TLDR at the end
Well, I’ve never played WoW in its heyday, my first “point of contact” was a private wotlk server. I’ve always loved the world, the lore, grew up on the classic RTS games that gave birth to it. WotLK always seemed to me like THE perfect conclusion to the story, yet the world of Azeroth was ravaged with cataclysms and catastrophes and even some kind of underworld uh, something? I really stopped trying to understand the lore after Legion or so.
Anyway, I digress. Much later, I started playing wotlk classic and had fun just derping around, exploring the world, doing kinda random stuff. I even found a bona fide boomer guild, but as time passed, things got more serious and, well, things (and people) just weren’t the same. Eventually, I just kinda fizzled out.
SO ANYWAY. I got the multiplayer itch again, and as I currently don’t have a “main” online game, I turned my gaze to classic wow again. And I’m honestly confused by what’s what and I dunno what would even be good for me.
Guild-wise, I’d prefer to steer clear from hardcore or even semihardcore raiding, when I see the buzzwords like “clearing content”, “dedication”, “efficiency”, “attendance” and others that 1) make it feel like an unpaid job, almost full-time 2) sound actually quite similar to corporate PR poppycock (fancy word for BS) from real life. I’m not opposed to raiding per se, but it sort of feels like the WoW raiding guild experience basically boils down to raiding and prepping for raids. That’s not how I wanna roll.
EDIT: So I looked around and…my choices kinda suck don’t they?
I can’t say I’m rich and geared but I achieved and received some things I wouldn’t mind keeping. Not to mention all the “mandatory” expenses I got out of the way.
Anyway, it looks like I can freetransfer to some crowded single-faction PvP servers (what the hell is even the point of a single-faction PvP server, anyway? Might as well go PvE at that point), or start anew on era or the new thing, season of discovery. And I’m not sure what either entails and whether I even want to go there. Or…I could literally play alone on a dead server.
TLDR: Boomer looking for 1) a TLDR for what the available gameplay/world options entail 2) potentially, eventually a guild for boomering around, doing random or organised stuff, and maybe even light raiding way down the road.
I’m not opposed to starting anew but it’s not my first choice, I prefer less crowded places, I’m not particular to any faction.