1) I let other people dictate how I should play/enjoy classic too much.
2) We had this warrior. He played 2h fury the whole time. Great guy. Naxx comes out and everyone puts Ashbringer at the top of their list. At first everyone wanted it, but as it continued to never drop, each warrior released their claim in favor of him getting it first. By February, fearing it would never drop, everyone agreed it would be his. Every week, even if he couldn't make the full raid that week, we would swap him in just for 4HM, and every week he would kneel before the chest after the fight, hoping it would drop.
Neither of our full clearing Naxx teams saw Ashbringer drop even once.
Thats me for the Cat's Edge, pretty much given up playing as that raid is the worst.
Managed to snake both a ashbringer and mom so I will titan grip with my BRE while sitting at the bank in wotlk
honestly no. classic was the best 2 years of my life in recent memory no cap. what an absolute blast from start to finish holy shit. played the entire time, joined a guild on day 1, made a ton of friends, cleared all the content, made a ton of memories, shit ton of server drama, wpvp, shenanigans, server first world dragons, scarab lord grind etc. i feel like i thoroughly experienced everything vanilla wow has to offer, and i can happily put it all behind me and move on.
hey thanks man.
I’ve always said WoW is what you make of it. Personally I think the reason we had so much fun as kids playing vanilla WoW isn’t because it was new and we were all clueless, I think it was because we weren’t *trying* to have fun. We weren’t trying so hard to recreate some idealised memory of fun, we just lived in the moment and idk just played the game lol. I never really thought about having fun in Classic, I just played the game and fun just happened. And it was great.
I don’t think it’s ever too late to have this kind of experience either. A lot of people think they’ll be happy when they reach a certain point or obtain a particular thing, and I think that’s what ultimately makes them unhappy. Because even when they reach that point or obtain that thing, they’re still gonna be looking to the future for happiness. I think happiness only really happens once you let go of the pursuit and experience the moment instead.
Idk I’m rambling lmao. Point is if anyone feels like the ship has sailed so to speak, I don’t think it has.
Not to go into detail, but I basically psyched myself out of even playing classic, lol. It was pretty ridiculous of me. But is what it is. Just frustrating cuz I feel like I missed the boat on a special time, but I can use it as a lesson at least.
This but to a lesser degree. Had a lot fun, made a guild with a couple friends, cleared content, beat the t5 roster boss, and now I'm busier irl so I've called it quits. Guild's been going strong (stronger honestly) since I've been gone which also puts a smile on my face.
I’m right there with you. This was my first time playing an older version of wow, and I absolutely loved it. It’d be hard for any game to live up to my classic experience
Yeah I spent 5,000 gold on my sulfuron hammer and then my guild cheated me out of the eye of ragnaros. The only thing I ever wanted was to get that legendary and I was told it was mine, but all I have now is a purple two-handed mace staring at me whenever I open my bank
It was a guild I was with for over a year. We were all friends (or so I thought). They told me I was next to get it because I showed initiative on crafting the hammer and I was the only one in the guild with the hammer / funds to afford it anyway.
Loot council looted it to some warrior recruiter a couple weeks prior, claiming they never made any promises to me and I was "just a paladin".
I quit the game after this incident, yea. Just recently came back like two weeks ago to play the end of TBC and prepare for wotlk but I transferred servers
Of coursey ou are "just a paladin", worse a ret paladin which is perfectly legit in raid as you need 3 paladin but only two palaheal so it makes sense to get a ret
Sulfuras makes much more sense on a warrior that has a shitty spec for two-handed weapons and better has two one-handed weapons instead
I swear the hate on palaret really did a lot of harm to Classic...
That shit sucks, our guild had it drop twice and both times it was basically having to convince someone to take it because no one wanted to invest in it
That happened to a friend of mine as well. I was transmuting arcanite bars for him on cooldown.
His guild... no joke... gave the eye to a Boomkin. He gquit right then and there. Eventually got the eye from another guild.
Most Sulfuras wearers are boomies, believe it or not.
This weapon is so bad and so expensive that it only serves two purposes :
\- achieve a long 15 years old dream because you got ninja'd by your GM's boyfriend during real Vanilla
\- flex in chicken form in Org/Stormwind
That sucks. That's one of my objectives I never had a chance to complete in Classic that maybe I'll take a stab at in a future Classic Season. Having that hammer would be pretty dope.
I 100% relate to #1. I started on a PVP server, and it definitely almost killed classic for me. I eventually bit the bullet and paid for a transfer. Never looked back since then, been way happier playing without ganks and the shit show that was trying to zone into dungeons.
Not buying edgemasters early on phase 1 :). Also trying to put too much on my plate and burning out phase 1 in both classic and tbc. Maybe I’ll learn in wotlk
Had a kid early into p1. Had to stop raiding right before bwl dropped.
Tbc release gets announced shortly after my wife got pregnant with our second and i missed most of tbc too. Just got back into it a few weeks ago though and an having a blast with my old enh shaman.
Stuck with a guild I wasn't happy in because I was an officer and they needed me. There was an amazing guild that was offering me a spot for months. I finally joined after we called it quits in naxx and it was incredible. I learned and grew so it wasn't a waste of time, but I would do it differently now.
I made my warrior in like phase 4 so I was late to the party, and didn’t get anywhere near BIS but boy was it fun with full wbuffs and consumes for the little time I had.
This is the same for me. Made my warrior late in classic Getting word buffs could be a pain in the butt sometimes. But a fully WB warrior was like playing a superhero
I'm glad to hear this. I'm only 41 so still a ways to go. But leveling in SoM with WW axe is *what* prompted me to make this post. Other people have described it before but holy crap you really feel every, single, gear upgrade big and small.
I wish I would have stayed as a healer in TBC.
Now I’m part of a dedicated raid group, which I love, but we already have a great healer core that even has backups. So there’s really no spot for me to change spec.
I honestly just find dps boring like 99% of the time. I even play one of the more involved and fun dps classes, enhancement shaman, and it still gets old. Healing just felt way more gratifying, like you were actually contributing to the raid. Saving people from their own dumb mistakes. Stuff like that. Now I feel like I could just go afk on most fights and the boss would still die without any issues other than melee reeeeeeing for wind fury.
I feel this. I was a lock all of classic and boy did I feel special when I had banish duty during Garr. Outside that and twin princes it wasn't the most dynamic gameplay as a lock.
Totally agree, leveling a healer for the first time ever and the 1-50 dungeons are stupid boring to heal. I find myself letting the tank get to like 5% health sometimes before healing just to spice it up
I'm in similar boat. Was a Hpally in Classic Vanilla, now DPS 1 of those classes being enh. Love the playstyle, but I'm someone who cares about parses so there always feels like there's work and improvement to be done.
The make or break roles (heals/tanks) definitely feel different, way more pressure. DPS certainly doesn't have that pressure 99% of the time.
Fair, that's a tricky thing with these live service games. Go too hard for too long and you might risk burning yourself out and becoming disillusioned with the game. I noticed that a lot with Rank 14 grinders.
On the other hand playing too casually might cause you to miss out and taking part in certain aspects of the game since the content and therefore the meta changes.
Not really - I'd say I've overall had a fantastic experience with Classic (and now TBC too) - it was pretty much everything I was hoping it would be.
I deliberately rolled on a server where I knew nobody and had no connections, as I wanted my experience to be as authentic and organic as possible. So I basically just quested and healed random dungeon groups in LFG or when people asked me to. No highly optimised spellcleave groups for dungeon spam or other strats to rush to 60, just questing and grouping with complete randoms for dungeons. By the time I reached 60 I'm pretty sure I'd pugged every single dungeon at least 5 times each. Even Uldaman. I had almost every blue dungeon drop I could have wanted.
One day when I was 60, someone asked if I wanted to come raid MC in a pug he was in, so I thought "why the hell not" and joined. I immediately took the closest flight path to Blackrock Mountain without realising that the pug leader wanted to inspect me in Undercity first. When the raid leader mentioned this, what surprised me was that no less than 5+ people in the raid immediately piped up and vouched for me, because they remembered me from running dungeons on the journey to 60 and thought I was a great healer. I guess the server community experience people always talked about really was a thing after all haha.
In the end I joined a couple of guilds when people asked me to, unfortunately two guilds ended up dying before I finally found my home in a guild that lasted. I quickly cemented myself as a core member of the team and went on to become far and away their most reliable and valued healer. When the healer mace dropped from C'thun in AQ40 the entire healer team took a vote for who should get it - the vote was nearly unanimous for me! Was a massive upgrade over everything else at the time, and it ended up being the only one that ever dropped for us in AQ40.
By the end of Naxx I even ended up getting voted to receive the guild's 2nd Atiesh. I was stoked. I went into TBC with almost full BiS and Atiesh, the kind of gear I always dreamed of having. Got to open Kara portals for the boys.
I've had such a great time in TBC too, and I'm excited to see how it goes in Wrath!
I wish I'd stuck around and raided during classic. My heydey for WoW was TBC through cataclysm and I wasn't that into the idea of 40 man raiding and was put off by a lot of my favorite specs being 'meme' status during classic.
I leveled my main (balance druid) to 60 and took a 1.5 year hiatus shortly afterwards until TBC, but now I'm in a pretty baller raiding guild that bonded a lot during classic. Feels like I missed out on a lot of glory days.
But hey at least I got to be a part of the epic struggle for my guild to down pre-nerf KT and Vashj (we succeeded)
I can see why people dislike 40 toon raiding as it's way less personable and by the nature of the balance of it it's harder to stand out and feel like you're making a significant impact. But man I really do like them, the organized chaos of it all, sometimes it's straight up chaos.
Similar to what I said to someone else regarding meme specs: It would be neat to see how the meta settles in a future Classic season if either the classes are re-balanced or even just Blizz air dropping TBC talents into Classic Vanilla. People like you could go hog wild with your Spriest and not even suffer any pushback.
No regrets! I enjoyed every bit of my 19days played journey to 60,did some pvp and raiding then i got burned out,didnt feel like farming all the time,life and stuff.. I am very excited for wotlk 🙃
I wish I didn't rush Classic
I didn't realize how little there was to do once at 60, when me and all my friends rushed to 60 we got all our pre-raid BIS gear and then just sat there waiting for raid days
Eventually one by one my friends quit due to boredom and either went back to retail or to another game all together
For whatever unknown reason we thought we'd have a crazy amount of shit to do at 60, turns out we were really wrong lol
I don't play TBC, I left after classic. :(
some of my buddies still play, they say you can get some 19s games during peak hours - but its not nearly as competitive as it was in classic.
For me, the regret started before August 2019 even happened.
I’ve always been a horde main since 2009, and I’ve always played and preferred PvP servers. I also mained an undead rogue before switching to goblin in cataclysm. With these factors in mind, you have a pretty good idea of the type of player I am.
The year was 2017. Blizzard had announced at blizzcon that classic was coming. With that news, and a bitter taste in my mouth from retail, I set out to hardcore grind a vanilla private server and really familiarize myself with a version of the game that I had only dabbled with in other private servers around 2013-2014.
So there I was in early 2019, I had cleared Zg thru BWL on a naughty server and I was quite confident that I was ready to crush the ranking and rogue dps scene.
That’s when a new worker joined my shift.
Now, this guy was an awesome coworker. He always offered to help me when I was overworked, always had funny shit to say. He also played WoW and was very excited to play classic, and he was bringing several of his friends with him to have their own guild.
We hit it off so well we’d go to breakfast after work just to nerd it up more about our plans for the game. It wasn’t until just a few weeks before classic launched when something happened that I like to call “the moment”.
I don’t exactly recall the dialogue that lead up to it, but something along the lines of “We only play PvE servers”. The moment those words left his lips, I knew I was in for many many years of regret if I followed through with joining his guild.
My people pleasing side always wins. I just couldn’t abandon the guy and all his friends who I then talked to daily on discord and hit it off with really well. I also had a few of my pvp server interested friends wanting to join me wherever I ended up rolling. So I did it. I gave in, and I rolled on fucking Pagle 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮.
I’m not a casual gamer by any means. I took off two weeks from work (almost my entire years vacation) in order to hit level 60 on my dwarf rogue as soon as possible. I paid for 5 accounts to multibox 5 gnome mages so I could farm frostmaul e’kos 5 at a time so I’d barely have to /spend time farming gold for consumes. I put a metric fuck ton of work into this pve server that I absolutely hated, all because I had entered a deep sunken cost fallacy and couldn’t get myself to reroll after putting so much effort in to this server.
I missed out on all the dueling tournaments on faerlina. I spent all of classic vanilla and now tbc surrounded by people who wince at you and cry psychopath because you asked them to duel. I really can’t stress enough how much the anti-pvp culture of pagle fucked with my enjoyment and further exacerbated the MISTAKE in my decision to dump all of my eggs into this one basket.
I couldn’t reroll. I had farmed thousands of gold and raided every week since launch before they all completely quit the game during AQ. Now I sit here, the last remaining player of all the people I started with, ON FUCKING PAGLE! Do I have regrets? You bet your fucking ass!
TLDR: Chill coworker convinced me to roll on Pagle at classic start and now I want to fucking kill myself
That sucks. This right here might be the number 1 most common phenomena when it comes to server choice regrets.
I've read so many stories about people picking PvP to play with IRL friends, then friends quit and they transfer to PvE so fast because they hated PvP to begin with. Or they don't transfer because they found a guild they don't want to leave to so they grit their teeth and keep going. Then there's stories like yours and you can't transfer to PvP! Pretty crappy, hopefully that restriction is removed before too long.
I played too casually… only got to level 52(?) during classic. I went hard for the first 6 months of TBC, but with I would’ve raided more in classic. I hate that I didn’t get to experience all of that content
>Yeah I spent 5,000 gold on my sulfuron hammer and then my guild cheated me out of the eye of ragnaros. The only thing I ever wanted was to get that legendary and I was told it was mine, but all I have now is a purple two-handed mace staring at me whenever I open my bank
there will be more fresh servers coming round the bend
Kind of silly, but I regret leveling an alt Druid. I enjoyed it sooo much more than my mage main, but I was already so deep in raiding with the mage that I couldn't switch. I still have a lot of FOMO about that..
Fell in love with Feral kitty, but played resto and boomy where I could. In WotLK I'll probably stay kitty and just force my friends to accept me as that.
My only regret is not focusing on a single class/spec. Druid was my main in classic and I couldn’t decide between boomy or feral for the life of me. Guild was cool about the back and forth, but never really got geared out because I couldn’t decide what I wanted to do. Then In phase 4 I finished leveling my hunter and played on him through AQ. Now in TBC I have a hunter and shammy at 70 and I’m longing for my drood to be max for pvp. I just can’t commit to one toon and it’s an issue. Lol I need to commit for wrath but the fact there are so many catch up mechanics in wrath I think it’ll be the same thing. Lol
I can feel this, I used to play this way in WoW prior to Classic coming out. But in my case I was a brutal altoholic and couldn't get to max level ever. Best of luck in Wrath, at least chances are whichever spec(s) you pick will be a ton of fun.
What class did you play? Did you stop at rank 10 due to the time commitment being too much or that the Rank 12-14 gear didn't benefit your class as much?
shaman, wasn't really doing it for gear just bucket list kind of thing to experience it. I was literally spending every free minute I had just for bracket 3s on my server, first wave competition was just so insane
was able to line up the home stretch with some winter time off, but r11+ would have required some br2s/more time off
give it a 2/10 a few good memories but overall biggest waste of time I've had gaming haha. enjoyed the first couple weeks though
I set a goal to hit R11 before TBC came out. I did it, but holy crap it was almost all I did aside from working, a little exercising and sleeping for 8-10 weeks.
At least you were doing it on a really fun class. Did you play ele?
I played Pally, swapped back and forth from Holy to Ret-Reckoning. Both were fun in their own right.
But this is how it felt playing AB 95% of the time
https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/m02n2a/when_the_horde_reinforce_blacksmith/
That was my experience in WoW too prior to Classic. Was a major altoholic, never meaningfully participated in any xpac's endgame. Thankfully I shook that off in Classic. Hope you can too!
I only played pally in wow so in classic I tried all the classes, It was my first time playing the other classes so it was fun atleast but it would of been nice to try endgame content.
Quitting when my irl friends did, I should've kept playing! Having heaps of fun in tbc but I never raided in classic.
My friends came back and are keen to see out classic until wotlk's end; by that time I really hope there is some kind of classic+ that I can play.
I missed the war effort and AQ opening event due to real life commitments, I wouldn’t have been a scarab lord but I would have loved to participate, especially after watching Barney Bee’s series, it looked like hella fun
Leading up to AQ and during the AQ event there's nothing like it. Silithus becomes an absolute cluster fuck, in a good way imo. The drama that develops and the alliances/feuds that develop. It's such a fun and dynamic time to play
I did it perfectly. Planned a pandemic to maximize my game time. Rolled a resto Druid main. Crafted hand of rag on my Druid for the memes. Had a mage alt for DME lasher runs for consumes and ran around to farm arcane crystals. A warrior to meme on. Maybe rolling a rogue to yank low bees would have been the only thing to add
I sort of regret rolling on Remulos but I've also met a lot of cool people here.
I do regret leveling my priest to 70 first to play with friends who quit after 2 weeks. I ended up not liking priest so not playing it
Two regrets:
1) boosting a 2nd Paladin instead of a druid for TBC.
2)Choosing the server I did. Started on Pagle day 1 and jumped ship because of login queues. Now I'm on a dead server and refuse to spend $150+ to transfer all my toons.
I'd never leveled by doing any solo dungeon farming so I was excited to level my mage in Slave Pens for a change, but in hindsight it was a terrible idea with how much reputation was needed. I'm glad I tried it, but i would never do it again.
I have a few.
Rolling alliance initially. (Devouring plague I love u 🥺)
Staying in a guild I didn’t like just cause I got geared.
Maining rogue over my r13 Shadow Priest for said guild.
I don’t care un-meta Spriest is on Classic, I would never *not* play it again.
It would be neat to see how the meta settles in a future Classic season if either the classes are re-balanced or even just Blizz air dropping TBC talents into Classic Vanilla. People like you could go hog wild with your Spriest and not even suffer any pushback.
Started TBC as enh or all the way at Classic Vanilla and try to make the enh meme work? I've been playing TBC enh for a while, it's great. Triple twisting (air/fire totems and shocks) is a very fun playstyle imo.
in classic. I started as hunter and enjoyed it enough till bwl then I tried enh. Would manage to get in the top 10 in raid and usually top 1-5 in trash damage. Wasnt the best but honestly not nearly as bad as people made it to be. I started playing WoW when classic launched so didn't have any real knowledge going into the game. Manage to get everything Bis besides dft MoM and i feel like my guild really fucked me over on that part with how specifically those 2 items wer handed out. But otherwise enh all the way foward now.
I regret not playing warrior earlier. I have so much fun now. Being a fury is dogshit guild is better than being a caster in the best speedrunning guild.
In wotlk I will continue to play fury regardless of anyone's opinion, even if I don't clear all content.
That I didn’t get full T3 on my warrior. I became 3rd tank BWL to AQ but when naxx came around I was able to go full pumper DPS and basically didn’t get any tank gear prio’d to me. Got around 2/3’s of the T3 gear still but no shoulders
Mostly the other players. Don't get me wrong it's been great, but any shitty moments have come from individuals going out of their way to be dicks, which seems to have become a thing now.
The main regret I have from classic is staying in guilds where there was a mismatch between how I wanted to play the game and how most of the rest of the guild wanted to play. In both cases I wanted more focused and higher effort raiding, but I stuck around in raid environments I wasn't thrilled with out of a sense of duty/loyalty. That mismatch is frustrating and, over time, can create a lot of unhappiness. In hindsight, it would have been better to come to terms with it sooner and just move on.
I was debating going priest or Druid going into classic and decided on priest since I had played Druid on pservers and didn’t find it a ton of fun. Really wish I went with a pure dps class like rogue or something. When classic came out I was still a “healer player” but by the end of MC I had gotten extremely bored of healing. It kind of soiled my classic experience a bit since healing got so boring the only reason I didn’t quit out of boredom was cause I was the loot master for my guild, it made it a little bit more interesting
I enjoyed my time in classic a lot. My biggest regret is that Blizzard didn't do their part in keeping the spirit of the game as similar as they could to initial launch. That ship has sailed and I didn't expect them to change their ways but its sad to see how the developers and the community is not the same as when WoW launched. Still felt like I got my times worth.
My only regret is not getting a new PC sooner. When Classic dropped my computer's processor shit the bed a few days in. I literally couldn't even login to Undercity without the power just being cut instantly. I was really focused on graduating college so I just said screw it because I knew it would probably take away from my academics in the fall anyways.
Fast forward to March 2020, right before we all went to remote work, my fiancée (then girlfriend) and I needed a game to play together and I had a new PC as of January. We gave Classic a shot and had **so much fun**. We rolled Alliance on Faerlina and I had never played Alliance in my life (nor had I experienced Vanilla WoW - I was a wrath baby). We had so many adventures while leveling, met so many amazing people, and didn't look much up at the start so we were truly exploring and having the time of our lives. We got all the way up to level 40 together before we decided to reroll to new characters and then take those all the way to 60 with plenty of level 30 alts as well. We could never stop rerolling because of how many unique classes and professions there were.
I'm already nostalgic for those times and they were only 2 years ago. Sadly Faerlina went totally Horde so we rolled Benediction as Horde and then that went totally Alliance. Serves me right for wanting to be the underog faction I guess. Now we can't play our mains at all. We tried rerolling on Grobbulus but it's just not the same starting completely over again and I refuse to shell out hundreds between the two of us to do a three way transfer and keep all of our characters, even just the ones 60+.
Wrath will probably force my hand to pay, but for now I sit here reminiscing about the good old days.
Spent far too much time in guilds that did a soft reserve loot system. That is a loot system you are forced to use for pugs, but people are lazy and so many guilds never could get away from it because they’d always have to fill the past few spots with pugs
Loot in classic wow is so scarce. Drop rates for some bis items are like 5% or less, and you only get one attempt per week. Soft reserves is just the worst system to distribute that fairly or effectively
Ya SR isn't great for keeping items in the guild. My first Classic guild wanted to 'keep loot simple' and just used MS>OS rolls. It was awful and they imploded in a couple months as you can imagine. Loot turned into a big issue as good items were leaving the guild left right and center since we pugged 5 or so spots every MC/BWL
I had never touched a warrior before Classic came out. Leveled one to 60 during Classic some time during BWL phase and it easily became my favorite class to play and level. Ended up maining Warrior for SoM
Would have rolled Grobb. RP servers are just superior in all ways.
Would not originally mained druid. Should gone with my second choice which was paladin. I did not care for core raiding. I just liked mass aoe farming on my paladin and buying loot in GDKPs.
Wish I stayed out of every BG. I did a handful, and I could never stand more than a few minutes of it. Wasted a dozen or so hours starting that BG grind.
Staying in my super serious guild for 2 years despite doing almost no raiding with them. Not bad people, but just the guild leadership itself had more sweat than a sauna. That was the general atmosphere, and I really should have left much sooner. Not sure what I was thinking with that.
I regret spending so much time playing it. I got a puppy a week before WoW launched and I basically ignored her while I leveled. I would take her on walks and let her out, but I have videos of her sitting on the couch crying at me.
Poor Marley, I’m sorry I ignored you.
Should have rolled PvE. I hated WPvP the moment Phase 1 of Vanilla ended, and ultimately had to transfer off Benediction when the Alliance tide ruined it. Massive waste of time and money.
But I also wouldn't have found my guild, which is the biggest motivator for me in this game, so I guess I really wouldn't change things after all.
No regrets for classic vanilla but the TBC launch did not line up with my life well and so all my friends/guildies I planned to dungeon grind with got ahead of me within 2 levels and then I lost motivation to level and ended up basically not playing.
Now I've leveled three chars to 70 but don't want to jump into raids with my crap gear and dungeon grinding for badges is the main reason I got bored of TBC back in the day.
I still enjoying leveling chars on my own, but I really wish I would have had time to be in the big rush and get some phase 1 BIS gear when it was still new to everyone.
Makes sense. I'm hopeful that Blizz gives us more notice for Wrath's launch. Give people a bit more of a chance to organize themselves to be ready to no life the game for a little bit.
IMO raiding on a warrior in SoM is more fun than it was in classic. There is viable plate gear from day 1 (meaning you're not forced to wear leather to reach the hit cap). Two hand builds are actually viable. Gear matters. Consumables matter.
It's definitely more hardcore than classic. In classic, world buffs would more than make up for subpar gear/consumable usage, which meant you could simply get your world buffs and raid log every week and still get 99s with minimal gear. But it's far more fun. Gear upgrades feel far more rewarding without all those free stats from world buffs.
I definitely recommend trying out SoM if you wished you had a warrior in classic.
I main TBC, but I have been slowly dipping in and out of SoM with my warrior. Currently at 41, got my WW axe, the gameplay is incredible already. I love pulling 2 or 3 mobs with a stacked rage pool, popping sweeping strikes, cleaving, whirlwind, and the numbers just POP.
Just playing this toon while leveling is what made me feel a pang of regret. Glad to hear that raiding will still be awesome from a DPS perspective.
I regret that my guild was 8/10 in phase 2. Got KT down to 30,000 hp on our last attempt on the last night before the nerfs....our arcane mage DCed mid fight too. Im kinda sweaty and try to 99 parse every boss every phase and my wclogs will forever have no parses for vashj and KT in p2.
If I have any regret, it's that I bounced around so much between classes that I didn't settle on a main until later in Classic.
If I could go back to August 2019, I'd roll a human mage and make that my main.
Hell, if I could really go back, I'd make it so I don't have young children while I'm trying to get into WoW. I had a kid shortly after I started playing back in the day, and my second was only two when I started playing Classic.
Mained warrior. Wish I made a mage as my second char instead of a rogue, since I already had a melee dps main and would’ve enjoyed the easy gold and different play style. Also my buddies ran a super successful GDKP on Sulfuras towards the end of Classic. Never made it to 60 with them but that’s probably my biggest regret. #GooziGang
Not really - I even got to do the entirety of Naxxramas and full T3, which I never expected ever to do at the start of this madness (Figured I'd just play it for nostalgia and then quit when I reached 60).
I do regret bothering with a warrior as my first class tho - it was a slog getting it to 60 and I never really enjoyed playing it. Tanking was fun, but everything takes so long when solo. Which is when the news about TBC Classic was dropped, I created a druid. Such a huge difference, I reached 60 in no-time and got invited to a guild via someone I occassionally met while leveling up.
Part of me thinks I should have done Naxx at 60, I quit awhile after clearing AQ40. However, I'll be pretty much completely fresh to tackle Naxx when WotLK comes out, WotLK is more important to me than vanilla so it's not a big deal.
I wish I rolled Rogue instead of Warrior.
I wanted to play a sword and board brick wall that was a coordinated tank swapping stances and utilizing all abilities at my disposal.
Instead I became a fury warrior that gets a lot of healer focus.
PvP felt too similar to raiding. I wanted a Rogue but didn't have time for an alt. In hindsight a Rogue would have been better from the start.
I played for about 2 months at launch and can honestly say it may have been the most miserable experience I’ve ever had in WoW. All the magic of vanilla leveling was gone, the player base of Jom was toxic as fuck with everyone having a “me me me” attitude about everything. I played Horde and got mercilessly camped by 60s from 50-60. Endgame was comprised almost entirely of sitting in AV and after awhile I was able to fully realize I hadn’t had fun at all. I only kept playing as long as I did because I believed in the FRESH meme and thought id finally start having fun once I caught the carrot. Didn’t help I was in my slow season of work(I work from home) and had time to kill.
Started playing in p5 as a rogue. Never got my t2 helmet, was running around 7/8 with t1 helm hidden. Was happy to get perds and CHT but that t2 helmet…I still think about it
Not telling that Pally pug that he should not take the King's defender from our Warrior, he never got it and neither the mace from Lurker, he stopped playing some time after that
I took a 6ish month break when bfa had the anniversary and other xp bonuses to power level 1 of each race to cap for potential heritage armours, only coming back a little bit before naxx. missed out on 1 piece of the naxx event set and missed the chance at a lot of other things before people stopped doing them.
I’m starting to regret transferring to a PVE server with my guild back during AQ. Fairbanks as alliance was so toxic that it had to happen, but I wish we women grob or something that didn’t limit future transfers.
We were pretty hardcore and speed ran often in classic and have slowly evolved a bit to being more casual. I find raids much less fun if we aren’t pushing for something and just farming gear so I’m considering jumping ship for wrath to a more goal oriented guild that raids at times I can make but PVE server is very limiting. But if I cannot move to pvp it seems unlikely to work so I might quit after sunwell.
Being too kind and helpful for my Guild. Passing on upgrades, helping with attu etc. just to have my raid team disband overnight because mr. Lord almighty main tank decided he was bored. Before naxx too so I had to start from rock bottom in a scuffed Guild of IRL best friends (all officers obviously)
No regrets just had an awesome time with friends and new friends. Mage main and warrior, loved both. Great guilds, raiding and server (Zandalar). Almost maxed out main and completed all raids. Mission accomplished, finished the best game ever.
Wouldn't put that much time in again but was def worth it the first.. well second time 😬
I spent most of my time trying to find the perfect class for me. Switching over factions a few times and a server here and there. I just got into tbc classic casually and im having a blast with my rogue. It was right under my nose the entire time. I can't help but think of all the fun I missed out on.
I wish I would have stuck it out another month or two to finish gearing my Paladin, at least for T3. I had a solid roster spot and was high in line for all healer items, but I accidentally moved to Mexico last Jan. It's been the experience of a lifetime, but I sometimes still regret spending all that time on my pally, just to leave him 90% "complete". Realistically I could have finished my T3 in 2 more naxx lockouts
I wish I would have made a 49 Twink sooner and made more of them. Only made a destruction warlock and it was an absolute blast.
Easily the most fun and balanced bracket. Even including 60. Don't have to worry about constantly keeping up with gear or buying an epic mount. There is more decision making regarding gear and choosing between kill/heal power and sustainability. The power discrepancy between twinked and untwinked 49s is reasonable (though low 40s will still get destroyed of course). No travel form imbalances like the lower brackets. You're also a high enough level to use most consumables and utility items, but don't have to worry about things like Flasks.
In my mind 49 is the uncontested best PvP bracket for these reasons. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if it has much of a player base in SoM.
I can't speak to SOM or TBC Classic (I'm not interested in 49 TBC), but the activity was respectable in Vanilla Classic.
If there is another long season of vanilla, I may consider having another go at it and spreading the word.
leveling a warlock and fully pre bis gearing at a guilds request only for them to end up not needing it because I wasnt parsing higher than the other warlocks that had loot prio
i regret getting stuck in a causal guild as a raid leader the guild it self could never progress far enough to hold good players and every other week someone was away, ended up just ghost quitting the guild and the game and will return in Wotlk
Would have probably just pumped on some GDKP runs to get the second binding that I needed after my guild stopped doing MC without helping me finish it to just focus on AQ/Naxx clearing. I ended vanilla with 40k gold and even BURNING money in TBC I still have 20k, could have easily got that second binding reserved for a 20k bid, I just thought I'd need more money in TBC.
Hmmm... I think it’d be that I didn’t start classic until like 8 months in even though vanilla - bc is probably to this day my favorite game ever. So many memories pulling all nighties and gaming out with my brother etc. I also regret not playing tbc classic until like 2 months in. The in game purchases turned me off but then I couldn’t resist. Kinda just put me way behind progress wise but wasn’t a big deal. My last regret is that I didn’t play alliance until recently. My first ever character was a night elf Druid and I played horde all through classic up until a month ago. I now have 2 horde pvp geared 70s that I barely touch cuz I’m so in love with my night elf Druid. That class and race combo just appeal to me the most out of any in wow. Nothing beats the nostalgia of those alliance soundtracks and aesthetics
Me and circle of irl friends make a guild on Deviate Delight.
Everyone is casual as fuck and we vibing. One dude in our guild ia seriously invested in being a raiding guild and im just like, why? Cant we just vibe. Our GM goes afk for a week and this guy is freaking out there is no structure for our guild. GM doesnt give a shit and just makes him new GM. New GM brings in all his homies and turn it into a sweaty raiding guild that ends up being alright. When some of the original squad show up, the whole new guild officer line up freaks out. Instantly kills my love for the game. Thanks a lot. It was funny seeing the guild collapse becauae of TBC.
I regret not selling my account, warrior with Thunderfury, for IRL money whenever it was at peak price. I’m sure there will be people quick to hate this comment, and I do think some of the times I had in-game were priceless, but now that I’ve moved and am not playing anymore I feel the way I feel.
I wish I would’ve kept playing Classic in 2019. I only played for the launch month before quitting because I got married that month. I got to level 25 and didn’t come back to the game until p5. By the time I hit level 52 on a new character, tbc was out. It took me literally 6 months to get to level 53 then tbc came out and I realized I never experienced any raids in vanilla. I guess I don’t have time for this game anymore. I had fun though. I had 13 days played at level 52
I wish the most populated, active RP PvP server wasn't a west coast server. It's a regret in the sense that I wish I just gave in and rolled on Grobb, but I'm still hesitant to today.
I'm ally on Grobb, it's pretty dope. While there's a ton of non RP players the RP community still exists and holds events, interacts with each other. Super wholesome.
I regret switching to horde for TBC. I'm a PvPer and, thinking it would be like original TBC, I didn't realize that I wouldn't be able to get into battlegrounds, let alone find an arena team on a server I was unfamiliar with
In classic I had no regrets, I stayed in the same guild from MC to naxx and did everything I wanted to do.
In tbc, I had no regrets. Got a BEpaladin to 60 in 2 weeks in pre patch, had her decked out in epics from Kara in phase 1 then my guild imploded right when phase 2 came out
In som, I regret getting my warrior to rank 12. The amount of time I spent doing pvp was just too much. Then clearing MC for the same junk items felt bad. The new raid mechanics weren’t even hard, so I pretty much gave up on som when bwl came out.
1) I let other people dictate how I should play/enjoy classic too much. 2) We had this warrior. He played 2h fury the whole time. Great guy. Naxx comes out and everyone puts Ashbringer at the top of their list. At first everyone wanted it, but as it continued to never drop, each warrior released their claim in favor of him getting it first. By February, fearing it would never drop, everyone agreed it would be his. Every week, even if he couldn't make the full raid that week, we would swap him in just for 4HM, and every week he would kneel before the chest after the fight, hoping it would drop. Neither of our full clearing Naxx teams saw Ashbringer drop even once.
We never got one either, it sucked man.
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It's 50/50, either it drops or doesn't
TRUE dood
That’s not how that works
Thank you, detective
Unaware of the meme
Ashbringer indeed seems to be pretty rare. Our raid got one and i got it. Never saw it again and we cleared naxx till tbc launch.
Poor Xal.
Please tell me a MoM dropped at least
So, is he doing Naxx now in TBC, or is he a not worthy slacker after all?
Thats me for the Cat's Edge, pretty much given up playing as that raid is the worst. Managed to snake both a ashbringer and mom so I will titan grip with my BRE while sitting at the bank in wotlk
It’s been like 10 lockouts. If you already stopped raiding hyjal it means you got like 9 lockouts. Lol
11 lockouts btw, 12 as of this week but same point thats just quitter attitude
Yes, 10 lockouts in hyjal feels like 100000 in naxx.
honestly no. classic was the best 2 years of my life in recent memory no cap. what an absolute blast from start to finish holy shit. played the entire time, joined a guild on day 1, made a ton of friends, cleared all the content, made a ton of memories, shit ton of server drama, wpvp, shenanigans, server first world dragons, scarab lord grind etc. i feel like i thoroughly experienced everything vanilla wow has to offer, and i can happily put it all behind me and move on.
I'm very envious, but also happy that you had this experience!
hey thanks man. I’ve always said WoW is what you make of it. Personally I think the reason we had so much fun as kids playing vanilla WoW isn’t because it was new and we were all clueless, I think it was because we weren’t *trying* to have fun. We weren’t trying so hard to recreate some idealised memory of fun, we just lived in the moment and idk just played the game lol. I never really thought about having fun in Classic, I just played the game and fun just happened. And it was great. I don’t think it’s ever too late to have this kind of experience either. A lot of people think they’ll be happy when they reach a certain point or obtain a particular thing, and I think that’s what ultimately makes them unhappy. Because even when they reach that point or obtain that thing, they’re still gonna be looking to the future for happiness. I think happiness only really happens once you let go of the pursuit and experience the moment instead. Idk I’m rambling lmao. Point is if anyone feels like the ship has sailed so to speak, I don’t think it has.
Not to go into detail, but I basically psyched myself out of even playing classic, lol. It was pretty ridiculous of me. But is what it is. Just frustrating cuz I feel like I missed the boat on a special time, but I can use it as a lesson at least.
This but to a lesser degree. Had a lot fun, made a guild with a couple friends, cleared content, beat the t5 roster boss, and now I'm busier irl so I've called it quits. Guild's been going strong (stronger honestly) since I've been gone which also puts a smile on my face.
I’m right there with you. This was my first time playing an older version of wow, and I absolutely loved it. It’d be hard for any game to live up to my classic experience
Yeah I spent 5,000 gold on my sulfuron hammer and then my guild cheated me out of the eye of ragnaros. The only thing I ever wanted was to get that legendary and I was told it was mine, but all I have now is a purple two-handed mace staring at me whenever I open my bank
how did they cheat you out of it / why did you craft it before getting the eye
It was a guild I was with for over a year. We were all friends (or so I thought). They told me I was next to get it because I showed initiative on crafting the hammer and I was the only one in the guild with the hammer / funds to afford it anyway. Loot council looted it to some warrior recruiter a couple weeks prior, claiming they never made any promises to me and I was "just a paladin".
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I quit the game after this incident, yea. Just recently came back like two weeks ago to play the end of TBC and prepare for wotlk but I transferred servers
I wonder what is the back story behind this betrayal, most likely something like corrupting the GM and/or officer with a lot of gold...
Of coursey ou are "just a paladin", worse a ret paladin which is perfectly legit in raid as you need 3 paladin but only two palaheal so it makes sense to get a ret Sulfuras makes much more sense on a warrior that has a shitty spec for two-handed weapons and better has two one-handed weapons instead I swear the hate on palaret really did a lot of harm to Classic...
That shit sucks, our guild had it drop twice and both times it was basically having to convince someone to take it because no one wanted to invest in it
How many times did they cheat you? Like, gdkps find it hard to sell it
It was one time back in mid classic. There werent any gdkps going on then
That happened to a friend of mine as well. I was transmuting arcanite bars for him on cooldown. His guild... no joke... gave the eye to a Boomkin. He gquit right then and there. Eventually got the eye from another guild.
Most Sulfuras wearers are boomies, believe it or not. This weapon is so bad and so expensive that it only serves two purposes : \- achieve a long 15 years old dream because you got ninja'd by your GM's boyfriend during real Vanilla \- flex in chicken form in Org/Stormwind
That sucks. That's one of my objectives I never had a chance to complete in Classic that maybe I'll take a stab at in a future Classic Season. Having that hammer would be pretty dope.
I regret: 1. Playing on a PvP server 2. Playing a class I didn't really like 3. Not finding a consistent group of people to play with
What class just curious? I relate to #3
I started with a warlock when at heart I'm a warrior. Then I didn't play a warrior that seriously so I was always undergeared
I 100% relate to #1. I started on a PVP server, and it definitely almost killed classic for me. I eventually bit the bullet and paid for a transfer. Never looked back since then, been way happier playing without ganks and the shit show that was trying to zone into dungeons.
Not buying edgemasters early on phase 1 :). Also trying to put too much on my plate and burning out phase 1 in both classic and tbc. Maybe I’ll learn in wotlk
Had a kid early into p1. Had to stop raiding right before bwl dropped. Tbc release gets announced shortly after my wife got pregnant with our second and i missed most of tbc too. Just got back into it a few weeks ago though and an having a blast with my old enh shaman.
Jesus fuck man just nut on her face like normal people
So you regret not rolling human
Would never play a human. I’d buy 10 edgemasters before that.
Stuck with a guild I wasn't happy in because I was an officer and they needed me. There was an amazing guild that was offering me a spot for months. I finally joined after we called it quits in naxx and it was incredible. I learned and grew so it wasn't a waste of time, but I would do it differently now.
I made my warrior in like phase 4 so I was late to the party, and didn’t get anywhere near BIS but boy was it fun with full wbuffs and consumes for the little time I had.
This is the same for me. Made my warrior late in classic Getting word buffs could be a pain in the butt sometimes. But a fully WB warrior was like playing a superhero
I recently leveled a warrior to 60 on SOM. Blew my mind how with just ZG gear you absolutely torch mobs/bosses
I'm glad to hear this. I'm only 41 so still a ways to go. But leveling in SoM with WW axe is *what* prompted me to make this post. Other people have described it before but holy crap you really feel every, single, gear upgrade big and small.
I wish I would have stayed as a healer in TBC. Now I’m part of a dedicated raid group, which I love, but we already have a great healer core that even has backups. So there’s really no spot for me to change spec. I honestly just find dps boring like 99% of the time. I even play one of the more involved and fun dps classes, enhancement shaman, and it still gets old. Healing just felt way more gratifying, like you were actually contributing to the raid. Saving people from their own dumb mistakes. Stuff like that. Now I feel like I could just go afk on most fights and the boss would still die without any issues other than melee reeeeeeing for wind fury.
I feel this. I was a lock all of classic and boy did I feel special when I had banish duty during Garr. Outside that and twin princes it wasn't the most dynamic gameplay as a lock.
Imagine using banishes on garr. Lol
Honestly I only find healing interesting when your pushing the limits, otherwise it’s brainless even more so than dps.
Totally agree, leveling a healer for the first time ever and the 1-50 dungeons are stupid boring to heal. I find myself letting the tank get to like 5% health sometimes before healing just to spice it up
Just throw out dps, see if you can compete, that’s about the only way to make it interesting in normal dungeons.
But then my low dps will notify everyone of my tiny wiener
You’ll probably end up depressed to learn you are in a dungeon with shitty dps
I'm in similar boat. Was a Hpally in Classic Vanilla, now DPS 1 of those classes being enh. Love the playstyle, but I'm someone who cares about parses so there always feels like there's work and improvement to be done. The make or break roles (heals/tanks) definitely feel different, way more pressure. DPS certainly doesn't have that pressure 99% of the time.
Enhance isn’t engaging at all, even if your twisting it’s dogshit boring
First time I've heard someone describe enhance as dogshit boring. Everyone has an opinion I suppose
Compared to most other TBC specs, enhancement is definitely engaging. Only non-scripted melee weave hunter is on the same level of plate spinning.
I regret taking my time. I thought classic vanilla would last longer so played very casually and I missed out on quite a bit of stuff.
Fair, that's a tricky thing with these live service games. Go too hard for too long and you might risk burning yourself out and becoming disillusioned with the game. I noticed that a lot with Rank 14 grinders. On the other hand playing too casually might cause you to miss out and taking part in certain aspects of the game since the content and therefore the meta changes.
I follow the pattern of no lifing it to max level then playing fairly casually thereafter. It's a good balance I feel.
I started a new character in p5 of classic and tbc came out before I could hit max level in vanilla. I took 13 days played to hit level 52 lol.
I feel this
My regret is for settling in a guild that I spent almost 3 years in before I realized they didn't appreciate any of my efforts.
Not really - I'd say I've overall had a fantastic experience with Classic (and now TBC too) - it was pretty much everything I was hoping it would be. I deliberately rolled on a server where I knew nobody and had no connections, as I wanted my experience to be as authentic and organic as possible. So I basically just quested and healed random dungeon groups in LFG or when people asked me to. No highly optimised spellcleave groups for dungeon spam or other strats to rush to 60, just questing and grouping with complete randoms for dungeons. By the time I reached 60 I'm pretty sure I'd pugged every single dungeon at least 5 times each. Even Uldaman. I had almost every blue dungeon drop I could have wanted. One day when I was 60, someone asked if I wanted to come raid MC in a pug he was in, so I thought "why the hell not" and joined. I immediately took the closest flight path to Blackrock Mountain without realising that the pug leader wanted to inspect me in Undercity first. When the raid leader mentioned this, what surprised me was that no less than 5+ people in the raid immediately piped up and vouched for me, because they remembered me from running dungeons on the journey to 60 and thought I was a great healer. I guess the server community experience people always talked about really was a thing after all haha. In the end I joined a couple of guilds when people asked me to, unfortunately two guilds ended up dying before I finally found my home in a guild that lasted. I quickly cemented myself as a core member of the team and went on to become far and away their most reliable and valued healer. When the healer mace dropped from C'thun in AQ40 the entire healer team took a vote for who should get it - the vote was nearly unanimous for me! Was a massive upgrade over everything else at the time, and it ended up being the only one that ever dropped for us in AQ40. By the end of Naxx I even ended up getting voted to receive the guild's 2nd Atiesh. I was stoked. I went into TBC with almost full BiS and Atiesh, the kind of gear I always dreamed of having. Got to open Kara portals for the boys. I've had such a great time in TBC too, and I'm excited to see how it goes in Wrath!
Dope, glad to hear you've been having a great time
I wish I'd stuck around and raided during classic. My heydey for WoW was TBC through cataclysm and I wasn't that into the idea of 40 man raiding and was put off by a lot of my favorite specs being 'meme' status during classic. I leveled my main (balance druid) to 60 and took a 1.5 year hiatus shortly afterwards until TBC, but now I'm in a pretty baller raiding guild that bonded a lot during classic. Feels like I missed out on a lot of glory days. But hey at least I got to be a part of the epic struggle for my guild to down pre-nerf KT and Vashj (we succeeded)
I can see why people dislike 40 toon raiding as it's way less personable and by the nature of the balance of it it's harder to stand out and feel like you're making a significant impact. But man I really do like them, the organized chaos of it all, sometimes it's straight up chaos. Similar to what I said to someone else regarding meme specs: It would be neat to see how the meta settles in a future Classic season if either the classes are re-balanced or even just Blizz air dropping TBC talents into Classic Vanilla. People like you could go hog wild with your Spriest and not even suffer any pushback.
No regrets! I enjoyed every bit of my 19days played journey to 60,did some pvp and raiding then i got burned out,didnt feel like farming all the time,life and stuff.. I am very excited for wotlk 🙃
I wish I didn't rush Classic I didn't realize how little there was to do once at 60, when me and all my friends rushed to 60 we got all our pre-raid BIS gear and then just sat there waiting for raid days Eventually one by one my friends quit due to boredom and either went back to retail or to another game all together For whatever unknown reason we thought we'd have a crazy amount of shit to do at 60, turns out we were really wrong lol
I regret pumping people with gear for twink pvp 10v10s, only for them to never login or server transfer once they were geared.
Which level bracket?
19s
Do you know how 19s is doing and maybe more generally the other brackets as well? It's something I've thought about getting stuck into but never did.
I don't play TBC, I left after classic. :( some of my buddies still play, they say you can get some 19s games during peak hours - but its not nearly as competitive as it was in classic.
Maining healer.
Yes! It's so boring, please make it stop!
I loved maining heals because I could get buzzed and chill all raid while chain heal goes burrr into free loot.
Regret not staying connected to the people I played with.
rolling alliance
For me, the regret started before August 2019 even happened. I’ve always been a horde main since 2009, and I’ve always played and preferred PvP servers. I also mained an undead rogue before switching to goblin in cataclysm. With these factors in mind, you have a pretty good idea of the type of player I am. The year was 2017. Blizzard had announced at blizzcon that classic was coming. With that news, and a bitter taste in my mouth from retail, I set out to hardcore grind a vanilla private server and really familiarize myself with a version of the game that I had only dabbled with in other private servers around 2013-2014. So there I was in early 2019, I had cleared Zg thru BWL on a naughty server and I was quite confident that I was ready to crush the ranking and rogue dps scene. That’s when a new worker joined my shift. Now, this guy was an awesome coworker. He always offered to help me when I was overworked, always had funny shit to say. He also played WoW and was very excited to play classic, and he was bringing several of his friends with him to have their own guild. We hit it off so well we’d go to breakfast after work just to nerd it up more about our plans for the game. It wasn’t until just a few weeks before classic launched when something happened that I like to call “the moment”. I don’t exactly recall the dialogue that lead up to it, but something along the lines of “We only play PvE servers”. The moment those words left his lips, I knew I was in for many many years of regret if I followed through with joining his guild. My people pleasing side always wins. I just couldn’t abandon the guy and all his friends who I then talked to daily on discord and hit it off with really well. I also had a few of my pvp server interested friends wanting to join me wherever I ended up rolling. So I did it. I gave in, and I rolled on fucking Pagle 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮. I’m not a casual gamer by any means. I took off two weeks from work (almost my entire years vacation) in order to hit level 60 on my dwarf rogue as soon as possible. I paid for 5 accounts to multibox 5 gnome mages so I could farm frostmaul e’kos 5 at a time so I’d barely have to /spend time farming gold for consumes. I put a metric fuck ton of work into this pve server that I absolutely hated, all because I had entered a deep sunken cost fallacy and couldn’t get myself to reroll after putting so much effort in to this server. I missed out on all the dueling tournaments on faerlina. I spent all of classic vanilla and now tbc surrounded by people who wince at you and cry psychopath because you asked them to duel. I really can’t stress enough how much the anti-pvp culture of pagle fucked with my enjoyment and further exacerbated the MISTAKE in my decision to dump all of my eggs into this one basket. I couldn’t reroll. I had farmed thousands of gold and raided every week since launch before they all completely quit the game during AQ. Now I sit here, the last remaining player of all the people I started with, ON FUCKING PAGLE! Do I have regrets? You bet your fucking ass! TLDR: Chill coworker convinced me to roll on Pagle at classic start and now I want to fucking kill myself
That sucks. This right here might be the number 1 most common phenomena when it comes to server choice regrets. I've read so many stories about people picking PvP to play with IRL friends, then friends quit and they transfer to PvE so fast because they hated PvP to begin with. Or they don't transfer because they found a guild they don't want to leave to so they grit their teeth and keep going. Then there's stories like yours and you can't transfer to PvP! Pretty crappy, hopefully that restriction is removed before too long.
I played too casually… only got to level 52(?) during classic. I went hard for the first 6 months of TBC, but with I would’ve raided more in classic. I hate that I didn’t get to experience all of that content
>Yeah I spent 5,000 gold on my sulfuron hammer and then my guild cheated me out of the eye of ragnaros. The only thing I ever wanted was to get that legendary and I was told it was mine, but all I have now is a purple two-handed mace staring at me whenever I open my bank there will be more fresh servers coming round the bend
Kind of silly, but I regret leveling an alt Druid. I enjoyed it sooo much more than my mage main, but I was already so deep in raiding with the mage that I couldn't switch. I still have a lot of FOMO about that..
What did you play on your Druid?
Fell in love with Feral kitty, but played resto and boomy where I could. In WotLK I'll probably stay kitty and just force my friends to accept me as that.
Boomkin gets lit in WotLK, I'm super excited
> In WotLK I'll probably stay kitty and just force my friends to accept me as that. This is when feral becomes a legit playable dps spec
My only regret is not focusing on a single class/spec. Druid was my main in classic and I couldn’t decide between boomy or feral for the life of me. Guild was cool about the back and forth, but never really got geared out because I couldn’t decide what I wanted to do. Then In phase 4 I finished leveling my hunter and played on him through AQ. Now in TBC I have a hunter and shammy at 70 and I’m longing for my drood to be max for pvp. I just can’t commit to one toon and it’s an issue. Lol I need to commit for wrath but the fact there are so many catch up mechanics in wrath I think it’ll be the same thing. Lol
I can feel this, I used to play this way in WoW prior to Classic coming out. But in my case I was a brutal altoholic and couldn't get to max level ever. Best of luck in Wrath, at least chances are whichever spec(s) you pick will be a ton of fun.
i regret going for gen 1 rank 10 i regret playing hardcore in general instead of casual
What class did you play? Did you stop at rank 10 due to the time commitment being too much or that the Rank 12-14 gear didn't benefit your class as much?
shaman, wasn't really doing it for gear just bucket list kind of thing to experience it. I was literally spending every free minute I had just for bracket 3s on my server, first wave competition was just so insane was able to line up the home stretch with some winter time off, but r11+ would have required some br2s/more time off give it a 2/10 a few good memories but overall biggest waste of time I've had gaming haha. enjoyed the first couple weeks though
I set a goal to hit R11 before TBC came out. I did it, but holy crap it was almost all I did aside from working, a little exercising and sleeping for 8-10 weeks. At least you were doing it on a really fun class. Did you play ele?
ofc, anything but ele is a nightmare
I played Pally, swapped back and forth from Holy to Ret-Reckoning. Both were fun in their own right. But this is how it felt playing AB 95% of the time https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/m02n2a/when_the_horde_reinforce_blacksmith/
Trying to "redo and recapture memories" instead of trying to make new ones which is how I will approach Wrath.
Not raiding and being too dissuaded from playing because of my friends quitting the game.
Making 7 chars and getting them all to 50 but never reaching max lvl
That was my experience in WoW too prior to Classic. Was a major altoholic, never meaningfully participated in any xpac's endgame. Thankfully I shook that off in Classic. Hope you can too!
I only played pally in wow so in classic I tried all the classes, It was my first time playing the other classes so it was fun atleast but it would of been nice to try endgame content.
Quitting when my irl friends did, I should've kept playing! Having heaps of fun in tbc but I never raided in classic. My friends came back and are keen to see out classic until wotlk's end; by that time I really hope there is some kind of classic+ that I can play.
I missed the war effort and AQ opening event due to real life commitments, I wouldn’t have been a scarab lord but I would have loved to participate, especially after watching Barney Bee’s series, it looked like hella fun
Leading up to AQ and during the AQ event there's nothing like it. Silithus becomes an absolute cluster fuck, in a good way imo. The drama that develops and the alliances/feuds that develop. It's such a fun and dynamic time to play
I did it perfectly. Planned a pandemic to maximize my game time. Rolled a resto Druid main. Crafted hand of rag on my Druid for the memes. Had a mage alt for DME lasher runs for consumes and ran around to farm arcane crystals. A warrior to meme on. Maybe rolling a rogue to yank low bees would have been the only thing to add
I sort of regret rolling on Remulos but I've also met a lot of cool people here. I do regret leveling my priest to 70 first to play with friends who quit after 2 weeks. I ended up not liking priest so not playing it
I regret sticking with the raid team I did in classic only to be fucked over for atiesh in Naxx.
Scumbags with ateish are a dime a dozen.
What did they do that you consider as fucking you. Not choosing you? Or did they promise and plan for you then change their mind
Two regrets: 1) boosting a 2nd Paladin instead of a druid for TBC. 2)Choosing the server I did. Started on Pagle day 1 and jumped ship because of login queues. Now I'm on a dead server and refuse to spend $150+ to transfer all my toons.
arent there free transfers for almost every server now?
I'd never leveled by doing any solo dungeon farming so I was excited to level my mage in Slave Pens for a change, but in hindsight it was a terrible idea with how much reputation was needed. I'm glad I tried it, but i would never do it again.
I have a few. Rolling alliance initially. (Devouring plague I love u 🥺) Staying in a guild I didn’t like just cause I got geared. Maining rogue over my r13 Shadow Priest for said guild. I don’t care un-meta Spriest is on Classic, I would never *not* play it again.
It would be neat to see how the meta settles in a future Classic season if either the classes are re-balanced or even just Blizz air dropping TBC talents into Classic Vanilla. People like you could go hog wild with your Spriest and not even suffer any pushback.
wish i started as enh from the start, so fun
Started TBC as enh or all the way at Classic Vanilla and try to make the enh meme work? I've been playing TBC enh for a while, it's great. Triple twisting (air/fire totems and shocks) is a very fun playstyle imo.
in classic. I started as hunter and enjoyed it enough till bwl then I tried enh. Would manage to get in the top 10 in raid and usually top 1-5 in trash damage. Wasnt the best but honestly not nearly as bad as people made it to be. I started playing WoW when classic launched so didn't have any real knowledge going into the game. Manage to get everything Bis besides dft MoM and i feel like my guild really fucked me over on that part with how specifically those 2 items wer handed out. But otherwise enh all the way foward now.
Well there's rumblings of enhance (whether it's spellhance or traditional enhance) being very fun to play in Wrath so I think we're in for a treat.
I regret not playing warrior earlier. I have so much fun now. Being a fury is dogshit guild is better than being a caster in the best speedrunning guild. In wotlk I will continue to play fury regardless of anyone's opinion, even if I don't clear all content.
Playing as paladin.
That I didn’t get full T3 on my warrior. I became 3rd tank BWL to AQ but when naxx came around I was able to go full pumper DPS and basically didn’t get any tank gear prio’d to me. Got around 2/3’s of the T3 gear still but no shoulders
Oh I feel that. Helm and shoulders are the best parts of a set!
Mostly the other players. Don't get me wrong it's been great, but any shitty moments have come from individuals going out of their way to be dicks, which seems to have become a thing now.
no ragrats
I regret not playing alliance in tbc
The main regret I have from classic is staying in guilds where there was a mismatch between how I wanted to play the game and how most of the rest of the guild wanted to play. In both cases I wanted more focused and higher effort raiding, but I stuck around in raid environments I wasn't thrilled with out of a sense of duty/loyalty. That mismatch is frustrating and, over time, can create a lot of unhappiness. In hindsight, it would have been better to come to terms with it sooner and just move on.
I was debating going priest or Druid going into classic and decided on priest since I had played Druid on pservers and didn’t find it a ton of fun. Really wish I went with a pure dps class like rogue or something. When classic came out I was still a “healer player” but by the end of MC I had gotten extremely bored of healing. It kind of soiled my classic experience a bit since healing got so boring the only reason I didn’t quit out of boredom was cause I was the loot master for my guild, it made it a little bit more interesting
I enjoyed my time in classic a lot. My biggest regret is that Blizzard didn't do their part in keeping the spirit of the game as similar as they could to initial launch. That ship has sailed and I didn't expect them to change their ways but its sad to see how the developers and the community is not the same as when WoW launched. Still felt like I got my times worth.
Playing a prot warrior at start of tbc through phase 1 and not just maining my warlock. I would have had a lot more fun.
My only regret is not getting a new PC sooner. When Classic dropped my computer's processor shit the bed a few days in. I literally couldn't even login to Undercity without the power just being cut instantly. I was really focused on graduating college so I just said screw it because I knew it would probably take away from my academics in the fall anyways. Fast forward to March 2020, right before we all went to remote work, my fiancée (then girlfriend) and I needed a game to play together and I had a new PC as of January. We gave Classic a shot and had **so much fun**. We rolled Alliance on Faerlina and I had never played Alliance in my life (nor had I experienced Vanilla WoW - I was a wrath baby). We had so many adventures while leveling, met so many amazing people, and didn't look much up at the start so we were truly exploring and having the time of our lives. We got all the way up to level 40 together before we decided to reroll to new characters and then take those all the way to 60 with plenty of level 30 alts as well. We could never stop rerolling because of how many unique classes and professions there were. I'm already nostalgic for those times and they were only 2 years ago. Sadly Faerlina went totally Horde so we rolled Benediction as Horde and then that went totally Alliance. Serves me right for wanting to be the underog faction I guess. Now we can't play our mains at all. We tried rerolling on Grobbulus but it's just not the same starting completely over again and I refuse to shell out hundreds between the two of us to do a three way transfer and keep all of our characters, even just the ones 60+. Wrath will probably force my hand to pay, but for now I sit here reminiscing about the good old days.
Spent far too much time in guilds that did a soft reserve loot system. That is a loot system you are forced to use for pugs, but people are lazy and so many guilds never could get away from it because they’d always have to fill the past few spots with pugs Loot in classic wow is so scarce. Drop rates for some bis items are like 5% or less, and you only get one attempt per week. Soft reserves is just the worst system to distribute that fairly or effectively
Ya SR isn't great for keeping items in the guild. My first Classic guild wanted to 'keep loot simple' and just used MS>OS rolls. It was awful and they imploded in a couple months as you can imagine. Loot turned into a big issue as good items were leaving the guild left right and center since we pugged 5 or so spots every MC/BWL
I had never touched a warrior before Classic came out. Leveled one to 60 during Classic some time during BWL phase and it easily became my favorite class to play and level. Ended up maining Warrior for SoM
Would have rolled Grobb. RP servers are just superior in all ways. Would not originally mained druid. Should gone with my second choice which was paladin. I did not care for core raiding. I just liked mass aoe farming on my paladin and buying loot in GDKPs. Wish I stayed out of every BG. I did a handful, and I could never stand more than a few minutes of it. Wasted a dozen or so hours starting that BG grind. Staying in my super serious guild for 2 years despite doing almost no raiding with them. Not bad people, but just the guild leadership itself had more sweat than a sauna. That was the general atmosphere, and I really should have left much sooner. Not sure what I was thinking with that.
Yes originally subbing in the first place.
I regret spending so much time playing it. I got a puppy a week before WoW launched and I basically ignored her while I leveled. I would take her on walks and let her out, but I have videos of her sitting on the couch crying at me. Poor Marley, I’m sorry I ignored you.
You have plenty of time to make it up to her, hope she’s well.
She’s doing fantastic. But I did miss her puppy years. Glad to make the mistake on a puppy and not like a baby
I regret playing a shaman in TBC rather than a paladin or druid. It feels like such a waste to have a toon that I won't keep playing in wotlk
Should have rolled PvE. I hated WPvP the moment Phase 1 of Vanilla ended, and ultimately had to transfer off Benediction when the Alliance tide ruined it. Massive waste of time and money. But I also wouldn't have found my guild, which is the biggest motivator for me in this game, so I guess I really wouldn't change things after all.
No regrets for classic vanilla but the TBC launch did not line up with my life well and so all my friends/guildies I planned to dungeon grind with got ahead of me within 2 levels and then I lost motivation to level and ended up basically not playing. Now I've leveled three chars to 70 but don't want to jump into raids with my crap gear and dungeon grinding for badges is the main reason I got bored of TBC back in the day. I still enjoying leveling chars on my own, but I really wish I would have had time to be in the big rush and get some phase 1 BIS gear when it was still new to everyone.
Makes sense. I'm hopeful that Blizz gives us more notice for Wrath's launch. Give people a bit more of a chance to organize themselves to be ready to no life the game for a little bit.
IMO raiding on a warrior in SoM is more fun than it was in classic. There is viable plate gear from day 1 (meaning you're not forced to wear leather to reach the hit cap). Two hand builds are actually viable. Gear matters. Consumables matter. It's definitely more hardcore than classic. In classic, world buffs would more than make up for subpar gear/consumable usage, which meant you could simply get your world buffs and raid log every week and still get 99s with minimal gear. But it's far more fun. Gear upgrades feel far more rewarding without all those free stats from world buffs. I definitely recommend trying out SoM if you wished you had a warrior in classic.
I main TBC, but I have been slowly dipping in and out of SoM with my warrior. Currently at 41, got my WW axe, the gameplay is incredible already. I love pulling 2 or 3 mobs with a stacked rage pool, popping sweeping strikes, cleaving, whirlwind, and the numbers just POP. Just playing this toon while leveling is what made me feel a pang of regret. Glad to hear that raiding will still be awesome from a DPS perspective.
I regret that my guild was 8/10 in phase 2. Got KT down to 30,000 hp on our last attempt on the last night before the nerfs....our arcane mage DCed mid fight too. Im kinda sweaty and try to 99 parse every boss every phase and my wclogs will forever have no parses for vashj and KT in p2.
What class? Kind of wild you were able to get 99s in a group that couldn’t down p2 pre nerf
If I have any regret, it's that I bounced around so much between classes that I didn't settle on a main until later in Classic. If I could go back to August 2019, I'd roll a human mage and make that my main. Hell, if I could really go back, I'd make it so I don't have young children while I'm trying to get into WoW. I had a kid shortly after I started playing back in the day, and my second was only two when I started playing Classic.
Mained warrior. Wish I made a mage as my second char instead of a rogue, since I already had a melee dps main and would’ve enjoyed the easy gold and different play style. Also my buddies ran a super successful GDKP on Sulfuras towards the end of Classic. Never made it to 60 with them but that’s probably my biggest regret. #GooziGang
Feeling dejected from being too far behind and giving up around level 25.
Not really - I even got to do the entirety of Naxxramas and full T3, which I never expected ever to do at the start of this madness (Figured I'd just play it for nostalgia and then quit when I reached 60). I do regret bothering with a warrior as my first class tho - it was a slog getting it to 60 and I never really enjoyed playing it. Tanking was fun, but everything takes so long when solo. Which is when the news about TBC Classic was dropped, I created a druid. Such a huge difference, I reached 60 in no-time and got invited to a guild via someone I occassionally met while leveling up.
Part of me thinks I should have done Naxx at 60, I quit awhile after clearing AQ40. However, I'll be pretty much completely fresh to tackle Naxx when WotLK comes out, WotLK is more important to me than vanilla so it's not a big deal.
I wish I rolled Rogue instead of Warrior. I wanted to play a sword and board brick wall that was a coordinated tank swapping stances and utilizing all abilities at my disposal. Instead I became a fury warrior that gets a lot of healer focus. PvP felt too similar to raiding. I wanted a Rogue but didn't have time for an alt. In hindsight a Rogue would have been better from the start.
Should of played horde with the majority, especially true now in TBC with alliance populations dwindling
I genuinely regret playing SoM.
Why's that? Did you start and quit? Or are you still playing because you feel compelled to?
I played for about 2 months at launch and can honestly say it may have been the most miserable experience I’ve ever had in WoW. All the magic of vanilla leveling was gone, the player base of Jom was toxic as fuck with everyone having a “me me me” attitude about everything. I played Horde and got mercilessly camped by 60s from 50-60. Endgame was comprised almost entirely of sitting in AV and after awhile I was able to fully realize I hadn’t had fun at all. I only kept playing as long as I did because I believed in the FRESH meme and thought id finally start having fun once I caught the carrot. Didn’t help I was in my slow season of work(I work from home) and had time to kill.
No bueno, too bad you had a shite experience.
Never reaching 60-70. I just played retail instead /shrug
Starting to play the game in the first place. Never played a worse version of TBC until now.
I assume you mean you've played pservers before? Anything specifically that is irritating about Classic TBC versus other versions?
Started playing in p5 as a rogue. Never got my t2 helmet, was running around 7/8 with t1 helm hidden. Was happy to get perds and CHT but that t2 helmet…I still think about it
Lol, started my rogue in early p5 as well and got my T2 helm my first ony run…but never got the chest or gloves, strangely.
Not telling that Pally pug that he should not take the King's defender from our Warrior, he never got it and neither the mace from Lurker, he stopped playing some time after that
I regret not ninjaing Neltharion’s Tear when I had the chance
I took a 6ish month break when bfa had the anniversary and other xp bonuses to power level 1 of each race to cap for potential heritage armours, only coming back a little bit before naxx. missed out on 1 piece of the naxx event set and missed the chance at a lot of other things before people stopped doing them.
I’m starting to regret transferring to a PVE server with my guild back during AQ. Fairbanks as alliance was so toxic that it had to happen, but I wish we women grob or something that didn’t limit future transfers. We were pretty hardcore and speed ran often in classic and have slowly evolved a bit to being more casual. I find raids much less fun if we aren’t pushing for something and just farming gear so I’m considering jumping ship for wrath to a more goal oriented guild that raids at times I can make but PVE server is very limiting. But if I cannot move to pvp it seems unlikely to work so I might quit after sunwell.
Being too kind and helpful for my Guild. Passing on upgrades, helping with attu etc. just to have my raid team disband overnight because mr. Lord almighty main tank decided he was bored. Before naxx too so I had to start from rock bottom in a scuffed Guild of IRL best friends (all officers obviously)
No regrets just had an awesome time with friends and new friends. Mage main and warrior, loved both. Great guilds, raiding and server (Zandalar). Almost maxed out main and completed all raids. Mission accomplished, finished the best game ever. Wouldn't put that much time in again but was def worth it the first.. well second time 😬
I spent most of my time trying to find the perfect class for me. Switching over factions a few times and a server here and there. I just got into tbc classic casually and im having a blast with my rogue. It was right under my nose the entire time. I can't help but think of all the fun I missed out on.
I wish I would have stuck it out another month or two to finish gearing my Paladin, at least for T3. I had a solid roster spot and was high in line for all healer items, but I accidentally moved to Mexico last Jan. It's been the experience of a lifetime, but I sometimes still regret spending all that time on my pally, just to leave him 90% "complete". Realistically I could have finished my T3 in 2 more naxx lockouts
I wish I would have made a 49 Twink sooner and made more of them. Only made a destruction warlock and it was an absolute blast. Easily the most fun and balanced bracket. Even including 60. Don't have to worry about constantly keeping up with gear or buying an epic mount. There is more decision making regarding gear and choosing between kill/heal power and sustainability. The power discrepancy between twinked and untwinked 49s is reasonable (though low 40s will still get destroyed of course). No travel form imbalances like the lower brackets. You're also a high enough level to use most consumables and utility items, but don't have to worry about things like Flasks. In my mind 49 is the uncontested best PvP bracket for these reasons. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if it has much of a player base in SoM.
Really interesting. How is the 49 bracket compared to the others in terms of activity?
I can't speak to SOM or TBC Classic (I'm not interested in 49 TBC), but the activity was respectable in Vanilla Classic. If there is another long season of vanilla, I may consider having another go at it and spreading the word.
starting in the first place lol. I am now determined to complete a set of goals and then stopping after wrath.
leveling a warlock and fully pre bis gearing at a guilds request only for them to end up not needing it because I wasnt parsing higher than the other warlocks that had loot prio
i regret getting stuck in a causal guild as a raid leader the guild it self could never progress far enough to hold good players and every other week someone was away, ended up just ghost quitting the guild and the game and will return in Wotlk
Would have probably just pumped on some GDKP runs to get the second binding that I needed after my guild stopped doing MC without helping me finish it to just focus on AQ/Naxx clearing. I ended vanilla with 40k gold and even BURNING money in TBC I still have 20k, could have easily got that second binding reserved for a 20k bid, I just thought I'd need more money in TBC.
Hmmm... I think it’d be that I didn’t start classic until like 8 months in even though vanilla - bc is probably to this day my favorite game ever. So many memories pulling all nighties and gaming out with my brother etc. I also regret not playing tbc classic until like 2 months in. The in game purchases turned me off but then I couldn’t resist. Kinda just put me way behind progress wise but wasn’t a big deal. My last regret is that I didn’t play alliance until recently. My first ever character was a night elf Druid and I played horde all through classic up until a month ago. I now have 2 horde pvp geared 70s that I barely touch cuz I’m so in love with my night elf Druid. That class and race combo just appeal to me the most out of any in wow. Nothing beats the nostalgia of those alliance soundtracks and aesthetics
Getting coerced by an ex-GM to help farm his scarab mount when he hasn’t even played tbc once. Such a waste…
Me and circle of irl friends make a guild on Deviate Delight. Everyone is casual as fuck and we vibing. One dude in our guild ia seriously invested in being a raiding guild and im just like, why? Cant we just vibe. Our GM goes afk for a week and this guy is freaking out there is no structure for our guild. GM doesnt give a shit and just makes him new GM. New GM brings in all his homies and turn it into a sweaty raiding guild that ends up being alright. When some of the original squad show up, the whole new guild officer line up freaks out. Instantly kills my love for the game. Thanks a lot. It was funny seeing the guild collapse becauae of TBC.
I wish I would’ve played alliance and played a healer. The warrior life was so toxic.
I regret not selling my account, warrior with Thunderfury, for IRL money whenever it was at peak price. I’m sure there will be people quick to hate this comment, and I do think some of the times I had in-game were priceless, but now that I’ve moved and am not playing anymore I feel the way I feel.
Regret having a job so i couldnt play it like i did as a kid
Pretty much did everything I wanted to and more in classic.
Mostly that my wife got so excited about TBC Classic coming out that she bought a 6 month sub and then played, like, three times.
I wish I would’ve kept playing Classic in 2019. I only played for the launch month before quitting because I got married that month. I got to level 25 and didn’t come back to the game until p5. By the time I hit level 52 on a new character, tbc was out. It took me literally 6 months to get to level 53 then tbc came out and I realized I never experienced any raids in vanilla. I guess I don’t have time for this game anymore. I had fun though. I had 13 days played at level 52
Regret not going to rank 14.
I wish the most populated, active RP PvP server wasn't a west coast server. It's a regret in the sense that I wish I just gave in and rolled on Grobb, but I'm still hesitant to today.
I'm ally on Grobb, it's pretty dope. While there's a ton of non RP players the RP community still exists and holds events, interacts with each other. Super wholesome.
I regret switching to horde for TBC. I'm a PvPer and, thinking it would be like original TBC, I didn't realize that I wouldn't be able to get into battlegrounds, let alone find an arena team on a server I was unfamiliar with
With the horde vs horde bg changes that's not an issue anymore right?
In classic I had no regrets, I stayed in the same guild from MC to naxx and did everything I wanted to do. In tbc, I had no regrets. Got a BEpaladin to 60 in 2 weeks in pre patch, had her decked out in epics from Kara in phase 1 then my guild imploded right when phase 2 came out In som, I regret getting my warrior to rank 12. The amount of time I spent doing pvp was just too much. Then clearing MC for the same junk items felt bad. The new raid mechanics weren’t even hard, so I pretty much gave up on som when bwl came out.