Anyone else miss the golden age of WoW? That game was legendary. Being a lowbie just exploring and doing quests, leveling up. back then the level cap was 60. it was a good game.
I was too poor to play back then. Was it possible to solo through the game back then?
>>24905629
>was it possible to solo through an MMO?
>>24905629
nope
you missed the single point in history where a robot could as happy if not happier than a normie
sorry man
i like the game as it is now just because i enjoy pvp and pvp is more popular as of rn
>>24905609
ya. i would wreck AV on my hunter.
>>24905629
You could solo up to max level, it just more took time. The whole point was that a majority of the content was too difficult to solo, so you had to partner with people to complete it. And the classes were made to be good at one thing and weak in others, so combining two players was better than the sum of their parts.
I miss comfy ass WoW. Thunderbluff was best home. Fite me
>>24905721
good old times when robot could have been anything.
it was like being gangster during prohibition era, your guild was your family, without them you were nothing, with guild you had everything you ever wanted.
Well I play on a private vanilla server, it's not exactly the same as it used to be, but it's close enough that I still get those feels.
>>24905609
>implying BC wasn't the golden age of WoW
>class balance for both factions
>non-terrible flying
>raiding was fun as shit
>still didn't cater to casuals
>no 12 year olds running around from Wrath
>>24905609
https://en.nostalrius.org/
>>24906042
>flying mounts
>arenas
>resilience
those things broken whole idea of vanilla wow.
>>24905657
I'm too autistic to play MMOs I p-prefer single player
BC was solid pvp-wise. Mace stun and resilience, warriors were op af.
>>24906042
BC was indeed the height of WoW. It's been in decline ever since. I think Ulduar was the last bright spot in that game.
>>24906042
BC was 5/5 bretty good, certainly had the best raiding. But separating the high level players from the low level ones removed some of the atmosphere from the world.
who misses storm herald and mace stun? lel
and when human warriors could pop perception and wtfbbqpwnt horde rogues
and farming motes on that primal sky island was a serious pvp spot. lol
so much griefing
>>24906093
aye, stunherald. at some point you could have even proc stun from whirlwind. I saw guy in AV stun 4 people like that.
and second wind? no way rogue could have killed warrior without 5 minutes of crippling poison kite. and if he fucked up for a one second he was instantly dead.
>>24906124
>played huntard in BC
>worst class for all four arena seasons
>after S1 I reroll warrior and craft a stunherald
>suddenly I'm 2k rated
BC was not even close to being balanced. It was still fun though.
>>24906161
oh yeah forgot second wind LOL. some rogues were really good and could kite warriors to death with crippling poison and the deadly poison. they would circle the warriors and strafe melee because crip poison slowed more than hamstring.
>>24906177
ya it was fun af. stunherald ftw
>>24906177
>hunter bad
ever played rogue + hunter combo?
free 2600+ on most of the battlegroups
>>24906161
>rogue trying to kill a warrior in bc
KEK
I always thought of it as, the warrior's heavy armor was too thick for the rogue's daggers to sufficiently pierce. Made me feel a little better about how imbalanced that matchup was.
>seeing shattrath for the first time
NOOOOOOOOOO~
Please, I want to go back in these times, these wonderful times. I play on Nostalrius, it brings my feels and memories back, but that's just not enough. I wish Blizzard had made separated BC servers.
>>24906093
>implying warriors stopped being OP
>>24906245
You'll have corecraft soon.lol
>>24906223
>free 2600
>battlegroups
are you fuckin born retarded?
>hunter rogue
yep you are
>>24906261
How much people are playing there? Is it sufficient?
>>24906281
It isn't out yet. But there's been a shitload of hype behind it over the years since it presents itself as being very high quality. I have to imagine its population will rival nostalrius when it comes out.
>>24906245
>tfw exploring Azshara by myself and discovering all the little secret quests down in the deep valleys and crevices that no one had ever heard of or given a shit about, with only 1 or 2 other players in the entire zone
Comfy feels.
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>>24905609
YES
My secret dream that I'd never tell anyone is to make an MMORPG that can give people the experiences and the shelter that WoW gave me.
I still play the game but it's just a game now.
It's got good gameplay, the raiding is great and even though I'm not a PVPer I occasionally enjoy the odd pvping where I'm evenly matched with my opponent(s).
But back in the day, it was a goddamn experience.
You LIVED the world.
I could vent all day about how this game has been ruined in every aspect but it's no use, it's never coming back.
Whenever I pass by an old area for some reason I get chills from realizing how much more emotional the game was. Passing by Deathknell or looking at old pics of the barrens...
That's why for me Cataclysm will always be the biggest offense. WotLK might be responsible for the shift in direction of the game towards something the revolves around queues and portals and conveniences but cataclysm game and took away the beauty of the vanilla world.
>>24906332
>I could vent all day about how this game has been ruined in every aspect but it's no use, it's never coming back.
IKTF. The game devs listened to the community but they only listened to the loudest retards, not the people who truly loved the game.
>>24906317
I would give my left nut for that. A new mmo, with modern graphics, but with the same atmosphere and wonderment of vanilla wow, none of this theme park QOL shit that modern MMOs all have.
>>24906058
I strongly dislike the community. You'd have to find friends to bring into the game with you, you won't make friends while playing.
>>24906272
idk on what kind of private server you played but on retail it was really viable combo.
>>24906310
>tfw can't keep playing osrs because my Australian connection is bad and I'm autistic about being cb lvl 100 and not having a firecapeI still need to get barrows gloves, but then it feels pointless getting barrows gloves without a firecape too.
>>24906377
that is because most of the guilds out there are from warsong and emerald dream server. whole guilds migrated so they do not really need new people.
>>24906371
>modern graphics
>the same atmosphere and wonderment of vanilla wow
wow you're a fucking retard
how can people still not realize the value of lo-fi
you think "modern graphics" will ever recreate environments as emotionally charged as those of games like vanilla WoW, FFVII, medievil, the list goes on for ages
It's like saying that a shoegaze album can retain its atmosphere if you remove the fuzz and produce it like a cock rock single
>>24906377
there were over 10k people on the server last weekend, surely you could find someone to play with from out of all of them?
>>24906396
m8 if your over 84 hp you can do jad without fucking prayer. just get the highest level ardougne cloak you can if you really dont want to look like a faggot.
>>24906073
at least flying mounts were a luxury rather than a welfare item for every player like in wrath
>>24906124
That racial was fucking busted. Rogue vs rogue a human would win every single time because the opener is so damn important. Although no one cares about rogue problems because they were the most dickass class in the game.
>tfw stealthing through enemy cities just to kill time
I honestly never thought I'd miss wow as much as I do
>>24905609
Golden age yada yada
There are dedicated private servers for this shit
Classic is horrible BTW.
>>24906437
this is such a stupid fucking post
>>24906332
I agree. Some convenieneces were actually useful without disrupting the whole social system, meanwhile in WoD I felt so alienated.
>>24906306
So much this. Azshara is OP. I hadn't even reached the max level before achievement system was presented. Casuals had got their way to grind, without maintaining the skill cap for PvP/PvE.
It feels like there were not really a lot of content in BC (a lot, but not that much) and you had something to do, it was spectacular and interesting, and now you have fucktons of content, but there is just nothing to do.
>>24905609
My best memories in WoW were when I was fucking around with people in front of a capital city, or exploring and trying to break the map with them...
Maybe it isn't the game itself that I miss.
>>24905657
Its possible to solo through modern WoW so his question is valid
>>24906467
I was the biggest noob in the world back in TBC and even I had a flying mount
I didn't get it the moment I dinged, I had to build up some gold but I still got it rather easily
the real luxury was the 280% speed, and especially the netherwing drakes
I remember that it took me ages (pretty much until a couple months before wotlk release) to get my fast flying and I had also grinded cenarion rep for dat hippogryph because I didn't like my blood elf riding wyverns
such magical times
>>24906490
>some conveniences
I bet you defend flying and queues faggot
>>24906377
If you don't mind playing PvE the new server has a much better community. Population is a little better too.
>>24906437
>graphics need to look like shit in order for a game to be atmospheric
Kill yourself you total smegma chugging retard.
>try out modern day WOW
>all the quests are "kill 15 __"
>can go through the entire game without talking to anybody
>can go for days without seeing anybody
yea it's shit. I don't understand why anybody would still be paying for it. OSRS is infinitely better.
>>24906489
I'm still overtriggered by the FFVII remake, sorry
it's something sacred to me and it's being defiled before my very eyes and there's nothing I can do about it
>>24906504
Still, now the only things that aren't given to you practically for free at max level are TCG mounts and gear that you would replace in 2 weeks anyway.
>>24906538
>m-muh graphix
waste of money and time, make a bigger game rather than a prettier one
>>24906538
he said SAME atmosphere
it's possible for a game to be atmospheric with cutting edge graphics, but in a different way
old WoW was win. you had to actually find a group to go to a dungeon with and you had to actually travel to the dungeon
>>24906517
By better I mean more manageable. IE about 2.5k peak. I prefer moderate population which still allows you to find groups for everything easily enough but isn't a totally obnoxious competition for mob spawns.
WoW was good because of community that exploited every single thing present in game to have a fun.
>soutshore vs tarren mill pvp
blizzard came up with battleground which ruined this experience
>world pvp at world bosses
no more world bosses
>world pvp just 4fun
flying mounts, nuff said
>vanilla pvp
fuck you we are going to split pvp and pve factor of the game by introducing resilience stat
>vanilla elite quests that forced you to cooperate with other players
lets limit elite monsters to dungeons and raids only beacuse out players are autists that are not able to find group to finish quest
and you can continue...
>>24906371
It's you that is the fundamental change. You're older and more cynical now. Unless you can do a memory wipe your search is fruitless.
>>24906548
the phasing of zones is seriously one of the most awful things they did. I remember when they debuted it in wrath and you'd start a quest and all of a sudden half the players in the zone would just disappear because they weren't on your quest.
Seems like a really fucking stupid idea in an MMO.
So what's the idea behind taking the mmo part of out of a mmo? Cater to chris-chan tier autists with money or short term gain from normies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpclJaSF7A0
>you used to watch Machinima videos and tried to make your own
>>24906618
During WOD release game was fucking unplayable for a week at least so they spent the entire time making a bunch of phase shit so that you could log in.
>>24906626
Its more for normies, since grouping means getting told you suck ass at the game if you do suck ass, which normies tend to do
>>24906592
I was only talking about a game world feeling large and real. For which low res graphics are not necessary. I wouldn't have reacted so strongly if the guy didn't totally fucking sperg.
>>24905657
WoW is 90% soloing bra.
>>24906626
ye garrisons and dungeon finders. I mean you can go play skyrim instead with same or even better experience.
>>24906616
>muh rose tinted goggles
I play private servers now and the game and atmosphere is objectively better, nothing to do with me being more cynical.
>>24906626
I honestly think it's a generational thing. When WoW was first developed you still had the "old guard" nerds that had heavily played tabletop and D&D. They knew that the group dynamics were 90% of the gaming experience when they had the most fun of their lives playing with pieces of cardboard and their imaginations.
Once they got phased out and replaced, that spirit was gone.
>>24906626
Seemed like their primary intent was to speed up the process of leveling as each expansion came out increasing the level cap every time. Ended up killing the game completely before level cap.
I didn't start playing until lich king
Sad that i missed out on vanilla and burning crusade the game looked a lot better back then
>>24905609
It's really sad that they spend so much effort to make such a great content rich game, just to ruin it shitty expansions, which by design makes all the vanilla content irrelevant. WHY? We already paid fucking mothly fees to play the game why did you have to be a bunch of greedy jews and ruin the game with expansions?
>>24906734
Because casuals anon
not having progression resets doesnt work since so many of their players refuse to take a single step up end game progression ladder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ax_htL2T08
>the game will never have a community that contributes stuff like this again
>>24906726
I started in MOP. Used to play a lot on my friend's account in BC and it was fucking amazing. Meanwhile when I started in MOP the game felt like a shitty theme park, and I continued playing up to the middle of WOD and it just got worse and worse.
>>24906796
But MoP was nearly as good as TBC...
TBC was also a themepark, dont let nostalgiafags convince you otherwise.
>>24906711
This is what I hate the most. Overleveled for a zone by the time you've done half the quests in it. Totally kills any charm and continuity of what used to be an amazing game world, now it's just a mad dash to level cap.
>>24906796
I was just thinking about how WoD makes me wish we had Pandaria back, something I never thought I'd say
>>24906834
Yeah man, mogushan palace and Shattard Halls heroic were basicaly the same dungeons.
>>24906864
>he didnt like pandaria
get the fuck out of here with your shit taste
Anyone still playing tho?
I'd love to have a buddy to play with on EU. Do some bgs, arenas, dungeons, raids, level together or whatever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWr6Z5yfQfk
Best zone coming through
>reckful and mitch will never dominate again
New WoW is garbage.
>tfw never got to play wow in its prime
i really feel like i missed out on something special
>>24906904
kamaji#2849
I mostly do raiding with my guild but I sometimes do bgs with my shaman and I think I might level up a monk with questing instead of dungeons, since I haven't done that in 8 years or something.
>>24906834
Bullshit, the design philosiphy behind MOP was to make everything bar top tier raiding pathetically easy and unfullfilling. Wheras there were still challenging aspects of TBC outside of raids. People talk about how modern wow caters to casuals, but really it's only a certain type of casual that wants everything with no effort. The benefit of old wow for casual players was that you could still have something fun and challenging without having to delve into mythic raiding.
Reminder that some people at Blizzard still know how to design a game and eventually we will see their work again.
5.2 da best
>>24906952
>reputations still mattered
>so much so that casuals cried on the forums for months
nah,
>>24906949
Aye. Also trying so hard to like FF14 in its "prime" so I could experience the feeling and not finding it.
>>24907009
You're confusing challenging with time consuming.
>>24906957
desu, I liked timeless isle a lot too
the shao-hao rep grind is literally my fav grind I've done in this game
the island had a really chill atmosphere I just enjoyed it overall a lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-xlK8KBEpI
good old times when even blizzard was making machinama to promote new content
>>24907030
I would have liked it a bit more if it didnt feel so much like Jade Forest
just a bit of color change would have been nice
>>24907076
good old times when there WAS new content
>tfw 65 years of HFC
>>24907078
I really got a different vibe from it
the jade forest reminds me of the green part of house of flying daggers
>>24907014
i've been having a pretty good time exploring and leveling in guild wars 2 desu, even if it is the most casual mmo out there
>>24907128
>release date of legion is September 2016
>>24905609
Definitely my favorite part of WoW, but it certainly wasn't without flaws that they fixed in later expansions:
>Best gear for PvP came from PvE so you had to do raids to get the gear if you wanted to compete for the top ranks spots on the server
>40 man raids that allowed for 10 people to not have to pull their weight
>Having to farm resistance gear for the higher raid tiers
>Pain in the ass to organize guilds that could do the bigger raids regularly (scaling down from 40 to 25 was VERY good idea contrary to what you might think from reading the forums back then)
>Very little in terms of new PvP content compared to how much PvE content was being introduced
>Way too easy to die and it could take way too long to walk back to your corpse
>Main night elf racial (wisp spirit) was basically one of "Hey n00b, here's something that'll make being a n00b a little less annoying"
>Way too much time spent on just traveling back and forth due to mounts being way too expensive (was thankfully able to get the 100g together by farming linen cloth and selling it on the AH for the Silithus opening event)
Best memory of the years I wasted playing the game have to be when Silithus opened and the server just went completely berserk. I mean we had MASSIVE lag, the server crashing every 20 minutes or so and every time it crashed, you usually found yourself a long way from where you were when the server crashed. Going all the way from IF to Un'Goro Crater on your way to Silithus, having the server crash, finding yourself back in IF, doing the same trip again, having the server crash again as you enter Un'Goro Crater and then finding yourself back in IF again when the server came back. A lot of people I know would probably be rage quitting at that point, but I was just laughing my ass off.
tfw doing Rhok`Delar quest on huntard
tfw soloing those bullshit demons
tfw complete quest
I think I miss being a dumb teenager more than old wow, but I do have good memories of it.
where is mankriks wife?
>>24906616
If only people would read this and accept it
We will never live that again because we fucking grew up, why do people keep lying to themselves
>got into the game during BC
>took forever to level up because I just wanted to explore and fuck around with questing for the story
>also fuck around with alts
>eventually stopped playing after guild collapsed from internal drama as befits a guild with a woman GM
>people who played "the right way" quitting left and right
>mfw I'm happy with my memories untainted by nostalgia pangs
I'm disappointed I never got into the experience of having a second life and devoting yourself to a game and community. Seriously, I've been into games, but never as much as WoW addicts. It must have been a lot of fun
>>24907617
I don't know about this. I'm an immature fuckwit, I still find anime (of all fucking media) that can fill me with joy or sorrow. Though I don't know what characteristics a new MMO would have to have to capture my heart, I don't see why it's impossible
who remembers doing /world dragons/ here on vanilla wow?
and Khazzak ofc.
>>24907696
So you grew up as a normie huh ? What are you doing here then
I played vanilla up to wrath
was a really good time
It was quite brutal before alterac
the hillsbrad meatgrinder was awesome for pvp
I used to really like to mind flay Chinese righteous orb farmers in plaguelands
>>24907703
It's impossible because you are not an innocent little kid anymore, you see hardcore stuff everyday and you are much less sensitive.
You can still enjoy videogames tho, but it will never be your first time again
>>24907748
lel.
>pking the china farmers in terrible gear
top fun, free honor
will someone please PLEASE gift me a month of wow? Please?
>>24907973
That reminds me this one time I kept ganking a Chinese bot. Eventually I got cocky and aggro'd town guards.
So I just sat there in rekt form, staring at him for half an hour late into the night. He stared at what should've been my invisible ghost, occasionally jumping around and trying to make my dead form aggro the town guards.
Then it logged out. I felt proud of myself.
>>24905609
As someone who played Vanilla, i'm just going to put it out there, it was shit.
40 man raids, were a pain to set up and raid lead, expecting everyone to have farmed there nature res or fire res, telling 5 people "On this boss fight, yeah you're gonna afk out of combat, then ress people once they're dead".
Realising, oh this boss only takes frost damage, everyone buy a frost damage enchant or afk.
And that wasn't even the worst part, you want to be a feral druid ? Wait 2 years for TBC, want to be a ret pally, too bad, want to be a non healing priest, good joke mate.
The game is infinitely better as it is now, 40 mans weren't good, leveling was painfully bad, buggy quests, general lag from poor optimization. Boss designs were primitive because they had to be. There were cookie cutter specs, in cookie cutter classes as you simply couldn't be other specs.
Want to be rewarded for raiding, pray to RNGesus that the limited amount of items drop weren't at all similar to last weeks, and you may get your raid gear improved in 3-4 months praying none of the 40 members have any irl issues.
Take off the rose tinted glasses Anon.
>>24907973
for sure
speaking of honor people these days have no clue what that grind was like
when a warrior in warlord gear showed up shit was gona go down
>>24908096
>rose tinted glasses
>not realising private servers exist
How can you be rose tinted about the present?
anyone here play vanilla but never raided? i got to 60 and then quit desu
>>24906161
I haven't played WoW in over 5 years, and it still pisses me off when I hear shit like this.
Warriors were NEVER overpowered, retards just liked to blame us because they were shit players.
>>24908132
>Anyone else miss the golden age of WoW
>How can you "miss it" if you're still playing it on private servers
>>24908174
>warriors were never overpowered
I dont like this maymay
>>24908096
yeah 40 mans are not very fun but
ubrs
lbrs
brd
zul gurub
onixya
strath
were quite impressive/fun and accessible for less stressful management
included brd and lbrs and strath just because im impressed by the detail and work that went into them
>>24908208
They were fun enough, I guess it depends what you enjoy in the game, the art and design team has always been amazing, even for expacs I haven't enjoyed the art team has been amazing.
Still prefer the current 20m Mythic over older systems.
I don't know if you guys like Wrath of the Lich King but Dalaran-wow is a really good server. It's blizzlike with 1x XP, 1x Gold drop rates and 1x item drop rates. The scripting is very good too. They're currently on Trial of The Crusader.
Also, the global chat is pretty much like 4chan most of the time so you can shitpost while playing wow.
>>24908249
true and i agree about 20 being a nice sweet spot
in reality managing 40 is unreasonable demand on the leaders even if we did make it work back in the day
>>24907029
This
>>24906834
MoP is widely recognized as the worst expansion, don't kid yourself
>>24906093
BM Hunter with that ridiculous 30s buff for him and his pet was the absolute kek in 2on2 arena
>>24905609
Yeah, i remember when someone in full tier would walk around orgrimmar and everyone would think this is the coolest guy ever. Back then getting to 60 was a challenge, now everyone has 10 lvl 100s in full tier.
>>24908425
>MoP is widely recognized as the worst expansion
blatantly false
WoD is recognized as the worst expansion by pretty much everyone and most people prefer MoP to cata
some even prefer to WotLK, myself and many people ITT included
>>24906538
The guy isnt wrong though. Its been shown that lower resolution graphics are farther away from the uncanny valley so you're subconsciously less distracted by the almost "real" looking graphics. This means that more immersion takes place as your brain fills in the blanks. Its the same reason why goldeneye felt like the coolest shit even though its comparatively ugly to todays standards.
>>24908363
Look at wildstar, they tried to have there cake and eat it, innovative 40 man raids, what happened
You have 40 people, from different countries, with different latency, different graphical settings and just differing skill levels, this means genuine mechanics you see, become clusterfuck messes of 40 people. Meaning a lot of pointless wipes and enfuriation.
The truth is, in my 40man raids, as the main RL, and having about 3-4 different officers, I spoke to about 18 people, had heard maybe 25 speak, and 15 were silent and probably afk on boss pulls.
>>24908174
lol.
did u never have a stunherald during TBC?
it was basically charge, mortal strike, ww, hamstring, WW execute. next.
>>24908533
>most people prefer MoP to cata
Sure, absolute noobs do. Pre-Dragon Soul Cata was definitely the best expansion. Guilds still mattered, the raids and dungeons were creative and interesting and gearing still mattered. MoP became facebook WoW.
>>24908174
>he never had a stormherald
>he never had an arcanite reaper prenormalization
>tfw half of my WoW friends haven't logged into the game in several years
>the other half still plays 8 hours a day, every day
>>24908862
arc reaper was good, but icy barbed spear was basically the same thing and free.
i would wreck people with that spear until i got the pig hammer.
>>24908174
tbc arena and wotlk lolstorm.
>>24905906
No it isn't retard. Went from millions of arena players to 40000 now
>tfw no modded hybrid of vanilla and TBC
how would you blend them to create GOAT WoW?
>played the game since BC
>never raided because of >muh anxiety
>join guild
>they tell me to get on teamspeak
>alt+F4
>delete my character and never show up again
I don't understand, i'm not that much of an autist in real life i swear.
Anyone on US still play? I mainly PvP but I'm down for anything
>>24909030
i'm the exact same way, but only because i live at home with my parents. if i were by myself, i'd have no issue talking to people.
I miss those times too much
>>24908174
>warriors were comparatively weak against most classes 1v1
All you had to do in Vanilla was recruit a pocket healslut and you could go around collecting tears.
Always take care of your healslut, anon.
>>24907578
ask Chuck Norris
>>24908651
In raids that big you have to account for a certain number of people that are d/c or afk or running on potato computers.
There's just a margin of error that you have to expect and account for.
Did somebody say [Inflatable Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]?
>>24909265
Which wildstar didn't, and it turned out as expected.
>>24908182
Congratulations, your post made no sense whatsoever.
I'm playing on Nostalrius right now. It's just like I remember, and it feels like I'm playing it for the first time. There's so many people online, and we just group up to hang out and do quests together.
Last night I explored the Barrow Dens in Teldrassil with two other guys, and we had a blast.
>>24905609
when i was 11 my father introduced me to the game. we could never play together due to the shared account, but we would watch one another and take turns. it was very much a bonding experience, and i cherish the time that i spent with him even if it was through a shitty game. we were in the same guild and he would always send me loot.... fuck, everything was so innocent and happy then.
he met a woman... they bought a trailer together and got married. she didn't like me at all and at age 15 things between her and i got to the point where i had to move out. my father's smoking and alcoholic tendencies grew substantially, and our relationship disintegrated. it is now 4 years later and the extent of our communication is his sporadic drunk texts. i know that he is unhappy, and so am i
it hurts so much. having good memories as a child and realizing how distant they are now... how quickly things change and degenerate. fuck, i'd rather not have them at all. i want it to end
20 year olds that play wow were 10 when it came out
>>24906437
you are a faggot and you are also a faggot who likes shoegaze
>only talk to like 2 people still from the vanilla days, they were in my guild
>one of the guys got shot and killed on Christmas two years ago
>he was cool af
>>24909459
when did I imply I like shoegaze?
>>24906118
>be level 40 Just getting by
>level ??? Horde druid attacks me and kills me out of nowhere
>was just doing a quest
i dont get the hate for WoW. im playing it right now for the first time ever and it's pretty fun.
>>24906548
>>all the quests are "kill 15 __"
is that not what the game always was?
>>24909832
It's all nostalgia goggles.
>>24909832
we hate it because it used to be a lot better and it could be a lot better in its present state
we don't hate it cause it's a bad game
>>24906073
Arenas are what made the game worth playing. You obviously can't even get challenger if you are complaining about arena
>>24910428
>be druid/warrior
>if enemy is not druid/warrior - hamstring&ms until it dies
>if enemy is druid/warrior with lesser gear - hamstring&ms until it dies
>if enemy is druid warrior - call them over msn to negotiate who should surrender based on rating and other things
>>24910428
>be4
By all means, keep posting more of those.
>>24910428
arenas are what destroyed the game as an mmo
/whojusticarpaladin/ here?
>>24911902
>paladin anything
Kill yourself.
>>24911939
>anything but a paladin
Pleb tbhwyfm
>>24910428
man this image always turns me on
>>24907076
that's not machinima though, that's actual gameplay.
The Golden Age of WoW (which started with its release) was pretty awesome. You really felt like you were immersed in the Warcraft universe.
But none of that compares to the Golden Age of Ultima Online. UO was perhaps the greatest MMO in its heyday. Sure... it was 2D... but the game world was EXCITING. It was dangerous to leave the safety of town. Murderers and bandits (played by real people) were often about. Yeah, you lost your loot every now and then... but it gave the game a real sense of risk and urgency.
Then UO took a few notes from Everquest (an inferior game in every way)... and turned it into a carebear fest. Splitting the shards into two parallel worlds (a "safe" one and a "dangerous"/oldschool one) killed UO. The sense of urgency and risk almost vanished over night. Everyone was too wrapped up placing houses/towers/castles in the "safe" new world.
The original UO was a gaming pleasure that 90's kids will never know (I'm an 80's baby). More MMOs need to copy UO's original system. No game since has done any better.
>tfw want to play on live but no money
>tfw all private servers are trash tier
