u could save urself time and run through the instances on retail if u just wanna see the content
Retailās gameplay is horrible - to the point I couldnāt even muster the willpower to get past lvl 82 or something. So yeah Iād rather keep on playing Classic the way I currently am.
I know it eludes you, but not everyone is a pserver player who has been playing Vanilla for the last 10+ years. Over half my guild hadnāt even played BWL before in Vanilla, and we had a blast running through it.
On another note, Iāll have a laugh when Naxx comes around and weāll see ppl complaining they canāt afford to buy flasks anymore while Iāll just dip into my stash of Black Lotus (36 atm, still counting) with little trouble.
retail has objectively better gameplay in terms of direct interaction.
im well aware of rpers/25+ something people that play this game with the same mentality as u
im sure u will have fun progressing naxx a year after itās classic release
You mean the same way I killed Nef on 1st week?
My friendās in guild where only 5 people used GrFPP. They also had 7 healers and 30 people overall. 2 retri paladins. 4 melees died on pull due to hunter pet chaining the cleave.
Still killed him that try.
oh wow u raid 3 times a week. if u had world buffs and a few consumables u could easily clear the content in 1 night, uād afford gfpps, flask and have gold spare
u can also do that with aq40, but why would u? u are not only wasting ur own time but the rest of the raid aswell. with this mentality and complete disregard for efficiency weād be living like subsaharans
Yeah, cutting down on a few hours of raiding by spending 3-4X as much time farming outside. What a brilliant idea. Why didnāt I think of it before?
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because u are a roleplayer and u play the game for completely different reasons. ur mentality is that of a southern/western european
Iām playing the game to have fun and make a use of my game time as efficient as possible. And that involves not spending 4 hours to farm just so you can clear your raids 30 min faster.
Iād rather save money now than ending up empty in phase 5 or 6 because I donāt have the time to farm 3 flasks a week and everything else.
But then again maybe you donāt have a real life to worry about
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u can easily clear mc+bwl+ony in 2 hours with a decent guild and no one being flasked. u basically earn money from boss gold from raiding as non warrior/healer chugging mana pots even after including all consumables. I have not farmed gold for raids since a week or so in to MC and i buy all my consumables from AH (scorpok salt, mongoose, squids, sappers etc).
u are a mage, u can make 100g/h just boosting mara. assume u flask once or twice a month during DMF u can raid 2 hours a week farming maybe 6 hours a month
Maybe, assuming youāre talking about people with extensive Vanilla experience that donāt have to stop explaining people tactics and positioning for bosses. A large part of the time we spent doing our first BWL was spent actually mastering the encounters and strategy. I know itās surprising to you, but not everybody no-lifed pservers before rolling on Classic.
Iāve never said Iām not using consumables at all. Iām still using stuff like Mana Potions (at least in BWL), Nightfin Soup, Greater Arcane Elixir etc. As I said, itās about cost efficiency.
GL finding ppl willing to fork that money for a Mara boost with any reliability on Mirage Raceway horde.
I do agree though that a large part of the time cutting while raiding stems from fine-tuning tactics and pulls rather than consumables. We already reduced MC to little more than an hour and most of us donāt even use any consumables except for Ragnaros. Thatās why I donāt see any point in spending hours and gold farming to shave a couple extra minutes off of the raiding time when I could use that money to buy Black Lotuses and other mats before their prices soar even more in later phases.
Youāll not clear Naxxramas without Greater Frost Protection Potion.
And same for Greater Shadow Protection Potion for Loatheb, if you donāt have it, youāll never pass it.
I guess you under estimate largely the amount of consumables needed for this raid, itās far away from MC and BWL. Basicly, you need a full bag of consumable xD.
Ok letās say this us true and some people canāt afford (aka spend the time needed) to raid every week. So what? We will raid BWL for years and there really really reeeeaaaally are no hurry before AQ.
- Plays a mage.
Lol.
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Bk too Retail with ya!!! there you get handed your free items and Epics aswel
u donāt need shadow pot on loatheb as melee if u have world buffs, as ally u dont even need it without world buffs
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Cool story
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Ironically, Iāve got my full set of tier 1 and two items of tier two quicker than I would of done in retail.
And letās be honest, the difficulty of the raid mechanics is comparable to LFR raiding. The only difficulty in classic is getting 40 people doing what they should be doing, and thatās normally pressing their one or two spells over and over.
I know. Did you read what I write before?
The entire point of me not wasting money on superfluous consumables in BWL is so that I can use that money to stock up on consumables in Naxx. Right now Iām prioritizing Black Lotuses, but protection potions are on my list too.
Not sure what you mean here
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