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Blizzard announced "Classic" World of Warcraft
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GrainWetski
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Ended up on Gankli9ng EU, about an hour queue, not too bad.
Had a bunch of crashes, 132 out of memory, not sure why. When I set graphic options to CLASSIC it seems stable. And it looks fine.
Level 6 troll shammy, god I love this game, missed it quite a bit.
Had a bunch of crashes, 132 out of memory, not sure why. When I set graphic options to CLASSIC it seems stable. And it looks fine.
Level 6 troll shammy, god I love this game, missed it quite a bit.
Annoying things I forgot about:
1. No available quests on minimap. Gotten so used to it.
2. Shammy totems are actual items you keep in your bags.
1. No available quests on minimap. Gotten so used to it.
2. Shammy totems are actual items you keep in your bags.
PorkyThePaladin
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It's not just Blizzard. Everyone among publishing tards is underestimating the massive demand for a good MMO right now. This was THE gaming genre from late 90s to 2010 or so, before WoW clones started dying off. Nothing's changed, people still want to play this kind of game, to get completely lost in massive virtual worlds. Some of them want a themepark successor to WoW, others want something more sandboxy, but there is an untapped gold mine out there. Current front-leading shit like Furry Fantasy 14 and ESO makes most MMO fans throw up, or they just bunker down in the absence of anything else.
As Vavra showed with KCD (if you recall his stories about meeting potential investors), these guys are clueless. They thought a historical game would not sell, but KCD did extremely well, and with MMOs, these tards are even more off. They think MMO demand has been met by battle royales, or MOBAs or those stupid card games, but those are all nothing like a proper MMO.
The first company that successfully figures this out will start a new gold-rush.
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It has been a wild ride. Managed to get in just before every realm clogged up and got in instantly. Level 20 now. The very beginning was hilarious because apparently the layering hadn't kicked in just yet.
Once it had though people organized properly. Aside from me because I am rogue and as a rogue on RP-PvP server I should steal things. Like tagging and stealing kills from all the honourable citizen. It's just RP bro.
It has been great time.
Once it had though people organized properly. Aside from me because I am rogue and as a rogue on RP-PvP server I should steal things. Like tagging and stealing kills from all the honourable citizen. It's just RP bro.
It has been great time.
PorkyThePaladin
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Poor ol' Garrick. Looks up from his thieving, sees 5,000 noobs approaching with pitchforks and bum-level gear. Swallows nervously.
Wulfric Pinewood
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These queues ! Like Poland in 1981 , sweet youth !
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I hit level 15 on my pally. The leveling experience is not as terrible as I thought it would be. With a good weapon, things die pretty quickly (for now...).
My bags are full of gear for different occasions (2-hander, shield&1H weapon, healing gear), which is becoming a pain.
My bags are full of gear for different occasions (2-hander, shield&1H weapon, healing gear), which is becoming a pain.
Xor
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Make sure you get the blue hammer at 20, that'll easily last you 10 levels. Then you'll enter a special kind of hell.
Although with 1.12 talents leveling a paladin probably isn't nearly as bad as it was in 1.3. The 40-50 stretch still haunts me to this day. At least EPL and WPL had undead I could zap.
SotC, pull mob, auto attack, pull mob, SotC, auto attack, heal, SotC, ...
Xor
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Pre-60 pretty much anyone with survival talents can tank as long as you're leveled properly but everyone will laugh at you if you offer to. Just go dps and you'll have a much easier time finding a group.
Lacrymas
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It depends on what you mean by "normal instances". While you are leveling - you can definitely tank. At 60 - eeeeeehhhh, I'd say yes but you have to be good and know what you are doing. It's better to psychologically prepare yourself that you'll most likely be healing in the end.
Wulfric Pinewood
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Sure Druid is one of most fun to play and powerfull classes in WOW .
Lyric Suite
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They got this part of the classic wow experience to perfection it seems. Back then they ended up refunding people for the time lost waiting in line lmao.
Lyric Suite
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You can tank everything up to including some off tanking in raids. I tanked Rend with muh bear. Would have tried to tank General Drakkisath but nobody let me.
Just be sure to stack some agility to make up for the lack of shield block. Bear tanking is a bit RNG because you have to pump dodge to compensate for the lack of a shield. For instances it's fine though because bosses don't hit anywhere near as hard as they do in raids. So even if you fail to dodge that crit the healer can still save your ass and with proper gear bears get very high armor which helps.
Check this spreadsheet for gear too, very helpful:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HPdLlYapExIY7QuzTtBN3neO8YDaQBslUKKR1giaEQE/pubhtml#
Make sure to pick up enchanting since the second best tanking trinket is only available if you actually have the skill, all though you don't actually need enchanting once you created the trinket so you can drop it if you want.
Tanking will also guarantee you a spot in every instance. Nobody is going to pick up a Druid over a Rouge as dps and most Warriors are retards who just want to dps instead of tank, even while leveling (race is the telltale sign. Human or Orc will only want to dps while Tauren and Night Elf will tank, but in all my time the Human and Orc warriors out number the other races by a large number). Keep in mind all warriors will level up using a dps spec regardless whether they want to tank or not, where as the leveling feral spec for Druids is basically the tanking spec with some differences here and there. Very handy.
Actually, i'll let you in a little secret. Druids are THE best tanks for instances because they have a skill that lets you pull mobs instantly. If you know your way around the instance, and you must because you will invariably be the leader, you can chain pull mobs and once the rest of the party adjusts to the rhythm you can clear instances in record times. Warriors have to use guns or bows to pull and the delay makes people in the party relax which makes them slow to respond to every pull. Bear tanking is way smoother. It also helps to get "ahead" of the party which allows you to lure long range mobs by cutting around a corner before the party gets a chance to move out in the open and screw the pull.
Small tip: heal yourself before any fight, or the big fights at least. Helps with damage mitigation and gives you extra aggro.
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Lyric Suite
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BTW, i used the spec mentioned in this video on my druid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yevLe-0tYLI
I kept it even when i got into raids lmao.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yevLe-0tYLI
I kept it even when i got into raids lmao.
Generic-Giant-Spider
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Imagine being over the age of 13 and rolling Horde and being proud of it.
J1M
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Unlike paladins and shamans, druids have a proper taunt. Their primary weakness in tanking is lack of block, so they can't eliminate crushing blows (a type of critical damage that matters for raid bosses) the way warriors can. You can tank anything pre-raid. Druids don't have a good DPS spec. Your primary role is healer. Due to the way bear form works, you want to wear items (including weapons) with high armor stats.
J1M
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I would consider not having 5/5 Heart of the Wild a mistake. That's basically the best talent in the entire game. The stun duration talent isn't particularly good.
Skipping Leader of the Pack for Nature's Swiftness is a good dungeon build. There's an argument to be made that if you are tanking in raids regularly you might want to head down to Natural Weapons + Omen of Clarity instead for the additional threat generation, since that is what Feral can do better than a Warrior.
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