Ignoring the obvious answer of
>don't
what's the best way to get into/experience WoW? I feel it's a given I should play on private servers for the old versions, but what should I keep in mind?
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Ignoring the obvious answer of. >don't. what's the best way to get into/experience WoW?
Classic wotlk on a full population realm.
Do you want the authentic experience? The experience what made WoW popular and invokes nostalgia in millions of players? I'm afraid you can't get it, the closest would be playing with a group of clueless friends without using guides and make your way to 60, but then again, you can't raid because raids are 40 people now, and they are heavily curated. Very few people have done the very first raid in the game, Naxxramas was nearly impossible. And now it's close to 100% completion, because people are repeating what was figured out.
If you care more about getting into modern WoW to feel it yourself how GDKPs are "destroying" the community (I am not against GDKP, I believe that GDKP happen because people are lazy and greedy, not the other way around), WotLK Classic is a great and easy way to do it.
The game is quite different from what it was 15 years ago. Now GDKPs and parsing rule the scene, you are unable to get full raiding experience like what it was. And yes, a lot of people quit in WotLK, because it was a glorified loot treadmill and not a living, breathing world. Even back then people were separated into instanced raid groups, there was no feeling of "being an adventurer in an alternate reality" - everyone was already focused on raiding.
>you can't raid
That's fine. How many people actually raided in vanilla? I think it was something like less than 25% of players ever killed one boss in Molten Core.
2004 was not the days of normalized 10+ hour gaming sessions. The dedication for raiding was considered only for poopsockers and people with no social life. If you have a group of 5-10 friends who can play together in a guild, the vanilla leveling experience on a private server would be close to what is originally was. Minus the hype, minus the excitement, minus the worldwide phenomenon. That said, the game itself is still excellent and redefined what "good MMO" meant.
Private servers are run for-profit. That's the thing I would most recommend keeping in mind when playing them.
What's that supposed to mean?
There can be an attitude that private servers are run by and for fans, that the Devs are doing it out of love for the game etc etc which can cause people to simp.really hard for their favourite Devs and servers, when in reality they're trying to make money from their pirated game with cash shops, and keeping fixes, mods and improvements that would benefit other servers closed source because they want people to play on their server and give them money, rather than improve the wow private server scene as a whole.
I appreciate that you care about other people and recognize most people playing WoW are autistic dopes.
If you ignore the woke and troony shit from the new expansions, it's pretty fun to get a group of friends to play. Personally, I tried to convince my friends to play, however all of them declined. I recommend you play either Classic or WotLK Classic before getting into retail, as retail ruined the personal progression and demands you to know the game already.
Also Jaina has massive plot armor and I fricking hate it.
>If you ignore the woke and troony shit from the new expansions
but that’s literally the entire game now
Set up your own private server and play with 4 others via LAN while running bots on another system.
Stick to vanilla. Get all pieces of dungeon sets 1 & 2, along with all pieces of tiers 1, 2, 2.5, and 3.
The very hour after Kel'thuzad dies in the raid that you complete your tier 3 set, walk away and bring all of the friends you made with you. Then never look back.
Consider WoW beaten and the experience had.
But Arthas is based.
Let him remain alive and based then.
Let the portals in KT's room be the only glimpse into Northrend that you need.
Oh no. It's too late.
These players have all been burned by terrible writing.
>Not quitting the first time you kill Ragnaros
LMAO
>getting tier 2 pants and not wanting the rest
Why not just quit as soon as the intro cinematic finishes.
being a kid with almost no exposure to the internet
nah I played a million MMO's before I played wow as a middle schooler in 2008 why would you need no exposure moron.
Try to find a server that has instant 70/80 characters kind of like how you could make PVP only characters in guild wars. has something like a funserver where you can reach max level in a day and a normal or x2 experience server for the 2009 retail feel. all the pay to win people will play on the funserver so you can have your standard WoW experience f2p on the normal xp one and the instant max level servers are great because you can try out all the classes in like a day and learn all the skills and cooldowns so you'll get better at PVP much much faster than any regular retail player. I recommend making a frostmage they are the most fun.
>Try to find a server that has instant 70/80 characters
>WoW was never good.
Frick off zoomers
Found a server hat lets you experience vanilla in a reasonable pace, solocraft. You get the full experience without having to wait for groupgquests, duegeons or raids.
Is it meaningfully better than turtle?
It doesn't require any social interacition you would need to see all vanilla content. Essentially it lets you summon a tank, heal or DDs on the spot
Don't shy away from servers with custom add ons even in the days when this game peaked we were all playing on PVT servers with their own little modded stuff.
WoW was never good.
Just like every MMORPG, its a genre for people too dumb to play actual RPGs and that are very lonely.
what's a good wotlk private server?
It's not good, but you're stuck with Warmane.
the website does not allow me to register, it gives an error.
They want a Gmail email.
it didn't work via desktop but worked via mobile, weird.
where do i download wotlk?
Google
They have the client on the website.
I'd pay for Classic if I wasn't certain Blizzard was going to phase WotLK into fricking Cataclysm.
I've been playing Ascension recently and it's pretty fun. Though draft mode is infinitely more enjoyable than this draft build shit they have going on right now.
Im going to wait until the next expansion so I can maybe farm Will Of remornia pet. I even tried to trick blizzard into giving me one for free because it got lost in the mail kek
>what's the best way to get into/experience WoW?
Play classic WoW on the official servers. Stay away from TBC/Wrath/Dragonretail.
Very few private servers are actually good and you never know when some drama starts and they get pulled.
Is it still possible to make single player servers with scaled content? Sometimes I just wanna go through the entire game alone with descaled mobs/elites/dungeons and raids and play through the “story” and uninstall after.
I haven't done it and only looked into it for a few seconds so you should dig into more than I did, but if you host your own azerothcore server there are modules for that sort of thing. Found one here, no idea if it's the best there is or does everything you'd want it to or whatever though. No doubt someone else will pop up and call me a dumb homosexual if there's something better
https://github.com/azerothcore/mod-solocraft
Appreciate it anon. I’m so out of the loop with wow and private servers. I haven’t touched or even thought about wow since pandaria. I’ll look into it.
Azerothcore is your best bet if you're willing to compile your own server files from the source code.
There's also Single Player Project but instead of scaling down content it lets you summon other characters in your account as bots, but in my experience they're such a pain in the ass to control I'd rather just play alone.
>what's the best way to get into/experience WoW?
Time travel. It was never about the game itself but rather the novelty of the internet and communicating with others online while playing a relatively simple game. You'll never be able to recapture that.
don't over think it