Game released 30 odd hours ago - of which I 've slept 12 hours, worked 8 hours, spent 7 plus hours in queues, and have a played time of 2hours 20 minutes.
It’s been great
/sarcasm
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As someone who played classic back in 04 when I was 15 years old, now obviously 30 it has brought back some real nostalgia and enjoyment back to wow. I actually enjoyed wow up until MOP and soon either stopped playing so much or quit entirely. I thought this was because I was getting older and growing out of such games, in reality after playing classic for a few hours yesterday (waiting in a 12k queue at the moment) I haven’t grown out of it at all but grew tiresome of the way wow had headed these last few expansions and happy classic has been brought back to how I remember it to be… a pain but awesome at the same time.
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20k queues and dc’s
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I’m co-leader of an alliance/guild on another game and I’m enjoying levelling this one in bfa, so I’ll be playing classic only casually and taking it slow. As I posted here a few days ago, I intend to play a mix of bfa and classic.
Muhaaahaaaa. Did I really think that? 
Sorry Laeli, you’re stuck at lvl 118 for the duration and I’m about to log onto the other game to apologise to my guild and leave it.
I am having a great time, loving it! 
You don’t say 
At the moment it’s Serpent Sting, Autoshot, Autoshot, Raptor Strike and after this a dead mob. Died once because I added two mobs due to respawn and got stunned before I was back at kiting distance.
Haven’t had so much fun in the game since the end of BC. Finally, after they destroyed the hunter in Wrath it is again fun to play. Already looking forward to do Athens Hunter Epic Quest again should I manage to get the leaf.
Before playing in stress test I really feared that classic in my memories was much better than it had been in reality, but now, after starting again much of the old feelings are back. 
Outside of queues like most ,if not all of us have experienced i’d say
Really good , I like the graphics update while retaining the " basic " models
Gameplay feels just like it did if memory serves
I joined WoW 6 months after the launch during Vanilla and was only casual - short attention span
I’ve grouped with people and had a laugh and done quests together , i’ve enjoyed skinning boars and seeing skill up points progression
Small things feel meaningful , i know levelling is a long big commitment and i’m in no rush
If things stay anything close to this over the years i’ll be really happy
people helping each other, exploring and enjoying the whole experience.
Also I LOVE the music. It seems to just have that magic touch, maybe it’ll wear off who knows
Hopefully the Retail team can learn loads and i’m just glad that it’s launched
login queue 4000
played for 2 hour.
went to sleep
woke up, logged in 12 noon 29k queue, 22:00 still 9k queue,
no chance to play went to bed.
woke up,
logged in at 10:00 in the morning, 13:19 now still in queue 4k ppl infront of me.
UNPLAYABLE !
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All in all it was all I hoped for…
I logged in the character screen 30 minutes prior to launch, and waited.
Button turned red and hit it! Loaded in the world and I was alone…
What sorcery is this I said out loud and boom! A gazillion other players filled the screen!
For the first hournit was a sh*tshow yeah, but they prolly added more layers.
From that point on all smooth and cool. The queues people made were a fun thing.
Level 5 came and I was like, ok time to go pick up skinning/lw in og! Big mistake. Spent the next 40 minutes lifting weights in my room, mind you it was almost 4am at the time. But you somehow need to stay active. I had taken the day off work so I can play! After shirting this capital city problem out back in and back on the grinder!
Yeah it’s slow, yeah it’s tedious, but isn’t it supposed to be?
I logged out last night after hitting 19, leveling lw and skinning while making the odd silver by vendoring my wares and helping out a couple of people with discounts.
Most fun I had in the game for ages! Partied my way through barrens, made a few new friends on the way and had a good time. As I am writing this at work, I can’t wait to get back home, finish with any chores, gym time ,wife time, and get back in the world and venture in the wailing caverns where all the phat lewt awaits!
All in all a success in my book.
P.S. I feel kinda bad for the people stuck in queues and everything, and something needs to be done about it from blizzs side.
P.S. see you all in game!
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I’m ranking hard in League of Legends, that’s how my Classic Wow experience has been so far with 489min ques. FU Blizzard for botching the launch as usual. You arrogance has outdone you again.
As a Warrior? Level 1 - 18 pull 2 mobs die.
Got a nice Mace Level 18 now i have no problem 
Queues are killing any high on returning after 13 years. It wasn’t even as bad as this when it first started 15 years ago. They will lose people because of this and it won’t be good for the servers and their embryonic communities. So many good people have probably already been lost. Terrible handling by Blizz/Activision tbh.
The fact that this is something they have done for 15 years and still manage to fck it up this bad, just shows how useless they are. And that they don’t care about the players at all…
They have more people in ques than people playing the game…
guessing that they wount give anything back to compensate for lost gametime either
I’m not sure that is true. I’ve seen that when I’m getting low on health/mana the spawn speeds up. It’s as though the game is designed to kill it’s players and is aware of the players state at any given time.
It’s clever really. And somehow adds to the experience.
Apart from the Qs, it’s awesome. I specially like the updated lighting/shadows/water. It’s a little easier than on Pservers (ie: knockdowns don’t interrupt auto attack/shoot, mobs chase you for a very short distance before giving up) but not a huge deal.
Oh yeah thanks poster above, I forgot: respawn rates seem a little broken. Some times they respawn instantly when you kill them. I don’t think that’s working as intended.
Although currently stuck in a queue, the times I have managed to get in have been very enjoyable.
Since I mained a healadin last time in vanilla I chose a warlock this time, and it is slow and steady lvling, I find it quite relaxing really.
All in all, classic so far is how I expected it to be 
And the real problem is people using botts to stay logged in…
they restarted the servers 03.00 and when i logged in to check ques at 07.00 there was 0 ppl in que…
All they have to do is put poppup window a random spot on the screen to confirm that ur playing or get kicked if u dont click it withing 2 mins…
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They used to do something similar on RS2 all those years, Random Events which you had to complete or you’d be logged off. They gave a small reward for successful completion either Vanity Items or small amounts of XP
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Never had to wait in a queue.
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Leveling is actually somewhat engaging and not just brokenly easy like it’s been since Cata.
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Some things, you wonder how the devs ever thought it was a good idea. Like not being able to see buffs on enemies, not seeing timers on your debuffs, and not seeing vendor prices on items. Oh, but there’s a neat little icon that tells you whether it’s day or night.
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I’ve had more player interaction as a solo player in a day of Classic than several months of Retail. Probably because you’re not playing the game on autopilot with everything handed to you, and there’s a lot more downtime/traveling time. It’s like an actual world with people doing stuff in it, not just an instance hub.
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I’m actually caring about professions, such as farming humans so for cloth so I can craft bags for myself. Operative word being ‘‘care’’, something that retail sorely lacks during leveling.
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The mob tagging system is BS and it’s one of the few things I would gladly apply retail rules to. I don’t think anyone enjoys running around trying to ninja mobs before anyone else gets to them. Another headscratcher that makes me wonder if it was incompetence or it just wasn’t feasible to make it work like it does now.
Have been able to avoid most of the queue issues because I play add odd hours. Have a lot of previous classic experience and so far the biggest difference this time around has been how slow I have taken it.
My warlock main( toon I’m posting is a future profession alt) is level 14 with an insane 8 hours played. Stress test I leveled up to 15 in 5 hours or something.
Spent a lot of time leveling up herbalism unlike in stress test and also wasted lots of time because of stupid mistakes. Tried to grind out leper gnome quest with abysmal drop rate, running back and forth over whole zones like a maniac because I forgot to pick up a quest, should have just moved on instead etc.
Not really a speed leveler guy but still it’s a bit stressful when you are this slow.