So the title may be confusing but it's kinda relevant, and I thought it'd be funny to use a song lyric from one of the old Tom n Jerry episodes I recall...
Anyhow, here's my dilemma. I was a young 20 something back when WoW originally released. Played it from Vanilla---> Wrath of the Lich King. Quit shortly into Wrath due to feeling like I was lost in the game at times, and after taking a break felt so far behind that I could "never catch up".
Fast forward through the last 16 years. I ended up playing vanilla, BC, and wrath private servers for small stints here and there, before they inevitably died out due to propaganda from competing private servers or due to C&D orders (i.e. shut down).
As of 2019, played classic wow at it's re-release (re-launch?) with a friend. I was the one to convince him to play. Then in December of 2019 had some person issues I had to take care of and deemed it was necessary to cancel my sub and take a break for awhile. Now here we are. Friend is wondering if I'll ever come back. He isn't pressuring me, but I told him I'd been thinking about it the past few months.
The problem: I don't really like classic wow. Yes I enjoy it more than say current wow. But if I'm being truthful, the class balance, itemization, etc was horrible in vanilla. I don't want the super-heroes of modern wow where every player is the savior of the alliance/horde and can swarms of enemies with a snap of their fingers...but I also don't want vanilla wow where itemization is crap, your player looks like Joker on laundry day, and all that.
The problem part 2: My favorite expansion is BC. I love the theme, the atmosphere, the quality of life updates, the flying mounts, the gear. Everything. Everything in BC was just way better. Ultimately I was honest with myself and the only reason I played Classic WoW and encouraged my friend to play it, was in the hopes that some day Blizzard would release "Classic BC" and I'd be able to relive that time period again.
The thing is...We are at LEAST 1 year away, if not longer....before that is a even a smidge of a reality. And I'm growing bored with the games I'm playing (Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, Hearthstone, some Diablo3 here and there...)
The problem part3: Part of the reason I took a break from classic wow in December was because of job issues and stability in my relationship. Both have been resolved now and things are much better...but now I'm afraid that the one thing that enticed me (raiding, doing dungeons, etc....waiting for BC) isn't actually feasible.
Even if I don't raid (a 2-4 hour commitment once or twice a week) dungeons in Vanilla don't hold the same attention as BC. Secondly, I thought well I could farm gold, just casually do dungeons, level alts, etc in the meantime but there's not a ton of fun replayability just dungeoning in vanilla for me over and over again on multiple alts. Lastly my favorite class was a Blood Elf paladin, so leveling alts doesn't do much for me because my main in BC is gonna have to be re-rolled/start fresh as it is.
So my conundrum is: Should I even try to play classic WoW in the hopes that BC Classic ever comes around? Am I living too much in the past (I guess you could say others who play classic are living in the past as well...) Just looking for some advice on what to do, and how to move forward being a 30-something person and realizing that I can't necessarily commit the same amount of time that I used to when I was 20, and not sure how to enjoy WoW when the one thing in WoW I really enjoyed but hated the extensive time commitment to was raiding...
Thanks in advance!
