Quote from an interview with Ion:
xDlate : Do you plan to take some ideas from Classic development and apply them to live servers?
Ion Hazzikostas : One example that I can think of–let’s take a look at how our code evolved. We removed the ability called “Eye of the Beast” from hunters and, as a result of several code changes, it was actually impossible to us to reinstate it in modern WoW-- it would be a tremendous amount of work. Well, to make Classic happen, we had to do most of that work. There are still some bugs to fix, but we actually think in the modern game, thanks to the work we’ve done to make “Eyes of the Beast” work again, there’s no reason we can’t give hunters that ability back in Battle for Azeroth, and that’s like a small example of something.
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I wish I knew that there was a bug keeping it from coming back.
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I feel like there are tons of examples, behind the scenes, where things get removed from the game because of extremely difficult programming hurdles.
The game being so old and full of code at this point, seemingly minor changes probably have tons of undesired effects. There are probably a lot of cases where the marketing team is forced to spin some change as being better for the game in some way, when in reality its just because the WoW codebase is a real mess at this point.
The problem with that logic is…being open about these things has a more forgiving effect in most scenarios. Like id totally forgive blizz for eyes of the beast being gone due to technical difficulties rather than blizz removing it due to stupidity…so even hearing it was removed for those reasons makes me go oh ok. Hey crap happens sorry it didnt work out but its understandable. But when blizz doesnt take the time to tell u the real problem and open a line of communication they just make themselves look out of touch. Not that eyes of the beast is much usable in pvp really its kinda weak and risky. But its the mind set, of open communication not faulsifying and fake it till they make it
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Be intresting to bring it back as a glyph, like fetch, that is a learned pet ability.