Classic WoW Hardcore

[Lune]

Yea a lot of streaming shit is fake, trolls, or stunts for views/virality. Good rule of thumb to never, -ever- group with streamers as they'll purposefully let you die or wipe etc for the 'event' of it.

Originally Posted by Evia [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm still waiting for an EQ player to acknowledge my gnome, Akanon.

Hah, I came across an Ambrotos. Wasn't him though

[unsunghero]

I enjoyed classic release in 2019

I just wish that pug battlegrounds existed (it literally didn't, was all premades) like they did back in vanilla. That was the nail in the coffin for me

Plus I hated how much I felt like I lived and died for a shitty (9-10% drop rate typically) lottery spin after 3+ hours of effort in a raid. After a few raids of the item not dropping and me basically having completely wasted my time, it was hard to bring myself to keep doing it. I had ran ZG like 50+ times before I finally got that ring set that was Bis until naxx. I got so sick of running ZG for 2-3 hours for nothing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

[Swish]

I never enjoyed ZG, the Plane of Sky of WoW raiding.

[unsunghero]

Wow I didn’t realize that the “coward” debuff you get from running out of the Mak’gora duel to the death is a 3 day that only ticks down when you are logged into the game

And the game will auto log you out when afk for a period of time so that won’t work

That’s actually pretty funny, pretty nasty debuff too

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=

[Evia]

So I was on my solo mage and I was lvl 17 at the time. I went down to the beach in Westfall to kill some murlocs for some eyes for a quest. I engage with one who seems solo and I get an add from behind a wood log. OK np I'll burn this one down and work on the add....

So I kill the mob I was fighting quick enough and switch to the add. I look up at my life and I'm at 40%! Wtf what is hitting me so hard! I turn to run and there is a Murloc who's behind me! Apparently has been hitting me this whole time and I hadn't noticed. So I run passed him and up off the beach and they're chasing me and casting on me and I finally disengaged their aggro with 4% life!!! My adrenaline was pumping so hard I had to hearthstone out just bc I was so shaken up from it lol.

That adrenaline rush lasted over 15 min it was such a thrill! I'll never be able to play wow not hardcore after this experience.

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by Evia [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So I was on my solo mage and I was lvl 17 at the time. I went down to the beach in Westfall to kill some murlocs for some eyes for a quest. I engage with one who seems solo and I get an add from behind a wood log. OK np I'll burn this one down and work on the add....

So I kill the mob I was fighting quick enough and switch to the add. I look up at my life and I'm at 40%! Wtf what is hitting me so hard! I turn to run and there is a Murloc who's behind me! Apparently has been hitting me this whole time and I hadn't noticed. So I run passed him and up off the beach and they're chasing me and casting on me and I finally disengaged their aggro with 4% life!!! My adrenaline was pumping so hard I had to hearthstone out just bc I was so shaken up from it lol.

That adrenaline rush lasted over 15 min it was such a thrill! I'll never be able to play wow not hardcore after this experience.

Lol ya my co-worker who was playing WoW HC before the official servers would relay similar stories

It can actually add extra challenge because panic makes us worse at making decisions. But how can someone not panic especially later when they now have hundreds of hours sunk into that char?

It’s like poker, once a lot of real money is on the line, all of a sudden people have tells

[Lune]

Originally Posted by Evia [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So I was on my solo mage and I was lvl 17 at the time. I went down to the beach in Westfall to kill some murlocs for some eyes for a quest. I engage with one who seems solo and I get an add from behind a wood log. OK np I'll burn this one down and work on the add....

So I kill the mob I was fighting quick enough and switch to the add. I look up at my life and I'm at 40%! Wtf what is hitting me so hard! I turn to run and there is a Murloc who's behind me! Apparently has been hitting me this whole time and I hadn't noticed. So I run passed him and up off the beach and they're chasing me and casting on me and I finally disengaged their aggro with 4% life!!! My adrenaline was pumping so hard I had to hearthstone out just bc I was so shaken up from it lol.

That adrenaline rush lasted over 15 min it was such a thrill! I'll never be able to play wow not hardcore after this experience.

lol this happened in the Melenas cave with my hunter. I teamed up with another hunter to kill melenas and we were crawling through the cave. We get to a spot near some rocks where we have to jump down... he jumps down, I do not, because there were mobs down there and we would have been dead-zoned unless we created space, which would have agro'd more mobs. So he's meleeing them and I'm shooting from above. All clear, so I jump down. As soon as I land we get a hyperspawn, everything repops.

We manage to melee it all to death but he's at 15% HP and I tell him to eat "lmao I don't have any food". I go to hand him some of mine and Melenas is walking up, agro's him and brings another. He tries to run, frantically tries to jump onto a rock, and dies. Oh fuck, my only chance is to run. So I run up the tunnel and get a bunch of shit following me, almost die, drink a pot, almost dead again. Thought for sure it was over... luckily I'm still just lvl 8. I turn a corner and there's another hunter clearing down through the tunnel and some stuff is dead, but I'm still in peril. I turn another corner and there are a few more grell, but they are casters. I run by them and they start casting shadow bolts that surely would have killed my if I didn't make it out of the cave, turn a corner, and LOS them.

Got out of the cave with maybe 15% HP and got attacked by a nightsaber lol, but luckily it is green. We duke it out and I survive with basically no HP. One daze, a slightly higher level tiger, one additional shadow bolt, all would have killed my permanently. Had to go chill in the inn for a bit and change my pants. Hunter's last words were "Good luck man" before his soul left his body. Godspeed Survitor

[Evia]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

lol this happened in the Melenas cave with my hunter. I teamed up with another hunter to kill melenas and we were crawling through the cave. We get to a spot near some rocks where we have to jump down... he jumps down, I do not, because there were mobs down there and we would have been dead-zoned unless we created space, which would have agro'd more mobs. So he's meleeing them and I'm shooting from above. All clear, so I jump down. As soon as I land we get a hyperspawn, everything repops.

We manage to melee it all to death but he's at 15% HP and I tell him to eat "lmao I don't have any food". I go to hand him some of mine and Melenas is walking up, agro's him and brings another. He tries to run, frantically tries to jump onto a rock, and dies. Oh fuck, my only chance is to run. So I run up the tunnel and get a bunch of shit following me, almost die, drink a pot, almost dead again. Thought for sure it was over... luckily I'm still just lvl 8. I turn a corner and there's another hunter clearing down through the tunnel and some stuff is dead, but I'm still in peril. I turn another corner and there are a few more grell, but they are casters. I run by them and they start casting shadow bolts that surely would have killed my if I didn't make it out of the cave, turn a corner, and LOS them.

Got out of the cave with maybe 15% HP and got attacked by a nightsaber lol, but luckily it is green. We duke it out and I survive with basically no HP. One daze, a slightly higher level tiger, one additional shadow bolt, all would have killed my permanently. Had to go chill in the inn for a bit and change my pants. Hunter's last words were "Good luck man" before his soul left his body. Godspeed Survitor

the visuals you were creating with your story were top notch, I was on the seat of my chair reading it lol. its too bad the hunter pal didnt make it! but had he brought some food this story might be quite different. always be prepared boy scouts!!

[Evia]

I ran DM/VC last night (god those arguments are dumb) and it was a great time! I thought I should stay away from grouping or dungeons due to risk, but these guys were all playing like pros! we had no risk of death the whole time, ever. even when they insisted on breaking my sheep which forced me to just bliz the whole room down.

I found out that if you die you get to server xfer the character which has made me play with just a bit more bravery.
whats the dungeon after this one? Gnomer?

[Lune]

Originally Posted by Evia [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I ran DM/VC last night (god those arguments are dumb) and it was a great time! I thought I should stay away from grouping or dungeons due to risk, but these guys were all playing like pros! we had no risk of death the whole time, ever. even when they insisted on breaking my sheep which forced me to just bliz the whole room down.

I found out that if you die you get to server xfer the character which has made me play with just a bit more bravery.
whats the dungeon after this one? Gnomer?

Yea I've pretty much accepted if I die it's going to be in a dungeon, but spending 100% of your time grinding quests out in the world is no way to live either. But I will nope out and quit the group at the first sign of incompetence.

The server transfers are limited to the classic era servers if that means anything.

For strictly alliance, Blackfathom Deeps comes after Deadmines. People are also running Wailing Caverns which is roughly equivalent to DM in level but quite the excursion.

DM/WC > SFK > BFD/Stockades > Gnomer > RFK > SM etc