Best Classic Experience

[thufir]

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

I totally understand and that is half the reason for my posts because I had not realized how much the maturity of blue altered gameplay.

Twinking certainly is classic in nature, but when featured as prominently as it is on blue, gameplay is radically altered. That is something I'd not realized until I tried red and was so happy with the gameplay ^^ One of the things that had distressed me about blue gameplay is that all the twinks (including my own) made gameplay more diablo-esque: fast-paced hack-n-slash (to me).

Your right though, different strokes for different folks ^^

While this is true, playing through blue is, I think, a much different experience without all those supports. Yes, you get the "trickle down" of the greater community which is farming cheap items all the livelong day, but if you do not have a lot of high level friends the struggle is still real. My warrior didn't replace any of his bought rawhide gear or his long sword until he managed to fumble his way to Highpass around level 13 (at which point, the upgrade was a PGT that dropped in zone while I was killing gnolls with my friends, and large ringmail drops off of the gnolls).

But yeah, if you have got the dough to fungi/tstaff everything with your iksar monk twink I am sure it is a lot different. I've just never had the opportunity to do that.

My jollies come from managing to scrape together 8k to buy my first-ever fbss. That was a watershed day for me.