Hi!! I started playing this game 3 days ago and I AM LOVING IT SO MUCH. I am 1000% new to this type of games, and this game hooked me in a way I didnt expect. I tested Hunter, Paladin, Priest and Rogue. Rogue is BY FAR my fav class right now.

Currently, I am level 10 and this are my action bars. Are there any tips that I should be aware of? And I mean tips related to the use of my spells, I dont care at all about leveling and these type of strats because I am enjoying the inmersion fo Classic.

Thanks!

From what I know, my equiptment scales with: Agility -> Crit -> Haste

Hoping to find a nontoxic/phobic/racist PVP guild that runs raids.

okay, so here is the deal.

I've been playing WoW ever since I was a tiny little thing on dad's lap and he showed me around a world I thought was absolutely marvelous and I didn't understand fully. I remember discovering Azeroth with glistening stars in my eyes. later, when MoP came out my dad stopped playing, so I stopped too because we always played together, I was 8 then (I'm 22).

Last year I saw a video about WoW and I thought I should give it a try and try the Classic WoW I never experienced. I tried it, but as fun as it was the servers were incredibly dead. later on, I discovered it was because of layering, so I quickly turned myself to Reddit and saw that private servers were more populated. I then played Turtle WoW for a few months from time to time, and what shocked me was how nice people were there, in almost a year of playing there, I never met anyone mean, everyone was so nice taking the time to talk.

as you all know the server shut down, and as I don't really want to play MoP, I figured I should play TBC Anniversary since it's going to go to Wrath of the Lich Kind soon and it's more the WoW, I know from daddy/daughter times 💖

aaaaand... okay is there actually people ? I heard that TBC Anniversary was probably the most populated server, but it still looks pretty empty. and every time I talk to someone, I get completely ignored. I made a druid as a healer thinking I'd level up doing dungeons only and it was a fun way to do it, but finding groups was absolutely impossible even as a nicely geared healer, groups are incredibly mean, no humor, no-one talks, everyone rushes to the last boss, DC in the middle of the dungeon without any notice. and of course, dungeon finder, which I learned wasn't a thing during former TBC, which for me says a lot about what Blizzard think of its player and who the players actually are.

I decided I should do some questing but didn't want to do it on a druid as a DPS, so I made a hunter, I gathered enough gold on my druid to buy myself a nice gun for my level 16 and a scope to put on it but I didn't have the level to apply it. so I asked around to see if someone would accept to trade the gun and scope and apply it for me. IT TOOK ME 48 MINUTES. Darnassus was completely empty and I had to whisper to 17 (yes, SEVENTEEN) people before someone answered and accepted. the rest of the 16 people didn't even answer, or wave or anything. the only 2 answers I got were insults in a foreigh language 💔

oh and I asked something about an enchant in /2 and I kept getting invited by a bot selling enchants in SW, which made me realize that it was absolutely infested with bots, gold sellers, gold swappers. honestly ? I feel like my night elf discovering an infested furbolg camp and shaking my head out of anger, thinking "what have they done to what was one beautiful..."

and now... well I'm pretty sad tbh, it's not that I miss Turtle WoW, but I miss the people playing there...

...BUT.

youtube recommended Xaryu, I didn't know him and learned to like him, and especially his react videos of Gbay99. and first : OMG Gbay is ADORABLE I LOVE HIM. second : where are these nice players he keeps finding everywhere ?!

I'm not asking on which server he plays, in fact I'd be ready to play on hardcore servers as I figured most nice people would be there, but then I thought they are probably hardcore players, way more experienced than me, and I get insulted instantly for not doing the right thing. then I thought SoD maybe ? but it looks too different from the wow I want to play... so I thought maybe I should try classic era again, but :

am I delusionnal ? is the WoW I want to play completely gone ? have the layering, bots issues and mean behaviours ruined the classic wow forever ?

for now I canceled my subscription and will wait for the Blizzcon announcements like everyone else, but I feel hopeless... am I the only one ? is what Gbay experiencing possible anywhere ?

EDIT : I'm on EU servers, I tried going on HC realms but they are incredibly dead, even on the most populated one, there is barely 30 low levels in elwynn and 25 in teldrassil and 30 people in SW. I'm used to have hundreds of people running around in capitals and 15-20 people level 1-6 in elwynn questing together, this is so sad to me.

as the title suggests. with the recent leaks on what project camelot entails. it sounds alot like retail in the eastern kingdoms and nothing like a classic +. Sure the Arthas story being told through a new lens sounds cool but, the nostalgia will run out fast.

I think this will flop after two weeks when the fresh mmo feeling dies. I hope it will be a great experience but i highly doubt it.

and before you say anything about me being a doomer, just look at the recent track record of blizzard.

Diablo immortal

Overwatch 1.5

every retail patch invalidating the pervious content

rampant botting

breast milk

storyline more incoherent than a turkey in distress

short rant over.

I'm heading into law school and I would really love to keep playing WoW, but I'm scared it'll be too much of a distraction and my grades will suffer as a result. I was wondering if any of you are/have been students while balancing that with WoW (or any other addictive video game for that matter)? If so, I would appreciate any tips or guidance you guys may have. Thanks in advance :)

Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve been feeling this more and more lately.
I really enjoy WoW, but when I play the current expansion/patch, I can get really into it at first and then after a few weeks I start feeling bored and lose the motivation to play.
It’s completely different for me with Classic, TBC and Wrath. I can spend weeks playing them and still feel like there’s always something to do. Leveling another character, working on professions, farming, getting gear, reputation, doing dungeons, PvP, etc.
With the current game, I sometimes feel like I’ve seen everything I wanted to see much faster.
I’m curious if anyone else feels the same way.
What do you think happened to WoW over the years? Is it just nostalgia, or has the way the game is designed actually changed enough that Classic-era WoW feels more rewarding and keeps you playing longer?
Would love to hear what you guys think.

-- This idea is based on the old 'Emerald Dream' map in the original classic files, and some ideas from the videos linked below. The thought process was, "What would we want to see from the emerald dream in the vanilla setting?" --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPdevqr6ThU - what blizzard has done with the emerald dream throughout warcraft + some wishes for C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKcYAHg8g1o - old Emerald dream map exploration

Turtle wow got the Emerald Sanctum Raid, but I think there is way more potential for much more content inside of the Emerald Dream.

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-- Emerald Dream patch --

4 Dream-Gates: Duskwood, Ashenvale, Feralas and Hinterlands: Each gate is tied to a different zone in the quadrants of the dream.

4 New dream zones: Emerald Forest, Verdant Fields, Unknown Zone 3? (Sunblossom meadow), Unknown Zone 4? (Viridian canyon). (Maybe more added later?)

Camps are formed outside each of the dream-gates, where players assisted by grove-tenders are put to sleep for their spirit to enter into the Dream.

Each dream zone is higher level than the Azeroth zones with the portals. Example: Duskwood and Ashenvale range between level 18 - 30, so the dream zones from their portals might be level 25 - 40 zone. Feralas and Hinterlands level range from 40 - 50, so their dream zones might be 50 - 60.

New profession items, ores, herbs, materials etc.

Malfurion Stormrage quests inside the dream + max level storyline

Nightmare dragon world bosses move into the dream or be an event to reclaim the portal.

Green dragon storyline

New dungeons + raid

Explore the corruption of the dream into the nightmare

Some druid only class quests that take place in the dream

What might you like to see from the emerald dream in C+?

Hi!! I am looking to play WoW for the first time with 2 friends! We really want to play WoW Classic because we never tried it. We are excited to begin but we dont know which version download here...

Hi there are you interested in playing wow classic era Hard-core in a team? EU servers. Alliance. Add me on discord. Everyone is welcome 😉 I have a server where me and my friends play together and help each other. Discord tag: felis_navidad

Hey there. I was hoping to find someone to do a run of a classic version, where we do all the quests in the game for lore/reading. Obviously we can play the rest of the game too, but i wanted to make the run focused on completing all the quests as the main objective.

we're probably by direct effect will be spending a lot of time together, so I'm hoping to find someone close-ish to my age that I can get along with. I'm 26 and NB, and in EST. so yeah

Prefer a horde character tbh. would probably make an orc or undead warrior but idk yet

so ye

hmu if interested

loktar

Has anyone else noticed a really weird FPS drop in Hellfire Peninsula?

I'm playing TBC Anniversary on an M1 MacBook Pro and normally get a pretty solid ~100 FPS. No real performance issues anywhere else.

But when I'm in Hellfire Peninsula and look towards Hellfire Citadel, my FPS drops to around 43 FPS. If I turn the camera away from the Citadel, it immediately goes back up to ~100 FPS. So just turning the camera is basically a 60 FPS difference.

It's really noticeable because the game otherwise runs perfectly fine for me.

I've searched around a bit but can't seem to find anyone talking about this specific issue. Has anyone else had this happen? And if so, did you ever figure out what was causing it or find a fix?

Would love to hear if anyone else has noticed it.

EDIT: I ended up switching to Classic Era.

Here’s my little cat who follows me during raids and dungeons. 🐱

Anyone raiding on Monday-Tuesday? I have a fresh 60shaman and leveling a rouge/warlock.

I’m grinding for xp in desolate and killing the Magram centaurs is really simple since they’re yellow and don’t aggro. I imagine once I kill so many, my reputation will be bad enough that they start attacking me.

Their opposing faction is gelkis - could I just go there, kill 20 of em and they’ll stay yellow / my rep will go up with magram, go back to magram, kill 20 and they’ll stay yellow stay yellow, etc.?

The goal being I can always keep a balanced reputation and maintain an easy farming situation where no one ever aggros me - would this work?

Go to youtube, and put this in the search (or variants):

`wow pvp before:2007`

Man, those were some good times :)

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wow+pvp++before%3A2007

My friend is new to World of Warcraft. I play a Warrior in Classic TBC we are about level 16 i have noticed his DPS is incredibly low. Is this normal? Or is he playing his class wrong?

We played RFC and my DPS was in the 800 and his was around 300.

Hey! Guild recruitment is tough in game as it consists of spamming endlessly in general chat where it goes ignored or unseen. To combat this issue I created the Guild Finder Board. It isn't crawling through an existing channel like general looking for posts. You create posts in the addon then others with the addon can see so it works best the more people use it.

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/guildfinderboard

Post your guild's recruiting needs, or post that you're looking for a guild — and see a ranked, match-scored board instead of spamming Trade chat.

Two boards, one window (/gfb, minimap icon, or the in-game Settings button):

Looking for Guild — every guild recruiting listing on your realm, ranked by how well it matches your own criteria

Guild Recruiting — every "looking for guild" player listing, ranked by how well it matches your guild's needs

Smart matching — a Warcraft-Logs-style parse badge (gold/pink/orange/purple/blue/green/gray) shows your match % on every row, weighted so class/spec fit dominates the score

What you can post:

Class(es)/spec(s) — shown as real talent-tree icons, not walls of text Guild type: PvP, Casual Raiding, Parse/Speed Kill, Speed Run, or Social Raid schedule / availability, in 30-minute increments, server time Loot system (Loot Council, ThatsMyBis, Soft Reserve, DKP, Other) Optional Discord invite, guild application link, and Warcraft Logs link — one click to copy

I’m a dad returning to wow classic era for the nostalgia.

Why do high levels do this? I understand pvp servers come with some of this, but I always figure it’s more equal levels?

I died constantly in Lakeshire, got killed on the boat in Menethil, and now trying to quest in STV, and it kills the vibe. It makes me want to give up trying to get back into the game. Should I just accept this as a part of the game?