Some kind of progression is really what I would need to stay interested long-term. After 1 year or so, add Burning Crusade, then Wotlk etc. Start new vanilla servers to replace them.
I haven't followed things closely but I believe that's the whole idea. They launch classic, then at some point the do the AQ event, then later burning crusade, etc.
It is not an idea they have confirmed at least. Afaik they only haven't flat out denied it could ever happen.
Shadout wrote:Some kind of progression is really what I would need to stay interested long-term. After 1 year or so, add Burning Crusade, then Wotlk etc. Start new vanilla servers to replace them.
I haven't followed things closely but I believe that's the whole idea. They launch classic, then at some point the do the AQ event, then later burning crusade, etc.
They do have a like 6-phase rollout plan for features. That way every raid from Onyxia and Molten Core through Naxxramus has a chance to be "current" content. They haven't announced any plans for anything past Naxx.
Naxx being original Naxx right? Not northrend NAxx?
I am pretty sure it will be classic 40m Naxx from what I can gather.
Attunements for raids will need to be done also.
40-person Naxx over the Plaguelands.
To be fair, VERY LITTLE changed between Vanilla and WotLK Naxx, outside of a few mechanical tweaks. Rather than using orbs to MC the minions for that one fight, you need Priests... the Four Horseman are a bit more complicated, but a lot of those bosses were pretty similar, just tuned differently.
Honestly, that's the thing I think is going to "kill" a lot of guilds, MC is dead easy minus like the DPS check that is Ragnaros's add phase. Dungeon bosses in Mythic+ have more mechanics than like the whole of MC. XD Like I'm excited to try it from a different perspective (going Horde tank rather than Alliance Healer), but I don't think people are going to realize how quickly some of this stuff is going to get steamrolled... and then how hard some of the walls to hit are going to be when it comes time to need specific pieces of gear (see tank reqs for 4Horsemen).
I'm kind of assuming all the early progression in classic will have no skill checks, but lots of commitment checks. I mean there will be hardcore raiding guilds who do all the, I don't even remember, dark iron dwarf stuff to get all the fire resist gear before MC, but presumably a lot of people wont, but will still want to try out raids since they know all the mechanics etc.
I think it's anyone's guess how it'll all turn out, whether the balance of players revels in the challenge or everyone bails almost immediately (but uses their renewed subscription to check in on the main game, which could of course be blizzard's plan).
Personally I have a feeling that I may wind up doing zero raids but lots of battlegrounds. My memories of classic BGs are very fond.
When did they add the level lock for people to abuse BGs?
Personally I have a feeling that I may wind up doing zero raids but lots of battlegrounds. My memories of classic BGs are very fond.
This is where I'm at as well. Before the cross server stuff was introduced, my fondest memories of WoW pvp (and really pvp in any game) were from competing against specific alliance players/guilds all the time. Malygos was like 98%/2% alliance to horde so we were always the under dog, which added to the atmosphere.
But man...between the level grind and the "bugs" I don't think I have it in me to get to 60.
When did they add the level lock for people to abuse BGs?
Late in vanilla I think. Definitely before BC, around the time of the update that finally made resto druids viable (I think swiftmend was added then?).
I think thisis the first time they have really spelled out that Classic might move unto the other expansions. Would be really nice. It still is a bit of a non-answer to say you will 'listen to your customers' of course.
Q: What are the plans after Phase 6? More content for classic or moving to TBC?
A: We’ve done most of the hard work by bringing back 1.12 so progressing to Burning Crusade would be a lot easier for us. Our plan is to identify everything we need to do should we ever decide to go this route. We want to be sensitive to the desires of our players. Some may want BC and some may not. We’ll be following the Classic community closely to help determine what our next steps should be.
Got the lovely BLZBNTAGT00000BB8 (oops, something broke) error yesterday.
After every official and unofficial "fix" failed to solve the issue, I am reinstalling. Whee.
Earlier than expected, but also a bit lighter than expected
But, but, but...Worgen models!
I don't think we see an 8.3. Or, if we do, it will be Siege of Stormwind or Siege of Org as a finale to the war campaign.
I think the new model work looks great but there is nothing content wise and I find it pretty telling that they decided to skip the legacy armor for Worgen and Gobos.
I think Blizz is eager to put BfA behind them and just move on. The expansion has been poorly recieved and much like WoD, there is no benefit from an additional "Faralon" zone.
I would be shocked if there isn't an 8.3 already in the pipeline. The alternative is another year plus gap with no content until the next x-pac releases... and that would be really bad.
Looking through the patch notes, there's quite a bit here for a x.y.5 patch. The issue is most of the things are anniversary remixes of old content. That's where all the resources went. Unfortunately all the nostalgia thunder was stolen by WoW Classic so 8.2.5 seems particularly underwhelming.
It also seems really light on the balance updates. Maybe they aren't needed in the grand scheme of things, but it still feels like my Windwalker needs some sustained-DPS love.
that rate seems weird. i have stacks on stacks of oscillators and almost no chain coils
Energy cels always came cheap for me, i wasn;t noticing the empty on4es drop, but every time the recharger was up i would get 20-30 charged
Oh so much angst and whinning about the beevent.
I did just get myself to revered and can say the task is MUCH less onerous with the bee goggles. they should really have been available at honored IMO
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