Class Change

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I suggested to Blizzard in an actual ticket that they implant class changes. I dont like my main class. I barely ever play it. Just logged into it today. I have EXACTLY 20 days, 20 minutes, 20 seconds /played on my warrior for this expac. Not even 500 total /played days on that toon so… yea obviously DONT like playing that toon. I barely ever play it. My other toons do so much more.

And I said to Blizz in my ticket to them that I want the ability to change my class since none of our classes are the way they were when they first began them.

And I said what if we could have just one ONLY one class change per battlenet account that was permanent and could never be undone so only one toon could do it once after we paid for it. I straight up told them NO damage would be done because everyone would think very carefully before doing it if they only had one shot at doing it. And Blizz was all like yea, possibility. Not like boosts where you can boost unlimited number of toons and be on a class you know nothing about… now that causes damage… but this? If it was for making a new main and could never be undone no matter what then people would really think hard before going thru with it.

So NO. Your arguments against it saying “Oh but people will use to this to change to the FoTM every patch” Not if it is only one time. Then if you do change to FoTM you are stuck that way forever. I would resub as well if I could do this.

Blizz was all like

As such, we have no tools or options to change a character’s class or move their progression to another character.

Is that something that could possibly change? Sure, but it would require enough player support to convince the development team to develop a way to change classes

And if every person did it and it was once per account. And it costed $60. And you also got a feat of strength for doing it as well. That could make Blizz 60 million dollars off of this. That is a great idea. Could even tie it in to a prelaunch event for new expac or something if it has to wait to come out. But either way, it would be good and awesome, it would make Blizz money. I buy a band new Alienware computer every 6 months on average now. Dell works with Microsoft so I was just throwing that out there.

I have all the Blizzard games, I really like Blizzard and Micrsoft is an awesome company. I’m not making that up. I use so many Microsoft products too and none of this would be possible without Activision as well. I’ve played so many Activision games over the years that I have lost count. This could actually cause people to resub and bring in money yea. It would be awesome.

Changing my warrior into a paladin
And then the class that I class changed out of, I would eventually have to replace that class.
I have only one option to do that. My ONLY warrior is a level 50. So I would need to pay $60 to boost it up. But… it is also Alliance. I will need to pay to faction change it. But. It is on Illidan Horde now and I deleted all of its gear… that means Im going to have to buy at least 8WoW tokens to get the gold to gear it up. Its also not even on the right account. So I am going to have to PAY to account transfer it. I have too many toons on this account, maxed out, so I am going to have to PAY to transfer a toon off of here to be able to get that toon transferred over here.

Great idea. Please implement. Only got 1 level70… its a pally. Got 4 level 60 pallies I think. Only 1 level 60 warrior. Clearly like paladins better. Many other people have liked classes that are not their main. And yea if people don’t want to buy it, make it come with a Feat of Strength and even a cool pet. A feature for new expac. Great way to start the game. And NO, people would not be switching over to a class they did know how to play, they would be stuck in it forever with no switching back so they would only switch to something they were dedicated to.

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I think class changes are far more difficult to implement than you’re suggesting.

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Yes. Super duper difficult. A massive headeache. But. Still possible. THATS why I suggested such a large time frame on it. Not right away. But wait on it a little bit. Very possible to do. Can only be done once so there is no way to abuse this. Had to post on my level 70 pally to further prove, I like paladins.

Difficult to do. But it CAN be done. And the rewards would be well worth it.

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Then why is this a problem? If you’ve moved on to other characters, what does this warrior have that you can’t access with your others?

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Because I have stuff on that toon that I dont have on my other toon and I am 10x better at a pally than I am at any warrior. Pallies didnt begin in the Horde so I didnt begin playing one. Began as Horde. And also I had a guild, old guild would always make my bring my warrior because they had lots of pallies but not too many warriors. I am good on my warrior but much better at a pally. But paladin roster was always full… warrior wasnt. My warrior has a bunch of 252 and some 259 gear as well as the 262 lego this toon has only 235 and it sometimes outperforms my warrior because I like it more and put al effort into being best on pally. But on warrior it is just boring to play.

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“And blizz was all like… totse not happening… and I was all like gag me with a potato gun! And they were all like … sorry we can’t! And I was all like… yah huh! you can! And they were all like No! So I was all like fine! I’ll vomit out a wall of text on a Sunday GD forum post!”

M’kay. You’ve had your attention. We’re moving on now. So… bye? I guess?

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I’d rather see currencies and rep account wide than a class change tbh. Would that satisfy you?

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Hrm I do feel mixed on this.

I play FFXIV and wow gosh does it feel good to be able to be any class, each with their own gear set.My character there has its own identity and class can vary on what I wish to do. I can see the obvious benefits (reputation based items, feeling of attachment).

HOWEVER WoW kinda already has answers to wanting to do multiple roles, and that is class specs. It seems to be fine for WoW because there are options when selecting a class.

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That’s an awfully big if. Too many people would just spend the day leveling a new toon or play an already existing alt instead of spending 60 bucks.

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Or how about the fact that the only reason I began to play paladins in WoTLK was because the game play changed tremendously with DS being added and quit liking warriors because their mobility is now out of hand to where nothing can cc a warrior anymore. You have bladestorm to break ccs, you have spell reflection, you have Venthry warriors that can back to back to back charge people with 0 way to stop it. You can double charge with a proper talent set up. Then you can use your Venth execute thing to charge at them and can do it back to back as well, you can heroic leap, then can open door of shadows, then you can cc them with hamstring, then you can cc them with piercing howl, you can also self heal up to 00% HP faster than a healer can. I outheal healers on my warrior sometimes. And warriors were even given a triple heroic leap at one time. AND in Cata you used to be able to pop enraged regan and could outheal any amount of damage you had just by sitting there afk while it was active. You can break ccs with zerker rage, you can break them with bladestorm, you can break them with spell reflect, you can break them by charging out of them. Warriors never used to be like that. Overpowered and unfun to play.

Death Knights got their frost, unholy and blood presences removed. Lots of people quit playing them after that. Warriors got their stances removed, paladins got their auras removed, rogues got their poisons removed. So nothing now is what it was when we first began to play it.

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I see your points, and I raise you ‘we should have classes like FF, where your class is not your character.’

With all there is to do in WoW for reps and such, classes should be things you can change whenever you want. There is no downside to this.

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And if it comes with a feat of strength and a cool pet that you can only get from doing this. its only $60. In the end it would benefit you.

And you know how many people have unsubbed and stayed unsubbed because their class was destroyed? Yea. That was the number one main reason in many mass unsubbings. But with my proposal only ONE and thats all you get. Other MMos now allow this because it keeps players playing who otherwise would have quit.

I know some people who unsubbed because their main was a hunter and hunters got focus to replace mana and for them that was a change they did not want. Many of the RPers even cite hunters as being beings of magics in what they do, not a focus thing which is more along the lines of trying to explain it with science where this is a fantasy game. Hunters use MAGIC. There is no downside to this. I can not name a single one.

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Right. So switch whenever you want > switch once

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What’s so hard about it? Just charge the same amount as a boost $60 and you get the same starter equipment pack. If the new class can’t equip your current items, then too bad. Very simple! All it basically is is allowing players to just have one character instead of having to make new alts.

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There’s a lot of folks not worried about those things. If you’re counting on them using this service to make it worth the cost to implement, you’re gonna have a bad time.

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Because nothing ever stops there.

It’s exactly the same. Just once, instead of many times.

Not to mention the gear restrictions, etc, that they’d need to code into this to swap.

I disagree. Just roll a new character.

This is for Classic? Then you’re in the wrong forum.

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Um, isn’t level 60 the current max?

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This is a bold statement, do you have any source to back this up?

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Take a look at OP level. It is 70.
It says
70 Blood Elf Paladin WoW Classic

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I thought that classic players were tied to the classic forums, as it should be.