What would you be doing differently right now if this was a pserver?
Personally I’m having plenty of fun, but I’m not max level and I’m not PvPing. I find the little “you got stronger” moments fun. Maxing my cooking and having all my characters loaded up with buff food is fun. Going back and killing an elite after gaining a new level and new abilities is fun. Running a dungeon with family and friends is fun. Seeing someone need a thing in LFG or Trade and having it to offer (\o/ Arcanite Transmute on my warlock, working on some tankier gear on my 22 druid) is fun.
Number one, for me, is being able to log in and pick a character, set some sort of “this is what I want to do” and go do it.
This past weekend, for example, was about getting my rogue to level 35 - so he could hit 175 lockpicking and 225-300 cooking. It also involved getting him the mats for the cooking quest, which I did on my warlock, gaining a level on her.
She did enough herbalism in the process to be two points from 300. I also sold a few things on the AH and sent a chunk of the gold to my warrior who is 45 and needs mount money.
Today I’ll get the cooking done, use up a ton of mats I have to push it as high as possible, go find footlockers so he can get the lockpicking up and open all the Steel Lockboxes he has saved up, and then work on my warrior’s Orgrimmar rep because if I can get exalted before I have 80g, I’ll get a wolf.
All of that? That’s fun for me. Busy, Getting multiple things accomplished. Feeling like I’m setting and reaching goals.
Which doesn’t help someone else at all. You might have read that and felt like that’s not fun at all. And that’s fine. Point being, we can’t tell you how to have fun or why WOW Classic isn’t feeling fun to you, when fun is completely subjective.
It is scientifically proven that as you get older, you get less fun and eventually have no fun and only watch Fox news. Drinking alcohol speeds the process.
While they do have some details wrong, and I formerly thought of them as you do, I can tell you without a doubt they’re much more “vanilla” in regard to game play of the character classes and mechanics than classic wow 2019.
One day played on a private server is all I have; the way things work once you log on one instantly brings back that vanilla feeling.
Private servers may have been wrong but i really liked the increase difficulty of mobs. And uh im sorry spellbatching ia dumb. I had a friend who only knew pserver confused why her heal castes but i still died. She said “that takes the fun away”. So yeah its different. The hype is gone and pvp just wasnt as good as i thought. I have to pull teeth to convince guildies to wsg its dumb
The spell batching here isn’t really accurate because it’s not likely possible to reproduce with the modern servers.
Go find some actual vanilla video and you will see it did have some batching, but the batch window was a lot tighter and the client to server relationship felt a lot better.
What you guys have on the private servers while not 100% is really damn close to actual vanilla.
As for the PvE content, meh that’s just tuning and scripting.
Classic wow 2019 is an imitation, and sadly the private servers are just superior.
Sounds right. Been struggling to log on because of how serious everyone seems to take the game. Somewhere along the way raiding began to feel less like an adventure and more like a job, and as for PvP…. that’s been a toxic mess since honor released a few months back. I wanted to grind to rank 8, but I just can’t log in often enough to keep my honor gains from degrading and deleting my progress. The rank grind is really a disincentive for many non-hardcore PvP players, as far as I can tell.
It is simple, really. People in 2004 didn’t know what the hell they were doing. They made it up as they went, discovered new things, failed hard, found crazy synergy, and built the knowledge base from scratch. People today have 15 years of min-maxing and theorycrafting to go on. They know where the gold farms are, and how to powerlevel. They know that spellcleave is a thing, and are set on getting the best honor per hour instead of playing the game.
Pirate servers were always small, with a fraction of the total playerbase wow has, even in WoD or BFA. Just like most WoW players never visit or post on these forums, most never even knew that pirate servers existed until there was a story about one getting shut down. And the people who were most likely to go to pirate servers were the gaming equivalent of old folks who yell at people to get off their lawn, because these darned kids don’t listen to Elvis anymore, and why do they keep squealing about that Bieber girl, instead of going out and getting a job?
Simply put, the greatest strength of Classic is the community. The greatest weakness of Classic is the community. The only advice I can give you is that if you’re not having fun, change the portion of the community you hang out with.
You’re on the wrong server dude herod is the try-hard horde server, I suggest a re-roll on a smaller server or one that has less hardcore players and fish around until you find a good one to transfer to or just lvl a whole new character.
im guessing most of the pservers you played on weren’t x1 rates since you haven’t even managed to hit max level on classic. It’s only like 10 days play time to make it to 60 bro. Leveling was a trip but the real game starts at 60 and you should know that.
Don’t force it, let it come to ya.
I was lv55 when phase2 just dropped. Discouraged little bit however work it thru, now having a blast, feels like I’m back in college.
And I need a port to Org
