Brady Games got access to Blizzard’s code/values for the book…
aka it was written under Blizzard’s license and permission
Blizzard did not give them the source code to WoW to write that book. They provided them with a list of data to use.
And you’re still having trouble comprehending so let me say it slower.
Without
the
Server
code
everything
on
the
private
servers,
server
side
is
guesswork.
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the
list
of
data
is
what
was
written
in
the
code
for
values
which
was
then
corroborated
against
vanilla
era
videos
and
database
sites
like
wowhead
allakhazam
thottbot
elitistjerks
among
many
others
i
should
know
cause
i
wrote
all
of
the
bug
reports
for
all
of
the
paladin
bugs
from
feenix
to
nost
to
elysium
to
lightshope
The problem is this.
If they really had good data there would be no argument by you vs the private server community and development team regarding how paladin mechanics worked in actual Vanilla.
Question, have the private servers actually gotten paladin mechanics 100% correct according to you?
Is this true for every single spell rank and every aura application or debuff?
These are just a sample of the issues faced on the private realms.
I suspect that your answer regarding paladin mechanics and accuracy is a “No”.
Four horsemen was overtuned, from what I heard from friends in raiding guilds that actually did Naxxramas (my own guild was struggling on AQ40 still, and we couldn’t get past Instructor Razuvius in Naxx). Fancy requiring 8 tanks? Strange mechanic to suddenly land on people.
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Four horsemen is a gear check and a skill check at the same time.
I never could find any sympathy for people who were complaining about any of the fights in Vanilla that failed to offer a solution; I do believe that is the definition of whining.
Where is the real problem of an encounter that expects a different kind of strategy? I felt it was actually a cool way to handle things and encourages the raid group to actually work hard and coordinate to achieve victory.
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The latest versions of certain builds and dbs are at about a minimum of 99% accurate.
Even Blizzard servers had inaccuracies and bugs during vanilla. Some of these bugs have even been addressed in private server builds.
Private servers have come a long way since their early days, where they got a lot of their bad reputation, and depending on Blizzard’s direction, may provide a more authentic vanilla experience than what Classic will deliver.
Keep in mind that while private servers are capable of a high level of accuracy, deviations do exist.
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Jesus, Ironsides and Theo just absolutely /lawyering and dropping nuclear bombs of logic repeatedly against subjective wails of reproach.
This thread is COOKED.
I’ll post a video to this thread of my guild finishing Rag within 14 days after Classic launches.
Bookmarked.
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Lol. Is it? We’re no further than where we started. And that’s the way it’ll be - forever. A lot of things are a guess. Blizzard are the gate keepers of data and calculations. Blizzard laughed at the accuracy of private servers. The Nost devs themselves said they guessed. This is fact, no matter how much reverse engineering or video watching is done. If private player want to defend that it is 99% accurate and that any inaccuracies are minor, that’s fine. If I spent 9 years of my life doing something, I’d be defensive too.
But, let’s not talk about “logic” or “subjective” - with logic insinuating private servers have the real values and what Blizzard has is secondary. I mean, c’mon. Really? I’ve had some stupid @#$% engineers reporting to me, where we have a client app and a heavy server component. They tested a server change by checking the client. Talk about /facepalm.
Let me make this very clear. MC is not easy because private servers messed up. Blizzard could make things different and it’ll still be cleared very quickly - with the importance of FR being the only time sink. MC will be easy. Period. Even if they do a re-tune as I want, MC will be easy. MC being easy - I don’t think anyone is arguing the fact. And that’s not the point.
But, things are an absolute steam roll now. If mages weren’t wearing greens and speccing arcane power because things were dying so fast, I think accuracy wouldn’t be as big a question mark as it is. The question is to what degree is it easier?
The answer will forever be a mystery. 1.12 wasn’t around long enough or taken seriously enough for people to know what what MC was like at the point in time. Anyone left that was seriously raiding was doing Naxx. Classic will be 1.12 numbers butchered through Retail. So who knows.
But, ultimately the very nature of the beast that are private servers and how things are done is wide open to skepticism. You have to at least acknowledge that. It’s understandable to be defensive, but let’s be realistic here. Knowing what we know, everything that has been said, the guessing, etc then turning around an saying private servers are the truth? That’s definitely going to get some heads scratching.
But at least this is a discussion, not some mud slinging fest that my biggest fans love to do on reddit. Those folks I hope stay the heck away from Classic as they’ll be nothing but toxic. But, unfortunately those are the ones that give private servers such a bad reputation.
So this thread, while interesting, can be as you put it, COOKED.
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- There’s a greater spread. Good players are better than good players in Vanilla. Or more precisely, good players are better than they were in Vanilla.
- Not true. Mechanics were different back then (tuned for 40 players), but there was less tank and spank than you’d think. C’thun was absolutely insane.
- True.
- Not true; unless everyone has spent the time building resist sets and researching the trash, you won’t even be making it to the bosses before the drama boss decimates your “LOLOMG WE CAN KILL EVERYTHING” 40 man group. Remember to bring your Onyxia scale cloak.
The post is off topic (yet extremely interesting and informing).
The original post suggested:
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Classic raiding will be easy if you’re led by experienced private server leaders (talented leaders who recently mastered the raids on private realms). Otherwise you’re likely to see a challenge.
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1 out of 10 people asserting what to expect with classic raiding have actually experience this themselves (while not being carried). Whereas the other 9 out of 10 are “know-it-alls”.
Ironsides, obviously one of the most experienced here, appears to solidly agree with point 1 but suggests there may not be any leaders left who are not pserver experienced. Please confirm or clarify.
Ironsides, three questions for you:
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You mention 8 debuffs, 1.11 threat, and progressive itemization is a myth and won’t increase difficulty. Whereas what would make a real difference is stopping consumable abuse. What about starting with 1.1 talents/patch? Would this make a difference? Considering Ragnaros was beat in patch 1.3 and how many things changed after this patch. How would this affect the challenge?
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As it stands, what’s your prediction on what percentage of raid guilds will clear MC in what time frame. i.e. 1% will beat Rag in under 10 days, 10% will beat Rag between 11 and 20 days etc…
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Same question as above but with servers instead of guilds. i.e. what percentage of servers will beat Rag within what time frame.
Well not entirely true. My guild started raiding in July 06. I should also preface this with the fact, that about half had just left a different guild that was working on MC because guild drama. I don’t know how much of a difference that made, but we had rags down in about 3 weeks. At least I think it was 3 weeks. But as I said, this was a guild that was half made of up of people with a lot of epics.
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let me answer your question by saying this
stock mangos is bugged to hell and back when it comes to Paladin spells/talents/abilities
it was literally a steaming pile of excrement to try and play on a stock mangos private server cuz you literally didn’t know what was working and what wasn’t - hence my efforts over the past several years to try and get things fixed
some notable examples of rampant bugs affecting Paladins in stock mangos
- Holy Resistance on all mobs in PvE and players in PvP
- Seal/Judgement of Command and Hammer of Wrath being on spell hit/crit
- Sanctity Aura not boosting all Holy dmg by 10%
- spell dmg not boosting our holy damage attacks
- none of our Seals/Judgements being able to trigger procs
- only auto attack being able to trigger Vengeance
The one BENEFICIAL bug combo we had on stock mangos was unnerfed Seal of the Crusader + Consecration where we got the 40% melee haste and AP bonus without the “does less damage on each swing” bs. That combined with Consecration scaling with attack power meant that Consecration ticks hit really hard every second which made AoE fights and AoE tanking especially lulz for us.
All that being said, I can honestly tell you that Lightshope is as close as anyone has ever come to retail Vanilla WoW especially when it comes to Paladins. There are still a few lingering unknowns remaining only because I was unable to find concrete evidence one way or the other:
How long did it take for a clear? We stopped doing MC when we gained steam in AQ40. And it still took us a couple hours or so.
For the 1st time we downed him, I wanna say 5 hours… we had to stop that night we got him the next day.
You are so wrong it’s not even funny. I don’t have the time to entertain players who havent touched a mythic raid, but insist they know what it’s like. Mythic raiding and classic raiding are nothing alike. Classic will get steamrolled day 1 by any guild with top 500 guild level retail players.
The fights took so long because players were garbage in 2005. If you compare dps numbers on classic private servers to the original numbers, players have better builds, they have better itemization, they run more enchants and consumes, we understand the metagame now, whereas in 2005 it needed to be developed. In addition, the retail version of the game has been getting harder and harder on a mechanical level, requiring both better metagame knowledge and better personal mechanics. The skillset of a modern retail mythic raider is absolutely uncomparable to a classic raider. its comparing a war hardened veteran in his prime to a child.
I dunno, you clearly don’t have modern experience with both. You would agree with me if you did. I’m wasting my time even responding to this thread. Every raid will be cleared on the first lockout available, unless there is a hard gear check like 4hm.
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That puts a few things into perspective. You guys were not all fresh out of the box 60’s that were only in dungeon blues.
Also it’s very important to note just how strong some of the quest gear, AB / WSG / AV gear, as well as the upgraded dungeon gear that did not exist in early vanilla actually is.
I am not even talking about Dungeon set 2, but the original set before the stats were changed and augmented.
Additionally the gear from Diremaul is quite strong, but not as strong as some like to make believe it is.
No one single change from Classic WoW was the straw that broke the camels back, but if you started raiding in Late Vanilla then you really missed out on the pre-naxx era of threat management.
I can assure you it was a very different experience before and after. Certain bosses in AQ went from extremely difficult to not so bad in a single patch.
I imagine that given the correct level of gear in MC and BWL the experience would be very similar to ours in AQ with the advent of Naxxramas.
Please remember I am not saying this single change alone did it all in, but it’s the combination that really killed the early raids and how they felt in their early days.
The threat management in 2005 was very different than the late 2006 World of Warcraft Vanilla.
Post June 2006 we went from a slow clip on most bosses to a total zerg rush that turned a lot of the encounters into a total joke.
Players then understood the meta-game then too. Maybe YOU didn’t but not everyone is the same.
Just because YOU the individual player or your guild improved does not mean others were so unaware of how to play an MMORPG.
That’s the point I have been trying to make for a very long time. It’s a point lost on a lot of players who’s first MMORPG experience is World of WarCraft.
Just to clarify, because I 100% agree with Drakonov, do you believe raids will be cleared easily? Most of us using the “better player” argument are solely doing so to get our MAIN point across: we believe raids will be a joke difficulty wise.
Anyone using the better player argument via skill / resources will gladly not care if you believe that statement if you agree with us on the difficulty raids will present for today’s player base.
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And yet here you are.
You are right though: Mythic and Classic are NOTHING alike, and your ability to execute tank swaps while juggling three other mechanics is meaningless when you’re being wiped by an aura effect that you can’t avoid and aren’t equipped to deal with on day 1. You know better though, so good luck on the drakes and Nefarian without everybody wearing their Onyxia Scale Cloaks.