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What's really annoying about some classes is they have like 2-3 times as many spells as there are paces on the main action bar. And I hate having to have my entire bar be macro'd actions to perform a normal rotation. I've been playing Midnight for a bit and really enjoying Ret Paladin. I'm sure SBA will help with that, but I hate the idea of it. SBA also has an added 25% slower global cooldown, so you won't get maximum dps with it. Actually now that I think about it, it's a great idea for people who are impaired and want to play with their friends.
I do find it extremely annoying. I got paired up one time with someone that was streaming one time and I could not have been more annoyed. He was speed running as a tank, and he was very bad at it.
I always wanted a Starcraft MMO...
That would be incredible.
I'm tempted to go a priest or druid. Still undecided really. Biggest plus of a druid is you can be a tank or heals, and maybe dps depending on if they've balanced it correctly as long as you've got the gear.
The one thing that bugs me is that leveling is about 800 times faster than vanilla WoW was ... and blue gear drops like candy.
They probably figure a large part of the market for it is 30-50 with kids and can’t grind a solid month to hit 60.
will they send me an email to the beta opt-in and invite? I havent play WoW in like 10 years and they need to beta invite me i'm like lost.
I really hope so. Slow progress and gear is part of the deal of classic
I just bought the game and already had a sub, so I just installed it through the launcher. To just get invited to the beta without buying it you need to run the launcher and set that you want to try the beta in the settings for your account. Then hopefuuly you get picked to try it out.
If it's the same as current WoW, that would remove a large part of the experience of vanilla. Instant gratification nonsense that completely and utterly ignores the entire point of this game, which is to experience the world at every level, make friends, and actually freak out when you get a new piece of gear. The current WoW experience is just jaded. I remember playing vanilla WoW back in 2004 with my warrior. My guild had to run me all the way to IronForge to get the flight path, and even though I had high level guildies with me, I died like 100 times on the way there because random mobs would come out of the side of the path and murder me with one shot. There was actually fear going into a zone you weren't ready for yet. I remember helping someone that couldn't do a simple quest because the mobs were too high and she was trying to find someone to help and I went in there with my warrior with my shiny new blue mace and got the job done. It does seem like trying to find people to do things together is a large part of this Forever game, so I remain cautiously optimistic, but what made WoW feel almost magical and very social is completely and utterly nonexistent in its current form.
I remember how bad one quest was. "Collect 5 wolf pelts" , except you'd have to kill 68 of them to get your 5 pelts lol.
Endgame. The quests were always boring, but they weren't boring 20 years ago. They're very boring now. The point wasn't the quests, but the adventure. And I don't think they can recapture that.
I've watched many videos on this already. Blizzard doesn't seem to understand what made their game great. They really don't. One of my fondest memories was ... I don't even remember the zone ... but on one of my lower level toons ... these horde were ganking us. And more and more horde kept showing up and just massacring all the alliance. I'll never forget the horde guild name because it made me laugh ... it was Blood Bath and Beyond. We told our guildies ... and other alliance told their gulidies ... and more and more alliance started showing up to defend us. It was an all out war. Then the alliance outnumbered the horde ... and when they all gathered ... they formed a line in front of us ... shoulder to shoulder. You literally don't get experiences like this anymore in WoW. The magic is gone. Blizzard doesn't seem to understand what the magic even was. The game was just completely different back then. You were "forced" to make friends to complete even basic quests because soloing mobs was intense, especially if you were under-geared. You had to make friends and group up to play together with others to go find a dungeon entrance. If you died, you had to run all the way back to the dungeon. It was so much effort to run a dungeon together that you couldn't just bail when things got tough. You had to learn and grow together as a team. There seems to be like ... 10% of this in the open beta for Forever ... but 90% of it is missing. You had social reputation in vanilla. If you were a dick, nobody would want to play with you. Forever looks just as easy to level through solo as it does now. That wasn't the case in vanilla. A normal mob could kill you. Vanilla WoW was also a place where the internet was still a new frontier and it was often a place where people made their first online friends. The "glazing" as you describe it is real and extremely annoying. Half these streamers aren't even old enough to have played vanilla WoW so I don't know wtf is even going on with some of these reactions. I feel like current Final Fantasy 14 is closer to the social feelings of vanilla WoW than Forever is. FF14 doesn't even allow damage meters or other metrics to compare one another. The toxicity is astronomically less. I don't really play that either anymore, but the social vibe felt like old school MMOs.Yeah I would have to agree.
it's interesting because all these old school YouTuber's and "influencers" are glazing and jizzing all over Forever as some new holy grail MMO and best WoW has ever been. Ok...I bought it, went in super open minded, and after tying out my fav Night Elf race and rolling a Druid, I was just bored AF by level 3, thinking ugh, I ran this starter zone a million times already, and it's the same old go kill 10 cats and fetch their ball sacks and return them to me, ok now go out and kill 8 bats and return their penises to me. Rinse and repeat times a thousand
Then I rolled the new Elf race just to try a fresh starter area and something new, but it was more of the same fetch quests, whack whack whack, kill this, grab that and return, now go out and do some more...ugh.
Maybe I'm missing something, but where's the "adventure" and "exploration" or "journey not the destination" here? All I'm doing is going out and doing some laundry list of quests repeatedly. It just seems like the same old same old, with some prettier graphics added.
The limitations at lower levels is more to force new people to learn how to use skills correctly, rather than be overwhelmed by lots of options.
You still need to carry arrows supposedly. Pets only need to be fed if they die now, otherwise they stay happy.