Hello everyone,
I always wanted to experience the OG WoW but unfortunately couldn’t play classic in 2019 because I was very busy at that time.
so my question is should I level in my own pace and explore the map or should I use guide for leveling in order to reach mac lvl for endgame content and raids?
Because I don’t have many hours to play in a day I fear without a guide it would take me a long time to reach max lvl and I miss the endgame content
On Fresh, while some people are still rushing to end game, the general feel is much more relaxed, and people seem more willing to take their time and enjoy the journey 
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My advice would be to take your time and enjoy the ride. If you fear being left behind, roll on the Era servers - maybe even Hardcore 
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Try both and go for the one you get more enjoyment out of.
Some people enjoy speedrunning the leveling experience, which is a fine way to play regardless of what some people say.
Taking your time is fine too, there will be plenty of late comers and people who can’t play that much per day, and with there only being 1 server for PvE, PvP, and hardcore, you will find plenty of people doing content at any stage to do dungeons with.
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If you want to experience original WoW, don’t rush I’d say. While endgame is important the majority of Vanilla WoW is still 1-60 leveling experience. Yes you can rush if you want (apparently someone already hit 60 on HC and likely there are a handful of max level people out on Thunderstrike) but if it’s your first time experiencing it… Taking it slower is really a thing.
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I will say this :
WoW Classic - Its the journey 1-60 with some end game.
WoW TBC - Its the Journey with better end game than Classic
WoW Wotlk - Its both, aka best.
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Level in your own pace. The most important is to have fun - that is what you are paying for.
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I disagree. Wrath and to a degree TBC really push the initial 1-60 Journey on the backburner. It’s there but it’s faster you spend less time thinking of it and really focus on the least troublesome and fastest to complete questlines not even caring as much about rewards. At least the non monetary ones. Hell the journey isn’t even 1-60 but 1-58 with how the quests in TBC are structured. Then the WotLK goes even further in that direction as the patches progres.
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Go at your own pace or you will be quickly overwhelmed. Guides can still be helpful but you don’t need SPEED guides. Remember other people work as well, there’s only a few that went to the end game and I imagine it’s quite lonely there. Also Classic is about journey, not the destination.
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ty for all the helpful responses. I decided to take my time and enjoy the ride. hopefully there will be people to play with for the endgame by the time I reach max lvl
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Don’t let the guide play the game for you. It’s way more fun when YOU are the player.
You have already lost the race for realm first, so why bother.
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Most likely. The endgame gearing in vanilla is weird as it’s mostly focused on off set pieces due to the unfortunate itemization. It also means a lot of stuff lasts longer than retail or even Wrath/Cata players are used to. So a lot of raids will be ran for quite a while
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TBH, my recommendation as a new player that actually wants to experience the game itself, kind of “as it was back then before youtube and WoWhead existed”, without all sorts of 
that doesn´t in any way apply to you yet floating around in the pack of your head skewing your experience:
Avoid guides, and this forum, like the plague until you are maxlevel.
Most class guides will, at this point in your journey, only flood you with information that isn´t yet relevant to your gameplay, and thereby mislead you to focus on things that wind up slowing you down and tainting our perception.
The same applies to this forum, though more of the latter and less of the former… it´s the best place on teh web to learn what all is screwed up, why the game isn´t worth playing,. and what insane changes to cater to the smallest possible portion of the playerbase would be awesome improvements for the majority of players…
If on the other hand you want people to tell you all day about the reasons you should hate everything about WoW, legit or not, then this is where you should be … and then you definitely want to read class guides so you can be annoyed during leveling at how much skill x underperforms, somehing you would have likely never been aware of if it hadn´t been written down somewhere
It´s not quite as bad as I depict, but seriously if you want the actual classic exp0erience, you have to play like an actual classic player… and back then, there were no class guides with 20 years of math and Pirate server data leading to some slithly bonkers minmax combinations that nobody in OG Vanilla would have ever even dreamt of, much less actually attempted.