Classic ceases to be Classic once everyone leaves Azeroth. It’s as simple as that for me.
If they are going to continue the expansions I think one thing they can do differently is let any player create a new character level 58 once they launch BC. That’s the level needed to access the BC content.
If you’re going to empty Azeroth of players anyway, don’t make any new players level through it. I mean, it’s there if they want it but just let them get to the new content.
Repeat that with each new expansion. Let me start a new character at 68 or 70 for Wrath.
I like Wrath better than BC but I don’t know if I can slog to 70 to get to Wrath. Maybe if I get into just running dungeons I could do it. That’s fast leveling to 70. Once they add the Dungeon Finder I should be able run dungeons all the time as a priest.
Blizz should take a cue from Everyquest and just release a fresh classic server every year or so. There is a lot of pull to start fresh with stuff like this.
Hi, my name is Glorix and I consider both Ragnaros and Onyxia my bitch. I wield loot from both of them. Feels good, man. I never did kill Rag in Vanilla, and I’m not sure I killed Ony, either. Though I certainly tried many times.
Ragnaros remains the coolest boss in all of WoW. My six-year-old son is always asking me, “is that a boss?” And I usually answer “No” or, rarely, “Yeah, but he looks like every other mob except he’s a little bigger.” So I called him over when I was fighting Ragnaros. He said, “Woooaaah!” :)
So the critical mass of players in Wanderers collapsed, I lost interest due to lack of folks to play with, and I just cancelled.
I remain interested in the idea of a dedicated 1 or 2 night a week dungeon group but it seems between the anticipated burnout and the HK fiasco that we just don’t have the players. If there are enough players around at some point in the future, shoot me a message; I might re-up for some dungeon stuff or BGs at some point.
When I cancelled my subscription, it robo-asked me why I was quitting, and I answered, in some detail, tank shortage. Perhaps “mutha-frackin’ tank shortage you dumbass no-dual-spec idiots!” would be a better summary of my response.
Leveled another rogue. Have had some GREAT tanks – bears mostly. I really only raided in kara late then wrath so I feel a bit intimidated with the current high level content. I’m fine with dungeons and just seeing what new specs work. I even have a lev 30 fury warrior!
I cannot complain about classic. But I did go back and check on my poor retail people… wow – night and day aesthetics – I have forgotten how much they improved the graphics etc.
I didn’t last long enough in the Wanderers to make it to the burn out/HK drop off/raider split. I found out that nostalgia only goes so far. So while enjoyed the blast from the past, my rose-colored glasses weren’t that strong.
I will say that reading about the raider split brought back memories of old Wow guilds and reminded me of what happened the original time with the Wanderers, so holy deja vu, Batman! (not bitter and not gloating but just noting the similarities).
That was disappointing. I am relatively sure I will leave the guild and try a different one before cancelling altogether. I wish now I had rolled a rogue on a PvP server because my heart is full of darkness and I like to kill strangers. I don’t think I can go through leveling another character, though. It’s almost three months and I’m still a few levels shy of 60 with my priest.
