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[WoW Classic] Launching on August 27th.

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    Jasconius wrote: »
    phew. that was probably the longest amount of time i've spent playing a video game consecutively in years...

    got in on Pagle right at launch second. Kalimdor was stable, I heard EK was rough and went down very soon

    NE starting zone was preeeeeetty brutal in terms of crowding but not the worst I've ever seen. Somewhat playable.

    By the time I got to Darkshore for the night, it was down to what I would consider "normal" population, just a few people here and there

    good fun, and to hell with warriors being so weapon dependent.. my goodness.

    I was maybe a couple minutes behind you, and I had a blast. Made friends along the way, too.

    The overcrowded starting areas were kinda annoying but also really hilarious and rewarding to see.

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    I'm on Pagle alliance side as Styrofoam or Styrofoam#1490 send requests invites my way

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  • BizazedoBizazedo Registered User regular
    Thawmus wrote: »

    I was maybe a couple minutes behind you, and I had a blast. Made friends along the way, too.

    The overcrowded starting areas were kinda annoying but also really hilarious and rewarding to see.

    The amount of new people to Classic conversing with the people who have done it was hilarious and entertaining as well. I noticed it was a bit...meaner....on Horde side than Alliance, but just might've missed mean Allies.

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  • InfidelInfidel Heretic Registered User regular
    I'm on Pagle alliance side as Styrofoam or Styrofoam#1490 send requests invites my way

    https://discord.gg/k6FvH8v

    Hit that up and see if anyone online that can invite, I'm off for tonight.

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  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    Are discord servers free? Trying to find a good way for the six of us Horde players on Fairbanks to coordinate. Once we have the guild up we should be fine.

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  • Raiden333Raiden333 Registered User regular
    Snuck over to Teldrassil to do some early quests there because it's less crowded

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    It's good to be home.

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  • MrVyngaardMrVyngaard Live From New Etoile Straight Outta SosariaRegistered User regular
    Discord servers are free.

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  • BizazedoBizazedo Registered User regular
    Blizzard actually made a nice little video.

    https://youtu.be/iCn14KLCerY

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    Bizazedo wrote: »
    Thawmus wrote: »

    I was maybe a couple minutes behind you, and I had a blast. Made friends along the way, too.

    The overcrowded starting areas were kinda annoying but also really hilarious and rewarding to see.

    The amount of new people to Classic conversing with the people who have done it was hilarious and entertaining as well. I noticed it was a bit...meaner....on Horde side than Alliance, but just might've missed mean Allies.

    I don't know if I ran into mean people, but in that first hour or so it was survival of the quickest. The spawn rate was bonkers and it just didn't matter.

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  • BizazedoBizazedo Registered User regular
    Thawmus wrote: »
    I don't know if I ran into mean people, but in that first hour or so it was survival of the quickest. The spawn rate was bonkers and it just didn't matter.
    True that. I ran around stabbing many mobs with the dagger to tag while casters wasted time casting. I felt bad, but....

    I am intensely curious how y'like Classic as it progresses, Thawmus, as it's new to you. For any of the truly new, honestly.

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    Bizazedo wrote: »
    Thawmus wrote: »
    I don't know if I ran into mean people, but in that first hour or so it was survival of the quickest. The spawn rate was bonkers and it just didn't matter.
    True that. I ran around stabbing many mobs with the dagger to tag while casters wasted time casting. I felt bad, but....

    I am intensely curious how y'like Classic as it progresses, Thawmus, as it's new to you. For any of the truly new, honestly.

    I'm currently still where I was at after the stress test (extremely positive), but yeah, we'll see as time passes.

    I'm playing a NE Hunter, but I've never done the NE zones before. Just finished all of the Teldrassil quests last night, so tonight it'll probably be a lot of fishing, cooking, mining (engineering), and questing in Darkshore.

    Also that's maybe the last time I do Teldrassil, holy crap that's an awful zone.

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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    i played wow about two weeks at launch and maybe another two weeks several years ago when there was a win back offer

    and then played BFA for about a week

    i've never liked the game and definitely the current live iteration is extremely boring with any semblance of depth stripped out of it

    but i've been having fun on classic so far heh

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
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  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor !!! Registered User regular
    Logged in last night around 8PM Central after the kiddos went to bed and was greeted with a 10k queue and I wasn't even mad. I was expecting to not be able to play the first few nights.

    Don't care that I'm not going to be the first to 60.

    Don't care that I can't get a foot in the door early and corner the gathering good market.

    Don't care that I'm probably going to be a week or so behind everyone else when I have the time to wait for the long queue.

    Do care about playing a super fun game and catching up with some old friends.

    Good things come to those who wait, right? :)

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  • BizazedoBizazedo Registered User regular
    So, last night, I got home late in the first time in forever and had to get in the back of the queue. 90 minute wait, whatever, I guess I'll go eat dinner. I will be patient.

    My cat knocked the wire out of the modem 75 minutes later. Okeedokee. That's not frustrating at all.

    They had just put up three more servers, so I slid on to Ashkandi for giggles. Brill was a complete shitshow even here, but I grinded through and got to 11, mainly to kill time (Fairbanks had something like a 600+ minute queue at this point). It felt good, but as I was doing it I realized....

    I have never played Alliance. Ever. Always been tempted, but, FOR THE HORDE, etc. Even in the above music video (with the hilarious "I'll play Freebird" in the beginning), I was more pumped for "For the HORDE" than For the Alliance. I figure maybe this is the time I should change.

    Pagle was down to a 2 minute queue, so I hopped on a ground up to 6 in Elwynn. It's so weird.


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  • FairchildFairchild Rabbit used short words that were easy to understand, like "Hello Pooh, how about Lunch ?" Registered User regular
    So, as of now anyway, Pagle is our Alliance server, do we have a Horde server ?

  • AxenAxen My avatar is Excalibur. Yes, the sword.Registered User regular
    SeñorAmor wrote: »
    Logged in last night around 8PM Central after the kiddos went to bed and was greeted with a 10k queue and I wasn't even mad. I was expecting to not be able to play the first few nights.

    Don't care that I'm not going to be the first to 60.

    Don't care that I can't get a foot in the door early and corner the gathering good market.

    Don't care that I'm probably going to be a week or so behind everyone else when I have the time to wait for the long queue.

    Do care about playing a super fun game and catching up with some old friends.

    Good things come to those who wait, right? :)

    For me Classic WoW has almost been like a school reunion.

    Been catching up with people I haven’t spoken to for 10 years. At the same time though we just jumped right in to things with the same dumb jokes we were making about each other a decade ago.

    It is kind of surreal.

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  • Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    Part of me wishes I'd gotten into WoW back when it was relatively new (my roommate introduced me to it right around the start of 2006) but after playing a while on a free-month account it wasn't doing it for me and I just fell off.

    I don't really have any plan to try it now (I don't think I could handle the general old-school game design) but I'm having a blast watching a couple streamers I like who put dozens/hundreds of hours into the game getting back into it. Gonna be good for background noise while I work on other stuff, I think.

  • SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    got in a half hour over lunch, no queue on Pagle

    so much fun! There are a mess of people trying to kill wolves and kobolds outside the Abbey

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    I got to play with a friend for a while, which was nice and cool. Then we suddenly both got disconnected and the queue to get back in was 20k, which sucked.

    Chanus
  • InfidelInfidel Heretic Registered User regular
    For those playing on Pagle alliance and wondering where the Discord is: https://discord.gg/k6FvH8v

    We got a charter signed for <Sixteen Daggers> yesterday, hop on Discord to look for a ginvite!

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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    i honestly felt a little bad i got straight in and had no issues playing last night when people who were actually hyped for the launch were stuck in queues

    like chan chan

    who was logged in, got booted, and then never got out of the queue the rest of the night

    she was glaring at me quite a bit last night

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Raiden333 wrote: »
    Snuck over to Teldrassil to do some early quests there because it's less crowded

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    It's good to be home.


    Last night there was a bunch of people hyping up where they were from. I kept saying this is the chance to start anew to meet new friends to make a new rep and so on
    Few people agreed with me

  • SpawnbrokerSpawnbroker Registered User regular
    I'm going to force my fiancee to play this with me. She never played original WoW, only modern expansions like Legion and BFA.

    She's going to give the ring back, isn't she

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  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor !!! Registered User regular
    I'm going to force my fiancee to play this with me. She never played original WoW, only modern expansions like Legion and BFA.

    She's going to give the ring back, isn't she

    Use it to buy game time.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Did they implement the cross-realm stuff from modern-WoW to Classic? Like if you're in a relatively player-empty zone you'll start seeing people from other servers?

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Henroid wrote: »
    Did they implement the cross-realm stuff from modern-WoW to Classic? Like if you're in a relatively player-empty zone you'll start seeing people from other servers?

    Have not seen it yet but Aeitsh is a busy server with people trying to recreate their server and others looking for a new experience

  • pyromaniac221pyromaniac221 this just might be an interestin YTRegistered User regular
    I believe they are specifically not doing cross realm stuff outside of battlegrounds, which is why they’re restricting the initial number of servers to keep each one as populated as possible in the long run so as to avoid merging any of them down the line.

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    I believe they are specifically not doing cross realm stuff outside of battlegrounds, which is why they’re restricting the initial number of servers to keep each one as populated as possible in the long run so as to avoid merging any of them down the line.

    This is correct.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    Currently the population of each realm is segmented into “layers” (ie zone instances) to accommodate demand, but everyone you see is on your server. Eventually they plan to eliminate layering.

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  • themightypuckthemightypuck MontanaRegistered User regular
    Fairbanks, a "Pacific" server, has a queue of 8500 right now. Geeze Louise, this is a work day.

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  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    I logged in at 5:10 onto Whitemane, it was at 15000. 15 minutes later it is at 13845.

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    2 hour queue when i got home from work tonight

    not like i wanted to play wow or anything

  • themightypuckthemightypuck MontanaRegistered User regular
    I haven't played WoW for so long I don't really have any idea of peak hours.

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  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    I haven't played WoW for so long I don't really have any idea of peak hours.

    All hours are peak hours when the realms first go live lol.

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  • PailryderPailryder Registered User regular
    Red Raevyn wrote: »
    Jasconius wrote: »
    good fun, and to hell with warriors being so weapon dependent.. my goodness.
    We were killing Wendigos at level 5 and a level-5-required BoE green 2H sword dropped. The crap I am using is 3-5 damage and this thing is 20-30 damage! I need to run my stubby legs all the way to Stormwind to train to be able to use it, apparently, but dang I bet it'll be sweet.

    Found it on classic wowhead, there are comments on it from 2005! Hahaha. https://classic.wowhead.com/item=8178/training-sword#comments

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  • PailryderPailryder Registered User regular
    also, the "best" part of this experience is how lively the chats are...and i mean there are asshats but there are also a ton of really chill people...very fun!

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  • SmrtnikSmrtnik job boli zub Registered User regular
    Henroid wrote: »
    Did they implement the cross-realm stuff from modern-WoW to Classic? Like if you're in a relatively player-empty zone you'll start seeing people from other servers?

    Explicitly and on purpose no. Though the exact opposite (too many in same spot, split them up) yes.

    Also, there are no empty areas currently unless you're taking lvl 50+ zones.

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  • eelektrikeelektrik Southern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    I'm curious to see what kind of retention Classic will have and what kind of future development Blizzard will devote to it. Would be really amusing to see it eventually get expansions intended to add more content but keep the Classic feel without the more contentious changes like group finder, or dumbed down talent system. Also new 40 man raids. They've got years of art assets to work with to fast track something like that I feel like the appeal of pre-BC WoW might get stale for a lot of people if its stuck in a state of the same content forever.

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  • ZekZek Registered User regular
    I don't think "vanilla's game systems were better after all" is the point of Classic. It's about pure nostalgia, reliving the original game exactly as it was. People have a lot of nostalgia for BC and WotLK too, and those wouldn't be the same if you tried to modify them to be more vanilla-like. So I think they'll roll out expansions exactly as they were back then, game systems and all.

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