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Warmuth

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For people who like raiding I understand why vanilla has little appeal. The entire game was an impediment to raiding. For the people who don't like raiding though, all that impeding shit was the game and there's not much of it left these days. Which market is larger makes no difference. They're both large.
 
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pshhh raiding? more like get 39 as a shaman and 1 shot everybody in WSG for funsies
 
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Warmuth said:
For people who like raiding I understand why vanilla has little appeal. The entire game was an impediment to raiding. For the people who don't like raiding though, all that impeding shit was the game and there's not much of it left these days. Which market is larger makes no difference. They're both large.
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Come on, every raider worth his or her salt wants to key a 40 person raid force for Onyxia again. And I KNOW if they are playing alliance (not sure what the horde variant was) they are chomping at the bit to run endless Marshal Windsor escorts! Endless I say!!!!!
 
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Kharzette

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I never made it to any raiding. I remember buying a horse, and doing a dungeon or two.

I really just want to see the big crowds, maybe kill some murlocs, done.

I did a bunch more for my EQ nostalgia tour, but I don't really remember much of warcraft.
 
Falstaff

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Yes, Classic was most fun for me leveling up. My two brothers, sister in law, and a friend of ours grouped and did everything together from level 10 to the mid 50s. Even grinding fucking Nesingwary pages in Stranglethorn was fun.

PvP a close second but raiding in classic was just a shit show. Recreating the leveling experience even a little will definitely have me coming back.
 
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Grim1

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Aye, I'm not looking to get to raid level. Just want to experience vanilla and have some fun leveling with a bunch of people around. Probably wont last long, but I'm willing to resub for a couple months to check it out.

Endgame raiding doesn't interest me anymore. I just don't find it fun.
 
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Pyros

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BRD/UBRS/Scholo/Strat were cool dungeons too, especially when you did the whole thing instead of boss rushes for gear. I remember doing BRD entirely when I was leveling one of my alts, starting from... 40? I forgot and then spending like 5-6hours in there doing the quests in order and unlocking all the shit and getting like 10levels in the process due to respawns and shit, was super fun. Obviously, the odds of finding people who are willing to do that are fairly low, but it was great and felt pretty "old school" where you had to pay attention to patrols and repops and had to memorize the way with lots of going up and down and shortcuts and shit, great stuff.
 
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Aaron

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Pyros said:
BRD/UBRS/Scholo/Strat were cool dungeons too, especially when you did the whole thing instead of boss rushes for gear. I remember doing BRD entirely when I was leveling one of my alts, starting from... 40? I forgot and then spending like 5-6hours in there doing the quests in order and unlocking all the shit and getting like 10levels in the process due to respawns and shit, was super fun. Obviously, the odds of finding people who are willing to do that are fairly low, but it was great and felt pretty "old school" where you had to pay attention to patrols and repops and had to memorize the way with lots of going up and down and shortcuts and shit, great stuff.
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This is exactly what I loved about Vanilla. I have especially fond memories of Maurodon, but with a PUG. And damn lucky I was too. We were in there for something like 2 and a half hours seeing how far we could get. In the end we just managed to kill Princess (who was orange to me) with me being the only survivor. Damn that was fun!

But on the flip side, for every epic adventure like that I remember plenty more that ended in fucking disaster or drama. But if you have a good group of friends, then those old school dungeons were amazing!
 
yerm

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The risk of epic failure made success more meaningful. Always winning at least in part gets boring.
 
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Leadsalad

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Playing a mage was mega shit due to having to drink after everything. But dual trinket popping 3m pom pryo was some hilarious times.

Rogues were op as fuck.

Hunters also had to drink and properly weave auto-shot. But woe be to anybody with cloth near them.

Warriors in bgs with heal bots = best thing ever.

Fucking paladins thinking they could do things besides heal (no, get fucked and go back to rank 1 flash of light + spirit of aquamentus + blessing of light).
 
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The Gauntlet at the end of BRD was fucking epic. Where you had to kill certain mobs for torches, clear and defend the platforms... I was a mage my first run through there, spamming arcane explosion, and later saw Lord of the Rings where Gandalf is carrying through what felt like a similar situation and thought that was completely badass. It's since been nurses to shit, and the quantity of mobs, respawn rate, mob health, have all been seriously nurfed. Also, the choice of killing the king or queen first resulted in different RP and different loot.

Definitely miss those long as balls dungeons, and it's a shame modern folks (and us who are now older) don't have the time to spend clearing shit for hours, only to get a half decent drop, or no drop at all. I used the staff off the LBRS final boss all the way through BWL, because the fucking clique fucked me on weapon drops while raiding.
 
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Leadsalad said:
Playing a mage was mega shit due to having to drink after everything. But dual trinket popping 3m pom pryo was some hilarious times.

Rogues were op as fuck.

Hunters also had to drink and properly weave auto-shot. But woe be to anybody with cloth near them.

Warriors in bgs with heal bots = best thing ever.

Fucking paladins thinking they could do things besides heal (no, get fucked and go back to rank 1 flash of light + spirit of aquamentus + blessing of light).
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The Pals 4 Life crew would run four paladins and let me tag along (as a mage) for dungeon clears. It was kind of neat the combined, early consecration that actually did damage, and the combined healing, aoe, durability was nuts.
 
Pyros

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God I had forgotten Hunters were originally mana classes :eek:
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It was ok though cause you could feign death to get out of combat then drink to get your mana back. The rest of the gameplay was using Aimed Shot > waiting 2secs or whatever the channel was, and pressing Multishot every now and then when it was up. I think Arcane shot maybe too but not sure if there was some autoattack resetting bullshit or whatever. And Tranq shot in raids. That was basically hunter's gameplay. Obviously, you also only had one viable spec, since pet spec was garbo other than leveling and Survival had Lacerate as the 31 skill(although the first 11 or whatever were good for PvP, maybe 21, you had like the parry buff thing and some trap stuff).

Class was fucking bad tbh, and I played hunter most of vanilla.
 
Flobee

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Reading about other classes in vanilla makes me realize how lucky I was to play shaman. Nice and broken OP right up to the pre BC patch. We were still good but it was never the same. 2h WF was the truth
 
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i miss weapon specs on rogues/warriors :( double attack procs for swords, stuns for maces, crit for axes? hell yeah
 
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BoozeCube

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While there are plenty of shit things about Vanilla and even old EQ the ability to just fail and fuck up is what makes these games more rewarding. As painful as those pure shit groups or waiting around trying to find people to go do a dungeon it was that much more rewarding when you finally did them, you had a reason to form bonds with players.
 
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Nirgon

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Ran RFC on Night Haven as lvl 14 priest. Drank after every fight, pre hotted tank. Felt good tbh.
 
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Pyros said:
It was ok though cause you could feign death to get out of combat then drink to get your mana back. The rest of the gameplay was using Aimed Shot > waiting 2secs or whatever the channel was, and pressing Multishot every now and then when it was up. I think Arcane shot maybe too but not sure if there was some autoattack resetting bullshit or whatever. And Tranq shot in raids. That was basically hunter's gameplay. Obviously, you also only had one viable spec, since pet spec was garbo other than leveling and Survival had Lacerate as the 31 skill(although the first 11 or whatever were good for PvP, maybe 21, you had like the parry buff thing and some trap stuff).

Class was fucking bad tbh, and I played hunter most of vanilla.
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A proper played marks hunter in raids was beast. And a fully decked out pvp hunter was maddening to fight against as a druid. I sleep his pet, he traps my bear, shift, heal, shift, he attacks, gets rooted, charge, trap, rinse repeat, and the whole range requirement for hunters made things feel interesting. Spent a whole shit ton of effort basically just keeping a warlord hunter busy so my team could capture a point...
 
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