Classic/Vanilla WOW

[Oleris]

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

Official server or wat? I want blizzard to get more money from me.

I will be playing the official servers. I played on Nost and a couple other freeshards through the years. Lights hope currently has 15,000+ during peak hours, but they are shutting down when the official servers come out.

I'm hoping they offer the option of progressing to BC and WOTLK. I stopped playing BC and never got to experience the "peak" of WOW with WOTLK.

[Irulan]

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

I will be playing the official servers. I played on Nost and a couple other freeshards through the years. Lights hope currently has 15,000+ during peak hours, but they are shutting down when the official servers come out.

I'm hoping they offer the option of progressing to BC and WOTLK. I stopped playing BC and never got to experience the "peak" of WOW with WOTLK.

I am excited about this. Cool!

This is basically on my bucket list b4 I go.

[JurisDictum]

Windfury was overpowered I think was the gist of it.

But if you were just good at the game, frostshock kiting and earthshocking crucial spells went a long way. Grounding totem the right spells was also big (you could ground totem blind vs rogues I remember). You would walk up and melee them and be conservative with your mana against most classes (you didn't have to be as careful with mana vs Rogue and Warrior, but had to be more careful with melee). Bad shamans I remember did a lot of spam shocking and running OOM.

Heals were mana efficient and would have NS + greater heal for emergencies.

Shadowpriest with +shadow damage gear just melted things if you knew what you were doing. It was very mana intensive though and not nearly as good group pvp...but still just that kind of power was useful in groups.

A lot of this still applied when WSG opened up during the BWL era...

Things started changing and getting lamer by Nax era because raid gear started to get really good and I remember warlocks specifically were all the sudden considered OP (unresistible fear from death coil I think was part but not of that)...but I don't remember much detail then because I really wasn't active.

[misterbonkers]

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

Looking forward to playing it over the summer. Are you guys going

1) horde or alliance?

2) pvp or pve server?

3) what class?

I remember playing the beta for wow back in the day. There had to be 1,000+ players in the starting zone. It prob took a full day just to complete the first 4 levels due to the lack of quest mobs.

Do you think they will instance any of the starting areas at the launch of the game?

Will everyone min/max and not go any gimp specs?

Were shamans any good? I went alliance and only saw them in pvp

Will they decrease the respec or mount prices?

So many questions about the servers with it coming out soon. Will they go the DBG route and add some QOL to the servers and have a cash shop?

I will probably go frost mage and have my girlfriend try out a shaman or priest for a combo. I have zero idea if shaman and frost mages are a decent duo. I know priest/mage is solid due to the PBAOE priests get.

lok'tar ogar

pvp

undead rogue

this is assuming i even bother playing. vanilla doesn't mean much to me. but the thought of them re-releasing tbc at some point and going back to rng mace stun arena meta of season 1 and 2 has me foaming at the mouth. back when you could spec prep and adrenaline rush and prep refreshed the cooldown of adrenaline rush. those were good times.

[Nexii]

Classic WoW is kind of like classic EQ. Fun but not as good as during its first 1-2 expansions. Got to 60 twice on legacy servers (paladin, then shaman) and ended up bored

Depends a lot how the servers are set up whether I give it a third go. Probably would play priest - some kind of healer again for sure, though levelling sucks

[Irulan]

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

Classic WoW is kind of like classic EQ. Fun but not as good as during its first 1-2 expansions. Got to 60 twice on legacy servers (paladin, then shaman) and ended up bored

Depends a lot how the servers are set up whether I give it a third go. Probably would play priest - some kind of healer again for sure, though levelling sucks

I want to try a vanilla holy priest and druid bad. Legacy servers still a thing? Like upto wotlk?

BC was guuuud. But it made vanilla obsolete.

[bigjeff100]

Absolutely! Count me in!! I'll start back up what made years ago! I remember making it to Cataclysm. Then due to me not having a smart phone, i never could get those security codes. So my account was hacked numerous times.. Finally gave up everything blizzard related.

But i'd reroll the same character!

Athemis
Alliance
Druid- Restoration
PVP

[eadric]

classic wow pvp was hella fun, but there's just not enough time these days to take the particular trip down memory lane.

[Oleris]

How do shamans scale with healing with gear? I heard paladins become the best healer with high end gear, but are terrible until then.

[Oleris]

pvp content plan. Good luck trying to level 45-60 on a PVP server until the BG's are out lol.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wo...nt-plan/146049

Since we broke down the six phases of content that we’ll be rolling out for Classic, we’ve heard the increase in requests for PvP details so we wanted to get you up to speed on our plans there.

As was the case when World of Warcraft originally launched in 2004, there won’t be a formal PvP system in WoW Classic at the outset. You’ll still be able to PvP, of course, and there will be no Dishonorable Kills, so you’ll be free to repeatedly hunt down every player and NPC in, say, Stranglethorn Vale to your stealthy heart’s content.

That’ll change once phase 2 rolls around and we add the Honor System, which will introduce Honorable Kills, Dishonorable Kills, and PvP Rank Rewards. The items you earn from the PvP Rank Rewards will be the versions from patch 1.12. Keep in mind though, just as it did originally, it will require a substantial time investment to rank up through the Honor System. For those interested in the Rank Rewards, earning epic gear will require consistent dedication over a long period of time as a top contributor on your realm. We don’t expect to see many people running around with these items early on, but we’re certain Hillsbrad Foothills will still see its fair share of action!

In the third phase, we’ll introduce the first Battlegrounds: Alterac Valley (version 1.12 2.6k) and Warsong Gulch, alongside with their associated vendors. One thing to note is that there were a couple of updates to these vendors over the course of the original patch releases, so some items won’t be available right away. For example, the Spell Penetration trinkets available from the Warsong Gulch vendor weren’t introduced until Patch 1.9, so we’re currently thinking that we’ll add these in phase 5.

The Arathi Basin Battleground will follow in phase 4, along with its specific vendor. It’ll be interesting to see how many people stay behind to guard the flag. :wink:

Finally, in phase 6, we’ll have the world PvP objectives in Silithus and Eastern Plaguelands, which will come out at the same time as Naxxramas.

Here’s what the PvP content looks like mapped to the phases we recently posted about:

Phase 1 (WoW Classic Launch)

You can PvP one another in the world, but there is no tracking, and no formal rewards for doing so.

Phase 2

Honor System (including Dishonorable Kills)
PvP Rank Rewards

Phase 3

Alterac Valley (version 1.12 2.6k)
Warsong Gulch

Phase 4

Arathi Basin

Phase 6

World PvP objectives in Silithus and Eastern Plaguelands

As we mentioned before, we haven’t yet determined exactly when each of the content phases will occur but we’ll keep you updated as they draw closer.

We’re here reading what you have to say, so we wanted to thank all of you for your feedback and discussions about Classic. Keep it going!