Anonymous
6/13/2025, 10:55:56 PM
No.527323869
>>527322675
Honestly if we're actually gonna categorize periods of WoW, it'd probably have to be done in eras. Like Vanilla-TBC-Wrath era, Cata-MoP-WoD era, and the modern era ushered in by Legion. But even Legion is a vastly different gameplay loop compared to DF/TWW, so maybe Dragonflight is the start of the 4th era of WoW? TWW is more or less a repeat of the DF gameplay loop.
But you could argue that vanilla is it's own era where leveling IS the main game and endgame was way more sandboxy, but that's just because of the mindset/culture of the playerbase in 2005, and the fact that my computer could barely load Orgrimmar or Ironforge, let alone enter a raid with more than 10 fps. I think we just categorize tbc and wrath with vanilla because Cata permanently removed swathes of vanilla content from the game, and leveling truly got trivialized around then.
so maybe something like
>Vanilla
>Flying Mount Era (TBC-WotLK)
>Cata Era (Cata-WoD)
>AP/M+ Era (Legion-SL)
>Modern Retail (DF-present)
Honestly if we're actually gonna categorize periods of WoW, it'd probably have to be done in eras. Like Vanilla-TBC-Wrath era, Cata-MoP-WoD era, and the modern era ushered in by Legion. But even Legion is a vastly different gameplay loop compared to DF/TWW, so maybe Dragonflight is the start of the 4th era of WoW? TWW is more or less a repeat of the DF gameplay loop.
But you could argue that vanilla is it's own era where leveling IS the main game and endgame was way more sandboxy, but that's just because of the mindset/culture of the playerbase in 2005, and the fact that my computer could barely load Orgrimmar or Ironforge, let alone enter a raid with more than 10 fps. I think we just categorize tbc and wrath with vanilla because Cata permanently removed swathes of vanilla content from the game, and leveling truly got trivialized around then.
so maybe something like
>Vanilla
>Flying Mount Era (TBC-WotLK)
>Cata Era (Cata-WoD)
>AP/M+ Era (Legion-SL)
>Modern Retail (DF-present)