Things You Can Do Yourself For A More Authentic Classic Experience

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Just a quick list of things you can do to get a more authentic feeling when Classic drops. Feel free to add on.

  1. Buy up cases of Mountain Dew
  2. Dig up your gaming rig from 2004-2005 from your closet/basement and fire that relic up
  3. Call up your ex from 2004 and tell them you’re back on the WoW wagon so they can sigh at you for old times sake
  4. Enroll in some college classes fully knowing you’re going to skip them and play anyway
  5. Buy up cases of ramen noodles and protein bars
  6. Clear out a space for the giant pile of laundry you’re not going to do for weeks
  7. Shave your head… You won’t be washing that either
  8. Quit your decent job and get a lame retail job
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You forgot to include:
9. Play with your phone as a hotspot in 2G to emulate the internet speed of the time (watch 4k videos during raids so you’re disconnected appropriately)
10. Buy an old 20cm wide screen to plug in on your computer
11. Launch Forza 4 or any really consuming game in ultra to emulate the computer speed of the time (launch it twice if necessary)

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Play on dial up Internet connection.

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Mountain Dew is gross.

I can drink rum and coke now and handle dealing with people who stand in the fire during raids like an adult: By being absurdly drunk.

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Gross, that stuff is nasty

I live off of Ramen, but I make my own broth.

Do that already, going bald anyways.

No need, I’m retired! hahahaha. If I need spending cash, I just go to my local Craigslist and look for anyone needing a graphic designer.

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Please, do go on.

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One word: pizza rolls.

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:thinking:
I don’t know if that’s clever or not…

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Buy a really old mic from goodwill, get your guild to download TeamSpeak, put mic in mouth and breathe hard. No hot key. Open mic only.

BONUS FOR EXTRA IMMERSION: Have a spouse or roommate come in randomly to yell that dinner is ready/to do your homework/do your chores.

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We can go back to using Ventrilo and have it set to announce when people enter or leave the channel. Then we get one guy to make a profile with the name “[][][][][][][][][][][]”. So when they come in you get bombarded with, “left square bracket, right square bracket, left square bracket, right square bracket…etc”

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That :poop: is too sweet unless it’s 2/3 rum. A real man drinks whiskey neat. No ice. Ice is for :cat:s

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You forgot

Piss off everyone who knows you personally because they don’t understand what it means to play wow

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Your missing the main point here.

If anything goes wrong, blame the huntard

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Open with your largest, hardest hitting nuke on every mob the tank is about to, but has not yet, pulled.

If hunter or lock, pet taunt Autocast on, aggressive setting.

Forget ammo/shards /to repair your gear until the group is about to pull

Sit in town with 4 of the other people in your 5 man group because “you have a warlock”… Act surprised when warlock is unable to summon any of you lazy tools because you are all equally lazy and stupid (I might be a little extra bitter on this one…)

Ignore that your dungeon healer is a druid, who cannot rez players and do a stupid pull that is a near garunteed wipe, causing you to start from the beginning again because trash respawned.

Demand a roll on pristine hide of the beast despite not being a skinner with Finkles.

Never loot the dogs in molten core

Banish an elemental that is supposed to be the raids kill target, just to hear to explosion of outrage in vice comms… Bonus points if another warlock gets blamed for it.

Kill your raid leader with living bomb

Die before lvl 5 at least once

Die to a symphony of “mrgl mrgl” noises because you just accidently aggroed every murloc that has or will ever exist across the entire space /time spectrum some how.

Die at least once to “unknown entity”

Be WAY TOO EXCITED over your first piece of white /gray shoulders or first helm

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We’re all 14 years older.

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I don’t think I have to worry about what the real man drinks.

Though the mix gets a bit stronger as the night goes on.

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Aside from 2, absolutely none of that applies to me.

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No matter what the situation, there is an applicable Simpsons quote.

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Queue up for all the battlegrounds and then join a dungeon run. If a BG pops during the run be sure to join it right way and leave the group with no explanation.

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Years ago (TBC to Wrath era) I went out to buy alcohol because my guild wanted to do a drunk raid. I’m a sweet tooth, and that extends to what I’m willing to drink. Sure, I bought 150-proof rum (sugar cane to alcohol, oh yeah) and pineapple juice (don’t drink sodas because the syrup is nasty, not sweet). But more importantly, I picked up bottles of butterscotch schnappes and Irish creme liquer.

Raid night I grabbed a 2-cup glass measuring cup, poured in a cup of the schnappes and a half-cup of the creme liquer. DELICIOUS! https://www.liquor.com/recipes/buttery-nipple/#gs.4imefg

My kids still remember that and tease me about it. (Funny / sadder? I still have most of those original bottles up in a cupboard. That is how rarely I actually drink.)

Hey! I resemble that remark!

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