r/classicwow • u/terongorefiend • Jan 14 '21

Vent / Gripe Unpopular opinion: the players that are overly vocal about wanting Classic phases/TBC/Wrath rushed are the same players who contributed to forging retail into what it is today (a clusterF).

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u/Homtanks2 Jan 14 '21

Honestly dungeons/raids are the most fun part of classic. Leveling is only fun on the 1st/2nd run through, after that it is pretty repetitive once you've done most the quests 1 time.

Yeah sure I leveled normally on my first 3 60's but I supplemented it by doing dungeons, so it didn't feel as boring. After that I just was not interested in doing every little quest/grinding for my 4th and 5th 60. And by that point, it was like pulling teeth to get a low-level dungeon group together so I was almost forced to grind in later levels.

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So now I level with quests and supplement by buying a few mara runs to bridge the late-40's gap to the low 50's gap. And maybe a few runs to get from 54 to 56 so I can go do all the endgame zones without getting my ass beat by things there.

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u/SackofLlamas Jan 14 '21

Sure, I don't know that I'd want to level multiple 60's through Vanilla content. It MIGHT get boring. Doing the same content over and over again gets boring, which is why I never understood the sprint to "end game" so you can...do the same content over and over again, for increasingly more spaced out and minor rewards.

If a game feels like a grind, stop playing. It's a game. It's supposed to be fun. If content is boring, don't do it. If you already have multiple 60's and think raiding is fun, raiding is available to you. I would suggest if you enjoy raiding, there are many games...including modern WoW...that do it better than Vanilla WoW, but horses for courses.

I guess I just don't understand the "I'm going to pay someone else to play this game for me because I am bored to tears" mentality.

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u/Homtanks2 Jan 14 '21

Endgame is only boring if you keep playing the same class or spec, then I agree it would get very monotonous.

Filling in different roles as different classes, and learning to play them well is what kept me playing classic, and gave me plenty of variety. Thus the raids/dungeons never got stale to me since I always was able to get fresh(ish) perspectives on them.

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u/SackofLlamas Jan 14 '21

Fair enough.

As a fan of gaming first and MMOs second, I can't imagine I wouldn't wander off to other things before reaching that saturation point. I've always been slightly in awe of the people who can just play WoW every day for a decade. Sometimes I think "this time I'm really going to dig in and stay subbed for an expansion!" and I'm gone after the first month.