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ok so my best memories are from wow vanila (MC, BWL, naxx, wsg and so on) including instances and mechanics, I have been in hardcore raiding guild before but nothing compares to going through mc first time with green and blue items :D
anyways theres this http://vanillagaming.org/ pretty good vanilla wow server
I was wondering if response was huge and we could get 40+ ppl maybe it would be cool to give it a shot casualy, going from 0-60-70lvls was fun as fuck for me when I first played and I would sure as hell pick different race and class to experience everything anew
I know plenty of ppl loved vanilla, let me know if maybe you would wanna be a part of this and do some casual raiding or pvp I can propably muster 5ppl myself to do this
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also I really wish blizzard would make some vanilla 0-60 levels full legal, that would be so awesome to race with other guilds for progress ; P pitty its not gonna happen
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I must say i loved vanilla.I have immediately dropped wow at first expansion and never looked back :D
Maybe i would give it a shot only if: there is no xp boost and faster droprates and all the bullcrap that soooooo many vanilla wow server used to have.
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On June 07 2013 23:37 pokerface wrote:
I must say i loved vanilla.I have immediately dropped wow at first expansion and never looked back :D
Maybe i would give it a shot only if: there is no xp boost and faster droprates and all the bullcrap that soooooo many vanilla wow server used to have.
From website:
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Use notepad to open "Realmlist.wtf" which is located in your World of Warcraft installation folder. Overwrite all of the text in the file with this Vanillagaming offers you balanced rates; 15x XP rates to give you a slightly faster levelling experience, but not so fast so you can still experience vanilla content. Regular drop rates of 1x, with gold at 2x to help keep up with levelling while not breaking end-game economy. Reputation rate is blizzlike (1x)."
Doesn't sound like too much, idk I might give it a shot just for nostalgias sake 
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On June 07 2013 23:37 pokerface wrote:
I must say i loved vanilla.I have immediately dropped wow at first expansion and never looked back :D
But... But TBC was really good. D:
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I play on the Feenix private server, and some bugs aside it's really quite great. I had a blast leveling x1 and doing professions.
Also, TBC was really good; and Wrath had fantastic quests and zones in general.
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Hm 40 man raiding and all the things that went with at the time (mass farming, mass afking during the raid, raids being easy except naxx given you don't have an half AFK raid) might get old quickly. Same for the world of one shot PvP. Even leveling was awful at the time, it was just a very new and awesome game then but I'm pretty sure people won't get the same enjoyment now.
Privates are cool though, it's always fun to see/remember how the game was at the time, but I don't think you will be able to get 40 people to raid, let alone keeping them playing  For my part I loved BC and WOTLK but playing it on private servers just didn't feel the same. Good luck though!
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On June 07 2013 23:43 jeeeeohn wrote:
Also, TBC was really good; and Wrath had fantastic quests and zones in general.
The general trend with WoW has been that the solo content is improving but the dungeons have gone down the drain ever since Wrath.
I swear, with enough conditioning I could actually level a priest through dungeons while asleep. There is no substance there anymore, thanks to heirloom gear and Luck of the Draw.
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A small part of me is tempted. The rest of me says don't be an idiot.
Anyways, I think getting 40 people to raid in vanilla will be very, very hard. It seems hard enough just to get people together for real WoW and for Vanilla... there is no such thing as casual raiding. Casual raiding in Vanilla just meant you were slow. Progression still took a whole lot of time and a whole lot of farming.
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Not to mention all the hard checks they put into the game, you weren't going to progress in BWL unless you farmed MC for your 40. Then there are attunement quests, etc. etc. People nostalgic for vanilla just overlook some of the really annoying aspects of getting 40 people together. Oh you got a new member? Gotta run MC again for the 500th time so we can progress in BWL.
That stagnant progression was soul crushing the moment you realized what you were doing.Your state of mind went literally from Yeah we downed Ragnaros! to Fuck we need to kill Ragnaros for someone's T2. That shit wasn't exciting.
TBC was the high point where Blizzard found a balance. Haven't raided enough in anything past that expansion to comment.
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On June 08 2013 04:56 Judicator wrote:
Not to mention all the hard checks they put into the game, you weren't going to progress in BWL unless you farmed MC for your 40. Then there are attunement quests, etc. etc. People nostalgic for vanilla just overlook some of the really annoying aspects of getting 40 people together. Oh you got a new member? Gotta run MC again for the 500th time so we can progress in BWL.
That stagnant progression was soul crushing the moment you realized what you were doing.Your state of mind went literally from Yeah we downed Ragnaros! to Fuck we need to kill Ragnaros for someone's T2. That shit wasn't exciting.
TBC was the high point where Blizzard found a balance. Haven't raided enough in anything past that expansion to comment.
Yeap spot on hahaha.
The MC attunement really held shit back.
and the fact that you were basically on the bones of your arse all the time unless you got lucky with a BOE epic.
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Whats server population like?
Honestly I'd prefer a TBC private though. I personally think that was the pinnacle of raiding.
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I'm a bit tempted to do this...
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Who ever says they had fun in molten core is either shamelessly lying or his brain is tainted by nostalgia
Molten core was one of the worst fucking experiences ever and the only thing that makes is worth it is actually finishing it and looking back at the days of total bullshit that was farming and progression you had to go through.
I have no idea who in his right mind wants to go back and raid molten core for fun
On June 08 2013 04:56 Judicator wrote:
Not to mention all the hard checks they put into the game, you weren't going to progress in BWL unless you farmed MC for your 40. Then there are attunement quests, etc. etc. People nostalgic for vanilla just overlook some of the really annoying aspects of getting 40 people together. Oh you got a new member? Gotta run MC again for the 500th time so we can progress in BWL.
That stagnant progression was soul crushing the moment you realized what you were doing.Your state of mind went literally from Yeah we downed Ragnaros! to Fuck we need to kill Ragnaros for someone's T2. That shit wasn't exciting.
TBC was the high point where Blizzard found a balance. Haven't raided enough in anything past that expansion to comment.
yes,yes and yes
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Cracked Servers are always shit. I would love to play Vanilla/TBC again, but it does not work if its on a cracked server where you play with 80 others at max.
We have to accept that Hardcore MMOs are dead. The success of WoW killed the Game itself for Hardcore-Gamers.
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On June 08 2013 22:21 thezanursic wrote:
Whats server population like?
Honestly I'd prefer a TBC private though. I personally think that was the pinnacle of raiding.
Feenix private server is the place for you then. it's very active on horde side, several guilds are fully geared tier4/5 and the leveling is 14x so it won't take so long to reach max. www.wow-one.com
i had fun up until end of wotlk ca. cata only lasted 2 months for me and i'm not touching MoP. I had the most fun in TBC when i was hardcore raiding, defintely the prime years for me, 2007-2008 late'ish
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all the grinding
all the time spent on leveling
STV = iraq
all the walking
the bad economy
the bad mouthed "community"
the downtimes
yea I don't miss vanilla on those aspects
I liked the raids better tho, and the fact that "epic" gear wasn't welfared like it was on wotlk
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I have played on vanilla servers (feenix Server). Its not as good though as nostalgia makes people believe. If nowadays a game like WoW vanilla came out we would discard it pretty fast.
Biggest problem is vanilla WoW was barely about skill but only investing huge amounts of time. PvP was about zerging, raid encounters were much less complex.
Beginning of TBC was my favorite time with the demanding 5 man heroics.
But yeah if anyone wants to play vanilla I would recomend the Feenix server.
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I think PvP was actually less about zerging. It was much more possible to win 1v2/3 fights than it is today.
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