tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post1012315100329289959..comments2024-03-21T23:18:45.644+00:00Comments on Priest with a Cause - A World of Warcraft (Classic) blog: The Trinity in Vanilla WoWShintarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-508524256204336482016-02-18T16:39:12.976+00:002016-02-18T16:39:12.976+00:00Vanilla had hybrids, current WoW replaced them wit...Vanilla had hybrids, current WoW replaced them with role changer. I miss my hybrid druid.<br /><br />I think that was one of the many huge mistakes where they sacrificed a great strength of their game for the holy grail that is raiding. Dungeons were more fun when "skill" meant to improvise when a bad pull happened and not beating a artificial enrage timer through a flawless dance.Kringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03128630042421602039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-80903521093125119782016-02-16T13:23:27.892+00:002016-02-16T13:23:27.892+00:00Raidlogging (logging in the game only for the raid...Raidlogging (logging in the game only for the raids) is actually a highly prevalent behaviour on Kronos and motivations to start on a vanilla realm often include a wish to finish some raids. I believe the same could be said for Nostalrius, who also shows an impressive 120+ raids started in a 24h hours period. http://realmplayers.com/RaidStats/RaidList.aspx?realm=NRB&page=1<br /><br />You might be a bit less free in terms of talents and spec once you start raiding depending on the guild, for example I did have to show my spec to enter my raiding guild and it was expected that I use some talents (although I believe this evaluation is mostly there to check if you have made some research on your class). Hybrids and unusual specs (moonkins, shadow priests) are welcome but are unlikely to be favored over "stronger" classes like rogues, warriors and mages.<br /><br />Beyond success players might also be willing to accept various specs in leveling dungeons because being too specific would take too much time.<br /><br />No one ever asked about my warlock spec before Blackwing Lair (progress).Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09010479216057941511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-26690553822666467122016-02-15T20:34:58.659+00:002016-02-15T20:34:58.659+00:00Hah, you'd be surprised! Kronos keeps a log of...Hah, you'd be surprised! Kronos keeps a log of "<a href="https://vanilla-twinhead.twinstar.cz/?latest=bosskills" rel="nofollow">last bosses killed</a>", which seems to indicate to me that even on a comparatively low population private server like this, the raiding population is quite active.<br /><br />And it seems odd to me that people would have been so strict about specs - maybe they were more so at the beginning when everything seemed new and hard. (My AQ pug happened close to the end of Vanilla.) I also thought it was telling that in <a href="http://progression-annexe.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/emotional-attachment-to-vanilla.html" rel="nofollow">this post by someone who raided up to Onyxia/Nefarian on Kronos</a> he notes how there seems to be little point in thinking too much about min-maxing because "in most cases regardless of my damage the boss still dies".Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-79858255068775968362016-02-15T17:58:22.250+00:002016-02-15T17:58:22.250+00:00To be fair, a lot of this is because Vanilla dunge...To be fair, a lot of this is because Vanilla dungeon content was terribly easy (taking 10 people into 5-man dungeons, etc.). This allowed the quasi-tanks and quasi-healers to work.<br /><br />As soon as the content got slightly difficult (Molten Core), the tolerance for non-specialists disappeared, which was greatly disappointing to those of us who liked playing hybrids and generalists. (See the first three years of my blog.)<br /><br />I gather that the raid game does not really exist on these private servers?Rohanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09090769681887119989noreply@blogger.com