Did Blizzard ever poll their players about spellbatching?

[Delimicus-heartseeker]

There was a large post about the necessity of spell batching by a private server dev/admin whatever you want to call him. That post received a tremendous number of upvotes and Blizzard later announced they would be taking us back to the stone age because of this “No-change” community.

Their announcement post also received a tremendous number of upvotes. Now that the “No-change” community realizes how bad they messed up, they’re blaming Blizzard for “not getting it right”. Spell batching was changed years ago for a reason, the current implementation is correct and it’s awful just like it was 15 years ago.

PvP needs spell batching or the meta is tarnished

If you don’t know what spell batching is, it’s the way the game processed spells before WoD. Spells were processed every server tick instead of ASAP and it’s what let two Mages polymorph each other, two Rogues gouge each other, two Priests fear each other, and so on. While it’s true that it was originally design because of technical limitations, it was kept all the way until WoD because of the positive effect it had on game play, most notably PvP. In PvP it gave you options that are not availa…

Spell Batching in Classic

Since we first announced World of Warcraft Classic, we’ve seen questions about spell batching. While we never really eliminated spell batching in WoW, we did change how (and how often) we process batches of actions coming from players, so you’re less likely to notice that processing in today’s game. We’ve been working to ensure that in WoW Classic, the gameplay of activating spells and effects will not differ from the experience of playing original WoW. It was relatively common in the original…