The only gear that anyone wants (besides you and maybe four other people) is Tier 3, which can actually still be acquired in game if you have the gold.
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Didn’t say engines. I said landmasses and quests. You’re literally talking about putting two games into one layered on top of each other with entirely different landmasses and no ability to fly or integrate other QoL.
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You speak for yourself and no one else.
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What gear no longer exists?
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If all you truly want is the transmog,there are other ways to achieve then than grafting Classic’s content onto Retail.
Remember the Salvage Crates from WoD? They had a chance to drop no-longer-available-otherwise gear. Something similar could be done in the future.
They could introduce profession recipes for that gear. Or have the items added manually into Retail. Maybe even make them drop from older Retail content.
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Open up ATT. Turn on debug mode. Click on each of the zones in the menu. See for yourself how much is gone.
Last I checked 13% of the game (mounts, pets, mog, quests, titles, etc), for things that are flagged as collectible, is removed since Nov 2004 launch. Aka if you have old removed vanilla gear even if it wasn’t counted as mog back then it still counts against the total now. Same for everything else.
Now the question is what % of that 13% is related to vanilla alone. I do need to do an ATT check tonight, they’ve had a few updates are trying to create collection parity between the 3 versions so far. Seen a few quest names added to removed quests which game api doesn’t allow.
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I’m surprised corrupted ashbringer hasn’t popped up on the BMAH.
There are no mounts or pets that were removed because of Cata updates. And that person is specifically talking about transmog. Which there was an entire interview concerning transmog back then and everything, as far as I know, from quests and world drops still exists.
We’re not talking about everything under the sun removed because of other random Blizz decisions.
Try to stick to the topic at hand.
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No one said we were talking about mog alone. The topic was the addition of classic to retail, just so people can play the old vanilla content for whatever reason said person wanted.
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Classic Naxx sets! Only available, maybe, sometimes, piece by piece, on the BMAH.
I’d love the warlock set from there. The Wrath ones are nice but lack the funky colors of the original.
Oh, and Anathema!
Oh, and the Defias leather set!
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Literally:
Yes. We are talking about transmog specifically. 
And aside from the raid and class quest few items, as far as I know, all world drops and quest gear still exists for transmog.
I can quote too.
Considering that they actually had to scrap a lot of cata content due to them remaking the entire world… I’d hazzard a guess and say that… no… they can’t build two games at once.
If you want vanilla. Season of Mastery is there for you. Warts and all.
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That’s nice. But it still has nothing to do with conversation you jumped in on with irrelevant information. I specifically asked a question. You came in with crap that had nothing to do with it.
Either keep up with what’s being talked about or don’t comment.
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Don’t you know that Blizzard is just a poor indie studio with a small budget? They couldn’t possibly afford a small team to reintroduce Vanilla content back into retail.
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I would choose chromie time walking classic! So your argument is invalid 
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I’m fairly certain that when xmog was announced at Blizcon or there was a panel on it or something. I distinctly remember Holinka (I believe) stated that if you had a piece of gear at any time in the game that it would be added to your collection so you didn’t have to go back and farm these items but that never came to fruition.
I would love to see the old world restored along with all the removed content.
It would be amazing to talk to a Bronze NPC and say “show me the world before the Cataclysm” and have all the original versions of quests, dungeons and raids available.
With how Blizzard operates, this would likely be impossible. The change in code over time would make it all but impossible without a huge investment of time and money.
From a business standpoint it makes more sense to keep moving ahead with retail and leave the old stuff to the Classic modes.
Maybe if one of the dev’s wants to take on a passion project of sorts, they could go back and rebuild the zones one by one. I doubt it would happen, but you never know. That’s kind of how they did Classic right? Small team rebuilding everything with whatever code they could find.
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It’s called Classic and TBC, and you can go play them to your hearts content.
With Shadowlands this would be the perfect opportunity to write a storyline of the heroes returning to an all-new Azeroth revamped or Azeroth suffered a great attack while we were away fixing the dead world in the Shadowlands. An opportunity to use old zones and reintroduce a new expansion involving existing content. Wow is a big beautiful game with lots of content that is barely seen or utilized at all. It makes me sad to see all those empty zones.
Like I believe that M+ and heroic should involve all the dungeons from every expansion same with raids. You should be able to get gear for xmog but run that stuff as current content as well.
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