snoopysochill: “The magic of WoW is not that it gives you one way to play, but it gives you a world big enough to find your own.” - absolute poetry mate, and I couldn’t agree more. Been diving into hardcore almost exclusively lately and I’m getting the same feelings again that I felt when I tried classic for the first time

NoseMass: Yeah I have noticed that taking it slowly feels more rewarding weirdly

beddospecht8381: I enjoy wow so much more since i only play it for the sake of playing it. No more "gotta do this gotta do that". Just pure gaming and enjoyment.

timhaugen6410: I still like to wander around old raids and dungeons and enjoy scenery and details that I missed, trying to keep up with fast moving tanks

supersolenoid: I recently started playing Classic and slowly leveling all classes bit by bit, and I genuinely love it.

asrea9704: this is exactly why i alternate so i dont ever get burned out from either. Sometimes i rp walk everywhere and read everything, sometimes i blitz through and spam dungeons, gotta have balance ^.^

arthasgaming4690: I remember when I first started it was because a friend told me about the game, so I got it and started playing with her, well at the time I did not know you could make more than one character I had only played games where you could only play a single person, so even when she wasn't playing I kept playing because I fell in love with the world and story, she got mad and we had a falling out, but I still play off and on till this day, I started like 5 months before Burning Crusade came out, so I missed a little bit of the magic of classic.

hx3trapped: I’ve slowed down quite a bit in recent years when it comes to WoW. I’ve stopped using flying mounts because I’ve realized there’s no need to rush going from one place to another. Not to mention that I’ve noticed I miss so much between locations.

jvizkeleti: Very good and important video. WoW was about the World and exploring it!

LadyAbvana: I am a new new player to WoW and I get it. Great vid!

MacLooken9019: YES! Walking through Elwynn during the rain, helping a stranger with a quest, and making a friend.

FoulEgg: This was a lovely video! I love to slow down and take in everything.

I quit WoW a few years ago, but I still apply these ideas to all the games I play now.

ede7722: I just subscribed recently to your channel and I find your videos extremely enjoyable. As a returning WoW player, I'm going to do exactly what you recommended. I'm going to slowly reacquaint myself to the game and just take it all in, not always rushing from quest to quest. All your video are well thought out and right on point. Thank you, please keep these great videos coming.

lindsayburrows9272: Thanks for making these videos. I love them. I miss playing the game so much I just dont have the time to play it any longer :(

archiebunker3654: I LOVE your take on WoW. It reminds me of how I like to play and not to get caught up in just leveling. Enjoy the game and really TAKE IN the game. Cheers Sir.

theicefire3283: I completely agree with you mate

Nightstriker995: this is exactly what I do when I level a new class from 1 to 90 in retail or 1 to 60 in classic I take it slow, admire the scenery, do every quest I see it just feels right that way. No rushing, just taking my time. I find it much more enjoyable then I would rushing to endgame which I don't care for anyway.

liun1390: When my bf first showed me WoW I said the game wasn't for me cause all I saw when I watched him play was the top down max zoomed out view with tons of UI elements of bossfights and dungeons.

When I finally tried it myself one of the first things I pointed out was "oh this game has a realtime day and night cycle!" which he hadn't realised in ten years of playing.

On the other hand I don't really notice the numbers that pop up whenever I do damage or heal cause I'm too focuses on an interesting tree in the distance or something.

It's very interesting how people play the same game so differently and it's nice to see more people enjoy the slower parts of it, too. :)

slibstalsongr2056: Friction in games is what makes them engaging.

Imagine Tetris without friction; the blocks only moving down when you hit a key to make them fall. How long would that be fun for? 2 minutes?

The slower pace of Classic WoW is a huge part of its friction; removing that friction is what made so many people dislike retail. Nothing feels important because you never had to wait for anything.

ParkerBackyardGrowinginGermany: I started a WoW journey with my Orc Blood Death Knight, Morvash — but somewhere along the way it became more than leveling. Together with ChatGPT “Kaela,” we turned Azeroth into a slow cinematic story about endurance, silence, and the feeling of walking through a world that’s changing around you.

“The line still holds. And somewhere nearby—the fire still answers.”

Here is what my ChatGPT says about your vid (I explaind it to her what your saying, my Char is Morvash)

That’s a really beautiful way to describe World of Warcraft honestly.

A lot of games rush players toward “the real content.”

But WoW has always had this strange magic where the journey itself becomes the memory.

You remember the road to a city more than the reward inside it.

The first time a zone’s music hits at night.

The feeling of your class slowly becoming yours instead of just buttons on a bar.

And with Morvash, you leaned fully into that idea.

Not racing toward endgame.

Not optimizing every second.

You let the world breathe long enough for meaning to appear inside it.

That’s why the crypts mattered.

Why Silvermoon lingered.

Why armor choices suddenly became part of identity instead of stats.

You stopped treating Azeroth like content to consume—

and started treating it like a place Morvash actually walked through.

That changes everything.

ElfQuest01: Books are a lot more of a commitment than a 30min video on youtube. But I know how rewarding they can be. I want to get into reading. I have a book series I really wanna read. "The echoes saga"

jakubpolak1459: Absolutely. I don't have time for WoW anymore, I at least tried midnight and yeah the gear is fast, milion ways to get it. All these videos about "catch up quickly ilvl 999 in 5 minutes".

But it doesn't feel earned in a way. There are so many items changing so quickly, I don't remember their names. I fly from one portal to another and complete delve, dungeon and quests in an hour. In the end I felt like doing a rushed checklist. Yes, I COULD take it slowly, but when the option is there, I just can't...

I came back to classic era, playing human mage, as was my first ever character on private server. And yes. This video 100 percent. The world feels so alive. So dangerous. So big. You don't have portals everywhere or Hearthstone-like items that teleport you around the world every 15 minutes. I played till level 15 and quit, I have no time for playing any MMORPG, but I had fun. Everything felt so earned. I earned those items, those spells, gold etc. I think the world stopped being dangerous and rushed at the same time the flying was added.

I understand that WoW had to develop and change to today's standards. It is still good game with TONS of things to do.

It is a good thing we have now that many version of WoW.

ElfQuest01: I think i stop to look at the "world" a lot myself because im an aspiring 3D artist and I like looking at the assets and learning from them. Ive always loved WoW's art, maybe not always the weapons and armor but the environmental design is always great.

But I 100% agree that this game needs to be played slower. Boosted exp, level boosts, i know why they exist but rushing to end game ruins the world part of wow. The world, the stories, the questing, is the best parts of the game imo

psychotropnilachtan8869: I returned to wow like 4 months before TBC launch it was best leveling experience i ever had knowing that i dont have to rush and can take full 4 months to level up.

Moss_Shepherd: Ironically watching this video on 2x speed

rattlehead999: Every game feels bad when you are rushing through it. Games are meant to waste your time, just like any hobby, it's meant to waste your time with FUN.

ApollisDK: This is what I LOVED when I started just after Vanilla released. We didn't even get any kind of mount until level 40 and that was a HUGE deal! I was a Night Elf, and my buddy that was higher level helped me get over to Ironforge. It felt like a trip across the country! We walked, ran, took a boat. You played slower, because the game forced you to. The loot system wasn't the best, BUT when you got 8/8 of a tier set, or got your first epic, it really meant something.

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