I have never played World of Warcraft before

I have never played World of Warcraft before.
Should I try it or is it too late now?

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How about you download the fucking game and play it

its dead as fuck. whatever amazing experiences there were to be had in WoW they cant be had now, both due to it being a different game entirely now compared to over ten years ago, the entire culture of the internet having changed since and with it the way people see a game like WoW and lastly due to you being to old to enjoy it in the way people who loved it enjoyed it.

Now is probably the best time to start in a long time. Shadowlands had a very strong start.

Maybe, it has a lot of merits like excellent atmosphere, and it's a very influential game so it might be of interest to see what all the fuzz is about. However, regardless of its merits or lack thereof, neo-WoW is unrecognizable so if you want to play "WoW" and not "Shadowlands", that's not an option. On the other hand, Classic is also shit, in some ways parallel to neo-WoW (such as horrible speedrunning and parse obsessed community) and in some ways unique to Classic (for example, one of the big factors that has contributed to WoW's lasting popularity is its responsiveness, but Classic ruins that with latency-compensation system from 2004 that no longer makes in contemporary context, but is also implemented as such a lazy hack that it adds up to 400ms delay to abilities and interactions that were always processed instantly.

You're going to get the best, most authentic, experience on private servers. Whatever their shortcomings, they sure are lesser than either retail version. Since vanilla scene is largely dead nowadays, the choice realistically is between TBC (on servers such as Atlantiss Karazhan) and Wrath (on servers such as Warmane Lordaeron). To be honest, these are the versions I would recommend anyhow: vanilla is only really good for questing content, so you might as well do it with better class mechanics.

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dont play it without a group

absolutely too late. mmos are contemporary and best judged by the times they were released. it is best left in the past

It's over.

Shadowlands is kind of crap

Classic, from what I hear, is pretty dead as far as the world at large and levelling. Pretty much everyone's just paying max-level mages to boost them to 60 and rushing through everything.

I don't know much about the expansion, but as someone who finally quit for good in MoP the expansion looks megashit to me when I read what is in it.

because you're probably retarded.

12 years too late retard

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playing classic rn, its really good but not a lot of people.

Get a free trial account and go do e-sex in Goldshire, that's all this game has to offer in the way of online interaction.

It's Golden Age came and went. The vast majority of people who made it the king of MMOs have left the company.

Definitely recommend looking elsewhere to say FFXIV or even Black Desert or Guild Wars 2. WoW hasn't been worthy of even a top 3 placement in years.

>FFXIV or even Black Desert or Guild Wars 2
still have no idea how anyone likes these games more than WoW. FFXIV especially feels and loogs like laughable dogshit.

They implemented a level squish in Retail recently, so leveling a new character is a lot less daunting than it used to be.

That being said, this game sucks shit without friends. Don't play it by yourself.

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Too late for classic but retail is ok right now.

i recommend trying a private server, shadowlands isn't that fun imo

if you're looking for something that eats up your life, go for a classic or burning crusade private server; classic's a bit more about the midgame, burning crusade is a bit more focused on the endgame. if you're looking for something a bit more casual but still involved and with some great raids and balance, go for a wotlk private server, ideally a progressive one that's either on 3.0 or 3.1 so you can get ulduar. if you want the modern wow experience at its best, go for a mists server that's on 5.3 or 5.4. whatever you do, look up server populations first, you want one of the more populated servers. /vg/ used to have a wow private servers general, idk if it still exists. playing with /vg/ is a bad idea but it can give you a sense of which servers are relevant.

Depends on your expectations, I guess
desu roll on a nice rppvp realm and find a nice guild, things will be ok

Reddit’s huge problem with this expansion so far is that they can’t solo old content as quickly as they used to. There are better single player games you could play

follow this man's advice
Classic offers nothing that a private server can't already provide and Retail is an abomination on the MMO genre; it's a single player game with some multiplayer aspects.

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> I don't know anything about the expansion
then what the fuck makes you think anyone cares about your opinion, retard?

Does it take less time to level or are the numbers just different but requiring the exact same investment?

I never played it either until pretty recently like 2 years ago. Its free to try. But keep in mind the base game released when the internet was a very different place (and so were the people using the internet). WoW is best as a social game, and at this point very few people are new. The whole game has been figured out and min/maxing strategies figured out. So many expansions and extra crap (Pokemon like pet battling?) that its not the same game it was 10 years ago.


Pretty sure the best time to start was burning crusade release in 2007 or so. I’d bet something like Guildwars 2 is a better game.

I honestly have no idea because I only started playing Retail post-Classic launch, but my friends who have been playing since TBC tell me it's much better now.

I was in your exact position like 2 years ago. Is it too late? Yes, kind of, but it's hard to tell.

I pretty much started in BFA, I had fun gearing and doing Mythic+ but I always felt behind in terms of collectibles, gold, toys/gadgets and just knowing tips and tricks on older content. Some of these can be learned and fixed obviously, but no all.

I think it will depend on whether you really want to play the game or not and if you have other games to play instead. I come back to it sometimes but overall I don't plan to stay. It's too late, you will have many neckbeards above you in nerd society.

>Does it take less time to level
significantly less time, yeah

if you play WoW in 2020 you are cuck

no, you missed the best time to play

it takes less time but overall it's a much better experience. old system you'd level like 1/4 of the way through each area and then outlevel it because the scaling was stupid, so you'd never finish complete storylines. new system you pick an expansion (each expansion is basically a complete self-contained storyline) and you level through that.

if it's your first time though and you have no max levels you have to level in bfa. this isn't as bad as it sounds, though. bfa may have been an awful expansion but the leveling experience was fine imo. not as fun as wod or legion but still perfectly fine. definitely better than "old" world cata leveling, which was a fucking mess.

in the old system the most efficient way to level was basically grinding dungeons for 20 hours. in the new system the most efficient way to level is to just do wod, or do wod and part of legion/bfa. either of those ways is legitimately fun imo and is quite fast.