Board 8 > classic WoW?

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Wedge Antilles posted...

Most of the servers are really high in population. There's even a couple that Blizzard has said will have queue's as high as 10,000 unless some people choose to reroll onto other servers.

Guess Blizzard underestimated how popular Classic would be.

Or it is excellent spin to have to open more servers after.
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installing classic now.

< 3GB. aww how quaint lol

hm. kinda considering just making a fresh account for it so that I don't wander over to my other characters when I get bored.

I would absolutely roll RP PVP if they had an eastern time zone option in America. Guess I'll settle for regular PVP.

Classic is out? I thought it was in like a week
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You can reserve up to 3 names right now, servers open up 26th or 27th.

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Oh

Dont currently have a working pc. But gonna buy one soon. Looks like all the B8 people are gonna be spread out.

I've played mostly only Alliance Paladin during WOTLK so I really don't know what I'll play. Horde probably since I've never really played that faction.
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CoolCly posted...

So I rushed home after work and got into the character creation screen on reserve day all ready to start reserving Desuka.... then decided I didn't want to do that at all and spent like 3 hours trying to think up a name.

I was thinking the same. Originally I thought I should grab an undead warlock named Pale and an orc Shaman named Church.

but...

that was ten+ years ago. The people I played with are old and probably wouldn't dream of throwing away any more of their life to this game, or they're stuck in Fortnight, or they have other friends. The culture I participated (and the person I was) aren't really going to be the same, so this should be a fresh start.

I'll fire it up, and if my backup names are taken, well, I'll look around the room and name my character after the first thing that catches my eye.

I'd love to group up with B8 folks but I imagine we all have our own pace of play. I imagine my East Coast dad schedule won't play well with a West Coast dad schedule and especially not with any sort of bachelor schedule. So I figure I'll just sign up for whatever server and go from there.

It'd be cool if we had the option like in GW2 that we could have our own Board 8 guild while also having other guilds. alas.

As far as newbie friendly, WoW is fine. Some people will be high level quickly, but you don't have to stress about them. If you take forever, it'll probably take you longer to get through some of the content. And who knows about endgame longevity - people might not care to farm MC/BWL forever. In my time in WoW, it was like 3 different phases...
1. Newbie through level 40 mount. You're learning the ropes, exploring, questing, dying, having fun, it's fairly straight forward in a way. The mount (for most...) is the first time you have to legit grind for a permanent/long term upgrade, and it changes your day to day experience.
2. 40 Mount to endgame - The mount is the first thing you've had to really save up for. And in this time, expectations increase - you sort of need to know what you're doing, or to know to look it up or ask for help. You also have friends in the 50s if not 60, and it starts to act as an impetus to get yourself up. You've also likely gotten along well with people and been added to a guild.
3. endgame

Server popularity - it will be hard to login at first! you wanted vanilla, you got it. They might add servers a week later. Endgame, I'm curious to see how people will enjoy organizing 40 man raids and waking up at 4am to kill world dragons again.
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Probably going stalagg horde.

Priorities:

1) Eastern
2) PVP
3) maybe possibly eventually being able to log in

I read a good idea yesterday - try an RP server because once the novelty wears off (assuming it does), the RPers and the hardcore players will the ones left.

I never had to deal with it in WoW, but I guess it's also a good idea to avoid streamers because they mess up chat and they can mess with quest hubs, etc.
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neonreaper posted...

they can mess with quest hubs, etc.

I mean what's the point of WoW if me and my buddies don't do a hostile takeover of Sentinel Hill from time to time?

The Crossroads is under attack!

I hear ya
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I downloaded WoW classic a couple days ago in order to pick servers and make characters, and discovered I needed a live WoW account to do so. No surprise there. But what did strike me was that so many of the servers were already designated as full. Like, am I going to be able to start up on Tuesday?
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They intend to do layering for the first month, which means way more people than the servers can handle will be allowed in and they'll split people up into separate instances.

So if me and you are on the same server in the Barrens we might be in different instances of the Barrens

I would say public reception to this is .... super poor. and I'm very annoyed by it. That kind of tech is probably one of the most annoying and community breaking things about Retail WoW.

But Blizzard believes this is necessary for the initial launch and then will turn it off after a month.
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CoolCly posted...

They intend to do layering for the first month, which means way more people than the servers can handle will be allowed in and they'll split people up into separate instances.

So if me and you are on the same server in the Barrens we might be in different instances of the Barrens

I would say public reception to this is .... super poor. and I'm very annoyed by it. That kind of tech is probably one of the most annoying and community breaking things about Retail WoW.

But Blizzard believes this is necessary for the initial launch and then will turn it off after a month.

I mean, I cant say that theyre wrong.

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I think they're wrong. This method is under the assumption that player count will drop off drastically after a month, which may happen.

But if it doesn't, which may also happen, then we'll be stuck with servers with vastly more players than they can hold without a queue, meaning either they'll have to keep layering or open new servers for people to reroll on.

I don't want to have to reroll. And I definitely don't want layering.
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Haven't they done free realm transfers in the past when numbers deemed it necessary?

turbopuns3 posted...

Haven't they done free realm transfers in the past when numbers deemed it necessary?

They have.

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I think I got my fill of classic WoW just from playing in private servers and stuff over the last year or two. it's kinda cool that this is finally happening, but I almost feel spoiled in a way. I'm not really prepared to pay money for something that has been free for so long. essentially I'd just be paying to be part of the experience of participating on an official server. and at this point I've kinda burned myself out on the game anyway. maybe next time I get the urge to play we'll see if WoW classic is even still a thing anymore.
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MariaTaylor posted...

I think I got my fill of classic WoW just from playing in private servers and stuff over the last year or two. it's kinda cool that this is finally happening, but I almost feel spoiled in a way. I'm not really prepared to pay money for something that has been free for so long. essentially I'd just be paying to be part of the experience of participating on an official server. and at this point I've kinda burned myself out on the game anyway. maybe next time I get the urge to play we'll see if WoW classic is even still a thing anymore.

What if they bring back TBC next?

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that'd be pretty cool. the two things that would make me interested are

1. TBC, but this is really a short term interest. it only lasts for as long as TBC is relevant, and then if they re-release the next thing which I have no nostalgia for I would probably not care too much.

2. they release new content but without fundamentally changing the game. with retail they have released a lot of new content, but they've also changed the game a lot. I think it'd be cool if Classic just became its own separate, alternate universe or something. where we could get more content without them changing the way the game plays. this could potentially be a long term interest, but only if the idea is as good as it seems in my head.
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The other option is to stand up more servers which would be a large money pit, especially if people bail once the novelty wears off and the grind sets in. I have no idea what I'd expect if I were Blizzard. Day 1 is going to be a disaster, sure. I also don't really know their infrastructure. I do agree that server layering sounds unappealing... but it's better to start that way than to end that way (look at GW2)
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2. they release new content but without fundamentally changing the game. with retail they have released a lot of new content, but they've also changed the game a lot. I think it'd be cool if Classic just became its own separate, alternate universe or something. where we could get more content without them changing the way the game plays. this could potentially be a long term interest, but only if the idea is as good as it seems in my head.

Hoo boy. This could be a cool idea, if they at least release TBC first and update the game to that era of mechanics. Continuing with new content with Vanilla mechanics would be lol.


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I heard someone make the point of why don't they add some raids to classic that are just plain old dungeons that don't necessarily have earth shattering lore significance. Like why not just have a big cave full of spiders or something. Point being you can design fun raids without having to build an entire world around them. Seemed pretty valid an argument to me.

redrocket posted...

turbopuns3 posted...

Haven't they done free realm transfers in the past when numbers deemed it necessary?

They have.

They have, but they never work. People would rather be on an overpopulated than underpopulated server every time
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2 days!

I think I'm going to go with Bloodsail initially, probably won't be playing too much and if I'm getting ganked every 5 minutes I REALLY won't get much done in this game.


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Think I'm gonna go mage with tailoring and enchanting. Don't wanna bother with competing over mining/herbalism nodes, and tailoring just seems a better fit for mage than skinning. I like the idea of never needing to go out of my way for my professions while leveling.

Now the question is just down to forsaken or troll...

Though Gnomes are such good mages...hmm.

I'm considering just taking one of tailoring/enchanting at first and using skinning just to grab stuff to vendor since i probably wont invest a ton of resources into training it while levelling anyway. then I'll grab the other later. Not sure yet though.

hot tip: do not go mining/herbalism together. You can only track one type of node at a time in Classic. If you want double gathering go Skinning/one of the two.
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It's decided. I'm swapping to alliance.

I got to thinking about it, and my first character back in '07 was alliance. Had all my first experiences with the game on alliance. Got that character to 70 and did a (very) little raiding, then swapped to a server where some of my friends were playing horde and found myself a new main there. Overall my play time ratio is probably like 8:1 horde:alliance.

So when I think of alliance I feel more nostalgic. When I think of horde I feel more accomplished. That's where I did all my actual raiding and competitive PVP.

With it being vanilla, it only feels right to go the more nostalgic option, since I'm not exactly getting into this with killing KT as a priority. More just to have the leveling experience, be a part of the community, mess around doing random things, etc.

Plus the first alt I ever made was a gnome mage. Petered out around level 21 or something. Seems all the stars are pointing me toward picking back up where I left off there.

sounds like a good choice to me

i'm going horde because my buddy wants to but there's a strong side of me that wants to go alliance because i never really had that perspective
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I swear on my life I am not making this up.

A woman next to me is playing a word game on her phone. She gets my attention and says "you know how sometimes when you stare at a word long enough, it just doesn't seem like a normal word anymore?"

I'm like, "yeah, sure"

She points to her mobile game and says, "what's this word?"

I look over and the word is literally mage.

its fate
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shit's live!

allegedly.

Been in the queue since 3:00, now I'm #3357 in queue.
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lol my friend is on stalagg and im 25k in queue. estimated time 668 minutes

so.... i'm just supposed to change to a new server that they just suddenly opened? i'll have to restart my progress on stalagg later i guess
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There was no queue for bloodsail, at least when I logged in. It was horrendous though, took me like the entire hour I played to do like three quests. Basically just standing waiting for enemies to respawn and hoping you tag them first.

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Kromcrush had a queue of about a minute... so I got in and made my character and tried to log in.

world server is down

Kurinnaxx, here I come

god forbid i roll on a roleplay server
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I have to wonder how many people rolling on the new medium pop servers are just getting their fix and will still main on the original servers in a few days

Just got home. My original server was a 3 hour wait, trying Kromcrush I guess. It's 15 minutes so we'll see if anything has changed in the past hour

Live? What? Why?

And they couldn't have done that two hours earlier when I was looking?

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edit: Position in queue 5500. Wait time 70 minutes.

Well, so much for level-rushing. By the time I get off Teldrassil, Darkshore's gonna be overrun.
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Still in queue. Did I just choose a bad server?
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havin fun. Partying like its pre 2007 baby

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Kromcrush must have stabilized.

The first 15 minutes I was home, I moved up 1400 spots in queue.

In the past 15 minutes, I have moved up about 10 spots in queue.

Well, I chewed through the back half of the queue pretty damn fast, much faster than the estimate. However, now it's slowed down and I still have ~2700 to go. I may be waiting a while.
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I hopped on 5 minutes before they were supposed to go live and was 4000 in queue on Grobb. Currently about 460.
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neonreaper posted...

I hopped on 5 minutes before they were supposed to go live and was 4000 in queue on Grobb. Currently about 460.

wow they really did re-create the experience of vanilla launch to the very last detail !!!
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Still in queue...
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I just logged in for the second time, got Snorlax on one of the new realms

if you guys want to watch me stream randomly https://www.twitch.tv/cishir
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Anagram posted...

Still in queue. Did I just choose a bad server?

It should be noted that I was able to get in because I logged on immediately at launch.

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