raiding as a mage in retail vs classic

hope you enjoy this retail vs classic meme
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[@Ross_2312]

Eclair de givre

[@Chewy427]

giving eclairs? damn they're 5 quid each here

[@nhmgrj]

@@Chewy427 more like Frost lightning

[@Ryutsukiffe]

Eclair de Givre lessgong

[@monka5982]

@@nhmgrj no fucking way really

[@MorbidBloodshed]

@@Chewy427 there is a reason mages get whispers for food all day

[@slayrx]

Damn my boy didn't even break a sweat spamming that frostbolt, inspiring.

[@Ross_2312]

Parser legend

[@PhilipAlexanderHassialis]

As a vanilla mage I kinda loved MC. I could chat with people in the guild channels, could eat, talk to people around and still do perfect numbers. Even BWL had its charm. From that point on though it became less and less a "stand and hit" thing and instead it was a "do rotations, move there, press that, do this and then that and jump there and whatnot", fergedsakes Blizzard, this is NOT an arcade. It's a CRPG.

[@SirZipper]

​@@PhilipAlexanderHassialis They trying to copy ff14 where instead of being able to learn anything intuitively you need to read an essay or watch videos to memorize/spoil the fight completely before doing it.

[@Gimtastic]

@@SirZipper Crazy how those Blizzard devs just copied fight design from Square before they even made XIV 🤣

[@muffemod]

autohotkey works wonders for WoW.

[@QPoily]

I'll never get tired of this meme format. I just love the paypone singing guy's vibe in comparison to the sweaty guy.

[@WoWUndad]

a single retail boss has more mechanics than 3 classic expansions combined

[@Smuffins42069]

Imagine defending a dead game. Disgusting.

[@wisniamw]

@@Smuffins42069 I like this comment, becouse every person that will read it will think about different game :D

[@lawlestest]

doesn't matter, still a hot mess.

[@dasit6034]

if i cared about lots of mechanics and precise execution id play fighting games or rts not wow. hell even arena is more fun than pve with a million mechanics

[@MarioGomez-wv4wq]

@@Smuffins42069Classic Andy?

[@cattysplat]

Classic raiding can be challenging. To stay awake.

[@madsandersen2743]

This comment made my day! xD Jokes aside, i LOVED 1-60 in classic. 15 minutes into my First Molten core run and I was honestly half asleep

[@danielandersson3067]

Try play feral druid or enh shammy in wotlk. As hard as retail specs. But yeah in vanilla classic it's mostly feral druid dps and warriors that can stick out.

[@Bacon-egg-cheese]

I raid in a classic guild since tbc with a full friends & family raid and staying awake has been a legitimate issue for me. I genuinely start falling asleep because of how unengaging the content is.

[@TheLoliczech]

idk it seems to me the classic guy is having much more fun doing something simple and entertaining rather than dodging 500 mechanics at the same time

[@treeaboo]

@@Bacon-egg-cheese Heal or Tank instead of playing DPS, or play Feral (Vanilla, TBC, Wrath) or Enhancement (Wrath). Vanilla WoW Feral DPS is far more complicated and difficult to play optimally than even most of Retail's DPS specs, unfortunately you still wouldn't top the meters by doing so but that's not the real reason to play a complex spec. Wrath Feral and Ehn are just as complicated as Retail specs, harder than many of them still (though they did recently make feral a little less complicated).

[@scrilon2061]

He didn't stop casting frostbolts while dancing) Insane man

[@Ross_2312]

He’s just a gamer

[@ps5056]

macro

[@skycaptain95]

Simply a difference in skill.

[@macmac6064]

Autoclicker

[@Yuzuki1337]

Footpedal bound to Frostbolt kekw

[@tomaszpaz5189]

This guy keeps spamming frostbolts even when he's away from the keyboard, dancing in the middle of the room. What a skill. What a legend.

[@Ross_2312]

Absolute gamer legend

[@NepalEnjoyer]

plus if you notice in the bottom right corner's 'table he's the 3rd best damage dealer in the raid . Truly a fucking legend

[@blerp6675]

Those firedup pov's really hit different. His brain runs at like 8000% speed

[@Kingnothing818]

Imfiredup is an actual superhuman

[@deejkeithanmusic]

Firedup is the matrix.

[@Foretelling]

Easily top 3 best PvE players of all time

[@DreadlyKnight]

Lets see a comparison of blood death knights playing a roller coaster game with their health bar while their healers freak out as the death knight spams heart and death strike 😂

[@gandalf8216]

Good healers knows how fast the blood dk tank finishes a rotation.

[@vitorodino8760]

@@gandalf8216 ultra gay

[@thisguyhd6591]

@@vitorodino8760 but you like it

[@brettosowiecki8759]

@@vitorodino8760 I thought your gen hated that word

[@becjed1701]

Had healers freak at bdks hp being spikey, decent healers understand that's normal, and hp isn't the issue, range and runic power is

[@TheOneWhoReportsForDuty]

Behold! The era where the panicle of caster gameplay was standing still and hitting one or two buttons (any Classic and TBC caster) vs now where you are running around like a fighter jet (Evoker)

[@Ross_2312]

Haha i recently tried retail again, and i was playing evoker a bit, and that’s exactly how i felt 😂

[@michaookami4113]

Same Me as Lock 0.1 sec After cast Start Void under me Every time

[@cattysplat]

Evoker: "IMA FIRIN MAH LAZOR"

[@maxpowers4436]

You dont need to compare classic mage to evoker just compare mage to intself

[@lucasbayout195]

hahaha evoker healing is a bliss

[@SoraRikuKingdomheart]

The end got me dead when he stood up and started dancing.

[@brandoncastellano1858]

I thought they were the same person until that moment.

[@andulasis6283]

Man did you see how close that frostbolt cast was? Insane classic plays right there!

[@sevenw1nters57]

I asked you to do a raiding comparison on your last video and you did not disappoint. Thank you lol.

[@Ross_2312]

I read every comment. I appreciate the feedback and suggestions always, keep them coming!

[@superbnns]

"Vanilla was so hard you kids don't even know with this baby game"

[@Ross_2312]

👴 “back in my day!!!!”

[@whitecow13]

The leveling and overall convenience in Vanilla is definitely harder than retail. Retail is in general more casual friendly than Vanilla, so that's why people said that sentence. But comparing today's mechanics with a game that's almost 20 years older is just for the memes. Ridicule the veteran Vanilla wow players without knowing what you talk about is just lame. You will be surprised how many gems you will find in the retro gaming era because it's from a time were money and greed was less involved than in today's 'modern gaming'. Goodluck :)

[@jointser1008]

​@@whitecow13 I played tbc and wotlk and now classic era and leveling is the only part which is actually harder than retail. I can also give you advice for gaming: "be always open for new stuff you might get a surprise"

[@whitecow13]

@@jointser1008 thans for the advice, but don't worry i play alot of modern games aswell. As for wow i just prefer the classic game because of the leveling experience is the part i enjoy the most in an mmorpg. All the adventures and new people i meet along the way is what makes the game memorable for me. But everyone can play the flavor what brings you the most joy. So no need to look down on one version :). Goodluck!

[@xxxzzzzxxx]

WoW is a stupid ass game compared to any real competitive game like League, DOTA, CSGO or Valorant and it's funny that their own community says shit like Classic is worse or easier than retail WoW just because there you don't have to memorize 1000 mechanics instead of just playing a fucking PVE game

[@laszlogulyas6422]

Having fun versus having a second job.

[@siegemakerYT]

Thanks for reminding me how amazing the Xy'mox and Jailer fights were

[@Shyftus]

Xymox mythic was pure perfection

[@Montenegro651]

This shit made me laugh so freaking hard. And not even that loudly but I felt it deep in my gamer heart. 💀😂

[@hansvdz5834]

Man, using imfiredup clips for this made it 20 times better. Man doesn't even sweat or blink when making those sick plays in retail.

[@Ross_2312]

The 🐐

[@sweatystoner]

idk what the original context is to this day but im so happy that dude was feelin himself that day that clip has provided so many funny videos lmao

[@MixedBiscuits]

max's face on firedups dodges of the balls kills me. lmfao.

[@Guelicious]

This meme never gets old. 🤣

[@johng2794]

looks like the classic guy has way more fun^^

[@BrennenL]

I've mained a mage since 2010 - this is HILARIOUS!

[@Secretsofsociety]

Players back then liked that there was a big chatroom that was also a game. We didn't really care about being pro or any of that crap. Just hanging with friends. In TBC I mostly just hung around the gate by the pvp queue and dueled my friends. We were all poverty level geared because we didn't really raid or run heroics much. It was so fun.

[@user-oq5fc3xi8t]

"A big chatroom that was also a game" is the perfect way to describe how I saw the game. I miss it. :(

[@vitorpereira5461]

not only wow but most games. I played tibia in the same regard

[@zufiras9111]

Give me classic raids all day, i just wanna chill with the boys and have a good time

[@carloatuati9985]

If you don’t wipe 500 times

[@kaikideishuu536]

They have their charm for sure.

[@donjones4022]

casual guilds who only do normal and heroic are exactly like that lol

[@maxpowers4436]

Plenty of people chill in retail has nothing to donwith gameplay speed. Unless ur a braindead boomer of cors

[@powerplay074]

Do lfr then

[@floodsye]

The dancing part is actually very accurate funnily enough. Gnome Sequencer, the addon cheaters use to automate practically all gameplay actions, has over 6 million downloads now. It's on retail too, but crafting a macro sequence to accurately predict and execute a rotation with retail mechanics and rotations to be as good as an actual player playing well has not really been done too well yet. On Classic however, I've seen streamers with like a few dozen lines of macros in the thing and it maximizes DPS and HPS lmao. You can literally "play" while dancing. Gnone Sequencer players all claim to be fully disabled players with no way to play otherwise...but there's zero chance of that. It'd be mean every quadriplegic person in the world and more would be playing WoW. Thankfully, there's been rumors that blizzard is looking to fully remove the addon as they bring in a better, legal way for actually disabled to play (the adaptive controller support is one of these measures) that doesn't allow botting like GSE does.

[@Ross_2312]

I’ve never heard of it by name, but i have heard people talk about an addon potentially being banned that helps disabled gamers. Like you said a lot of people that use more than likely are not disabled. Thanks for the info on it

[@W0ndering50ul]

Funny my friend who played since classic was literally the other day telling me that doing anything else other than frost bolt on a raid boss was a dps loss and I was laughing then this vid just showed up on my page and I was laughing so hard

[@pabloreyez2229]

Lmao that classic clip so good

[@arthas236]

I'm in love with this video.

[@crounos]

i feel like i might acually fall asleep doing mage in classic

[@STARSHIPTROOP]

more mechanics than a Firestone Tire Shop

[@Ross_2312]

Hahaha 🤣

[@hellothere8812]

The first retail boss fight was the perfect choice

[@frostpyr0]

My song for Ragnaros was Deja Vu. The drop syncs perfectly with him becoming attackable if you start it when they talk to domromamamamamammru

[@murrmurr765]

I love how he continues casting when he is dancing!! Nostalgia!

[@RaimaNd]

Well his dance moves are crisp I'd fail more likely at that.

[@X3M_00]

It's funny how wow the boss mechanics became just several things for you to dodge while hitting or healing... whoever thought of the current mechanics was inspired by Cuphead?

[@colezohoh]

I lost it when he stood up

[@malinko35]

when that kid got up to dance i started laughing so hard

[@StarShopping69]

FiredUp is an absolute legend

[@xxFairestxx]

When you notice his hands are moving but in no way clicking frost bolt lol. And then he stands up lol I’m dead

[@Ross_2312]

He is just that talented 😂

[@xxFairestxx]

@@Ross_2312 haha

[@michaookami4113]

@@Ross_2312 Macro rota makes him

[@treeaboo]

Had a friend in Vanilla Classic who literally had a macro to spam frostbolt for him when we'd do MC after BWL while we was making food.

[@Daniel-kx3zz]

Classic: move out of the fire. You didn't move? Move now! That's right, get a healing, don't worry. Retail: Oh no! That mage used the mechanic in 5.001 seconds instead of 5.002!! WIPE EVERYONE! GKICK MAGE!

[@Spectacular66]

Reminds me of my time playing back in TBC retail and having music streaming on Ventrillo while we cleared Karazhan every week. Miss awesome raid nights like those.

[@xpo2k9]

Vanilla is eternal.

[@Helreiser1]

imfiredup is cracked man ... mad skills !

[@sneekyshot1]

man was feelin it

[@jeremyhead7368]

Estaup tho that sick jukes makes us all look normal

[@Meatcrob1]

Mage players when they have to do 1 mechanic.

[@pwndatronic7212]

Tbh, that Nathria boss was pretty complicated. Plus mage was dealing with the hardest seed.

[@andreware2039]

Man, just imagine classic arcane vs retail arcane. Now that would be a fucking roller coaster right there 😅

[@brbbiobreak]

classic arcane didn't get invited to the raid

[@k9tirion927]

Vanilla arcane does not exist, arcane blast was introduced with tbc. Well okay you could press arcane missiles like 7x and go oom without doing any damage and call that arcane for vanilla i guess.

[@Spidymc]

He looks so happy!

[@bongtombadil8497]

That Jailer Rune of Power tho xD

[@Kantlim]

Why everyone told me to play retail? Classic sound like much more fun

[@gameplaymore5951]

take a guess who's having more fun 😂

[@justsomeguywithagoatee8337]

Just spec frost. Spam frostbolts until flurry glows, then use ice lance. Rinse and repeat.

[@tigeryumyums9407]

This is exactly why I say a Hardcore challenge on retail would be impossible if you included mythic raiding

[@Thrall966]

Isn’t impossible if it’s just first 3 bosses mythic 😂

[@KevsShwaShwa]

Considering some mechanics require sacrifices on mythic. Yeah. It’s impossible.

[@krzysztofczajka6752]

Raid wipes because a one person failed mechanics is a sick, toxic joke

[@xplicitmike]

Mythic hardcore? Bro in retail it's a wipe if a single person dies on a mythic boss, need everyone playing perfectly the entire time. Damn now I lowkey want to try out Dragonflight and mythic raiding again 😂

[@Jrock420blam]

game isn't so easy anymore. One boss having more mechanics than all the bosses in vanilla combined

[@dabufy3683]

Vanilla easy??? 😂😂😂😂

[@Jrock420blam]

@@dabufy3683 yeah, those classic raids are very very easy compared to raids that come after, very limited by mechanics. The hardest part of vanilla/classic is and was having the patience to grind through levels.

[@aaronzNJD]

​@@dabufy3683 Yes absolutely lmao classic was a joke

[@Uncle-Ruckus.]

@@dabufy3683 its a joke compared to retail

[@feo130]

@@dabufy3683 Very easy lol.

[@iaxdy9822]

Pretty accurate. Mythic raids I'm full try hard mode. Classic raids I got my feet on the desk chilling using 1 hand half the time to press attacks.

[@Kavou]

You can clearly see who is having fun here.

[@tftg458]

OmG CLaSsIc WaS sO MuCh bETer ThAn ReTAiL!

[@user-zg5ew2bm7l]

harder =/= better. People don't play classic for the pve difficulty, but other elements that retail completely lacks

[@skyamerico]

Classic was a true MMORPG, Retail is an Instance Arcade game. Yes for sure Retail mechanics are harder, but i still prefer the RPG aspects of classic. And don't forget, that on Vanilla we used to raid with 300ms, 7-15 fps, 4-8 disconnects each boss, no world buffs, no hit gear (i was top dps as hunter and never used a hit gear), no youtube videos, etc....

[@tftg458]

@@user-zg5ew2bm7l enlighten me.

[@tftg458]

@@skyamerico wow has never had "real RPG" as much I also think wow would be a beter mmoRPG it is bad in both versions. If you can give me one decent reason why classic has beter RP sure but I don't believe it is. Have fun all you want in classic I myself played it too (the iteration now and the OG days) and had a blast but saying it is objectively beter than retail is just wrong sorry. If in your opinion classic is more fun enjoy man! I'm glad it is an option for you.

[@Uncle-Ruckus.]

@@user-zg5ew2bm7l what elements? the dk bots in pve and pvp, the social interactions that are basicaly the same with a guild in retail, taking hours to get a lvl sounds like a huge waste of time

[@oddthemute6172]

Too real. Makes me want to raid as my mage again in retail, though lmao.

[@davidsantiago7808]

this makes me want to raid as a mage in classic, retail sucks

[@generaljouf]

@@davidsantiago7808 He wasn't even saying he dislikes classic, most likely his comment means he finds the content in retail more engaging. Yet your boomer brain immediately goes ''RETAIL BAD, NOSTALGIA GOOD'' in an objectively garbage 20 year old mmo walking simulator with poor quality of life updates. You're getting farmed by Blizzard for 2 decades now and you still don't realise it, get a grip.

[@oddthemute6172]

@davidsantiago7808 Castle Nathria and the two Dragonflight raids (so far) are objectively good. You're kinda fried, mate. I also spent about 55 days /played on my vanilla classic warrior at lvl 60. The only good vanilla raid is BWL. Classic has a lot of merit, but retail raids, especially so far in Dragonflight, are more fun.

[@davidsantiago7808]

@@generaljouf I'm 21 and I just started playing wow a year ago. I started with retail and switched to classic and I'm having infinitely more fun. In retail if you're a noob you get flamed by other players in m+ dungeons. On top of that anything you want to work towards can be bought with real money. Mount? Buy it. Gear? Buy it. Enchants? Buy it. Max level character? Buy it. The only thing you can't really buy is ahead of the curve, but even that can be bought if you know the right guild. It made my entire experience sour and it felt hollow to achieve anything. I switched to classic vanilla and my experience was way better. The community is great, everyone is friendly. There's plenty of both factions running around in contested areas so I can pvp in the open world while leveling. There's no wow token so even though rmt does exist most of the goals and achievements in the game are at least somewhat worth something. To me it isn't about the skill or technicality of the game, it's about if the game is good. And quite frankly retail sucks.

[@nightshock5775]

@@generaljouf Most sane sweaty retail player

[@ChillAssTurtle]

Twas a simpler time

[@Zesmas]

man he must be spamming that Frost bolt Very hard.

[@toddsmith1969]

Him sweating sent me 😂

[@RestoGoliath]

and then u have these classic andy's saying "Ulduar is hard we can't kill Algalon"

[@Ross_2312]

Started leveling a new char on wotlk during the exp bonus. The number of dungeon groups with absolutely awful players is scary lol. Literally had to teach a few dk tanks how to play their class because i was ooming every pull as healer, these tanks were pulling huge and literally doing 0 healing with death strike 😂 . Im like make sure you apply your diseases or it won’t heal, one didn’t even know what diseases were lol. After explaining hes like lol didnt feel like reading 3 paragraphs im lazy. Queues as tank 😂

[@icebox1954]

Algalon is pretty difficult if your teammates are drooling morons. I think the only really fun mechanical fight in Ulduar is Mimiron Hardmode because that's all about positioning and space management. I still haven't killed Algalon but will this coming week. I was with a bad guild that only recently got it down.

[@danielandersson3067]

Algalon was not hard because of mechanics, it's just that he hits like a fucking truck and 1 bad star can wipe you.

[@123Suffering456]

I play in a guild with a lot of bad players and you would be surprised how hard the content can feel when people manage to kill themselves almost every single pull in some stupid way. The amount of times we are out of brezes after Mimi p1 because some people like to play minesweeper is actually astonishing. And we can't even do Algalon because our dps is mathematically too low to beat him before enrage. So I guess there's still plenty of people who find the content pretty challenging. Though that says more about them than the content.

[@somsimsem]

Damn, that boss was one of the best ones ive fought in a long ass time.. The whole of Castle Nathria was amazing

[@JesusToldMeTo]

This shit had me dieing bro

[@hitenmitsurugi489]

back in my day, the first person to stack scorch was the dps king as long as it stayed up. *waves wizard cane*

[@LewReviews]

But who looks to be having the most fun

[@Tyranny.]

And that is the problem with retail wow. A game where you must download curse client and download 30 addons on top! That is incongruous…. And then you have Classic wow, simplicity at its finest! We want classic plus now!

[@DrewS1890]

That’s right, things did indeed get harder and more challenging. Haha. Boss fights are just puzzles that requiere solving as a group. It’s not bad, it if you want to do Mythic it can be intimidating. Especially if you can’t find a group that has the same mindset as you.

[@sebastionmiller1432]

Funny video. Accurate and factual. 10/10

[@Hiebly]

Honestly. I would love if we could have something in the middle where I have to pay attention to a couple key mechanics and have a few buttons in the rotation but dont feel like I need to take a PhD to understand a boss before going at it (with addons installed to cover my screen with instructions). But it's nice for raids to just be chill, don't fuck up the 1-2 mechanics, and feel the progress from the gear you've got for your characters. Being hyperfocused with every piece of content, managing a half dozen different mechanics and constantly weaving between dodging and soaking every 6 seconds (and keeping track of who's turn it is to soak), only for the progress to boil down to "item level go up" (without actually really being able to feel it because of how obfuscated your damage is behind procs rather than baseline ability damage)... its just a little exhausting honestly

[@CloudianMH]

just play ret pala

[@BigMuskachini]

Yeah its called TBC/Wotlk. just play buffed tbc private server

[@user-oq5fc3xi8t]

What about normal raids?

[@torum6448]

@@BigMuskachini Are there any decent TBC pservers? The only one with a sizeable population that i know is stormforge netherwing, and well... let's just say they might as well replace the Orgrimmar music with ching cheng hanji considering how many chinese bots they've got on that server. I am only asking because TBC is also my favorite, and the only big private servers out there are Vanilla and WOTLK, and tbh i prefer TBC over either of those.

[@Kingkhalled]

Sometimes just pressing 1 and vibing out with the boys on disc is the mood, that's what classic is good for

[@ogFaTaL]

Its ok some people's brains can't handle multiple buttons and mechanics at the same time 😂

[@burnttoast26]

@@ogFaTaL"If you're not a tryhard you're dumb" And you guys wonder why classic is more popular

[@hvjsy]

It's literally not though lmao, retail has probably 3x the players classic/wotlk do regardless of what you guys think@@burnttoast26

[@shamba4406]

@@burnttoast26it’s not. Classic is full of bots and mostly dead. 😂

[@burnttoast26]

@@shamba4406 So is retail

[@SKiPER210397]

That's amazing, i'm crying)

[@jamesellison5731]

bro has frostbolt at 2.5 seconds cast speed

[@fohhee]

As a Mage since vanilla, I can confirm this is true.

[@Treshar]

I went back to retail recently after break for many years and can confirm, this is how retail is now. I felt like i was playing some sort of platformer, jump here dodge there move out move in spread out group up.

[@Treshar]

@@dennisdubose2444 No, that is not what I said, but I can see English is not your first language so I understand your confusion and poor spelling and grammar.

[@hyvea3001]

@@Treshar Keep playing classic my dude :)

[@Treshar]

@@hyvea3001 I have zero interest in a game I played to death 15 years ago, so I don't play classic.

[@Treshar]

People seem to be misunderstanding my OP. I had no trouble playing retail for the month or so I went back recently. My issue is that the core gameplay loop is not enjoyable. If I wanted to run around in circles like a nutcase there are games that do that far better and don't require a monthly sub.

[@KC-py5vq]

@@Treshar sounds like a skill issue tbh

[@denispeda]

cant wait for season of mastery

[@BlueGuitarMusic]

great frostbolts good parse, prolly pro

[@Seabiskit]

my gray parsing ass in retail vs my 99's in classic. Can't even compare the games they are so different lmao.

[@nevr9281]

Do people actually log classic raids? 💀

[@Seabiskit]

@nevr idk I think the only fun part of classic raids is the competition of logs. It's a snoozefest without it.

[@saschasmith3635]

I love classic and retail but any classic player that says that classic is harder is on CRACK😂!!

[@Ross_2312]

Some people actually think that, and haven’t tried retail in years. I do think a lot of the classic/wrath community don’t necessarily care about doing challenging content though, and some just create the illusion they are 😂

[@Kristers_K]

Classic was and is easy, but that's precisely the point. It makes for a chill and fun game. In retail you have to run for your life every 5-10 seconds, it's no longer a game, it's like a very intensive job.

[@Shorado]

classic is for the mentally aged players who cant react to swirlies on the floor anymore. No disrespect but their dedicated bullshitting to try to make classic look like challenge compared to retail is sad and pathetic.

[@Korri1992]

"classic is harder" kekw.

[@Coolstory4o]

It's actually mindblowing how hardstuck some people are, i mean...there are actually npcs that were/still screaming how classic is all serious and hard xD

[@icecreamman2687]

and ranged dps is the easiest role by a mile

[@k9tirion927]

Depends on the boss, quite often ranged players get to do more mechanics and greeding for casts is more interesting than melee uptime. I switched from warrior to mage in Legion because melee uptime gameplay felt too binary to me

[@danielkarlsson397]

This is so true. Yet people be like "Classic is much harder" They have no CLUE!!!!! I played Resto druid in Naxx but got BORED cause you litteraly stand there waiting for stuff to do between heals instead of weaving. tsk tsk

[@geissler91]

i think the primary difference is some people think "the game" is endgame raiding, whereas others think it's the leveling process + general endgame, or some other slice. if you don't first agree on a definition then you'll never agree on the terms. Leveling in classic is infinitely more difficult than in retail, for instance. Earning gold- same thing. Achieving various character milestones such as high level/professions/items/mounts all more difficult or time-consuming as well. Comparing specifically the high-end raiding mechanics in a game's earliest years with its latest and then drawing a wider conclusion simply doesn't work.

[@danielkarlsson397]

@@geissler91 you hit the nail about classic. Time consuming. In Retail you can fly to China in 10mins. In Classic you have to fight through murlocs for 3 days to get to same place. Then your friend logs in and you cant play together cause then guess what. 3 more days of Murlocs 🤣

[@SHITSWEEEK]

literally no one says classic is harder lmao better game? absolutely. but not harder. retail raiding is autistic as fuck

[@Altobrun]

@@geissler91 re-professions, I disagree. I was BS/Eng in classic and tbc, and Eng/JC in wrath. Professions in classic have always just been money pit - it isn't difficult or particularly time consuming.

[@erifwodahs5298]

@@geissler91 Because leveling is not really a thing anymore. Classic leveling is tedious, not hard - you literally do fuck all for half time because you sit and drink. Also mounts are much harder in retail, that doesn't even compare. Time consumption =/= difficulty. It's a time waste. Professions hard in classic? You mean just throw gold at it as you can do in retail?

[@FROZENbender]

life maximum reaction: :O

[@roboticus9518]

What's that addon that replaces player portrait with class icon?

[@basf7620]

classic is hard guys trust me

[@Ross_2312]

If you said it, it must be true

[@rackodakoo]

seems like the classic player is having more fun

[@VaranTheCasual]

100% I love playing Classic and just chilling with some music😂

[@aztex6981]

We had more time to be social during vanilla raids.

[@Pumkin932]

The story of why I finally got burnt out of mage after maining one for almost two decades. Too annoying and stressful to play now.

[@SuperRederic]

I like classic raiding more since the gear feels more important, the raids are more enjoyable with less convaluded mechanic

[@karasutsuki1733]

Can someone explain why the Frostbolt rotation works? It just doesnt get into my MMOBrain how spamming that one skill can beat out a combination of the kit

[@Ross_2312]

Realistically their only single target spell. Talents in frost tree buff frost spells so fire and arcane spells not as useful.

[@JSIguess]

Because blizzard made it the most efficient spell to cast. Everything else scales poorly and does no damage.(literally when it comes to fire spells)

[@josedavidmunozmartinez4722]

This applies to all classes in general lol

[@Accelerate55]

100% accurate - the classic player is happy and actually having fun.

[@anthonyduncan8676]

Yea buts who's having more fun 😂. Love the video.

[@Bartooc]

Beating raid tier world first is pretty fun.

[@cattysplat]

Sweating with other sweat lords or bing chilling with the bros.

[@DevelonLP]

I love this meme I do like raiding in both expansion i always do full heroic clears and do some mythic bosses and i still very much enjoy classic raiding in many cases i do enjoy it even more. Its way different though and it gets too much compared with retail.

[@wmv8996]

Dudes breathing like he's pulling G's in a fighter jet.

[@ratba8366]

More mechanics means more fun guys!

[@Ross_2312]

From what I’ve heard of people playing new expansion, they actually have toned down the number of mechanics, because end of shadowlands (the raids in this vids) it was just so over the top. Even the world first best guilds thought it was too much

[@Zippism]

@@Ross_2312 The new raid in retail is easier than anything in shadowlands, which is a good thing.

[@Ross_2312]

@@Zippism i did the first raid on lfr (lol) i hadnt played since like first month of DF and it was cool to see the encounters. Haven’t played much since, but was a nice change of pace from hc classic.

[@SeJoHu]

Swapping from Balance to Feral was so much better for my mental health. Dodging mechanics as a caster gives me anxiety. Dodging mechanics as melee is just dancing with the boss.

[@Februaries]

Its hell for casters if the boss has many moving mechanics