Returning to World of Warcraft in 2024
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
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You ever just get that itch to play a game you haven't played in forever? Well that was me with World of Warcraft.. With the recently annouced expansion glooming on the near horizon I decided it was time to return to this once great MMO and see how things have changed in all my time away! So If you too are on the fence about whether or not to return, I made a video describing my journey and experiences so far over the last couple weeks. I hope you enjoy and I hope it helps you decide one way or the other on to return or not! let me know down in the comments! 
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They could have *easily* fixed that problem with new players being lost on the story, by just having an evergreen scenario that takes you through key points in each expansion. New expansion comes out? Just slap the expansion that just ended to the end of the scenario.
Never thought of that! great idea! a sort of quick catchup story driven mode that explains each expansion while also serving as a leveling process for new players
I actually agree with this.
Yup, been yappin about this exact thing for years now. It needs to be a thing
Wow players agreeing on something involving old content. I did not have that on my bingo card for the year, but I agree also.
They are already adding in different quest markers depending on the importance of a quest. They have main scenario quest separated from side stories now, which will make leveling through each expansion with the focus on story so much better. Just playing through MoP Remix with this system is already pretty great, can't wait for it to be added to the rest of the game. If you're leveling multiple characters you could just level through each expansion only doing the main scenario quest, and learn the story that way.
Homie left in cata… came back to Cata classic. Gotta be hilarious even thinking about that 😂
That’s me too
This was a really good video enjoyed it and for me it was informative . Thank you
Dragonflight is the most casual friendly it’s been in YEARS. There is no borrowed power system (Artifact Power, Azerite Power, and Anima). Gearing has never been easier. Weekly’s are entirely optional unless you want some cosmetics. Gear upgrades are extremely easy to get as you can get hundreds of the required currency just doing a normal raid or even a Herod dungeon. Traversal is much easier with Dragon Riding. Wow is in a very good spot and the next expansion seems to much of the same with new endgame content.
I wish they hadn’t moved through classic so quickly. They should’ve made the expacs 3 years each.
We woiuldve gotten 9 years out of the first three, which would’ve been almost as good as having classic-Wotlk back, which was the only time worth playing
Dragonflight expansion is epic especially for casuals and world pve players. Love it. End game is 1) world content (love it), 2) achievement hunting (love it), pvp (ok), raids (love it), (mythic dung, love it). Fastest way to level is pick 1 expansion and do all quests in each zone, having fun with the story, and unlocking world achievements for the zones you are in. Gives more fun things to do. Before you have done all the expansion zones you should have hit you level to travel to Dragonflight content, but you may wish to finish what you are doing, especially if the main story is uncomplete. Reguardless there is so much fun to be found, but not recommended to jump between the expansions on one character as you won't experience the expansion as it was played when launched.
Still to this day my favorite game ever. This is when i played seriously over a decade ago. I first started playing wow relatively shortly before tbc came out and stopped shortly after lich king came out. Just seeing all of the ridiculous expansions over the years made me never want to come back. Such a shame. But im sure its stil fun for some and maybe some day soon i’ll hop back onto my account and run around for a bit then hop back off
Great video!
Hey thanks man!
As someone who has been playing off and on since wrath I just came back three weeks ago from about 6 months off and I must say with a combination of remix and retail I’m having a blast but I do miss the social aspect of guild guilds nowadays are dead
I agree on the lacking of the social aspect, I think you really have to go out of your way to find that interaction that use to be so abundant back in the day and appeared organically every where you went
I honestly waiting for the prepatch TWW expansion looks interesting imo haven't played in a long time so the game looks fresh to me.
You know, There's nothing boring about Borean ;). Your point is really interesting and I'll be returning in a couple of days becauze I still need to "accomplish" certains things.
I honestly can't pinpoint why I don't like that zone but I always chose howling fjord over it lol, Great to hear about you returning! Let's hope this new expansion is a great addition!
@@DedmundzMMO oh don't worry I agree with you hate it too, that's just the name of the achievement for doing quests there hahaha. "Nothing boring about Borean." 😄
YES🎉
Agreed, recently reactivated my account . Maybe this is the end of the dark storm clouds looming over Blizzard. I am excited yet still a little worried about the future of WOW I hope they continue to listen to player feedback!
I stopped wow when they locked my trading and auctions house ability... why lock it if I am paying for a sub?
The retail file size is 100gb, with WoW 2 they could literally make it fresh with 50gb game file size. Classic SoD is like 4gb and Cata is 15gb along with Wotlk, BC Expansions.
Bro gave up way to soon on MoP, lore and storytelling was PEEK that expansion. But great video and good points. I hate their current approach to leveling and how they've given up on any attempt to make it an adventure.
I appreciate the kind words, I definitely wish I would have stayed around for MoP. I realize that now after playing remix.
It's still an adventure though, it's what you make it. It's not a 40hr running simulator like lvling through classic, it's a 10hr questing through a couple zones. It's still the same gameplay just faster. The adventure is still there in my opinion.
Didn't MoP come out the same time as Skyrim did?
How do you feel about classic wow ? I don’t wanna play retail cause all I hear is how it speed levels you and I enjoy a grind to the next level
You know I've never tried classic yet, I wish I would have when it first came out, But I definitely plan on giving cataclysm classic a shot!
You missed Legion? That was great xpac
My favorite
Wrath had a PERFECT balance between grind and progression. I was hoping that the level balance would bring that back. Sadly, I was wrong. My sister played it the first time since Cataclysm and wanted to start on Gilneas- her favorite starting zone. Then she got forced to Exile's Reach and did not like it or the new UI layout.
Yea the new layout is weird just gotta get used to it I guess but yea it doesn’t look as nice as the old one
Get in on Classic HC it is popping off!
yes the answer is yes
They should put cooldown on dungeons till max lvl so you get forced to actually explore some between cooldowns so u dont just spam dung lvl
Blizzard has replaced the world with contrived systems. That's why they need the player to get to the endgame ASAP.
Unfortunately I believe you are correct sir!
I recently returned...about 3 weeks ago. I hadn't played since the Sylvanas raid when my guild fell apart while pushing through on Mythic.
Immediate impression is that it is an overly complicated mess without much focus, but the biggest part of that is because it's at the end of the expansion and there are just a ridiculous amount of currencies and storylines to get lost in. Even after 3 weeks, I'm lost. I've figured out how to get some transmogs and somewhat figured out the new crafting system.
I went ahead and did the pre-order for War Within and played a few days in the beta servers. I will say that the fresh start is great to feel like I'm starting back in a similar level as others as well as being caught up on the storyline.
How do you like the beta so far? Does it leave you feeling excited for the new expansion?
@@DedmundzMMO The gameplay and systems are just basically Dragonflight 2.0, so I'd say if someone liked DF then they'll like The War Within.
I am looking forward to playing, but i'm not sure I would say "excited" because it seems they spent a lot of time focusing on certain hero builds and very little time on others.
I'm hoping the ones that are lacking get another round of attention before launch.
"it is an overly complicated" my thoughts exactly. I feel like I spent an equal amount of time in game as I spent googling about where should I go and how do I get this and unlock that. And I have a lot of experience in different MMOs. Can't imagine how fresh to the genre player would feel.
What’s crazy is wows entire quest system for the whole game is basically 1/28 skills in RuneScape… slayer skill is literally wow quests with better rewards..
I was creased laughing the other day watching old wow devs getting excited about the old quests they wrote… “go kill 10 kobolt vermin”…
Actually was made by 12 year olds😅😂
I was defending WoW since Shadowlands where people started screaming about how WoW is dying... after few years I can calmly say, they were right. I quit 2 times in Dragonflight at least for 6 months and now I'm not even looking for new expansion, not even for Cata or MoP. WoW was about exploring, leveling took much much more longer, but you had a chance to see Azeroth and explore lore, maps, characters etc... now ? Start with lvl10 and jump to the dungeon finder immediately, push to the max level, farm iLvl and run mythic dungeons again and again. It's fun for some time ngl, but sadly it's only thing what you can do (+ raids once per week, and DF raids are boring af, even Supulcher was much more better). I have never seen so huge degradation of game experience ever, before huge goliath between mmo's called World of Warcraft, now cash grab which is not worth it at all, because game is basically empty - compared to Legion, MoP... even mostly hated BfA had more content than SL and DF... great job, I have never seen so huge degradation of game title as here. Pushing 2k rio every season is not enough tho.
ADD: Forgot to mention lore, which is now completely out of line, doesn't make sense and you just want to skip it, same as in SL. Milking old characters, crying baby King, dragons (nobody cares them lmao). Compared to old expansions, bosses here are boring, not so evil and you don't even remember their name after two days... where is Arthas, Garrosh, Gul'dan, N'Zoth... ?
I can’t agree more. Old WoW is all about journey. Nowadays Blizaard just wanna put things into your stomach and they don’t care about the taste anymore.
Wow has only been about a “Journey” in Vanilla. That sense was killed in TBC.
The answer is no - coming from someone who has tried to start up again every year since the end of Cata
Left as soon as they added the wow token literally destroyed any desire for me to play the game
why?
short answear: NO!
long answear: HELL NOOOO!
Regarding level scaling: I'm not sure if the current leveling version makes the open world less dead than the alternative. Let's say we, as new players, must level through all zones and expansion to get to the end games. This would force new players, returning players, and the alts of current players to journey through the open world (or just spam dungeons..) instead of just doing a few zones before reaching the zones of the latest expansion. Sure, this would probably be seen as a slog by a lot of current players, but I do believe that it would create a more populated questing world, if we also did not spam dungeons to level up.
It's too much to do every expansion while leveling, people would quit for surr
You don't need to force players through every zone to artificially populate it. Just make it viable on every level, so people would choose based on their personal preference instead of the profit. But that will never happen.
@@bomjur is it not viable on pretty much every level though, your leveling no matter what. It's not meta lvling lol
do you play on Bleeding Hollow
I do not, I'm currently playing on Illidan (US)
Classic:
Chill, explore zones while leveling, play at your own pace, learn your class, and experience the OG game.
Retail:
Hurry to endgame, meta, toxicity, for 4-5 months before reset.
Retail is still like that if your not a hardcore player ore mythic raider. Wow is pretty much the same if you just play casually.
TL;DW - YES, YES IT IS WORTH RETURNING.
July heat wave in California.....Waves are up and clothes are getting smaller...Gas is down .60 over last month, And i just got a Salary Bracket Bump up.
Should i, A Scarab Lord + MGlad Healer, return to wow ????.........
Defiantly not happening ! ...Its summer baby ! life is good and Seas are warm. See ya'll on Tich, When Season1/War within launches , Till then, ill be at the beach!!!
Quick answer is NO!
its worth it in my opinion. believe it or not you can easily have fun playing retail casually.. just don't take it too seriously ;)
As you always should with any game.
I got a question is it possible to play 1-2hours a day and enjoy some pvp or mythic + dungeons ? I didnt log in since BFA
@@MrKleju abso fucking lutely!! and dont forget to play on a RP server. way better community
@@MrKleju when we speak about pvp its only arena or rbg bc unrated bg has like 10-20 mins queue
I re-subscribed and felt overwhelmed at first but Im slowly getting used to it. I felt burned out on any class I tried but then I tried warrior and I got MoP vibes with all abilities almost the same. I love it, see you in game guys
@@MrKleju you can easily do 2-3 mythics ye
They should let you level in the current expansion. It's dumb having to play in old, dead, random content instead of the new game.
Especially since new content is basically dead after week 1..
I came back to wow after dropping it in early battlefor azeroth and what i'll say may be contrary to what the general opinion is, but I find dragonfly soooo boring. I'm very story driven and the dragon lore just seems redundent, over done and way too disney to me. The stakes don't feel real, the characters don't feel real and the only thing that kep me going was how beautiful the zones are and dragonflying. I doubt i'll be playing much tho.
Wow is always a good time with friends! love that you're making the return to all of these old mmo's
WoW isnt mmo for someon who play this game you would know that 99% of time you play alone without seeing any other players.
@@jakubpelikan2393 i know this, that's not what i was saying, if you watched the video you would hear that he said he joined up with some buddies from his discord and had a blast playing. Since i'm the warlock that he's playing with in this video, im here to support my friend :)
Sometimes my mom and I would play but 99% of the time I'm soloing it
I refuse to play with people who play elves on the Horde so you can kinda guess where I currently stand.
Is this technically WoW Racism?
@@soapgaming4903 racism implies I hate someone by their race. I don't see race we're all human at the end of the day. What I hate is choices and I can size someone up fairly easily by their choices. Elf players are some of if not the biggest douchebags in the game right next to Mohawk gnomes.
You do you, but that's a very odd stance.
@@MrCarlWax Why? I've always been against elves in the Horde not only do they not belong in a tribal, shamanistic society but over 99.9 percent of those players are rude and annoying so no I refuse to play with them nor will I allow them in my groups.
New players? There aren't any
I tried to return but the company and the employees that work there are trash now so they arent getting my subscription ever again. This game has been ruined since Cata and has never recovered except by bringing back what the broke but now that Classis if full circle its a sad broken game again.
Ye, it's full of blue hair community managers/employees, I even stopped playing era because they didn't made Trutle wow and expanded the vanilla content.
Ironically there are 2/10 of population that likes Cataclysm and beyond better, they are usually the woke crowd that don't want to put effort and play the game.
Nah, Wows been dead ever since it came out.
@@brucefly3612I think it’s time to step away from politics buddy.
Absolutely not. WoWs main content is grinding repetitive non fun quests/dungeons. And coming back to it was the most aweful experience i had in an MMO. The whole timeline thing is a mess. I realized the reason i somewhat enjoyed it before is cause i had nothing better to do. And neither the older or the newer versions have solved the content issue
I'm sorry to hear that man, hopefully another MMO out there is more what you're looking for!
I just don’t think you like WOW man. It’s literally always been like that.
no
NOPE! They suckered me with the $25.00 welcome back to azeroth. Ya welcome back. To DEAD empty cities and NO talking, NO community. People treat this as a freaking solo game now. You hit a shiny QUE UP button, spam thru a dungeon/raid, BAM exit out. No thank yous, no goodbyes..NOTHING. Absolute joke. RUN FAR FROM THIS GAME!!! It is NOT World of Warcraft. OH and btw, all the moves/animations are "pew pew pew/spam spam spam!!" Nothing feels "heavy or a thud", its just PEW PEW PEW /SPAM SPAM SPAM. Dont tarnish your memories, this game started dying after WOTLK and I guess Panda was "OK" in lore/graphics..but honestly this games done and over with. Its NOT a MMO anymore.
It's pretty much as you said, it's a solo collectathon MMO, you can play it to know what living in Japan feels like, always alone, no community unless you enter a guild and people pretend they care about you when the only thing they are thinking is using you to get better loot 😂 I started playing Black desert instead, you can do world bosses by organically teaming up with people around you without needed group/raid groups, and you can play at your own pace including leveling/gearing.
I think you might be playing on a low pop realm. I see tons of players in cities. And the Looking for Dungeon/Raid normally only have low difficulties available to fast queue for. If you look at the pre-made groups you find the higher difficulties, and people actually talk in the chat. Every normal raid I’ve done people have been talking strategy, welcoming players, saying gg after the raid is done, and just having conversations with each other. Maybe play the game normally before going into a RUclips comment section and going on a rant of how times were better when times were worse.
Have you tried talking to people?
Considering even the fan base is on copium about dragon riding and RUclipsrs essentially lied about dragonflight being a casual expansion despite it having the same weekly bs that is the exact opposite of casual…. Nah wow ain’t worth it
Dragonflight is the most casual friendly it’s been in YEARS. There is no borrowed power system (Artifact Power, Azerite Power, and Anima). Gearing has never been easier. Weekly’s are entirely optional unless you want some cosmetics. Gear upgrades are extremely easy to get as you can get hundreds of the required currency just doing a normal raid or even a Herod dungeon. Traversal is much easier with Dragon Riding. Wow is in a very good spot and the next expansion seems to much of the same with new endgame content.
@@soapgaming4903 copium
@@AbiyBattleSpell nah, facts
Honestly easiest game to walk away from. Story and gameplay is so weak and gets weaker. Community? Omg ppl just leaving if they don’t want to run the instance, no explanation for new players how to play the story at all…yea way too much to fix that blizzard basically gave the fk up
It's not worth it
Very insightful, thank you! :D
To many toxic players
I’ve only encountered one during the time I’ve played.
Agreed, along with DPS meters, the requirement for 3rd party add-ons to complete content, the preputial gear grind and years of work wiped cleaned with every expansion is why I left work. I want to come back and likely will, but it'll only be for a month or two.
Where are those toxic players? I play WoW for almost 18 years and toxic players are minority I experience close to zero. Your comment is invalid because of one of two reasons: you are not playing WoW for years and just trying to be asshole troll for others because you are bad person or you play WoW but you are extremely bad at it. Just grow up or stfu.
@@soapgaming4903 Either youre new or you never pvp
@@GunnerStrauser I’m somewhat new and I have zero interest in PVP
Whats a decent price pc i could get for wow
NO
Nope. Never will.
Skip video. Yes, wow is worth returning to once the new expansion hits next month. Many great new features that make it more accessible to everyone. You're welcome👍
For me it is so weird that Blizz and everybody else would actively discourage you from discovering the worlds from previous expansions. Why should newcomers be gate kept from all of the previous journeys simply because they started playing later than others?
I don't really understand it much either, because the main reason I fell in love with the game so many years ago was just how vast and overwhelming the entirety of the world was, so shutting off entire sections of the world like they never existed is a hard choice to make sense of. However on the other hand making it mandatory comes with it's share of drawbacks because seeing a giant world is cool and exciting but seeing it void of people makes you feel a tad bit lonely especially in an MMO
Ever heard of Chromie Time? It’s literally a system that allows new players to experience old content when they’re leveling.
Game died for me when the battle royal mode dropped
I actually had no idea there was a battle royal mode, How is it?
@@DedmundzMMO I wouldn't know, I dislike battle royals since the long gone days of fortnite. But I think it's called WoW Plunderstorm, so I'm guessing it's pirate themed.
It was a time limited optional mode my guy
@@soapgaming4903 that doesn't change anything for me
@@saneboysoup4168 Well it’s gone now. It was just a little experiment, like hardcore and sot.
NO. next question.
Very insightful response, Thank you for the deep thoughts and effort :D
Short answer - No lol - Long answer - fuck no.