So I have been doing the DK starting zone for the mount and at first it was somewhat annoying not having a dot on the map to go to. However, it’s definitely more interesting and you actually have to read the quest so you get some of the story that way.
I don’t think I would be all for getting rid of everything we have on live, but I will say that just going from dot to dot is a bit boring in comparison and as a result I don’t do any quest that I don’t really have to do.
Thoughts?
It’s weird 'cause I’ve done the DK starting zone over and over, again, in Retail before Wrath Classic came out and practically memorized what to do.
It’s the same questline, nothing’s changed, so it doesn’t occur to me to go from dot to dot. It’s just pure memorization of the streamline.
Right. I’m sure there are a lot of people who just know what to do but I guess this is just more about if having a dot for absolutely everything or not is good or fun.
I forced myself NOT to download any addons (this includes Questie), for Vanilla Classic, on my first 60. I didn’t even want to do dungeons but eventually caved at BFD LOL
I was confused with some quests but eventually figured it out. Once I reached my first 60, I downloaded all the popular addons like Questie.
I (also) was on an RP server, so I RPed most of my 1-60 journey (this includes RP walking, as well). My favorite was the ST RP run lol
WowHead It for the information needed.
My sanity couldn’t handle that.
I hatted not seeing the maekers on the map. Had to look up 2-3 quests, but thats prob it was late at might and partly drunk, lol
Happy im back where i can see the mini map. if peope want it in classic then theres prob mods for it
It was so immersive, though. After I got my lantern, at Maestra’s Post, Ashenvale I RP walked from Maestra’s Post to Astranaar with it equipped and “out” LOL
I spent more time on wowhead than playing the game, trying to figure out what vaguely worded quests that didn’t tell you what they wanted to do really meant, and which mobs had to be killed to get quest items.
You know you looked it up the first time, too.
I did it when it was current and abused thottbot like I did for a lot of quests back then. They just effectively put the wowhead/thottbot info in the game over time with shiny quest markers. I tried to read stuff but eventually you start to second guess if you’re looking in the right place/doing the right thing (i.e. the random amount of mobs it takes to torture the information out of the cult)
I think that’s a bit of an exaggeration. I’m not saying I’m for getting rid of everything but I do think it’s pretty braindead the way things are where you don’t have to read anything at all in the quest, you simply go from dot to dot. I was wondering if there wasn’t perhaps a middle ground.
So is having to alt-tab to read what you have to do because of a poorly written quest or trying to guess what mobs to kill, or what area they mean.
Just stick to the classic snoozefest if you wanna play that way.
I have been told enough times over the years that I should have understood some story that was never presented in the game at all, and I should have gotten it from leveling questing. For instance, the story of Blood Elves and Draenei in Outland. What??? I didn’t know that??? “If I was a new player who hadn’t been following Warcraft games since the start, a player who hadn’t purchased every outside media, I would have gotten all that from fetch quests.” Nah.
And the leveling quests I ran into in Durotar on my very first character back in MoP, the quests that had me rescue people who were stranded “in the recent floods”. And from that I was supposed to construct a memory of Deathwing and know everything about him, as I was told by an obvious PR flack who was trying to convince me that SHE would have understood all those things if SHE was a new player.
Fact: In the DK starting zone you are sent to named locations whose names do not appear on the map. The only reason that happens is to mess with players.
I hate no quest markers.
I started in BC, I didn’t even know what addons were, then I discovered QuestHelper and immediately fell in love 
Now I’d refuse to play without similar functionality 
Or they could add options that do not affect you.