, down to rank 4 if its a long fight. Only use earthshock if it will die before your night lightning bolt”.
SO CHALLENGING
It is prefered you not. There is some cross posting, but it’s poor form. No bigs, but try not to make it a habit.
*After 6 months of Classic
I logged into BFA today and had a awsome time, raiding Eternal Palace got some awsome loot…I don’t know guys maybe its rose tinted goggles after all, sure does beat sitting in Ogrimmar looking for a tank for Dire Maul for Hours.
I have no issue with people enjoying classic, and I sincerely hope the people looking forward to it do.
But all the chest puffing about how challenging it is, is just silly.
Classic isn’t any harder or easier than retail, it’s just different.
You either didn’t play classic or you never did anything except quest. lol
I played vanilla, on this toon. You didn’t have to interact with anyone if you didn’t want to. You could quest up to 60 and be done. If you wanted to run dungeons, or raids you obviously had to, but I think the poster you were referencing talked about that in her post.
Anything beyond questing required social interaction, as it should be in an mmorpg.
Ummmm yeah. I said that.
I never said complicated I said challenging
Mobs can solo you if you are a mage lock warr or any class that doesn’t heal
That’s hard
You have to plan your moves
Maybe learn some basic definitions of words before you write a novel over nothing
And Classic was not challenging.
The most challenging thing about Classic was how ignorant people were of playing MMOs.
I played classic in 2017 and it was hard
But ya just keep repeating yourself and making broad claims for everyone
I’m sure you are the worlds speaker