The game play and mechanics are much more challenging, encourage exploration & social interaction, and the rewards give a sense of accomplishment. Most importantly, the uniqueness of the classes, races, talent trees and the different starting areas and quest lines makes for great replay-ability. In fact, even though I love my current character (Gnome Mage), I can’t wait to play a Human Paladin, a NE Druid and eventually a Horde char or two.
These challenges and desires to replay are not present in Live or other MMOs (except Original EQ).
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Classic has always been better than anything Blizzard pushed out after BC.
The leveling will get even slower, Classic is bare bones when it comes to instant-gratification.
Could you people hurry up and get frustrated and quit so people that will actually play Classic for several many months can play with their friends now?
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The world is built to be explored and enjoyed…not built to give you constant dopamine hits. Everything encourages people to interact and gear is interested. MY WEAPON MATTERS. As a Warrior, I expect my weapon to actually matter. Its a part of the class fantasy for me. Since the removal of Weapon skills and then beyond that the removal of proper talents, weapons have become nothing but stat sticks that you hit people with.
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Starshards!!!
I am so grateful for the opportunity to play when Priests of different races had different abilities. I finally feel like I’m playing a Priestess of the Moon.
I love that the classes and races are not homogenized, everything feels unique and I love it.
I grouped up with two other Night Elf Priests yesterday and we all dinged level 10 around the same time. The three of us journeyed to the Temple of the Moon together, learned Starshards and then headed to Northern Teldrassil to mow down the Harpies with our new abilities.
We were basically the Charlie’s Angels of Priestesses of the Moon and it made my day.
I also love that killing mobs doesn’t feel pointless. Everything is giving valuable experience, and I LOVE that there’s no scaling, there’s a real sense of progression. Each level you get more powerful.
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Actual sense of danger when questing. More immersive.
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Yup. Was leaving UC at level 7 and a kind player opens up a trade window, hands me a wand and /hug. I’ll be paying it forward 
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now THAT, is what I like to hear!
I gave away all the flimsy chain I looted in valley of trials, since I’ll be wearing leather until 40. (I think?)
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Do you smell your own farts as well, and are you or are you not from cali ?
Got 20 hours in classic so far and all i have to say is three words. Classic. Is. Meaningful.
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I wouldn’t say that I like classic more than retail. But there are things about classic that I like.
- Classic seems to emulate a lot of Dungeons and Dragons-style development. Your talents are your character sheet. You can spec into a lot of useless nonsense “just because” and the game world is forgiving enough to allow deviation from the optimal.
- Progression. Even for meaningless tat that retail optimised out, it feels important. Stuff like skill levels, weapon proficiency, or spell ranks, the game draws your attention to things that you “gain” and there’s very few stretches of time where you don’t get something that meaningfully expands what your character is capable of. Even gray armor upgrades mean you can continue to bash on things longer safer while waiting for mana.
- Synergy. Grouping with people makes you much more powerful. Being able to smash mobs before they respawn next to you makes questing safer. Buffs feel huge and are visually noticeable, and nearly everybody has something they can give you. When you group with someone, the whole truly is greater than the sum of its parts, which actually makes it feel good to group up.
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I love the quest for the little things! My rogue is level 7 and I am fighting to get to level 10 JUST so I can dual wield, or I can’t wait till I unlock the next level of sinister strike (forgot when that was).
This game takes the tiny things and makes them all huge goals and it keeps going until you’re a well experienced raider.
I can’t wait to get into an old style AV where we actually work towards a goal.
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RIght? You arent the OVER POWERED heroes that you are in retail now… You are currently a nobody, just an adventurer, but soon, SOON, you will make a name for yourself in the World… Of Warcraft, and become the True Hero you want to be when you take Onyxias head to Org or Stormwind. THAT is what I am hyped about.
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My brother is a BFA player who never played vanilla. He played with me at launch and was instantly in love. He said to me, “You know why I am liking classic so much? Everything you do matters.”
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In classic, as a Pally Human, I died 3 times to murlocks at level 6.
Actually went OOM from buffing people and had to stop and drink water! First time since Warth.
Have done more personal grouping activity in one day of classic Elwynn than in Legion and BfA combined.
Need I go on.
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for me, I love it because my enh feels like an actual shaman again, being able to use shocks and totems alongside the weapon enhancements
shame that it’s not very good at endgame, but I’m enjoying this enh so much more than retail it’s crazy
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yeah, Shaman have not been the same for me for a long time. glad to have em back to normal
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I get that this is probably going to be difficult for you, but just for the hell of maybe try not to be a complete posterior fedora?
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i see what you did there!
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