I only started playing in the middle of Cata. But I am the sort of peeson who digs relics and historical traces. As I quested forward I started seeing traces of something better that no longer was. Recipies I wanted to get from reading about them on websites that I traveled across a content for to discover the traveling seller no longer existed in the game because a dev got lazy and just snuffed them. Quest lines that seemed like traces of the past.
I have always been a slow steady old world quester. I think I played through the whole MoP expansion without ever setting foot in Pandaria.
Things are good here, where I have finally found the World that only exists as a mirage in the Retail game.
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Thank you. I read your post in Morgan Freeman’s voice.
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Literally at work right now in this boring mandatory meeting thinking about 4 different things i want to do in wow classic tonight
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Yea I agree. So happy to be back into WOW. I’m addicted lol.
Everyone says how great WOTLK was but frankly it was the beginning of the end for me.
Yeah, I have to be very careful with my play time. If I don’t pay attention to the time, I’ll be on until midnight.
5 AM is painful if I’m on until midnight.
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The best ones for me are classic, tbc and lich king. I would be reallly happy, if they do legacy servers for those expansions.
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The ONLY reason I set foot back into retail is to get the bee mount. I’m working on that and doing nothing else because nothing else is of any interest or is fun. I’m even bored with transmog runs because it never fails that the class that can’t use the item is the one that always gets it, never drops for the toon that needs it, and I’m plain done with that carrot chase.
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The addiction is real. However, there are some retail changes that makes the game more convenient and fun. I love challenges and goals. Having achievements was one of those challenges I loved to show my work. I think you were bored with the content and story line. Of course the massive change in mechanics other than that, classic is near perfect except it needs changes. Why changes? It’s not complete and it was created by developers that didn’t know anything about MMORPG’s. They were learning and exploring as expansions were released. I would have loved to see a classic version of wow in 2020.
Classic is such a slog - the graveyard is 47 miles away. There’s so much traveling. You’re sort of left to your own devices to figure things out. Spell training drains what little gold you work so hard for - you have to group with strangers to get something done. And I frikking love it. So why do we love all that? There’s a challenge, a reward, a goal. Meeting new people - more immersion - I don’t know what the magic is. But yeah, retail lost it’s soul somewhere. I hope they take a lesson from this page and adjust what they’re doing so we can get that feeling back again with new content.
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WotLK was my favorite expansion, though I don’t have any intense desire to go back to it because the tone it set during its lifespan is still very much present in the way endgame feels today. Its “essence” is still very much there. My “WotLK itch” can easily be sated by a transmog run or timewalking to take in the aestehtics.
Vanilla and BC (to a lesser extent) and their respective feels are just flat out absent, especially Vanilla due to all the dungeon re-workings and zone overhauls.
i didn’t mind cata content overall. though i had a serious issue with the changes to azeroth brought with cata. wow hasn’t felt the same since.
i get disgusted when leveling toons on retail and i get a brd/ST/etc queue and i get a skeleton or mini version of the dungeon. they’ve done everything they could to cater to the people that want everything yesterday and alienate their original playerbase and then they wonder why they only have 10% of the playerbase they used to have.
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What ruined everything for me was a few things.
- Making every class very similar. Destroying class identity sucks.
- Pandas, pandas made the game way too cartoony.
- Going away from flight. I much prefer looking at the majestic Azeroth from above. You can truly see the world and all its beauty while flying. I can’t wait for it to come back in TBC
- LFR and to a much larger extent, allowing everyone to see all content and get great gear without having to try. It takes all the prestige away from the game.
- A lack of vision for the future. Story wise and having to re-earn core abilities that I had access to before blows in an RPG.
- Level scaling!!! This is the biggest monstrosity in an RPG game. I should not have a harder time killing a low level zone as a higher level.
- RNG item levels and legendaries just dropping. This isn’t Diablo ffs. Titan forge system does not belong in wow at all. Also, legendaries no longer feel legendary.
This is bandaid for all the damage continually increasing the level cap does to the game.
I would not be opposed to a lateral movement of play. New dungeons expanded on existing lands. New quests in the same area. As long as it had the same look and feel. You dont need to increase the max level to make more gameplay.
In reality though, i dont trust the new group of developers to not screw up this content. I would prefer to leave classic alone. The management has not made many good decisions on gameplay in a long time
Same. I’m sure I speak for most of us here when I say that we might be addicted. There’s a point during the evening when I’ve been logged in for hours where I say “I should probably exercise” or “I should probably take out the trash/unload the dishwasher” or something. It never happens because there’s always more that needs to be done in WoW.
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you’ve pinpointed another major issue with blizzards ‘design philosophy’ over the years. a lot of what they do is ‘bandaids’ to what they consider issues which tend to cause even more issues or generally less fun experience.
lol - or spend time with your spouse! But just one more bar to 43…