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World of Warcraft: Classic |OT| Greetings, traveler
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Is there a way to view characters from an inactive account without having to buy a subscription? This thread got me nostalgic and I can't remember how many characters I had or what levels they are lol
Edit - Holy crap, 1 month costs 18.99 now?
Edit - Holy crap, 1 month costs 18.99 now?
You can download and run the client without a sub, it's technically free-to-play until level 20. You can see all of your characters, you just can't enter the world with them if they're over 20.
I can't believe how relevant http://wowqueuedance.ytmnd.com/ is once again looking to be come Tuesday.
Ah ok
So I logged in to see my characters and their names look all messed up and my main doesn't seem to be there, I wonder if my account was hacked years ago at some point and stuff was changed *shrug*
I know at one point someone activated my account, added a sub and played my characters but I got it back before anything was changed, I don't recall anything happening since then, and Blizzard really upgraded their security features since then
They didn't delete servers and characters at any point, did they?
Characters don't ever get deleted as far as I know. I still have level 1 toons from 2006 on my account and I haven't had an active sub since Wrath and very briefly during MoP.
Inactive characters can get their names changed, though, to free those names up for active players. I don't know the details for how and why it happens off the top of my head. Some of my ancient characters have gibberish names and some don't.
So I remembered the realm I used to play on and all my main toons are still there, dunno why it initially showed I didn't have any there
I can't believe they changed the names lol, but I guess it makes sense for active players to have access to them
That kind of shit has existed in vanilla before. No no no no no. Blizzard cannot tell players who to be friends with. The "mafia" stuff is only really a problem with cross faction bullshittery which is(was in vanilla) a bannable offense
Multiple guilds working together to control a resource 24/7 and dominate the economy related to it. In the context of Classic WoW, we're usually talking about the Devilsaurs in Un'Goro Crater and their leather. It was a rampant practice on private servers, but the private server mafias colluded cross-faction and that's definitely not something Blizzard is going to tolerate.
Yeah the major problem with the mafia stuff is cross realm is bannable. So it wont be able to be like Private Servers where both factions work together to gank people that dare to kill a devilsaur. That will get them perma'd on live.
That alone takes most of the teeth out of mafias. If they cant attack/grief their own faction then its waaaay less effective.
That alone takes most of the teeth out of mafias. If they cant attack/grief their own faction then its waaaay less effective.
They'll rename the character but you don't always lose the name. I just restarted my sob after being gone for years and while most of my characters were renamed they let youchange them as soon as you start them up again and usually you can get the same one back. On the dozen characters I've logged in on I was able to Get back there old name on all of them
Nothing is set in stone yet (For EU or NA) but there are several EU members in the Discord trying to set one up if you want to join and make your voice heard.
I AM SO FUCKING IN
OH YES
Favourite game world ever
Favourite multiplayer world ever
Favourite MP experiences (= to Halo)
Favourite game music
Favourite in-game item ever
I've played enough Private Server Vanilla to know this game got me good.
OH YES
Favourite game world ever
Favourite multiplayer world ever
Favourite MP experiences (= to Halo)
Favourite game music
Favourite in-game item ever
I've played enough Private Server Vanilla to know this game got me good.
Good shit from Blizz. This does not belong to Classic at all.
The LFG System was introduced in Wrath, if I remember right. What did exist back then were Meeting Stones, where you could go to the dungeon entrance and meet for a group, but they did not initially summon players.
Vanilla had automatic grouping through meeting stones outside the dungeons (and later through innekeepers) that early in vanilla just put 5 random people together. It was later changed to guarantee one healer and one tank but by then no one used it anymore.
Agreed!
Be sure to join the discord (posted above), it's for both NA and EU players.
Pretty much. I really want to play Borderlands 3 but I just don't know if it's gonna happen lol.
I definitely remember being able to looking up player listings without going to meeting stones, but the system did not make other players auto-join groups. You had to see a player on the list and invite that person manually. Sort of a "Looking for More" listing setup.
There was a general player search function that you could use parameters to search for other people in the game but it wasn't explicitly for finding a group iirc.
What I am remembering is something like the "Looking for More" window on the right:
There was a dropdown box that you could use to select a dungeon, and it would display a list of people also looking to run that dungeon (along with their class & level). Obviously this image is from Burning Crusade, but I remember Vanilla having some variant of this as well.
What I am remembering is something like the "Looking for More" window on the right:
There was a dropdown box that you could use to select a dungeon, and it would display a list of people also looking to run that dungeon (along with their class & level). Obviously this image is from Burning Crusade, but I remember Vanilla having some variant of this as well.
I remember that window now that you post it, but I am 100% certain it was not in Vanilla.
ya but is it still possible to even make a char on Herod? Like do they lock realms?
No, they don't lock realms because technically the game isn't even out yet and they don't want to prevent people from playing with friends even if the server is full. However they strongly discourage making a character on the full realms. Saying "hours-long queues" is pretty discouraging!
What I am remembering is something like the "Looking for More" window on the right:
There was a dropdown box that you could use to select a dungeon, and it would display a list of people also looking to run that dungeon (along with their class & level). Obviously this image is from Burning Crusade, but I remember Vanilla having some variant of this as well.
The Looking for More system was added in Burning Crusade. Vanilla had a dungeon finder mechanic accessed through Meeting Stones and Innkeepers. It was poorly implemented and rarely used, so it was nearly impossible to get a group.
So if we want to find a group in Classic, we are just going to have to spam the chat in capital cities? Or use the LFG chat channel?
It looks to me like the LFG/LFM Tool was implemented late into Vanilla. I can find posts referencing it in December 2006, prior to the launch of Burning Crusade:
IIRC, it was added in the 2.0 "bridge" patch. So it's a Burning Crusade feature that was released just before launch. It came after Vanilla's final patch (1.12), which Classic is based on.
As far as finding groups, yeah. You're going to have to spam. There will probably also be third-party sites/tools available.
Do you want to heal or do you want to DPS? Do you want to spend your time managing totems, or summoning food/water?
that's pretty obvious considering the dungeons in that list are from BC. :P
Well, on the one hand I really like healing, but on the other hand I thought a damage class like mage would be better in Classic, since farming is so important for the mounts.
Damn, I almost want to try this.
I never really played WoW (especially when it first came out) and recently listening to some old GFW podcasts that often included WoW talk makes me want to see if I missed out on anything back then.
I never really played WoW (especially when it first came out) and recently listening to some old GFW podcasts that often included WoW talk makes me want to see if I missed out on anything back then.
If you learn to play the AH well, there's no need to ever farm for gold. If you aren't into that, you can always group up with people to farm high value items (like Righteous Orbs) in dungeons. I plan on doing the latter as a tank.
Give it a go. You don't need to buy the game, just the subscription. If you end up not liking it, you're only out $15.
Unlike retail, you don't have to buy the $40 expansion + the $15 monthly fee to try it. That's the reason why I never came back to WOW, and the reason why I've gone back to OSRS so many times. This is a lot more accessible to just pick up and play when you want, even if its only for a month. It's pretty likely that their subscriber base will plunge after month 1, and plunge even harder 3-4 months in. I think it'll always be successful and very active but the hype right now is insane and unsustainable.
I'm going to try it out. I'm definitely hyped and I loved playing alongside everyone when OSRS came out, with the economy developing and the rush for certain milestones. It'll be cool to be a part of even though I really didn't play WOW for that long. Who knows how long I'll actually play but I'm looking forward to it.
Classic is built off a very late version of Vanilla as a base, so Auction Houses will be in each city.