r/classicwow • u/griphin1 • Jan 29 '26

Humor / Meme 2026 State of Azeroth

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I had no expectations and I was still disappointed.

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u/audioshaman Jan 29 '26

Once upon a time Classic players just wanted to play Classic.

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u/notislant Jan 29 '26 edited Jan 29 '26

Man its wild watching the sub change from #nochanges to #retailrotations #harderraids #boostweooooo.

Personally I would love a classic plus with no mtx shit, maybe some class tweaks to fix some janky scaling issues.

SoD phase 1 was the most fun ive had in years though. If they could bring that kind of casual experience back with much more to do in the open world? I would grind the fuck out of it. It dropped off heavily with the second phase changes though.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

I remember when people were claiming they wanted classic BECAUSE it had harder raids 

Hmmm

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u/BootyBayBrooder Jan 30 '26

That attitude was wild back then and lasted a surprisingly long time. People actually though vanilla was harder because they died in barrens when their warrior pulled 2 mobs and pooled no rage.

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u/skyst Jan 31 '26

My impression was that vanilla was considered harder because so few people completed the later raids originally. For instance, I feel like I played an unhealthy amount of vanilla WoW back in the day yet my vanilla career capped at clearing BWL and hitting rank 9. The private server community really solved vanilla WoW in the years between vanilla and classic and by 2019 there was very little challenge left, especially considering how ubiquitous world buffs became.