You will never experience vanilla WoW for the first time again.
Nah but I'm playing on Nost, which is still pretty good
but it was laggy as shit back then, coupled with my shit PC i had that rendered trees like they were bits of film
i do miss grinding bear asses to vendor though
>>321658913
Thank god. Vanilla WoW was shit.
>Source: I've had a WoW subscription on and off for almost 11 years.
>Run around every zone spamming general with LFM
>harassing people on /who to try to get them to join your party
>If you were a DPS Priest, Shaman, Pally or druid..CONGRATS, you're now the hero.
>One wipe and everyone quits out
THANK.
FUCKING.
GOD.
Doesn't hurt as much as never being able to experience a non-dead FFXI again
Lineage 2 was better
>>321658913
I literally will now that you reminded me.
With memory & imagination.
>>321659021
>>321659137
>>321659207
Bunch of retards.
>>321659207
Lol, I've been playing on Nost and this rarely occurs.
Finding groups takes about 10 minutes, people don't leave after one wipe, and I haven't had to whisper or /who for a single role yet.
>play on vanilla private server
>the magic is gone
>get tired of the tedious leveling process and quit
>>321658913
So true. I miss October. Good times.
>>321659436
Nost =/= vanilla wow
>>321659436
>Thinking Nost is anything like Vanilla
Hello 18 year old.
>>321659671
>>321659675
It is though, it is the closest you could possibly get to vanilla WoW. And before you bring that argument that " we've done it all before ", there are various amounts of players who have not done the content before and are still new to it.
And I played vanilla so fuck off
>>321659675
I can't speak for vanilla. I missed that boat. But Nost is pretty fucking accurate to my BC experience. Right down to /who spamming for groups as I run down through the Barrens to RFK.
>>321659436
tell me what server in vanilla had consistently more than 10k players at all times?
Vanilla was good content wise, it was new and awesome experience back in 2004 because there wasn't really anything like it. The only competition was EQ1 which was like 5 years older. However the gameplay is fucking ass, and some classes outright doesn't fucking work in the end game. You want to play balance druid? Say goodbye to your mana after 3 spells. You don't want to be holy priest? Reroll. Wanna tank? Get a warrior and spam sunder armor ONLY because it generates the most threat. Paladins were buff bitches who had shit heals.
Most raids sucked ass as well, molten snore is tank and spank everything coupled with "DISPEL THIS" on every other boss. 40 people raids was cancer out the door and organizing it was a trip through hell. Then the bitching about loot, dear fucking god. Whoever thought that a boss designed for 40 fucking people should drop only 1-2 items is beyond me.
One of the most aggravating things is having to eat and drink for every mob you kill when soloing. Arbitrary wait time is what it is.
>>321660152
Yeah no fucking shit, there's no proper LFG functionality. Of course people are spamming /who you fucktard.
>walking to the Barrens for the first time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do5s0MQvF9s
>>321660628
Is this an indictment of some kind? I am saying people are behaving similarly. Not that it isn't obvious. Also, while it was not overtly stated in my first post, realm population affects the success rates of /whoing, and Ner'zhul in BC felt like Nost.
>>321660523
>One of the most aggravating things is having to eat and drink for every mob you kill when soloing. Arbitrary wait time is what it is.
In old MMOs people used that time to talk about either the game/dungeon/other things.
These days people just enter the group without a word, rush through the dungeon with the GIBBE LOOT mentality and then leave the group without a word.
>>321660523
Nost is close, it's at 9k, though if you're American you might get laggy at those peak times since the servers are based in Europe.
And that is very true about the classes, most people are shunned for playing a dps warrior for example when tanks are needed, and feral and balance are basically useless. Though this is the same in nost which is bad, though does bring to the point that it is similar to old vanilla. Shadow Priests are most OP in pvp currently, though not needed as much in pve, and I haven't reached raiding content yet so I can't really comment on that, though that does bring back memories of how awful raiding was. I did feel more accomplished when downing a boss or getting a gear piece with simply how hard it was. And the eating/drinking thing was and is annoying though it adds to imersion and the differences between classes, such as life tap or mages having the advantage to create food/drink or even giving you a reason to level first aid.
>>321660939
>People are pigeon-holed into certain behaviour
>Surprised when they act a certain way
You're an A-grade fucktard.
>>321661181
Last time I played WoW was 7 years ago. People did this type of shit back then. I remember the time where we exchanged 2 tanks, 1 healer and 3 dps after killing 2 fucking mob groups in a raid. Has it really gotten any worse?
>>321661181
>In old MMOs people used that time to talk about either the game/dungeon/other things.
And this justifies arbitrary wait times because?
Yeah, good. I don't miss that broken shit. I miss my friends sure, but that's nothing to do with the game.
>>321658913
Thank fucking god
>>321661321
Is this trolling? Am I being trolled? Nobody is this retarded, right?
A-am I taking the bait? Oh Lord in heaven help me!
>>321658913
>experiencing Lagforge again
>server is 8:1 population in favor of alliance
>org is constantly undera ttack bankers are always dead
>can't quest in any of the orc quest areas or any area that is shared/near alliance
we had to level in groups of 5 or more and be ready to dip at any moment
we couldn't even go near stranglethorn or any of the world bosses
>>321661482
Much worse, my younger brother got interested in WoW and bought the battlechest a couple of days ago and I watched him play a bit over the holidays.
>1000+ mana and 300 manaregen in your teen levels, so it's literally impossible to run out of mana
>you can do most dungeon with two people or even solo in some cases (overpowered heirloom items) so people just rush towards the next boss with little regard for strategy, coordination or communication
Felt like a casual singleplayer game with other people.
>>321661520
There's nothing wrong with some downtimes. Not having any downtimes carries some broader implications, be it PvP, pace and earnestness in PvE, the whole social aspect etc.
Hell I'm not arguing for Lineage 2 levels of downtimes, but vanilla WoW was okay.
>>321661993
Jesus. Leveling on the one server like that must have been hard. Meanwhile on every other PVP server in the game the Horde dindus always had toe pop advantage. Sucks to be you I guess.
>>321661482
i think he refers to the LFG matchmaker which just puts you in a group of randoms from different servers and most of the time people don't say shit because you won't see each other again.
However maybe he should get some friends since it's faster and more fun.
>>321660938
It was fucking amazing
I am level 46 on nost and I want to reroll just to experience the barrens one more time
>guy on nost is asking for 30g fee for doing enchants
the fuck, cant remember it was like this in vanilla
>>321662335
>>321662253
Yeah, I get that having a LFG makes the experience more mechanical. The speed is definitely an advantage.
However, I feel like an aspect was lost when they started implementing it. "Singleplayer game with other people" is a nice way of phasing it. Most of the heroic challenges that I did were with other random people, you know? You ask your fellows if they are up to doing X, 1 or 2 are, you find whatever role is missing to complete the party and there you go. Not only have you completed some of the achievements, you've found people who are willing to do more of those runs with you.
I do agree that nothing beats the experience of playing with real life friends, but this certainly was a nice addition.
>>321660938
>You can actually walk on the mountains
>That Rare you get to find on top of one with all the cultists around it
>Mfw receiving my first long cape from it
>Mfw receiving my Wolf form and doing my Water Totem Quest
>>321663448
Actually no, I haven't experienced the group finder, as I've quit at the end of BC.
Well it certainly had some appeal, as finding groups could involve spamming LFG for 3 hours straight sometimes.
>>321660007
It's not. It's a vanilla wow build in 2016. The community is worlds different.
>>321660938
>those Alliance-elites near Taurajo
fuck man, Barrens is THE WoW song for me
>>321660938
>play on Nostalrius
>realize the Barrens was actually a horrible and boring place
>>321662275
it was terrible, for every player we had in decent gear for whatever patch it was the alliance had 4 more.
they would even camp our best guild out side of instances with 100+ players in the best gear so they couldn't do raids
>>321663814
>Taking a group through a Dungeon
>You had to kill the elites all the way to the dungeon entrance before actually doing the Dungeon
God I miss this shit.
>>321660938
>Being nostalgic for shitty bland empty boring Horde leveling zones
Shit taste.
>be a terrible vanilla player
>never leveled past 30 because I was never motivated
>Burning Crusade comes out
>Eversong Woods is the most magical place I have ever seen
>motivated to level all the way to 70 and get full PvP epics
>>321664951
I loved the pvp gear in BC. Hated the massive shoulderpad fetish WoW got in Lich King.
>>321663771
I disagree. If you're comparing it to retail it is completely different and if you're comparing it to vanilla wow it's slightly different.
On nost, people are still willing to help, group up, help people learn new things and work with each other. Obviously it's nothing like retail but bears similarities to vanilla.
>>321660523
>sunder armor only
Revenge generated and still generates more threat per point of damage than any other Warrior ability.
A single Revenge was worth about 4 Sunders worth of threat.
>>321664704
>He didn't think Horde Kalimdor leveling zones were comfy as fuck
I will literally never forget my first time levelling through XR and Stonetalon quests. The music and atmosphere were perfect.
>you will never circle around players in PvP who use keyboard to turn
I used to feel like a god.
>>321665368
>massive shoulders
>hate
Do you not play Orc? Alliance cuck.
Don't worry bros, you'll get one more opportunity to experience that vanilla feel again. Virtual reality gaming will bring back some of that "first time magic" for MMOs, because it'll be a new interactive medium no one has ever tried before.
That is, if Jewbook doesn't fuck it up first...
>>321665857
The horde sucked on the server where most of my friends played, so no.
>>321663771
>The community is worlds different.
The golden age of the internet is long over. We are forever trapped in this troll ridden dystopian memescape.
>>321665726
>tfw traveling to westfall as horde to get the good level 15-25 gear from deadmines
>>321665804
I loved doing that, they look so dumb when they spin around in one place.
I really didn't play WoW at it's prime. Also never played an MMO and I think I will never have a good experience, every MMO I've tried is just an open world grindfest.
>>321658913
>get into WoW around WotLK
>love it
>play for 3 months straight
>make some great friends
>some of my non-WoW mates give it a go
>have a blast with them too
>stop playing for years
>go back
>feels the same, still love it
>no one wants to play with me
>all other MMOs just can't hold a candle
I miss it.
>>321666453
>Going to Westfall as a Horde Rogue to get the Bop red defias mask
>trying desperately to avoid detection by other players(many escorted by Max level friends) , guards and higher level mobs
Literally Metal Gear Orc. Most fun I'd had in awhile on my rogue.
>playing WoW in like 2006
>some chick wants to duel for some reason outside ironforge
>we go at it and she obviously sucks (keyboard turning, clearly clicking on abilities instead of using keybinds, etc.)
>deliberately play worse since i feel sorta bad
>she starts mocking me in chat since she thinks she's whooping my ass
>all of a sudden, dick is harder than fucking bedrock
>literally start jerking off while still poorly dueling with the other hand to make it look like i'm bad
>she finishes me off as i cum all over
that's how i discovered i'm a masochist
>>321666453
>traveling to Scarlet Halls as Alliance
>>321666743
>being enough of a sadist to try for Stockade as Horde
>on foot
>maximum_sweating.webm
>>321663771
>The community is worlds different.
>worlds
Stop exaggerating, you stupid cunt. It's changed, but not enough to make a significant difference.
>>321667938
I think you just have a shit memory m8.
>>321666713
oh shit my sides. i need more pics like this
>>321659396
thank fucking god wow was shit then and it's shit now
>mfw people on v have nostalgia for this shit
Come back when you have nostalgia for Ultima Online, Ragnarok Online, Dark Age of Camelot or Starwars Galaxies
>>321658913
I'm glad I got to experience it, but I wouldn't want to go back and be a pathetic Nostalrius fag.
>>321659287
>dead grasslands: the game
The entire fucking game was flat areas with poorly places mobs and grinding for days. Red named PKers surrounding the newbie zones.
I got to level 40 and was so fed up with it.
>>321669141
SWG fuck me I got nostalgia bad for that the other night, somebody posting stories.
>You'll never be a droid mechanic who specialises in languages hiding from a bounty hunter
>>321660938Did someone say Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker?
>>321669480
>Did someone say Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker?
That shit wasn't around until WotLK, you pathetic BC-baby.
>>321668302
I don't think he played the same game.
We went from a single tight-knit community where Ninja looting items and griefing would cause the entire realm to add you to the ignore list to having everyone on your ignore list by default as you don't really talk to anyone from your server anymore.
Heck, you don't even add good players to your friends list in the hopes you might play some more dungeons or do some grindan together later.
>>321669693
Except this happens in nost as well as it did in vanilla. That was the point I was trying to explain to this guy earlier. Retail though is a completely different story
>>321658913
i remember a few days before burning crusade came out and this level 60 paladin teleported a female draenai to ironforge and it was the coolest fucking thing
>>321658913
Nostalrius is as close as we can get, and it doesn't disappoint desu senpai
>>321669593
[Dirge]
>>321670086
>>321669963
How fast is leveling in Nost ?
Do people really not socialize in Nost? It was a huge thing in Vanilla.
I mean, you wouldn't befriend many people as pretty much everyone wanted to do their own thing. But no one was an asshole, pretty much. And you'd get to level up with complete strangers for a couple of levels if you became bros during dungeons/questing elites and group questing.
>>321670447
Levelling is exactly how it was in vanilla, zones are always full with people questing, and it's easy to get groups for elites quests. People so socialise, the only issue is the chinese players who don't speak english, but I've made a decent amount of friends on the game from just grouping up and I'm in a active guild with good members. And yea, I got two friends that I met levelling and now we level together for the most part.
>>321670447
>How fast is leveling in Nost ?
1x
>Do people really not socialize in Nost?
I no longer play, but it wasn't uncommon to get dungeon groups that were lively. As long as you're willing to initiate conversations, people will be very willing to socialize.
>>321670447
I think the huge population is a problem, you have to be much more combative with people you would otherwise be cooperating with. Tons of people wanting the same mining/herb nodes and its pretty common to have 10-15 people waiting on a named npc spawn that takes 15 minutes to respawn.
>tfw you have never played WoW ever in your entire life
>>321659207
>One wipe and everyone quits out
This is a thing with current wow but it wasnt for vanilla. It was actually rare for a group to disband if you wiped because you wouldnt just click a button then get teleported to the instance. You had to talk to people in the game, get a group set up, then walk to the instance, sometimes fight the opposite faction while you were getting there. Just getting to the instance could be an adventure and feel like an accomplishment. If you wiped people would ask what went wrong and would either try to do it without screwing up or brainstorm different ideas to try.
Its current wow where if you wipe people leave without saying anything.
>>321671124
exactly.
I remember wiping in Maraudon like 6 times before clearing it (more than once) and we didn't disband.
leveling inside dungeons was so rewarding that we'd put up with the wipes in the hopes for actual non-green gear (which was rare as fuck) and completing quests / gaining shitloads of XP.
>>321658913
January forward always gives me the nostalgia, maybe i should level another character on nostalrius. Though i got tired of endgame a month after hitting 60 last year.
>>321659675
Only difference is that people min max more at 60 instances and raids, and even then i managed to run all dungeons several times as enhancement shaman.
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