Originally posted by GeezerGamer

 

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Originally posted by Hokie
If it was up to The Burning Crusade, but before The Isle of Quel'danas. That was some of the worst rep-grind that was added up until that point.

 

As a matter of fact I consider that the turning point of where Blizzard statered releasing Rep-grind like it was actual content.

That, and if the got rid of Arena and focused more on Open World PvP and Battlegrounds.

 

Personally I could give a crap about Deathknights, Goblins, Worgen, Pandas or even (the) Cataclysm or the Lich King.

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IMO, I believe the turn for the worst started with the intro of "EZ-Mode" Which if memory serves was patch 2.3. This included sparkly quest objectives increased XP gains 1-60 etc etc.

Go back before that, and I'd re sub today.

I remember that patch.  That's when re-formulated quest XP made it so that grinding was no longer a productive way to level.  It killed group grinding overnight.  Since group questing is far less efficient than soloing, it also started the death of overland grouping in general.

Originally posted by Abor

Posts like these are plain circle-jerks. It's like saying "If you could go back to highschool and reunite with your HS girlfriend" would you do it? 

Your HS girlfriend was awesome, then she changed, you both changed, went off to college and did new things. You're a different person now than you were before and probably wouldn't enjoy what you liked back then either. 

It's the same reason your grandparents say "Remember the days when we use to hike 5 miles to school and gas cost 5 cents a gallon?"

I've played on vanilla private servers and let me tell you... IT GETS DEPRESSING. Just running through the areas where I used to play with older friends when we were just teenagers sent me into some serious depression, since we all drifted apart into adulthood... I really wish I could stay in that 16 year old 'dumb teenager mode' with nothing better to do forever...but things have to change. It's depressing but a human mind has to move on and grow up.

Just hearing the barrens music sends nostalgic chils down my spine. 

Damn...very few joys in this world like being a dumb teenager with too much time on your hands...sort of related but I read that human beings are most miserable when their responsibilities are at their greatest, which is in his 30's...just more wonderful things I have to look forward to in life, great. 

I always thought that I would jump on a vanilla server if they made it available, but the truth is, I remember how I bitched that I was running out of things to do, even back then.

The only reason I would like a vanilla server was that world pvp was still alive and kicking (before BGs, of course). Now for that alone, I would actually play on a vanilla server.

Here is the thing about WoW: It is an extremely polished game with a lot for anybody to do, but it has its flaws as well. The thing is, there is nothing yet that can compete with it in the MMO space. Although that might change on Aug 28 and I pray that it does. WoW needs stiff competition and I think they may just get it this time around.

I will still play it as I don't have any issues with Pandas. I won't roll a Pandaren, but I will try out the monk class.

I'd go back but not at $15 month.....

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Originally posted by FringeFanBoi
If Wow released vanilla servers? Personally that's the only way I'd ever go back. 

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Vanilla - yeah most probably.
TBC - That's a certainty.

Originally posted by GeezerGamer

 

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Originally posted by azrael466
This is what I find funny about the WoW playerbase, as a whole, not just you OP.

 

>Bitch there isn't enough content.

>Bitch that you can beat raids when they're released in a few weeks.

>Demand vanilla servers

No one sees the hilarity in that? no one? Okay..

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It's not as simple as that.

It's because of the "EZ-Mode" mentality. Vanilla and TBC had the content. But it took time to get through it. You had to build up, there was a logical progression. in Vanilla and TBC.

Come 3.1, it got all screwed up. They sped up the ride. faster and faster, you had to burn through it, all the while completely making previous content irrelevant. I've said it before, When you have to release 5 man instances with better gear drops than the 20man raid instances in the same level to compensate for the gap for new or under geared, the game is broken.

 

It's not that they gave us what we "bitched" for.

It's what they gave us was #$^%&@ broken!

it is as simple as that..If you want vanilla servers, you're LITERALLY ASKING TO BE STUCK IN THE SAME CONTENT CYCLE FOREVER. and yet people bitch that they 'finish' content too fast. Its hypocracy at its finest, and you think you wouldn't get tired of vanilla content after awhile? after the nostalgia goggles fell off?

Yes, Vanilla WoW was amazing. And I've just found out that a classic server is coming out, so I'm excited!

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Originally posted by newbinator

Yes, Vanilla WoW was amazing. And I've just found out that a classic server is coming out, so I'm excited!

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preeeeeeeeeetty sure thats fives kinds of illegal.

Well... You know that you can still do all of those raids, right? There are "old school" guilds out there that stop their level progression at 60 or 70 (which you can do through an NPC in the main city), and just raid and progress through the old content at their own speed.

The talents and balance of course are all new and updated, so that would be the major difference. Those guilds are pretty cool, though.