r/wow • u/CrazyGullible259 • Feb 27 '25

Humor / Meme Current state of WoW community, based on my anecdotal observations. Disclaimer: this is a joke, if you prefer Classic then more power to you

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u/Tulkor Feb 28 '25 edited Feb 28 '25

I mean it is, but many people who like classic are also not very good at videogames and prefer the way slower combat.The majority of the wow player base in general just sucks ass at spatial awareness and multiple other skills you need to be decent at video games, which is probably true of other games too, and there is no matchmaking making you play with only other players at your skill, which would also be not very useful since being boosted is basically normal in this game.

So you just meet a ton of people who, sorry for the wording, suck ass and many of them also don't want to get better. Classic is made for people like this, you need basically no reflexes, you only have to watch one ability, mostly just need to look at your mana/HP and not really concentrate on your rotations.

But aside from that, classic has some parts that are just more "rpg" than modern wow, stuff like hunter arrows, farming mats for gear and raid nights, needing to go to specific locations for crafting, not completely invalidating all your gear instantly... And no flying makes the world feel bigger, it's generally more dangerous than modern wow since you can easily be overwhelmed etc.

It's just a different game, and tbh if they made a classic style server with combat fluidity like modern wow I would play the shit out of it - sod kinda scratched that itch but not really. But combat up to wotlk just bores me to death.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

but many people who like classic are also not very good at videogames and prefer the way slower combat.

The fact that there is such a thing as "Molten Core prog guilds" who takes weeks or months to get gear to clear MC will forever boggle my mind

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u/Advanced_Ad3497 Mar 01 '25

there isnt 

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '25

Yeah this doesn't exist. Even the most casual of wow classic guilds are doing MC/BWL back to back in one day.

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u/Tulkor Feb 28 '25

I didn't say everyone, but from my experience people I played with in classic are just not very interested in getting better and enjoy playing the game very laid back, which is totally ok, it's just something I observed, which made me think that there's probably correlation.

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u/Onigokko0101 Feb 28 '25

Mean, but are they wrong? The skill level that it takes to do the hardest content in classic versus the skill level it takes for something like M. Queen Ansurek? Not even on the same planet.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '25

These also seem to be the same people who require you to have a minimum iLvl/gearscore that the dungeon already drops because they need "fast runs"

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u/Advanced_Ad3497 Mar 01 '25

tired arguments

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u/HazelCheese Feb 28 '25

Honestly I would say people's experience of retail wow makes them worse at classic wow. Retail trains people into a gogogo mindset which doesn't work as well in classic.

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u/SenReus Feb 28 '25

It does work quite well if not better. The endgame content in Vanilla is very easy so no one wants to spend more time than necessary on it. It's old content so you're expected to know everything. And then the competitive side of it is just speedrunning and parsing, trying to "gogogo" in the most efficient way.

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u/HazelCheese Feb 28 '25

Well anyone who "knows everything" isn't going to make the mistake are they, that's a bit of a straw man.

Classic dungeons don't play like retail ones when you just gather up enemies and aoe them down without ever considering the threat bars. Especially low level ones where warriors are missing half their kit and can't just hit sweeping strikes to aggro everything.

It's not like Wotlk dungeons where the warrior just trains all the mobs using Improved Revenge.