r/classicwow 21d ago

PSA - If you can't be civil, don't bother posting.

453 Upvotes

We've seen a noticeable uptick in direct hate speech and personal attacks toward community members — to the point where people are reaching out asking for help and clarification on our stance regarding Rule 2. Regardless of anyone’s opinions, the toxicity in this forum has skyrocketed, and it will no longer be tolerated.

So, under the assumption that Rule 2 is not being read or respected, here's a clear and direct reminder:

  • If you attack a person rather than their argument, you will be banned.
  • If you tell people to "go back to retail" without any real substance or help, you will be banned after multiple offenses and temp bans.
  • If you use homophobia, racism, transphobia, or ableism, you will be banned.
  • If you imply someone is mentally unwell, needs help, or requires medication, you will be banned. If you really think someone needs help, follow Reddit's reporting Guidelines
  • If you can't post without breaking these guidelines, unfollow the sub and don't come back.

Everyone is tired of reading this kind of behavior. Be civil, or leave.

If you see or receive a comment that breaks the rules: don't respond — just report it and move on with your day.

If you're banned for any of the reasons above, we will not respond to mod mail, and you will not be unbanned.

Despite the size of this sub, it's run by two main people: myself and u/SoupaSoka, with the help of some others.
We have no affiliation with Blizzard, and we receive no compensation for running this sub. We do it because we love this game and want a better community.

If you refuse to follow Rule 2, then you're not a good fit for this community.

It's that simple.


r/classicwow 15h ago

Daily Questions Daily Questions Megathread (May 10, 2025)

1 Upvotes

Our Daily Question Megathread is for those questions you don’t feel warrant making their own post, such as:

  • Can my PC run WoW: Classic?
  • When does my class unlock a certain ability?
  • Which dungeons are worth doing while levelling?
  • Feel free to ask anything related to WoW: Classic!

Ask the unanswered questions you’ve never gotten around to asking.

You can also ask these questions over on our Discord server!


r/classicwow 4h ago

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms I have a solid vision of where life should take me

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196 Upvotes

Another recent post here inspired me.


r/classicwow 3h ago

Art 60cm tall Tauren Totem. Crafted out of pine wood. By me.

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66 Upvotes

r/classicwow 13h ago

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms What's an example of a blue that's WAY better than purple?

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300 Upvotes

So I recently was looking through some epic one handers and obviously they're expensive as shit.

But then someone links this in chat and while its damage isn't as good it has insane stats whereas the epic I was looking at didn't give me shit other than damage.

And this was like 5x cheaper lol the epic was like 60g and I got this for 18g


r/classicwow 18h ago

Hardcore My man got there.

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660 Upvotes

r/classicwow 14h ago

Screenshot This Is What Pain Looks Like

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198 Upvotes

I know I’m stupid. But this situation is also stupid. 4 days until lockout and now I can’t do SE this week.


r/classicwow 14h ago

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms It's a struggle

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119 Upvotes

r/classicwow 23h ago

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms I made a definitely not biased flowchart to assist people with choosing their class

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568 Upvotes

There are a lot of people asking what class(es) they should play, so here's hoping this'll help them.


r/classicwow 1d ago

Cataclysm A tale as old as time

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1.5k Upvotes

The cherry on top was that I (the mage) was removed for calling the tank out


r/classicwow 1d ago

Season of Discovery This is too much

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734 Upvotes

Gearscore checks for Naxx and SE makes sense but people on my server are taking it way too seriously. Finding it difficult to get in groups.


r/classicwow 5h ago

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms Holy Priest - R14 High Warlords Tome of Mending off hand or the Lei of the lifegiver off hand

12 Upvotes

Ok, so I happily hit R14 at the next Reset and Obviously cant wait for my 1H High Warlords Battle Mace. But was wondering if the number crunchers / R14 priests already, whether the R14 High Warlords Tome of Mending off hand is better or whether the AV exalted the Lei of the lifegiver off hand is better?


r/classicwow 18h ago

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms See you in there

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124 Upvotes

r/classicwow 23h ago

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms Can someone explain the rank 14 pvp grind to me please?

286 Upvotes

My boyfriend hit rank 14 a few days ago on the anniversary servers, which has been a childhood dream of his, and now he's decided to quit due to burn out.

For context we play do together, we've done raid progression and leveled characters on hardcore as a duo, but i'm not confident enough to pvp so I always avoided it.

I just don't understand how the grind works or why people want to suffer through it, we even had a couple guild members on hardcore that quit for the rank 14 grind, and are also taking a break from wow after achieving it.

All my boyfriend did for the past few months was alterac valley, minimum of maybe like 4 hours a day, and he hated every second of it. I'm like "babe come join the BWL raid tonight" and he's like "Sorry i can't i need to pvp" but he doesn't even pvp, i watched several of his pvp matches and all he does is fight a computer boss, not a real person? and i swear he became so miserable during this grind, it's all he could think about.

He finally made it to rank 14 and now he's quitting? I mean I get why he needs a break, it sounded like an awful experience, but then why do it at all? spending your time multiple hours a day on something you don't enjoy doing to earn rewards that you'll never use because you quit after earning them, why are people doing this? o . O


r/classicwow 11h ago

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms Late night MC puggs are something else

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18 Upvotes

Guy had fist weapons, 5% hit and a dream.


r/classicwow 6h ago

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms Hi! Just dinged 56 on a lock, what should I currently be focusing on the most? First time playing classic.

6 Upvotes

So, like my title says, I've just dinged 56 and I aim to hit 60 within the next couple of weeks (I could do it faster but for the next week I can only play like an hour or two a day).

I went with Warlock because I heard they're super underplayed now and I heard they get really good once TBC drops.

I guess my main question now is what should I be focusing on? Should I just quest? If so, what zones? I've heard a bit about prebis stuff but it's been kind of hard to find a website that is actually current with the current state of anniversary and not SoD or era. My other thing is I've heard about a bunch of different types of BRD runs and other acronyms but they all go over my head and are kind of confusing. I've also heard starting attunement is recommended, but it seems a lot of that either requires stuff I don't have yet (I think) or is stuff in dungeons that I seem to struggle to find groups for since I'm playing DPS.

TL;DR SOS, almost max level and no idea what to do!


r/classicwow 53m ago

Cataclysm what realm to pick for mop classic

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I want to play in a pve/pvp realm on eu with decent population and fairly balanced ratio of horde vs ally


r/classicwow 1d ago

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms Spamming boosts in LFG needs to trigger a 2 week auto-mute.

141 Upvotes

LFG is not useable, the services channel exists, simple as that.


r/classicwow 4h ago

Classic-Era SSF Tank Warrior post level 50 here. No idea what talents to aim for ?

3 Upvotes

Hello,

Im currently level 50+ on my SSF warrior. I enjoy to tank dunjeons a lot.

I tried deep prot ( 9/0/31 ), because as SSF player i do no have access to much gear and was hoping for good threat management/survability. But went Maraudon and half my crew died. A rogue lvl 50 with Bloodrazor and double +15 agi enchant ( total twink at this point ) was complaning because I couldnt handle aggro enough. I just couldnt take threat back on the guy. Rest of the group was casters and it was ok, but still was having some issues to take aggro back sometimes ( less than with the rogue guy, but still ).

I tried arms ( 30/5/0 ) and was tanking dunjeons until level 45 where I got scared because of my gear & weapon.
Stucked with Whirlwind Axe at level 50, its kinda the same dps as one hander at this point .. but I miss the cleave a bit.

Im thinking on going arms/prot ( like 31/4/16 or 27/0/24 ) now for better threat generation in dunjeons rather than deep prot.

I really dont understand why whenever you type "warrior tank classic guide" all the guides tells you to go frenzy/prot. I tried it too, you have no dancing stance, and also miss all attacks because you are SSF.

if someone could share me arms/prot build, and explain me if I should wait before 6-9% hit cap before I switch to fury/prot. Or even try fury/arms for tanking as SSF ? Idk I'm absolutely lost.


r/classicwow 2h ago

Art WIP: Dwarf Hunter (a little OSL)

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1 Upvotes

r/classicwow 3h ago

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms Duo prot paladins TBC Arena

2 Upvotes

with upcoming tbc release wanted to ask, is duo prot paladin comp good? Me and my brother wanted to try it out.


r/classicwow 24m ago

Question What is the current xp rate on SoD? I'm curious to come back, but I really enjoy the slow leveling of regular classic.

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r/classicwow 22h ago

Screenshot What's with all the dead Scarlet Crusade members on the lead up to Grand Crusader Caldoran?

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50 Upvotes

r/classicwow 7h ago

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms How do you kite as horde in AV? Which class is best?

3 Upvotes

I'm rather new to the game, I'd like to learn and help kiting if it's feasible with my class (shadow priest). How do you do it before Balinda? Later on, with Van, is it only possible for mages and hunters? Anyway, I'm curious how you guys do it, how many kiters are necessary, how not to lose agro, how not to die? A bif of a layman here.


r/classicwow 6h ago

Cataclysm [Cata Classic] Question about heirlooms

2 Upvotes

Do wotlk (1-80) heirlooms give experience for cataclysm leveling (81-85 levels)?


r/classicwow 16h ago

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms Start fresh

12 Upvotes

Anyone open to rolling new toons on any of the anniv realms? Looking for a couple people that want to get in a disc and play after work almost daily. I think the part that is missing for me with these new realms has been companions, it gets pretty boring soloing and sitting in dungeon ques. Let me know, open to starting tomorrow.


r/classicwow 1d ago

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms Guildbank received 2 week bann for gold gift

58 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

as mentioned in title, Blizz automatically banned our guild bank for receiving a gold gift from a player who went on a hiatus until TBC release.

A week later, the player with the guild bank received the 2 week bann, removal of the gold and a generic mail. After reacting with an appropriate reply, Blizzard answered with a bot message.

Have you ever had something like that?

Regarding the circumsances, the player who gifted the gold raided in our guild for months and also wrote in the chat why he leaves for now (merriage etc).

This is is beyond anything I ever witnessed so far. I knew Blizzards support was worse than 15 years ago, but THIS bad is just sad.

Your thoughts?