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World of Warcraft: Classic |OT| Greetings, traveler
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Chrome Remote Desktop is really easy to set up my man. I tried to calculate when I should queue up yesterday. Went in queue at 13:00. Got in at 21:30.
Yikes.
I've found this to be the norm as well but I've already made a few friends who I've quested with multiple times.
The retail habits are hard to shake.
It will take some time, for people to start engaging a bit more freely.
Was standing in Crossroads offerings free enchants to people, got tipped without asking. Love it.
I always try to chat a bit with people, and usually they're always talkative as well. Met a nice Swedish bloke last night and we bonded while making fun of Norwegians. Good times.
I'm going to reroll on another server. Currently playing on Everlook (biggest german PvE server), but the community is... not what I expected of Classic. Barrens chat full of anal 'jokes', people stealing tags or quest items all the time, and a general toxic attitude. Hoping for a better experience on smaller servers.
honestly one of the biggest things for me in this version of the game is how much more satisfying it is to see your numbers grow from basically nothing. i just got a better staff and the jump from dealing 25 damage to 48 damage per melee hit feels significant, like an RPG should
this sounds like the classic barrens experience to me honestly
this sounds like the classic barrens experience to me honestly
Ugh. Got home about 6pm last night, met a queue of many thousands and several hours. As it was close to letting me in, I dozed off, and then woke up to see "Disconnected from server" and would have to queue for several hours again. So it would be about midnight before I could play. Fuck that!
Today I installed TeamViewer on my home PC so I can start to log in an hour before I leave work.
Today I installed TeamViewer on my home PC so I can start to log in an hour before I leave work.
There's a lvl 56 now at least. We're getting close.
Was exactly the same last night on Pyrewood Village pve realm.... nobody talks except to argue and yep anal talk, toxic stuff, arguing. Tried to group up with people, even saying gz and thanks etc, no response. Seen one decent conversation about Scottish food, tried to join in and that is it. Just as well I'm playing with my friends sometimes or I'd be out. Not exactly loving retail just now either in all honesty, needs and overhaul but this well is not any better. I have just installed Final Fantasy XIV, after so much WoW, think I need something else now and then.
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Back in the days of Vanilla, I never really got into professions.
That's something that will make this game new to me, in a way.
That's something that will make this game new to me, in a way.
I only picked up First Aid in TBC.
I'll let you know I was the fucking class leader for Priests all the way through MC, BWL, AQ20&40 in a quite serious raiding guild.
Whoopsie.
You really should this time, professions are actually useful at this point in the game. As a mage, I would be doing myself a disservice if I didn't craft a Robe of Power on my leveling journey.
Would be interesting if they made another "timeline", remaking x-pacs and going in a totally different direction without flying mounts and some of the lore decisions. Maybe go down a different avenue in terms of bosses and raids.
Probably never gonna happen, but a man can dream.
Probably never gonna happen, but a man can dream.
Weird I am on that server at the undead areas have been full of great chat and friendly people?
Maybe I'm just unlucky then, my nephew is having a much different experience in his RP server. But I have seen many people saying the same thing as myself on my social media and even some folk in here and other forums. Well anyway going to bring some guildies into a guild here and make our own home.
Infact I took a screenshot of two people spitting on me in the gnome and dwarf starting area when I was just starting out, nice way to start eh.
Nah. Healers needed it as it was a good way to "cheat" heal in instances without invoking the 5 second rule, giving you more time to regen your mana. I distinctly remember using it on myself instead of healing myself, for example. :)
Priests in particular. Stack spirit, get used to using bandages and having like 3-4 ranks of heal/greater heal on your bars to squeeze out every drop of mana. God I miss early WoW healing(until wrath dropped downranking killing it forever). :p
Something I've been thinking about since my old guild(who I hadn't played with in like +6 years) are playing on a pvp server(no way I'm healing on one, going hunter), is how on earth do people on pvp servers do the old Hunter MC quest? You know, the one where the demons would despawn if another player so much as look at them the wrong way?
Well, I was always the tank so as long as the heals were coming and stuff died I didn't question it too much lol
For the hunters, I presume they brought guildies and friends along for muscle. Or all the hunters just had a detente thing going in that area, where they all just agreed not to fuck with each other.
I've just been using the twitch app, seems to work just fine, apart from no Elvui.
I did group up for some quests so far. But theses quests really are quick affairs so everyone leaves immediately when they get what they wanted. I think a lot of people fear the "commitment", at least that's what I do.
When I'm playing in the evening, I'm usually tired from work and want to go at my own pace and not commit to some "schedule". Even if you just group up for some questing there is always this sense of rushing through everything as fast and efficiently as possible and I don't like that (I'm on the Hydraxian EU RP server for that matter...).
I did my best to chat at least a little like quest objective, Hello, farewell, thanks, etc. Most of the time people leave so fast that you cannot even type thx or something, though...
When I'm playing in the evening, I'm usually tired from work and want to go at my own pace and not commit to some "schedule". Even if you just group up for some questing there is always this sense of rushing through everything as fast and efficiently as possible and I don't like that (I'm on the Hydraxian EU RP server for that matter...).
I did my best to chat at least a little like quest objective, Hello, farewell, thanks, etc. Most of the time people leave so fast that you cannot even type thx or something, though...
Yep lost count of how many times I went to type thanks and bye and ended up wasting my time.
That's why I like BfA and 15 years worth of QOL improvements Blizz made to the game. It gives you a lot of options to progress as a solo player if you don't want to do social interactions on a particular day.
I wonder if returning Classic players will jump to try out BfA once they remember all of Classic's shortcomings and get annoyed by them, again.
I respect Classic and hopefully I will manage to get at least one character to 60. But I'm not sure I will want to repeat going through end-game, I already know all the crappy aspects of it from playing WoW since beta.
That really would be great. Blizz need to find that perfect balance between expansion progression without everything that comes before the latest release becoming essentially pointless.
imo, they should not release TBC for Classic, atleast not without major revisions to the fundamentals of the expansion. But even then I would much prefer a brand new expansion that is located in Azeroth and much, much more focused in scope.
Bullshit. Same thing happened in vanilla as well. The community experience was not so vastly different than it is on retail. Some things were different out of necessity but I swear some of you forgot Barrens chat, dancing/teabagging/spitting on corpses, or other extremely toxic parts of the community.
Yup. You respected and talked with your guildies but playing with randoms was always looked down upon. If you PUG a dungeon you just want others to do acceptable job and hopefully not spam party chat with dumb childish/homophobic/sexist/racist shit. The last thing you wanted was to try and bond with people in PUG.
He was talking about how people don't talk much with each other. Group up for quests without saying hi, leave without thanking etc. Not about the general chat, that stuff hasn't changed.
I agree. On one hand you had people casting buffs on each other and teaming up for group content. On the other hand the chat channels were a constant stream of Gamergate like homophobia, transphobia, racism and sexism. The community was and is to this day toxic in that regard, that has not changed.
I wasn't addressing toxicity.
And I used to talk way more in groups back in the day.
When I started to play classic again I noticed I wasn't engaging as much in chat, because that's what I got accustomed to in retail.
It's just what it is.
I already had much more interaction with randoms in classic in a few days than in months of retail.
Did you do any 2 hour long dungeon runs yet? There might be more talking in those. I mean, how much do you expect people to talk in a group when they just group up to complete a 5 minute quest with elite kill while leveling?
I already did dungeons and quest parties.
In both, there was more back and forth than I remember ever having in the last few months in retail.
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If you don't want to mess with a lot of the Blizzard UI there are separate castbar addons, but unitframe addons usually include configurable enemy castbars as well.
If you haven't hit 20 yet then sure, but Loch Modan is the same level range and easier to get to. Also more compact.
It's been great getting back into Vanilla. I'm surprised by how much I remember from questing, it's been 15 years! The only system that would have been nice to add to is... achievements. Not the current system in retail, but a new set of achievements for vanilla. No mount rewards or anything like that.
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Yes it's dumb and immature. But I also hate when Classic players do the same to BfA. I wish people realized both games can co-exist and stop this pathetic infighting.
I've played wow on and off since beta, I had a vanilla/burning crusade/lich king collector's edition account, but it got hacked in 2009, long after I had been playing so I just let it go.
Started playing casually again and started a new account.
So now that I'm playing classic I thought what the hell, let's see if I can get my old account back. It was a long shot but, they managed to find it and add it to my battle net account. Now I am rocking a mini diablo again!
Now my classic experience is truly complete:p
Started playing casually again and started a new account.
So now that I'm playing classic I thought what the hell, let's see if I can get my old account back. It was a long shot but, they managed to find it and add it to my battle net account. Now I am rocking a mini diablo again!
Now my classic experience is truly complete:p
Can confirm, although I did unintentionally tag Maggot's Eye last night. Fortunately they added me to their group before the kill so it was all good!
The bad behavior in the general chat comes down to a few assholes, as always. Most people don't even chat in the general, I think.
But that's par for the course in every online game I've ever played.
But that's par for the course in every online game I've ever played.