Tinytusk, they are following the principles behind the timing of release of events (dungeons/raids) as it was in vanilla to avoid the situation where gear dropping in one dungeon/raid is too OP for the next one, leading that one to be skipped entirely, etc… Yes, they did stagger content. The release of new servers was a separate issue and dealt with growth of player numbers, not in-game content, although the two occasionally were bundled together in the same patch. However, one still was not dependent upon the other.
It seems you’re attempting to compare what is done on private servers with what Blizzard actually did during vanilla, and that is leading to some very inaccurate surmises on your part.
From the looks of things in that blue post, they’re doing an amazing job.
Literally would never happen. This is a meme uninformed people spread who don’t actually understand the game. That one tips out video where he says that helm from UBRS is better than anything until BWL… there are no other epic helms of that class until bwl except for tier 1 which is better if you have the set…
The updated content release is the private server release. Its the one private server streamers have been making videos about and trying to get blizzard to change to the way they experienced it on their private server. in retail classic no one beat BWL until after ZG was released. Now raids will have a month or two to farm BWL before Zg comes out.
However I feel this is best replicating the original progression through game the first time around. If they add additional servers later on it will be a different discussion entirely if Blizzard will replicate what they did back then or start the progression cycle over from the start.
Considering that content in most cases was untested in Vanilla and much of the people playing had very little idea of how to use there classes at the level 14 years of epxerince allows people to. Saying something wasnt beat in Vanilla isnt exactly a way to convey how things are going to go in classic.
The reality is we know what the bosses abilities are and what the class abilities are. That knowedge alone is going to go FAR further than what it took to clear content when most people who came to this game had never done a raid in there life.
Exactly. now i will hit 60 and beat MC effortlessly with a pug of randoms and i will have to wait 2 months for my specs items to start dropping in the raid because a few people wanted the itemization to be screwed up so the raid would be “harder”.
Tinytusk, you wrote: “Literally would never happen. This is a meme uninformed people spread who don’t actually understand the game. That one tips out video where he says that helm from UBRS is better than anything until BWL… there are no other epic helms of that class until bwl except for tier 1 which is better if you have the set…”
Ah, but they found that it was happening in their own testing. If it was a meme spread by uninformed people, then it was a meme created by the Classic devs and spread by the people they spoke to and who were paying attention during their Q&A’s.
Please do a search for the various YouTube interviews with the Classic devs, as well as any blue posts to date.
As for the updated content release, it’s Blizzard content and, while they may use some referents to certain methods in play in private servers, they’re not relying on private servers nor the way the content is released on private servers. They are not working with anyone playing or running private servers for this content. They’re testing it themselves. That’s where they’re getting their information.
Besides, what’s wrong with taking the time to run through dungeons and raids and get well geared before the next one drops, and having the next one take a while to drop? It’s not like there’s going to be a big rush because a new expansion is dropping in two years. This time, we can all take our time. It’ll be amazing.