For white and grey items, they’re safely vendortrash above level 15 or so. Past that, you’re going to be keeping every single green and blue you have equipped until you find a better one; the base stats are absent on all grey and white pieces, like they are on live.
That being said, I love finding ‘high level’ grey items. They can sell for upwards of 50s in the level 30 range, and for at least a few gold between 50-60. Really helps with getting your mount.
Epic gear is the norm to have now. It’s not epic anymore. Back in Vanilla, you could be 60 for months and still be wearing mostly blues and MAYBE one or two epic pieces.
Absolutely this. Exploring higher level zones and trying to solo elites was some of the most fun I had.
Eating buff food and downing an elixir while leveling. Cause min/max.
Trying to fight elite orcs in Redridge Mountains at level 17 in Classic is harder than any open world content in Retail WoW.
Now if blizzard and crew could just figure out a way to have a midnight physical release, so i could stand in a line of hundreds of other like minded people and talk old hillsbrad war stories.
Nothing will ever compare to the entire attunement process to jump from T4 to T5 in TBC. It was a journey that took great effort and time.
On a side note, I will be getting my Ring of Ascension again this time around. The most prized item on my hunter by a mile.
This is true. Purple has RESPECT and Legendary , wow, well, legendary !
Pally’s where actually really good in vanilla they can heal they wore plate. Pick what you want.
" LITTLE THINGS THAT MADE CLASSIC BETTER"
None of the expansions existed yet.
Stay blind all you like, Classic supporters, but it will grow stale, it will grow old (again), and it will fail.
I was reading through my original game manual yesterday . The descriptions of characters and game elements are amazingly fun to read. Whole thing has a tabletop RPG vibe.
Name checks out.
Zones lasted long enough to feel like you went on a journey inside them.
Arathi highlands, for example…getting through all the elite quests felt fantastic, and getting a group together to tackle them was its own fun (although a pain at times due to low populations, but that was rare for me.)
There’s no feeling of accomplishment anymore.
What made Classic better was the fact that everything was new, everything was a mistery, and you had to discover everything yourself… A feeling that sadly won’t happen again, as we already know everything about Vanilla. You can’t replicate that experience no matter what.
Not trying to rest merit to the Classic servers. The game had lots of unique features that have been disapearing from the game slowly, that made it fun and challenging… But for me, what made it so good, is the fact that i was discovering the road myself… it was an adventure…
Today… Classic won’t be that diferent from leveling my 100th alt…
I remember the Rogue stealth sound shortly after the boat had left the docks followed by getting stabbed to death.
I wish the rest of the Staff at Blizzard felt more like you do on that.
Would also be nice if they just took the whole modern game back too its roots and ditched all the Quality of Life nonsense and Convenience junk.
Ya know, just make it all into more content for Vanilla gaming.
Which is why it’s probably going to be a lot more robust than some would think. Viable regular 40 man raiding probably will die out a year or so after Naxx is out(raids will still happen, but not as often), but I think a fair number of people will still be around and playing. They just won’t be in the game specifically for the purpose of raiding.
It’s one of the more subtle and “magical” things about a Role Playing Game over using a treadmill, which is what Retail is.
Sorry, Bornakk just ate that one.
As someone who has played since vanilla…Not much, really. It was “better” only in the eyes of the nostalgic, because it was so new, and there wasn’t much out there that was like it. A lot of the systems were clunky, the raid mechanics were almost trivial (because of the way it was tuned, molten core raids were basically 40 ants trying to nibble a cow to death), and a lot of the stuff was tedious and time-consuming just for the sake of being tedious and time consuming. Alts? aint nobody got time for that, it took weeks, if not months to get a character to 60. nowadays you can 1-120 in a matter of a week tops if you try. if you don’t look back at vanilla through the lens of “Well, i enjoyed it back then, so it was good!” , the charming facade has a lot of rust on the underside. Dont get me wrong, i enjoyed vanilla too, but i dont think ill give classic more than a passing glance. A more apt title would be “The little things you enjoyed about classic”. It’s not “Better”. its not something you can really compare because you can’t re-capture the newness of it to the mmo genre.