I love classic WoW play style…i love everything about it…BUT why cant Classic WoW get its Graphic update?? i want retail Graphics…with the better character creation and everything classic Updated to retail Graphics…Classic WoW is way F***ing better than 2024 WoW…just like D1/D2 is way better than D3/D4.WoW today is for the brain dead…
I want to see people LFG again,I want the need of mages Portals/Food…i want to be in a group that has to wait for somone traveling to the dungeon…or wanting a warlock so we can summon that somone to the dungeon or looking for somone for help with a quest because its a elite quest…i loved helping people with those i’d stop the quest i was on to help out or try and if i couldnt i’d be helping to find somone or people that could help us lol… in classic all those little things were great and making in game buddies were awesome and thats not somthing Todays WoW has…Its soulless/braindead garbage.
People also ask for the older graphics. I get your frustration (retail tauren hairstyles cute as heck) but its best to preserve the intended graphics since people want different styles.
In fact, I was watching an EU mage do some PvP, and he said he can’t play retail due to the new graphics which make things ‘feel’ unresponsive to him with the more flowy and timed animations.
If they add retail graphics it will probably be ugly and clunky whereas vanilla is already beautiful.
Also Era is already full of bloat from seasonal, imagine how much bigger the dl would be if they tried to modernize the graphics, and all the bugs that would be introduced.
Because then it would no longer look like Classic.
I love the old looks and think that the modern snubnosed humans look vapid and unintelligent. I would not like to play with these settings. In short a big NO from me.
yea i guess so…whatever they touch nowdays would just F*** everything up…but making the graphics up’d would draw alot more people back to the Classic ways…my GF loves the nowdays graphics to WoW but the gameplay now days…its just sad… lol i cant play it
No thanks, the look is part of the charm and nostalgia.
You want updated graphics play retail.
Interestingly, Era currently does have updated graphics compared to Vanilla. I’m not sure if it’s still there, but when it launched in 2019 there was an option where you could make the visuals how they were in 2004 
Graphics is not very important i agree…the CHARM is the Gameplay…the way the game brings people together…but having a retail Graphics bump button for players that want more shiny things like kinda what they did to D2 would bring more people in…people that dont want the upgrade wouldnt have to,just run in on low settings. somthing like that or just have servers for it but they would still be able to play together.
Because Vanilla Graphics > Retail graphics.
There is another reason, and I do actually have some experience on this one “tinkering” with some “TEST” servers in the past..
You can easily update the graphics with the WoD graphics pack, however there are a long list of problems. The issue is that you need to fix all the character animations; pre-wod animations are based on Race and gender of your character be that male or female. This is just how it was done in the past versions.
Post WoD the animations are different, instead its class based, so example all mages cast fireball the same way, or all rogues eviscerate animation is the same.
Because of this, in order to make it all work you need to go through the long and honestly painful process of making all new animations for the characters since they call for the animations differently; otherwise none of it really works / looks correct.
Additionally, many of the “Vanilla” armor items do not fit the “WoD” character models since they’re both different in size and posture; there is a ton of clipping. There are “Test servers” who have pulled it off but its a lot of work, and someone has gotta either volunteer to do that work for free or blizz has to pay someone to do that work. Either way it aint cheap.
Has she tried vanilla?
Sure the graphics are old school, but the actual colors, sceneries, and general vibes are actually really aesthetically pleasing.
Imo this is far more important than anything else.
She hasnt tried it yet,but iam going to get her 2…iam so tired of playing these fake MMORPGs lol their more like MMOsinglePlayerRPG.
Perhaps you should get her to try it, Era is strangely addictive. I cant help buy make new characters and play them. Right now I am leveling a new mage because I miss my old mage that went off to Progression or my original mage that’s dead on Retail.
No other game hits quite like Era man, have her give it a shot, tho if you want to enjoy her lol maybe not.
I agree. The current graphics are perfect. The look of the game fits the feel of the game.
I think the human starting area is really good.
Doing 1 to 10 on basically any class with little guidance is a great introduction to wow.
This was one of the many things that was discussed by the community at length after they announced Classic before its release in 2019.
I’ll say what I believe I said then. If they can give us a graphical toggle that switches between Era and retail graphics flawlessly and without any compromise to vanilla graphics, sure. If they can’t do that then it’s a hard no. If I’m not mistaken there are some technical challenges which make this far less feasible than you might initially think which is why we don’t have a toggle.
Yeah! Do you have a link? I don’t know what it is, but I’ve been trying to explain this. Retail feels so much worse to me. I have called it “less tactile,” but I’m not sure properly captures it.
It’s as though the Retail client is missing a feeling of feedback that may just be visual, or maybe part of the game engine. I’m not sure, but to me at least, it feels considerably worse.
I do like the water details, but otherwise, I prefer Classic graphical style and rendering overall.
It was from a youtube stream about a week ago, so its a lot to search through without knowing the exact day/time, but I can always recommend Greatwizard.
I was watching some shuffle games and some arenas the other day and my gripe is how certain spell effects just look completely ridiculous.
Even low impaxt spells have this insane graphical accent for no reason. Let alone the 10 thousand debuffs that pop up per player you hit once
I’d enjoy watching more of these games if it wasn’t like watching the 4th of July fireworks
Perfect time to bring back the toggle as an option. Main reason it didn’t work when they first tried way back when was due to older models clipping in newer armor pieces where in this case it won’t cause a problem. Set classic graphics to standard and have updated graphics be the toggle on/off option imo.
I think an overly simple explanation is that their modern stack probably makes it somewhat easier to make new, complex, spells - as our machines have no problem calculating tons of rays and shading and such live. Thus there is pressure to make cooler and bigger stuff - that in turn takes up a ton of processing and makes the game clunky.
Also the entire game design systems and engines become focused on those aspects instead of the basics - like combat responsiveness. And thus the systems themselves become really complex and hard to deal with for the developers and nobody can really fix a ‘unresponsive combat system’ since it become due to so many intertwined factors.
Whereas vanilla had to be kept really simple at the core for performance reasons of 20 years ago. Thus the game is pretty optimized code with textures that are mostly pre-painted and such. This let them put a ton of energy into making the combat ultra responsive because that was the core novel feature of the time.
It is basically the SR-71 of MMOs.