This is Why People Love Season of Discovery so Much (Classic WoW)

Season of Discovery is here and it has taken the entire Classic WoW - no, the entire World of Warcraft - community by storm! Players are loving diving back into Azeroth yet again, finding runes, crates, and enjoying all the "endgame" content that Season of Discovery offers, in the form of the Blackfathom Depths Raid, Ashenvale World PvP, and more.
But why do people enjoy Season of Discovery so much? What makes this new game mode associated with Classic WoW so popular with the community? In this video, Nixxiom goes into why exactly he feels SoD has done so well, in that it recognized the spirit of Classic World of Warcraft and built on it, rather than trying to change it into something new.
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[@DerKnusperhase]

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[@mcfarvo]

Yo, Nixxiom, what's your conventional deadlift at currently?

[@NixxiomOnYouTube]

​@@mcfarvo I did something to my wrist maybe 2 weeks ago, and it's been in a good bit of pain ever since. So I'm not able to do too much deadlifting at the moment. Most of everything that I'm doing is related to just the use of my legs alone. But as it stands now, my deadlift is at 425 lb. You can see the video of me doing it on my Instagram account, Linked In the description.

[@KazeHorse]

GDKP BFD is something I never expected to see ngl 😂

[@Dax-D]

The level cap is also making a difference. We are playing the lower end dungeons as a core playstyle.

[@user-go7mc4ez1d]

Whoever decided to cap it at level 25 is honestly an absolute G. Turned it away from some sweaty grind-fest into something that can be savoured and gradually expanded. I doubt I would have returned if it had been straight to 60

[@PatrickHenryWoW]

it caught flack when it was announced but I loved the idea. Clearly it's worked out well. @@user-go7mc4ez1d

[@jamesgonzalez9231]

That and I don't have to feel in so much of an rush. I'm trying all the classes to see what I like.

[@IlDuce7111]

This single change made the game so much bigger, since you can now deep explore the low level content, proffesions, gear maxing, and more!@@user-go7mc4ez1d

[@deangelobailey5863]

Yea I think this is the best way to combat the few turbo nerds who level to 60 in less than a week just to grief and gank people. They also end up controlling the market making key reagents like black lotus and devilsaur leather almost impossible to farm

[@ChessJew]

One of many reasons I love it - we actually have time to explore and enjoy these dungeons. Instead of Wailing Caverns being something to do just to get through the leveling, it's an integral part of the game right now.

[@gricklegrass4394]

Yeah I'm busy with my 6 kids and 3 jobs. This is my kinda pace

[@Arisderp]

I was thinking the same thing. So many things are trivialized just by leveling quickly, even in classic. I remember leveling blacksmithing and laughing at the crap that was given to me. Now I see how precious my bracers with +1 spirit are.

[@blablabik1]

This, making us farm places we prolly skiped or didnt give 2 thoughts about

[@lockout6896]

This is so true.the lvl cap as a great idea.also so many people are trying alts and helping each other. Reminds me of the old old days 😂😂

[@Aztiren]

Started since beta wow and to this day I’m still playing. Both retail and SoD. I love this game

[@robinmichel9048]

One of my favorite things about Classic WoW is the elite world quests. The ones where you basically need to put together a 5 man group to complete. The elite Redridge quests come to mind, specifically. They're like a mini instance. Love working as a team in WoW.

[@simeonbuchert1457]

I cant stop playing! Im new to classic and I have been neglecting my retail game since launch.... Its awesome to play in a relevant environment.

[@Haggis-Giggles4692]

WoW SOD is the best thing for people who have never played WoW before. Every expansion should have some thing for new players and something for veterans, WoW has forgotten about new players for 10+ years till now. A game will stop growing if they don’t keep trying to entice new players, which is what Blizzard went through. Veterans have also said WoW feels like a “casual fun victory lap”.

[@XDMGXMXR]

Love the small level diff keeping folks together

[@karldergrosse-333]

I think it’s actually an incredibly cohesive community right now. At least on Lone Wolf. There seems to be a lack of generally cancerous behavior. Don’t get me wrong - some people will always be dicks, but SoD feels awesome.

[@micahgiavaras4783]

agree, my casual wow homie is around lvl 20 rn, instead of him just needing to hit max to do anything with us we can still dungeon together and something is in it for everybody

[@MC-nt7jz]

casual noobs in sod thats why i stick to era

[@karldergrosse-333]

@@MC-nt7jz you know Trump plays classic, right bro? He knows what's good.

[@pisolino6629]

For me it's also that we don't have flying. I love that i need to see every zone every part of it every tree. Feels like I'm really there it's immersive and i love it.

[@SteadyChasingMoneyBags]

this is crazy logic... so you wont use a mount or flight paths either?

[@pxpe7765]

​@@SteadyChasingMoneyBagsNo, this is crazy logic. A ground mount is a ground mount, flight paths are flight paths, not flying mounts.

[@defenestrationstation5771]

One thing I like about sod is that I can tell my friends to play with me and they actually want to instead of having their eyes glaze over when they realize it would be 100 hours before they can be caught up to my main character

[@Silenced_by_Utoob]

You hit the points perfect, this game definitely brings me back to 2005 and I’m enjoying it. I think people are also forgetting 1 thing that make SoD so fun and so engaging….no mounts. Walking everywhere may seem nightmarish to most newer players, but this give us an opportunity to discover these areas and meet new players.

[@pxpe7765]

Mounts wouldnt change that tho wtf.

[@greysonmiller9407]

New players love it too. Me and 4 friends just got into it and Classic is just so vibey and chill to play with friends. The level cap keeps things at a reasonable pace for all of us too.

[@ninjalacoon]

Love the feeling of multiple end games ahead of me. Still so much left to do and see.

[@Chickentorchic]

It really feels like rediscovering classic. The level caps are absolutely genius, I am doing content I never did before like going to Shadow Fang Keep as alliance or Wailing Caverns. Going early to ratchet to get my runes, discovering new items, seeing transmorphed mobs in Elwynn Forest and much more. SoD must continue to Classic+ and take the OSRS route imo. This is absolutely brilliant and I am in love with classic all over again

[@assassinwolf7216]

I am loving playing with tanking as a Shaman. The Mana burn is odd on a tank, but SoD just feels so good!

[@ujust326]

I love the much slower pace of it all. Level banding is a really good as you can experience everything at a certain level has to offer. People would be 60 already and hitting molten core if it wasn't for level banding. It adds longevity to the season. I have run more WC, SFK, DM in this season that i have since i started playing in vanilla wow.

[@TechnoWaffol]

Amazing video, subscribed. I stopped playing since MoP and coincidentally started playing again, had no idea about SoD. I'm having so much fun! I know it won't last forever so I'm truly grateful that I get to experience WoW at it's best again.

[@joshw3719]

Very few words, but I will say this. It’s nothing short of amazing. I’m absolutely hooked and even thinking about playing while at work sometimes.

[@einzuwasu5563]

Same 😂

[@JohnSmith-ez5pw]

The level cap was genius. You get to explore all of the low level areas fully instead of rushing to 60. It also bakes in BiS tiers you can achieve and "beat" that phase.

[@pxpe7765]

Genius from a profit perspective yes. The only reason they did it is cause they were in a rush to get the next "new" thing out, and they knew people would quit within a week without this fomo factor, and you guys are eating it up and praising them for it. Mission accomplished blizzard

[@JustRuss]

No way I'm trying to gank you in this video at 5:55 😱

[@DayZBanditSquad]

My favorite thing about SOD is that bots outnumber players 3:1

[@M0shning]

Me! A 18 year old who started this game in mop and only played retail until SoD (Leveled to 16 when classic first came out) Is loving LOVING my experience in SoD im taking it slow enjoying the game and experiencing something entirely new and fun. I have fallen in love with it and i absolutely recommend all retail players to try it out!

[@clublulu399]

I started playing when I was 16, that was back in 2004. I'm going back in at 36, it's insane to think about. So many great memories made from a "video game"

[@aggrend]

This was a cool listen. You definitely took the words out of our... brains when it comes to the philosophy we went with when concepting Season of Discovery. Thanks sir!

[@ryno4ever433]

Is this the real aggrend

[@Quitarstudent]

if you read this, im little concerned that youre increasing new overpower items while garbage junk that was garbage even during vanilla is left there, as we will progress to 60, this is becoming more and more aparent, especially in 5man settings, where ppl hunt the one bis item, but the 90% rest of the items are just awfully designed/worthless

[@aggrend]

@@Quitarstudent I can understand this sentiment but the weird, sub-optimal stat items are important in original wow. They are sometimes interstitial upgrades that aren't perfect or even all that good, but are upgrades in the moment until you get something better. Also, not ALL items that are new are going to be optimzied perfectly, also by design for the same reason. We don't ever really want to get to the point where every item is Main Stat/Stam/secondary/secondary. That model works for other versions of WoW, but that really just is not vanilla. That means there will be oddball items that aren't great, but it'll also make those truly great items even more exciting when you do get them.

[@Quitarstudent]

@@aggrend tanks for reply, but i dont see how they are important at all.... people will prefer 30lvl item with +9 spell power over item that increases base stats (for example speaking for casters), maybe in vanilla where everything wasnt optimalized and most of the people didnt even know what to look for this was acceptable, im not talking about goofy items, but the number of items is huge but usable are only a few, i simply wish we could have more diversity in op items (like i woudlnt have to farm scholo for a wand, because similar wand drops also in strat or UBRS or something) also i hope that future brings dungeon sets (tier 0, but all t1 t2 tiers) to some reasonable level, especially for casters, they are cool, but useless for most of the classes and its a damm shame (i can imagine some upgrade like youve done with the crafted items now in SoD, that would be cool af)

[@quintrapnell3605]

It’s nice to level in brackets like this so end game always feels in reach and the community is close in power.

[@fenririw]

As a very new member of this community and wow world , i can say that i have never experienced something like this before. I did play many many mmorpgs for long times, im a mmorpg veteran but i cannot believe i havent tried wow experience before...

[@shinski8114]

yeah wow was the most popular game of existence for a reason back in the day.

[@wuzittooya]

I hope it progresses into new classic era content to truly create classic+ in the future.

[@th3blainetrain887]

i love that level cap is 25! makes it to where everyone gets to play around the same pace. makes it feel less like you are being left behind. SOD is fucking godly! im having way to much fun lol

[@JOKE485]

I hope they will focus more on 10 man raids. I’m so done with guilds running whole servers and having such power over everyone. The logistics of 40 man raids is such a hassle and loot always feels unfair

[@andychia3132]

Season of Discovery gave me the nostalgia kick AND something fresh to enjoy as an old man. its like taking the best pieces of classic and adding a dash of wrath to it... The perfect balance of something you vaguely remember with something you're comfortable with.

[@robertseptim3579]

I would add that it's not just the growing in power, but the variety and viability as well. We get to explore new options. I'd say that also has an essence of discovery, especially with lower brackets and new items that give further builds/optimizations to test

[@roblewisfitnesscoach]

I am enjoying it way more than I do retail. It feels like a bigger world somehow and so much more immersive.

[@TaylorShawn]

Skip to 3:00 to skip his 3 minute long introduction / sponsor

[@chuckalexander3318]

Shoulda stamped this at :01, didn't pop up until 3:00 😢

[@Here4theComments9]

Thanks!

[@EliusMaximus]

I only found out about season of discovery 10 days ago And I just absolutely love that I can easily catch up with everyone and still see the max level content!

[@oswaldmensin5283]

This video is SPOT ON. I have played WoW since classic in 2005 with my friends. The Classic versions of WoW always stuck with me as my favorites. SoD is the first game since the first 3 expansions that I have played and really thought "wow" about it. SoD is so good, it may be my new favorite version of Classic. I hope they always keep the first version preserved "flaws and all" but, I absolutely love this version of classic they have given with SoD. Major fun. Keep the good things going Blizzard and dont make major changes that ruin it. Expansion of content can be good, but nothing that overall breaks the mechanics. The difficulty, the progression, teamwork, all of those are great as they are now. I as well do love the way they PUSHED social interaction in this version of wow. The fact to need each other and a team and to need a community to win... YES, LIKE IT OR NOT AT TIMES, THIS IS EXCELLENT. I do not like the lonely single player game aspect of MMO, if I wanted to do that I would just play single player games. I love that I still feel IMPACTFUL too though, so that I know I am also contributing to the success of my group and not just a "small cog" that feels weak.

[@latham4575]

I kinda hope they stick with 10 man content. Maybe I’ve just gotten my fill of large raids, but it’s just logistically a lot easier to do 10 mans. It’s been a nice change

[@davidcardinal3654]

Ya I love 10 mans. 25 mans are pretty much impossible to keep a consistent roster

[@TookyG]

I don't know, there are a LOT of sweaty players. As usual, the players will destroy a game faster and more completely than the devs.

[@k.bularga]

Truth be told doing the third iteration of the Ashenvale event late night yesterday felt awesome. Now there's negative incentive to afk at final boss - you actually do earn more for doing more. And that's great.

[@Dime-bz6hc]

I played classic at its inception and hit 60 in the summer of 05. Loved it back then and played intensely for a few years. Stopped while I was in the latter stages of college but played periodically throughout the years. Started playing SOD a few months ago and fell in love with the game all over again. It has been such a ride getting back up to max lvl and effing kids up who weren’t alive when I first hit 60.

[@RoachDoggggJR]

A huge part of it for me is the rolling level cap. The fact that I can take my time makes me feel like I actually stand a chance of keeping up with the community

[@fiskfisken9920]

But CAN we take our time? thats the question. from what ive heard its a 3 month season, wich means 3 weeks 1-25 - 3 weeks 25-40 and so on. this seems designed to run away from u FAST!

[@jossonbelluschi3517]

BAHAHA not a 3 month season dog

[@jossonbelluschi3517]

they said 4-8 weeks per phase and there are roughly 8 phases

[@fiskfisken9920]

@@jossonbelluschi3517 Ok. thats sounds better than my first impression. Hope you're right 🙂

[@danielclaw13]

Having a max level at 25 makes a good opening for new players, and it doesn't feel as bad of a grind.

[@eric_of_weird2776]

At one point at launch I played, my wife played, my daughter played, and my wife's mother played. I've never seen any other game capture so many new people from various generations.

[@Targetdh]

The fact that as horde I have to do Deadmines has something very special, even tho my friends are redacted and always get killed by a crocodile in STV its so much fun to be able to explore something I would have never done without the level cap. Good job blizzard

[@MSinistrari]

I'm having a lot of fun with Season of Discovery. It has given me a heightened appreciation for the QoL adjustments in retail.

[@tainicon4639]

Interesting? I feel as though the QoL stuff are what detracted from the game. And SoD (and classic in general) highlight how much those messed up the experience… like rfd in wotlk…. Completely ruined the community….

[@MSinistrari]

@@tainicon4639 For me it's the minor QoL sort of things like area autoloot, or autoupdate spell ranks kinda stuff. It's nice to not have to make sure all your flypoints connect, but it's not a dealbreaker kind of thing.

[@tainicon4639]

@@MSinistrari autoloot… yeah I agree. But I think spell ranks and training are such a better system for character fantasy. I need to go back to a city and train and stock up. And I also like the flight paths being earned. Makes the world seem bigger!

[@Justnothankyou132]

​@@tainicon4639So you're the user that turned WoW into dog tier, nice

[@tainicon4639]

@@Justnothankyou132 what? I prefer the game to be an MMO not fancy skin for some moba.

[@wholesomejoe]

I really like that instead of "rushing to endgame" because that's where the fun is, and by the time I get there, it's too late because I'm too slow.. I can play casually and still get to the "endgame" of this season and experience it well before the next season begins. I like the small goals format. I have something to look forward to.

[@Quitarstudent]

this wasnt a thing in classic before despite ppl speedrunning it, you could easily go to MC as fresh because those speedrunners were still hunting that 1% droprate item

[@REDLINE4WD.]

Its the psychology of a refresh. Everyone starting on a new playing field.

[@ToxicNyteShade]

2nd comment I'm still level 18 I'm taking my time enjoying the game and I'm a lone player quiet and shy but SOD has made me come out of my shell and socialize

[@joshuablunt-kl8th]

SoD is freakin great I wasn’t sure about all the added stuff to class’s But wow, this feels good and right added stuff in the clsssic environment keeping it classic Seeing people interact and world PvP in random areas it’s good

[@cavetroll666]

Geting my metamorphosis form was so much fun and social.

[@easyy376]

Level cap is so good and many classes get a lot of abilities that make them feel full.

[@OsoBlanco17]

I haven’t played wow in a while but I heard about this and was curious. Thanks Nixx, this was exactly what I needed.

[@grisch4329]

What the crates do for professions is brilliant and exactly what we needed. There needed to be a sink to move those items out of the economy and give them an actual value. Would love to see more tight game design like this.

[@gesi7072]

For all the time i put into wow way back in 2006- 2011, i never REALLY played Horde characters and im using SoD to do that. Im exploring the low level zones i never really played before and feeling an entirely new aspect of the game on top of the changes to my favorite class. Im not even 25 yet and im feeling that "addictive" drive to keep playing and exploring meanwhile interacting organically with other players. Its kind of magical

[@EndGameEnt]

Nailed it, dude. It's all about the community and the community is ALIVE right now!

[@gswizzle1258]

I can’t wait to start playing this as a new player it’s good to see the community is so together

[@Vrinara]

I honestly hope they keep cap at 25 for at least 2-3 months. Gives everyone time to raid, to get 25, and to figure out the main they plan to continue playing on till the end. Originally I wasn't gonna resub to WoW just cause of personal reasons.. but seeing how my friends are playing SoD and how much fun they are saying it is. I gave it a go, and am kinda hooked.

[@sydsweiner6516]

Hell no lol. 6 weeks maximum. The 40 bracket will be much more fun with mounts and way more things to do

[@Fucking_Legend]

Nah give it a few months 6 weeks is to low​@@sydsweiner6516

[@Matthew_A_N]

It was a lot of fun for a couple days then ran out of stuff i wanted to do.

[@defenestrationstation5771]

One of the biggest wins that I think blizz had with this was choosing to let level 25 the max level at first. I will say that it solves so many problems that classic wow had such as people dropping off early as well as breaking up the grind for every max level, I personally think that levels want to 30 classic wow are some of the best content in mmos hands down however in my personal Journey maybe because I wasn't able to socialize as much but everything between 40 and 60 was just a giant log with 50 to 60 being a genuinely bad experience for me is the only reason why I got to the end being that all of my friends were at max level having fun without me so it felt like if the grouped with me it was a chore for them and if they didn't it was a chore for me with it being completely disheartening to Quest for 2 hours and only have gotten three bars of exp for it at most it genuinely felt like a job that I wasn't getting paid for However with season of discovery it is so easy to enjoy myself as I'm playing the fun parts of the game and when I tell my friends that they can play with me if they want they aren't immediately put off by the The Grind or the feeling of Burden because I have to make another character to play with them

[@lockout6896]

The “every time you get a new bag” remark hit me.😂😂 Shaman tanks are to much fun

[@Chimpmanboom]

One thing i was looking forward to at 25 max are trying different classes and making alts. However a lot of the runes are just such a pain to get there's no way I would do it on an alt.

[@cnh7262]

Yeah that’s what is keeping me from making an alt at the moment lol

[@Quitarstudent]

depends if you need the particular rune, but yes, i feel like some of them are too annyoing to get, epsecially if u need more ppl for it

[@emikochan13]

The crates are so elegant, my hope is revived in blizzard's developers understanding what makes classic good. Though I kinda wish the metamorph rune didn't have huge camerablocking wings :P

[@continuallyblessed44]

I really wish retail would get a complete rework and play more like classic/classic wrath including a prolonged leveling experience (or at least the option) for those of us who like the journey more than the destination. All this shows that people crave the more classic experience than the dull retail version we have.

[@Dras7]

I might agree but i bet the majority of retail would absolutely hate a slower levelling experience, the core of retail is raiding and m+, open world barely matter besides chores.

[@huntervanhook]

I love the runes, but my favorite part is the level cap

[@BoneBullet]

I added a new friend to my list in years after killing murlocks then going after Avengers shield.

[@looker999997]

I think that's the difference that makes Classic a fundamentally different game from retail - from at least Cata onward, the focus has been on content treadmills, ease and convenience rather than things that encourage players grouping up for anything before high-end endgame content. It makes such a massive difference to the leveling experience, and SoD emphasizes that by staggering the level cap.

[@Inxx89]

So true! Love the video, and the honesty! I never played original vanilla, and I didnt want to play classic because I played a ton of WotLK private servers, and it all just felt like a downgrade to me. But now, with the friends that I made in classic TBC and classic wrath, I came to SoD, and I love it! I rerolled my main, because its fast, lvl25 allows me to try all the things I want. There is people everywhere, dungeons are easy to find, the new stuff is amazing and I hope blizz make this a long term thing, not just a seasonal server.

[@luiscontreras5500]

What I love is how challenging it can be pulling 3 mobs and actually almost dying to them if not done right. It’s challenging, but not so challenging where you want to quit the game.

[@gamersresidence6040]

Honestly, take my sub. By now, you have MORE THAN earned it. I hope it helps in the push for the half-mill !

[@SmoothjazGamingTV]

It's been a real blast so far & can't wait for more - first time in a long time on WoW (since I started in OG Wrath) that there feels a real sense of discovery to a familiar yet new world, where the mobs actually seem dangerous and loot feels important. Excited for the future :)

[@varitsvq9002]

I entered the cave in Silverpi e Forest to get the Master Channeler rune and a 25 Warlock was inside waiting for low levels to help them kill the elite. Gotta love it.

[@rhyantrick8178]

Shaman tank is so fun. I love being excited to play a class again.

[@Philinleshed]

I started in 2005 vanilla as well…been playing on and off ever since (my biggest gap of not playing was 4 years while I was in college) but yea there’s something fresh and exciting about season of discovery

[@bodazaphfa]

Yup, I’m loving it too. Taking my time with it and not going online to find anything.

[@davidwhitson4558]

It's the game we fell in love with almost 20 years ago.

[@JustDave_GG]

2005 Andy here! Still love it, classic and SOD is amazing!

[@NovaThatGuy]

I remember somewhere around September or October 2006, I was 4 years old and my Grandma thought it'd be a good idea to give me World of Warcraft, been playing off and on ever since. Good times.

[@tayarts12]

I have really been enjoying SoD as Hunter and soon to level my Warlock too!

[@terrancemiller7456]

Not going to search through all the comments. But the rep tied to the boxes is also a huge reason to do them. That unlocks items and runes you can buy.

[@vampiricalchemist]

Tbh, the level 25 cap does more for this season than the runes.

[@XenusOne]

Breaking ToS for that sweet Zygor Money :)

[@Lynrowen]

hit 25 today with warrior. Man. p1 SoD war feels better than TBC warrior. It's been a blast, and met some good people helping me with runes. Warriors out there; I feel bad for you getting your Warbringer runes. It was definitely and adventure getting it.

[@anri6198]

Now Blizz just needs to add more stuff to Classic+. Like profession specific runes, player owned housing, new community events, etc.

[@terrodar19]

No. Stop it please, dont add too much crap or they will ruin it

[@anri6198]

@@terrodar19 It would be called classic+ for a reason. Stay on og classic servers if you don't want anything new.

[@ItsEveristo]

I truly appreciate the 25-level cap. I have been playing off and on since 2006, but I was a kid then. I now have a wife a baby and a full-time job. I still have not level-capped but it seems so much more manageable.

[@SLKoolKats]

Seeing a Zygor ad in 2024 is wild to me. No hate to Nixxiom or Zygor itself... I just remember trying to convince my parents back during TBC that I needed this addon. To see the same product/company still kicking 15ish years later is crazy. Nostalgic to say the least. $10/month is pretty absurd for an addon but it must have a lot to offer if it's been around this long. Maybe I'll try it, maybe not... just wanted to share my thoughts

[@Savage-Destiny]

As someone new to classic wow, and who’s dabbled in retail since Cataclysm, the thing for me is that there is 1. Less total information to learn about SoD than any other version of WoW and 2. There is stuff I can still discover for myself that no one else has. There aren’t any BiS guides for a dual wielding beast mastery hunter in SoD, or for a shaman tank, or anything else really because of all the truly new stuff. I have to actually do the research myself, slowly learning more information and discovering things instead of just looking at a single source of mathematically indisputable information. Instead of “net-decking” I actually get to theory craft and experiment myself for once, and that’s such a great feeling in a game that is supposedly as expansive as WoW is. The easiest thing to do isn’t always the most enjoyable thing. But it’s hard to ignore the easy thing in favor of the difficult but more rewarding thing.

[@Glamaryllis]

The Rogue’ing has been solid so far

[@DeKeofDeKe]

I love that they made literally new specs for classes like Tank Shaman or Tank Rogue it makest hings more interesting and makes builds more varied.

[@stormagedonm764]

One thing I would love is that sod gets Dragon flight graphics and then it will be perfect

[@grierkubota2370]

Im new to wow and have been having tons of fun is Season of Discovery. The problem Im having right now is that I dont know how to get into the raid or dungeons because I dont know how to find a guild

[@WriteWrongs]

I’m with you on 99% of this, but I love that they’re giving us the option for more solo content in retail. Grouping up to fight an elite or get kill credit for a quest enemy is one thing, but when you’re new to / not great at the game, retail dungeons are super intimidating-not because they’re particularly difficult, but because no one communicates. The whole group will mount up without even saying hi and just sprint through the whole thing because they’ve already done it a dozen or more times. If you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s so easy to get separated or get KO’d from a boss attack you didn’t know about, and then you’re dragging the rest of the group down. Love the social element in classic, but even there, I’m nervous to try anything but dps in a dungeon. And retail doesn’t have anywhere near the same culture of cooperation that classic does. Solo runs will let people try things out and get decent gear without being overwhelmed by the social pressure.

[@bookedsplash]

i have been enjoying everything in season of discovery and its been amazing

[@IlDuce7111]

The level cap cut the 1 big chunk of game into more interesting small edible pieces. It awesome to explore the world of lower level in deep.

[@simpa94]

I like that they made the level cap lower to begin with, makes it way less of a time commitment. Since i basically just wanted to check it out and not really grind, it felt super accessible.

[@ilyamikhin8178]

Level cap is a genius idea. It also saddened me how much of the world and levelling content players skip while rushing to max level and now max level is 25 and DM and WC are top instances lol and because of the hidden runes and secrets it makes sense to explore the world. And topped with sh*t ton of new skills, loot, new raid. This is just perfect classic plus formula. They absolutely nailed it, I was 99% sure they wont do smth like that. Obviously some balancing and tweaking required and things like rogue tank or mage heal are questionable but I am enjoying at is back in 2019.

[@flambelk4489]

One of my favorite things about SoD is that Blizzard did what they should have done from the beginning, they grabbed some of the coolest shit they ever created for each class in future expansions and added them to Classic in an acceptable way. Chef kiss, Blizzard. Jewelcrafting? Might work. Scribe? Sure. The effin barber shop? Please. I am with the crowd that believes that from Cata onwards, the game went downhill, however, that doesn't mean that nothing of it can be salvaged.

[@dracotoy]

Spent a good hour and a half last night helping a pally get his salts in redridge. Finished all my quests in the area about 30 minutes in. By yhe end of the session we had a full party and managed to get the escort quest. Great times

[@TheSaraphic]

As "a paly invited to a random group", I can say how good it feels to be playing an 'MMO' again where people just link up and help each other out instead of being toxic in some random queued dungeon.

[@xaulted1]

I love the fact that I won't fall hopelessly behind if I'm not online 24/7 like someone with no life. The level capping is the best thing ever!

[@jk-fy8on]

such a WATE OF TIME

[@zlatkoforic]

Last night i was farming warr rune and I found it was difficult cause of pvp, then all of a sudden some random priest asked to assist and help me, and e we played 2h together, chatting, making jokes and we are now friends

[@anton9583]

The slow pace of SOD is so nice for a change

[@michaelgonzalez4698]

I remember back in the day in burning crusade, I would carry low levels in dead mines or wailing caverns, I remember seeing a lot of high levels helping looevels. Now almost everything is solo

[@bigpapasmurf3621]

I have to admit, this is the best they have done since I can remember.

[@Poisontooth]

I started playing in 2006 or 7. I was in the 7th grade. I remember my uncle played and got me into it. I got my dad into the game. I stopped playing shortly after MoP. I started playing retail again about a year ago. I enjoyed the transmog but eventually got bored after unlocking some of the allied races. After playing classic again I haven’t looked back on retail since, especially with SoD. I never realized how much Blizzard really messed up on retail till I started playing classic again.