Why is World of Warcraft classic considered better?

Question

I have seen posts on lots of websites saying WoW Classic was more fun than BC or WoTlK. However none of these posts explain why. I have a lvl 40 something character atm so I haven't experienced BC or WoTlK. Can someone explain to me why classic was more "fun" and "better" than the expansions? I am currently having a blast on WoW and hope to do the same in expansions.

Answer 1

Because classic WoW was hard. The new expansions have been made extremely easy so everyone, instead of just people who are good, can see all the content. This makes many players mad.



Back in classic WoW, you needed 40 people to raid. There were no "heroics" (five man raids), 10-man raids or 25-man raids. You got 40 people or you didn't have a raid. Even then, the raids were extremely difficult, sometimes taking dozens of tries before downing even a single boss out of several. BC and Wrath can't do that.



BC had all 25-man raids. While easier to do and complete, many players were upset at how easy it was compared to classic. Many of the classic raids required players to take weeks getting the right gear.



Wrath is a total joke in comparison. In the first week of Wrath being released, guilds had cleared ALL raid content. Within two weeks, entire guilds were covered in all of the best gear in the game.



Wrath was dumbed down, and it shows. No longer only people who try win, everyone does, and that's sad.



Back in Vanilla, epics were just that, epic. They were hard to get and not everyone had them. You had to actually do the 40 man raids, or spend weeks in PvP to get them. It wasn't like it is now. Now, you can just get five people together and do a heroic instance in an hour, and get epic gear off the bosses.



PvP isn't helping either. Back when you had ranks, only the best player on your server on each faction got the epic gear. You had to grind all the way up to High Warlord (or Grand Marshal for you alliance players) to get epics. Now, if you just slam your head against your keyboard in a battleground for a whole day, you get epic gear. You can literally get epic gear in BGs after ONE DAY.

Answer 2

A lot of those WoW classic posts are just people that have been there since the beginning are just mad WoW is easier now.



-Leveling up used to be harder, now levels 20-70 have been nerfed as far as how much XP is required.



-Classic was loaded with hellish reputation grinds. Now, you can get exhalted in no time flat.



-Epics items used to mean something. You would see a guy in full tier 1 standing around in Org or SW and you would inspect them. Now, epics are handed out like candy. I used to play a priest in classic, took me 3 months to get a full set on Tier 1. My druid in Lick King was fully epiced out in 2 weeks.



-PVP was all about world pvp to start, witch as fun since it was player driven. Then BG's came out and there were still fun because it was only your server, so you got to know that opposite faction you were killing.

Hell, some of by best friends in that game was player I used to kill in BG's, then would get on there alt and say hello (or talk crap). With cross-realm BG's, it became all about stomping players as fast as possible, witch is fun for awhile, but gets old quick.

Arenas? I think they are a joke, it's dueling in a box for epics, witch goes back to the epic items problem.





All in all, especially if it is your first time playing thru that game, there are TONS of things to do, and one of the best thing is that the game is noobie friendly.

Answer 3

Theres alot of reasons!



Classic or "vanilla" wow, had a simplier PVP system, more titles, classes were more evened out. PVE was hard, and didn't cater to the "casuals"



When BC came out they introduced Arena in PVP, which alot of people were angry about. seeing as it's 2v2, 3v3, 5v5. 2v2 is very unfair. and just messed alot of people up. Blizzard however is determined to keep arena, even with people going against it.



thenn WOTLK came out! This to me was the biggest failure bliz had made. the PVE Content is drop dead boring, and very easy. PVP is just straight up fcked. most plate classes are overpowered and pretty much one shot everything.

what annoyed me most about WOTLK, and they did this near the end of BC, was Blizzard made it so PVP gear could be bought with PVE tokens.

I could go on...

:P

Answer 4

personally i think that WOTLK is better cause there is new area's and monoster's to kill more exciting quests and if ur on a player vs player server more higher level's to fight and contest with + more instances like naxxremas ect + the fun of leveling to 80 and doing heroic's for the new epic gear also the new battlegrounds and experiences

Answer 5

i love WOW and actually you start to experience WoTLK at 55 when you get a DK. and BC is harddddddd but it is still fun!!!!! But WoTLK is soooo much fun you should have fun playing woooooooooo another WOW player!

Answer 6

Those people are wack to think that they make the game less fun. For one they let you level higher, more mounts, more dungeons, there is more everything!

Answer 7

they all suck you shouldn't have to pay to play games with people. just buying a game should give you complete freedom within that game.