Having played the game since vanilla I am looking forward to it. Will I play it hardcore? Probably not. I think that people who never played vanilla are in for a rude awakening because the game is so different now. I played thru the demo during Blizzcon & was like "How the hell did I do this?" At the time I knew nothing about MMO's and leveled a holy priest as holy from 1-60 LOL One word for that 'miserable'.

Eh, I may try it for a bit - but not sure how much I will love it. I'm a pretty casual player, and I suspect it will be geared more for the hardcore players. For the Horde!

x_Minerva_x wrote: »

I started playing wow near the end of Vanilla right before they released TBC. I played consistently up until mid Wrath. Ever since I've only played on and off. For the longest time I looked for the fabled "wow killer" (never found,) and started playing again just recently.

I am looking forward to Classic, as I missed it when the community was closer, and reputation was everything - if you sucked, or did a group dirty, the server would know about it and blackball you. I also loved spying on some of the top players to try and see what their spec was in order to emulate their success. Specs, and fights actually took more effort in general - Not to mention that Epics were actually Epic back then.

Forgot to add that I play Alliance/Warlock

Started playing at the end of classic/beginning of TBC and did some silly things back then (leveled a resto shaman all the way from 1). To be fair, I was brand new to gaming and even bought WoW as I thought it was an x-pac to Warcraft III.

I ended up playing pretty consistently as a break from graduate school until Legion when my playtime eventually petered out and haven't played since then. I am looking forward to Classic WoW again but probably wouldn't put my heart into it like I did back then.

Alliance mains: Hunter > Shaman > Monk > Paladin

I am looking forward to it, but was mildly disappointed to hear that it won't be like it was at release, but will be a later a patch. I do understand why, but nostalgia dictates that I experience it as it was when I levelled my first character, no matter how bad! I had a break from the game later in vanilla and came back for Burning Crusade so I didn't play the later classic version much. I plan to resub to play, but will probably be mainly pootling about looking at old areas. In the old days it sometimes took us hours to do just one dungeon and I sadly don't feel I have that time any more! Maraudon seemed to take forever first time through!

I've never really had an allegiance, but have mostly played Alliance.

It's interesting what you say about using modern QoL upgrades. LOTRO (Lord of the Rings Online) has done just that recently, opening servers which are pretty much the same as the others but with slower levelling xp and a "vanilla" level cap with later content locked and released every few months. I've been playing on one, and it's surprisingly fun being able to find groups and do old content on level.

Thinking of that, one of the problems I can see (for me) with Classic, is that levelling took such a long time. I'm a slow leveller anyway, and will have even less time than I did the first time round. I think I will be left behind and that it will be difficult to find groups for the levelling quests and dungeons that I'm really looking forward to!

Yep, already reserved some names on Atiesh realm. I’ve played wow on and off since the bc so I never actually experienced vanilla so looking forward to it.

For the alliance !