2 month in, do you now wish Blizz made classic a bit harder?

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They definitely should. In 2004, we didn’t know to stack certain stats the way we do now. We didn’t know to spec certain things we do now. So the result is tank and spank encounters that take literal seconds to defeat.

Everquest Progression had the same issue. You used to stack a raid with mages and swarm a boss with pets. It would be down within seconds. Daybreak adjusted this with Mitigation of the Mighty which adjusted the health and damage reduction of the bosses to last longer, Presence of the Mighty to make their attacks more effective against players so healers were needed, and Mark of the Old Ways to ensure pet swarming was not as effective as using melee characters. They also added new mechanics to previously just tank and spank encounters to further spice it up.

The result was the encounters were now more difficult, and felt more nostalgic. You used your advanced knowledge and the fights still felt as hard as they appeared to be in 1999.

I’d like to see something similar here. The Classic Authentic experience should be as it FELT in 2004. Not as it was. Bugs should be fixed, exploits should be plugged. And encounters should be tuned so that we’re challenged as we were in 2004.

Easy is for retail. Challenges should be for Classic.

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Retail is harder than Classic or any expansion since ever was. Unless you do nothing but world quests, which is all the retail haters ever seem to do in retail.

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Mythic raids are the only decent challenge I found over there. Everything else is puggable, by WoW players.

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Did you PUG many Mythic+25 dungeons?

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If that’s what you read from that, then sure. Did it with everyone in greens too.

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Uh I didn’t know you could “layer hop” instances.

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There was an exploit I believe was fixed.

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Harder? No. Authentic to the overall Vanilla experience? Yes. What is currently lost, is time which creates a lower effort to reward ratio. The core audience of Classic are the kids of 15 years ago. And this is what we have.

Lol at the people who think the game is face roll now because people magically got better and the previous generation weren’t smart enough to figure it out.

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no

if in fact there were changes from original, I just wish it was more true to original form

as for now, it seems pretty good

most people autoattacked their way through MC anyway, and that was in original

BWL, to some degree AQ, and definitely Naxx kicked peoples butts

I’m sure that’s otw

stop stirring up trouble

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Nothing magical about it, people have had 15 years to dissect every facet of the game and perfect strategies.

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Do some of you have so much time, just to troll the Classic forums? I mean, I appreciate the attention Classic is getting from Retailers, but dang.

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Flights are long in classic.

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Only retailers and nochanging exploiters want Classic to remain easy. Those of us who want an authentic experience actually want a challenge.

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I thought you wanted #nochanges?

If you want challenging content, go back to retail.

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Nope. I wish they had used the real client and server code like they should have done. Chinese supplicating cowards, though, so why be surprised?

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0/10

Retailer trying to tell us to go retail. Go have your easy game there. Another exploiting nochanging retailer right here.

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You realize there is virtually no chance they’ll tune the encounters at all, right? To tell someone to:

is funny because Classic is going to remain this easy forever.

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I got Daybreak to retune the raids in Vanilla EQ. They literally took some of my suggestions almost verbatim. I was told it would never be done there too. Seemed likely as it was 7 years after they started Progression. But they finally did it after a few months of me posting about it.

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Sounds like a coincidence. Good luck with your battle, you’re gonna need it.

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Uh, you’ve got that backwards.
People are doing SM Arm and Cath at 32.