re: Classic Hardcore WoW

Liking SOD a lot playing prot warrior. Even though Druid and Pally tanks are improved, warrior is still the gold standard and now we get thunder clap with increased threat in any stance. takes away the stance dance.

Hunter was stupid OP so im glad they were proactive and made those corrections.

Personally, Id say that it mostly helps with the early game Auto Attack fast that many classes suffer from in the beginning. I think they essentially looked at a lot of the sub-classes that were sub-optimal in the vanilla meta and decided to make them viable.

So now you aren't laughed at it you don't play the specific op stuff like War/Mage/Rogue

With the Changes, Boomie will be viable / Priest Shadow will be viable, etc..I don't think it makes it easier.

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Surprisingly yes. Keeps your brain more engaged doing all the leveling knowing one frickup means you lose everything (you can transfer to a regular classic server for free after death if you want to hang on to the character). Plus the added challenge has even further galvanized the community.

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Sounds a bit like EQ back in the early days. There wasn't perma-death but death penalties could be so tough (especially if you were deep in a tough zone) that it could feel close to it.

Get a different guild. Players moving over from Retail have difficulty adjust to the classic play. If it’s because they are new you can try to teach them but at the end of the day they have be be open to learning what role they play in a dungeon.

According to the deathlog addon, the average death level for every class is somewhere between 12-15.

The #1 killer is fall damage.

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I drowned...

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#5 killer in HC last I checked

It was #2 behind falling for a long time.



I went afk in what I thought was a safe spot in the Wetlands on my 27 Druid to stir some food on the stove and came back to a dead character. Apparently there was a singular roaming raptor like 5 levels lower than me in the area. Goes without saying I'm taking a break from HC for a while. Still pisses me off knowing it could have just been avoided by stealthing before I got up.

On the bright side, it got me to finally start trying SoD.

Im amazed that they never added an auto return attack setting. I guess to keep people from afk farming but dang.

Ive been dc from server 3 times randomly over the past 36 hr. Im sure that will lead to my demise.

Didn't know what

There also creative ways to "gank" people.

I've seen clips of higher level rogues agro a bunch of mobs and then vanish next to someone .

I'd be so mad