I found a way to actually casually enjoy wow on the cheap

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  • No need for Dragonlands, just get gametime only.

  • Stay 60.

  • Talk to chromie in stormwind city and select any of the 9 previous xpansions for Dungeon Finder.

  • If sick of one stack of dungeons, switch. Cataclysim/Classic timeline has the most amount of dungeons and they are the most fun and natural feeling.

  • All quests in all continents are scaling to lvl60 now. So you can quest, and occasionally gear quest rewards will be itemlvl 200 epics. So deck yourself out in lvl60 epics by questing.

  • Or buy lvl60 epics from auction house if you accumulate enough game money.

  • Queue up for random battlegrounds. This is most fun but might be viable only during evenings and weekends because of queue times.

  • Enjoy “your” class. Recommended to never have more than 1 character in total, or you will find your time for computer games has turned into a second job without you realizing it.

  • FYI: any of the funserver classic versions are not anywhere near “casual” gameplay. Dragonlands xpansion is also too hard to learn.
    For casual gameplay standard live version of wow that you get with gametime is the best.

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You do realize the cost of the sub is the same for dragonflight users as it is for non dragonflight users right?

The only cost you save is a year old expansion which goes on sale plenty of times. You’re effectively playing a single player game the way you do it because you’ll almost never see anybody in the open world so why even spend money on a sub if you don’t want to play an MMO experience?

This is such a pepega take.

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It does seem that the crux of the saving is not buying the latest expansion. DF has been on sale several times. Bargains could be had!!!

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It just doesn’t make much sense to me that people consider not buying the latest xpac on sale but are willing to pay a monthly sub which when the xpac is on sale is only 2 months and you get what, 2+ years of extra content with it.

Impressively cutting down their MMO experience and limiting themselves to a single player game for a monthly sub.

If you’d try to release a single player game with a sub everyone would be livid yet some justify it to save 20 bucks lmao.

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I think it’s great that you can essentially get a pretty good trial look at the game just by buying a sub. Being able to level up to the previous expansion gives you a pretty good idea of whether or not it’s going to be something you enjoy.

But I agree the best experience IMO is getting to play the latest expansion.

I thought from the title this was going to be a clever way to make gold in game and play for free.

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https://imgur.com/a/75EHuCH

This is all I’m getting from OP.

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You missed the point. Its still an multiplayer game doing dungeons and battlegrounds, and auction house.

And the “latest xpac”, “content”, “etc” is not a welcoming and casual experience in anyway. Its actually pretty hard to understand whats going on and you are expected to be super knowledgeable to play that max level “content” with other people you mention.

I shall disagree in wow`s case. My goal and the point of my post was about casual gameplay. Dragonlands or classic versions gameplay is very overwhelming and pretty hard to get into or catch up if you already dont know everything; and doesnt seem to be for someone who just wants to chill while playing games.

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I’m sure you can buy old board games for the cheap in second hand stores too, hell maybe even free! :stuck_out_tongue:

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From a new player experience, I will agree with you.

IMO what blizz has to do is to literally expand Exiles Reach to level 60 by making it bigger. Like adding 6-7 zones more. This “continent” will be “nowhere” and have a totally separate quest line that is totally unrelated with anything in retail. It also has to be a good quest line of course. Catchy and nice to the new players.

At the end, you get a cinematic of “the story so far” and off you go to DF. Every time you get a new expansion, this continent stays the same. Except that the NPC shows you an updated cinematic once again, and gives you X free levels so you can jump in to the new expa.

Then they will crunch the levels once again and back to level 60. But the continent stays as is. Or at worst, they can just add a new zone to account for extra levels.

From a veteran perspective, I disagree with you.

What you are doing is trying to swim against the current. Complaining that DF is not “casual enough” in the sense that you cannot do WQ while watching youtube and AFKing half the time…

Well you can. I don’t see whats so confusing. And in the end, you are loosing out on a lot of casual content by staying in old content.

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You can play it essentially free, really easy.
Just shoplift 13euro worth of groceries each month to cover up for the subscription cost.
You’re welcome.

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I find it perfectly chill. Just end game activities that aren’t (PvP/Raid/M+) as with any.

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First of all, thanks Vaporware for the info. Sounds like staying at 56-57 is no more necessary. Yay!

The title is indeed sort of misleading. It saves money but not that much.

The rest is quite valid, however. If you go on to 70, your only choice is the current content. If you decide to play alts and lock your level, you suddenly have a whole game world at your disposal, all of it at equal relevance.

To people who don’t care about an illusion of power creep (inflation hamster wheel), not having the latest expansion is the way to go.

There is a game built like that. Leveling as a tutorial, all content at max, do whatever you want, rewards are the same, visual differences only.

It’s actually pretty good to be outside the hamster wheel. But I understand how the community is split between that game for freedom lovers and this one for those who just want M+ and inflation.

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classes are designed around max lvl and way less fun on lower lvls that alone is reason enough to not do it

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If you’re having fun, OP, don’t let other people tell you the way you’ve chosen to play is ‘wrong’. It wouldn’t work for me, but I’m glad you’re enjoying it.

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Thank you. I didnt have the words to explain it, but that is it.

Its like the gear, the raids, nothing really matters. Its just constantly changing visuals at the max level whatever it happens to be that year. Classic is also apparently constantly changing.

So i just decided to stay with sub only in retail, and i have 9 expansions worth of “visuals” at my disposal at lvl 60, and all content is appropriate level for me.

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If you play this way - just go classic.

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You do you… I’d have to be payed to play like that :man_shrugging:

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So that i cant do any dungeons or get money or get sacrificed in battlegrounds once i get in with my green gear?
Thx for advice /s

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It’s ok if you’re new and want to explore old expansions first but eventually you get caught up and don’t want to wait 2 years to play what is currently available.

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Ay, there’s the rub.

But “new” is elastic. :smiley:

If you have been here for 10 or 12 or 15 years, you have probably forgotten just HOW MUCH content we have already been through. Just collections alone - pets, mounts, toys, recipes, transmogs - could keep you going for 5 years, if you have the collector gene.

I don’t know what pre-max BGs are like these days, but if they’re alive at all, and you like that sort of thing, you could never leave. Just look at All The THings, if you dare! :stuck_out_tongue:

I’ve come across some people before with the same idea. Not many, but some.

Vaporware, I’m glad you found a playstyle you enjoy! :+1:

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