@Solwilds

Just a solo dev streaming his journey. I’m building a 2d 8-bit MMORPG inspired by WoW Classic and Star Wars Galaxies.

Brooklyn, NY
Joined July 2026
A complete stranger in Stormwind noticed how bad our gear was and gifted us a level 13 axe. This is precisely the kind of random social interaction that makes an MMO feel special.
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Trying to take a quest in Brill, picked a fight with an actual player instead. I realised what I'd done right around the point it became impossible to undo.
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If you're farming under that green Tirisfal sky, at what point do you throw in the towel and move to Stormwind? Nothing good comes under a green sky.
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I was meant to be studying WoW Classic for all the game-design bits we can steal for Sol Wilds. Then Mage became too much fun and I forgot to do commentary. Strong research methodology, frankly.
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Classic WoW handed us a quest to kill a Scarlet Crusade agent immediately after we’d killed him by accident. The quest text had barely finished the sentence before the penny dropped. It was that guy we just fucking killed.
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Classic WoW did not have realistic lighting. It did have spooky farms, an Undead guard on an Undead horse, an eerie green lamp and art direction strong enough to make the whole forest feel haunted. That’s the bit that matters.
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There’s something therapeutic about playing Mage in Classic WoW. I never mained one, but the spell rhythm, the Horde maps and all the mystic Undead nonsense immediately feel right. Like coming home to a class I apparently forgot I loved.
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WoW Forever is turning campfires into a proper social system: gather round, contribute as a profession, and leave with a useful buff. It feels VERY Star Wars Galaxies, which is exactly the sort of thing more MMOs should steal.
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The first important decision after abandoning the Paladin: hot Undead or scary Undead?
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I assumed a day/night cycle meant moving every tree shadow with the sun. Classic WoW mostly leaves its contact shadows alone and changes the colour instead, because that’s what your brain actually reads as time passing.
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This Paladin quest put a physical Tome of Divinity in my backpack and expected me to find it, open it and read it. More work than modern quest dialogue, but much better world-building.
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Would I play Paladin again? Absolutely not. Holy warrior isn't my class fantasy, I wish we'd rolled a mage, and the supposedly easy streaming class isn't feeling very easy. Still, that was the random roll.
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Sol Wilds retweeted
Look, I don’t think you guys understand. You’re supposed to be playing 24/7. Quit your job or school, get that divorce you’ve been thinking about and put the kids up for adoption. Pets are okay. See you in Azeroth. 🫡
I do wish WoW had a shorter day/night cycle. Like maybe 6 hours? 3hr day 3 hr night so 4 cycles in a 24hr day. I’ve only been able to play at night and haven’t gotten to see the world during the day. Would be great for folks who work overnights, but idk if it’s realistic for the way the game is made. @AggrendWoW
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Sol Wilds retweeted
How many years until we get the World of Warcraft Forever Classic+ edition?
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The deal for installing Questie was that we'd do every single quest in WoW Classic as penance. It sounded reasonable in stream one. It sounds like complete insanity now.
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Spicy Goblin Gumbo has no nutritional value but does make you randomly belch rancid toxic fumes for five minutes. I think I love it.
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