Classic is nerfed on beta

[Provengreil-senjin (Provengreil)]

How much of the values was kept on server side however? Im Positive if enough of us had our old PCs we upgraded from in say 1.3 or 1.6 or w.e patch had the values in our wow files they could pull it from them no? But if its kept server side youre 100% correct; its impossible to know ACTUAL values or what not from back then.

Actually, if the pre-1.12 knowledge gap was about what was stored on client, you could pull out an old install CD set and just pull that data. There’s no shortage of people on these forums who kept theirs and would happily lend them.

TBH though, they said they were going full 1.12 with no further changes beyond what’s mandatory to make it function on modern systems, with modern architectures. That means 1.12 AV, and anyone moaning about it is barking up exactly the same tree as anyone still asking for transmog carryover.

[Shiyoakemi-illidan (Shiyoakemi)]

Yeah, we’ve had a huge thread on this since the announcement months ago.
It’s funny seeing peoples actual reaction to how bad 1.12 AV is when they see it in person with their own eyes, though.

I tried to warn people

1.12 AV is a huge, huge mistake

We can essentially play 1.12 AV right now on retail, and have been able to for over a decade. Why are you giving us this version of AV and not the true classic version? I don’t understand, the people who DON’T want long epic games have retail WoW av for that, the people who WANT long epic games have nothing, and never will have anything. Why can’t you give us the version that was in for the majority of vanilla? Why are you settling for a version that’s essentially been around for over a decade? …

[Xanthak-durotan (Xanthak)]

For the sake of overall authenticity, i think we need a happy medium version. But, the majority of people here don’t seem to care much for the overall experience.

[Brokenwind-malganis (Brokenwind)]

Everyone wanted 1.12

I can recall a grand total of 0 requests for 1.12 WoW.

[Brokenwind-malganis (Brokenwind)]

What a load of crap in this thread. Everyone wanted 1.12 and NO CHANGES! NO CHANGES BLIZZARD! OMG NO CHANGES!

You get 1.12 and now you cry for CHANGES!

Give it a rest kids.

As usual, when people say this, they don’t understand what “no changes” means.

You see, Blizzard had not originally announced that they were going to make everything 1.12. They originally said that they were going to draw from all of Vanilla before making a decision. As a result, “no changes” did not mean “exactly what Blizzard says”. It meant “no changes that did not occur in Vanilla”, and always included the option of what was called a Frankenpatch, where Classic would take the best version of each game element together into one.

And Brack in fact said he wished for people to discuss what versions of vanilla elements we desired most.

and then ignored the whole lot and went with the path of least resistance… er…“clarity” for themselves.

[Brockthorn-malygos (Brockthorn)]

least resistance and cheapest route.

Doing actual content progress via patches like pservers would have been actual work that cost actual money.

[Brokenwind-malganis (Brokenwind)]

You are two months out from launch, yall lost this argument a long time ago. They aren’t gonna start redoing it now.

AV is not in the game at launch. Far from it.

[Brokenwind-malganis (Brokenwind)]

This is laziness at best. The alternative is incompetence

Being able to playtest the battleground is different from simply reading the plans.

AV, at this point, doesn’t feel epic. Previous versions of AV (pre-1.12) were intense.

AV should be a PVPVE battleground. As it stands, it’s currently worse than Ashran on launch (my opinion).

Point of note: 1.12 AV is actually 1.11 AV. From v1.5-1.7 AV actually received improvements and buffs. When MoHs were implemented in 1.8, suddenly they scrambled to begin dismantling AV so that it would take less and less time to play. From v1.8-1.11, the original PVPVE game was obliterated.

hth

[Bricklethumb-anvilmar]

Troll post is troll post

[Williams-akama (Williams)]

It’s a lot easier to say “this was the last patch of vanilla, so that’s what we’ll use”

Yeah its easy to say but 1.12 is only representitive of 1.12 and is not a very good representation of what Vanilla was for the majority of its life cycle.

Selecting 1.12 classes; I get it.

Selecting 1.12 PvP and PvP was a huge mistake.

Earlier WoW was superior to 1.12 in a lot of ways, and unfortunately gives a very watered down experience. Essentially its Vanilla on ultra easy mode.

[Brokenwind-malganis (Brokenwind)]

The only ‘nerf’ I see in 1.6 is longer respawn timer for tower guards. Which is meh. But it also added offensive air strikes and reduced the rep needed for cavalry charges.

She/He/Zhim is trolling you. I would have thought you recognized their avatar and posting by now, Mogar. I am disappointed in you a little.

[Brokenwind-malganis (Brokenwind)]

Why is everyone acting like they want to grind NPCs in AV for 12 hours, 1.12 AV is more pvp oriented.

So much so that your knowledge is based on your rank of… oh wait, you do not have a vanilla rank.

Maybe I experienced something completely different to you, but I don’t remember any of this in Vanilla, however I play a rogue which isn’t in the main battle, my job was towers and gy harassment, from my perspective, nothing really changed.

You did not play vanilla, and if you did you did 0 PVP.

[Brokenwind-malganis (Brokenwind)]

Ok, so did they have the same backlash back in vanilla? because it seems the reason why AV was changed so much was because of the users constantly having issues with it.

AV was changed so that honor farmers could get MoHs faster. Full Stop.

There was backlash in vanilla to the changes. It was ignored.

[Williams-akama (Williams)]

Unfortunately the forums did not discuss valuable things like what versions of what content is best (BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALL THE DATA).

Instead they endlessly nagged for dumb crap like Transmog or Adding modern graphics; stuff that will simply never happen.

The few threads that discussed content were drown by kids who in most cases just didnt play enough actual vanilla to know any better.

As a result 1.12 was according to the forums “the version”.

Unfortunately a franken patch would have actually provided people with a proper “Vanilla Experience”

I can only hope they dont make the same mistake with TBC because 2.4 is the sane as 1.12 its a catch up EZ mode version.

Dont worry this warning will fall again on deaf ears.

[Seymorre-proudmoore]

This is terrible. This is pretty much BC AV…NOT CLASSIC AV. This makes me sad

[Seymorre-proudmoore]

It didn’t really register until you see it…I was like WTF…this is not right. I know we are stuck with this pile now…just makes me a little less hyped.

[Brockthorn-malygos (Brockthorn)]

Oh for sure you experienced something different.
Your legacy pvp achievements only go back to 2009.

[Fallanaa-area-52 (Fallanaa)]

1.12 as-is.

#nochanges

[Leacher-proudmoore (Leacher)]

After seeing how AV turned out…I am concerned that we are not going to get the true classic experience…I should have done more research.

[Cyouskin-stormreaver (Cyous)]

Point of note: 1.12 AV is actually 1.11 AV. From v1.5-1.7 AV actually received improvements and buffs. When MoHs were implemented in 1.8, suddenly they scrambled to begin dismantling AV so that it would take less and less time to play. From v1.8-1.11, the original PVPVE game was obliterated.

hth

+1

Explains why AV felt easier at some points. Because it was.