World of Warcraft: Classic

mkopec said:

Ok good point on the keys, but why would he not? its his old community that he set up (or at least was a big part of setting up). Sure he does not owe us shit, but its not like hes not a part of this community still in spirit at least. Its been going strong for the better part of 20 yrs now. I think he would be proud of this, would he not?

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I mean are we even really the same community anymore? After rerolled and back again I am sure there are less original FOH members than you can count on one hand.

Hell most of the board at this point probably never played EQ or even know who Furor is.

Khane said:

Classic WoW is basically the reversal of enjoyable content to current WoW. Leveling in classic is engaging and you have to save your CDs and conserve resources in case of accidental adds. You have to be wary of how you pull and have to watch out for patrols. Raiding is very boring because you spend more time not attacking so you don't pull aggro or spamming your one mana efficient heal/bolt spell than anything else. Current WoW is an AE fest while leveling and it doesn't really matter if you overpull because you can disengage very easily on any class. Raiding (at least on Mythic) is so involved it turns into a headache because of all the cooldowns, abilities, and mechanics you have to keep track of.

In a lot of ways Classic WoW's model is much more of a loot pinata than current WoW when speaking of highest end gear. End game content is so relaxing and uninvolved you can almost AFK through it and collect your loot. The only reason it doesn't feel like a free loot giveaway is because of RNG rarity on the best items and the fact that very few pieces drop in relation to the amount of people you bring to the content. If Titanforging was not a thing nobody would complain about "free loot" in Modern WoW because the best items are actually harder to obtain if you don't get lucky with a high TF. The problem is none of the itemization is interesting, it's all just primary and secondary stats. Itemization was way more interesting in Classic.

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Yeah that’s the thing the current game is so vastly different at this point it’s hard to even consider it an MMORPG. As involved as current bleeding edge Mythic kills are they still don’t get the fanfaire like your first Rag kill even though mechanically it’s light years beyond and substantially more difficult.

At the end of the day killing version #4 of a boss for loot variant #376 isn’t nearly as excited as killing Naggy and getting a Cloak of Flames.

The current game might offer various levels of difficulty to appeal to a wider group of players but it also leads to people excluding friends and guildmates because of the difficulty slider. You end up with apathy from some who don’t care about killing one difficulty higher for the sword of even a blue glow instead of a green one which in BFA the art team was even to fucking lazy to do that. Or you end up resentment towards players who you feel are holding you back although in the current game you just say fuck em and server transfer to join other faggots you don’t know and then quit after two more weeks because you thought the grass was greener and realize every raid team has issues and people who don’t know show, instead of in the past where you invested more in the players and team and you built a comradary with your guildmates.

I still says MMORPGs should have one version of a boss and one version of loot, Transmog shit is gay as is Armor dye, not being able to see by a visual cue what people in the game are wearing lost a ton of uniqueness.