It calls me back
Please make this decade long torture stop
I feel you OP
The wow itch is coming back
>>340516329
>>340516427
Got the itch?Everything you used to love is gone. Let go.
>>340516489
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=066_q4DIeqk
>>340516329
>Elwynn Forest
>first time going through Fargodeep Mine
>get super excited
>YOU NO TAKE CANDLE
>die
>find 2 others who have the same quest
>make party, killing everything in sight
>feel like best person on realm
I can't believe this was 10 years ago.
Wake me up.
Let go anons.
Just download kronos, play for a day or two, and then move on
>>340516757
>>340516865
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpyInx0ldfo
thread song
>>340516880
you don't understand shit
Same
>>340516865
Why everyone attribute the downfall of WoW to Wraith of the Lich King? When I played it, for me it was all good.
>>340516329
It's been 12 long years, Boss.
At the very least wait until the pre-patch for Legion if you have to fall back.
>>340516329
It is dead, anon. Don't try fucking the corpse, it has already seen too much. Just let it rest in its defiled grave and walk away.
>>340518220
That's just TBC shitters who loved being exclusively catered to for poopsocking. TBC was worse than both vanilla and WOLTK.
>>340518220
That was when the retarded crab dev took over and put in Trial of the Champion/Crusader. Every bad decision came in at that point on, manifesting most clearly when they dramatically nerfed the difficulty of the early Cataclysm heroics.
If TotC was the flap of the butterfly's wings, the heroics nerf was the hurricane making landfall.
>>340517574
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3E3Vf_7iNU
>>340518220
Because the features added in wotlk, namely group finder, are what ultimately made the game shit. Wotlk was great but it is when the tiny snowball of shit began rolling downhill
>>340516329
I had the same itch, I just took the free week and added 30 days without a sub. It's actually not that bad but it's just impossible to get that first MMORPG feel again, it's like heroin.
>>340516329
I still remember how I was stripping naked doing dance with my friend in Stormwind, some people even gave us gold but then one gnome mage opened a portal into the outland. I remember jumping with my fried into that unknown place, and how we barely killed a...butterfly :D, it was harder than any thing we had before but we did it. So many found memories of it, too bad mmorpgs are dead now, maybe virtual reality will revive them after some time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvW-QTiZLQ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXMguMnsyak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNstdF54ypo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esd3EcxQho4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otFQrgkrmlk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rXIyz8HSJQ
What happened?
>>340520740
>What happened?
Activision happened.
>>340520740
>that wannabe demon hunter
>>340517574
In my experience on WoW, the leveling back in Classic was my favorite part. The end-game is fine and all, but you had this major adventure trying to find good places to get XP. It forced you to explore the world, coming across beautiful scenery. You'd get a group of people to do your first dungeons.. All my best friends on that game, excluding the people that brought me into the game back in Gradeschool, I met in one full SM run. Our tank was a level 49, that helped us bumrush it, but we ended up having a problem with hordies outside and just ended up in the massive 1 hour standoff. It was great.
That's not even a good story of mine.
That's just a memory I can pull right now.
But I must put it to rest..
The gaming enviroment has changed. I have grown.
No game will ever replace the feelings I had for this game... no game could possibly sate the adventures I had in this game.
>>340522287
Please stop. This is making me cry. All the fun I had and what it has become.
![[Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of The Windseeker].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/RRsjflq.jpg "[Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of The Windseeker].jpg")
>>340522362
I'm posting anything wow related I have saved.
>>340521147
>engage mob
>mob reaches low health
>mob runs away to a nearby pack
>you cant do anything but watch since you have no way of finishing of said mob
>said mob comes back with 2 other mobs and kills you
those were the days
>Never added Bards, but added fucking pandas
Don't you boys miss Star Wars Galaxies?
>>340522975
>low health humanoids fleeing at low HP
I had forgotten this glorious, terrible nightmare
>>340523057
Maybe in the expansion after legion. But I'm still hoping on Naga as a playable race.
>>340518220
ToC alienated the entire fanbase.
I quit WoW due to ToC.
WoW peaked at Ulduar patch. It was all downhill from there. Ulduar was a perfect raid. There is nothing bad to say about it.
>>340516570
>they used the Mag'har model for MC Hammer
loool
>>340516329
omfg is this a thing? i feel the necesity of playing this shit again are we being brainwashed?
>>340516329
>>340516427
Same dudes, WoW itch coming back on strong the other day.
This will be the first expansion I don't re-sub back into for release. It will be hard but worth it. It's not a good game anymore, no matter what the die-hard shiteaters on r/wow think.
>been free from wow since wod release
>waiting patiently for the blizz/nostalrius meeting to happen so they can announce their legacy servers already
>>340523252
FUCK YOU
>>340523252
Huh huh huh huh huh huh huh
>>340523545
Meeting is over and results postedThey Can't Do it
>>340523742
That's not what they said
>>340518620
>it's just impossible to get that first MMORPG feel again, it's like heroin
That's almost true.
What's impossible is enjoying leveling on another 10 character for every MMO that comes. Leveling has no interesting qualities except challenge and socialization, and all of that is aplenty at max level if the game is decent. Leveling has gimped gameplay, and there's no central goal for characters to come together for, except out-leveling wherever they are and PvP, and the leveling experience doesn't get better by playing it again on 5+ toons.
Star Wars Galaxies was better
>>340523653
Nyyyeaaargh
>>340523742
Why are you lying?
>>340523742
>>340523893
http://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=44218
They said they are going to provide things to the community. Either they are makign another Nostalrius or Blizzard is.
>>340523057
Pandaren were supposed to be the Alliance TBC race, stay mad BC baby.
>>340524452
You do realize that was a samefag, right?
i was lucky; quit right after wotlk and when i wanted to come back at the beginning of pandaria everything was ... different ....
>>340524395
I think they mentioned opensourcing some of their scripts at some point.
>>340518220
its not that WotLK was the downfall, rather that it was its peak moment.
ppl often regard it as the best WoW ever got, and it was also the most popular WoW ever got.
the steady decline of WoWs quality and popularity started after WotLK.
NO WHERE TO GO BUT DOWN!
>>340516865
>>340523742
>Blizzard agreed to meet Nostalrius dirty pirate private violators
>/v/ said "IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING! BLIZZKEKS BTFO! IT'S HAPPENING!"
>They met Blizzard
>Blizzard said "We have to protect our property. Nobody can run servers except for us. Legacy servers would take a bit of work, so we're not going to do that though. Glad we could clear things up. Please pre-order Warlords of Draenor, and see the movie Warcraft, now in theaters."
>>340526729
>>340518220
Most were in it for the end of the WC3 story
Did anyone partake in the degeneracy of chugging down 4 of pic related before every raid?
It was a guild tradition.
>>340527159
If you're telling me most WoW players played Warcraft 3, then you can fuck right off.
>>340526361
Did they ever explain why he was 40 feet tall even BEFORE he sucked up all the magical energy in the room?
>>340526908
I will forever hate Blizzard for what they did to the barrens and thousand needles.
>>340516329
Whenever I feel like going back I just read the General Forums and /wowg/ for a few minutes and then I'm good.
>>340527232
No
I just rip the bong every couple of minute
>>340527159
That's not really true. But Blizzard definitely didnt have the writing chops to continue telling the story after Wrath ended.
El es mucho macho
>>340527378
I would assume the majority of Vanilla WoW players were Warcraft 3 players.
>>340526361
I actually killed him recently on a 70 twink guild. Was so much fun.
Is this the greatest set of armor in WoW history?
>>340518220
Because most of WotLK actually wasn't good. 5-mans were worthless from day one. T7 and T9 were fucking worthless and T10 was mediocre, only Ulduar was actually good (and was the shortest patch). The newly introduced BGs were awful and the game would have been better-off without them in the rotation.
And most importantly, while they weren't implemented to the same extent as in Cataclysm and beyond, the damning design paradigms were finalized. For example, class homogenization had begun in earnest. Blizzard started making all but the latest of raid tiers obsolete. Features like RDF were implemented. They started treating player character as the #1 hero on Azeroth. And so on.
Just play for a few days on kronos till you have your fill like i did. Once you get level 30+ the game becomes unbearable grindy bullshit anyways. The beginning nostalgia is always fun though.
Say what you will about Legion gutting classes and PvP, the music is glorious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l5ygxHVteA
>>340525409
Thats how i sit after masturbating, with the cum in my hand like in the pic.
>>340527692
Northrend was DOG SHIT
worst zones of any new areas from an expansion, seriously worse shit than Mist of Pandaria, Cataclysm, and Warlords of Draenor
>>340527750
Blizzard always has phenomenal, it's literally the only thing they do good.
I'm out of Warcraft-related pictures. goodbye friendos.
>>340527380
Because it makes it easier for players to read the situation and it shows they are powerful (similar to how kings and other powerful people are depicted in Medieval art, for example).
>>340528013
>>340527750
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8zZmKhgxPI
>>340521147
Go play on Kronos WoW then. Vanilla server 100% blizzlike. I can't tell the difference between it and retail vanilla.
>>340516329
>just reinstalled last night
>>340528270
No, theyre just gonna keep circlejerking to their childhood memories instead of realizing that the game is actually shit
>>340527750
>playing wow without the music turned off and eurobeat blasting in your ears
casual
>>340528579
YOUR childhood circle jerk was a shitty memory
I had fun, so fuck you, kid
>>340516329
But XIV exists
>>340518502
>poopsocking
>not the literally 12 week minimum in bracket 1 rank 14 pvp grind
16 hours a day baby, not even exaggerating
>>340528110
Why is T6 pally using Thunderfury? Something like Reign of Misery, Hammer of Judgement or Tempest of Chaos would be appropriate.
![maxresdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/CIVHIFI.jpg "maxresdefault[1].jpg")
What do you guys think happened at the meeting with WoW devs and Nostalrius crew?
I never started playing until Cata, after the game was already ruined. I decided to try out Nostalrius out of curiosity and ended up having way more fun in vanilla than I ever did playing Cata through WoD.
>people out questing everywhere
>some quests are genuinely fucking difficult to the point where there's always players looking to group up out in the field
>real sense of progression with the spell upgrade system
>dungeons are a real challenge for the first time in my miserable life
>up til 3 am with a group of bros I assembled, running Deadmines, healing as a druid
>takes like 10 tries to kill the final boss, feels great to finally do it
It's just absolutely amazing. So much better than modern WoW. I want Nostalrius back. What's even worse is that every new MMORPG to come out just copies modern WoW and offers absolutely zero PvE challenge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXMguMnsyak
>>340524792
It was literally like two people on the dev team pushing for it and no one else agreed
>>340527607
My thoughts exactly.
I get that you can get into WoW when you're 13 years old because 13-year-olds don't have the greatest mental capacity so it's actually a bit of a challenge. But leveling up in WoW as a non-retarded adult is really just dull. Do the same ability rotation on mob after mob after mob after mob. I really don't get how people can enjoy that.
>>340527478
>best and most unique weapon model
>its fucking garbage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alWTyJr1Gro
Goddamn, the years I played this were some of the best. Being 18-19 and inviting my friends over with their PC's where we'd plan to play Quake 3 or CS:S all night and then end up taking our lvl 70's through instances, drinking cheap vodka mixers and staying up til 5am. Trying not to wake my parents.
Now my parents are divorced, the home I spent my formative years is gone along with those friends. Fuck, what I'd give to have those years back.
>>340516329
>>340518285
Five long years for me and going strong. Haven't looked back. Well, I did have an itch once when I got a sub for Christmas. I barely played it though, shit computer at the time. I have another MmoRpg filling the void.
>>340516329
anon, do you make good money? if yes, just keep your sub active and casual go at it like I'm doing.
the $15 a month is so little, I just keep it up. whenever I feel like doing some pve, or running a dungeon, I log in and get it out of my system. I'll probably be good for a few weeks or so, but then I get the urge to jump in and just fuck around for a bit.
>>340529204
That's almost like every game ever.
>>340529039
>What do you guys think happened at the meeting with WoW devs and Nostalrius crew?
>>340526729
Even if legacy servers did exist, they wouldn't be as good as Nost. They WOULD have a cash shop just like retail does and like every other private server does. The population would crash after a few weeks because the people playing there wouldn't be people who loved the original game, it would be a bunch of gamurr grrls and Youtube e-celebs. Not to mention people would be clamoring for convenience additions like linked auction houses and mounts that don't vanish the second you touch a drop of water or enter combat.
>>340529517
That's not true.
I agree that a lot of games these days aren't extremely challenging but most still go beyond just repeating the same button inputs over and over for hours on end.
Is Kronos any good? What's the population like compared to what Nostalrius was?
I've got the burning WoW itch.
>>340529204
Well, once you've played almost any game for hundreds of hours, mundane gameplay can almost always be reduced in similar manner. That doesn't mean you can't enjoy coming up with and utilizing subtle optimizations (both in terms of play, things like using Voidwalker's Torment manually to conserve mana, and in levelling routes and general efficiency) and most importantly, enjoying the game's excellent atmosphere.
The great thing about WoW is that Blizzard themselves are responsible for me not resubbing to that clusterfuck by occasionally giving me a free week to play/upgrading me to the latest shit expansion (after everyone else has played it forever and they're about to release a new one anyway) just to remind me how shit that game is now and how the latest shit expansion made the game even more shit.
THANKS BLIZZARD
lets face it
the reason why you want to play is for social you want to meet someone that you can engage in romance with on there
you won't
you will just keep leveling and fail to engage in any real conversation that is more than 3 paragraphs,
you will stop talking to them
they will stop talking to you
you are going to get sad and uninstall
>>340530254
Kronos 2 is dead from DDOS. Chinese IP's were banned or something so they got mad and fucked over the server.
>>340530412
The reason I want it is for forced social. It was going well with Nost when that was up.
If legacy servers come out, would you prefer
1. 1.12 client, all content in the game from day 1
2. 1.12 client, content progressively added (nostalrius)
3. Client progressively updated, content progressively updated (actual vanilla)
4. Other
>>340531123
The option 2.
1.12.1 is largely devoid of bugs, exploits and other issues that would have been ruinous in earlier patches (everyone and their mother would utilize things like reckoning bombs in authentic 1.1.0 patch), has less bad balance and has by far superior addon support with addons like Grid having been backported. Content should of course also be pre-nerf post-bugfix in addition to being gated (for example, buffed dungeon loot is a huge indirect nerf to early content).
>>340530296
I usually switch to another game well before it becomes mundane because I don't enjoy mundane game play.
Maybe I should look at it as less of a game and more of a way of relaxing and receiving a feeling of achievement.
>>340527414
/wowg/ is easily the worst 4chan community i have seen. I have generally enjoyed every 4ch community in multiplayer games (including a really old /v/ private server until the host pirated bioshock and shut down permanently), but those people take the cake
>>340533040
how so?
I remember playing MH4U with 4chan
even the G3 carted more than I did
>>340529436
You are the ultimate blizzcuck
>>340516329
I always hunger for the rush that Vanilla wow was, i used to do 3 months work/3 months free time back then, i spent all my spare time playing wow.
i always get the urge to drop everything i have and just go back to that, but then i remember that it will never be the same again.
>>340534131
The community is basically like that guild where the GMs girlfriend joins and fucks everything up. Basically a bunch of small community "ecelebs" acting like camsluts with beta orbiters floating around
>>340534764
so basically the nyanners threads after vgas?
>>340516329
>>340516427
>>340517661
>>340523492
Let me help you ease that itch.
The game is shit.
>Garrisons 2.0 (sit inside garrisons and send your followers on imaginary quests)
>Sit inside garrison or city while you wait for your LFR queue to pop
>Watered down pvp and still not balanced.
>YEARLY EXPANSIONS. seriously. just this should be enough to convince you
>You're paying $15 a month to afk
>No more weapons dropping from dungeons or raids because the design team is fucking lazy and can't be fucked designing anymore weapons.
>Instead every class gets a weapon that looks the same with a few different colour options
>>340522287
>>340523903
>>340522878
>Back when WoW was enjoyable
>Back when the whole lore, story and character parts were actually tolerable
>Back when Thrall was likeable
I really wish they simply made one final expansion after Legion (if there will be one) and then retconned the game into an alternative timeline.
I'm still hoping for WCIV, but with Blizzard doing this much bullshit like in SCII's and DIII's case under ActiVision influence, my hopes are below zero.
>>340535338
The thing about garrisons is that I at least enjoy developing the small town, but i can completely see them getting dull once everything is finished being upgraded
