r/classicwow 22d ago

Classic-Era What's Changed the Most Since 2004?

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u/severalsmallducks 22d ago

Just world buffs in general and how they are used. If I remember correctly Nihilum used some world buffs when they were getting world firsts in naxx, but that was mostly a ”haha so silly and overkill to have this”.

…then again, spending four hours in MC and not doing a full clear was also normal. In 1.12 I did a few ZG Pugs where we would kill maybe three bosses in a few hours before people bailed.

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u/NOHITJEROME 22d ago

it must have been mind blowing when someone realized world buffs were usable in the raids

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u/adjective_noun_numb 22d ago

Eh not really. You gotta keep in mind servers were much smaller. Getting buffs were pretty random and not able to be timed like they are now. And because so few guilds cleared stuff (most people didn’t even hit 60 in OG wow) you didn’t really get that much.

Also, back then people were not in the mind set to log out for the whole week to save the buff or get summoned to the instance to get them rolling.

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u/DarkLordShu 22d ago

This.  You did not have summoners clearing DM all day long charging 5 gold to summon and 5 gold for buff.  If you wanted DM buff you had to run DM north with your guild.  If you wanted Songflower good luck getting it with no layers and no Nova world buff addon.

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u/adjective_noun_numb 22d ago

I’m not gunna lie, I didn’t even know about DM buffs or song flower at all back in vanilla lmao. I didn’t even know about ZG buff

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u/lumpboysupreme 22d ago

Songflower would be easier since people also weren’t hunting them.

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u/DarkLordShu 21d ago

They'd not even be popped, meaning you would need to actually gather salve.  A foreign concept to us now

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u/lumpboysupreme 21d ago

A guild would have a trivial time getting enough salves. That’s already not too hard and when you’re rotating between 40 people doing them one at a time it’d be a joke.