I enjoy both versions of the game. I love some of the QoL improvements WoW has introduced along the way, such as mob tagging, for instance. And of course, the art and music is always too notch and only gets better with each expansion.
What puts Classic ahead of BFA-for me-are the little things. I enjoy class quests and class trainers. I enjoy meaningful professions. While leveling, each new gear drop shows a meaningful upgrade to how my character performs. And, lets be honest, each realm having a social dynamic is the bee’s knees.
Most are using add ons that tell you what quest to do/skip. once mid 20s the zones are packed with people and it slows down a lot. I personally would love to rush to 60 but the game is too slow and my playtime the server is packed. I haven’t touched retail lvling since forever ago. So if I lvl a new character from 1to 120 now it would be new for me to a extent.
I’m confused because nothing he says about Classic is well… exclusive to Classic. Though I will admit when you have to spend 16 minutes running for a quest it’s not really peaceful as reminding me about how happy I was when they added more flight paths.
But in 6 months, you will have seen it all 50 times. There is no reason you can’t do this on classic. Suggesting you can not is really strange. Your toon moves through the world the same way on classic / retail.
I missed it. Wat it exciting? Was their betting? Did you watch it with friends and family? Is this something I should watch with family during Christmas vacation with my mother?
No choice, I had to run over the hills and far away to go gather 8 troll tusks from the 32 that I killed. Great news though!! I (as a warrior) got some ragged cloth hand wraps to replace my moldy leather gloves.
The reason people distinguish “retail” and “Classic” is because if you look in the WoW system folders, you’ll see _classic_ for Classic, and _retail_ for retail.
Basically, we’re using the developers’ own terms. No more, no less.
That we have already explored 500 times and really don’t hold up to modern graphics.
You have that wrong. The quests take a long time because of slow drop rates and respawns. Questing in WoW is far more laid back and relaxed then in Classic.
Most quest rewards are unusable. Smart quest rewards in WoW means you actually get pieces you can use.
Are you saying it is a peaceful feeling to have played for hours w/o accomplishing anything? May as well go log off and clean the cat litterbox instead.
And it is just called World of Warcraft in the launcher, website, store, and subscription page. On the other hand classic is called WoW:Classic in all those locations.
So look up coords on Thottbot, take your time because pulling more than one mob will kill you, wait a half dozen levels for any significant upgrade and look like a circus clown with a murder problem, wander through Barrens chat trying to keep your sanity, and come out of it six hours later with a half a level.
I explained one quest chain in the barrens a while back ago.
Get quest to go kill harpies.
Go travel half the zone away.
Kill those harpies which are mixed in with others that don’t count.
Travel back to the quest give.
Get another quest to go back to the same area and kill the other harpies that were mixed in (and thus having to kill a bunch of the other ones again) for drops that only dropped one out of every 5 or so kills.
Travel back to the quest giver that has you return to the harpies yet again to kill their leader which again requires killing a bunch of the same harpies to get at her.
Travel back to the quest give and get one final quest to go to the next zone that is right past the harpy area.
How does anyone enjoy this kind of questing?
Imagine if this was done IRL?
Wife asks you to go to the store to get some milk.
You travel to the store and buy milk, but it is Sunday so you have to fight through all the old people who stop in the isles to talk.
You return to the wife and she then has you go to the store to get some bread.
The bread is past the milk isle and a bunch of paramedics are blocking the isles now because one of the old people collapsed.
You return to your wife and this time she tasks you with going to the store to pick up some eggs.
You go get eggs but have to look through all the cartons because your local store sucks and half the packs have broken eggs.
You return to your wife who then sends you out one more time, but this time to talk to her divorce lawyer because she was having an affair while you were spending all your time at the store.
