I'm less excited about vanilla and more excited about

[DesMephisto]

the RPG elements that existed in vanilla. Talents, stance dancing, weapon skills aspects that more or less invested you in your character plus the removal of a constant lever puller simulation. People are so fixated on Vanilla that they ignore a lot of the great things we've lost for a more streamlined mainstream game which sucks.

[Frolk]

u forgot caster dpsers going oom from dpsing too hard, having to learn to manage their mana.

[Flatspriest]

u forgot caster dpsers going oom from dpsing too hard, having to learn to manage their mana.

Not if you had a mana battery with you...I mean a shadow priest.

[Molvonos]

Because what you feel is great, isn't great to other people.

Personal bias and opinion are not universal.

[nomorepriest]

Don't forget getting that hit cap.

[Deleted]

Your actually saying vanilla had better gameplay?

I could not even cast my totem on my shaman during MC as i did nkt have any mana o.O

[NewportsDentarg]

Barrens chat :P

[LanceOmikron]

This is the sort of discussion I like to see in regards to Classic servers. Taking another look at the rough edges that have been smoothed down over the years and re-evaluating if they should have been smoothed down in the first place.

[Demsi]

Don't forget getting that hit cap.

Suddenly i was reminded of that time i lvl'd up a warrior during tbc, and praying that my hits wouldn't miss or else i'd be dead.

Fun times

[bloodrunner]

Mana management, that's what spell ranks were for. I had 3-4 heals of various ranks to keep up with it. Two minute pot cooldown does not help either.

[Rollo]

u forgot caster dpsers going oom from dpsing too hard, having to learn to manage their mana.

Back when damage per mana > damage per second. It was all a balancing act. If you ran out of mana too early, you were SOL, if you ended a fight with too much mana, you potentially left damage on the table.

I'm looking forward to stance dancing, trinket dancing (rogue and hunter), attunement quests strings, and hunter/priest class weapon quest, just to name a few.

[zorv]

I was a late bloomer (wouldn't give up Diablo II for a long time to join WoW, so I missed vanilla... started just before Launch of LK... was leveling up during the Zombie invasion -- which really made life difficult turning in quests in Westfall...)....

So, my question is: I assume that vanilla had hunters using mana as their source for dps, just like it was when I started? Meaning, going back to Aspect of the Serpent for mana regeneration? I miss those days....

[solarfallz]

Not if you had a mana battery with you...I mean a shadow priest.

Wrong era, my dude

I was a late bloomer (wouldn't give up Diablo II for a long time to join WoW, so I missed vanilla... started just before Launch of LK... was leveling up during the Zombie invasion -- which really made life difficult turning in quests in Westfall...)....

So, my question is: I assume that vanilla had hunters using mana as their source for dps, just like it was when I started? Meaning, going back to Aspect of the Serpent for mana regeneration? I miss those days....

Aspect of the Viper was added in BC. Hunters had no mechanics for regen in vanilla besides spirit and mana potions. When you ran oom you chugged potions or just autoshotted. Considering autoshot is most of your damage, it's not so bad.

[Emerald Archer]

weapon skills

Yes, it was so fun going afk while attacking a mob, to boost up your weapon skill.

I completely loved being in westfall, leveling up my unarmed by attacking a defias bandit and going afk.

Afk gameplay best gameplay. Very innovative, much rpg.

I will give you the other things, but weapon skill isn't a feature to be hyped. I'm glad it's there, it's fine, it's interesting. But it's not some amazing feature.

[wholol]

the RPG elements that existed in vanilla. Talents, stance dancing, weapon skills aspects that more or less invested you in your character plus the removal of a constant lever puller simulation. People are so fixated on Vanilla that they ignore a lot of the great things we've lost for a more streamlined mainstream game which sucks.

Actually eating and drinking after a few mobs, don't remember the last time I did tbh ( outside of raids/pvp I'd say at least a couple of expansions).

[DesMephisto]

Your actually saying vanilla had better gameplay?

I could not even cast my totem on my shaman during MC as i did nkt have any mana o.O

I'm saying Vanilla had better RPG and character investment.

[jakeic]

Aspect of the Viper was added in BC. Hunters had no mechanics for regen in vanilla besides spirit and mana potions. When you ran oom you chugged potions or just autoshotted. Considering autoshot is most of your damage, it's not so bad.

This is true, you basically were permanently oom. Judgement of wisdom helped and I think there were mana oils too, not sure how much that returned over time. I do distinctly remember using feign death to drink during bosses, I can't remember if that was removed or not.

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Your actually saying vanilla had better gameplay?

I don't know, it's a game that I actually want to play, so that must say something for it.

[solarfallz]

This is true, you basically were permanently oom. Judgement of wisdom helped and I think there were mana oils too, not sure how much that returned over time. I do distinctly remember using feign death to drink during bosses, I can't remember if that was removed or not.

A lot of people FD drank, but it's actually a DPS loss over autoshooting with spirit regen. With mana potions and oils you can sustain mana for most fights.

[Mormolyce]

I'm not looking forward to stance dancing at all, always thought that was crappy. In fact it's one of the things discouraging me from rolling a Warrior.

Talent trees, eh, been there done that. Also I remember always being frustrated with the crappy decisions it made me make. Oh you want this cool active ability that greatly improves QoL? Too bad, you need 1% more attack power instead because that's mandatory.

[Echocho]

Not if you had a mana battery with you...I mean a shadow priest.

That was TBC. In vanilla all they did was provide 15% shadow damage to the warlocks.