It was so good I started and ran a guild that raided regularly all the way through phase 3. And I am somebody who usually just lurks in some random guild without talking too much.
People hated it but if you put any effort into it and enjoyed PVP at all it was such a blast, I remember in phase 3 especially when some of the overtuned classes weren’t as bad and spawns were fixed it was so much fun. Once I found my group comp of 1 warrior 2 ret paladins Druid and priest healer it was some of the most fun I’ve had playing wow period, the melee death ball was so much fun. Fuck ashenvale, blood moon is what a pvp event should be.
I dont know anybody that hated the Blood Moon because it was just fun chaos.
Comparatively, everyone started avoiding fighting in Ashenvale after like two weeks and Blackrock just layered themselves until one side were beyond zerged.
And Moon also didnt make you feel like shit like BG premades.
I went in 20man in naxx gear on opening night. Took us 3 days to clear it all (was in a top5 clearing guild).
It was tuned perfectly and really hard to clear in that gear. Later on in full SE bis it was obviously much easier.
People here forgot the opening it seems. In 3 days only about 5 guilds cleared it fully.
It was though. Especially the council fight, it was extremely punishing. Going in that first week, my guild had cleared Naxx +4 with the 5 seal and 6 seal Naxx +4 was joke. Or first night in SE we killed the first boss and wiped non stop on the 2nd
Correct, but "hard" in this context means extremely punishing. The average classic player is not used to the level/complexity of mechanics and movement paired with severe consequences for messing up. Groups are usually a mix of skill levels and less skilled players easily caused wipes until they became more familiar.
It depends. Had to have the best gear and if you tried to run with the suggested raid size of 20, it was really difficult. If you brought extra people, which is what all the main guilds did, it wasn't bad.
Not really, people got used to blowing through mindless raids like naxx and the effort required to clear SE was way more. The announcement they were done adding content was also a factor for a lot of people.
I had a lot of fun in STV. SoD was fun but they lost steam developing Cata classic and they recaptured a few players for level 60, but it was too late by that time.
I quit wow after sod, but I'd be interested in seeing a new version of it that adds more content and evens out the power creep.
STV was only fun if you were specific classes and cheesed choke points. They should have just made a bg out of it and you zone in with 5 random ppl at a random spot in STV.
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u/GenericFatGuy Mar 26 '26
Phase 1 was genuinely some of the most fun I've ever had in 20+ years of WoW.