Is not even in the top 10 reasons I and people I play with wanted Classic. I’m not sure why that remains a sticking point for people because Vanilla was never all that difficult. It was always a question of time committed rather than overcoming difficulty curves.
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You didn’t play vanilla. By 1.12 onyxia and ragnaros has been nerfed several times.
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Lol @ that canned response. Yes I did, and no it wasn’t hard. The most difficult thing was, and remains simply getting enough people in the raid and getting them to do basic things.
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I’m saying it’s not an argument at all because so many people only played private servers and think that’s how vanilla was.
It started hard due to classes being in a bad state. By 1.12 nearly every class had a rework of some kind, tier 0, 0.5 and 1 armor was majorly buffed and onyxia and ragnaros had their bugs squashed, debuff limit doubled and made easier in an effort to get people through the raids to naxx as a way to fight high raider turnover and the perception that not everyone was allowed to raid
So if I flag this post as troll will it be removed? Because my post was counteracting this kind of post was. God I truly hate Blizz forums but I also like distracting myself from work.
I just can’t imagine pretending retail is hard either. So I don’t get the point of your post? Leveling up in retail is beyond easy… with lfg/lfr etc. you can instantly be farming items and doing raids. “but mythic”… lmfao that’s literally the only thing you have. And my argument is that to any of you who think mythic matters.
If you think mythic is the ultimate form of judgement then you must also think Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls is the hardest game ever made. Because it has infinite difficulty levels and some are actually still impossible to reach solo.
Soo… why complain about classic difficulty when WoW is literally just straight up an easy game? Just like Diablo 3 is
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But I heard she deep breaths more now 
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I’m not even talking about 1.12. it wasn’t hard prior to that either. There’s a reason EQ/Ultima players would dog WoW as the “kiddie” MMO.
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I wonder if those people who claim WoW was ever a difficult game ever tried Everquest
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Umm, I wasn’t complaining? I love Classic.
Here’s the thing about the difficulty of the game. Vanilla is more difficult for the majority of the population. For example, if you are an average player in retail and all you do is LFRs, level your toons, and do world quests vanilla will be WAY WAY harder for you. But, if you’re a min/maxer, raiding 4 nights a week, study your classes in and outs, then vanilla wont be more difficult and just more time consuming.
That’s the ‘difficulty’ part I love about this game. You don’t get a gold star for participating, if you’re bad it WILL show.
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Raids dont have infinite difficulty settings?
I find it difficult… I die a lot, and much more than I ever did in BFA.
I find the difficulty of vanilla refreshing.
I also don’t meta-game though
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I’m really just confused why people make such a big deal over Classic’s difficulty anyway. To me fun is more important, and I’ve played games that are as easy as a pleasent stroll, to soul crushing difficult. Neither of those matter unless I’m having fun with it, and so far with Classic I’m having a blast. I’ve only been as far as lvl 23 though so can’t say I’m fully experienced in the game or anything.
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So you ask a question and then dismiss the responses? Vanilla wow was much harder in every aspect of the game. Epics were only dropped in raids and rarely on mobs in the world. Most people ran with Blues and that was considered really good!
Everyone else had Green gear!
You needed Keys to get in instances, or you have to be attuned to it, there were questlines to even get to the stage you could enter.
You couldn’t jost click the LFR button and go make some tuna sandwiches you had to know people, be a great player and sought after, you had to be in a great guild.
Areas were harder to navigate, mobs were stronger, and swarmed together. To say Classic wasn’t hard compared to the log in and do a daily retail free boosts and auto play you have now is ridiculous!
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I don’t give two dicks about raids. I will see your sorry horde carcass in AV. Under my boots. That is the only difficulty that matters.
Fun is relative to gain in an MMORPG, to level up and get an EPIC should fell EPIC!!!
In Classic it was, to have a Krol Blade drop off mob in western Plague Lands on my lvl 60 Rogue leveling lock picking was one of the happiest gaming moments I remember…
Now you get Epics for being in an area where other people completed a mission!
I played on private servers not for a challenge but because Vanilla is a better RPG and MMO than any other game out there in my opinion.
If I want an actual challenge I’ll fire up Dark Souls.
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Because it’s the forums and on average people are pretty stupid.
I thought what people play Vanilla/Classic for is community and having to interact?
Either way, even on a RP server I can’t escape the politics, people going on about “inclusiveness”, real life racism and other nonsense that has no place being discussed in-game.
You are your character in this game, you are not whoever you are on the other side of the screen. Stop imposing your real lives on others so we can play in peace.
I don’t know you and I don’t care about your political affiliations, I wish people would keep those things to themselves and focus on being a WoW community rather than an election.
I havent played retail in years but i kinda like the vanilla, one diffulculty thing.
Having multiply difficulties just became more farming for most avergae guilds, need dungeons gear for heroics, need heroics for LFR, need LFR for regular, need regular for mythic. Just so tiresome after awhile. Same content over and over for same gear that has a slightly better ilvl.
But i get why they did it, want to make it as easy as some need and as hard as some want. But as a side effect it really increased gear disparity, especially in pvp.