It’s literally so boring. Ever play the Tauren starting zone? Might as well play walking simulator. Do ya’ll who play classic just pretend you’re playing a game and instead watching YouTube or movies in the background? Like retail is 100x better.
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People are usually friendlier there and you aren’t funneled into just one or two zones.
EDIT: It’s unfortunate that people don’t seem to like the WoW Classic community! Maybe people seem friendlier to me because I spent like 3 hours looking for a good guild and I found one. I joined some, saw the gchat for a bit, and kept leaving and joining others until I found one that seemed wholesome and fun.
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As a dirtbag metalhead that particularly loves some of the more extreme sub-genres, I often hear “How can you listen to this garbage, it sounds like noise”?
I usually reply “you either get it or you don’t, explanation is pointless”.
I’m sure that applies here. I had fun in Classic. I can’t explain why. In fact the reason I’m not playing Classic is the people, not the game.
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I think the reason why you’re not playing classic is because you realized it’s boring once you took off the nostalgic goggles 
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I do this in retail
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Professions are useful.
Getting an epic is actually fulfilling.
Slow pace is a change from Cata+ mad rush.
Real talent trees.
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When I see people like Vanillanoob posting I don’t get that impression. Nor, do it get it from several other people. Of course its not everyone, but doesnt seem to be much better than modern WoW.
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Classic has the soul of WoW, it’s broken, but it’s broken in a fun way.
BFA lacks the soul of WoW, it’s broken, and it ain’t in a fun way.
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I’m enjoying the journey.
Surprisingly, different people like different things. This peculiar state of being is referred to as having an opinion, which is frowned on in some circles, but considered a good thing by others.
It is, of course, a lot of work.
Having an opinion, not Classic. Classic’s just time consuming, not work.
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While i personally have no interest in classic, i can see the appeal for people who are trying to recapture something that they miss.
I don’t really think that there’s much in it for me, i can’t join my first raiding guild again or loot my first epic, get my first epic riding or cool mount etc. Most of what i loved about vanilla was those first time events.
I guess the attraction now would possibly be to just play somewhere that things are earned and kept, retail is all about earning things only to have them taken away from you so you can earn different things, i can see why some people hate what it has become.
I don’t relish the idea of walking into SL with my class feeling horribly broken and empty all over again only to be told that my class/spec will feel good again once i’m up to my neck in whatever the new systems are, why should i be excited about grinding it out when they’re just going to destroy it all and make my character feel horrible again when SL is done?
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Have to disagree there. Was all in on classic for the first 4 months. Was by far the most elitist, toxic community I’ve ever experienced. The first week, it was awesome. Once that wore off… my god.
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I’m sorry that happened to you! That stinks 
I hope you will consider giving it another try one day. If you can find a guild with kind and respectful people, it will make your experience so much better!
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You can die on 4 level accidentally aggro 2 level 5 mobs. It’s unique experience retail don’t have. And murlocs are walking together by three.
Endgame in classic is terrible tho due to lack of arena, heroic dungeons and hybrids being meme specs. TBC fixed that.
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Real talent trees? LOL +1% damage increase, +2% chance dodge. Truly innovative.
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I agree retail is better but some of us like walking around. Some of us are the kind of crazy that play bethesda games with fast travel disabled
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I’m a cata baby , but playing classic was fun cause i felt like i was making my own adventure instead of following patterns , it really feels like an rpg
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It seems Classic was a time where the game felt a lot larger, and the fact that leveling and obtaining things was long and difficult, it probably felt like a real RPG.
I’m not sure how much that’s the case in Classic servers today, as the answers to everything are available on the internet and everyone in Stormwind seems to already have their Tier 2 sets.
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Some people prefer good RPG mechanics to an arcade-y, flashy game.
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I play both and I gotta say that I like the game as a whole better in classic.
The only thing that I play retail for is the pvp and that hasn’t been very good lately…
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Hi, former classic hater here.
First, you need to adjust. There is no haste, so everything is at least 20% slower. GCDs, everything, it can be jarring. I’m thinking the slower gameplay may have had to do with internet architecture at the time but it’s speculation. Second, corpse runs, they are long. You will also walk for 10 minutes at a time from Wailing Caverns to Razorfang, hek even the zeps take 2-4 times as long to arrive. The entire game is slowed down.
But you know what happens when you slow things down. Little fun stuff starts to emerge. Like the fact I have HP7 demon armor at all times but can sac my life for mana (and drain it off a target, albiet for more mana). This juggling act is quite fun, get low before a pull and the healer spells you up, it’s neat. I do carry supplies but rarely eat and drink unless I’m basically out of both. The toolkit has been wonderful thus far, very fantasy rich with the demon quests. I did read that everyone uses imp for the sta buff (that’s fine) late game, and we mostly throw shadowbolts at raid bosses and a curse determined beforehand. Not even corruption because of the 16 it doesn’t make the cut. That’s not so different than frost mages spamming frost bolts to conserve mana though. Every class is kind of like that from what I’ve looked into, but at least it’s not proc’y, and you do need to watch your aggro in case you go ham.
Maybe It’s because I’m a fresh 21 in classic, but I really feel like once I can get to my first mount it will feel like an accomplishment where in retail you have the chauffer from level 1 if you bought heirlooms. I left my hotkey for my mount empty for now because I’ll constantly hit it expecting to mount up. Old habits die hard, I think I only went a few months before I had a mount on at least a character.
Interlude . . .
I like warlock mana managment, you sac your health into your not necessarily large mana pool, all while regenerating and with drain life. It’s a neat conflux of events.
I also like conjured items. They are still in but there were more of them. Like when I use minor soulstone, I get a conjured consumable that I need to activate on the target. It’s no “use it even after they’re dead” like retail, it’s an object that does something rather important. For class fantasy this is better.
Soul shards, the old way was better. If you are smart you can get half a 20 bag just on the way to the instance. Yes, you give up a bag, and yes today I ran out of bag space, but it’s immersive. Each of those shards isn’t just a blip that lights up, it’s an item in my bags that sticks around until I use it. It’s fragments of the souls of my enemies, that’s pretty brutal, no?
So I don’t appear to worry about mana the same way other casters do. I can always bring down my life because I shouldn’t be taking damage and the healer will eventually notice with a regrowth or something. I did that the entire way through WC and only found myself drinking twice, mostly because others were already and I was low in both life and mana.
Verdict: Classic Warlock may be more fun than this warlock and TBC warlock is almost a guarantee. Furthermore, I do love the old world, cata totally ruined it. It turned the plagued out ruins of the forsaken into Halloween Haunted Houses with Sylvie statues. Nothing about cata was good to me, so it’s good if we even eventually get wrath so we can have all versions that include this classic world.
I was just playing classic with an 18 year old who said he’s been playing since he was 6. And he apparently prefers classic even though he could not have possibly played it, which kind of nixes the nostalgia trope. There are a lot of older people in my guild but sometimes people do surprise. I’d say my classic guild is 100% more helpful than my retail guilds. I actually got rushed two resets of SFK and the end of WC by a level 60 guildmate, he liked to talk but he got the job done and din’t bail until we were done with the last one. One nice thing about classic is I’m sure there are a lot of level 60’s who would love to help raise up some new blood. Leveling in retail is essentially serial queueing so you don’t even need help with that, you just might get lucky and a friend who also needs it goes along.
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