WoW Classic was great! Classic was hard! Classic was challenging! Oh, really? A well-known streamer remembers WoW quite differently…
Since the announcement that World of Warcraft will also have Classic servers in the future, numerous discussions on the topic have erupted. For a long time, there has been a large segment of players who praise “Classic” to the skies and have since been dissatisfied with every change in WoW.
But was everything really that great in Classic? Was Classic really harder and more challenging?
Anyone who has been a German WoW player in Azeroth for many years has surely come across the “Class Blogs” from the streamer Barlow. Back then, he mocked the classes from World of Warcraft. The blogs are firmly established for many German WoW players as part of the “good old WoW times.” One could say: They are legendary.
In line with the announcement of WoW: Classic, Barlow once again took the time to respond to many questions and reactions from his followers and viewers. The result is another humorous blog that, however, contains a lot of truth.
Cortyn says: In most points, I can only agree with “Uncle Barlow.” World of Warcraft back then was neither harder nor more challenging. The only thing that was needed back then was more time. Loot was rarer, leveling took longer, and due to the lack of certain comfort features, such as setting raid markers, the “surroundings” were more complicated.
Bosses rarely had more than one or two abilities and as a damage dealer, the only danger in the game was often aggro. This meant that one rarely got to deal “full damage” because doing so usually resulted in death. A strange mechanic that particularly punished high-performing players.
Only the necessary time investment was higher back then. If one could only play for one or two hours a day, they wouldn’t really make progress. However, that had little to do with difficulty or challenge.
But feel free to see it differently! Do you still see Classic in a shining light? Or is it precisely the necessary time factor that makes the game interesting for you?
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