WOTLK heroics were only easy-mode if you had raid gear.
If they do that, why not just make every expansions it’s own little server and retire Chromie and her Time. Then they clean up ‘Retail’ with all the leftover expansions crap it has. You just install the expansion(s) you want to play in and clone your character to the next expansion(s) for a nominal fee, 'eh?
You couldn’t straight up pull whole hallways and AoE them down but they were still pretty darn easy. Only a handful of parts of a select few dungeons held any real difficulty for PuGs, even in leveling gear.
T7 Raid/badge gear was also incredibly easy and fast to acquire back then, which means it’ll be even faster today.
I could see myself playing cata for a bit only because I didn’t raid that xpac. I hated the talent system changes though so idk if I’d stay interested for long
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If i were to do Classicclysm it would only be for the raids up to DS, didnt like the direction they started taking classes and the gutting of talent trees etc.
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i hope this is sarcasm , because wotlk introduced gear reset every patch and removed the need to even do the previous raid once the new one is out
it became the first play the patch not the expac
I give Cata a 9 out of 10 chance of happening if Wrath is successful and Blizzard hasn’t been sued into the ground.
It undoubtedly will be.
The EEOC settlement put California in a baaaad place given how much posturing California did against the EEOC when trying to fight about getting paid. EEOC provided Blizzard lawyers ample ammunition to use against California regarding conflict of interest and other procedural requirements that the state agencies just disregarded in their zeal to get Blizzard to pay up.
I don’t think we’ll be seeing much of anything moving forward. The investor lawsuits were weakly supported and the California witch-hunt lost most of its pitchforks.
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Eh, to an extent. During T8 all of the T7 content was still relevant for pre-Ulduar gearing as the only new badge gear came from Ulduar 25/VoA25. It wasn’t until ToC that the shift to Run 5 mans>jump into the hot new raid took root, and even then ToC 10/25 were still extremely popular through the remainder of Wrath as easy gearing for ICC.
Interestingly ignoring the major notable variable here…Microsoft now owns them.
I’d have to dig but I distinctly remember reading about the head of Microsoft’s gaming division or whatever they call it being very interested in revitalizing old IPs and he even threw out some rather niche gems from the 90’s. Given Classic’s success thus far, I don’t see Microsoft axing it anytime soon, and certainly not on account of it being Cataclysm or any other post-destruction expansion.
If anything, I suspect we’d see even more targeted changes to pretty up and modernize the older content under Microsoft influence.
Also remember Microsoft’s acquisition is still being looked over (I think anyway) by the Fed so strings aren’t being pulled just yet. By the end of Wrath Classic? Probably, but the distinction is notable.
Not really.
Whenever I see this, it’s literally just player bias coming through. There is literally a class and systems overall EVERY EXPANSION. TBC and WOTLK content is still completely available in retail as well, so the only legs this argument has to stand on is “I don’t like cataclysm so everyone can go play it’s retail version”.
If you were only vouching for vanilla I could understand “This is literally unavailable content” as a valid point. But there is literally no argument you can make for TBC or WotLK that you couldn’t make for any expansion.
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The transition from Lich to Cata is going to be immediately noticeable at final lich patch-to-cata-pre-patch.
You’re going to see firsthand why the majority of us are staying in Northrend.
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How did you type that without busting a gut laughing?
Cata is the expansion that really started losing players. It didn’t maintain at all, it just lost people.
Cataclysm is HIGHLY unlikely to go “Classic”.
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All MMO’s lose players eventually…
does that make them unsucessful and a failure?
No.
People are blinded by a numbers chart. 
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Cataclysm was a failure. It has nothing to do with the universal “all MMO’s lose players”.
Cataclysm drove people off.
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People keep thinking blizzard will release classic expansions based on the quality of the expansion. Blizzard will keep releasing classic expansions until one fails. If Wrath is a money maker Cata will be released. It’s a low cost gamble to release and see if it makes money.
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I don’t think they will release it because it’s not part of the original “Golden” era.
It was the expansion right after that.
If they are going to stay true to the “Classic” era (which is before the world was changed), then they won’t release Cataclysm based on just that alone.
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Says 1 person’s opinion. Tell that to the millions of people who played just fine without you.
Bye Felicia.