In retrospect, some of the worst, skill-killing aspects of Classic such as spell batching and leeway are things on the Blizzard reference client, and were thus a part of Vanilla. But they were made for an age of bad PCs and bad internet connections, and they just make the game seem worse in this day and age.
And would it have really hurt anything to give, say, Ragnaros more health and damage so that he wasn’t an instant joke on the first pull against him? I don’t think so.
So I’m hoping Blizzard learns from the mistakes of Vanilla Classic when and if it makes TBC Classic. In particular, I hope the pvp racials aren’t vastly better for horde, thereby making it the only faction to choose for pvp, and causing bg queue times which will make the current horde AV queue times seem like a picnic.
#Nochanges is good to some extent, but not when it gets in the way of actual competitive gameplay. Hopefully some of the #nochanges fanatics will have learned from the lessons of Classic.
There will be more horde than alliance in tbc easy. It definitely will be worse than it is now. Horde have bis racials and paladins, no reason to roll alliance. I mean aoe silence vs a 1% hit to party and crappy hot its an easy choice.
Only change that is needed is faction queue for PvP servers (which many successful tbc private servers did with great results). On pve servers it won’t matter
I agree with your sentiment. But the reality is TBC was a much more complete game than classic ever was on launch and wouldn’t require as many changes as classic really needed.
Yes, which is why they need to change it. Just saying “herp derp, well that’s the way it was, we’ve got to repeat the mistake just because” isn’t a compelling reason to me.
One faction being vastly stronger than the other is a fundamental design flaw that WILL result in this board being filled with “1 hour horde bg queue times- I’m quitting” posts when and if Classic TBC releases with #nochanges.
We need to get rid of the lemming mentality- we don’t have to jump off a cliff just because a mistake was made in TBC.
I’m more interested in Classic+/WoW+. Leave Classic how it is going right now for the folks who enjoy it, but focus the development work on the + aspect.
I am hoping + would be where they see where things hurt the game, and work around/avoid them entirely (coughLFDcough), while being fine with fun fluff that adds no harm.
Classic+/WoW+ is a pipedream though, as Classic seems to already be struggling and I have a feeling the main branch of Activision is not happy Classic is doing so well, therefore ‘nudging’ it to perform poorly.
Blizzard isn’t going to run WoW in two different directions to appease a small percentage of people that, let’s face it, will end up hating some portion of whatever the “+” is and quit anyway.