I'm 46 now. My dungeon grinding team officially disbanded — real life caught up with us and we couldn't keep a consistent schedule together, so it's back to warrior solo questing. Man do I miss windfury totem... :cry:
After kicking into low gear I decided to go all the way down to fish and cook for a while. I ended up sending a bunch of lowbie guild members stat food, dragonbreath chili, potions, scrolls. Then I spent some time counter-ganking in Hillsbrad and even helped a friend farm out his whirlwind axe.
People have been genuinely grateful for all these small favors and it makes it all worth it
I am still floating the idea of going rogue, as I don't mind playing one and its the least played class on the server.
Amazing class quests, poisons, lockpicking, pick pocketing, stealth ganking... there was a lot to tempt me as well!
Yeah. Plus just being in-demand at 60 might be kinda cool. The one time ever where people starting raids have a shortage of rogues.
I've had to switch server twice, although I only made it to 21 and 15 on those 2.
Now I'm 29 and have 160+ LW, 215 Skinning, 180 Cooking and 150 fishing. I'm just slowrolling it, enjoying the game!
Was just about to login and hand in quests to ding 20 but Sulfuras has a 4K+ queue. :-(
Queue times, server issues
My play time has been 2-3 hours every day so far, in line with my expectations. The queue is not that terrible on Arugal all things considered, and since the content is not going anywhere I rather wait an hour or so before logging in for a month (at best) in exchange for a healthy server in few months. But I also understand that not everyone feels this way, especially people who play together with their RL friends/spouses. I wish Blizzard had announced 2 PvP servers for Oceanic from the get go. It didn't give any guilds enough time to decide, which has left a sour taste in many people's mouths (for good reason).
Life of a warrior!
I'm currently level 24 on Gallow. Just got execute and it feels great! Sometimes using execute is not worth it, especially if the mob is bleeding from 2 DoTs, so I still got to get used to when to use it and when to avoid it.
I did RFC/WC/SFK 2 times each, got some pretty nice blue gear. Keeping aggro was quite a challenge at first, but tanking is getting easier as I get better gear. So far almost all of my runs were guild runs, and everything went pretty smoothly. I did join one SFK pug as they were looking for a tank for over an hour. Turns out they had a level appropriate warrior in the group but he was going to be DPS'ing no matter what. Turns out I was right in thinking that Warriors being #1 played class is in NO WAY an indicator of having too many tanks. Turns out that people still want tanks. That's great :mrgreen:
Also I was able to keep my promises (to myself) about keeping cooking/fishing relevant. Proudly sitting at 150/150 for a while now. I just don't have the gold for the expert books, but some day I will! Also got around 200ish skinning and 100 mining. Somehow I can never find enough mining nodes. Gotta do some mine runs for sure.
Guild things! Blog! More stories!
Aside from the initial fallout of few members due to high queues in Arugal (which as mentioned I completely understand), <Goblin Rocket Fuel Rats> has been steadily growing! We have about 50 members in-game now, most of which are in similar levels so lots of dungeon runs / quest runs are happening. The initial members were all recruited from different forums (Barrens.chat, reddit, other discord channels etc), and they knew what kind of a guild we were.
But we are also getting tons of what I like to call "organic members"; people I (and other guildies) play with seem to like our attitude and are asking around what kind of a guild we are, and asking for invites! In the random SFK group some people didn't know I was the GM of <GRFR>, so they were asking me like "Hey what kind of a guild is that? I saw posts around the internet" and someone else mentioned "Oh they are the White Knights of WoW" :lol: I mentioned that I was the GM of the guild and he went "oh lol sorry awkward" :mrgreen: I want the record to show that I don't consider us as "White Knights", but at least some folks are hearing our names already - which is something as a small guild like ours thrives on!
Below is one of those "organic members" I've encountered in the wild! He felt like a true <GRFR> at heart.
Also I'm working on multiple guild stories for our guild blog already, which is great! Can't wait to do all kinds of things with these awesome people.
I'm rocking at level 48. I forgot how much Feralas loves to send you to Darnassus and Tanaris loves to send you to the Hinterlands. It's a big world and they really want you to see it... more than once.
god i've been going so spastic with my alt addiction, its bad. already have about 20 alts spread over different servers. because i find it real hard to focus on just one, always getting inspired by other characters i see around and im like damn i want one of THOSE. the highest i have right now is a lvl 19 priest, and a couple of teenage lvl warlocks. the rest of my crew is under 10.
i need to settle down
I was level 48 on friday...but I decided to quit the game.
I'm very unhappy with the game, it's not WoW Classic for me, but something else that doesn't give me the Classic feeling back. I had way more fun on private servers.
So ye - I am out of classic wow.
I was level 48 on friday...but I decided to quit the game.
I'm very unhappy with the game, it's not WoW Classic for me, but something else that doesn't give me the Classic feeling back. I had way more fun on private servers.
So ye - I am out of classic wow.
This is a fair perspective. Its really unfortunate that you feel that way, but you handled it maturely and simply acknowledge that you arent getting value out of the game. I'll be honest, I have been pretty discouraged to play when I wait 2-3 hours to get into a game only to log into an empty world. Perhaps things will change (im certain they will) once they remove layering, and if nothing else, at least you have those memories of private and can say you played the hardest version of vanilla.
Aside from the initial fallout of few members due to high queues in Arugal (which as mentioned I completely understand)
I was so frustrated to have to leave Arugal, but I understood why my friends made the switch, and I wanted the experience of Classic WoW with my friends, so I had to move. Fuck blizzard for not making 2 PvP servers earlier.
36 right now; aiming for a 41/42 by the end of the week.
Unfortunately next week i am off on holiday. Lucky for my friends though since they can play catch-up.
I was level 48 on friday...but I decided to quit the game.
I'm very unhappy with the game, it's not WoW Classic for me, but something else that doesn't give me the Classic feeling back. I had way more fun on private servers.
So ye - I am out of classic wow.
This is a fair perspective. Its really unfortunate that you feel that way, but you handled it maturely and simply acknowledge that you arent getting value out of the game. I'll be honest, I have been pretty discouraged to play when I wait 2-3 hours to get into a game only to log into an empty world. Perhaps things will change (im certain they will) once they remove layering, and if nothing else, at least you have those memories of private and can say you played the hardest version of vanilla.
The problem I see is that they can't remove the layering as long as there are lots of players.
I don't have any knowledge about that now, but let's assume we have 10 layers with 3500 players each.
That would be 35000 players, you can never bring them into a layer.
And that's where it starts, what do they do then? Do they bring out the content and keep the layering? That would be catastrophic if you think of world bosses, even Open-PvP loses quality.
I'm super insecure and that's why I decided not to invest more time in Classic. Until level 47/48 it was quite funny, I probably would have been level 60 on Sunday morning.
I look at this now from a safe distance on Twitch Tv if I have interest and otherwise I do not care
The problem I see is that they can't remove the layering as long as there are lots of players.
I don't have any knowledge about that now, but let's assume we have 10 layers with 3500 players each.
That would be 35000 players, you can never bring them into a layer.
And that's where it starts, what do they do then? Do they bring out the content and keep the layering? That would be catastrophic if you think of world bosses, even Open-PvP loses quality.
I'm super insecure and that's why I decided not to invest more time in Classic. Until level 47/48 it was quite funny, I probably would have been level 60 on Sunday morning.
I look at this now from a safe distance on Twitch Tv if I have interest and otherwise I do not care
Yea. Its actually frightening that it took many this long to understand the implications of layering. It never could have worked on every server. It requires a massive gamble and an incredibly accurate estimate from Blizz on player counts. It just isnt a practical solution to the issue. It was never going to work unfortunately.
Layering will get worse before it gets better. And when it gets better... We have A LOT of new hurdles which will be amplified by the existence of layering in the first place.
The biggest difference I have noticed between Classic and Private is the level of investment I have in my character due to the permanence of Classic
This is the same for me. Way more invested in my character and server than any private server. Every private server seemed a throw away account. I know in 18 months, Ill be rolling a new one somewhere else because this server will get hacked, crash, or everyone will leave and this will be a ghost town.
I care about this toon way more than ever.