Why is Hardcore so good?

I’ve only been playing hardcore a few hours so it would be rude of me to act authoritative on the subject. I didn’t lose a level 25 character to some random world mob swarm yet so I feel all your pain to all of those that did.

That said I figured I’d give hardcore a go, and so far it probably isn’t mechanically much different to how I would have played vanilla WoW anyway but there is definitely something magical / mystical about the experience and was curious to see what other players think:

  1. Just in general it’s great to see so many people playing Classic again, I have to admit I was a massive retail Andy so pretty much sat out the Classic launch a couple of years back and missed SoM too. I tried playing Classic using the regular / normal ruleset a few weeks ago but couldn’t get a lot of enthusiasm going for it but playing hardcore has really re-lit the “flame” for me for this game. Thanks to everyone involved in creating this add-on / community.

  2. Dragonflight is a good expansion for retail, but for me I just find modern WoW too boring overall now. The whole “progression” / raid logging thing worked for me ten years ago but now the whole “keep re-running the same crap time and time again” meta to advance is just mind-numbing. Appreciate this is very polarising and there’s a lot of people who like this but it’s not for me. People will also say “but what about M+”, but when you look at it objectively M+ is just the same, even more so of the same. The problem with modern WoW, like most modern MMOs I guess, is the rush to end-game and getting players in the “wheel” of end-game progress. Which is mostly pretty boring.

  3. Classic on the other hand gives you a game from level 1 to 60. However if you’ve played retail a reasonable amount of time switching back to classic feels kind of dumbed down in terms of UI mostly.

  4. The hardcode rules and mod add actual gameplay elements which I feel are pretty unique to the game and I think this does make for some compelling experiences which I personally have really enjoyed since starting to play this mode. I hope the other hardcore players are getting the same enjoyment too, even those who have lost level 20 / 30 + characters as a result (<3 to all of you).

I guess it’s just nice to have an actual “game” again, rather than a thin wrapper over a cash-shop. But anyway that’s my take, interested to see what other’s think. Please don’t be horrible.

Hardcore is so good because it’s by far the closest thing we’ve had to our first gaming experience in vanilla. Free of boosters, gdkp, 40 men raid groups camping you at flight path and whatever players did to make classic yet another retail experience.

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how are any of those things, except maybe boosting, a retail thing?

This is really the real classic experience…

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Interesting, hardcore makes you relax, take it easy and feels like you are in a world, and now especially with the ai voice over i can actually understand the quest’s i’m doing

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