I like how you list stats you want absolutely as high as possible.
There are no worse scum in this world than fascists, rebels and political hypocrites.
Donald Trump is only like Hitler because of the fact he's losing this war on all fronts.
Apparently condemning a fascist ideology is the same as being fascist. And who the fuck are you to say I can't be fascist against fascist ideologies?
If merit was the only dividing factor in the human race, then everyone on Earth would be pretty damn equal.
Vanilla stats were easy to understand. Instead of ratings you had flat % (with exception of weapon skill and defense).
Oh this armor gives 2% hit and 1% crit? Nice.
May the lore be great and the stories interesting. A game without a story, is a game without a soul. Value the lore and it will reward you with fun!
Don't let yourself be satisfied with what you expect and what you seem as obvious. Ask for something good, surprising and better. Your own standards ends up being other peoples standard.
I personally miss these types of stats in the game. Maybe they were just gimmicks or whatever but it made the gear feel interesting. Stats now if anything seem even more pointless, retail is just way too watered down. Vanilla hype!!
Eh there were different things that mattered, but honestly the trick with Vanilla was getting them or them even existing to begin with. I always remembered Vanilla as choosing the lesser of two evils, or finding something with the least amount of wasted stats ( they loved to put spirit on everything ). The stats themselves weren't that hard to figure out though, maybe the closest might be spirit vs mp5 for some healing classes, and I'm not even sure that was a thing, because for Paladins spirit was basically worthless because you never stopped casting.
Retailers don't need to know stats. They just need to sell the stuff. Although, come to think of it, what was the last time anyone actually saw World of Warcraft on a shelf in some shop - you know, retail?
Sounds like vanilla ice cream is too complicated to sell at walmart, not enough profits involved.
Actually it was stamina, defense and armour. Maybe AP. But all tanks did were getting a lot of stamina and defense until capped, then it was just stamina and armour passively from items
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Is that where we are now? Elitism? "Oh, this is too complex for you, only us Vanilla warriors understand gear."
Bitch, please. (not calling anyone a bitch, just demonstrating snotty attitude)
Itemization wasn't hard to understand in Vanilla. If anything it was easier. The complex part was getting the right gear for each fight.
It will be different for sure.. and it has nothing to do with retail vs private servers... its more of... were you there during Vanilla or have some experience on a true Vanilla private server. It's not that these stats are hard or anything, but you already had experience with them. The same way a Vanilla player would be confused by the way stats and gearing works in retail currently. They just haven't seen it.. but once they jump in, there are plenty of resources to help guide new players in either experience. We had EJ back in the day and forums.. So nothing much has changed there, as I foresee, tons of blog posts on WoWhead and MMO Champ that will easily explain everything to new players will surly exist.
I think you are overly exaggerating the complexity of Vanilla stats.
They are probably more complicated now due to how classes can scale with certain stats in new tiers with different Leggy's, and also with traits it's hard to gauge which relic is more valuable.
However, now you just plot your character into one of the many internet resources and all the work is done for you, this is the real difference. In Classic things like Normalization of instant abilities made higher DPS weapons a better choice, but still it wasn't that straight forward. Knowing just how valuable your Hit chance beyond the soft cap for a DW class wasn't always easy to figure out, calculating which rank to set you're healing spells too based on your mana regen wasn't something average MC raider would be thinking too indepth about. It's not just about needing to know, if you love the game you probably want to know all this stuff.