Any predictions on when each phase will be released? Will it mirror the original release timeline? Originally, WoW was released November 23 of 2004. Diremaul was added March 7 of 05’ and the Pvp system was added April 8. BWL wasn’t added until July 12, almost 8 months after launch. Given what we know now and not being noobs, do you think they should hasten the release schedule slightly to avoid boredom? even slow it down possibly? I can envision a bunch of lvl 60s having nothing to do from april until july waiting for BWL to come out.
at the same time, I don’t want to be rushed and progress when Im not ready yet. What do you think the balance is?
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It wont fully mirror the Vanilla timeline since phases have content from different patches.
Though I’d like the raid tiers to be given time to shine to let players who want to play them while they’re the current top tier experience them as such.
Stuff like phase 2 I’d expect to be a little bit shorter in duration, being that it just has world raid bosses, Dire Maul, and adding the PvP ranks.
I’m not really going to be riding the waves of phase releases. But it would be nice to know when the expect things to happen. Hopefully we get a release date before we find out what phases releases when.
I’d imagine they’ll probably be as close to vanilla as Orcishly possible. But I could also see them speeding up content releases to keep subs up. Hopefully that doesn’t happen.
Talking average players here, not the turbo nerd guilds.
Figure about 4-6 weeks to get to level 60. Then another 4-6 weeks to get all keys, attunements and pre-raid BiS done. So that is 2-3 months just on leveling and getting all the new level 60 stuff knocked out.
There are no dailies in Classic, so players will need to get out and farm quite a bit to stack gold and any consumables they need.
Onyxia and Molten Core stay relevant for the life of the game.
Guilds are going to want at a minimum Onyxia Scale Cloaks for all tanks and melee for BWL. She drops Tier 2 helms and one of the best bags in the game, in addition to the quest to turn in her head for a BiS neck.
Molten core has a lot of good stuff guilds are going to want to farm. Thunderfury, Sulfuron Hammer, Benediction, Perdition’s Blade, Core Hound Tooth, Tier 2 legs, fire resist gear, etc.
I don’t think it will be an issue to have a little time to get all that stuff. Classic isn’t like other expansions where clear it a few times and have no reason to go back.
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I’m hoping that from the day Classic launches it will be 1.5/ 2 years when we get phase 6. if it comes to fast i think that will ruin the experience.
Agreed, I’d actually be ok with them taking longer, although as someone mentioned I could see phase 2 being a bit quicker because it’s just DM, World Bosses and PvP.
Roughly three months per phase.
It would be terrible if they were spread apart hugely.
But middle of the pact ones may come out sooner.
3 months would suck somewhat, especially for pvp ones, i’m only ok with nax being released a bit longer because aq patch was fun and its event would last a while.
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Pretty much would suck to have a drought, thats pretty much what killed it for me in bfa and legion.
There isn’t really any need to artificially extend the length of an already complete game, kinda wish blizzard didn’t listen to those about splitting it up and just put the complete game out.
Phase 2 should come out after the first month, some of those phases don’t have much to add so it shouldn’t be anywhere near 3 months for those ones.
They should be called mini phases.
Phase 4 and phase 2 should be mini phases.
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3 to 4 months between phase is my raw guess.
3-4 months between phases would be perfect.
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I hope there is 3-4 months between each phase. So about 6-8 months between release and BWL. I want to be able to explore the world and take my time (especially considering that I don’t have as much time as I did when I was a kid playing vanilla, what with a job, friends and family, schooling, etc.) I’m not going to be a hardcore player, but I’ll still probably log around 16-20 hours a week, and I want to experience all of the content without having to worry about constantly keeping up with BiS.
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yeah i’m not going to wait 8 months for arathi basin sorry blizzard.
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the pvp content needs to come sooner than later.
Phase 2 will be out in 2 weeks or game is over.
I really hope we don’t have to wait 6 months for honour/bg’s
Most people aren’t even level 60 yet. There is no need to rush out phase 2.
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Phase 2 will be out in 6 to 8 wks