Classic Update - March 1

Hello Classic enthusiasts! We’ve been following the discussions about Classic closely here on the forums (and elsewhere) throughout the winter, and wanted to give you an update on a few things that the Classic development team has worked through since BlizzCon and the Classic demo.

The feedback we got from the demo was fantastic. Thank you to everyone who gave us so much feedback to work with, especially the community members who compiled lists of issues that people found with the demo. We’ve looked at everything that was reported, and want to share a few anecdotes with you so you can see how we’re tackling these issues.

One thing many players noticed was the incorrect health regeneration and the spell critical hit multiplier. Good catch! Going into the demo, we thought we’d fixed that and were surprised to see the issue crop up. Before BlizzCon, we specifically checked health and mana regeneration, and fixed the critical hit cases. We also did combat and regeneration tests to make sure we had those accurate.

It turns out that there was a discrepancy between how Classic was configured on our environment at the office (correct!) and the environment serving the demo to you (not correct…). Tracking that down taught us how to best check our environment configuration as we prepare it for launch.

Another issue players reported was that Warlock demon summoning was broken – lots of players said that you shouldn’t lose your current demon until the new one appears. We double-checked and in the original 1.12 WoW, and there, as soon as you started summoning a new demon, your existing demon disappeared. So the demo actually matched how the game played originally. There were a few other reports – such as “rare mobs do way less damage” and “Kobolds at Jangolode Mine run faster than walking speed when running away” – where we were able to confirm that the gameplay was the same in the demo as in the original 1.12 WoW.

It’s important to point out that there are some bugs we’re going to fix before launch, and there are some bugs that we don’t intend to address. As we mentioned in our BlizzCon presentation, some differences aren’t worth fixing, like differences in how the mail works. Nonetheless, we’ve fixed some fairly high-priority issues:

  • Critical Strike rating: Each item now “Improves your chance to get a critical strike by X%.”
  • Rogue Energy didn’t work right: it was both benefiting from melee haste and re-calculating more often than it was supposed to. Both issues were fixed.
  • Slow Fall no longer applies to your jumps.
  • You again get pushback when hit by ranged attacks and wands.
  • Dodge, Parry, and Miss were all not happening often enough.

That’s not all we’ve done, of course, but we want to give you an idea of what we’re prioritizing: core game systems, combat, and content. We’ve spent time on other things such as user interface and making sure graphics “feel” like they used to, but our primary focus is on gameplay.

Again, we’re following all of your discussions and loving your enthusiasm – and we’re going to get more information for you posted here soon (not soon™).

Thank you, and get ready for a Classic Summer!

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Thanks for the update!

So does “not soon™” actually mean sooner than the traditional “soon™”?

Asking for a friend.

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Yes.

Please refer to https://wow.gamepedia.com/Soon

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YEEEEEEEEESSSSSS. I have faith in you guys. I really hope you guys change your mind on the loot system however, I really see it being damaging in the long run.

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Thanks for the update :smiley: and the soon not tm

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Thanks for the update. Didn’t mention delays, that’s good?

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Reaaaallly hope the changes made to the loot sharing are reverted. But good news nonetheless!

WE DID IT BOYS!!!

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Hoping for a release date to send my hype to the moon. Thanks for your hard work, team.

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Skeletons. Skeletons everywhere.

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Soon (not soon™)™

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Thank you for all of the hard work you have done, and continue to do, to bring this game to us this year. Looking forward to the actually soon update.

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Very cool! Glad to see progress is being made! :slight_smile:

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OMG thanks so much for the update, seriously.

And do not leave us alone.

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Any chance y’all can give us realm info or confirm or deny the things we debate here daily?

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Summer can’t come fast enough!! Thanks for the update!!

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Thank you and I appreciate the time for this update. However, you guys already talked about half of that in an interview back in December. I think most players expect core gameplay being exact to be a given (although it is probably difficult for the developers). I’m more interested in choices like spell batching, right click reporting, etc. A small mob or combat bug can and will be fixed eventually, but different spell batching will forever change PvP and other choices can affect community interaction.

I trust you developers on a technical basis, but I don’t trust your higher-ups who may force cost-saving decisions.

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Thank You :kissing_heart:

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