Is there any version of this god forsaken game that is some kind of middle ground between retail and classic...

Is there any version of this god forsaken game that is some kind of middle ground between retail and classic? Or are we stuck choosing between the two polarized versions?

to clarify, I want that meaningful and fun gear progression from classic, without any of the shit ton of bloat of retail. Also fuck M+, timed shit is gay

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Wotlk, Cataclysm, MoP, Legion.

Wotlk

literally when the game started going downhill

literally SOD

SoD is a janky shit fest that is essentially retail with classic graphics

Is there any version of this god forsaken game that is some kind of middle ground between retail and classic? Or are we stuck choosing between the two polarized versions?

Why would you want a middle ground between the two, one of those versions is good and the other is bad.

It's more like classic world with Wrath gameplay.

wrath is retail

I want that meaningful and fun gear progression from classic, without any of the shit ton of bloat of retail.

So you want classic.

middle ground between retail and classic

you literally just fucking asked for this you retarded avatarfagging nigger

Turtle Wow, has a bunch of custom content and new raids, all for 60

Which is the good one and why?

all for 60

literally what ruined WoW. Focusing on the endgame

what the fuck are you asking for here

Cata through WoD. Legion is where nu-wow started but people suck it off because they blew their wad packing the entirety of their biggest bad guy faction into 1 xpac and introducing artifact power. Wotlk and tbc is just slightly different vanilla and slightly more tuning so not everything is fundamentally unusable. Vanilla is vanilla

a version of WoW that is officially supported by blizzard that doesnt suck dick

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It's over. Move on.

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there are new quests in every zone, new areas and loot in some classic leveling dungeons like deadmines and SM, new full zones like gilneas (late 30s to late 40s) with new 5 mans. the devs just released a road map that includes more new leveling zones as well as more pre and post naxx raids. also, all talent trees have been reworked - some very slightly (ex. frost mage barely changed), some got a full rework (ex. subtlety rogue is now a raid support class). it's worth checking out if you're jonesing for the classic feel with a fresh coat of paint

It's a private server bro. I'm sure there's some p2w bullshit and a bunch of broken and buggy shit going on.

Wow troons are unironically the most mentally ill posters on the Internet.

there's no p2w, the cash shop is for cosmetics and QoL stuff like bigger bags, auctioneer summon, etc

cash shop for cosmetics

extremely fucking gay and retarded. pass

how else do you want them to run a free private server? actual pay2win?

Vanilla is the only version of WoW, where they didn't know what they were making so they made the meat of the game leveling from 1-60. Once they realized what retains players, Burning Crusade and onward were focused on the endgame. You will never have a meaningful gear progression like Vanilla again.

bro they were copying everquest and that game had plenty of raids. what are you even talking about

I only ever cared about the PvP aspect of the game, which was best during Wrath, stopped being as fun during Cata, became somewhat fun during MoP again and was never good after.

The amount of content jam packed in Vanilla is like 10:1 ratio for leveling and endgame. Future expansions were like 1:2 or 1:3.

of course it is, no one's gonna add that many levels. Not even everquest did

The games PvE peaked when your raid leader was telling people to hold off on DPS while the tank got aggro and applied 4-5 sunders, in 5 mans

The games PvP peaked before battlegrounds when everyone was still learning how to play the game and the people who learned how to use their mouse to move while using hotkeys were dominating everyone winning all the PvP battles over rich arcanite and devilsaurs

Sorry you werent there for it. Classic was almost like it for a day or two other than the dungeon spam meta gaming, otherwise it was nothing like it.
Either move on or play wow with the people trying to re-live their childhood and get all the purples they wish they had back then but couldnt due to not getting into one of the 4 raid guilds able to actually clear AQ40 on their server back in the day.

The games PvE peaked when your raid leader was telling people to hold off on DPS while the tank got aggro and applied 4-5 sunders, in 5 mans

that was TBC heroics wasn't it?

no that was around patch 1.5 before the big threat rework to the game, back when warriors tanked sword and board in 5 mans and people actually used CC in 5 mans in vanilla wow.

I vividly remember needing CC in TBC heroics and I also remember waiting a bit before attacking shit so I didn't steal aggro

Gear progression in retail is 100% better, sorry if the devs don't wanna waste your time anymore like in vanilla

gay that has not played wow in 15 years talks about why he quit the game again

woah, I'm sure the addict with 500 weeks wasted in hellfire citadel has high standards for games

Thats tbc for you. Most mobs would one shot the dps if they pulled aggro unlike in vanilla where you can just sit there for a while and take a beating. Tbc is most fun I have had in wow and im honestly considering paying Blizz if they release tbc again

don't you see? expansions have less tutorial content than new games!

he quit, that means he's better than any current wowslopper

You're in luck, TBC servers are already confirmed. They currently released Anniversary servers that will transition to TBC in winter. The PvP server even has forced faction split (49:51) so it'll be interesting to play unlike the previous iteration where they quickly turned mono-faction

I'm looking forward to TBC classic anon. Gonna roll a warlock cause they're favorite class

SoD feels like it lost all meaning in p8. They literally went and invalidated 70% of the past content with crafted scarlet gear.

Pandashit

Kill yourself

Vanilla had like 5 levels of tutorial content and 55 levels of actual gameplay.

Oh cool, its going to be hell leveling with all the mages around but thats the name of the game. Will probably have to poopsock if they release fresh so I can avoid the hell that is hellfire peninsula
Was thinking the same. Will probably roll ele shaman for shits and giggles or hunter just to be fast leveler

Stop thinking about furry shit for one second you queef puffing nigger and appreciate the gameplay mop provided

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