I learned most of my Vanilla WOW gameplay info from Preach Gaming’s trilogy of videos. But I wanna know how true and accurate are they really from you guys. He made 3 relevent ones.
Questing and Leveling:
PVP:
And Raiding and Dungeoning:
Pfffffffft
Is that 10 chars???
Preach has very strong opinions about aspects of Vanilla that I do not agree with, at least they were not my experience.
I only ran out of quests when I abandoned chains that would have lead me to some in my level range. This is important to remember about Vanilla questing.
PVP is very subjective. I had fun. Gear is a factor no matter what you are playing.
Raiding was fun as well. The difficulty rumps up tremendously about half way through AQ40.
His experiences are his own. Different people saw things differently and had access to more or less than he did.
It’s impotent to remember that he’s talking about his personal experience on his server…
Different servers had different kinds of community and as a result the experience will also vary because of that.
He’s got some opinions, but much of the actual details are accurate.
Even Blizzard said that before TBC came out, there weren’t enough quests to carry anyone through a zone. His tone is satirical, but he’s not wrong at all. Leveling was a very slow and painful grind. What a lot of people are are basing their nostalgia and love of this version of WoW around are private servers which aren’t actually historically accurate to the retail version of the game back then anyway. They’re close, but not 100% accurate. I think that a great deal of people will be in for an eye-opening, disappointing experience once they see how unlike private server code Classic will be. Was it fun at the time? Yes. Was it so much fun I want to ignore all of the hard work and improvements that Blizzard has worked their asses off fixing over the years? Not so much.
all I know is he still hasn’t made a “Legacy of the Shaman” video
meanwhile he has done a video on monks? and they have only been out 1 or 2 expansions when he made the video about them…
Vanilla leveling encouraged exploration. Great the first few times it’s done, tedious the next 8,000 times. That tends to be how people remember it.
Maybe, but from what I heard of the demo, the “classic feel” is still there, even with the modern client in the background. I don’t believe as many people are going to care as you think.
Like, seriously. It’s the one class I was waiting on. Seems like he’s had a tough time getting stuff out since Ghost left, but he’s looking to hire people now.
who is ghost
@Hanners don’t get me wrong, I don’t think WoW Classic is a bad thing. I’m just pointing out some things people may have overlooked and some of my own opinions.
Ghost = Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street.
He did do Legacy of Monk:
I never ran out of quests but I did grind out cloth at times during the leveling process to keep tailoring and first aid up to date. Some of his stuff is accurate and other is strictly his isolated experience base on his own server.
Interesting take.
I would say they’re in for a pleasant surprise. ![:grin:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/grin.png?v=6" ":grin:")
Interesting take.
I would say they’re in for a pleasant surprise .
Anything is possible, I suppose.
Ghost = Andy, Preach’s (former) content partner.
I leveled two toons, and I don’t remember ever having to grind mobs for xp once. You just move to the next area and get some more quests. If there is a silver quest giver, just make a note of it and come back later. He was doing it wrong.
Anyone who says you have to grind to level to 60 is wrong, or basing it off very, very early Vanilla before quests were added. You absolutely, positively, 100% can do 1-60 just by doing quests. I know, because I did it. I didn’t even run any dungeons. You just need to move around the world a bit. Vanilla doesn’t hold your hand the entire way through.
I specifically remember when our top BG group (which was running it like a cartel of who did and did not get to be High Warlord) was challenged by a group formed of the people they had cast off, man the forum rage was amazing.
We haven’t established if things like Thorium Point or Silithus are “content relevant to raids”, “insignificant content”, or “systems”.
So we don’t know if the CP1 level race will include them. I’m expecting the Hinterlands for example to be included, but not Thorium Point (because it made rep grinds more trivial allowing access to easier gear).