as a classic wow fan who has given up on the game due to mager changes i must say my time in DF has been a real surprise for meny of the things i love about classic are here talent trees, world exploration, and professions its righthere and fresh and i now feel it’s a better game
and rather than trying to hopelessly restore classic to what it was i see it a much more worthy endeavor to get more of the things i love about classic into modern wow rather than try to make classic a modern game.
they went down that rode and its been god awful with classic
retail hasnt been good since heroics versions of instances came out. I know, I know… but TBC was fun. Yes, it was but once heroics were planned out the window went the ideas for new stuff.
I would’ve preferred new instances instead of heroic/mythic versions. Thats just plan lazy stuff right there.
I am glad that you love the new expansion, but WoW NEEDS a reboot not more expansions. The world is just plain bloated and so much of the content is just plain useless. Every new x-pac just made the older stuff obsolete, like completely not worth your time. So much content is just a grind that will be completely irrelevant in a year. So why do it?
I wouldn’t say they Dragonflight is “more Classic.” It’s certainly an upgrade over Shadowlands, but it still has vulpera, worgen and pandas.
The one thing that Retail has over Classic is game design. Retail caters to the metasheep and gives them something to do. Classic doesn’t, and the metasheep are destroying the game.
Worse than that in Retail. I could stomach the idea that my progress would be reset every 2 years in Classic back in the day. Retail actually resets you every patch now, unless they changed that.
That aside I do agree with you, I’ve had classic curbed for a while now and I’m having more fun with dragonflight already than I have with wrath. Not to say wrath is bad at all but I’ve seen it all before
This is legit one of my biggest issues with retail and a lot of other more modern mmos atm. Systems and such are an issue; however, I think this is the larger issue. Having to regear every slot every patch is just so disheartening. It is like starting a whole new expansion every few months.
DF is definitely moving in the right direction but it still pales in conparison to vanilla/BC. If retail can keep “Devolving” back into its classic roots and add the variety of FF then retail can be a truly great modern MMO. Even then I don’t think it would be better than vanilla. For Blizz to make something better than vanilla they would have to make Wow 2 and keep the lands and lvling process from becoming trivial as times goes on.
i hate retail and will never play it but yes, this is the way they should go. retail should be a series of admitting mistakes and coming back to be as close to vanilla as possible. ideally, retail will “devolve” so much that eventually one of the expansions will be equivalent to classic+.