Will you play the meta

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This is a very easy topic for discussion and in no means should anyone tell someone to play a certain way.

The topic is class build. Are you planning to use the good ole time tested build (some of which will most like be modified due to better knowledge) or are you planning on using your own build. Testing them out and trying different things.

Personally for me im in the second camp this time around. During vanilla i used all the best builds and when classic arrives im looking forward to the choices you have for your character.

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I will use the best build for each situation (PvP, or leveling, or raiding). After all these years we’ve pretty much perfected builds.

I mean even the Spelladin has been figured out so pallys have a viable option.

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I’m playing Classic to have fun, so I’m going to make choices that will support this. If/when I get into raiding, I will of course change specs and adapt as needed for the group to succeed, but I’m here to have fun, not cookie-cut!

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So your in the meta playing camp. Nothing wrong with that. Player choice.

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Yes. But I likely will never raid. I plan to Rank 14 this time.

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That was fun. Good luck .

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I have my own build ideas that I will play this time around.

10-60 I’ll be doing an Arms PVP talent spec that I like and tanking all dungeons with it as well.

https://classicdb.ch/?talent#LMhxdIio0uE0zm0x

When it is time to actually go Protection I have a few different builds that I’ll use depending on what I need to do.

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I plan on leveling and choosing my own skills to see how they work and then respec if needed at a later time. I’ve always used cookie cutter builds and this time I’m just gonna take it easy and play what looks fun until I can’t do anything with it.

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I plan on having multiple characters.

My raiding main that I want to get to Naxx on is going to use a more optimized build.

My other characters will use random builds I just made up.

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Going full snowflake this time around, and will be putting points into a playstyle that works for me. I’m sure I’ll respecc into a favored build for raiding, but PvP is a whole other game.

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I will be playing a Moonkin Druid and clearing Naxx and NO ONE CAN STOP ME :pleading_face:

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For leveling, I will be using my own tweaked builds. So often the good ole time tested build is about end-game and certain choices don’t make sense while questing solo and grouping rarely.

An example is the starting build for priests is Spirit Tap and Wand Specialization - but once you’re in groups more than solo, Spirit Tap becomes pretty useless because you will not be the one killing the mob most of the time.

Now, after I’m 60 or if I have an alt I want to mostly use for dungeon groups, they will probably get something pretty close to the metas - though there were almost always tweaks where points were less absolutely set, and things like getting enough hit on gear or raiding with another player of the same class who had the improved buffs could free up a point or two.

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“More knowledge” is a myth, everything had already been figured out by the end of Vanilla; the private server kids just like to make believe they have re-invented the wheel.

IMO play what you like and have fun.

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Part of me wants to play priest, on ally with some of my friends. But the meta is dwarf and id hate to hit 60, and always feel bad that i didnt roll dwarf. Yes fear ward is not needed but i do like optimize my class :frowning:

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I will do what I’ve always done. Use what I like best and “best”/“cookie cutter” specs be damned if they aren’t what I chose.

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I am firmly entrenched in the second camp. Trying new things, and adjusting to try and make them work, and then work well, has real and lasting appeal.

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While i wholeheartedly agree with your statement about people from pservers believing they reinvented the wheel. When it comes to builds. The knowledge i was referring to was more in line with todays theorycrafters having better knowledge of statss.

Pservers are notoriously bad at proper stats in game.

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Actually I disagree with this statement, information is good! You can’t really Make them play a certain way, But telling someone how to play is actually a good thing so they can be informed.

However I will be playing the meta Warrior,lock,mage,priest,shaman. Not in that order but all together at one time.

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While I have no real evidence, I do think that people these days are more likely to look up guides online.

The top players had things figured out in Vanilla, but a very significant portion of the average playerbase was just screwing around not knowing what they were doing.

These days people will just type “Classic WoW insert class here guide” into Google and get a dozen guides telling them exactly how to build their character in an optimal fashion and what items to get.

Some things are going to be more common knowledge, like Prot Paladins tanking dungeons which wasn’t terribly well known on my server in 2006.

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That kind of information was already figured out and exhaustively researched by literal millions of players, known and understood by most serious raiders and PVP’rs of Vanilla.

The only people who really did not understand how stats and builds worked / worked together were the ultra casual players or those who got into Vanilla late in the game.

Many of these people did eventually learn how stats work, what stat weights are and how they worked, but this did not typically take place until TBC or later for them.

This “I learned it in TBC or Wrath or whenever in modern times” attitude is what infects the private servers and the modern WoW community alike. They assume because they were ignorant that all players were ignorant, and that assumption is 100% false.

So far I have seen nothing from the private server community that has not already been tried in actual Vanilla.