Which Version of WoW Should YOU Play In 2024? (there's A LOT of them) | World of Warcraft
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- In 2024 there is more choices for WoW than there has ever been before. Both the current and classic versions of the game have multiple different avenues to go down, so you may be wondering, which version of WoW is best for me?
Today i'm going to cover all the different variations of World of Warcraft and go over a few positives and negatives to give an idea of how the WoW world is looking at the moment in 2024.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
01:17 - Dragonflight & The War Within
04:59 - Mists of Pandaria Remix
07:59 - Cataclysm Classic
12:18 - Season of Discovery
16:54 - Classic Era
19:08 - Classic Hardcore & Self-found mode
22:10 - Overall
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I think it’s interesting how this video is very much for the newcomer to WoW but is likely watched by people who already know everything laid out in this video.
That's probably true for a lot of viewers, but I've been watching wille's videos without actually playing the game for years now and I'm just now starting to try cata classic with a friend of mine. It's more common than most people think to watch videos about games without actually playing them
Same. Or you played back in 2011
@@jeremyrodriguez3740I’m a young buck who is playing cataclysm classic as well as classic wow to cataclysm, I’m not really playing retail as much at all lol because I wanna play the other versions as I was too young to play back then. I was born in 2002 so I was a lil kid when the older games came out and I like the older sound affects and old character running styles and I’ve been having so much playing the other versions especially wrath I enjoyed. I didn’t play SoD as much at all guess it’s only for boomers lol but I like this video from Willie.
@@williamdean4855you look about 35 lmao young buck
@@biigsmokee cool :D
As someone who missed out on the relaunch of TBC Classic, and came back too late for WOTLK Classic. Now just playing on Vanilla Era, I wish they could cycle back through those expansions again, TBC was my favourite and I wish I could play through Outland and WOTLK again and instead of having to dig through a list of private servers
Yeah it’d be cool if they did a yearly realm for TBC / WOTLK and just condensed everything into a year that would start fresh and you could move your characters to a permanent finals phase realm at the end. Kind of like what Warmane was doing before classic
For anyone interested in a “fresh” vanilla server, there is a community movement on the Deviate Delight vanilla era server in which everyone is leveling from scratch and doing the phases slowly over time together. The alliance guild is Refresh and the horde guild is We Want Fresh. Almost everyone is still leveling so there is still plenty of time to join and get the full experience.
For EU its Zandalarian Tribe and guild named "FRESH enjoyers" on horde, alliance idk but just ask in LFG channel and they invite u. It's so much fun
Thank you for this! I appreciate it will start now
Can confirm, it is pretty great. As someone said, zandalarian tribe on EU(RPPVP server), alliance guild is "freshers". Began 3 weeks ago, still not too late to join and have fun together :)
Man this message go around for at least month, I can't call this fresh anymore.
@@atanasradev1568 Its still very much considered fresh. Better go play it yourself and understand what its all about instead of fabricating lies that discourage ppl from coming
Hardcore is the best. I keep coming back. Community is popping too. Nothing beats Classic
Logged back into Classic Era last night after grinding on Cata for the past three weeks... and it felt like being home again.
Im starting on classic era again tomorrow after work :)
There are classic era servers? Are they still populated?
@@GermanLuk classic era is dead and can never live thanks to the eternal demomentum of "finished game" never letting leveling pops remain healthy or raid teams to continue raiding. instead people just play on 1.12 pservs like everlook when they want fresh 1.12s, or turtle wow when they want a forever-1.12 but with new stuff that keeps people logging back in even at bis
Classic Era is either A) Low Pop or B) Full of GDKP
Hard pass
@@ugoboommadseasonshow just released a video about exploding pop. On a couple era servers.
classic fresh classic tbc lets go gogogogogo no gdkp
Get lost
@@Holylightt99 wdym get lost that would be amazing
On Classic Era server "Zandalar Tribe" EU, RPPVP. A lot of people are making new characters as the server is dead and dont think you can transfer to it either. So its like a community made refresh :) Same thing is going on in the US server "Deviate Delight"
Hey, why did you chose my server?! Go away from my solo server!
Don’t pick low pop servers
@@ricky6608 That's the point of emulating a fresh start.
What does RP stand for?
@@Doudou8321 Role Playing. How does a human in 2024 not know that? Fascinating.
I'm always amazed at the view count of WillE's videos. The video's been out a day, and he's already got 28k views. The content he's talking about isn't groundbreaking or anything, he's done very similar videos before, yet people still love to watch info on their beloved game, even if they've heard it all before. I'm no different, because here I am.
The thing about cata and people enjoying the endgame/performance based gameplay is that its just occurred from conditioning classic players into retail and then they'll come back and reminisce about the actual mmorpg feel of vanilla again. Many players on the other hand already dipped out of cata and are back on era, hc or trying to get it out of SoD, which there is a competing audience of retail players who want to turn classic into retail (stupid) vs classic players who want to add new stuff without harming the original game.
I've always seen vanilla as the ideal expansion to create communities and make new friends. I've been playing Cata with old friends (my guild) and it's been great. Just requires you to kind of already have the connections. I can imagine playing Cata solo and not feeling very invested. The difficulty and vast amount of mechanics makes it unappealing to more laid back social gamers as well
@@deorwynn3597you Phrased it perfectly. Overall though, just judging the quality of the game itself, vanille does what it was supposed to do. Maybe BC still did. Everything after that just catered to players already involved (mainly).
I will always love vanilla above everything else.
@@deorwynn3597 True! I play some cata on the side with my vanilla friends and tbh the raiding content is fun. I mean for me, thats it when it comes to cata. I hate the daily stuff...However, the raiding is fun!
Can we have TBC server please?
This what I want as well😄
Even more dead servers?
@@AkiRa22084There wouldnt be any dead servers if they just had 2-3 servers.
@@Miami_Vicee Those would be mostly dead as well. People don't seem to realize how quickly Classic loses it's players. Many people try it out, but quit very soon. If you look at the shareholder's graph, after Classic launch it was the steepest drop in subs in WoW history. Even worse than Shadowlands.
@AkiRa22084 what world are you living in. Classic did not die at all. Keep dreaming
I just started my first char in SoD, and there are sooo many ppl lvling! so it does not feel dead at all if anyone was worring about that.
Even with all this new stuff it still feels like private servers are the actual place to be. TurtleWoW seems like the true Classic+.
tell me more please
It's deader than a doornail lol
@@biigsmokeeyou complained earlier about turtle wow on my text input. Is it really valid input to just write comments about dead servers and deader than a doornail ? I mean the server is more populated than ever and keeps on growing. They opened up new servers for Chinese players recently . What do you base your info on ? if a private server is growing constantly and producing both new areas and new Dungeons. Turtle wow is growing and you say the opposite of the real facts, How is that good info ?😅
As much as people love to say that one or the other mode that they don't play is "dead", one of Xaryu's recent videos just proved how false that is imo where he checked a lot of different servers. There's a lot of people playing era, a lot of people on Hardcore, a lot of people on SoD, a lot on Cata, and a lot on Retail. It's just a great time to be a WoW fan and the fact we have so many options is a great thing.
None of those were "a lot".
07.07.2024 new Turtle WoW Announcement. Probably a new Client for Classic+🎉❤
Remember kids; the only way to win is to not play the game.
it's true about retail, i tried to come back a few years ago, AND had no idea where to go what portal to take etc.. very very overwhelming.
How do you get overwhelmed when there's so much handholding?
@@AkiRa22084 Retail is not a new player-friendly game. Even for people that have taken a couple years off.
@@wmcarter6096 It very much is. The new starting zone explains everything. That's why some people are often complaining about handholding.
Unlike Classic where you need addons or constant googling for most quests and basics. And you still learn your rotation wrong.
Agree to disagree. Rotations almost don't exist in classic it's so easy.
Of all the versions of wow, I think retail is the most overwhelming because it's so bloated with systems upon sytems and currencies and more complex rotations. How do you get a classic rotation wrong? It's the easiest form of the game.
@@wmcarter6096 That's the point. We had no idea that rotations didn't exist. We thought all of our spells had good dps/dpm and had to be mixed and weaved. It was a shock and disillusion for many to find out that they've been playing their class wrong all this time since Blizzard was incompetent to do class design.
Most DF systems are irrelevant for gameplay, all the borrowed power has been removed.
You seem to be stuck in a shadowlands mentality, when there were many systems and borrowed power.
Legion had systems upon systems and is considered the best exspansion, since complexity is interesting while the lack of bloat is boring.
i wish they would do something like TurtleWoW.
all i need is vanilla with more content.
I have been watching a few videos lately trying to decide whether and how to come, so this is very well timed for me!
Wille's looking like a dwarf ancestor god with that beard now.
Been playing wrath classic and some sod, then cata poppe out and now on retail and honestly, its been fun, I don't feel more like spending hours farming and getting rare recipes, this phase is done for me but I respect the era players
That beard lookin extra majestic today!
Skull Rock (Horde) - US Hardcore, is a great server. If you're interested in trying Hardcore, lots of great guilds to help you get started.
I was literally debating this question today! PERFECT TIMING! 🎉
Do i Need do Play Classic und tbc and Wrath to understand cata? Or do i get the storys of them while playing the beginning Levels of cata Server and when i Hit the Level of cata the Story of it Beginns ?
I love hardcore
This is ez question, play cata classic because when mop tskes over it will be horrible so to prevent Total alienation dip into retail on new expansion release
I’m coming back from last playing in shadowlands, and I chose to do season of discovery… man I am so glad I did. It’s so much more chiller compared to whenever I was playing in shadowlands. Don’t get me wrong I kinda like that stuff, but right now I’m just trying to lay back and kill some mobs.
I still play, sometimes retail, sometimes wotlk/cata sometimes vanilla, sometimes sod. The thing is that no version is good for me anymore. I'm probably addicted to the best mmo ever made even though it bores me to death. The best fun I've had in the last X years was phase 1 of SOD. We need a new game...
Have you tried Turtle WoW or WoW Ascension? It's great fun if SoD was your jam and you wanna mix classes ect.
Hardcore was the most fun I had recently except for it being hardcore 😅
If there was a rogue-lite version I'd maybe come back to the game
Pro tip: start working out, dating and quit videogames for a while.
Whoa, Dragonflight has a lot of cut scenes? Okay, I’m sold
It doesn't have much.
@@AkiRa22084its a joke
@@stephenallen4635 A joke based on a lie.
@@AkiRa22084 but do I care
@@stephenallen4635 Oh, a troll, I see.
I stopped playing Classic SOD because I can’t get dungeons, of which you need for some of the runes (mara).
I'm interested in, after 15 years, jumping on one of the Classic "fresh" servers that have been created.
There’s no fresh servers join Cata that’s where it is now
@@Holylightt99 not official fresh, however, some players have "taken" quieter servers and started fresh with the content
Beard is looking good Willie
It does indeed
I wouldn't be surprised if the MoP remix is a test for replacing classic going forward. I'd actually be happy with a "rebirth" feature like they have in Diablo 3. Let me play through a couple months and go back to my regular bank and gear/collections when that's done.
the endless amount of stuff to do in retail just means nothing is really that important
Thanks for video mate. I was thinking of coming back to wow. It really helped me make a decision.
I'm not going to start playing wow again.
There are Shaman tanks in Classic Era, not just in SoD. They have much better tools in SoD, but so does everyone there. I've been in a dungeon with a Shaman tanking on HC a few times, the highest level one being ST. I was a healer for one of those runs (SFK), and the tank definitely took more damage than a warrior or bear would, but it's not a significant problem because leveling content is easy, and while I had stop to drink more, so did the tank, and having to drink 5 times instead of twice in a dungeon is absolutely fine. I didn't heal in ST, so I'm not sure how much of a problem it was there, but I assume it was similar. In terms of threat, Shaman probably have more single target threat generation than the normal tanks (at least against things not immune to nature), and at higher levels when there are larger pulls they have enough tools for AoE threat to keep mobs off the healer, and focusing down targets one at a time should mean the DPS don't need to worry.
Bring back Hardcore. Not the weird gettin carried /boosted version. The real OF on your own Hardcore.. 😊
If you are new that Welcome to Azeroth Bundle is a great deal for $24.99 USD....you get the game, level 60 boost and 2 months....that is pretty cool.
I have a funny feeling that Cata Classic will be the last Classic. They may try to consolidate the user base and maybe just have Classic Era Servers, and maybe TBC and WOLTK servers. It seems that there might be more events like MoP remix and Plunderstorm going forward. I don't think they can keep up the place with so many different versions of classic.
i'll play cata and mists classic, fights are challenging and the classes have clear identities
As a new player i like the remix format. Streamlined to level up and experience the story without having to do all the filler. Grab 10 corncobs then grab 10 strawberrys yada yada
What an excellent video. I've been thinking about this very topic quite a bit. There are so many versions its confusing to know what to play. In my opinion, you ended with the absolute most fulfilling and rewarding version. If you've played WoW a good amount, but never tried HC-SF, its such an incredibly fun challenge: Just getting bags, and farming enough gold for spells, is so challenging, but rewarding. Really really fun. I play very little retail, but tons of Classic, Cata, Seasonal, Some Era even, but I always find my way back to hardcore. Thanks for the great vid!
Your beard is fantastic
I want TBC back !!
I like this video! Sometimes if I'm having a hard time falling asleep, ill try to recite stuff like all of the classes, expansions in order, or different version of WoW in detail until I fall asleep. (not saying this boring, just interesting how I think about all of this a lot too)
I'm most interested in Classic+ so SoD is the best option for me now. I like Cataclysm for PvP, but I just hate what happened to the old world. Sadly there's no WOTLK server. Private servers like Turte WoW look also interesting. I wish Blizzard would go in a direction like Turtle WoW or the upcoming Project Epoch.
I cant lie. I went back to WoW just the other day. I had a rogue who was in BFA content and i felt so lost. I know it was weird to go play pandaria remix but i wont lie if i said wasnt enjoying it. Its interesting and fun imo
Thank you for covering Classic Era.
I hate that here is no TBC or WOTLK servers. I get that there is still lot to choose from, but I thought the point of these classic servers, was that we were going to experience them as roll outs, as we have, but the servers were going to stay, so you could keep playing TBC or whatever you wanted to.
Im about to start playing wow with 3 friends and its our first time playing the game. We decided to go for classic cataclysm, do you guys think its the right one to start with?
Shoot, try them all lol
yeah 100% it is,
both cata and retail are very new player friendly, but cata doesn't have all the confusing shit that retail has once you reach endgame
@@Brejas03 aight thanks
Dat Paladin Tank burn 😅
Back then started WoW with WOTLK and played it until the end of MOP.
The same journey for me again started with Wrath classic and will end with MOP classic.
I’m enjoying all versions of WoW👍🏼👍🏼😎💯 Awesome video!! Woohoo!!👏👏💥💥✨✨💫💫
Mop remix mounts and transmog are god teir for new player and way better introduction to gameplay
man, I regret not copying my toons to Era :(
I enjoyed sod for a while, but phase 3 was awful. The servers have been dead for awhile waiting for p4. I quit and enjoyed dabbling in era and hc a little bit. Those servers haven't "exploded", but the pops are rising and there were plenty of people to level with.
This video is a must watch !
I'm a Classic Andy, I enjoy Era and Hardcore. It's fine there are choices, but I still enjoy leveling in old Azeroth more than anything else.
Whitemane’s Wotlk servers are packed full of levelers if anyone is missing how fast Wrath went into Cata.
I really love mop remix, it’s great, I don’t like classic that much but I think making retail simpler
i have a BIG big itch to play, especially Classic where people 'enforced' some rules on an existing server for people to make new characters from scratch, and stuff. But i love football too much and want to watch all EURO 2024 games. Oh well. Maybe after the cup.
WE NEED TBC ERA SERVERS!
Agreed 💯
I love tbc it’s my favourite back in the day and classic. But shit if you want fresh just go play private server there as been shit tone of them. Or do you just want to cry fresh server till someone does it for you lol
@@justinsimpson2146true, but having characters on the official game just feels better at least for me
@@Thorskywalker420 thats fair. im just saying there is servers out there not as good as if blizz did it. i dont think they will open a tbc server anytime.
@@justinsimpson2146private servers are corrupt as hell. They sell your data, invade your PC, sell gold, etc etc. nothing is free
If you want to play era without the GDKP and the broken economy, just roll on the PVE cluster instead of the PVP cluser. No GDKP here whatsoever.
ty for heads up :)
Whats GDKP?
I got my two friends into wow via Hardcore lol, all three of us got to level 60 too. Took us about 6 or so characters to get there though.
Genuinely haven’t ever played WOW ever, have absolutely no idea what I’m doing so I’m guessing classic would be the way to go?
I want to try Cata but seems overwhelming to me since I skipped Wrath. So many new abilities, abilities where you do x when this ability procs, glyphs, different stats and stat weights and then everyone plays so hardcore I don't feel like anyone is graceful enough to give you time to learn how to play.
Classic and SoD is just easier. A bunch of abilities with SoD but you don't have access to them all at once which cuts out decisions in combat. I just like the simpler and easier style of vanilla, SoD and TBC myself.
I agree the simplicity of vanilla can be a breath of fresh air. That being said, I'm enjoying Cata for what it is and am enjoying the raids a lot (Minus points for BoT trash). Thankfully, my guild is taking heroic progression pretty casually since we're more of a social community. I think the key to enjoying any version of WoW is to find like minded people and play at your own pace. I've burnt out on each Classic release and later realized the game was actually a lot of fun; I was just playing way too much or min/maxing too hard.
Sod is shit. Come to cata it’s far better
only seen ur face this video... and MAN what i imagined u look like with the voice ONLY, doesn't match one bit, but well surprised. good looking man :)
Funny because he looked exactly like i imagined it. He has that classic redhead voice.
Which WoW expansion has the most active PvP battlegrounds Vs least amount of PvP
I don't want to start a new character on an expansion where the average queue time for wsg is 1 he plus
MoP Remix is great for new players, since it's much simpler.
You have a glorious beard
I’m just afraid playing SOD that when all is said and done our characters will stay on dead sod realms. You think we will just lose gear/runes and go to classic era?
Who cares what happens to them, it will be classic+ time
I'm loving SoD! SoD and Hardcore have been the best gaming experiences in years!
Nyctermoon lets you solo raid with ChatGPT powered AI companions too lol
If you aren't playing Pandaria Remix, you are missing out on the most fun an MMO can be.
Atm i am playing retail and classic era bought fun in their own ways.
Cata feels flat to me. ill check out SoD p4. im just lvling ever couple days to burn the 2x exp bar.
Its not bad. I started a week late and have been slowly leveling at my own pace and exploring. Im playing a dk for the first time. Kinda cool to go back and solo old raids for xmog. I might raid or I might not. Kinda just waiting for phase 4 of SoD
Catch up currently is MOP remix
WOW HARDCORE is the only real classic experience left. its the best.
😂😂😂 ohh God that's funny
Hi Will!
Nice beard.
So if you log out of hardcore then you lose your characters?
I'm enjoying Cataclysm Classic.
What they should do is to have every single expansion available and let the people choose what they want to play.
It makes me very sad that SoD servers are ghost towns right now. I cant blame players when they put those exp bonus buffs in and then added incursions, it caused everyone to level cap in an afternoon. They really fumbled the ball with the exp buff and incursions. Just let players level normally.
what happend with the battle royale one? D:
Plunderstorm was a temporary mode. Should be brought back when they have a gap in content
Vanilla "refresh" grassroots movement for the real ones
If phase 4 of SoD is awful like phase 3, look for deviate delight on era to get a massive boost. Just my prediction anyway
It won't. Era is fine but not that appealing compared to literally anything else that is new.
@@thareus20 we'll see what happens. I could see SoD just not recover at all and everything stagnates the way it is. But if there is a bump in a phase 4 catastrophe, i think era gets the bump but we'll see. I do agree era is fine regardless
They'll definitely do MoP classic. I think Cata classic proved that, even controversial expansions have their fans and MoP was far more popular than Cata in terms of people's opinion nowadays. I took Cata Classic (especially with it having a pretty fast life cycle over by early 2025...) as them just saying yeah MoP is on its way.
Just answering to the first second of the video without hearing the rest
You have Vanilla, Cata and Retail
Within Vanilla you got Vanilla, Hardcore and Season of Discovery.
Within Cata it's just Cata
Within Retail you have Retail and Pandaria Remix
Also retail would technically allow you to play majority of old content (previous expansions). I mean more for the campaign aspect of it.
But all of these have their own advantages.
Cataclysm is the most class balanced ever
We need “Classic -“ just something new.
Classic minnus would be a beta version of wow classic
Im all about nothing new
I can’t believe there a still new players logging on wow. With nearly every area you go to being dead. And hardly seeing anyone walking around
That's the world of warcraft that you play.
Classic fresh, Classic BC
We’ve already have those.
@@brandonkruse6412yeah, we still want them.
You've already eaten ice cream! Why would you want it again?!?
@@bobbymatousek Who is we? I genuinely haven’t seen anyone saying that want TBC Fresh lol. You know it would be DOA
@@brandonkruse6412 me and everyone on deviate delight?
They definitely shouldn't do MoP Classic UNLESS its as a seasonal server like Season of Discovery. Look while a strange argument could be made for Cataclysm Classic, there is no defending Mists of Pandaria Classic; as good as MoP was it isn't a Classic expansion so it shouldn't have a dedicated classic server for it.
I mean isn’t that kind of already what it is? Season of Discovery is scheduled to last for about 1 year long total. Cataclysm classic and likely all other classic expansions are planned to last about 1 year as well. They aren’t technically listed as seasonal servers but they with each expansion being a new season.
In what world is there an argument to be made for cataclysm and not MoP?? I guarantee you MoP is in way more demand that cataclysm. I’d bet the house on that. This is a wild take
I always love Vanilla for the simplicity. It was an RPG first, competitively "balanced" game second. I enjoy Retail to, for another reason, the content is clearly better than Vanilla, but it comes with so much burden of knowledge, mechanical skill, and use of complicated addons.
We went from nothing to do to, I don't have enough time to live in a day to play all the different wow versions I want.
For my part I wait on classic+ and hope for big changes. WoW is not the game we once played anymore.
The one current version I don’t play is cata, I hated it when it released and it destroyed my main and resulted in me walking away from the game for years. Still disappointed wotlk didn’t stay.
i chose mine. its called eso.
Honestly, after playin Turtle wow i just cannot go back to the vanilla blizz version. I can't, and i hate it ! Compared to turtle blizz' vanilla feels...lacking and unfinished, and i hate it but it does !
Dropped a dislike for not mentioning cataclysm classic being the most bugged thing I have ever seen. 6 months subscription was a damn mistake from my side