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Wasting Time; Playing WoW... kinda sorta
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If it wasn't for New World coming out soon I'd be more inclined to hop back into Final Fantasy XIV, but alas, I don't really want to fall into a proper MMO when I'm planning on playing the hell out of another in coming weeks.

So, World of Warcraft? That's an MMO too!

Yes, but no. See, I'm too cheap to bother paying for an overpriced subscription for a game I'm going to get bored of in a week. So I redownloaded the *Ascension* private server! AND! I'm not really *playing* it, per se... I discovered that Ascension has other game modes including your basic hardcore mode, and so, that's what I've set out to do.

Play free, better, "Classless" World of Warcraft until my character dies! 😁

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I can't trade with people, group up with people, send mail, or even use the auction house. Considering about 80% of my gameplay in MMOs *is* the great Auction House... welp! Guess I'm restricted to focusing on levelling this character and keeping it alive!

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It took me over half an hour of staring at this screen until I decided what I actually wanted to do. There's so much choice and unless you have a faint idea of the kind of character you'd like to make, you're going to be in for a difficult time.

I had no idea what I wanted to make.

At first I thought a great warrior with some healing abilities and some faint magic... so a paladin, but better, because paladins are boring and I've never been able to drag myself through the pain of playing one in the proper game.

Then I thought perhaps I'd like some sort of rogue hybrid.

But at last I settled with magic, magic, magic.

I'm going a fire mage, with some fiery warlock abilities, some fiery shaman abilities, alongside some healing and defensives. Depending on how many ability points I end up getting anyway. ***FIRE!!*** 🔥

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The last time I played Ascension was a couple of years ago when @thegoliath first introduced me to it. And already I have to say that things seem so much different now compared to back then! 

Back then I hardly saw another soul, the game was empty, and being an auction house trader I didn't see the point in really playing if there were no other people. I don't believe these game mode challenges like Iron Man and such were in it back then either. Neither was there a PvP justice system with same faction fighting.

Or maybe there was and I just didn't really notice.

Either way, this private server seems to have really grown! It's filled with people and things to do, and I'm rather amazed that it's come this far from the emptiness that I remember.

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I also found, on my way to the illustrious Barrens, this nifty chestpiece that is just *perfect* for my fiery wizard! A pity it has agility on it, but I'm using it anyway! 😄

I alsoooo noticed that if you flag yourself for pvp, only people around a similar level to you can actually attack you........ ***THEY NEED TO IMPLEMENT THAT IN ALL GAMES THAT HAVE PVP!!!! OMG!!!!!*** -- High levels ganking and annoying low levels is the sole thing that turns me off open world pvp. Ugh.

Anyway, let's see how long this manages to hold my attention. 😅 I just want New World to be released and nothing else is interesting.

If you, too, are interested in Ascension -- you can find it, make an account, download it, and play it at the following link: https://ascension.gg/

It's much more fun than retail WoW, and free too! 😉

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<CENTER><sub>All screenshots in this post are courtesy of me, @kaelci, and are from the game: <em>World of Warcraft, the Ascension Private Server.</em></sub></CENTER>
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@polessins ·
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hey this mod seems awesome, im a big fan of harcore play.  An this kind of game seems insane in HC mode. i think you choosed wisely your class.. a ranged character with some healing abilities is what i would go for too.  good luck and keep alive !
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@kaelci ·
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It really is! Unfortunately you can't do dungeons and things, but as a mostly solo player unless my friends are playing too, that doesn't really bother me. 🙂 

Ranged with some healing is definitely the way to go! I did briefly try melee, but it really wasn't the best for this kind of thing and quickly reset my skills. Lucky there's one free reset! (But in saying that, it's the very very start of the game so easy enough to make a new character, haha!)

Cheers! 🍷
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@pusen ·
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I never knew this existed. I've seen people to Hardcore runs in WoW where they delete their characters if they die but never like this. Really cool! And the character building looks really cool. I'll probably never play WoW and give Blizzard a single dollar again but I might actually try this out.
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@kaelci · 
The character building really is spiffy! It's hard to just settle for a few things... 😅 when you first start you have 9 ability points to use. Some abilities are only 1 point whereas others can be as much as 4 points. Once you reach level 10, every time you level up you get another ability point and also a talent point so you can start filling out the talent trees.

I really like the talent trees, actually! You don't need to get 5 points in one row to go down to the next row, instead as you level up the rows just become available to you and you can put your talent points wherever you please!

It seems a little overwhelming at first and perhaps overly powerful, but it feels really balanced at the same time.

I'm really enjoying it all at the moment! I was expecting to be bored of it already by now, but I'm not. 😂 I definitely recommend it! No more dollars for Blizzard!
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