Aggrend if you're reading this, this is how you save WoW and become the greatest developer of the 2020's.>classic plus>starts at patch 1.1.0 for pve content, spell, class balance, and talent trees>warrior rage is normalized>no addons allowed>logging disabled>first level cap will be 40, with Mara being turned into a raid. Later raised to 60.>old drop tables (no t2 in molten core)>bug fixes for all the known exploits throughout the classic era>has actual human mods to deal with botters, farmers, and rmt>all buffs are removed when you enter a raid or pvp instance>bgs are ranked solo and team queue (teams will only play vs other teams)>pvp gear is earned through points awarded weekly based off number of games played (not won) and has a realistic cap of like 25 total matches.>rewards for winning will be season based titles and cosmetics>pvp gear will have pvp bonuses and be stated for pvp specifically>only MC and Onyxia will carry over from classic, all other raids will be brand new areas, exploring all new quest lines and taking the game down a different timeline>raids will be capped at 25 players>new raids will have completely unique new tier sets and items>raid gear will have specific bonuses for that raid, to slow down power creep of items>raids will have flavorful attunement and world events to unlock the new content for the entire server>all women and indians are removed from the development teamThis gives you a blank slate to adjust class balance and time to roll out new content. The initial level 40 cap will carry over the best part of SoD, lower level fun. PvP won't feel like a chore. Player's won't be forced to collect buffs before raids. Doing it this way will cause classic to surpass retail in subs.
>>746060495the guy who posts AI generated mmo threads has better ideas
>>746060571If he's using AI then he's using indians and his suggestions are already invalid.
These are good ideas
titty/ass/belly sliders
>>746061147it isn't 2004 anon, that would get bad press.
>>746060495These are mostly fucking awful but world buffs do indeed need to fuck off if they want me to give them money
increase item stack sizes
>>746061804>These are mostly fucking awfult. Has nostalgia for a version of the game he never played
>>746060495>starts at patch 1.1.0 for pve content, spell, class balance, and talent treesnobody wants this
>all this to not even match what a bunch of fat NEETs can make with private serverswhat a joke of a multi-billion dollar company lol
>>746062895nobody knows what anybody wants from classic+. its the most schizophrenic shit thats entirely just vague shit floating around in the clouds. there is no consensus within the playerbase.
>>746060495>pvp gear will have pvp bonuses and be stated for pvp specificallyso... resilience?
>>746062895I want that. Everyone claims they remember classic, but they really don't. It would be extremely fun to go back to what people originally experienced day 1 and try to play it. It's so foreign to everyone that it would actually be a completely different game.
>>746060495>pvp in mmos before tbc: grind for cool rare item to pwn noobs>pvp after vanilla: you need special pvp gear to pvp that you get from a completely separate progression pathwhy are wowfags like this?
>>746060495I dont giver a shit, I hope you die IRL. Wow trannies need the rope.
>>746060495>pvp gear is earned through points awarded weekly based off number of games played (not won) and has a realistic cap of like 25 total matches.>rewards for winning will be season based titles and cosmeticsOh good, I look forward to the fighting between the people trying to get end of season rewards and the people that want to throw the match to they can get their 25 in for the weekGreat idea you retarded monkey
>>746063447Because the best pvp gear coming from raids is not really fun, and it causes the dev teams to struggle to balance pvp interactions. Instead of just picking pve servers, pvp players will cry and complain endlessly when they get 1 shot by a raid geared player.
>>746063792I hate to break it to you anon, but people already throw the match to go next as fast as possible if they're losing when losing doesn't even reward anything.
>>746064009So that means we should incentivize those retards on a massive scaleTruly a 200IQ idea
>>746060495>starts at patch 1.1.0 for pve content, spell, class balance, and talent trees0 spell power on gear, casters would suck even more then usual
>>746063263This.I actually played wow back when it first came out. I was so disappointed classic was being based off of the 1.12 patch, which is the lamest wow classic patch.
>>746060495>mfw I hear someone call wow in 2004- 06 "classic" wow
>>746063792So you never played wow before? This is what happens now, once one team looks like its losing people start getting trash talking for fighting back and delaying the loss. in AV you get mass reported for not giving up from the start if your faction is the one that usually throws on purpose.
>>746063792points should literally only be awarded through world pvp. fuck battlegrounds. only fun thing to do is gank fuckers in the open world
>>746064401what?
>>746060495>all this shit>actually zero mention of fixing paladin druid and shaman into being viable for anything other than healbotsinto the trash your opinion goes
>>746063447Fags will shard and fard themselves but I always liked that vanilla was PvE to PvP. You had to experience the whole game.
>>746064621sorry anon. season of discovery gave paladin crusader strike, and we can't use concepts that were introduced after the OG vanilla
>>746060495>Level caps KEK
>>746064131No, that means we shouldn't punish losing. Trying to grind tokens is a nightmare when it's based on winning, in a team game where 1 person can just decide that the team isn't winning fast enough and start throwing so they can go next.
>>746064697yeah except it also gave all the other classes good shit at the same time thus keeping paladin still at the bottom of the newly established bar for classeswhat needed to happen was paladin getting crusader strike with zero changes to other classes (except druid and shaman who also need buffs to be viable in a vanilla environment)
>>746064723its honestly not a bad idea. SOD ruined it with their rune garbage and shitty PvP events.
You can never go home again
>>746064523I support world pvp big time, but faggots will just shard into their faction dominated layer
>>746064789paladin is already batshit insane OP in PvP and in 5 mans. buffing him just for raids is reatrded when 99% of people only do raids to get gear so they can PvP or farm 5-10 mans anyways
>>746064621Anon, I am saying they should start with the original launch talents and skills solely to give them a blank slate to make new changes, abilities, and talents for all classes. If they start with the end patch of WoW the player base will already have a meta, and expectations for their classes established. By completely going backwards, it opens up new design paths without breaking these images people already hold for the classes.
That's not what classic plus is you drooling retard, that's just more SoD shitclassic plus is that they continue developing vanilla as if tbc never came out
>>746064723Level caps were the most fun part of SoD. Once it got to 60 the game was the same boring shit we've seen before. Bfd, gnomergan, and sunken temple were the peak of WoW in the last 20 years.
>>746060495You guys do know that almost every single wow vanilla dev has left blizzard, right?
>>746060495What the hell, I literally just watched a video of Classic+. Pretty interesting vid of where it could gohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7d_lA7ahAU
why do browns fear bosses with more than 1 mechanic?
>>746064723I would 100% support level capPeople rushing 60 are fucking gay
>>746065053was there a single good vanilla dev?
>>746063447This is part of the reason why wow sucked in TBC for me. In my eyes it felt like raiding gave you worthless gear that was only good for more raiding.
>>746064697Paladin launching without crusader strike had to be a mistake/it was unfinished and they didn't have time, and no one can convince me otherwise.
>>746065206They deliberately removed it. It wasn't forgotten.
>>746065241It had to be a mistake or that the talent was broken and they didn't have time to fix it before launch. Paladin had nothing to do besides judge and seal, it was terrible.
>>746060495>time to roll out new contentit should be launching with a bunch of new content. They should have multiple new zones, dungeons, playable races, and quests like a real expansion would have.It should be like classic got an expansion.>wanting Blizz to make anything in the current yearYeah I know, but the laundry list of raid/pvp changes hinges on blizzard being competent too.
>>746065206It was. It was removed last minute because Tigole had a personal grudge against them from Everquest and that carried over to WoW.
>>746065312OR the vanilla devs were fucking retarded?Half the classes are unfinished and unplayable, Ret isnt an outlier. They thought hybrid dps would be hard casting heals mid combat and nerfed them into the dirt to compensate.
>>746064697paladins literally had crusader strike in the vanilla beta
>WoW Classic style of leveling>Wrath style of Quests>Legions World Quests as a way for players to do timed event quests that changes up what is going on in the world (Quilboar raids, Stopping a demon summoning attempt, Holding back a Dragonmaw assault, or other events that make sense.>Retell the entire lore, but work the events into a more natural flow. Save Illidan and Outlands for later. Save the Lich King for later. Turn minor dungeons into major events that allows the change of landscape with the ability to return via the 'Bronze Dragonflight' as the lore mechanic without permanently removing a zone for people to explore. Thus, new versions can have much different quests and story happening there.
Add pvp objectives to more zones
>>746060495Classic players are the worst people you can imagine. They were okay in 2019 but now all that remains are just soulless overachievers that buy gold. It will always be bad at this point. MMOs have been ruined, their mentality extends all over the place now. It's over. It's finished. Give it up.
>>746065151Every single one yeah.
>>746065726Yeah. Hire mods and ban gold buyers / sellers. Simple as.
>>746060495>step 1: fire everybody at Blizzard and hire people that like Warcraft
>>746065053Most of the entire team left right after vanilla launched. If you ever wonder why there were all these actually old school ideas in the original production, like languages being a profession, yet none of them actually reflecting in the game, thats why.
>>746064985>classic plus is that they continue developing vanilla as if tbc never came outso classic + is something that will never exist.
>>746065451>Neltharion and Ragnaros beaten>Actually rework Sillithus into an actual zone (Burning out infested ancient temples, diving into hives to burn them out and so on.>Naxxramas can lead to a new zone (unaccessable zone in the map) that could be a new questing hub for the main Scourge base and ports. Argent Dawn, Scarlet Crusade and the Forsaken are seeking to sabotage/take over the ports of Lorderon once again. Can even make it a PvP zone that decides who claims it in a future patch.>Reference future zones and the reasons they aren't accessable yet (You could make new versions of Cataclysm zones early on.)>Allow High Elves and Blood Elves to work without a retarded ass reason (Lets face it, We are stuck with Horde elves forever)
>>746060495>>classic plus
>>746064985Classic+ should be like classic never happened. Start from day 1, and take the game in a completely different directionm i don't want to play the Nth iteration of the same dungeons, raids, and classes again. Continuing beyond Naxx is a boring idea. I want a brand new experience from start to finish in the original azeroth.
>>746065790then how come none of the content was good?
>>746064865>layerInstant shit. Absolutely irredeemable diarrhea. It can have all the stuff from the op post and it still will be pure garbage if it has layers.
>>746060495>pvp gear will have pvp bonuses and be stated for pvp specifically>raids will be capped at 25 playersKill yourself tranny, go back.
What exactly was the situation here?
Instead of trying to "save Classic Wow" or whatever, why not just... move on to something else?
>>746066096I miss when memes were stuff like this, it was better times
>>746066181i feel like the game got too AoE centric in TBC and Wrath, i would like to see classes had they kept most of them single target only
>>746060495>has actual human mods to deal with botters, farmers, and rmtModern Blizzard? Not a chance in hell. They would reach through the screen and stab you in the face if it meant saving $0.02 per month in operating costs.
>>746060495>>only MC and Onyxia will carry over from classic>Not BWLBWL is directly connected to both MC and Onyxia. Nef and Rag are fighting for control of the spire and he's Onyxia's sister.
>>746067646>sisterbrother*
>>746065206see here >>746065389those fucking NIGGERS tigole and furor deliberately sabotaged paladin to make sure they were trash on releasei even have evidence for this, check this shit out which was IN THE ALPHA AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL, AND THOSE FUCKING FAGGOTS REMOVED IT OVER THEIR HURRR EVERQUEST GRUDGE GOD I HATE BOTH OF THOSE CUNTS PIC FUCKING VERY RELATED
>>746067751AND HERES THIS TOO ALSO FROM THE ALPHA AND WAS ALSO CUT FUCK YOU TIGOLE AND FUCK YOU FUROR I HOPE SOMEONE CASTRATES YOU BOTH WITH A RUSTY TIN CAN LID YEAH IM STILL MAD AFTER ALL THESE YEARS I WILL NEVER NOT BE MAD
>>746065312Go back and read what the lead designers were saying at the time. They said since paladin is a hybrid class, then they must pay a "hybrid tax" to be nerf them. Because they were going by the "jack of all trades, master of none". By Wrath, they realized that's fucking retarded and unfun.
Epoch wow had SOME decent ideas, finishing up quests that randomly dropped with no conclusions, adding actual good shit in all professions, ring of blood in STV, the remade Wailing Caverns and Dead Mines were superb
>>746067178The fact this is also in Zangermarsh and the Forsaken have them in Venomspite makes me forget that the Horde allows slavery
>>746067751Can i ask what you mean by grudge? Doea everquest have PvP and they got raped by paladins or is this like some sort of parsetranny performance seethe
>>746067995No, EQ had hybrids that temporarily beat out traditional tanks and those faggots took it personally. Hybrids in EQ were punished by needing more XP to level.
>>746067751>wah my paladin isn't god wahh aren't you glad retail wow have been catering to your retarded underage ass since tbc
>>746067995OKAY TIME FOR A STORYso in everquest, tigole and furor ran a guild called legacy of steel and god fucking christ were they the proginetors of the poopsockers. seriously these guys spent 23 hours a day on that shitand both were massive PVP fags on top of being raiders, and both used really overpowered builds that would win in ALMOST ANY matchupTHE ONLY matchup that would stomp their cheesey faggot ass set up... was YEP YOU GUESSED IT. paladins.both of them got so fucking assmad about it that they ranted at the top of their lungs all day every day about it, and the moment they got into blizzard and got power, the fucking vietnam flashbacks of chad paladins coming into a zone to kick their bitch asses out when they were ganking people came back to haunt them, and they DELIBERATELY sabotaged paladin in wow to make the fucking useless as anything other than a heal bot, and us paladin players suffered under this FOR FOUR GOD DAMN FUCKING YEARS UNTIL THEY WERE FINALLY OUSTED AND WOTLK RELEASED
>>746060495>starts at patch 1.1.0Already a deal breaker for blizzard; too much work, difficulty will alienate majority of their player base
>>746067061anon I created my account in december of 2004, and quit retail when cata released.
>>746067995>>746068131I'm blown away that people that are interested in Classic WoW dont know this.
>>746068223>2 guys cucked druids and paladins for almost a decadeextremely based if you ask me
>>746068407every single paladin and most druids and shamans who were around for real vanilla know about this. the other classes just EXIST IN FUCKING IGNORANCE as they REAP THE BENEFITS of this UNJUST AND UNFAIR TREATMENTi especially fucking hate warrior and rogue mains because those cunts will say or do *ANYTHING* to prevent any competition in melee dps from appearing, especially from a hybrid. fuck anyone who believes in the 'hybrid tax' with a rusty spoon.
>>746068446paladins have been overpowered longer than they were shit so it evens out
>>746068489There should be a hybrid tax but not to the extend that it was in vanilla. Hybrid tax in vanilla just meant healbot.
>>746068446WELL I DIDNT FUCKING ASK YOU DICKWAD
>>746068593you can fix so much of vanilla simply by slashing hybrid mana costs by 50%
>>746060571Look at the image in OP. This IS an AI thread.
>>746068081>>746068223no idea how it works in EQ but hybrids in WoW have never been jack of all trades (except maybe druid), you can only actually use one spec/talent tree distribution at a given time, so you're just shittier at each role individually. You just have more options in terms of respecs (which doing repeatedly got expensive back in the day)which means little.
>>746065423>>746067839The people calling the shots were EQ raiders and the overwhelming majority of classes in EQ were one-trick meme classes that cast one or two spells and then jerked off in a corner while the holy trinity cleared the raid. (Unless they were a paladin or sk in which case they didn't really do anything and were only even invited to fill out space.) Literally only warriors could tank and only clerics could heal, only wizards and rogues could dps, and while other classes might have had healing spells or damaging abilities, none of them could hold a candle to the trinity (which was actually four classes but still).This was considered acceptable and is the reason the hybrid classes in WoW were treated like red-headed step children. Even warlocks were dogshit and it's because they were viewed like EQ necromancers ie dumb meme class for edgy losers who refused to just play wizard.
>>746068407a lot of people have played WoW but not everquest, it really should not be a "holy shit" moment unless you are from an era where this actually might have been the the norm in which case you are OLD old. I already knew about Tigole, i did not know he personally hated paladins.
>>746068672yeah HMMM ITS ALMOST LIKE THE HYBRID TAX IS TOTAL BULLSHIT WHICH SHOULD NEVER BE USED AN EXCUSE HUH?
>>746070132hybrid tax is a good thing in a game like classic where the talents and roles aren't as well defined. Classes shouldn't be able to do everything, it's OP. Just like druids during phase 1 and 2 of SoD. Completely busted class
>>746063263Internet is different now you fucking idiot. You WILL NEVER get the original MMO feel for WoW or anything else. Min/maxing is here to stay and as long as information is available on the Internet, it is NEVER going away. Anyone trying to catch the same high as in 2004 is a fucking retard.
>>746060495>save WoWMake a new game.
>>746060495this is just SoD but even worse, never make a video game
>>746060495>Aggrend if you're reading this, this is how you save WoW and become the greatest developer of the 2020'sBy not listening to this retarded OP.
>>746070970I just want a good massively multiplayer fantasy game with an immersive world and fun social dynamics, i dont care if people minmax or not
>>746063930>Because the best pvp gear coming from raids is not really funyes it is. that's how every mmo used to work, that was part of the reward for spending 10000000 hours grinding for an item.
>>746070970Of course min maxing will exist. It has always existed. People were trying to min max in 2005 too. One of the first required addons in raids were damage meters, because when you're stuck on a boss, you look for weak points. However parsefags take this to the extreme and that shit needs to die.
>>746063109A lot of people do know what they want, the problem is they all want different things, and many of them simply want to go back in time themselves.
>>746068489The hybrid tax should exist because otherwise something like a druid could be tank, melee dps, ranged dps, or a healer. The only thing they lack is ranged physical damage. If respecs were time limited you could get away with no hybrid tax because then if a druid wants to be balance for this content they'd be locked out of being melee dps, tank, or healer for say, a week. But without methods like that you'd have to give one/two role classes a reason to exist when they will have a significantly harder time finding spots in a taxless world.
>>746071239If you want the best pvp items to be the best raid items, then you need to convince all the shitters that pvp never being remotely balanced is perfectly okay. That will never happen though, because even in SoD many of their changes were because of pvp balancing. As anytime an ability was just a little too good they would nerf it to oblivion, because the forums, twitter, reddit, etc were all crying about getting killed.
>>746071331>mfw homie who got to OG naxx says his guild MT didnt train demo shouty-yeah... minmaxing...
>>746060495>warrior rage is normalizedretail shit. rage doesn't need to be normalized for warriors to be balanced, see BC. not reading the rest of your retarded ideas.
>>746071239>>746071584In an ideal situation the pvp items would have stats that are only useful for pvp that makes their respective tier equal or slightly better to raid gear only in pvp. That way you don't have to raid to pvp and you don't have to pvp to raid.
>>746071584>you need to convince all the shitters that pvp never being remotely balanced is perfectly okayno you don't. how many people would refuse to play the game if pve gear was useful in pvp? the entire genre worked that way for years, even in tbc there was tons of pve gear that was good in pvp.
>>746071783honestly never understood this mentality, you should be playing both PvP and PvE and the modes should have some interplay or overlap, it's an MMO for god's sake. Runescape did it this way for years (and in fact even today the best PvP gear is still from PvE) and has had one of the biggest pvp scenes.
>>746072016>class is mediocre in pve but op in pvp>people not playing that class cry a liy>devs kneejerk nerf it making it ass in both forms of content>takes months for a buff>buff barely does anythingThis is why the two became separated.
>>746071453they need to go back to a capital to switch roles so it's fine, classic+ is going to have dual spec so lots of classes are going to be able to do 100% of multiple roles anyway
>>746072157>people will complain on the forumswho cares
>>746072016That's why I said pvp items have stats that are only useful for pvp that are only equal or slightly better than the equivalent raid gear. If you want to play both modes your raid gear is still more than strong enough especially if you fill in the gaps with pvp gear. But if all you want to do is pvp then you are free to pvp to your hearts content, while also heavily discouraging using pvp gear in raids so you aren't forced to pvp by having stuff that is only useful in pvp.
>>746070132Nah. Hybrid classes and designs are usually just a nightmare for a lot of devs to balance properly. from my experience, they either do everything and are broken because of it or because they can do everything, their numbers are shit, and nobody wants to play them because of it, and devs tend to go with the former if they have to pick. this isn't always a massive issue until it comes to pvp games/systems. Druid post vanilla are an example. >>746068223I remember reading dev note somewhere saying that another dev would constantly challenge him to a duel, and whenever the dev who challenged him lost, then that dev would nerf paladins or warriors. might be the same guy.
>>74606506211min of him rambling about emerald dream, like that's not an idea not only Blizzard explored decades ago but the community has talked about forever. I think Blizzard is looking for a more detailed approached (if they're even looking at that for classic+ to begin with) than just "bro shit is disappearing and druids are investigating, worgens and stuff". What about itemization, leveling, instances, raids, increased leveling cap or no, any new abilities or no, and what comes after emerald dream that actually fits the continuation of the vanilla lore or are they just winging it with random shit. It still has to be a functioning game with some sort of progression that can attract more people than just the classic boomers, which btw we all know will go back to anniversary servers regardless of how well classic+ does since they're retarded and doesn't like anything new
I'm waiting for SoD TBC.
>>746071778>see BCcorrect the way to balance warriors, according to anon who loves burning crusade, is to have them overaggro every single time they press whirlwind so therefore they don't need to worry about rage because spending it kill them.
>>746067646who impregnated Onyxia to make the brood anyway?
>>746060495>first level cap will be 40, with Mara being turned into a raid. Later raised to 60.Good job getting ready to make content obsolete and falling into the same development trap that killed WoW in the first place.
>>746072409>Druid post vanilla are an example. they are perfectly fineThe most "op" part of druid post vanilla was rdruid having access to a spammable CC on a healer in PvPLiterally nothing to do with it being a hybrid, they just let an insane spell on a healer spec instead of having it restricted. Classes are 10x more balanced in every single iteration after vanilla because they drop the hybrid tax retardation
Aggrend if you're reading this, this is how you save WoW and become the greatest developer of the 2020's.>paladin mana bar colored pink>no plate allowed only cloth>no weapons besides staves and wands>paladin females receive a 50% hp nerf in addition to a strength nerf>paladin males receive a 25% nerf instead>holy light and flash of light have their cast range increased to 200 yards so nobody ever has to see them>will not see loot rolls unless for cloth, wands or staves>cannot trade gear unless cloth, wands or staves>all paladin buffs shortened to 30 seconds for greater blessings, 15 seconds to regular blessings>a random piece of equipped gear is destroyed if a party members buff falls off>paladin mount cost increased by 5000%
Mother fuckers always trying to change fundamental design choices like they know better than the OG WoW team.The only change that needs to happen is more zones and more raids. Fuck off with your headcanon, theorycrafted bullshit.
>>746060495You make it so you can only have 3 addons. Artificially force how many addons to emulate what it felt like back in the day. Let it cook with no questie addon. No ui overhaul addon.
>>746065451Wrath had dailies and instanced shit. You need to flick off. Classic is not for you and your ilk.
>>746060495>>pvp gear will have pvp bonuses and be stated for pvp specificallystopped reading. you're an absolute fucking mongoloid.
>>746073386>The only change that needs to happen is more zones and more raids. Fuck off with your headcanon, theorycrafted bullshit.And warrior nerfs, and buffs + dual wield for enhance shaman.
>>746068489>warrior and rogue mains because those cunts will say or do *ANYTHING* to prevent any competition in melee dps from appearing, especially from a hybridHilarious that in TBC blizz gave those hybrids group buffs to make them more appealing so warriors and rogues wouldn't mind grouping with them.Except the buffs are so good groups are bringing hybrids instead of warriors (minus the one arms warrior for 4% buff and one fury bc he is guild master) and lol at bringing any rogues, and filling up with warlocks.
>>746060495Here's my ideas:nerf warriors into the dirtnerf mages into the dirtthat is all
>Want Monks still>Want Tinkerers still>WoW Classic fags will whine if these are added
bet they're pulling a vanilla pserver classic>add crusader strike>add holy taunt>"we fix'd teh game u guise :)"many such cases!
>>746074231need sexo nelfie pally!!
>>746060495What WoW Devs will actually do when they're forced to make C+>Take all the world design from Turtle>Take all the class design from CoA>Sell securities for bots and gold farmers to China>Lay off the devs that were going to implement everything>Sell Heirlooms and level 60 boost tokens
>>746072294The company that needs to fleece retards like you to keep spending money on their game.
Wish there was more info on the chinese titan reforged server. I've heard they they redid a bunch of specs to make them all more viable, even bringing back 2h enh shaman. Theres so few videos out there
>>746067751completely fucking retarded that Crusader Strike got removed because the #1 complaint about paladins is how fucking boring they are to play. A simple attack ability would have done loads. Tigole really deserves to be run over.
>>746074625Warlocks went through literally years of nonstop bitching about the class without seeing a single dev post on the forums. They just continued to nerf them. They literally do not give a shit. Nobody cares except you.
WE'LL NERF FEAR AGAIN
>>746077009NO PLEASE, and let me name my imps, hound, and blueberry.
>>746077009I never understood the idea behind massively long duration CC's with no CD and no diminishing returns, especially when you can take some damage through it.
>>746077081NO, AND THE INCUBUS IS NOW MANDATORY.
What i'd like to see out of Classic+ is closer to a new game in terms of scale.>Starting Tutorial area for each race (a bit like how gnomes and Trolls have a unique area now but less of an after thought) >Mutliple quest lines that go through several zones following different stories (a full Defias questline, Dark Iron, etc etc) at minimum one for each race that takes you to level 60 (not the questline only there should be other content in the various zones you do alongside it) also each race can do other questlines within their faction.>Class quests to go alongside unlocking certain abilities that give you a decent piece of gear for the level (no point in giving bis unless they plan to keep the quest updated)>potentially make unlocking new race/class combos something via the quest lines, like a quest line to bring the wildhammer dwarves back into the alliance unlocks Dwarf Shaman, BUT this has to be met with a new starting area for wildhammer dwarves, they shouldn't start in coldridge valley. Gnome warriors should be a reward but wouldn't unlock a new starter area by comparison.>The larger size of the world as well as more fleshing out of things should allow for lots of options for new dungeons/raids to complement said questlines.
all for fagadins getting some more offensive shit but their utility/defensive abilities will need to be reigned in, which a lot of fagadins don't seem to understand.you cannot have a class that has op abilities like cleanse, freedom, bubble, the most efficient single target heals in the game, plate, high hp and so on getting to do anywhere close to rogue or warrior tier damage. just ain't gonna happen. they tried it with SoD and it was a fucking shitshow
>>746077398a lot of psychopaths think being unable to play the game at all is a lot of fun, and those people all become game devs
>>746067751>>746067810replaced with seals and judgements it's just that simple
>>746060495>>raids will be capped at 25 playersThis is dumb. It should be 20 or 40. 25 is just a silly number.
>>746081397>>746067751>>746067810They should make Holy Shock a baseline ability and give it a 6 second cooldown. Crusade Strike should be a deep ret ability, move repentance further up the tree.
>>746060495When will you classic retards understand that there's not enough people playing classic? There won't be more, because at the end of the day, classic+ is just classic with some changes, and most of the people that played classic got filtered by the leveling experience. CLASSIC IS OVER AND IT'LL NEVER BE POPULAR AGAIN.
>>746081561and make exorcism instant, work against all targets, and do 4x damage to undead (all the raid mobs will be undead btw). Also remove the mana costI too am I great game designer
>>746078475They need to make their base abilities weaker, and make the talents more influential. Ie you can be a great healer, tank or dps, but not at the same time. Dual spec is enough to let the class to swap roles.
>>746081642Damn right anon.
here's how you fix any mmo: mmos eventually fill up with farming chinkbots anyway, so why don't the devs act first and make fun bots that you can interact with and fit the world?
>>746072412if they do the real classic+ which is unfinished zones and minor talent tweaks will actually make people seethe "it's not enough wtf"
>>746082778People are getting pretty sick of 1.12 balance. If they don't fix it there will be a lot of anger. You might even say rage.
>>746083148people don't want raids to be 35 warriors and 5 priests?
leveling challenges were kino on turtle, anything to slow us down in interesting ways
here's how you ACTUALLY save mmos:>lobotomize everyone who thinks world of transcraft and its dogshit theme park design was good
>>746073887>dual wield for enhance shaman.Why? DW for shamans was fucking retarded.Why would a shaman duel wield you idiot?
>>746083709>you HAVE to bring 35 warriors to raidslol
>>746060495Don't care, Blizzard will ruin it and most people will get tired of it much like how it happened with SoD. An year after release it will be mainly populated by elitist minmaxxers.WoW's formula doesn't allow for anything too different anyway, you got leveled zones which you quest through until the end game for the same couple of raids/dungeons until the next patch that will make previous gear nearly obsolete. That's that, it gets old with the treadmill doesn't get any new content for a while, people will either quit or go back to retail in a year no doubt.
Here watch me fix WoW:1.Retcon everything and start again from vanilla2.On PvE servers make Night Elves their own faction and Forsaken their own faction separate from Horde/Alliance3. Allow groups to be formed with anyone from any faction4. Make languages important5. Remove armour classes from the game, give items attribute requirements6. Allow attribute points from level up to be allocated by the player
>>746060495Anybody still playing wow is mentally ill
>TBC classes at level 60 + add some utility skills so rogues and mages aren't an expansion ahead of everyone else>no resilience, pve gear is at least usable in pvp and vice versa>revamp wpvp objectives (EPL towers) + add new ones to the end game zones>make world boss spawns more predictable and buy some fucking good servers so you can actually have a big fight>no fucking layers>wbuffs in but no longer dispellable and dont work in raidsThat should about do it
>>746085865>>TBC classesNo thanks, I don't want fucking TBC abilities in vanilla, I don't want anything from TBC in vanilla, fucking kill yourself. If I wanted fucking TBC I would just play that.
>>746062565if you unironically suggest level caps in classic, you have never played wow at release and you are a larping zoomer who needs to fuck off and die
Nerf warriors, I don't care what else you do but I want to see wowyers next to ret paladins on the damage meter.I want prot warriors to be denied the main tank spot because the raid already has a feral druid,I want to see arms brownoids impotently seethe when a crit'd overpower barely scratches a rogue and rage is too scarce to use mortal strike.TOTAL. BROWN. NERF.
>>746064563It was an obvious troll post and you fell for the bait
>>746085927TBC classes are obviously a continuation of vanilla though. And going by SoD class design TBC classes are miles better than whatever abomination aggrend is cooking up
>>746063109??????people want classic, but with new content, how is that so hard to grasp?and what most people want from classic is a functioning open world, you know, THE STUFF WHY EVERYONE PLAYS A FUCKING MMOwow in Beta and early release had people form zergs in the open world and fight each other in the low lvl contested zones. you know WARcraft. nobody gives a flying fuck about raids and instances, people want a reason to travel and stay in the open world for other reasons than just leveling.make wow an actual mmo and not just a coop game with an open world tacked on top
>>746065132Agreed 100%. Fuck push trannies. "I" played the game back in the day, so "I" get to chill and enjoy the new content and not worry about sweats for a bit.
>>746086118>TBC classes are obviously a continuation of vanilla thoughNO
>>746066181Do you mean to not include the Vanilla quests and dungeons? Cuz I get our idea, as a more fleshed world. But a whole new game is nuts and unreasonable.
When they say hybrid tax they actually mean healer taxWarriors aren't being taxed for being able to tank and dpsIt's only the classes with healing spells that get taxedDon't let them fool you
>>746063109>there is no consensus within the playerbase.It's almost like human race is composed of individuals living in free world or something.
>>746060495Email him, he responded to my emails during wotlk classic
>>746060495>all buffs are removed when you enter a raid or pvp instancethat's gay. just make all world buffs a special spell category and make it that they override each others. that way you can have only 1 buff for fun. this keeps wbuff content in while removing 99% of the tedium.
>>746064131>>746063792PvP is fun when it's bunch of baby seals flailing around brainlessly. When bloodthirsty sailors join the fray, it only becomes fun for sailors and sailors only. After butchering all the baby seals, the bloodthirsty sailors demand that new generation of baby seals fill the gap in order to make the ecosystem work again. But the new generation of baby seals see the trap for what it is and no amount of taunting or skill shaming will make baby seals take the bait. The only thing left for bloodthirsty sailors is to ferment in their anger and blame everyone and everything except themselves.
>>746068407I played WoW back in 2004, and intermittently throughout the years. How the fuck do you think I would know about this? I don't make a game I play for fun my life and turn it into a soap opera. You should feel like the faggot here and re-think your life.Fuck.
>>746086612pvp gear was a mistake
>>746086954In what sense? PvP specific stats or Gear as a reward for PvP activity?
>>746086452Lol outside of watching cuck porn that nigger does absolutely nothing all day. Sheer autism probably forces him to reply to every single email like Yanderedev.
>>746068489hybrid tax ensures pure classes dont turn into inferior classes without utility. if druid was stronger then why would you bring rogue when its just druid without bres.
>>746073929That has more to do with the fact that over the years, blizz has groomed their playerbase to be a bunch of frothing min-maxing sociopaths who lose their shit over percentile difference in performance.
>>746087041>mandatory gear is a reward for engaging with the content>new player needs the gear>is forced to get absolutely dogwalked by people that already have the gearPeople hated stat normalization in PVP the one time they did it but it was unironically the best course of action. The only reason you would want to have different stats from another person playing your same class and spec is because you want to dunk on people with worse gear than you. PVP should be pick up and play, rewarding the people with the most skill/knowledge not rewarding people with the most time. That's what PVE is for. When I play Street Fighter I don't have to deal with another Ryu having more moves than me or moves that hit harder or him having more health. We both have the same tools.
>>746087170>That's what PVE is for. When I play Street Fighter I don't have to deal with another Ryu having more moves than me or moves that hit harder or him having more health. We both have the same tools.I hate pvp only stats too but this is completely retarded, I'm not playing street fighter I'm playing an MMORPG, the point of pvp is literally to dunk on people with shit gear. The only reason people do end game content is to get gear with which to shit on other people.
>>746087125Hybrid tax has been gone from retail for well over a decade and class balance is objectively better in every way than vanilla. Both dps druids and rogues get taken to groups just fine> if druid was strongerNobody said stronger you stupid nigger, its about being equal
>>746087417>Hybrid tax has been gone from retail for well over a decadeThat's because there are no hybrids anymore you retard, the old classes don't even exist anymore, each "spec" is literally its own class now thanks to bad game design.
>>746087170I agree with everything with what you said. Unfortunately, majority of wow pvp players aren't honourable duellists but disgusting backstabbing opportunists who only engage when odds are in their favour. What makes me say that? Literal overnight death of lvl 19 twinking. Those of us who were around tail end WotLK/early Cata probably recall the following changes to BGs:> level 10¬19 BG bracket broken into 10¬14 and 15¬19> regular BGs now awarding exp for killing and PvP objectives> disabling exp gain would put you in seperate BG where you would only play against those who also disabled exp gainAll those cocky twinks who said they twink in order to play against other twink went radio silent. Make of that what you will.
>>746087478Its objectively better design, since things like ret and balance are actually playable Hybrid means the class can do multiple roles, nothing more. All the same classes are still hybrids, hybrid tax was removed and now the game works properly
>>746087597>Its objectively better designNo it isn't you fucking idiot, especially considering every single dps class plays the same, and every tank plays the same, and every healer plays the same.>All the same classes are still hybrids, hybrid tax was removed and now the game works properlyNo they're not because you don't actually play the classes anymore. I just said that.
>>746087369WoW playerbase has ran out of baby seal for you to poach on.
The only way Classic+ could work is to completely redesign the game paradigm to be extremely horizontal like OSRS or Eve, and quite simply Blizzard hasn't got the development chops to accomplish that. The absolute best they're going to be able to do is Seasonal slop in which case the game is just an inferior, geriatric Path of Exile.
>>746087692>especially considering every single dps class plays the same, and every tank plays the same, and every healer plays the same.Post logs, this is gray parser cope>No they're not because you don't actually play the classes anymore.You do play the class, there is a whole talent tree dedicated to class skills. Tons of class defining abilities like stampeding roar, mark of the wild, ursols, remove corruption, etc. are class wide
>>746087874Osrs is literally number GO UP the game, its 100% verticalIts also, more importantly, a primarily single player game to the point that you actively dont want other players around for a lot of content, has an entity hider plugin that erases everyone else and is p2w as fuck because of bonds + everything being sellable
>>746087879>Post logs, this is gray parser copeNice cope yourself>You do play the classYou don't.>stampeding roar, mark of the wild, ursols, remove corruption, etc>class defining abilitieslollmaoCall me when an ele shaman can heal or a resto druid can tank
>>746087874buzzwords buzzwords buzzwords
>>746088006Ele shaman can heal and rdruid can tank in trivial content, which is the same as in vanillaAnd yes, those are class defining abilities. When you are looking at bringing a druid to your group you do it for mark, or stampeding roar, or a curse/poison dispel
>>746087879>Post logs, this is gray parser coperetoilet self own. you worship raw damage numbers and have ruined the game forever.
>>746088230Raw damage is the only thing that has ever mattered shitterYou would know this if you didnt gray parser. Even classic shitters know it, which is why they stack 30 warriors
>>746088274your only argument is that you're a better player than me, which you arent btw.
>>746088171>Ele shaman can heal and rdruid can tank in trivial contentno they can't>And yes, those are class defining abilitiesNo they're not, they're utility spells. You think they define a class because deep down you know the actual class abilities, the ones now locked by a specialisation, are not accessible to the other specs, which is exactly what I'm telling you.
>>746087976Mate. All MMORPGs are number GO UP. Is it a bad thing per say? Depends on the playerbase. If the playerbase has been groomed into being frothing min-maxing sociopaths who rush through the content to feed their FOMO addiction then yes, it is a problem. Casual player who wants to stroll through the game is likely to be actively shunned if not outright disparaged for not taking the game seriously enough. One example was launch of WotLK classic where geared TBC players actively harassed those who only leveled through vanilla and TBC for their audacity to join dungeons pug groups like Utgarde Keep or Nexus while not having endgame raid or pvp gear from previous expansion. Stop for a moment and process this bit: There were people who spent 30 minutes extra forming a group in order to make sure their run would take 5 minutes less. I question if these people even enjoy what they are doing.
>>746060495add in some form of M+. no one wants to sit in voip with 20+ autists for hours on end anymore
>>746088274Your lack of self-awareness is astonishing.
>>746087976I like number-go-up RPGs and OSRS isn't my thing, mostly because of the lack of classes and playable races ruin my enjoyment. RPGs without class systems mean characters lack identity and customization.
Ban fucking GDKP on PVE classic era and fix the goddamn mob pathing in Naxxramas, that's classic +
>>746088620>Ban fucking GDKPI will NOT gather your humiliation points only to be cucked because one guy in your clique wanted the piece of gear I tried to get for weeks.At least with gdkp I'm getting paid for my effort.
>>746088824Roll the dice, we're all gamblers anyway.
>>746088383I am, Im also a better person than you because Im not a shitskin>>746088390>No they're not, they're utility spellsAnd those are what defines the class. Those are the quintessential druid spells. A feral druid is separated from an assassination rogue by having druid utility while the rogue has rogue utility
>>746088824This is why SR/HR system is goat. You join a group and check what items people put dibs on. If you see competition then you leave the group and spare yourself the stress.
Aggrend is a massive ph49907, the like of which I've never seen before. I pray every day that his ass gets fired.
>>746088824>i dont want to socializeDon't play an MMO then.
>>746060495no, you just give CoA devs all the money and they make WoW great again
>>746088942>And those are what defines the class.Yeah, now they are, because they are the only shared spells you have left. You fucking idiot. ALL that you have now that defines what a druid is is mark of the wild. lol. you fucking moron.
>>746088957This or change your SR. HRs should only apply to legendaries and be given out to loyal guildies.
>>746088824>At least with gdkp I'm getting paid for my effort.So are the parasitic GDKP organisers reselling the gold from their cuts to their participants for cold hard cash. I'd be fine with GDKP if it were limited to the cancerous PVP realms.
>>746088863>roll for main spec>prio because good goy>hummmm anon actually my buttbuddy need the weapon more sowwy :3>>746088957Great as long as you're not aiming for big ticket items, otherwise yeah it's the way to go.>>746088973>if you don't join this humiliation ritual you're just not trying to socialize
>>746088957That's unrealistic, people will always gravitate toward the same items.>>746088973Commerce/auctioning is a form of socialisation, and it's arguably more fair than SRHR, DKP or loot council.
>>746089221You shouldn't be fine with GDKP at all. Stop being a NIMBY.
>>746085117>>you HAVE to bring 35 warriors to raidsYes you do. Every time they re-release the same content the pool of people interested in playing it shrinks. This will be the 7th iteration (original, classic, classic anniversary, hardcore, SoM, SoD) of the same content. The only people interested in playing still are the absolute sweatiest players. People who RMT, want to 100 parse every boss, and speed run the content. They have optimized the fun out 6 iterations ago. Unless you give something that's completely new, you're going to be playing a warrior, buying gold from botters to buy consumes from botters, and collecting those world buffs in order to raid log.
>>746063109>nobody knows what anybody wants from classic+wronghttps://wowclassic.plus/survey/results
>>746089260>>roll for main spec>>prio because good goy>>hummmm anon actually my buttbuddy need the weapon more sowwy :3That's how SR guilds collapse, not an argument.>Great as long as you're not aiming for big ticket items, otherwise yeah it's the way to go.That's why you have ranks within guilds you have to climb up to get prio on them. Stands to reason a newcomer shouldn't be able to SR Gressil.
AWR
>>746060495>no addons allowed oh no... its retarded :(
>>746086251Nah, the primary questing content will stay. They don't have enough resources or time to rewrite the entire world, plus they would make it gay. It's the dungeons, raids, end game quests, world events, and classes that will be completely different.
>>746087170>>is forced to get absolutely dogwalked by people that already have the gearThis is why OP suggested that the pvp gear be easy to obtain, and not based on winning the match.
>>746060495>>first level cap will be 40, with Mara being turned into a raid. Later raised to 60.reinforces the very things that killed retail, even all the way through 'classic' wrath. XX more levels of experience fomos progression with an ever growing out-of-reach 'end'.Level cap 60, from the start, and forever.>>raid gear will have specific bonuses for that raid, to slow down power creep of itemsborrowed powernothing is less satisfying than working to accumulate something and have it offer functionally little/nothing beyond the content it was built for.Just build laterally, so the expanding options for min/maxing between raids yield something greater than the whole for varieties of builds.>all women and indians are removed from the development teamagreed
>>746089051and what exactly defines a druid in classic?Ill give you a hint, its faerie fire
>>746089545Every item you get is borrowed power you retard.
>>746089595probably the ability to shapeshift
>>746089635>Every item you get is borrowed power you retard.
>>746089764>pick up weapon>equip weapon>stronk>remove weapon>weakFUCKING BORROWED POWERS
>>746089879>If I change the definition of this word I'm technically correct
>>746089664the thing rdruid doesnt do?Are you inviting a druid to your group for them to shapeshift? No, youre inviting them to your group for them to apply faerie fire and mark
>>746089545Problems with "lateral gearing">every new raid increases the number of weekly chores required to do because the items are all relevant to someone>there will still be objective bis items and once someone has all old raid items they will still have no incentive to help you do that old raid>lateral gearing suffers from the same issue as what you refer to as borrowed power, your character never grows stronger>item diversity becomes more difficult every raid released as they all need to be a similar tier of power, meaning many things will just be outright duplicate items with different skinsYou have 3 options for gearing and they all have problems>vertical gearing, each raid tier out classes the last>No progression at all, lateral gearing>Progression is tier locked and required to kill the final boss of that tierThe 3rd is probably the best and you can award cosmetics for completing a tier so people still get something long term from it.
>>746089321What is Blizzard waiting to apply the same rules between Anniversary and Era, then? Either permit GDKP in anni or ban it in era.
>>746061553>titty/ass/belly sliders>would get bad press
>>746089260>>746089271>become another dime a dozen warr/rogue>SR Ironfoe, HoJ, Felstriker>other dime a dozen warr/rogues do the same>suprised pikachu faceYou get what you fucking deserve.Still, if I were in game dev shoes I would just drop all pomp and pretence about maintaining RNG loot magic and simply put in a deterministic solution akin to XIV's Extreme mounts. After collecting 100¬500 boss specific tokens you could just buy said specific item and be done with the place. The selfish warr/rogue who is only there for one item could have his parsing greed used as means to oil up the pug machine and serve as a unwilling senpai who carries late-starters and keeps the pugging scene healthy long after the initial wave has reached the end-game.Either game devs kill the RNG loot magic with determinism or players themselves will do it with GDKP and kill the economy in the process.
>>746060495>>has actual human mods to deal with botters, farmers, and rmtThey never do that the jews would lose out on so much money
>>746090201This is why huge loot tables of items are stupid. Boss should drop Thing.Thing should be used in crafting everything from that dungeon. You now have a large loot table that is also deterministic.
>meanwhile classic "plus" will just be classic with M+ and seasons
>>746090201>>746090287NO! You WILL grind 10 months for these missing bindings and you WILL like it. So what if a guild of shitters managed to craft 5 TFs already, stop being entitled!
>>746090201>SR Ironfoe, HoJ, FelstrikerIn what fucking world. First one is a 5-man and the second is from the only 10-man instance in the game.
>>746090201They just need to prune the garbage from the loot tables. The filler items create unnecessary scarcity of the stuff people actually want.
>>746090084I think we both know the ugly answer to this question. GDKP, botters and gold sellers are what keeps WoW servers afloat. That's why I don't give a shit about what blizz will show next blizzcon. I know that as soon as honeymoon passes, the new servers will be littered with rogue/mages coming in/out of instance entrances.
>>746090054>Are you inviting a druid to your group forAre you fucking dumb or what? Who you invite to your group has nothing to do with the argument
>>746063263This is the dumbest take>Yes, I DO want to go back to the game being woefully unbalanced>Yes, I DO want to go back before S Priests had their fear nerfedEct, all for the purpose of playing through it again, people who never touched vanilla want it because they're retarded. A real solution is finding out what you want to do for horizontal content and balance around that. Genuinely wanting to start the game in a shitty state is just so fucking stupid. Poopsockers will hyper fixate on the bad balancing and cry when their abuse gun changes. Fuck all of that. Not that I'd touch a Classic+, riddled with idiots who genuinely hate QoL changes of any kind.
>>746090482You sound like an idiot who worships "balance" because you think you're supposed to
>>746090362Blizz wants you subscribed for 10 months anyway. What I suggest is simply a honest compromise that drops all pretence.
>>746087692>every healer plays the same.For retail this is objectively not the case. t. HPal, Resto Dru, HPriest, RestSham player.
>>746090456>GDKP, botters and gold sellers are what keeps WoW servers afloat.Not sure we agree on what "afloat" would mean here. Afloat in the sense that it would become impossible to raid or find groups, or not profitable enough for Blizzard/Microsoft?
>>746090632>plays retail>players healerslmao I don't want to imagine what kind of freak you are IRL
>>746090554Anyone clamoring for mathematically worse content because lolitsold and then get excited to play through patches where they'd balance shit is beyond saving levels of retard, sorry.
>>746090723At least I'm not a classic nigger pretending I'm not an unsaveable autist.
>>746090287You essentially proposed the same solution, you just worded it differently. >collect 100¬500 things to click on a icon in NPC's shop window UI to get item.>collect 100¬500 things to click on a icon in your profession UI to get item.
>>746090708Yes.
>>746090296If it's not there in the game the playerbase will start doing speed runs and do it to themselves. Classicfags are hopeless look what they did to S1 SOD
>>746090827So the latter? Afloat as in profitable enough for Microsoft?
>>746090078Progression locked is pointless, you just add the chore of boosting someone new through
>>746090736>mathematically worseBoy, could you shut up? I'm here to enjoy video games not fill out spreadsheets.
>>746090898Wrong game then, Anon, you're 20 years too late.
>>746090884It's very hard not to think that is indeed the case.
>>746090978You sound like one of those desperate retail players who thought they'd never release classic
>>746090898>I'm here to enjoy video gamesHere's your ven-thunderstrike, now go pwn some noobs in alterac champ!
>>746060495>no addonsUnless they fix the default UI to not be garbage before that, that's DOA>has actual human mods to deal with botters, farmers, and rmtlol, lmao even>raid gear will have specific bonuses for that raid, to slow down power creep of items>kill raid bosses so you can kill those same raid bosses (but only them) more efficientlyAlso>level caps before 60For what purpose?Do you realize how retarded that sounds?
>>746090986Then they would have had to bite the bullet to ban it in Anni, and Era isn't getting the chemo it deserves any time soon.
>>746091053>Unless they fix the default UI to not be garbageIt's not, you don't need anything but the base UI.
>>746091030Wrong again I was one of the people saying they'd release it the second it seemed like it would stop the playerbase from bleeding so around WoD. Took'm a long time tho.
>>746091096I think every wow unc like you and me should give themselves the pserver chemo therapy to cure ourselves from retail cancer.
>>746091175I didn't ask for your life story
>>746090986>It's very hard not to think that is indeed the case.They make bank when they release new stuff on the shop and botters/ect can get by on free accounts. It's the whales.
>>746091263Both statements can be true at the same time.
>>746091230I would if I could find a way to play on pservers with a controller. Only the Era client has the controller handlers for it.
>>746091242Stop replying to me.
>>746061147This but for menI want to play as a bald fat ugly bastard
>>746090898brown hands typed this post
>>746091318I'd imagine a novel combination of:>ShaguController>ConsoleExperience Classic >LazyScript would do you good.
>>746091263No trial accounts on classic era, would unlock free instant trade between characters from the same account instead of the 1 hour post time, as well as level 20 horde toons so alliance players can get a certain horde-only world buff.
>>746064563>>746086085Because it was called vanilla before then, genius.
>>746090894Doesn't lateral gearing cause the same issue? If you have to run all raid tiers to gear them it adds to the chore of gearing up anyone new. Does this mean you prefer the horizontal scaling where the new gear is always better and invalidates the previous tier? That's the only way gearing up a new player doesn't require going backwards.Also tier based bonuses don't require you to go backwards, when the reward for completing a complete raid are cosmetic bonuses.
>>746088393>mate>per saydon't post again, you utter cavemanyour brain is complete mush and you will never have anything of value to contributebongs truly are the most retarded posters
>>746091053No addons is the only way the game survives. The new UI editor built into the game is enough.
>>746091662
>>746060495>>no addons allowedGood idea but blizz will cuck in. Although without damage meters it's kinda gay unless blizz adds their own>LogsSame shit. People will figure out ways around it>ExploitsMost of them are fun. Only Bugfixes that would make sense is this pathing abuse for mages and huntards.>WorldbuffsWould be good gimmick for open world but I agree, should be removed in raids and dungeons >BgsIrrelevant in classic. Only fix I'd do is a way to prevent people from getting easy gear that is better than tier 2 for free.Only add epic set with aq40 and make Honor a weekly currency Rest what you suggest is literally sod
>>746091726I'd like to see Blizzard try to make their own ConsolePort controller addon. Pretty sure they'd end up being caught stealing a shit ton of addons.
>>746060495Add more 100 dollar mounts to classic, got it thanks.
>>746091793Addons have always been free R&D.
>>746090894>boostingNow introducing the new Gear Boost for 10.99
Why are FFags so autistic about needing controller support? Can they not touch two interface devices at once?
>>746091769>Rest what you suggest is literally sodSoD early level caps were peak. The most fun WoW has been in 20 years. Once SoD hit level 60 it was just seasonal retail. I also don't want to play the same game for the 7th time in a row. The classes should be completely different. Going back to the release patch of 1.1.0 is a good start.>Most of them are fun. Only Bugfixes that would make sense is this pathing abuse for mages and huntards.Just ban botting, RMT, boosting, and gdkp. A team of 1-5 people could easily keep an entire server clean. Once you do that then pathing abuses no longer matter. There are better ways to make gold than farming ZF. If they change all the raids and dungeons then these pathing farms won't even exist.>Same shit. People will figure out ways around itThey currently get the data from log files that the client generates. If the client stops generating them and addons are banned, then it eliminates the parsefags.
>>746092015I didn't know FF14 had controller support. I just find it comfy/not damaging to my wrists.
>>746092141>If they change all the raids and dungeons then these pathing farms won't even exist.no thanks
>>746092267Why do you want to play the same 22 year old game for the 7th time?
>>746092141NTA but>The classes should be completely different. >Going back to the release patch of 1.1.0 is a good start.Going back to how classes were quarter unplayable is a good start? Or do you mean Warlock Tanks/Time Mages?Blizzard will not employ more people for CS/Mod positions after they've been running their own bots on it, Anon, come'on.
>>746091765No foreskin?
>>746060495Not sure if I agree with the earlier level cap and mara being a raid, I think keeping the pacing of classic is good. Then just adding more content at 60, horizontal content, never increase level cap.I think focus should be on fixing issues like some specs being awful, unfinished and unbalanced. Gear not being available for some specs/classes. And a difficulty increase, people are much better at video games today than 25 years ago, challenge the player a bit more.
>>746060495>no addons allowedFuck off faggot.
>>746092182Lmao the MMO on the ps5? Controllerfriends need to learn posture, controllers ain't helpin that
>>746092353Are you fucked in the head? It's classic+, not WoW 2. There are a million new games out there you could be playing if you want a completely new game.
>>746092439Addons are terrible for the game and should never have been allowed. Gaining advantages because you install a bunch of addons in a multiplayer game is retarded.
>>746092437>horizontal contentWhat does this look like in WoW just having a ton of raid gear all be the same stats?
>>746092520>just having a ton of raid gear all be the same stats?Yes. That is unironically what they're begging for. A zero progression game.
>>746092392>Going back to how classes were quarter unplayable is a good start?Yes. Fuck your paladin nigga. It's better this way than being stuck with the exact same talents and abilities we've had for 22 years. Let classic+ be vanilla on a different timeline. Develop the classes differently and without the shackles of the 1.12 expectations.
>>746092520Yes, cosmetic changes, maybe some different resistances on gear that makes them stronger for that specific dungeon because it's full of that kind of damage typ etc.You would want a set of each for collecting and to have different cool armor sets.>>746092581You progress through the new dungeons, the quests, the story, the experiences. Getting bigger number constantly has ruined the WoW world, nothing in it matters except the newest added thing.
>>746091145>It's not, you don't need anything but the base UI.Lmao, no. Blizzard already proved they can't design a usable UI after they tried to kill addons on retail.
>>746092520Yesits how GW2 worksNo, GW2 isnt popular and no, nobody in GW2 actually runs the raids because the rewards are worthless
>quest tracker>ability tracker>damage meter>leveling guide>bartender>maps fully unlocked>parses>atlas lootYEP it's gaming time!!!
>>746092515No. Addons were the only thing salvaging that shit ass UI.
>>746092739>Lmao, no. Blizzard already proved they can't design a usable UIthey did, in vanilla.
>>746092780This, but completely and utterly unironically.
>>746092807No they didn't. The game didn't communicate basic mechanics to you.
>>746092702>Getting bigger number constantly has ruined the WoW worldGetting a bigger number is the entire point of playing an rpg
>>746092807the vanilla UI is dogshit and strictly worse than the retail one (like everything else in your dogshit game)You cant track threat without an addon
>>746092847It doesn't need to
>>746092807>they did, in vanilla.You mean the game that a billion addons for everything like a month after release? Sure, buddy.
>>746092671This doesn't even make sense. What do you want? You don't want to be stuck with the same whatever you've had so you want to be stuck with the original assrape we had? Or do you want new abilities but keep the fuckwad balance? Help me out here.
>>746092838I don't know the addons that people use desu so my post didn't seem that crazy. I play completely virgin whenever I level because I'm just there to enjoy the music and art, I've played this game dozens of times so I don't want to block it with all those popups.
>>746092780atlas loot is unironically the only non-damaging addon in your list.
>>746092882>the vanilla UI is dogshitnope>You cant track threat without an addondon't need it
>>746092882>You cant track threat without an addonRIP to the in-game threat meter.
>>746092857No the point is to immerse yourself into a fantasy world.
>>746092898Yes that's right. Problem?
>>746060571Looks pretty ai to me though
>>746092789I'm not gonna defend blizzard for designing a bad UI. But if there were no addons they would have had to fix stuff instead. And if they didn't everyone would be playing with the exact same knowledge and not based on who had the better addons installed.
>>746060495>classic>starts at patchdropped
>>746093003>to immerse yourself into a fantasy world.I can read a book for that, nigga. Or play a single player game which does immersion way better. If I'm playing an MMO, I want to group up with my friends and see number go bigger.
>>746092923I want the game to release in the state it did originally and for the development team to address the problems starting from that point. I don't want to play an already solved 1.12 version of the game. I don't give a fuck if 1.1.0 is not balanced at first, because 1.12 is already not balanced. By using 1.12 they're already bound to the expectations that everyone has developed over the last 20 years. That makes it difficult to make changes without everyone crying like a little faggot because their class should be doing X but can't anymore.
>>746093097Go play retail then
>>746093072who has the better addons isnt a thing and has never been a thingaddons are public and trivial to install, every functioning person installed the same addons and were already on a level playing field
>>746093072Blizzard has at no point shown the capacity to design the UI the way I want it.
>>746093097I like to read too, but games give a totally different vibe
>>746093097An MMO is such a waste for such a banal gameplay loop. Just play cookie clicker or something. An MMORPG is a huge investment in development, the entire genre should be about immersion because that's what the genre is good at, it's a constant shared world.
>>746093131banalladdons
>>746093072>everyone would be playing with the exact same knowledgeExcept the people who do research and learn all the non-obvious mechanics that the dogshit default UI doesn't tell you about. Said people would then proceed to style on your ignorant ass in every single way possible.
>>746093105You're asking to start at 0 and just go through the motions but that's no different than playing the same game that's been around for 20 years? How do you not end up at 1.12 with this method? Fairy dust? You think they'll arrive at a totally different place if they start at 1.whatever?
>>746093197WoW was never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever EVER designed immersion first, that's what games like UO were for. WoW was repeatedly, consistently, from day one, designed against it and gamified.
>>746093253They're still playing the same game showing the same information. Addons that give you more information and easier gameplay have absolutely no place in multiplayer games, it's retarded. Sometimes not having full information makes games more interesting, addons have rotted the brains of wow players and they expect to be told exactly what to do and how to play etc.
>>746093197that's why it's wild that people are so much about pvp or raiding. Raiding i get because there aren't really a lot of social games where you can pull the slot machine, but with pvp I will never understand why those people don't just go play an esport or something
>>746093230hairy arm
>>746093270>How do you not end up at 1.12 with this method? Fairy dust?nta but are you retarded? It's a completely different development team making something 20 years later
>>746093197> that's what the genre is good atYeah, bro, I feel so immersed when I'm grinding bear asses for my quest and I see xX-TurboKilla-Xx bunny hop past while spamming NIGGER in global chat.
Remove all trading, everything is now fixed.
>>746093284I disagree, most people who love classic love it because of the immersion, and it's what ruined wow over time. I'm sure retail players don't care because there's no immersion left in it. But those who long for classic+ does so because they want to be immersed again, otherwise just play retail.
>>746093284>WoW was never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever EVER designed immersion first
>>746060495>raids will be capped at 25 playersstfu retard
>>746093354>xX-TurboKilla-XxThis name wouldn't be allowed because of immersion reasons.
>>746093367There's nothing to disagree with, this is literally what happened. It is not my fault you retarded niggers didn't play MMOs before it.
>>746060983>If he's using AI then he's using indiansNo, you're retarded and wrong
>>746093131Add ons that literally hold your hand like DBM or BigWigs literally hold your hand and tell you what to do in every little dungeon and raid. It's the most faggot degen shit I've ever seen and everyone who wants them gone just doesn't want to lose their security blanket. This band aid needs to be ripped off.
>>746093197MMOs are fucking terrible for immersion, they cant be reactive like single player rpgs because someone will just grief the fuck out of you or the server
>>746093375Literal fact. An immersive game doesn't treat mob levels the way WoW did, or have mob leashing, or mob evading. You retards don't understand.
>>746093470WoW is definitely made to be immersive, it's full of things that are annoying but immersive, like how hard it is to travel around the world etc. everything like that has been removed from retail in favor of "comfort" but it has ruined the game as well.
ffxi had some great ambient sounds toohttps://youtu.be/Z-3CzfttGaw?si=k37IZ9O2m2ZZA2tA
>>746093367>does so because they want to be immersed againI want classic+ because I want the game to have more actual RPG mechanics again. You want classic+ because you are chasing some kind of weird nostalgia dragon. We are not the same.
>>746093564>You retards don't understand.No I don't understand the complete shit you're talking
>>746093528>literally hold your hand and tell you what to do in every little dungeon and raidI can tell you have never actually used either of those addons.
>>746093528I will literally not play without addons, and it's not because of DBM or Weakauras or whatnot, it's because of ones like Arkinventory reducing tedium massively or Parrot communicating information to me far more effectively and with less noise on the screen. The base UI is too fucking garbage for me to put up with.
>>746093648>>does so because they want to be immersed again>I want classic+ because I want the game to have more actual RPG mechanics againNigger tell the room what RPG stands for
>>746093648What do you mean actual rpg mechanics? What do you want from classic+ that isn't available in retail?Also immersion is absolutely not the same as nostalgia.
>>746093590No it wasn't. The only thing it did that was more immersive than what came before was the lack of world loading screens, and that doesn't fucking matter.
>>746093703not him but I have and thats exactly what they do
>>746093661Was WoW your first MMO?
Retailcucks ITT just go play retail
>>746093528post your logs
>>746093375That's true though, and it's the reason it bodied older MMOs back then
>>746093758Why do you think they had slow traveling? Like zepelins and underground trains and flight paths that were slow and took the long way? It's pretty obviously because it adds immersion.And adding instant teleporting to everything removes immersion.
>>746093331So what's to expect then? If they start from DAY ONE patch that they'll find other solutions to balancing issues and you wont end up exactly where 1.12 is? If you want something different it'd need to be in the vein of SoD or you just end up with the same old same old, """new dev""" team isn't going to magically fix it in the vague flowery way Anons are hoping. Which seems to be keeping it shitty but not *that* kind of shitty just their preferred shitty, which will just be FOTM bullshit
>>746093819How is that relevant?
>>746093831you missed the tranny general
>>746093846Do Mage/Warlock trains ruin immersion or is it okay because I have to tip?
>>746093270>the current team will make all the exact same decisions as the original teamAre you retarded or just pretending to be retarded?
damn so many people on this board just post to flame, you don't even believe what you're saying lmfao
>>746093871>If they start from DAY ONE patch that they'll find other solutions to balancing issues and you wont end up exactly where 1.12 is?That would literally happen, yes. In fact it would be impossible for it to end up exactly where 1.12 is.
>>746093871>If they start from DAY ONE patch that they'll find other solutions to balancing issues and you wont end up exactly where 1.12 isyes
>>746093846>Why do you think they had slow traveling?to waste time and milk subs>And adding instant teleporting to everything removes immersion.it is a fantasy setting with instant teleportation being canon, it is immersive for there to be teleportation networks everywhere. If mages existed in real life airports would all instantly be replaced with mage teleportation networks
>>746093908thanks for confirming youre dogshit lmao
>>746093987>>746093968>>746093924I appreciate your cope but that's just silly. You either end up with SoD 2.0 Lite or 1.12 variant. Honestly what has WoW put out to make you think otherwise?
>>746094198welcome to 4chan retardyou aren't talking with a single person
>>746093902How is it NOT relevant?
>>746094325anyone seething about logs is a shitter
>>746094384logs and addons need to go, sorry anon but it's what is best for the game
>>746093846>Why do you think they had slow traveling?Subscription fees.>And adding instant teleporting to everything removes immersion.This is false.
>>746094450stop parsing gray and your issues go away shitter
>>746094384Logs are just annoying epeen tools for autists to ruin any fun someone else might have, it's ilvl 2.0, but worse.
>>746094207Why do you think that a completely different team is just going to copy/paste 1.12 into the client if the starting point is 1.1.0 and the objective is explicitly set at the start that they do not do that?
>>746094516if you want to be dogshit do it on your own time in your own group, its not fun to have to carry shitters and shitskins
>>746094586Because when you put the same thing with the same problems in front of a group of people that have to solve them by consensus and testing and not one dev's fiat, they will end up solved in a very similar way everytime.
>>746094594The funny thing is you're wasting your time being good at a video game instead of doing something meaningful with your life.
At this point just admit you wish you were there at start and want to experience 1.1.0 to 1.12
>>746094742how do you failed normalfags find this board, fuck off retardonly in WoW threads is being a casual windowlicker suddenly ok on /v/
>>746094783I was there at the start and thought the game sucked massive fucking ass.
>>746094586Why do you think that would be the objective with Classic+ starting out? Because you want it to be? I don't see any reason it wouldn't end up that way, either SoD or a 1.12 off shoot. They've had 20~ years to work on the balancing why start at square 1? If the game isn't inherently different you'll have the same tismos doing the same shit, right? So the expectation is they'll balance it differently enough it won't "be the same game it's been for 20 years"? Then how is that going to be different from SoD?If it's just "This is what I hope for" then hope on but I haven't seen WoW deliver something that gives me the impression that it'd be the glorious return to form anons never experienced because it was never there, but I do think we'd enjoy Absolute Shit Mechanic #7.
>>746093314>Addons that give you more information and easier gameplay have absolutely no place in multiplayer games,Wrong, and no less than 2 RTS games were born out of exactly this happening, because surprise surprise those UI widgets the community developed on their own trying to minimize pain points had great ideas and were folded into the base game. Fight the player or the game, not the UI.
>>746094832Nigger, 4chan hasn't been your esoteric recluse since hackers on steroids.Don't confuse disgust with intimidation.
>nerf warrior>keep hybrid tax>remove old raids>add new raids and items>all vertical progression>bosses just award everyone killing it with tokens that they can use to purchase whatever items they want>once a tier is over the item prices are reduced as a catchup mechanic>this kills the need to gdkp and kills the complaint everyone has about loot hordering guild leaders>ban addons>ban rmt>ban botting>1 offense, for rmt or botting and it's a permaban from the servers>hire people to enforce it>no external buffs allowed in instanced contentThis is all I want.
>>746094891alright its 630am anons been fun but im going to bed, i hope classic+ doesnt suck but big god damn X to doubt from me. GLHF
>>746095263I wouldn't play this game.
I just want turtle
>>746095314Good. I don't want to play with you.
>>746095263Great, now we>hire people to enforce itSorry anon it's impossible, small indie company prease understandu.
>>746095338You wouldn't play with anyone.
>>746095263ok but when do you fix the class and raid design being mindnumbingly shallow and only enjoyed by shitskinsand the PvP ranking system
>>746061147>no panda girlswhy fucking bother with this
>>746095459>pvp is just a side game, and has only cosmetic rewardsThere I fixed it. It's now what it should have been the entire time.
>logging disabledStopped reading thereFaggot
>>746095559>game has even less content when its already a shitty raidlog simlollmao
>>746095627Logging/parsing is gay asf and only faggots and negros like it.
>>746095627thismost jeet mmo imaginable
>>746095669white men all log and parse orange or pinkshitskins seethe about logs and parse gray
Logging is racist you need to carry me.
>>746095669Unlike you, I actually like knowing how I perform relative to others and knowing what I have to improve on.
>>746095669insanely non-white/womanly postconsider an heroing regardless of actual race/sex
no saar do not look at log saar I do very dps invite kindly
>>746095669faustian spirit, ranjeet you wouldn't get it
>>746095667Completely frees the devs from the burden of balancing pvp and pve. They can just focus on pve and leave pvp as a side game that doesn’t need to be perfect.
>>746093564MMOs without leashing are less immersive. Because why would mob niggas guarding a specific castle or defending their nest drop everything to chase the player across the zone? Gameplay wise no leashing is also worse because only griefers benefit from it
>>746096131No.
>>746096131Same with evading, a mob isnt going to stand there and watch you pelt it from a cliff or something else, if they cant reach you theyll fuck offBut "muh immersion" fags have never put an actual hint of thought into immersion
>>746096441>jump up on cliff to avoid enemy>enemy immediately stops fighting and heals to full>this is immersiveOr maybe I've played games more immersive than fucking WoW of all games.
>>746090723>>746090781lmfao based bodied that freak
>>746096571enemy stops fighting when they cant reach you is immersive, yesHealing in WoW isnt immersive period, but players heal out of combat so enemies can too
>>746095868The game should be simple enough that even a retard like you can play it and effectively clear content without needing to autistically do 0.1% more damage.
>>746092141>SoD early level caps were peak. The most fun WoW has been in 20 years.I never played SoD because I still have enough dignity to not suck blizzard's dick, but I'm genuinely interested, that's not the first time I see someone say SoD level caps was a good thing, but I've never seen an explanation. What was so good about it?
>>746096975People have been playing this game for over 20 years, only those with actual learning disabilities are still interested in braindead content
>>746097457The lower level caps just completely changed the dynamics of the classes and made the game feel fresh. This was due to a few things>Classes didn't have all of their abilities unlocked yet which made pvp the most fun it has ever been>Leveling zones which normally are pass through content became primary focal points>The next end game wasn't already solved, ie at level 25 the raids and class balance at 50 were still unknown>It reduced the overall grind to max level because it was broken into smaller parts. Made the entire leveling experience feel less like a rush>It opened up time to level alts in parallel to your main>The lower level raids were the best content to come out of SoD>It gave the dev team time buffers to create a better experience in the next phaseOnce SoD hit 60 it had a big player drop off primarily because it just felt like the same old classic. Where the individual lower caps felt like a fresh game.
>>746095890>>746095806>>746095669The solution is to do logging on a delay so that the combat log is sent after combat ends. That prevents addons from using it to make calls or baby you though fights, but it allows you to pull dps stats and reports after the fact so you can properly compare things and see who died to what
>>746096975>improvement = autismNo, you mediocre faggot.
>>746060495>Level cap 40Make SM a raid then. Only do it right instead of the dog shit that was Gnomer.
>>746098293Nah, the solution is to just delete logging. It's damaging to the overall health of the community. Parsefags find ways to sap the fun out of everything.
>>746098293This has been the case for years now
>>746098815Agreed, damage meters are part of addon cancer, needs to go away.
>>746098815Nope.
>>746098789They did.https://www.wowhead.com/classic/guide/season-of-discovery/raids/scarlet-enclave-overview
>>746098789They already did that in SoD. I want new content
>>746098942only shitters oppose information and transparency, you’re like that guy at work who hates performance incentives because he knows he’s useless
>>746098815What fun exactly is lost because of logs?
>>746060495>logging disabledSHITTER DETECTED
>>746099212Reducing everything to numbers and performance is absolutely awful yes, enjoying the game and not making a spreadsheet out of it is why people want classic, you just want to repeat all the mistakes all over again, just play retail.
>>746060495Why can't you people let go of this game?It's pathetic at this point
>>746099537guilds can disallow parse talk during raids if they wish, it’s a people problem not a game problem
>>746099301Player behavior begins to focus entirely around your parses and content becomes exclusionary based on how well you parse. It directly fuels the toxic elitist attitude that everyone claims to hate. Parsing also impacts content development as now they feel obligated to design around the top % of players, rather than making things accessible to a much larger player base and this overtime kills the game because the people being excluded by both the design and community quit the game.The game mechanics should be intuitive, and easy enough where as long as you're not a complete retard sitting there afk you should be able to clear the raids. This creates the greatest level of player retention. Splitting content into different tiers of difficulty like retail does is retarded too, unless you reward the same gear for all tiers.
>>746099748People need to be herded. You're all just mindless cattle and if given an option to be a parsefaggot or not, you will always lean towards being one. Therefore parsing cannot be permitted.
>>746099748This is just beyond naive, it's not how people work. Game design is about forcing a vision on players, giving them freedom makes them ruin the experience themselves, always.
>>746099816I forgot to mention the class exclusionary shit parsing promotes too. If your class happens to not be the best at that moment, you get forced into rerolling because you'll never get an invite to raid which is extremely stupid.
>>746099890>>746099946Faggot detected.
>>746100128>Faggot detected.mooo
>be NEET for a decade>they reboot WoW the moment i start college
>>746100194>neet for a decade>just starting college nowunc it's already too late for you. You're always going to be a loser irl, so you may as well win in online multiplayer fantasy video games.
>>746099816What's the issue> It directly fuels the toxic elitist attitude that everyone claims to hate. Everyone meaning shitters exclusively. Theres nothing toxic about expecting you to play the game well>Parsing also impacts content development as now they feel obligated to design around the top % of players, rather than making things accessible to a much larger player base and this overtime kills the game because the people being excluded by both the design and community quit the game.Play better you dogshit retard>This creates the greatest level of player retentionClassic is dead, retail is not. Nor is XIV which also has hard content and parsing. Youre objectively wrong>>746100013Theres nothing wrong with not inviting shit classes. You should be complaining that 2004 blizzard was too fucking stupid to balance classes instead of trying to put blinders on
>>746060495NOPE, I played wotlk classic because my friends forced me to and the amount of literal garbage shitters we did dungeons with were just insane. If it weren't for logs, I would probably have quit early on. I know you boomers can only handle one mechanic at a time, which is fine, but don't try and force me to play with you
>>746100258Parsing is banned in XIV. You cannot post damage meters in game and using a third party software to build parses is against TOS. The problem is that XIV still outputs parsable data to the user. This is the same problem WoW has currently. They need to make it so the client provides no information for third party software to read. That will kill the parsing faggotry for good.
i have only ever seen parses brought up when a person is <20%, if you’re worse than 80% of players of your class something needs to be fixed
>>746100471Parsing isnt banned in xiv and the retarded slant eyes as squeenix cant do anything against itNobody wants to play with shitters. Parsing keeps shitters separated from the human players as they should beBraindead casual zogslop isnt popular for a reason
avr and later weakauras exposed addons for the cancer they arenever should have opened pandora's box
>>746100471Absolutely agreed
>>746100726Post your logs
>>746100604>>746100779I am a 99 percentile parser and I think parsing ruins the game for a vast majority of players. Even though I enjoy it, I see the harm it causes to the overall player base.
>>746100956I am a ∞% parser and I also agree
>>746100956>actual parses hidden>no difficulty, spec, role or anythinglmaoYeah man your healer dps LFR parses do not count
>>746101080>>746101056I aint posting anything that you spergs would use to try to track me down and figure out who I am. The fact that I cannot post any additional details is just further proof of how cancerous you parse obsessed fags are to the game.
>>746099537The game is about the numbers. Wanting the game to work differently and not be about numbers might be a valid opinion, but wanting everyone to stick their fingers in their ears chanting LALALA I CANT SEE THE NUMBERS while you pretend the game isn't about numbers is woman-like behaviour
>>746101535>The game is about the numbersNo, the game is about experiencing a fantasy world with your friends. It only became about numbers later because parsefagging is a cancerous cotangent.
>>746101616Nobody is parsing you while you're killing kobolds in arathi retard
>746098059>Classes didn't have all of their abilities unlocked yet which made pvp the most fun it has ever beenand it was fucking garbage. did you actually pvp in sod? some classes were useless meanwhile hunters raped>Leveling zones which normally are pass through content became primary focal pointsashenvale at 25, stv at 40, nightmare incursions at 50 so incredible>The next end game wasn't already solved, ie at level 25 the raids and class balance at 50 were still unknownok? no one knew what 1.12's balance would look like during BWL>It reduced the overall grind to max level because it was broken into smaller parts. Made the entire leveling experience feel less like a rushartificially stopping people from hitting 60 isnt good content>It opened up time to level alts in parallel to your mainsee above>The lower level raids were the best content to come out of SoDyeah id hope the raids were the best content seeing as wows endgame is 99% raiding>It gave the dev team time buffers to create a better experience in the next phasemoot point
>>746101535I don't want to remove the numbers, I just don't want the games focus to be on maximizing numbers and being "competitive", it's a terrible game for that, sure some people will always be like that, but let's not make it the standard. People who enjoy each others company can play together and chill.
>ok? no one knew what 1.12's balance would look like during BWLEveryone knew warriors would be OP day 1 of classic in 2019 anon. What the fuck are you talking about?>ashenvale at 25, stv at 40, nightmare incursions at 50 so incredibleIncursions sucked but the rest of it was extremely fun>moot pointall of your counters are moot points
>>746085117>just b urself XDYou're retarded, it's not about what can actually clear the content, it's about the community (in a social game) acting like they're all serious speed runners or temporarily embarrassed esports stars.
>>746086061>hybrid tax for everyone else>best DPS can tank fine in their full DPS specReally makes you think...
>>746101616Experiencing the fantasy world doesnt kill bosses, numbers do
>>746101928warriors are a meme, mages are the goat
>wishing for months long SODomy style phases
>>746101789>its a terrible game for thatWoW has a ton of incredible boss fights, this just isnt true>People who enjoy each others company can play together and chill.Logging doesnt stop you from playing with other shitters, it stops you from sneaking into a good players group
>>746060495>bgs are ranked solo and team queue (teams will only play vs other teams)No premade abuse?
>>746060495WoW is dead. There is no "saving" it. You can just make its corpse dance around like it used to when it was alive but you can't cover up the smell and everyone can tell it's on strings. I quit for good about a month into Panda. After seeing a couple of the newer quests and story lines there's no doubt in my mind anyone still playing WoW would be fine with sucking a dick. Like you might say you're straight, but if you're on World of Warcraft in 2026 it's because you would consider taking a dick in your ass or mouth
>>746093496You didn't know AI stands for An Indian?
>>746103592Nobody gives a shit about questing and never has
>>746102971>WoW has a ton of incredible boss fightsYou're saying that to the wrong audience, anon. It's probably the only thing players generally still trust Blizzard to do well in WoW, but no one here would actually understand why because they're too shit to raid in retail.
>>746102971>Logging doesnt stop you from playing with other shitters, it stops you from sneaking into a good players groupYes it does, because it drives development to be based around parsers. This is why retail has like 10 different difficulty levels and no one wants to play any of them. It's catering to parsefags.
>>746103868Retail has multiple levels because they kept lowering the bar for shitters, who would in turn just get worse and worse and more demandingThere being content for good players doesnt stop you from your "chill" circlejerk, just keeps everyone with a functioning brain away from you
>>746103692This is Blizzards's target audience now>wtf I hate playing the game. I just want to wait in queues to do random dungeons and raids while skipping all quest text and listening to shitty music with the game on muteSince you're still playing, confirm my theory. Have you ever taken a dick or been open to the idea?
>>746104193No im straight sorry about your homoerotic fantasy>>wtf I hate playing the game. I just want to wait in queues to do random dungeons and raidsThat IS playing the game. Reading shitty quest text is not
>>746060495I am a new WoW fan, i know nothing about it at all and i am hooked but i keep switching from classic era to tbc to hardcore, which one should i just play if i wanna play at my own pace and mostly for the lore and to absorb the game like you did before guides were a thing.
>>746104181You have it reverse. They didn't lower the bar for shitters. They raised the bar for parsers and in return ruined raiding.
>>746104814They added easy mode 10m in wrathThey added even easier LFR in CataThey added Flex between normal and LFR in MoPAll of these were for shitters
I just want playable naga and a reworked deathknight suitable for vanilla content.Not that Id ever give blizzard money.
>>746105157forgot image.
>>746104814>They raised the bar for parsersNo? They raised the bar for like 5 guilds with unlimited resources and multiclass players to compete for a gay esports spectacle and now the rest of us plebs just get stuck until they decide to periodically nerf the raid. It's actually way worse than what you think it is, but it only applies to Mythic.
>>746105295Nobody gets stuck you subhuman shitstainThe only guilds reaching the last boss pre nerf are guilds capable of killing it, just some slower than the world first guilds(You) arent getting anywhere close to it so you arent impacted at all
>classic raids are easy>keep raising the stats of raid bosses for parsefags crying about it being too easy>eventually make them so hard they have to add in easy modes>keep making main content harder to the point that only .001% of guilds can complete the real content until it gets nerfed to oblivion>parsefags still crying that the game is too easyFor real just ban all this logging shit for good.
>>746061147Someone is working on that.I saw a video of it just the other day.Something something wow RP
>>746105525>keep raising the stats of raid bosses for parsefags crying about it being too easyBack in reality TBC added easy raids like Kara and ZA. Was Naxx so hard with its 1 mechanic bosses that they need to add an easy mode? Was Firelands normal mode just too brutal so LFR was neededTell me shitter, was not standing in the fire really that big of a challenge for you?
Hot take: non-english alphabet characters (like é for example) should not be allowed in names. And anyone who uses them currently is a massive faggot.
>>746104804Can somebody please help me? Give me some advice?
>>746105851This
>>746105804Kara at the time was harder than all the raids before it. You're seeing them for what they are today relative to mythic content. Not for what they were back then. Retarded parsefag.
>>746105502>Nobody gets stuckExcept every guild that suddenly makes progress after a wave of nerfs drop. Which is most guilds that get CE by the end of a season.
>>746105986Nerfs speeding up progress doesnt mean you werent already progressing retardRegular guilds are progging esrly bosses still when the end boss gets tuned down, the top guilds that actually see it ore nerf are all capable of killing it but just need more time to prog
>>746105970Kara was significantly easier than NaxxYou've also continued to dodge the question about LFR. Normal mode already existed yet LFR was added anyway for shitters
>>746105970Also that retard never played the pre-nerf versions of the raids he is citing, with the class balancing that was active at the time they were live. He has only played the post nerf 'classic' versions with the final buffed versions of the classes for that era.
>>746103868meters communism was in full effect starting in wrath, they only let up slightly around SL and brought stuff like power infusion back which wasn’t allowed because it affected meters
>>746106212There is no version of classic wow that was hard shitter, the bosses legitimately dont do anything
>>746106248damage meter faggotry was in full effect in early 2005 anon. It was one of the first addons made and enforced to be downloaded by guilds. The early meters had to sync their data with your raid members to give an accurate output. Parsefagging has been ruining the game for too long.
>>746106132I'm talking about the full raid, not just the last boss.>still progressingOkay? Yes, I will freely admit that we were never truly "stuck" and on an infinite timeline could've beaten any mid or late boss save pre-nerf hard walls or end bosses. How exactly does having artificial boosts to progress on an arbitrary timeline dictated by Blizzard make the game better for normal guilds? The nerfs are obviously planned and as a result Blizzard just extends prog for everyone else by releasing at an unreasonable difficulty so their pet RWF guilds can have their "hype" stream moments that I don't give a fuck about.
>>746106491the game wasn’t designed around them until wrath/cata/mop
>>746106604Again you drooling subhuman, it doesnt extend prog for you because you werent on the impossible bosses anyway. Most CE guilds are on the first 2 or 3 bosses when the end boss is nerfed post rwf, nothing about their prog was slowed
>>746106810>game wasnt designed around it until the expansions when the game was goodreally makes u think
>>746106810Ion Hazzikostas got his job because he was a parsefag in classic. He was pushing parsefaggotry back in 2004-2008 before working for blizzard. It has always been a cancer.
>>746061147You're literally the reason why no normal people play MMOs and it's a dying genre. You are a pornbrained retarded faggot.
>>746107073And Ion made much better content on the encounter design team than any of the retards in vanilla did
>>746104804>>746105862The answer is classic, but without the players from back then or the era of 4:3 crt monitors you will NEVER get that experience.Especially not when you have body types and a social contract to accept from nuBlizzard.Just find a good vanilla private server instead and you can at least play the real version for free.
>>746060495Good ideas, especially>all buffs are removed when you enter a raid or pvp instance