Can we get a WoW thread going, I miss this mothafucker

Can we get a WoW thread going, I miss this mothafucker

While I miss it to, I have to admit that I miss the time back then even more.
Too bad you can't actually turn back time

This shit is going to revitalize the MMORPG genre, it's probably going to be massive. Looking at the way Oldschool Runescape was received, it becoming a industry in-itself.

This is just going to be like Runescape 07'. You're only going to be playing for nostalgic reasons, and once you realize you have an adult life to get back to, that there will be no content updates, that the game is actually shitty, then you will go back to the main game. Classic WoW is only going to be pulling resources from the main game.

Not interested and even if I was I'm sure the modern Blizzard audience will make it the worst it can be.

lets hope it get revilalized before Blizzard decides to close up shop because of low player levels
>get orgasmic everytime I think of the good ol'days playing it

>you realize you have an adult life to get back to
My adult life is no different from my teen life except instead of school I go to work and I live alone

comfy

anyone currently playing? Would like some Stranglethorn footage..

>Classic WoW is only going to be pulling resources from the main game.
Source? If it's not going to be the old graphics and assets thats going to be really disappointing.

>This is just going to be like Runescape 07
Start off slow, eventually overtaking the original in popularity and bringing the franchise into a new era of prosperity?

oldschool runescape has had consistent new content updates for the past 3 years though, and its literally only gotten more and more popular

You lack vision... and a temporal discombobulator.

They didn't say anything about that yet

>Start off slow, eventually overtaking the original in popularity and bringing the franchise into a new era of prosperity?
They have to just not fuck it up. Oldschool Runescape started as a literally 2007 revision of the game. They need to do the same thing, get a actual version of the game as it was then and work on that.

>none of my friends who I played WoW with while I was a teen plays WoW anymore

then start playin faggot, the only solution, also it is worth it

>Maintaining servers
>Customer Service/Support Tickets
>Fixing bugs
>The inevitability of content updates
>Advertising/Marketing to bring back players

hmmmm...

>I'm sure the modern Blizzard audience will make it the worst it can be

You really think the little faggots that play Nu-ActiBlizz games are going to enjoy this?

That's pretty sad.

seems legit, but that also means you have a chance to do the things you really want to do without being judged, which is a good thing, play wow m8

>Void Elves

Never be able to play as a regular High Elf.

Good. I hope it sucks up as many resources as possible from your corpse version of the game you fat autistic faggot. Keep buying pet store mounts to fund my fucking game you clammy NEET.

I just want to make a lore faithful character that I won't get bored with and do everything with

>No tbc
>No Wotlk
Literally no interest. Also stop overhyping this shit when we have no details and Blizzard could fuck it up in 99 different ways.

>low player levels
I feel like it's going to surpass their expectations by a huge margin. The hype is real right now.

Having no obligations other than my job is quite liberating, actually
I will

will classic servers be free to play? if not then it's dead on arrival.

no, it really won't

it'll be fun for a while but its population will die out just as well. wow was released in a different time, and while it was fun, the people that play mmos now think of them as "grind to endgame, gear up, and do endgame stuff"

a lot of people don't remember that endgame was really only for certain classes. if they do bring back vanilla, i hope they at least add taunts for feral druids and prot pallies.

Maybe for the first quarter or two. It will die down once the majority realize it’s not 2004 and they aren’t teens anymore. There will still be some (loud) faithful ones but I can promise the player numbers will drop worse than regular WoW, especially if you have to pay for it.

What they should do is doubling down on the social aspect. Encourage people to talk to each other and whatnot, that's what everyone loved about vanilla WoW.

Of course not

That's for them to fix. Vanilla has an entire dev team working on it, their job will be to spice things up so people don't get bored. I have no idea how, but they'll do it.

Pure Classic or Community voted Classic? I wouldn't be against letting Warlock souls shards actually stack so my bags aren't totally punished for being more prepared.

THIS guys, anyone up for it?

i think that's a good idea, i mean playing on the private servers you definitely had a feeling of community in just plain barrens chat. however when people realize their favorite class is just shit and you will pretty much die from:

warlock chain fear
rogue stunlock
paladin hoj
or any length cc

they'll stop enjoying their class. as a druid main, druids just completely feel like wet noodles and you have to have a lot of skill and luck to just kill a single person.

No it isn't. It'll get boring quickly when people realize that what they actually wanted was their carefree childhood and teen years back.

Too bad you can't bring that back. Nor can you erase your memories and knowledge. You'll never have all those "first times" again.

>That's part of the level 60 experience. Our goal is to recreate that classic 1-60 gameplay. Some things changed as time went on, with different patches. How does that get manifested? That's one of the outstanding questions. But yeah, the goal is to recreate that exact experience, for better or for worse.
This gives me hope, at least for the moment they're just deciding whether to include all the patches up to 1.12 on server release or not, and not whether to add group finder, tokens or similar shit. Probably if it becomes too popular they will end up fucking it up with their greed, but it will be a good run nonetheless. Hopefully they won't cave it to the mouthbreathers that won't play it anyway who will whine for the next year to add in "QoL" changes that would ruin everything, and stick with recreating the exact same game.

go away finalflash

I think you mean finalnodad

If they added races I’d be more intrigued. Not Draenei or Worgen but different races like Ogre, High Elf, Naga, and Furbolg.

okay vanilla fanboy, tell me why paladins and feral druids shouldnt have taunts and become viable tank specs?

why should some classes be completely ignored while classes like warrior, warlock, mage, and rogue in constant high demand for end game pve content?

Feral druids had a taunt, they just couldn't remove the chance to get crushed with shield block.

oh, you're right my bad

anyway, my point was why couldnt the other tank specs be made viable tanks?

Go to Nostalgius

QoL didn’t ruin WoW, races didn’t ruin WoW, classes didn’t ruin WoW. It was the devs greed and lack of vision that ruined WoW, adding in micro transactions, keeping the monthly sub well beyond its point, unnecessary Diablo-like RNG, strange story decisions pulled right out of Doctor Who, and ruining characters just to add a reason for another raid.

Because they're hybrid classes that shouldn't be able to optimally fill more roles than any other class. Druids can tank effectively, and can still succeed with proper consumables and itemization in every raid up to Naxx, but it makes sense that they can't perform with maximal efficiency. Paladins get fucked, though. They're just beefier healers and niche AoE tanks that aren't worth bringing unless they have a nightfall.

The problem with WoW, and a problem that has always been present, is that the most dedicated ban-base, the top-tier raiders, are a small group of people, while most of the players are casual fans that play sometimes, so how to satisfy both the few hardcore fans and the casual masses.. the hardcore fans want difficulty, RP-element and diversity in the RPG-world while the casual player want fun and shortcuts.. difficult problem indeed..

>completely ignored
What? No class was ignored for pve, if you mean that there was only 1 viable spec for some classes then sure, but if you play a warlock or mage that's also true, so I don't see a big problem there. Having every class have their own strengths and weaknesses was part of the charm though. If you start changing small things like adding taunt to specs it's a slippery slope, and will end up changing the balance/difficulty of the whole game, both in terms of pve and pvp.

YOU THINK YOU DO
BUT YOU DONT

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gud stuff

Man, exploring plaguelands for the first time was THE shit.

Post the BRD atlas guide

Some of the QoL changes killed the server community though, so you're objectively wrong.

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Can we get some pics going?

If classic servers turn on to be pretty good, will you keep your old choice of classes or will you switch it up?

I would once again main a druid, but I'd probably pick a warrior instead of warlock for my main alt. Never got into tanking much, and in hindsight it's a thing I would like to try more.

There's so much stuff in there god damn

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Would probably keep a retri pala as main

>tfw long ass runs with my guildmates
Probably best moments of my gaming life

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Can anyone travel to Stranglethorn or Echo Island and take some pics?

I gotta ask, since I never played Alliance and never looked into the class. What exactly was the weakness of a Paladin, 1v1? If I remember, most complaints Pallies had were in regards to doing shit dps or being funneled into the healing role at endgame. But what was his actual weakness in a 1v1 situation?

even if I know now that it's not optimal, I would replay my undead warrior

Mara to this day is my favorite dungeon. How pretty it is after coming out of the slime infested undergrowth was breathtaking and something I’ve kept with me.

Catching people mostly. Hunter's and especially druids were a pain. Not unkillable, but the most annoying matchup

I've never played Vanilla before or much of WoW at all, but I'm looking forward to this.

Hopefully I can get a somewhat static group through here and get someone to show me the ropes.

Wasn't Retribution missing any active damage spells? Like pure autoattack buffed by seals? Can't remember.

What happened to "I would gladly pay for legacy servers"?

Lack of interrupts, damage, slows, +healing, and mana pool. Paladins can win a lot of 1v1 engagements, but it takes a long time, and an enemy can probably get away if they want to. You can heal yourself, but the damage you deal isn't really enough to make up for it with the limited mana pool and healing power you have. Most of the good 1v1 pvp classes can beat a paladin of equal gear, assuming the pala doesn't prep reckoning.

>Most of the good 1v1 pvp classes can beat a paladin of equal gear
I'm not sure if you mean nu-wow, but in vanilla a Paladin had the ability to kill any class, barring massive gear gaps

my god that is pretty.

Lads has there been any more info dropped by Blizzard today regarding classic?

Picking up 10 cogs and 10 metal around the race track at level 43 before Tanaris in 2007 :(.

Yeah, you had seal of command which gave you a chance to get an extra hit worth of holy dmg on your autoattacks and judgement on an 8 sec CD

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>it's raining in the desert

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Bug from private server

But comfy rain image nonetheless

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Every dungeon that's been reworks had pros and cons to what they changed with it on retail, and even though ST was considered complete shit and awful to run by a majority of people I loved it, and then they literally raped it, no other dungeon change is even comparable to how butchered it is by cutting 3/4s of the dungeon out

How about instead we get a thread dedicated to how absolutely BASED and HOLY the Alliance is? Hordefags should lay down their arms and repent; you're literally on the wrong side of history.

I played pala from MC to Naxx40 as ret and loved the shit out of 1v1. My server was a backwater so I never got to duel really high end players of all classes but I did feel pretty fucking invincible for the most part.

Some experiences I recall
>GOOD and geared warriors
Was 50/50 really. The gem trinket made things spicy if they could play. The one guy I didn't beat by default was an orc and if he resisted the HoJ I always lost. Really just boiled down to crits and SoC procs.
>Ele shaman
A REALLY geared ele shaman is tough. You have no interrupt and they can heal. Their PvP damage when left unchecked is silly combined with tankiness.
>Feral druid
The one good equally geared feral I could not kill. We went at it for an hour near AQ40 while waiting for our raids and he just would not die - but neither would I
>Geared healers
You can't kill them. They can't really kill you either though. Priests can burn you and prob kill you if Disc.
>Hunters
If they aren't retarded enough to get in Repe range you can never catch them thanks to aspect as they kite. You have to hit a grenade or die. Just hide in a house or otherwise LoS them to stop it.

I mean vanilla wow. Paladins can beat most classes, but at high gear levels will lose (not badly lose) to equally geared ,equally skilled, pvp-specced hunters, warriors, and warlocks. Honestly not sure about mages and rogues, never played those. Warriors just scale too hard to lose to ret pallies that barely scale at all, hunters just can't be caught, and warlocks are warlocks.

If they bring out the game in progression mode, meaning launching with only MC. They better do the AQ event and you bet your ass I'm gonna get that mount. I remember one of the best things about vanilla was when they released new servers that didn't have AQ open and it was a fucking race to see who could gather the most resources and claim that sweet sweet beetle.

This, people are always crying about the good'ol times when they had no responsibility. Having a job that demands nothing of you on your freetime is actually the best. The only difference between going to school and having a job is that while going to school you had the illusion you where going somewhere big in life.

I usually roleplay as if the Forsaken and my character never joined the Horde, because really it's pants-on-head retarded.

Paladins weakness is lack of mobility and low sustained damage. Paladin DPS is entirely weapon-dependant, meaning they can deal respectable burst damage if they have a good weapon.

To win 1vs1 a paladin must either quickly burst down the opponent through a few stuns or manage to outlast them through self-healing.

Hunters for example can in theory kite every other class to death. In World PvP a paladin can often last long enough against them however to either get away, help to arrive, or chase them into a group of enemy mobs

if they make a TBC server my life would be complete

do you think there will be a classic roleplaying server? imagine an official world of warcraft roleplaying server without a single draenei horsecock or belf faggot on it.

I feel the same way. I used to hate Sunken Temple when I was a boy because it was a complicated mess of stairs, hallways, and respawning mobs. But eventually our group learned the dungeon and once we did it became my favorite. I spent like 5 levels in Sunken Temple. We'd full clear that bitch and get tons of experience. When they changed it, cries of joy were heard from the retards who couldn't spend 10 minutes to learn a dungeon, but part of my soul was hurt. I can't wait to get back into old Sunken Temple.

I always enjoyed the dank oppressiveness of the place. A lot of the dungeons back then felt really nerve-wracking and dangerous.

Man I quit like 8 years ago. Still think about it a lot

>Classic WoW is only going to be pulling resources from the main game.
>tfw i get to play classic WoW AND kill modern WoW all at the same time
YES