Keeping Busy in SoD
Retail (and Wrath Classic) have design decisions much more inline with lobby games than WoW Classic. SoD is part of WoW Classic, and as such is not a lobby game, even though some choose to raid-log, teating it like one.
Q: Other than raid logging, what is it that you are doing to occupy yourself and your time in Season of Discovery, and what are some cool things you’ve discovered or heard about that you’d like to try?
Some Context
Snipy's boring and long-winded WoW backstory
Actually, back when I first started playing WoW, I thought leveling sucked, I hated questing, and I enjoyed group content. I couldn’t wait to get to max-level and do heroics (it was original TBC) with my friends from high school, and hop into raids. My friends had started up a guild, and had played Vanilla, but nobody had ever raided.
I was late to the party, and I don’t know what phase it was was it was sometime before ZG came out, maybe a month or so before. I reached max-level, geared up through a mix of Heroics, naked 5-man Arenas and BGs. My favorite part of the game was putting a party together, and nobody else could do it like I could.
2am on a Monday night and you and your boy want to run some heroics, but you’re a shaman and he’s a lock and everyone wants a tank, a healer or at least some CC (mage or rogue). No problem, I’ll just hit up McLuvin, the full-bis raid tank who just got stationed overseas and plays odd hours, and we can farm heroics all night!
Fast forward a couple of rerolls later, from lock to priest, to warrior, and I was finally playing the roll I always wanted to; tank. Wrath had come out, and all I wanted to do was party up and tank stuff, dungeons, heroic dungeons, raids, whatever. I was super stoked whenever dungeon finder came out and we could spam run heroics and not get locked out for the day (well, we could bypass the lockout, and never run out of stuff to run).
Back when I had first played WoW, it was beta and I uninstalled it after reaching level 3 on a Tauren Warrior, because it was way too slow paced of a game for me. I hated the swing times, and I didn’t know any of the content that would be available later, but my biggest gripe with it was that it wasn’t more like Diablo II, where you could login, farm stuff, and move on to the next game, rinse and repeat. A fast-paced, lobby game.
WoW Classic: Season of Discovery
More long-windedness by Snipy
Now that it’s 2023, and I’ve been playing WoW for years, I feel like if I were raid-logging in SoD, something that I didn’t do in WoW Classic, but did do in TBC Classic and esp. Wrath Classic (Raid Log/Arenas and that’s about it), then I would feel like there’s nothing to do. The current raid tier, BFD takes less than an hour to run, and even though it’s on a 3-day schedule, that’s not much time at all.
While I feel like Retail has very-much taken the lobby-game approach, and the Classic progression series has converged with Retail on this by now with Wrath, RDF, Raid-Logging and Arenas, I don’t feel this way with WoW Classic (Era) and I haven’t yet felt this way with SoD. Personally, I feel like I have an abundance of things to do on each of my toons. None of them are “complete” yet, even at 25, and I’ve done quit a bit on them!
My closest to completion if you measure that by say these goals is my hunter (working on the tabard now):
- Max-Level
- Maxed-Professions including fishing, cooking, first aid
- Full pre-BiS or BiS
- WSG Tabard
- 100g for level 40 mount
While my warrior is not very much behind, and whatever other characters I bring to 25 will likely be close quickly.
However, there have always been other things throughout Classic Azeroth that occupy the time of those so inclined to seek their own adventures. I’ve seen some pretty interesting things on the Horde side when I pop on my Horde alts and check out friends’ guilds discords streams, like RFC mage boosts, farming pre-BiS helms from the elite dwarves at the wall at the Eastern edge of Hillsbrad Foothills, etc.
Anyway, this is all a very, very, very… very long way of asking, what is it that you are doing to occupy yourself and your time in Season of Discovery, and what are some cool things you’ve discovered or heard about that you’d like to try?
Probably the most “adventurous” I’ve gotten so far is soloing RFK boars on my Hunter. I was going to do the escort quest, but I ended up getting called away to do something else.
