Is it noob-friendly?

OP are you playing on Turtel WoW with Bernd?

Is there a Bernd guild on TurtleWoW? I played there last year, hit 58 or whatever and ditched it for another private server. But I kinda liked it there, but at that time it was too empty for me

I've read a lot about the growing pop. What is the population like nowadays?

Yeah, I think so. Vanilla is probably the most 'simple' WoW iteration. Rotations are not 'hard' in that sense or dungeons aren't challenging as those Mythic ones in current retail Wow.

Although you might and probably will encounter toxic and not-noob-friendly players that have been playing vanilla for many years. But most often if you make it clear that you are a noob and are open to improve your game, most people are really helpful

Another tip: google 'vanilla wow guides' for your class, dungeons etc. There are also questhelper addons, so you don't need to look up everything.

Knowing what stats to focus on for your class etc. is really helpful. But it's not a must of course.

Yes, name of the guild is Why Worry.

That is interesting. Is it big?

not really but few people are always on.

Server-hopping kills guilds

What servers? There aren't any proper vanilla ps currently. If you're talking about TurtleWow, is not pure vanilla, but something else which is fine too

Can third worlders play? will it be lag if i play over here?

I know that NA (West or East I can't remember) usually has a latency of 120ms or something which is fine for vanilla wow and there were many NA players.

Doesnt answer your question though, I know.

Might he best to try it out before release. The Public Test Realm is still online and there will be a stress test on the 9th Nov

Addendum: screenshot related

I tried pinging the login server (location shouldn't differ that much to the actual game server if at all), but 166ms doesn't seem that bad (in case that's what you will actually get ingame when playing)

 

See you there or at the latest on the 11th

Correction: 8 PM CEST

In about 45 minutes

Vanilla WoW is a huge pain in the ass to play.

But it has SOUL.

That is true. However I will NOT grind for literally 100 fucking hours just to get to level 60. No thank you, sir.

Same, last time i played vanilla wow i just botted it after lvl 40(i was banned at the end).

It was still fun before real grinding started.

I gave up at around the same point.

Man, those few minutes stress test made me so happy. I haven't felt like this in a while. I am really looking forward to play vanilla again. Haven't done so since I abandoned my Season of mastery char in January this year

You gonna play Allianz or Horde?

Alliance! H:A ratio that was published after the first name reservation wave yesterday was 44:56

Should we start our own vanilla server with 100x rates? xD

buuuuuuuump

Still haven't tried it, too busy at work. But I'm getting there.

 

How is it going over there, is it prosperous?

I still playing Turtle WoW.

Yes, launch peak was like 5k. After that it dropped to 3,5k. A few days ago thousands new players joined and the pop is usually over 5k whenever I play. I've heard it had to do with the news about Blizzard withdrawing from China, so a lot of those new players seem to be Chinese (which I do not mind but others do. I've had no bad experiences with them, they seem mostly friendly, helpful and willing to cooperate for shared quest objectives etc pp)

Bernd is just lvl31 right now, because once again he tried to level and play with a friend. Like always he is "that friend" that never logs on after playing for a few hours on the first day and a few days afterwards. Of course Bernd tried to wait for him again, played others chars, but in the end decided to just play without him. Again. But once AGAIN I realized I hate leveling with others, even worse with someone I am supposed to talk to on Discord and someone who is just slowing my journey.

Anyways, I have very ambivalent feelings about this game consuming me. Over and over. And Bernd has daily thoughts about just deleting the Wow folder (but maybe backup the Interface config, cause it always takes so much time...)