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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 59 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I am literally in WoW classic killing boars for their snouts while reading this on the other monitor.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is Barons chat still and endless spam of people asking for the location of Mankrik's wife?

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I play alliance, so I'm spared that.

But back in the day, the horde side had an over-representation of edgie teenagers. Now almost everyone is adult, most with kids and many old and retired like me. So you on't see as much of that stuff as before.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I remember noobs being called Kevins (bc lots of kids were named kevin after that kid in the movie "home alone" IIRC) and were like 13 yo and all over the place.

Good times!

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I started playing in early 2005; I was in my 40s and far older than most of the people playing. I kept playing the expansions through 2017, then quit until fall 2024. Came back to The War Within and played for a while, but they've dumbed the retail version down so much, it just doesn't feel like it has any soul.

Tried classic early last year and I'm having a blast, even with all it's issues. But the funny thing is that most of the people are the age I was when I started, and many are older. Hardly any teenagers. It's funny how much it changes the game.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Ha ha yeah classic was really fun, got all the way up to the big raids and all, reliving the excitement once again.

[–] porkloin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have four max level characters and recently started a fifth. It's funny doing all the different starting area stuff, but including hogger. I just killed Bellygrub and Yowler an hour or so ago, twenty years after the first time for me.

[–] porkloin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I haven’t played since Wrath of the Lich King (started with vanilla around launch) and still have super fond memories of the Alliance starting areas in particular

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I solo leveled my first character after coming back to classic until 58. I'm just not much of a joiner, so don't use Looking For Group or whatever. But as I approached 60 I realized I'd either have to mothball the character or do groups for endgame, so I bit the bullet and joined a guild.

It's been so much fun. Really good people, who I end up hanging out on discord with a lot. Like I said earlier, they skew older now. I'm retired, so I spend a lot of time helping folks with those quests that are impossible to do solo, or running them through dungeons. I'm actually becoming more fond of some of the classic content.