You guys ready for world boss Hogger post Naxx? lol
Lets convert this topic to, what content would you like to see Post Naxx? Any cool ideas?
I think there's a lot there. Grim Batol, Tol Barad, Uldum, and Karazhan were all originally considered for raids in vanilla. The version of Karazhan that is used in TBC is actually the 3rd version of Kara ever made. The other 2 were scrapped and originally intended for vanilla. Grim Batol is an easy one for sure. Elite red dragons sat outside, lore importance from WC2 and the novels. Uldum has the gate sat in south Tanaris, and was originally going to be an outdoor raid. Tol Barad I think didn't have any plans to be PvP hub and was more intended as a potential raid place. There's also always the original conception of the Tomb of Sargeras. There's also the Azshara Crater battleground that they scrapped. I believe most of their ideas they had for it were similar to Eye of the Storm and I think they wanted to do the whole Mine Cart gimmick in that one BG but couldn't get the coding to work back then.
A lot of this is an obvious retconn of the trajectory the game goes later. The question is how recent to Vanilla do they want to go? Because if they really wanted to, they could open the Dark Portal to the early version of Hellfire Peninsula and Hellfire Citadel could be a raid. Additionally, Outlands was where we were supposed to find Deathwing. It gets messy when you have to worry about Illidan/Kael'thas, etc. To the point where pretty much most of this paragraph I do not endorse.
What I would love to see would be at least one more, if not two more 20 man raids. I think it'd be cool if there was an entire progression path just for a 20 man raiding guild. Sure, the 40 man guilds would love to dabble in those as well for supplemental gear, but additional ways to play is always good. Maybe by the time you were in the end 20 man raid, the gear was maybe on a par with the better stuff in BWL. 40 mans would still be the path to the strongest gear, but you would want to make sure that the 20 man gear wouldn't make the 40 mans too easy with the gear they drop, so you'd want them to at least advance the second half of AQ40 and Naxx and beyond only using 40 man gear.
I don't think they will change anything that isn't needed. For example, vanilla's UI was pretty trash and the settings and etc. needs a rework, they are implementing the new one. The old one didn't add anything of value to the game and no one wants a shitty ass UI in 2019, so they'll change it. If it doesn't affect the sllightest bit to the play experience they might change it for QoL's sake but if it affects playing (i.e. going to the trainer to learn your spell) they won't change it, even if it's a QoL change in theory.
Personally, I think once enough of the newer-to-vanilla complain about certain class/spec balance, I think they will cave and attempt a class balance patch.
god i hope not. considering blizzard has said that if they were to balance classes in classic wow we would get retail design and balance? heck no.
I think if they add something it will be events.
I really do not recall exactly how many of the events like Nobel Garden where in it but I think that is possibly they could add without passing people off.
NO CONTENT CHANGES! No game data changes! Back-end changes are fine, account-level changes (collection linking) are fine, cosmetic and UI improvements (colorblind support, "clean up bags" button, low-level quest tracking, etc.) are fine, but I draw the line at stuff that affects the game world.
NO CONTENT CHANGES! No game data changes! Back-end changes are fine, account-level changes (collection linking) are fine, cosmetic and UI improvements (colorblind support, "clean up bags" button, low-level quest tracking, etc.) are fine, but I draw the line at stuff that affects the game world.
you couldn't even track quests in vanilla to begin with, so why would you need low level quest tracking? they didn't appear on the minimap at all.
I really do not recall exactly how many of the events like Nobel Garden where in it but I think that is possibly they could add without passing people off.
some of the holidays existed and some did not.
I will personally fight every retail crybaby thread about any sort of changes to make sure that Blizzard sees that the community is divided on any sort of change and thus likely stick to the laziest option and not do any changes, since pleasing everyone is impossible.
Don't really care about any scrub's opinion on what a meaningful/good/beneficial change is, don't think anyone ever did, and it definitely never mattered to Blizzard. I just want this game to be delivered in its 1.12 state to the best of their ability as was requested, promised and confirmed so many times.
I think everyone should be patient and enjoy the game as it used to be. You don't need changes to classic, that was done once and it's called retail which from what I see tends to really suck now thanks to all the nerfing changes.
Really hope they don't change anything, this whole mess up to BFA is because: Changes.
I don't even want TBC because it has flying. That fucks up community alot, same with LFR/Dungeon finder
I am curious what you think will be Blizzard's limit to no changes will be?
So far, they have stuck with it from the looks of it.
Personally, I think once enough of the newer-to-vanilla complain about certain class/spec balance, I think they will cave and attempt a class balance patch.
What about you?
The second they try to balance the game is the moment classic will be ruined.
You've seen what they keep doing to Overwatch.