My main gripe with Classic Era

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I recently started a horde character on Classic Era (Whitemane) to get a break from wotlk and Dragonflight, and have been leveling there for the past week. Really love the vanilla leveling adventure and the slow pace of the game, along with the more old-school “RPG” feel of everything.

The one thing I’m finding rather disheartening, however, is the overall interactions with other players. Everyone I’ve encountered has been hellbent on getting ahead at the expense of other players. Players constantly trying to snipe mob tags from you, players stealing mining nodes when you finally clear you way to the node, getting toxic and cruel responses when i whisper someone asking if they’d like to group for a quest, etc.

Its so bad that its kind of sapped the enjoyment out of the leveling process for me. Back during the 2019 classic release, i remember players working together and generally friendly interactions. It made the world feel alive and like a community. But now everyone seems to vehemently hate each other and everyone is doing whatever they can to push their fellow faction mate down.

Anyone else experencing this in game? Im willing to reroll Alliance if this is a “horde” thing. I was wondering if this was a Whitemane-specific issue… but i soon realized some sort of cross-realm feature is enabled and i see this behavior across all realms.

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Can’t say I have had that experience atleast on the east coast pve cluster. Had to level fresh and I rarely had issues with folks stealing ore nodes. Started a priest just yesterday and folks are still helping each other in the low levels buffing and grouping for quests.

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You bring up a good point… im on a PvP server, so that could be the difference. I usually enjoy world pvp because of the faction comradery, but i wont if things persist like this through 60. I feel like there’s more player friendliness and positive interaction on Dragonflight and even WOTLK, which actually surprised me.

I think maybe i should consider rerolling to one of the PvE servers.

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The root of the problem is because Blizzard has taken away the cloning service without giving proper warning to those that were interested in cloning toons.

Granted at the time most weren’t, because they didn’t realize how bad wrath was nor did they have a magic eight ball to know the future of Classic’s resurgence.

While it is technically our fault because they did, (technically) put up a forum post that everybody overlooked, when they weren’t playing this iteration of the game in favor of wrath.

Taking it away without giving proper notice was the main issue here. Plain and simple.

The reason is people now have to rush to get back to where they were originally. The reason why I say rushing because they feel like all the time has been wasted already investing in the characters that are now on some hard drive in the basement of Blizzard headquarters instead of in their hands.

Well, that’s good that people have to re-level characters because it adds life to the world, you can’t help the psychology behind feeling like your time has been wasted already.

I think that people need to realize that the leveling process is the meat and potatoes of classic. Rushing to bypass that is only going to lead to quicker dissatisfaction at endgame.

One can argue a good person would technically behave like a good person, but I’m just shedding some light on some external factors that don’t necessarily justify it, but allow some minuscule form of sympathy for them if you understand where they’re coming from.

From my personal perspective, using it as an excuse to treat people like crap isn’t what I would do personally. But I see it happening the more and more retail trolls come over as tourists.

I also agree with the previous posters, because people have been nothing, but good to me as I’ve come back. But I’ve watched a few streamer videos where people are actively talking crap to one another. I think that that type of environment perpetuates itself because of the type of people that follow streamers around like lost puppies are meta chasers with no real empathy at times.

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If you’re putting time in this is guaranteed to happen to you every once in a while. If its at epidemic levels then yeah, its most likely a server thing.

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I only started noticing this more recently as the influx of new players is hitting its peak.
Every quest even into your 40s you have people fighting for mobs. I think they’re all making the problem worse because if you get treated like that early on you might think that’s the standard. So it gets worse over time.

Before this, I only experienced good interactions because there were only so many people and most importantly, you’ll be remembered if you’re rude. Natural Anonymity from a higher population isn’t good

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I have played on pvp servers all of classic. I can honestly say i hate my own faction far more than the horde. Atleast i can fight the horde over nodes and mobs.

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PvP servers are usually more competitive than PvE.

Try Mankirk.

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The most efficient way to lvl up it’s with farming and not questing. Selling stuff on AH or at Vendor all the time. World drops.
Don’t waste your time competing with other people for mobs. The Quests are anyway the same till level 60.

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Isn’t the entire point of you vanilla Andy’s to enjoy the journey and the slower pace of older wow? What’s the point of the hurry up and go attitude?

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I play on horde whitemane, and yes there are the usual chads (lol), but it’s pretty normal.

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You are spot on. It’s about the journey not the destination. But for the retail tourists they want instant gratification so they boost, RMT, and act like their time is more valuable.

I’ve experienced a large amount of generosity in a short time of being back on classic and it’s the spirit of the game that I can go out on a limb and speculate you won’t find on many other games out there.

Sorry you had run into a few bad apples so far. But stick it out. I don’t think you’ll regret it.

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I made a fresh Horde toon on Whitemane recently and casually leveled to 60, (actually just hit 60 today)and as far as I can say it’s been a really enjoyable experience and I have met some cool people in the process. I’m sorry that your experience wasn’t a good one. I suggest though just get in a good guild and go from there.

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I have levelled up to 14 on Whitemane and have had nothing but positive interactions with people. I even got free wands while levelling in Tirisfal.