Im tired of people saying
“oh look how easy classic is… therefore the people in vanilla were bad! rag downed in 5 days!”
Regen: outside of being a troll, Health regen was basically non existent. everyone carried food/water/bandages. I mained a warrior for pvp in vanilla and im also a warrior for classic. I think I made it to level 20 before I had to actually use food. the out of combat regen is stupid high compared to vanilla. I remember running out of food and then having my character sit for 5-10mins to regen full hp (in vanilla sitting increase hp/mana regen).
Stamina!!!: This stamina is ridiculous. Its about twice the HP I remembered. I talked with people who played on private servers and I started to think I was crazy… but I also tanked and my warrior was in full wrath gear back in vanilla. and I only had about 6khp and in might gear about 4500. Anyway I ran some experiments and I remembered 10hp = 1 stam. my warrior has about 4khp but only 288stam. so I should only have 2,880 hp, that actually seems about right. someone said to me what about your base HP MORON!.. NO! your stam is your stam if you take all your gear off you will still have stam that stam is your base hp. and here is my proof. I also played a disc priest for raiding she was also tier 2/aq20/aq40 gear. and I remember in MC fully buffed having less than 2k hp. Now this is relevant because ROGUE 1 shot videos. you can clearly see them killing clothies in 1 shot and they are only doing between 1k-1.7k dmg to them. now if youre a clothie with 2k+ hp as a fresh 60 1 shot videos would not exist in vanilla… and yet they do!
you want to know what classic is so easy? well that’s because its classic, not vanilla. I will admit a lot of us were definitely not as bad as we were then, but yall new to classic players are not understanding how difficult it actually was…
yall think killing mobs is hard now… imagine trying to do it with half the hp you currently have. Aoe mob grinding was a thing in vanilla… but you still didn’t pull more than about 5-7. a lot of non undead humanoids had ranged attacks and if a mage pulled 5-7 he may or may not live, but more… definitely dead because of his lack of hp.
Anyway after I brought this up with a few private server people and they checked, they did concur that the hp in classic is a bit too high and the regen is also too high.
Im not faulting blizz too much for this, because if they did make this authentic vanilla people would have definitely stopped playing a week after launch. Im just tired of people saying classic is easier than people made it out to be. it was much more difficult than we vanilla players can explain.
People back in Vanilla WoW were not bad per se, they just did not know as much as we know now. There is a huge difference between known facts and being bad at something.
The other reason is that 1.12 DID change a lot. A someone who mained feral in 1.1, what I see now is drastically different.
no buddy… blizz sold/discarded the information from the old servers they even said it… most of classic… what you’re playing, was pulled from private servers.
you think people ran around with glowing wands in vanilla? this is data from private servers that took what they liked from vanilla and cleaned it up and added things they liked, to make it much more enjoyable to them.
You think spell power gear was a thing in vanilla? spell power gear was super rare… that is why you see in text it saying things like:
increases healing by 22
increases spell damage by 22.
in vanilla if you were lucky enough to find spell power gear it was one or the other… an example is the famed priest weapon Benediction. It gives only healing. and then anathema gives only spell damage.
healing gear and dps gear were clearly defined in vanilla because it would say increases healing… and that’s it.
not sure how that’s not vanilla. now if you want to argue that if they picked an earlier patch it would better represent the entirety of vanilla, that’s different than saying classic isn’t vanilla when 1.12 was clearly part of vanilla.
The prepatch was 2.0.1. However, 1.12 did nerf a lot of things. Anyone questing in Dustwallow or Swamp of Sorrows and encountering dragonkin know exactly what I mean.