Truth. Wow just felt different back then, tbc and wotlk just seem dumbed down.
WoW - Vanilla, TBC or WOTLK?
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Truth. Wow just felt different back then, tbc and wotlk just seem dumbed down.
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For me:
1) Vanilla - man I missed doing MC and BWL. It really felt like you EARNED your gear, and the Tier 1 and 2 sets just were AWESOME. UBRS was one of the best instances ever made, and playing a Paladin to Rank 9 felt great as Horde couldn't roll one
2) WotLK - by lowering the difficulty a bit and introducing 10-man versions of raids, it's allowed players like me who cannot raid 6-7 nights a week to see much content. My guild is currently stuck at Sartharion with 3 drakes, but many in my guild have lost interest as there isn't much else to do until Ulduar.
3) TBC - I enjoyed Karazhan, but then the transition around Magtheridon was too much. When I got to Mount Hyjal and Black Temple, I was initially excited but then began to find it boring. I enjoyed doing arenas, but the welfare arena epics introduced in Season 3 ruined many things in my opinion.
1) Vanilla - man I missed doing MC and BWL. It really felt like you EARNED your gear, and the Tier 1 and 2 sets just were AWESOME. UBRS was one of the best instances ever made, and playing a Paladin to Rank 9 felt great as Horde couldn't roll one
2) WotLK - by lowering the difficulty a bit and introducing 10-man versions of raids, it's allowed players like me who cannot raid 6-7 nights a week to see much content. My guild is currently stuck at Sartharion with 3 drakes, but many in my guild have lost interest as there isn't much else to do until Ulduar.
3) TBC - I enjoyed Karazhan, but then the transition around Magtheridon was too much. When I got to Mount Hyjal and Black Temple, I was initially excited but then began to find it boring. I enjoyed doing arenas, but the welfare arena epics introduced in Season 3 ruined many things in my opinion.
I had that feeling tanking Magtheridon a couple of years ago in 3/4 T4 and 1 T5. The moment his chains came loose and he got MD'd to me and I saw this thing running to me I was like a rabbit caught in headlights. 5k crit, 8k crush, 6k hit, dead. It felt great.
That's BRD in my honest opinion. I wish so hard they would remake that place and move it to lv80.
25 people per raid is freaking hard enough (talk about trying to herd cats), I've never seen a 40man raid and can't imagine it and it's complexity, although it'll be interesting to try.
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Exactly, wot a tit
Back on topic, the original WoW by far. Lost it's feel after BC came out. Still love it though
vanilla wow has the best memories for me, from 2 manning sm cath at lvl 44(ish) with a friend to my first raids in UBRS.
tbc holds memories of constant wipes on moroes on our first raids in kara and then getting serious on raids and having to commit way to much time. i also hated tbc for how stupidly ridiculous druids were in arena.
WOTLK ive been questing and enjoying it way more than tbc, it doesnt feal like a grind , ive only done 1 instance so far so cant comment on them.
vanilla > wotlk > tbc
tbc holds memories of constant wipes on moroes on our first raids in kara and then getting serious on raids and having to commit way to much time. i also hated tbc for how stupidly ridiculous druids were in arena.
WOTLK ive been questing and enjoying it way more than tbc, it doesnt feal like a grind , ive only done 1 instance so far so cant comment on them.
vanilla > wotlk > tbc
Vanilla WoW is the most fun I've ever had in a game, despite its flaws.
Yep. Servers actually had communities back then and you cared about the other faction, top PvPers were big names on the server.
Stepping into MC for the first time actually felt epic, and you felt you were one of the leet few who got to raid.
I cannot wipe my brain and start WoW for the first time again so I can't tell you if it's really still as good as it was without the bias of nostalgia. I won't deny that many, many improvements have been made to the game in the expansions, but vanilla is still my favourite.
Yep. Servers actually had communities back then and you cared about the other faction, top PvPers were big names on the server.
Stepping into MC for the first time actually felt epic, and you felt you were one of the leet few who got to raid.
I cannot wipe my brain and start WoW for the first time again so I can't tell you if it's really still as good as it was without the bias of nostalgia. I won't deny that many, many improvements have been made to the game in the expansions, but vanilla is still my favourite.
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Not saying any of you are wrong for choosing vanilla, but this is the nature of the beast with MMO's. It's very common for most of you to pick vanilla, then go on to state subsequent expansions dumb down the game. It happens with most (all?) MMO's.
Next there will be calls from the original players for a "classic server" (if there aren't calls for it already). If Blizzard go ahead and make one, people will resub for one or two months and cancel again, when they realise you can -never- go back.
It's sort of funny seeing MMO history repeat itself again and again. Every expansion will draw flak from the original players as they introduce new features that go some way to attract new players and keep the game from going stale. There will be a bleed of players that quit, but as long as Blizzard introduce more than are leaving, why would they care. Most MMO's are good for 2 or 3 expansions, after that the originals are replaced by a newer crowd.
If you think WoTLK has dumbed down WoW, just you wait and see what the next expansion does, haha.
Next there will be calls from the original players for a "classic server" (if there aren't calls for it already). If Blizzard go ahead and make one, people will resub for one or two months and cancel again, when they realise you can -never- go back.
It's sort of funny seeing MMO history repeat itself again and again. Every expansion will draw flak from the original players as they introduce new features that go some way to attract new players and keep the game from going stale. There will be a bleed of players that quit, but as long as Blizzard introduce more than are leaving, why would they care. Most MMO's are good for 2 or 3 expansions, after that the originals are replaced by a newer crowd.
If you think WoTLK has dumbed down WoW, just you wait and see what the next expansion does, haha.
vanilla sucked imo, end game wise any way. Your forgetting you had end game raid dungeons that lasted way over 5 hours long! you had to wait 2 hours to join wsg on some servers! Av lasted about 7 hours a game! most of the time you were standing in IF looking for a grp for ubrs. Lots of the dungeons were too easy to cause a wipe in, take strath for example, loads of grps of mobs, bats flying around at 100mph, and if u made it to the gate outside baron and wiped it was game over!
Tbc was an improvement but i wasn't keen on all the space age crap and falling off the end of the world nonsense. Also wasn't keen on the new races.
For me wotlk is the best wow has ever been, easy to find grps for end game raids. 10 and 25 man versions of raid instances was the best idea yet for wow imo!
Dalaran is nice, i prefer it to that lame crap hole shatt with all them annoying dreinie fighting and loling!
Iam kinda casual at wow which is prob why i prefer wrath to the other versions.
Tbc was an improvement but i wasn't keen on all the space age crap and falling off the end of the world nonsense. Also wasn't keen on the new races.
For me wotlk is the best wow has ever been, easy to find grps for end game raids. 10 and 25 man versions of raid instances was the best idea yet for wow imo!
Dalaran is nice, i prefer it to that lame crap hole shatt with all them annoying dreinie fighting and loling!
Iam kinda casual at wow which is prob why i prefer wrath to the other versions.
Hellfire Peninsula was the first thing you saw in TBC and goes down in history as the worst zone in any MMO, ever. It makes me want to gouge my eyes out. It made Tanaris look like paradise. The only thing good about Hellfire was the sky, and the bombing runs (though, they were a bit silly tbh).
Also;
Do. Not. Mention. Hellboars.
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I raided in vanilla WoW but our RC broke up, like a lot of others, when TBC reduced raiding to 10/25 man and I've not raided since and don't miss it.
From a purely casual stance, TBC was great fun and more enjoyable than what I've seen of LK, so far.
From a purely casual stance, TBC was great fun and more enjoyable than what I've seen of LK, so far.
