The Chromie leveling concept. Will that allow us to play Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor as it was pre-Cata once Shadowlands comes out?
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that would be nice
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I canât see how since the revamp also brought flying and upped all the graphics of the old world.
Probably not, but I wish that were an option. I really wouldnât be bothered if I never saw cata revamp EK and Kalimdor ever again.
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Umm go play Classic?
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That would be awesome if we could.
I like the old world better.
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I donât think so. Itâs not something they mentioned so Iâm guessing Chromie is just there to port you to starting place for each expansion and then you just go through it as it is today. But it would be a nice to have the option to do a pre-Cata version and if you want Cata version choose to level thru Cataclysm expansion.
This would be ideal. I am no programmer so I donât know what kind of work it would be.
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Why do people post things like this? I didnât demand it, it was a question ffs.
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Yeah Iâm not sure they could recreate it and having it run at same time as Cata changes but we can dream lol 
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They could be to separate âinstancesâ so to speak where the old zones donât have flying and copy paste the art and such from classic. Obviously thereâs more work to it than just that but still the fact that they already have things built with classic would make adding them far less work compared to doing it from scratch.
I imagine it being like the draenei and Belf starter zones but on a grander scale. Theyâd be detached from the current world.
Personally I think itâd be awesome cause the whole reason Iâve been playing classic at all is to experience some of the old quest lore. Would much prefer to do that in retail if I could.
Iâm am somewhat doubtful that theyâll add it though, not because of flying or them being incapable, but more because of them having to decide what to do with old versions of dungeons and raids theyâve removed over the years.
I suppose they could just change all entrances so they take us to the current versions of where ever those things lead, and then just remove quests related to ones that have been changed. Personally Iâd like to see the original versions added as well but I know a lot of people are protective of their âremoved contentâ exclusive items.
I donât think itâll end up being an option but Iâm going to hope for it anyways.
As much as I wish it will work this way, itâs highly unlikely. That would entail them doing quite a bit more work than they have to. Itâs not as simple as copying it from Classic and pasting it into Retail. If it were, they would have ample incentive to do it and could tout it as a âfeatureâ of Shadowlands.
As âearly stagesâ as Shadowlands seems to be based on how little they actually showed us at Blizzcon, Blizzard probably needs all the time they can get to get Shadowlands release ready. That means something like porting the whole of Classicâs Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor content to retail is likely beyond the scope of what âChromie Timeâ is intended to do.
Itâs far more realistic to expect that the Eastern Kingdoms/Kalimdor 1-60 content that Chromie syncs you for will be the 1-60 post-Cataclysm experience. Expecting anything else is setting yourself up for disappointment in my opinion.
Is it something Iâd like to see done? Absolutely! Especially if it means we get old dungeons and raids back! But itâs unlikely to happen in Shadowlands from what I can tell.
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With the Chromie leveling concept we could get xpacs in their original launch state theoretically.
Blizz could also have quests kind of lead into patch update/changes to zones as you complete them. Doubt they will do that but itâs a possibility.
So you would start the WotLK xpac at 3.0 and as you complete the quests it would end up being 3.3 by the time you finished. Same for every other xpac.
Maybe even bring back the pre-events and work those in somehow. The possibilities are endless.
I am so excited for this on my alts. I want to get this in wow in 8.3! I think it would be a breath of fresh air for those playing. Especially if you are working on the world quest achieves.
I hadnât even thought of that. That would be damn fine of them if they did that.
I could even forgive the squish.
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The pre-cataclysm Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor zones do not exist in the game anymore. Theyâll probably say to play these zone that you should go play Classic.
They said the âworld as it wasâ. We shall have to wait and see what that means.
I think the way its going to work is. if you chose to lvl 1-50 in old WoW then you will lvl in it pre-cata revamp to the whole map and if you decid to lvl up in cata then you will see the zones revamped as they once were in cata. so to answer it⌠in shadowlands you will be able to play vanilla zones ( aka original wow as it once was) and if you decided to lvl in the cata xpac then you will see the zones as they stand now.
Yâall are really placing a lot of faith in a feature designed to be a corner cutter for what they consider old and irrelevant content yet understand the players still enjoy. The EK you see today is what you will be leveling in if thatâs where you choose to go. Expect anything more than that and youâre just gonna be disappointed later. Have realistic hopes like âmaybe they will make classes feel fun to play againâ or âmaybe they wonât give up on it halfway through like theyâve done at least once and almost twice nowâ
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I just want to be able to go back to the old Vale of Eternal Blossoms. Please Chromie!