World of Warcraft: Classic

Aaron · Sep 13, 2019

Deruvian said:
Random classic wow memory. Some well known guy passed away on a pvp server. There was an in game RP funeral for him in some far off zone. Cue giant horde of autists who stormed in to murder ever man woman and child in attendence. Pretty sure there's a video somewhere.

I attended one in game wedding and viewed two funerals in Eve back in the day. Due to the fact that Eve is all vs all PVP it's actually easier to enforce security around such events as every rat bastard can shoot idiots who show up. Even had Alliances that are usually at war show up together to provide security for such events.

xzi · Sep 13, 2019

Ossoi said:
APES world first and the same private server warrior heavy meta everyone told me only existed on the inaccurate private servers, Ossoi right again.

Classic is a joke, I did 25 man Onyxia and it was a walk in the park. Zero deep breaths.

Same in Strat live, no need for any cc even on four mob scarlet packs and a 58 rogue in the group

I don't know if it's a server thing, but warrior heavy meta?

Literally all I see at all times are mages. I've grouped with like 3 warriors and that's only because bears are bad at raid tanking

Korzax Stonehammer · Sep 13, 2019

Arbitrary said:
The server I picked as a backup for when I couldn't get on Whitemane, Westfall, has crept up from High to Full during prime time. I'd be damned interested in seeing the Classic numbers since launch. Have they really trended up instead of down?

'Warcraft Classic' Layering And Realm Queues: Ion Hazzikostas Explains Why You're Waiting To Log In

Warcraft's game director expects server populations to drop to a tenth or less of today's mass influx.

www.forbes.com

Maybe it's more the Classic tourists are leaving retail you creepy deadeyed fuck.

Maybe it's all the people that waited in a queue for a week and just said 'fuck this, i have better things to do' that are leaving the servers, but they sure as hell are not going back to retail. Blizz really misread this, and did not plan accordingly. I started on westfall, but gave up because there were so many people. 24 hours later they put up a couple more servers, and I rolled on one of those. Pretty much a graveyard compared to any of the day 1 servers. People will not move, the newer servers should have been released at the same time, they obviously had them ready.

TJT · Sep 13, 2019

Moreso today than 15 years ago. Nearly all major infrastructure like this is designed to scale as needed and then be discarded as needed. Sure you might get some angry sperging from forced server merges. But you would have zero of these problems.

BoozeCube · Sep 13, 2019

I think the most frustrating part about this whole launch is you literally could not fuck it up this bad without doing it on purpose, and if you read that article they did pretty much just that.

Kaige · Sep 13, 2019

That would explain more of the push to try new systems after a certain point in the game's history - this WoW development team still has this shadow of Classic hanging over them as being "better" and people would rather play that instead, so they're bitter about it. How fucking retarded do you have to be to sabotage your company just to prove your own worth?

Ossoi · Sep 13, 2019

xzi said:
I don't know if it's a server thing, but warrior heavy meta?

Literally all I see at all times are mages. I've grouped with like 3 warriors and that's only because bears are bad at raid tanking

I mean for raids. Fury warriors are best DPS, everyone here told me private server meta wouldn't translate to classic

Ossoi · Sep 13, 2019

BoozeCube said:
I think the most frustrating part about this whole launch is you literally could not fuck it up this bad without doing it on purpose, and if you read that article they did pretty much just that.

It's been a disaster, the current game should've been an open beta

Planning to launch with two pvp eu realms.

Raid xp bug trivialized leveling and reduced the need to quest in the open world, also made a joke of the MC race

Layering and resulting layering abuse should've been spotted sooner.

Demo shout bug.

Nerfed 1.12 dungeons helped this aoe grind meta and reduced all dungeon challenge. 25 man Ony shouldn't be possible and my guild did it without a 25 pvt server players with recent experience. At this gear level the 60 dungeons should be a challenge, but there is zero e.g. Being able to drink between Rend spawns

Itemisation is stupid, I picked up random bits of +dmg/healing gear from BRD/BRS which makes the dungeon sets that we originally entered MC with redundant, but yet we can't even get a key ring?

TJT · Sep 13, 2019

Ossoi said:
I mean for raids. Fury warriors are best DPS, everyone here told me private server meta wouldn't translate to classic

No the thing was that best derp raid DPS is splitting hairs about shit nobody cares about. Oh you killed Rag five minutes faster than us by stacking DPS warriors?

So cool... Yeah...

Dinadass · Sep 13, 2019

Apes barely used the raid dungeon grind strat, most of them were in static 5 man groups which was better exp/hour than 10 manning if you had a very good group. They mostly just 10manned LBRS to get UBRS key faster.

Also the various census sites/trackers are indicating that Blizz has decreased the max number of players allowed on some of the Full servers, probably to get more people to transfer off to the lower pop servers so phase 2 isn’t a clusterfuck (it will be anyway). Queues went up this week because of that, not because thousands more people suddenly decided to start playing on Whitemane/Herod/Shazzrah etc

mkopec · Sep 13, 2019

There is no way they are getting rid of layers in phase 2 for these overpacked servers.

Springbok · Sep 13, 2019

Arbitrary said:
The server I picked as a backup for when I couldn't get on Whitemane, Westfall, has crept up from High to Full during prime time. I'd be damned interested in seeing the Classic numbers since launch. Have they really trended up instead of down?

'Warcraft Classic' Layering And Realm Queues: Ion Hazzikostas Explains Why You're Waiting To Log In

Warcraft's game director expects server populations to drop to a tenth or less of today's mass influx.

www.forbes.com

Maybe it's more the Classic tourists are leaving retail you creepy deadeyed fuck.

Is dick cancer a real thing? I can't stand that goggly eyed prick

Ossoi · Sep 13, 2019

mkopec said:
There is no way they are getting rid of layers in phase 2 for these overpacked servers.

Agreed, the server census site thinks there's 50k players on my server, that seems ridiculous and there is no way the game world can support one layer that size

mkopec · Sep 13, 2019

So as a huntard, ive been reluctant to buy my first mount. It seems like kind of waste to spend 90-100g on a mount that only gives me extra 6% speed over my cheetah. Convince me im wrong. Im sitting at like 150 golds and was jsut gonna keep saving for that epic.

Springbok · Sep 13, 2019

Don't you have to have the previous rank of riding to get the epic riding skill?

mkopec · Sep 13, 2019

Not sure. if thats the case than I might as well.

Dinadass · Sep 13, 2019

Well it’s not 50k concurrent players, it’s closer to 10k concurrent. Which is still higher than you’d like when layers are removed. Nost had 10k and shit was a mess.

In Classic currently the riding skill is cheap and the mount is expensive (this was reversed in actual 1.12) so you’ll just have to spend the 18g or whatever on normal mount training and can skip the 72g mount if you want to. I’m not sure how you arrive at the “6% faster” number though...

Chimney · Sep 13, 2019

mkopec said:
What does that have to do with playing games? Ive been married since 2000, had my first kid, feeding him with his bottle while playing EQ, lol.

I don't know. You'd have to ask all the dudes that suddenly stop doing all the things they enjoyed previously because they put a ring on it or some vag got thrown their way.

Though I can understand the busy and other things in life take precedent, but those seem more rare than the waifu/gf ruling their lives when it comes to people I gamed with.

mkopec · Sep 13, 2019

Chimney said:
I don't know. You'd have to ask all the dudes that suddenly stop doing all the things they enjoyed previously because they put a ring on it or some vag got thrown their way.

Though I can understand the busy and other things in life take precedent, but those seem more rare than the waifu/gf ruling their lives when it comes to people I gamed with.

When I got married, my wife perfectly understood that I was a gamer. She does not play games and thinks they are stupid, but she respects my choice of past time. I also dont understand why people would change what they like in life based on a significant other. But to each their own.

mkopec · Sep 13, 2019

Dinadass said:
Well it’s not 50k concurrent players, it’s closer to 10k concurrent. Which is still higher than you’d like when layers are removed. Nost had 10k and shit was a mess.

In Classic currently the riding skill is cheap and the mount is expensive (this was reversed in actual 1.12) so you’ll just have to spend the 18g or whatever on normal mount training and can skip the 72g mount if you want to. I’m not sure how you arrive at the “6% faster” number though...

Cheetah is 33% mount is 40% So 7% sorry. When im running around, I see this all the time, mounts barely faster than I run. I just dont think its worth it. 60% would be though.

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