#barrens chat

[terrible-mmo-names]

'Barrens Chat' isn't really a place so much as a state of mind.

Honestly, it's comforting to know MMO players across both different eras and different games are still more or less the same. Together let's appreciate this moment of common humanity - and the simple joy of drawing a penis in chat.

[breadknight-likes-things]

The Barrens Is A Harsh Wasteland That Doesn’t Want You There, If Only You Could Leave.

Are you playing World of Warcraft?  Any version but especially WoW Classic?  Congratulations, you’ve already ended up in the Barrens before answering those questions.  Both factions of players will somehow end up there at differing times, but Horde players know it best as a major leveling hub in all versions of the games, and despite some big changes to be found as time wore on, I always get the same basic vibe from The Barrens “Get out”.

The Barrens has an apt name given there’s really nothing there, it’s a vast grassland of plains with little more than animals, long dead animals and the occasional tree.  It’s a land that feels like it’s existed forever, yet was somehow never alive to begin with.  Most of all though it’s an absurdly harsh land, in Vanilla it’s made pretty clear that both of the Horde settlements have only recently been established.  They consist of few buildings, all of which seem to have been constructed via tents and hasty wooden poles.  The only bastion of normal civilization you can really find in The Barrens is Ratchet, and that's simply a port of transport to an even more savage area of Azeroth.

There’s an overwhelming sense that “civilized” life doesn’t belong in The Barrens, and that attempts to settle there further will only lead to further strife, but it doesn’t stop the people who have become determined to make it their home.  Characters like Mankrik have no illusions of abandoning this place now, the Undercity apothecaries are still going to be fascinated by the oasis’ there that defy all logic and The Horde isn’t going to let up their claim on this harsh continent just because it wants it dead.

Oh also, game wise, the chat is a worse threat than any centaur or encroaching lion, it’s just not part of the lore.

[aranyaphoenix]

WoW Classic is going to be epic. I’ll be sipping so much tea, scrolling through Barrens Chat!

[flyingbatteries]

almost wrapped up with good ol' vanilla Barrens on Elysium and thought I'd compile some of my experiences so far:

-"WHERE IS MANKRIK'S WIFE" every 10 minutes

-Someone quoting the entire "Shrek is Love Shrek is Life" video in chat

- A Tauren named Moomilkdaddy

- "HERZUL BLOODMARK LFG" every 10 minutes

- A guild ad for a druid furry ERP guild with nightly events at Thunder Bluff

- Chuck Norris

- "did someone say [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]?"

- 60. Quillboar. Tusks.

- getting ganked by Alliance in Ratchet

- running back to Wailing Caverns

-helping ya buddy with his 8 part water totem quest

- some dude's corpse that I spotted outside an oasis was still there when i logged back in 5 hours later

- some dude yelling about "shoving a funnel in his urethra" if he didn't find a quest npc

-and my favorite "JUST REMEMBER, you are here forever"

[sigurdjarlson]

@lovesdaryl oh no! I did forget food and water! And flint and wood for a fire to cook food! Shit! Lmao x)

I remember playing Diily back then and you had to buy arrows? And they would run out and you’d have to buy more.

also people can get the frostsaber mount easy now? I spent months getting to exalted with them to get that mount! I’m pretty sure it was longer actually. So much meat collected. So much..

and we didn’t get a mount at all till 60? When leveling took a huge amount of time. Until you got all the flight paths you had to walk from one end of the continent to another with nothing but ya feet! (And undiscovered flight paths weren’t shown on the map) *shakes cane* and we didn’t have no dungeon finder or raid finder back in my day! No heirlooms! No heirlooms that increase XP gain! Us old hunters had to feed our pets until they loved us! (I actually liked that last one. It was a cute lil feature)

honestly I don’t understand why people miss that stuff so much. It makes things easier and more accessible for casual players who don’t want to dedicate their entire lives to playing. I think it’s just nostalgia really. Which I can understand to some degree. I still remember how I felt when I started playing :’) nothing compares to that first time..

[jeditrix]

reblog if you're old enough to remember Barrens Chat

[handageddon]

“shitposting used to be called nightblogging!” you kids are so pure

before that... it was called trade chat

[yangkoete]

Walmart is the Barrens Chat of the world as to Wafflehouse is the PVP arena.