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Hi I just wanted to read up on some benefits and negatives of SSF mode and get some discussion. Honestly just want to talk to someone about wow but not much people that I know play. So here goes.

I play on Stitches HC as SSF level 51 rogue at the time of typing. And I look at it not from the challenge perspective I don’t care about that but more of the fun factor and so far I love classic ( I used to play on release). And the nostalgia is gone and I just genuinely, legitimately am enjoying the game, the pace, the walking, THE UI, the drops it’s wonderful.

Now HC gives it’s benefits and minuses. And I don’t want to get into that because it’s of topic. So SSF.
No AH, No trading, No mail.

The bad I guess.

So the good it takes away from me was. No mail with alts/main. No quick gear up via AH to push. No quick questing to get STV/Ashenvale pages. An epic drop, but I can’t use it can’t sell it send it to alt/AH.

The good i guess.

No silly trades/wards off beggars. I guess rogues/mages/warlocks no trades for food/picking locks, hs stones lol.
I needed to do a quest since I was an engineer to make a gun. And one of the mats was leather. Since I’m a miner I had to go fish specifically for that leather to make the gun small detour, yet fun. I also later in the game wanted to make myself a gun with +agility, and had to go farm a bit of elemental fire witch I would have probably bought from AH if I wasn’t SSF nevertheless I farmed it same as fishing it took me some time. it made me think how I can do that or that. And it was fun. Had to grind all those STV pages.

BUT

All the good sorta doesn’t or even isn’t good idk. Badlands literally has 2 quest NPCs of witch one requires you to have alchemy the other blacksmithing. They need items from it to finish, the goblin in Ashenvale requires engineering. AH fixes that or level up 3 professions. Leveling and dropping professions does not seem fun tbh. And all those recipes being lost along the way.

Now I could get some stuff alternative ways like fishing/looting chests in the world. But the thing is even without SSF I would level fishing, I would still make the gun for +agility. I would sell my epic lucky drop for a epic I can use. I got my mount at 40 btw. It wasn’t a problem I had to farm a bit. All SSF is added a few minutes there and there and I’m starting to think it’s a lame game mode, because in fun terms MMO with AH and trade is great.

Like HC drawback for some might be no world PvP, no BGs. But questing is calm,more spawns, less people, easier to get mats for professions. You get some you loose some.

So now with SSF I think there are just minuses. I take it shows that you didn’t get boosted or bought gold or smt. But if you already don’t do that if you are SSF you are missing out.

What do you think what are some benefits and negatives of SSF? Taking in the account the fun factor.

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SSF only shows that you can´t trade/use mail etc. People can still get mob tagged etc. Just play what you consider fun. It does not matter what others think.

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I was sorta looking for some fun stories related to SFF.

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Yup this was the same case as in unofficial hc mode.
Alot people suggested back then if you could somehow add npcs that trade your specific gathering/crafting mats for other mats etc.
With that being said there is some proffesions that are better thsn others. If you really want to work around the issues you should avoid some proffesions over others. Enchanting is a really bad one for exampel due to rods.
One thing they should have done is to add group ssf where you are allowed to trade within the group, but you also experience wow with ur friend/friends which can be more fun😁 had a blast on unnoficial group hc when i played with friends 1-2 years ago😎

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You can do that on regular hardcore. This pretty much goes against SSF. It´s literally in the name that you can´t do that.

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Idk.
They did that on runescape and works pretty well.
You share a bank together and can trade with eachother if you signed up as group ironman/ssf or whatever you want to call it.
But only possible between the group you are in and you can not trade with others.
Another solution to ssf is to make a npc that sells certain items like rods for enchanters in exhange gold or other crafted materials.

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Over all my experience is that SSF is not working atm. As in you are loosing experience of the game that meaning fun. If it would be an entire new realm, yea ok all in same both but atm seems pointless. All you get is a singe player world for you not designed to be single payer… So ehh.