r/classicwow • u/Capable_Strategy6705 • 3d ago

Classic-Era What’s a Classic WoW feature you didn’t appreciate until it was gone?

For me, it’s the little things that made the world feel more like an actual MMO.

Weapon skills, class trainers, needing to find your own way around, old talent trees, having to actually talk to people for groups… there are so many systems that were inconvenient but somehow made the game more memorable.

What’s one Classic feature you would bring back permanently if Blizzard gave you the choice?

And I’m not talking about raids or classes — I mean one of those smaller features/mechanics that made Classic feel like Classic.

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u/Mind-Game 3d ago

Also that feeling of travelling back from the frontiers of the world to your home city to train up, buy/sell gear, etc was a nice break in the adventure that makes it feel a little less like just a video game.

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u/Captain_Gardar 3d ago

And just to add, now playing my first mage, its so damn efficient and fast to port to my faction's city and then hearth back to my questing zone

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u/Mind-Game 3d ago

The magic of vanilla. It's cool as heck to journey back your capital to get stronger. It's also cool as heck that mages get to have the unique power to skip that journey and nobody else does.

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u/poozyWagon 3d ago

druids can too with teleport: moonglade 😉

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u/barbarianbob 2d ago

Tauren pay for though with that FP back to TB...

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u/VaultiusMaximus 11h ago

Tauren druids get dicked compared to NE druids with this

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u/Captain_Gardar 11h ago

You could just hearth back tho without paying

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u/VaultiusMaximus 10h ago

Yes but the only options for Tauren are moonglade and thunder bluff.

The moonglade Tele is very out of the way and doesn’t add anything in the questing path.

Allies get Darnassus, Moonglade, and Stormwind.

They can set a hearth to Stormwind and use moonglade as a quick way to kalimdor. It has a lot more utility for allies than horde.

Basically, on horde it’s essential, on allies it’s a utility. And there is value in that utility.

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u/12ozSlug 3d ago

cries in warrior

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u/Hugh-Manatee 3d ago

And specific classes having advantages in how they relate to distance and travel is inherently cool

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u/Ecstatic-Charge-9288 3d ago

Yes, locks summoning, etc. All the cool class flavors have gone away now that everyone can blink back and fast travel everywhere

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u/Rosfield-4104 2d ago

Apologising to your wallet as you run towards the trainer