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I wasn't trying to find the end game

Lots of items have changed but one thing almost wow classic gold immediately transformed the game. I was killing my fourth Kobold Vermin (sorry guys, I'm taking those candles) by auto-attacking it waiting impatiently for my lone ability to illuminate, when it struck me: This was likely to be slow. Really, really slow. And, after the next minute, I understood that was fine.

It was the first time in a decade that I wasn't trying to find the end game, pillaging the beta evaluation to determine the fastest way to level and reach the"good stuff," and tweaking my add-ons to jump as much content as I could to arrive. I even read a quest or two, though I confess to using the option (still accessible, even in vanilla) to switch off the line-by-line scrolling of quest text. I've been privately snarky about Classic. Blizzard Entertainment president J. Allen Brack at one stage (before he was president) famously stated people who stated they wanted Classic didn't really desire what they thought they wanted. I agreed.

The WoW was debilitating. Mobs took forever to perish; one additional enemy in a struggle was a pain, two likely meant death. There was a lot of running. Most fans lasted two minutes, many took reagents, skills were trained and frequently out of reach if you lacked the necessary gold. Warlocks had to farm shards, hunters needed to take ammo -- even my warrior did, because in vanilla WoW she can carry a bow and fire arrows.

It was slow. Damned slow. And inconvenient. And in Classic, to buy classic gold is, and I'm gradually beginning to think that perhaps.... Maybe that is not such a bad thing.If the end game feels miles off, and min-maxing is difficult because honestly, you are gonna take what you get and like that, then the focus of this game changes completely. Suddenly it is about the adventure of leveling again, and hanging out with friends, and conversing with people at Goldshire (well, for purely innocent motives anyway -- that the Moon Guard host's Goldshire crew still does plenty of conversing ).



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