Talk me out of playing Classic WoW

[Deathrydar]

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

I never played Wow until a few weeks ago, where I tried out the Classic server.

Honestly, the first 30 minutes were amazing; it was like a second experience of being brand new to EQ! I have fizzled out by the end of the teens, but it was great having the chance to play 'the real second everquest' on a fresh unexpanded server.

The experience really invigorated me to play even more EQ, which with green around the corner is surely a good thing!

One thing I always despised on WoW was the fact that the game tells ME what an item is. For instance, the game tells ME that a certain sword is "epic" because the color of the weapon's name is purple. Here, we don't need the game to tell us that a weapon is epic.....we know it by looking at the stats. The item becomes "epic" because the community says the weapon is epic!

[pink grapefruit]

you should def play wow classic. if you're playing eq on a pve server, wow is a much better game. and play it until u find a real guild and start doing dungeon crawls w ur pals

[Meiva]

I'm not playing much, but I'm at lvl 49 classic WoW. Enjoying it a lot on a PvP server. Still.. I can't wait to shelve it the moment Green launches.

I plan to play both. EQ offers plenty of opportunity to play passively while still making gains. You probably dont have to pick one over the other. There will be plenty of time to play WoW while camping that one lvl 3 a decaying skeleton repop on launch day. Starter zones gonna be such a beautiful mess!

[Tenagra]

I'm finding it takes longer to level in classic wow vs EQ, at least up until 50.

[Jimjam]

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

Wow classic was a big joke, all they did was download a core from another private server and apply recent textures and add dungeon finder.

Ragnaros was killed 5 days into the server release and 30 players that were not even 60 killed it, anyone playing is a loser.

All content is a dumbed down joke, each server is infested with stay at home sons and sickies who cant wait to get stupid tier whatever gear and jump at the bank. Go ahead and play if you want to spend a week in westfall killing gnolls just to get to 20.

i wont say anything postive about green either because there is no pvp, that means people will just fight at every camp about everything. Expect to be 50th in line at the frenzy camp for what, a shitty sash in 2019?

PVP Solves problems : )

Oh and those stay at home sons have an autistic mastery of the game after spending 16 hours on it daily. On p1999 people are generally pretty accomadating to newbs, but on wow these autists can't even conceive someone doesn't have an encyclopedic knowledge of the game. They treat a level 17 dungeon as cutting esge content requiring the toppest spec minmax... it don't matter if a paladin is speced for heal or tank when they only have earnt 8 or 9 talent points so far.

[Deathrydar]

Real conversation I had with another player just before I stopped playing Classic WoW this past Sunday...

*I was going into ZF (a dungeon in Tanaris)*
Party leader: "You don't have Mortal Strike?"
Me: "Not yet."
Party Leader: "Why not?"
Me: ".......what do you mean why not? I put my talent points into Cruelty so I am 5 points behind in Arms."
Party Leader: "That's why you re-spec at level 40."
Me: "I don't want to respec."

*You have been removed from the group*

This crap really happens...

[Mead]

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

Real conversation I had with another player just before I stopped playing Classic WoW this past Sunday...

*I was going into ZF (a dungeon in Tanaris)*
Party leader: "You don't have Mortal Strike?"
Me: "Not yet."
Party Leader: "Why not?"
Me: ".......what do you mean why not? I put my talent points into Cruelty so I am 5 points behind in Arms."
Party Leader: "That's why you re-spec at level 40."
Me: "I don't want to respec."

*You have been removed from the group*

This crap really happens...

You didn't make the cut

[Deathrydar]

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

You didn't make the cut

I see that. Poor me. I wish I could be 1337 liek they r.

[Danth]

Can't talk you out of it, but if you play there understand you're getting a dumbed-down version based on the 1.12 patch period, not launch-era Warcraft. The game is generally easier than at launch, characters tend to be more powerful with the revised talent trees, and many dungeons (especially at higher levels) are MUCH easier than original. Understand that regardless of what they call it, it's NOT classic--launch era--warcraft. It's more like warcraft-lite.

Longer term, it'd be nice if Blizzard does what Jagex did with the old-style Runescape servers, and allows development to proceed in a totally different direction than the original did. I'd REALLY like to see World of Warcraft as it was originally meant to be, circa 2001-2002.

Danth

[Clazxiss]

Tons of edgy comments in here about why you shouldn't play classic WoW.

I want you to notice something. Go to https://www.project1999.com/ right now and have a look at the population. As I write this response to you, there are 716 people on blue. Two months ago, just before classic WoW released, the average number was around 1,200 or so. For summertime, that's an expected number since some P99 players enjoy going outside instead of playing EQ. During colder months, the Blue99 population has been up to 1,800 this past year.

If P99 was truly the superior game to WoW, it would not have lost more than half it's active population. The vocal members you see in this thread, bashing WoW, are the ones most desperate to see their P99 home maintain warm bodies. For without an audience to show their pixel achievements to, can you really them achievements?

Go ahead and play Classic WoW. It's fun and there is a distinct reason it ROFL stomped Everquest and became, to this day, the most subscribed MMORPG of all time. I won't list them all here, no need to. The biggest change between playing EQ and WoW is not having to sink hours of time into a multitude singular tasks. You won't be asked to track rare monster X over 1-72 hours. If you get into a serious issue such as death in the middle of no where, you can still salvage your gear BY YOURSELF. You won't have to beg friends at bedtime to get your corpse and XP back. Again, there's more reasons, but those are the first things that come to my mind.

The most vocal supporters of EQ tend to be players who are already at the top of the gear pyramid. Ask yourself this, do you want to see the end game content of the title you decide to play? Yes? If so, which sounds better; joining a raid at a set time to kill boss X or waiting for a text message that will require you to drop everything you're doing to kill that same monster? The text message could happen while you're sleeping or at work, but once you get it, you have a small window to get that monster before your rivals do.

Which game style is more attractive?

Depending on your answer, that should determine which game you should play.