So many of us didn't log again until BGs came out, at which point World PvP effectively went extinct. Menethil had been camped since forever, especially the boats. I weathered it for a while but you'd get instagibbed at chillwind. Phase 2 or whenever PvP launched as Alliance was ridiculous.
Some people wouldn't add you to RFC/VC because of your class. The meta-slavery was off the charts, and never really reduced before I quick. Sometimes they'd even realise they forgot something and wander back over and silently invite you again. It was really common to have someone invite me to group without saying a word while questing, farm the mobs silently, and drop group within seconds of that last mob dying.
The first week or so was pretty spectacular, but it became obvious after a while, and when the herd thinned quite a bit, that people behaved very differently. Ratio was maybe 53H/47A.Ĭlassic was totally different. There were some bots, but mainly for leveling I think. I think the only real problem I had was 300-350 base ping.
World PvP actually happened organically, and sometimes you'd even get the "lets camp Splinter Tree for a bit, see who turns up". We were pals until he got conscripted (apparently). People would heal or tank your Scholo just for the sake of it This other pally and I teamed up for a week or two and ran Scholo day-in-day-out trying to finish that tanking set, and whoever wasn't specced prot that run would pass on the roll. There was maybe 2 pinnacle guilds on either faction, and then a pretty wide tier of serious but not maniacal guilds below them, and you generally knew who they were. I was acquainted with a few of the "Big Men on Campus", even if I wasn't one of them. I genuinely had a few friends from all over the world and we'd say "hey man how's it going" when they logged on even if you didn't want anything out of them. Honestly I felt a little guilty playing on a private server, especially if Blizz was going to offer a legit option.Īnyway the point is playing on that server was some of the best gaming I've had. I stopped playing very much a bit after Naxx launched partly because of IRL, partly because my guild at that stage couldn't be arsed with Naxx, but also because I was considering starting again on a fresh server, then Classic was announced so I didn't bother. I no-lifed on that server from the day it launched for months and only took a real break(pun) when I broke my left arm some time during AQ. Or more accurately I played a poor quality private server for a little bit and later restarted on another. I'm not 100% on forum rules so I'll try to be vague and not advertise anything naughty, but I played a private server before classic launched. Add that in and it's an incredible feeling of familiarity.I really can't get behind this idea that Classic is entirely about nostalgia, or that Classic 'failed' because it's inherently a bad game or w/e. The environment now in Era on our cluster is completely devoid of 'the race' element which largely did not exist to the majority of the player base as I remember original release wow. So when I returned to it after all these years, there's so much I had forgotten and resulted in a kinda 'new' experience for me. I actually knew more back then about the game despite the lack of information. That has resulted in the 'guild community' of that just seems to have been obliterated over the years and I missed most to have returned and feels. But it does feel like the best WoW experience since the original release because of the situation and what we've turned it into for ourselves. To us that played then and are playing this version, is it the exact same? Of course not and I don't believe I said that.
Still have the same career doing the same stuff living in the same kinda home. Not much changed for us other than the size of cell phones and our children. I think most of your comments are very accurate, especially for those of the generation or generations after mine (younger) and possibly before mine (older).įor me, and a few of my guild members of comparable age, we were in our 30's when WoW came out.
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