my alt
You only have one?
I'll have my Warlock, which I'm not all that interested in until Phase 3+ but I want to put the most /played on that.
My Rogue (Alt) who I'll play for solo-play fun during downtime.
My bank char who I'll funnel all my drops/gold to so I don't waste it pointless shit on the Auction House.
I have no interest in anything more than that, I don't think you really need anymore more than that. If I were to do alts it'd be just for 9 LW/Alch daily $$ if I can't be arsed to farm on my Warlock which only requires them all to be L35 max.
my alt
You only have one?
I'll have my Warlock, which I'm not all that interested in until Phase 3+ but I want to put the most /played on that.
My Rogue (Alt) who I'll play for solo-play fun during downtime.
My bank char who I'll funnel all my drops/gold to so I don't waste it pointless shit on the Auction House.
I have no interest in anything more than that, I don't think you really need anymore more than that. If I were to do alts it'd be just for 9 LW/Alch daily $$ if I can't be arsed to farm on my Warlock which only requires them all to be L35 max.
LOL. Only one bank char. That's cute.
I'll have:
- one bank alt for crafting recipes
- one bank alt just for cooking reagents
- up to five bank alts for non-cooking reagents:
-- one for ores, bars, stone, gems, and anything else that would be useful for blacksmithing and engineering
-- one for leathers, hides, scales, and anything else that would be useful for leatherworking
-- one for cloth, spider silk, venom glands, and anything else that would be useful for tailoring or first aid
-- one for herbs and anything else that would be useful for alchemy
-- one for everything else: Darkmoon Faire turn-ins, reagents used in multiple professions, enchanting garbage, pearls, whatever
I can probably condense those last five down to two or three
Yeah, I'm thinking I might suck it up and jump on a vanilla server. I plan on leveling semi-casually anyway, so I may just roll something I know I would never main and just fuck around.
That's also a pretty decent compromise. Be careful you don't get too hooked and burn yourself out though! :eek:
Henhouse Thanks, it's good fun ;)
Yeah, I'm getting a feel for levelling economies and making sure I can get a mount as soon as I hit 40. So far I've been able to get well over that 100 (90) gold mark even without tradeskills, so I don't think its going to be an issue.
This will be mostly diffrent if you gold does not come from grey trash or general vendoring.
It is the same reason why I wouldn't play beta, don't wanna mess the feeling when I first step into the game again.
I mean the Endgame is something different to the leveling phase, actually I train, but focusing on the leveling phase.
I'm definitely practicing on a private server with Joana's guide. I'm making my own personal notes to which quests will be most congested and what levels I should just do dungeon runs instead of questing.
my alt
You only have one?
I'll have my Warlock, which I'm not all that interested in until Phase 3+ but I want to put the most /played on that.
My Rogue (Alt) who I'll play for solo-play fun during downtime.
My bank char who I'll funnel all my drops/gold to so I don't waste it pointless shit on the Auction House.
I have no interest in anything more than that, I don't think you really need anymore more than that. If I were to do alts it'd be just for 9 LW/Alch daily $$ if I can't be arsed to farm on my Warlock which only requires them all to be L35 max.
LOL. Only one bank char. That's cute.
I'll have:
- one bank alt for crafting recipes
- one bank alt just for cooking reagents
- up to five bank alts for non-cooking reagents:
-- one for ores, bars, stone, gems, and anything else that would be useful for blacksmithing and engineering
-- one for leathers, hides, scales, and anything else that would be useful for leatherworking
-- one for cloth, spider silk, venom glands, and anything else that would be useful for tailoring or first aid
-- one for herbs and anything else that would be useful for alchemy
-- one for everything else: Darkmoon Faire turn-ins, reagents used in multiple professions, enchanting garbage, pearls, whatever
I can probably condense those last five down to two or three
Each to their own, I have no use for any of that. Classic wow isn't build to be self efficient -- You'll literally be gimping your own progress if you do. Buy/Sell and only farm the best p/hr reagent or gold wise.
I'm 'uninformed' on how to "Private Server" - any good things I should google? I wouldn't mind tool'ing around to get the feel for it again as a primer.
Playing on a private server has been nice to refresh my memory on a lot of things. It totally wont kill my experience in Retail.
For example, the escort quest in Loch Modan, I now know to tell people to talk to the npc ONCE and then wait for everyone to do the same, and then whoever created the group starts the escort quest. Resulting in a successful escort mission and no frustration from a failed attempt + waiting around for another 15 mins to try again.
This and many other things have been nice to have a more pleasurable experience overall. :)
Playing on a private server has been nice to refresh my memory on a lot of things. It totally wont kill my experience in Retail.
For example, the escort quest in Loch Modan, I now know to tell people to talk to the npc ONCE and then wait for everyone to do the same, and then whoever created the group starts the escort quest. Resulting in a successful escort mission and no frustration from a failed attempt + waiting around for another 15 mins to try again.
This and many other things have been nice to have a more pleasurable experience overall. :)
Where would one join a private server?
Yes, I have played 3 private servers since the announcement of Classic. I have leveled a total of 5 characters to 60. 2 were horde and 3 were alliance. I have a fairly good idea of what I am doing. For all the inaccuracies that people like to highlight on private servers, they are very authentic. They arent perfect, but for the layman, you wont notice the subtle differences without them being presented to you. "Oh but the Devs extrapolated drop rate data on Iron Foe and it has a 2% drop rate instead of the 1% I think it was during retail vanilla!!!!" My expectations, my plans and preparation for Classic have changed dramatically since I played private. Say what you will about private but the meta has continued ever since most of us quit over a decade ago... Some of that meta will be very relevant when Classic releases. Understanding your questing route, your BiS list, what race/class/aesthetics youre taking, refreshing your memory with boss fights and attunements, your rotation... It will all impact your experience. For some people, I think playing pre Classic may hurt their hype and may make them lose motivation, but for the hardcores, I highly recommend it.
TLDR; i'd rather find out I hate my hair color/style after playing on a private server than having that realization 40 levels in on Classic with no chance of fixing it. i'd rather trial a few characters on an insta-60 pvp server to have a realistic understanding of a class/spec before I invest 6-14 days played into the character.
LOL. Only one bank char. That's cute.
I can relate with this haha. On my pserver currently I main a hunter. I have an alt just to stockpile all my thorium ammo/iron grenades. Finding ammo vendors sucks, after you have an established ammo/nade toon, any mailbox becomes your resupply. I keep this toon in a main town and he can also be used to grab meat or drinks and mail it to my hunt if needed. In total I have about 5 bank alts and am regularly purging their inventories on the AH because I simply do not have enough space.
Keeping my virginity so i could fully enjoy classic launch with wow effect.