I’ve been binding since day 1.
I also used to use an Actionbar Addon because you could only see the base action bar by default. They didn’t add in the action bars until a long time after release.
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Pretty much. The whole “you were all bad back then” thing is just gaslighting lol.
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There is some truth to what they’re saying, I was bad until I was about level 20/30 on my first character(a Dw Priest). When I made my warrior I had a better understanding of the game.
The thing is though, most top tier players were as good as people are now.
It was pretty common knowledge back then that about 15 of the 40 people in a raid were basically dead weight just filling up slots to fill up slots.
I expect that if every top tier guild during vanilla’s lifetime had a solid group of people who were actively playing the game they probably would have had a much easier time. This is why some fights(Vael in BWL) broke guilds.
A lot of people in games are lazy across the board and do what takes the least amount of effort, this is why people follow leveling guides or BiS lists. It removes the thinking, all they have to do is press buttons.
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Ye, that’s fair that not everyone was great. But not every single current retail player is the second coming of Sonicfox to fighting games, either.
that and patch 1.2 is the last patch or pretty much tbc.
CLASSIC WOW ISNT VANILLA WOW.
I mean this is why we have the nerfed version in the first place.
People in general are bad at video games, if the game was even slightly harder than it is now people would be crying on the forums about it.
I personally don’t find it easy. The whole “easy” thing seems to be just a meme, and nothing more.
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Yeah, I suppose so. If they release TBC, I’d rather see those old heroics as they actually were. That’s where the actual CC train started, not really in vanilla.
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Wait until you start AoEing through instances without worrying about aggro.
At this point people have had 15 years to learn about the game - there is no mystery anymore, everything has been theorycrafted to death.
This was not the case in 2004. Back then we were experiencing and learning the game in real time and did not have all the advantages, knowledge, and resources that modern players do.
Of course it’s easier now.
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Mobs are much easier in general, this has nothing to do with “knowledge” but pure numbers.
Elites hit like babies and die in no time.
I’ve been “healing” through instances by tossing rejuvenation on the “tank” and doing damage meanwhile, and this is with mass pulling.
Bosses are just normal mobs with a bit more HP.
Not to mention all the broken AI routines.
I also duo’d large portions of instances, without overleveling them.
I guess I just suck because it feels pretty much the same to me. Although I’m a consistently OOM enh shaman, so that might play a role.
That’s been my experience too.
It’s not a skill factor, it’s an undertuned game factor.
The whole reason blizzard nerfed everything back in Vanilla was because people were complaining that it was taking too long to level their alts.
We’re not levelling alts right now, I’d like to see most of the original tunings(there were some changes that were good, an some that were needed(C’thun)).
People get way too sensitive about this. It’s not that players are innately better; they are better due to experience, improved access to information, faster internet, superior hardware (e.g., MMO mouses), etc.
And the game obviously has not maintained the pace. Retail has been calibrated to push you to your gaming limits, whereas Classic is an RPG and not much of an action game. It underscores how much gaming has changed, because most modern gamers like battle royals and so forth. Not my thing, but I get why Retail has evolved the way it has.
Vanilla was faceroll by modern standards, so go ahead and accept it and just have fun.
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You guys have a video of one mildly retarded person and act as if it’s the word of god.
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You using the name of your favorite FGC player?
1.12 has a huge impact. I think releasing with 1.12 was a huge mistake, honestly. It made a lot of content trivial.
I do think however, that better computers and internet connections play a part too though. The average low end computer can play classic no issues whatsoever. I play it on a 4 year old macbook air sometimes.
Back in vanilla though? A LOT of folks had serious framerate issues when it came to large scale raids, lots of aoe, large pvp battles. Playing the game with 5 fps is a challenge no matter how you slice it.
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Agreed.
What they should have done is given us the 1.12 talents and then the 1.6/1.7/1.8 tunings for non-raid instances, and then the raid instance tunings as they were when the next raid was introduced(ie: MC as MC was when BWL was released, BWL as it was when AQ40 was released, AQ40 as it was when Naxx was released).
I first played on a PIII 800 with 384MB of RAM and a Riva TNT2. I got 30-40 FPS in the world, 10 FPS in cities, and couldn’t participate in PVP raids at all.
I upgraded because of WoW.
Private servers also made a bunch of changes to adjust the content to what “felt right.”
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Yes, it really is a matter of “we’re all just better.”