I’ve been getting back into my private WoW server lately (I do this about once per year for 2 weeks and then get bored again lol) and it’s reminding me why I always delete all of my characters and start from scratch: WoW characters are extremely fucking complicated and there’s no way to take notes that are stored on the server about how to play them or what I was doing with them, or really anything about them at all

which character was my auction house character? why is my character in this zone in particular? what items are stored in which character’s bank and why? how do I make sense of the enormous complexity of their abilities? etc. it’s way easier to just start from scratch than figure out wtf was going on with each one

so yeah I have about 10 characters and I’m going to delete all of them and start from scratch. I feel like the average WoW player would be screaming at me right now lol but genuinely, it’s this or not play the game at all

I think at the very least, all WoW characters on the same faction should have a shared bank and a shared gold pool. that would help a lot. like, an enormous amount

I don’t think even Blizzard could understand why I love this game or what I get out of playing it. there is no other MMO in the world that caters to my taste and I’m increasingly suspecting that WoW caters to my taste so well completely by accident

any time I play a non-WoW MMO it feels to me like they completely missed the point of what makes a WoW-style MMO fun in the first place and just did random confusing things instead. but I think what’s really happened is that they’ve catered the MMO to every player’s taste except mine because I’m the only one who likes WoW as a singleplayer class fantasy crafting-and-combat experience

okay I’m actually going to try something different this time. I deleted every character until I only had Alliance characters, and only one character per class (the highest-level character) and I’m going to see if I can figure them out instead of making new characters. I’m going to pretend that professions don’t exist for now but I might deal with that later because at the moment I just want to focus on figuring out combat again and getting all of my combat-related addons set up

but yeah I want more games where I pick a class that has a very evocative fantasy associated with it and then the game facilitates that class fantasy with all of its mechanics. like even one game that does that other than WoW would be great

@kasdeya They finally did this on retail with the most recent expansion, you have a "warband" bank and such.

@Shivaekul oohh I’m really glad that they did. I love a lot of what they did in more recent WoW expensions tbh - like level scaling is something that I have wanted for so long T_T trying to play multiplayer when you’re not at the level cap and there’s no level scaling sucks so much for my playstyle - it effectively means I have to consciously keep my character’s level in line with all of my friends’ at all times or playing with them is going to be Extremely Unfun

thankfully my private server has Legion which (I think?) finally added this

if I could make games I would make a game that does everything I love about WoW but better. it wouldn’t be hard because WoW is only accidentally doing most of the things that I love about it

@kasdeya I always have an emotional bond with my characters and deleting them literally hurts like when someone breaks up with you.

Why don't you just make a new account instead?
Also which private server are you playing on? Your own hosted or a public one?

@ninafelwitch omg that extremely makes sense. I guess I see my characters as abstract representations of fantasies that I want to have rather than actual characters that I roleplay as if that makes sense, so I don’t really get attached to them like that thankfully

I actually never even considered making a new account! if I made a new account every time I would probably have about 7 by now though lol, or maybe more. and I know myself and know that I would never go back to those old accounts so I might as well have deleted all of the characters in them anyway

and, I’m playing on Tauri! I haven’t tried too many other private servers but I love Tauri - it’s very very similar to Blizzard’s version of WoW but has higher XP rates (but not absurdly high or anything), and it also even has Legion! (among a few other expansions that you can play)

@kasdeya Thanks. I'll keep Tauri WoW in mind in case Blizzard actually manages to shut Turtle WoW down.