>>507848396It was a different time. wow.allakazam and thottbot were all you had. Linking datamined shit from wowhead used to get you banned from the WoW forums. But over time blizzard just kind of gave up on keeping the mystery of the game going and now they direct you to wowhead if you're stuck on something.
Few people knew what a world buff was or how to wait for one. Only like 10% of players even set foot in Molten Core. C'thun was "mathematically impossible" because WoW was a high-end game at the time and people could barely get 20 fps in raids. You know, getting a quest that sent you to Orgrimmar or Ironforge could be a death sentence to your computer. I had a friend who'd have to call up his older brother at college to walk his character in and out of Orgrimmar because his family computer couldn't load the city. There was no simming, so all dps tips and tricks were hearsay and 'dude trust me bro' or my dad works at nintendo-tier. No one knew how pets worked, and few people actually had a damage meter addon downloaded. There was no such thing as raidlogging because people would get on, fuck around with their guild roleplaying in town, making zero character progression or helping a low level alt with an elite quest and they thought the game was the funnest thing ever.
The game is solved, and we're playing the game on an arbitrary content patch (1.12) that's considered an incomplete game because no one at blizzard anticipated making a "playable old wow" since the servers were always meant to be permanently progressive. Browns are overpowered at the end of the expansion and hybrids are an incomplete mess, and now 20 years later people proclaim that the state of 1.12 was the game AS BLIZZARD INTENDED FOR ALL TIME. Lol. Lmao.
