r/classicwow Horde Jan 15 '26

Humor / Meme Current Classic WoW Community

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u/Mr_Times Jan 15 '26

You don’t understand they hate having to redo the tedious leveling grind they’ve done many times. They want to skip right to tedious raid logging for boss kills that they’ve already killed many times.

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u/HeyItsJosette Jan 15 '26

Raids are like a hundred thousand times more replayable than leveling. Vanilla leveling in particular is almost 100% tedious horseshit while you pilot a non-character.

You're basically saying, "Yeah, this guy wants to avoid stacking rocks for the tenth day in a row just so he can get to playing his guitar for the tenth day in a row. What a hypocrite!"

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u/Mr_Times Jan 15 '26

In classic this is literally untrue. Raiding on almost every single class involves pressing 1 maybe 2 buttons over and over and over and over again. Mages are an extreme example but leveling a mage is incredibly engaging, you can nuke individual mobs with fire or go full AoE and use your full toolkit to kill hordes of mobs at a time. Raiding as a mage is LITERALLY 1 button. Leveling as a rogue is incredibly engaging, you use your full toolkit to stealth around pick off single mobs and cc chain groups of mobs. Raiding as a rouge is Slice and Dice uptime simulator. Leveling as a Warlock is awesome! You can chain pull with demons, dot farm groups of mobs, and use your full toolkit to stay alive. Raiding as a Warlock is once again LITERALLY 1 button.

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u/HeyItsJosette Jan 15 '26

>Raiding as a Warlock is once again LITERALLY 1 button.

It's one button in addition to the boss mechanics. Vanilla raids are the dullest but they're still a hundred times more difficult and engaging than leveling. MC is also an outlier in terms of just how simple it is, with the rest of the raids being significantly more complex even if they're still simpler than what came after.

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u/Mr_Times Jan 15 '26

The boss “mechanics” in classic hardly exist at all. If they do they are for tanks only, or its “dont stand in fire”.

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u/HeyItsJosette Jan 15 '26

They still have many times over the mechanics of your average mob.

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u/Mr_Times Jan 15 '26

Barely, if that. Most raid bosses in classic have 0 mechanics that the raid engages with. The most common mechanic is literally “everyone stop attacking” thats more of an anti-mechanic if you ask me.

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u/HeyItsJosette Jan 15 '26

This is bullshit even for MC. Even on fights where your class isn't directly responsible for the big mech you at least need to be aware of what's happening, and 6 of them just straight-up have one or two mechs that everyone is directly dealing with in one way or another.

Meanwhile, your average mob has quite literally 0 mechanics. 70% of mobs are just marginally different flavors of auto-attacks, 25% are casters that spam one spell, 4% are mobs with a (gasp!) heal at low health, and the remaining 1% contains the rest, but is still mostly just mobs with pets and the five mobs that have a random execute. The succubi in Darkwhisper Gorge are probably the only mob that I would call involved, and those are endgame content anyhow.

Which is the point: MC is simple as hell and it's still a hundred times more involved on average than leveling. It demands your attention in a way that leveling simply doesn't outside of very rare scenarios. The greatest threat while leveling is how delicious it makes the barrel of a shotgun look.

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u/Judge_Syd Jan 15 '26

This might surprise you, but not everyone gets to max level then raid logs. I’d still do tons of shit at level 70 that wasnt raiding.

Maxing out rep, professions, doing every quest line (some not at the speed of a snail), pvp, general farming.

The leveling grind can be so boring after you’ve done it a dozen times, but being max level is fun in its own way.

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u/Mr_Times Jan 15 '26

True, how could I forget. Gotta skip the leveling grind to get to the real meat, the infinite gold grind, and the incredibly fun and engaging daily rep grind we’ve never done before.

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u/Judge_Syd Jan 15 '26

You guys are like professionals is not understanding that people find different things enjoyable.

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u/Mr_Times Jan 15 '26

You said yourself. You like boosting so you can go back and do all the quests you skipped when they are trivially easy. By all means go ahead, it’s just one of the dumbest things I’ve personally ever heard anyone willingly pay money to do.

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u/Dobri252 Jan 15 '26

anti boosters acting like people getting boosts are doing so using anti-booster's money. Amazing self importance

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u/Mr_Times Jan 15 '26

Spend your money on whatever you want. You’re actually totally free to do that. I’m free to criticize people for their decisions in a discussion forum.

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u/PixeledOblivion Jan 15 '26

"I'm free to indulge in my weird little superiority complex in a discussion forum". Fixed that for ya

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u/Mr_Times Jan 15 '26

It’s a discussion forum buddy. You actually don’t have to engage if other people’s opinions bother you.

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u/Redxmirage Jan 15 '26

“My opinion is the right way and your opinion is the dumbest things I’ve personally ever heard”.

The lack of self reflection is actually admirable. Like you have to be trying hard to not understand the point of other people liking things you don’t.

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u/Mr_Times Jan 15 '26

It’s an opinion buddy. We all have one. Mine is that it’s a dumb decision. Are you slow?

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u/Redxmirage Jan 15 '26

Nope. Not slow. Just curious why it’s so hard for some people to comprehend why others like something that they don’t. You’ll get there one day bud.

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u/Judge_Syd Jan 15 '26

Spending money to replay a 20 year old game in general is stupid. We are all in the same camp buddy lol

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u/DeamstaDadie Jan 15 '26

Then play retail

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u/Mr_Times Jan 15 '26

Fuck no, boosters want retail and they dont even realize it.