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What was Vanilla WoW like? I am curious to know...
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pioneers14
I didn't start playing WoW until BC came out. I've heard through a lot of sources that WoW has changed so much since Vanilla content and so I am kinda curious to know what It was like and If things are harder or easier now regarding PVP and PVE. So for those veteran WoW players, I'd love to hear what it was like....
Thanks -
"Pendraeg" 80 Warrior
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Arigise
Vanilla was very very much more "grindy" than the game is now. Leveling took more effort and gold was so very much harder to come by. Raid experiences, while they still could be fun, took many more hours dedication than raids do now and often a lot of that was spent wading through trash mobs.
The biggest changes in my opinion have been made to the multi-role classes. Classes like paladins and druids were effectively pigeon-holed into one raiding spec and those roles were often tedious to the point of insanity. (i.e. Holy Paladins on 2min buff duty for their 40m raid).
Another big change is the amount of information available to the average player. Sites similar to wowhead were in their infancy and access to information like caps, talent builds, and optimal rotations were known by relatively few players.
As zdouse says, the game has pretty much been steadily improving. And although we had good times back in those days, if we take off our rose-tinted glasses its pretty clear it was a rough road back then.
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Haxzor
I was an Enhancement Shaman pvping.
Vanilla WoW was my heaven
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mecheye
Words n such
Probably the best explination I've ever read about what Vanilla was like.
I stopped playing Vanilla around level 40, but I do remember that the road to get there being a trip. It really was. WoW today just can't give you the feeling that Vanilla did.
I'm kinda disappointed I missed out on the 2-10 hour AV's. AV is one of my favorite BG's. I would have loved it!
Don't get me wrong, though. Wow HAS progressed, as Aestu said. Vanilla was filled with things that would just bother me today. I'm happy with how it turned out. Though at times I wish it returned to the more relaxed state of Vanilla.
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Adamsm
people reallized what a ^&*!@# Varian wasHuh? Varian did nothing in Vanilla beyond being chained up on the Isle in Theramore....
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Meggie
Leveling up my priest from 1 to 60 took 19 days /played.
Briefly I no longer could afford to pay for new skills. At this point I considered quiting WoW.
Rune of Portals already costed 20 silver, then a small fortune.
Plenty zones only got one graveyard, resulting in 5 minutes corpse run.
A trip from Ironforge to Dire Maul took half an hour. Plenty of time to have the group break up.
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Tenjen
yep aestu got it right.
I recently was cleaning up ^&*! and found the papers i had printed out from a site that detailed the abilities of druids in vanilla. Like
Rejuvenation : heals for XX over YY time...etc
in a list.
Man that made me recall a forgotten feeling of what it was like to be in wow in the early days. I remember running through darna and teldrassil when i first joined wow, just didnt remember this other particular, impossible to explain feeling. The passion. That all was nice at the time, but passion is only meant to last during the first phase of any relationship with anything/one. After that its replaced with things just as good
Wow's always been about the people for me.
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