Even if the bear is still tapping on most of the WoW Classic servers, we have to say that a lot of players have given up their Classic careers since the launch. Some guilds had to replace more than two-thirds of their roster with new members in the last year. With Naxxramas and Phase 6, this development will intensify.
A few days ago I stumbled across a screenshot on Reddit that touched me. The picture shows 77 members of a WoW Classic guild who, more than a year ago, were highly motivated to master all the challenges together. Today, only 21 players on the list remain in the community. Everyone else has retired their Azeroth heroes over the last 12 months and had to be replaced by Classic offspring or the survivors of other guilds that were broken up.
Goodbyes suck!
I’m touched because I’ve experienced exactly that again and again in online role-playing games over the past 16 years. Even more concentrated since the launch of WoW Classic than in the previous decade, because the vanilla new edition puts an enormous focus on the server community. That’s actually really great and one of the biggest pluses of Classic. At times, however, it can also be frustrating when, within a few weeks, several important pillars of the guild declare that they want to give up their classic career for a variety of reasons. Great people with whom you had spent a lot of time in the last few months. If you master raids and dungeons together several times a week, farm, hunt for Allys, help the twinks or just philosophize about God and the world, then such farewells do not go unnoticed. Especially in a year like 2020, when you spend a lot of time in your own four walls due to the pandemic and programs like Discord or WoW represent an important connection to the outside world.
Naxx in sight
Unfortunately, with Phase 6 and Naxxramas, the number of farewells will increase noticeably. For many players, defeating Kel’Thuzad once or twice will be enough. Others may notice that the farm effort for the final raid is too blatant for them, or they leave because the very friend who made them stick around for so long stopped playing WoW. There are many more reasons for leaving. But there are also reasons to stay: Clear Naxxramas with the greatest players in the world, bag the best equipment from the Classic era and then rock the Outland together in The Burning Crusade Classic, fully motivated – these are mine, for example. The good news: In the first expansion, the raid size is significantly smaller with 25 or ten players.
What is WoW Classic?
World of Warcraft Classic is a true recreation of the original WoW as you know it from 2006. All parts of the game – from combat mechanics and talent trees to character models and zones – have been recreated, contributing to the authentic experience.
Getting Started
All players with an active World of Warcraft subscription or game time on their accounts have access toWoW Classic at no additional cost.
- Open the Blizzard Battle.net Desktop App and select World of Warcraft from the menu.
- Select World of Warcraft Classic from the Version menu. If you have more than one World of Warcraft account, you’ll see a second Account drop-down list. In this column, select the active account you want to play with.
- Click the Install button. The progress bar will tell you when your game is ready to play.
- Click the Play button when the installation is complete.
You will need to select the realm you want to play on from several different realm types. Make sure you choose the same realm as your friends – in World of Warcraft Classic, you can only group with characters that are on the same realm as you!
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