You may be confused. Chakra, introduced in Cata, limits how many of your abilities you have available at any given time. You have to pick some or some others based on your chakra.
I think it’s very clear at this point that people do want Cataclysm and a ton of the classic player base will play it. I think there’s also a portion of the classic player base that wants to infinitely play a certain era of the game (like OSRS) but since there are so many different eras it’s difficult for the player base to agree on which lock-steps are viable.
I would personally like to see Wrath Era made available alongside the Cataclysm launch and I think that would please the most amount of people. I also really enjoy TBC but I believe that less people would agree with an era server than Wrath.
It’s important to consider during these discussions that:
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we all have our reasons, different perspectives, playstyles, and cadences of playing the game.
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we can easily have both of these things and please as many members of the player base as possible while monetizing them both so Blizzard also gets what they want
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yes ppl do want cata but ppl also want wrath (and tbc) servers. we should really stop fighting each other about this lol. let people want things, we would have never gotten classic again if it werent for people trying for years to get it.
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At the same time you got new spells. And HAVING spells don’t mean you USE them. Many specs have bar full of spells that you may use once a month.
Cata wasn’t the expansion that pruned spells. Nor was it MoP. In fact, people complained that in MoP everyone could do everything and the rotation started to be too complex.
Pruning of spells, what you mean, started in WoD.
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No, that’s not what I mean and it’s not what I said. I am talking about Chakra, a “feature” where priests can only use some of their spells in each Chakra stance.
Please read what you’re responding to and respond to what you read, not something else entirely.
Okay, so change your Chakra and bingo you have access to all the things.
Problem solved!
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I don’t get why this is so hard for you to understand. Chakra makes it so you can only use some of your abilities at any given time. Changing the Chakra allows you to use a slightly different subset of your abilities. At no point do you have access to all of your abilities and changing Chakra doesn’t fix that. Do you understand now?
I gave it a chance of my own in original cataclysm. And I quit the game and haven’t played retail ever since for all the “superficial” reasons you listed.
Yes. I know that.
Yes, I understand that AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT, there are abilities that you cannot access.
And, frankly, so what? That’s the case with any class, any talent spec, all the time.
A shaman in resto spec can’t cast thunderstorm, and can’t dual wield.
A warrior in berserker stance can’t use revenge.
A priest in Shadowform can’t cast a holy healing spell and still stay in shadowform.
Etc etc etc. Game has been like that from day one. Everyone knows this.
So they added a new mechanic called Chakra that introduces a slight variation on this basic restriction. So what? It doesn’t feel like the fundamental shift that you’re making it out to be.
Can you explain why you feel that Chakra is some completely new thing that has never existed before?
No, it’s not. FYI, and I think that you might find this knowledge useful, oranges are not apples, apples are not oranges. Comparing resto spec to chakra simply doesn’t make sense. You’re comparing things that are completely different.
I’ve explained so simply that anyone could understand it. The fact that you continue to misunderstand it can only mean willful misunderstanding. No amount of explaining can overcome willful misunderstanding because it’s not really misunderstanding, it’s refusing to talk about something rationally and truthfully.
First, I recommend taking off the gloves or oven mits you are wearing while trying to type. Makes it very hard to read your post.
Second, I am not super excited about cataclysm classic, because it was not my favorite expansion. However, I am looking forward to progressing my characters further, and will be here and playing Cataclysm when it drops. The first raid tiers were actually quite good, the dungeons sucked, and last raid tier sucked, but the first two raid tiers were pretty great. And without the content drought I am betting final tier won’t be as bad this time.
Cata is known for its not bad pvp. Trouble is for a pvp game people would probably want to play a game specifically made for pvp. Not a game where you can end up on a mega over geared team or a team of people in blues grinding either av rep, or wanting to get the previous season pvp gear so they won’t get gamna kicked.
I imagine that the we luv pvp crowd will not last without casual pvp as raids will be harder.
People might just want mop. Which needs cata to exist.
Add wrath servers
Offer Cata as the next expansion
See where the chips fall and where the players go.
I have my bets that Cata would out perform wrath in this regard due to players enjoying shiny things, but only numbers would tell.
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Yeah totally agree.
TBC Era and WotLK Era with our original character copies as they were at the end of the expansion is what the Classic Playerbase rightfully deserves.
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CatGP.
Even legitimate AI’s aren’t this poor lmao.
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i have no issue playing cata or the only one i fully missed, pandaria, but yes, i lost a lot of motivation to play once i learned tbc wasn’t going to become permanent and i figured wrath wouldn’t at that point. i figure they think they’ll profit more not having them around and restarting the classic thing in another 15 years and classic era is only up so they can sue private servers.
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I don’t understand the topic, is this English or some type of oggabooga language?
Ah, I see the issue, you’re not understanding what I said. I didn’t say fewer abilities overall, I said fewer abilities at one time. I’m talking about having “stances” for priests where in each “stance” you have fewer abilities available while in that “stance”. So while you might have the same total number of abilities as before, you’ll never have all of those abilities available at once like you did before. Hopefully that alleviates your confusion.
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