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Start Wow, first time (lemmy.ml)

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Hi! If I am going to start to play Wow now (never played). What/where/how? Blizzard's page has several Wows😅 Where do I start? Classic?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm probably in the minority here but without more info, I vote retail. Classic will not hold your hand at all, it's a pretty rough onboarding experience. Retail is a much better new player experience.

But really it comes down to what you want to do when you reach max level (if that's even a priority). Classic raiding has been described as "standing and hitting" - pretty dang casual and the entire thing was "solved" 20 years ago. Retail has both 3 raid difficulties AND mythic dungeons - infinitely scaling difficulty with a timer.

The lack of mythic dungeons is what keeps me off Classic. It's my favorite end game content and now that I have a solid group of 5, I'm having a blast pushing up my score.