As someone that cleared naxx in original classic, I don’t think anniversary is very representative of what this game is. This iteration of classic is slop and doesn’t even hold a candel to 2019 much less 2004. Increased cadance, exorbitant prices, rife with bot farm mafias, and massive layered populations, not to mention a slew of changes to prevent player discovered QoL.
But sure, lets pretend like we are having fun. Whats your favorite part, the 9 second long boss fights in MC because people can push 3k dps in blues with no debuff limit, or the endless hours of mindless AV honor farming because there is no reason to queue anything but, when you can just honor farm while fishing using remote desktop.
oh no. this must be sooo tough for you, because as we all know, you can’t possibly defeat raid bosses unless everyone in the raid has all these items
But if everyone doesn’t spend 500g on consumes in MC you can’t clear in 40mins you will have to accept a 50-60min clear like all the scrubs cmon now we all know this.
MC is free. There a lot of guilds out there operating who won’t be very soon.
So if you want to join a guild that clears content, you’re going to be using consumes. It’s not optional. If you show up to raid without them, you’re going to be benched pretty quickly.
So yea. Flasks being 300g is absurd, but people are going to buy gold and then buy those because they have to in order to keep their raid spots in guilds that will still exist after bwl and beyond.
isn’t it funny how shamiversary has doll speck and suddenly consumes are like, too expensive maaaan it’s almost like that respec gold sink we told you about was important
its beyond that now, 30 minute runs aren’t even top 100 anymore, front page is like 21 minutes or something, this is why premium raid consumables are so expensive
“using consumes” and “spending 485g a clear on consumes” is a pretty large window, there will be (as there always has been) hundreds of guilds worldwide who are going to clear all this content without spending anything close to 485g per week, naxx (the holy grail of classic wow difficulty) has been cleared time and time again without buffs and buffs are worth far more than consumes are