Lots of things that people have mentioned often. One thing that has not been brought up a lot (that I have read): Escort Quests.
In their Vanilla/BC form, escort quests were abhorrent. Usually, they involved escorting a single, extremely fragile NPC. You could not do them if someone had started them already (had to wait for them to fail or finish). If you were in a group but did not get the quest before someone started it you were out of luck (such as in that one quillboar instance), so no joining in the middle. Usually involved large waves of enemies which I only had the ability to handle on certain classes without either myself or the escort dying.
Classes being restricted to one or two viable builds (And usually only one role) across all three specs plus the lack of Horde Paladins and Blood Elves in general (The Ghostlands were a godsend for leveling too).
Class design in general was pretty bad back then and it's why I'd rather wait for TBC servers.
Last edited by Aeula; 2019-02-27 at 05:56 PM.
Did you really find them that simple?
Organizing 40 people was like herding cats. The fights themselves were a bit easier to understand by today's standards. But there was still a lot of mechanics to understand it took guilds months of raiding not weeks to progress through them and the original Naxx was so difficult that hardly any guilds cleared it before it was removed.
But my view might be tainted by being the GM of a guild that was pushing these raids in a race to be server first. Which meant something back then. At least for being able to recruit.
But yea ... feeding the pet to keep it happy drove many a Hunter insane
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I hate that it was so perfect in my nostalgic mind that I'm gonna be hit by a truck once I log on Classic....
i didn't like the class balance in vanilla; i think rogues should be able to take on at least three players in pvp. that seems balanced in pvp play. with more kills solo.
When people say lack of quest, does that mean you were too lazy to travel to another continent's zone at the appropriate level? Y'all are caught up with min maxing and it shows
Whether the world's greatest gnats, or the world's greats heroes, you're still only mortal!
Horrible spec balance
No QOL changes (mounts in bags, obnoctious reagents, ect.. )
Respec costs. I was pretty much forced to play Disc/Holy for 9 months until whatever patch hit the server and let me reset talents for free. Made it impossible for healers to farm stuff easily on their own, or just like, you know, play the game in a different way.
Pugs
People were such morons with no idea how to play WoW back in the days
Lack of gold
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I loved the game though. Still do.
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