My “main” that I mostly solo with is a Rogue and I have a Mage alt that I only ever play in a set 3-man group with my besties but I also just rolled a Druid alt? Why did I do that??
playing a druid is an act of masochism
I do not recommend it
fuckin’ 'ell, skimming this and getting nostalgic about farming barman’s shanker
help
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Dude I played ret in the day literally everything is an improvement on that
Besides I need an alt with herb/alch for dat cash
I would 100% rather have a ret stashed away because I know how good the class in general gets in BC and Wrath
I almost rolled pally for Classic too
but I saw they were using 1.12 talents and went “well, I’m gonna boomkin like an idiot”
I keep wanting to make a dwarf pally alt for aesthetikk but I just… can’t… handle how terrible the racials are
you’re crazy
stoneskin is legit
Who pvps? Sword & maceskill + rep bonus is pve megabomb
Hey so, for no reason at all: How do the servers work between different regions like say America and Europe? Are ALL of you playing Alliance? Would playing a hunter (like I just happened to do back in 2007 but never actually got to 60) be setting oneself back?
just… random thoughts
the servers are separated as part of the legacy of WoW accounts being regional specific (it’s not like OW or D3 where you can launch to a different region)
Ah. Looked into it a bit more and it seems like the only real problem then is that you need to pay a separate subscription fee per region. One can probably live with that and just do the out of region one but I guess also would have to depend on how bad the ping is. (although a bad one would honestly just even more closely match my 2007 experience)
Everyone having broadband is a huge step up even from domestic in-region servers on release. The game can be very tight with timing but it’s not like, Street Fighter tight. I bet it would be fine. You may want to check official Blizzard forums for other people’s experiences first.
Hunter is the best solo leveling class in the game and very powerful DPS in group, it is the opposite of gimped.
(ROLL PAGLE US EAST)
eh, I rolled on a west coast realm and even then I still get weird “hey this guy isn’t near me but still smacking me” and “hey even though you’re 10 feet outside you can’t travel form yet, keep moving” nonsense
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hunter scales inversely. the worse everyone’s gear is, the better hunters are; the smaller the group, the better hunters are. you’re the best solo leveler and arguably the worst late game raider. you’re great in 1v1 pvp and mediocre in large groups. hunters don’t add anything to zoom zoom cleave dungeon groups, but in your normal late game dungeon runs no one will complain about having a hunter, they have universal CC, group buffs, pet utility, and they feign off aggro. so it depends on what you want to do, but generally hunter is very good if you’re not planning on being a hardcore player
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Okay, I figured out how to at least test this: While WoW Classic is locked behind $15 regular WoW starter edition is not. Also found a list of cities the various realm data centres are located in for both modern and classic (the closest for me sadly seems to be Chicago) so I should be able to get a very similar experience to see if it’s fun or not. The dark backside to this though is that I guess I am now downloading modern WoW…
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My real advice on “what class should I play” type questions is whatever you find most fun. Paying too much attention to The Meta is a recipe for misery and you can easily and satisfactorily find lots of people to play with who will not scoff at you for ignoring The Meta. I think, after 15 years of private server experience, people are beginning to realize that classic WoW isn’t that hard and you can do almost anything without playing perfectly optimally.
I was doing the quests in the graveyard in Duskwood and I grouped up with a random druid who was running around. We went in a house at the top of the hill there and there’s an elite higher than either of us, plus adds. Well, it turns out that there’s a special quest you’re supposed to do to find a special item that breaks this particular monster’s special shield. We had no idea. We killed his adds and just ground him down, the fight was long enough that we each got to use 2 potions. Later, I found out that druid I was with didn’t even know what the crafting professions were. None of it matters, if you have a brain and some empathy and patience you can do all kinds of stuff you’re not “supposed” to do and it’s the best part of the game.
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that just sounds like druid things tbh
love to kill things I shouldn’t be able to solo slowly and almost die several times in the process
I’m eternally thankful that I went in to Uldaman and solo’d the giant stone lady at the start and got my stat stick on the first try
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the best thing I ever did as a druid was swimming from Menethil Harbor down to Zul’Gurub. Took two hours, and most of the time the map thought I was swimming right through Dun Morogh or Stormwind. Exactly halfway through, along the endless oceanside cliffs generated by heightmap noise, I saw a cottage, nestled snugly with a view. And I knew that maybe only a few dozen druid players had been the only other ones to ever see that tiny designer nod towards us.
Recognition is one of the most powerful tools a game has when deployed tastefully and sparingly at the edges of the systems.
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It is tempting to roll up on a classic RP realm as a “heretical” member of the infinite dragonflight whose only method of attacking the timeline is to warn all the locals of Southshore, Theramore, Auberdine, etc., about how their property values are gonna plummet in the near future, so anybody who doesn’t get out now is really gonna regret it.
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