Zurv

It was a very different game back then. Now wow is everyone can do everything. Everything is simple for anyone to do with little time. WoW classicis also more of an RPG. People have their roles/different stats, bring different skills to the table.

It also feels like the time (a lot of time) that you put in has a pay off. If you have the sexy gear is because you (most likely) earned it - not just waiting till the content got ez.

Lacking some of the QOL will make people work together.

That said, i worry that not enough people will make it to the end game and finding 40 people in a guild will be hard. I'm not sure people understand the farming investment required for raiding.

And for people that don't know. Classic WoW is old wow, as it was. 1-60.

One doesn't have to buy the game, but you do need a monthly sub.

The game is out on August 27th.

while it is old wow, everything isn't out right at the launch. It is broken into Phases. (The game patch for Classic sans content is patch 1.12)

Phase 1:

Molten Core 40-man (originally out Nov 2014 in patch 1.1)

Onyxia 40-man (also patch 1.1)

Marudon 5-man (patch 1.2 dec 2004)

Phase 2:

Dire Maul 5-man (patch 1.3 march 2005) (i guess i need to wait for this for my epic pally mount?)

World bosses - Azuregos, Kazzak (patch 1.3)

PvP honor system - but no battlegrounds yet - rank system. (this will be kinda hard to rank on a non-pvp server)

Phase 3:

Blackwing Lair 40-man (Patch 1.6 July 2005) yeah!

Darkmoon faire and desks (Patch 1.6 July 2005)

Warsong Gulch & Alterac Valley (patch 1.12) - time to start the pvp grind!

Phase 4:

Zul'Gurub (ZG) 20-man (patch 1.7 sept 2005)

Arathi Basin (patch 1.7 sept 2005)

World boss - Dragons of nightmare (Green Dragons... 4 of them)

Phase 5:

Ahn'Qiraj (AQ40 and AQ20) 40 and 20 man raids. Also the opening event. (patch 1.9 jan 2006)

Phase 6:

Scourge Invasion

naxxramas 40-man (patch 1.11 June 2006)

I have very good memories of classic and I'm jumping in.

I never finished nax or killed the last boss in aq40. Is this my chance? No idea, but i'm going to try.

That said, even speed leveling it will take weeks (months) to hit 60.

I have a pally on Atiesh. (US PVE server - clearly ally as i'm a pally.) - feel free to poke me if you are playing. I HOPE i don't drop out quickly (but i think like most, it is about finding a crew to play with.)

(there is also the issue of MHW expac…. which will move to the top of my play list when that is out. Maybe i can hit 60 before then? Not likely when the speed record for leveling in classic was over a week of game time...)

Are others jumping back? Post your server/char/faction below so we can group up.

Anyone new, that never played WoW, jumping in?

If you are looking for a guild:

CookieParty

Server - PVE - US - Atiesh - [A]

the BAD website i put up yesterday :)

CookieParty

Anyone else have a guild they want me to list here?

oh sexy Sturdy Extended 7.62 Mag.. RNG gods can you please drop this for me :)

MS store for me. If that wasn't an option this would have been the game to push me to install epic.

pooo. So far the other games haven't pushed me to install epic yet... but this might be the one.

EDIT: oh, it is on the MS store too. I'll get it there. (that sucks too, but i already have games for my xbox on that.)

the hive will auto-rez you if you die. Useful for solo players.

sofa + dog + 77" oled + HDR == makes everything great!

It is a shame one can't matchmake for the side missions. My hats off to anyone playing this with a controller. I find is super important to hit environmental items and weak spots like pouches to deal with large groups - none of which of which i can hit when playing with a controller (because i sucks.) The only time i was OK with a controller with sniping. The zoom out, zoom in, snap to head works well... but only for the first shot. If it was a multi shot rifle and snaps to the chest :(

(argh! i want to play with HDR on the oled!)

Wasn't the Xbox getting M/KB support?

skills broke? They fixed it yesterday. (other than the skill power needed to use mods is CRAZY high)

I never found the game very hard even when they didn't really work well.

My problem now is i have nothing to do anymore. I hope the tier 5 comes out soon.

Side note, the exotic p90 is sexy. (i got 100% drop for the parts out of the locked crates.)

I can't get the last mask because i seem unable to kill the guy. It just disappears when hit/killed(?) - i've tried it a ton of times :( (i got all the other ones no problem.)