When World of Warcraft first came out it disrupted online gaming in a major way and became a memorable and important experience for a lot of gamers. Now that Blizzard has finally released World Of Warcraft Classic many are jumping in to🔯 relive those nostalgic days and new gamers are getting a chance to take 𝓡a peek at history.
What m🦩any fans are quickly realizing is it isn't all a bed of roses. Between the brutal PVP, guild politics, queue times, aggro mechanics, and other quirks this return to historic gaming is proving to be a wild ride that’s churning out a great collection of memes.
10 ♔ 🐷 Murloc Aggro
Ah, Murlocs, probably one of the more notorious enemies in Classic. These buggers are absolutely annoying to take down and things get really dicey when the entire group joins the fray. The﷽ir aggro ranges in vanilla were incredibly finnicky and the little frogmen would log onto you from dozens of yards away.
It’s proving to be the same in Classic and this great meme is reminding players that drawing one Murloc away from his buddies is not a simple task. Odds are if one goes for you𒀰, they all will.
9 𒆙 First Classic Expansion
Some fans have been criticizing 🌠Blizzard for the release of Cl♊assic saying it’s a cop out from making a genuinely good expansion after the recent controversial ones. This meme suggests that Blizzard is going to capitalize on the nostalgia train by proceeding to release the old expansions.
While many players appreciate the reboot to the classic days of vanilla, it probably wouldn’t go over very well to release a class version of all the expansions (especially Warlords Of Draenor). It’s fun reliving the glory days, but Blizzard really needs to dive into a new game entirely or roll up their sleeves to turn things aro🤪und.
8 Pricing
There was a lot of confusion up to release about how much Classic would cost. Part of this was misinformation by the fanbase and media, but Blizzard didn’t exactly make it ꦏobvious what was going 🍎on.
This meme makes fun of that situation by saying essentially the same thing three different ways. For those who have any doubts about how much it costs, you get Classic and retail for the same subscription. The reason they didn’t make it free is that you wouldn’t get that genuine, nostalgic, vanilla experience of begging your parents to cover the monthly costs so you can꧒ play like y🍒ou did as a teen.
7 Molten Core 🐼
Perhaps the biggest shock for new players to Classic is the amount of walkinꦦg that’s involved. Mounts don’t unlock until level 40 and they’re really, really expensive. There are no real options for fast travel and reaching places like Molten Core took an arduous journey that was practically a quest in and of itself, now imagine trying to get 40 people there to d𝄹o the actual raid!
This hilarious meme calls back to that experience suggesting Classic is a way for players to explore the yesteryear and see what life was like when the game first ca🧸me out, warts and all.
6 Portals
Mages were an incredibly useful class in the early days of WOW and the same is true for Classic. In addition to consumables that kept teammates healed and in top shape, the💜ir por🀅tals were a tremendous time saver if not a lifesaver if a fight was going sour.
This meme points out the annoying times when mages either intentionally trolling or just not paying attention would open a portal granting players a split-second trip to a far destination only to lea൲ve and close the portal. If you were somewhere like Molten Core when the mage left with his portal it meant a long, ꦺlong journey back on foot.
5 💜 Character Names
We’ve all heard the stories of players paying ridiculous prices to get access to their favorite character names. Seeing a night elf Legolas running around WOW wa🦩s l𝓰ike catching a glimpse of big foot and getting the chance to be a human Aragorn or dwarven Gimli was something most players never experienced.
That’s why it was such a big deal when name reservations opened up two weeks before release and how incredible it was that so few people took advantage. As this meme suggest many pl𓆉ayers will probably spend their first hour of gameplay just trying to find a suitable name that doesn’t look like they just mashed their keyboard.
4 ℱ Dangerous Roads ꦡ
This amusing meme is a stark reminder of one of the sketchiest places in all of Classic. If you play onꦇ a PVP server and think you’re going to go for a simple stroll through the jungles of Stranglehorn Vale, you are sorely mistaken.
If the high-level critters didn’t get you then the horde of players looking to gank did. This was a prime ambush spot and it was suicide traveling alone, even in a group you were asking for a fight. There were a 🔴lot of players who made a killing lending their service🌺s out as caravan guards on this shady road.
3 🌄 Alterac V✃alley Rambo
Alterac Valley is one of three battlegrounds in Classic and is arguably the most popular. Up to 40 players could mꦓeet on this battlefie♚ld to fight for honor and glory and it wasn’t unusual to see fights go for a long, long time.
This meme humorously suggests what it feels like to show up to a major battle and find a player who’s been fighting the good fight since it first went down. These hardcore veterans are willing to fight till the bitter end, or when sleep exhaus👍tion takes over, whichever comes first.
2 I’m Th⭕e Captain
This hilarious meme demonstrates how it feels to have your lazy guild master get booted and to have the reigns turned over to you. Being g🐬uild master comes with a lot of responsibility and that sensation of having all the power can be intoxicating.
Anyone who has ever been a guild master knows it’s nothing like that. After all the spreadsheets, handling complaints from members, guild politics, and the never-ending recruiting efforts it’s less of a game and more of a part-time job. It’s nice to♍ be in charge for a day or two thou꧂gh.
1 Do Over
While many players are diving into Classic to experience what the World of Warcraft was like bac🦋k in vanilla days there are a number of players who see it as an opportunity to start over with all the experience they’ve obtained over the years.
Instead of grinding that same quest over and over again for hours or obsessing over guild politics these players will likely embrace the chance to have fun and hang out in a familiar environment. That big wide world of Classic is a giant sandbox and the veteran✱s already know what they can 💞do with it.