I'm concerned about lag during large-scale world PvP

[Furidar-emerald-dream]

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[Chawana-altar-of-storms (Chawana)]

I would not worry a lot about that because Modern WoW calculates a lot more data than Classic.

This is a fundamental problem of Modern WoW class design where everything has some sort of AE mechanic, be that by means of a buff, or outgoing damage or a DoT, debuff of some sort or whatever.

As a result the actions performed per character (not the player) is drastically higher per minute than a like type Classic WoW character.

Why is this so? Because in Classic WoW your spells and abilities typically do 1 or maybe 2 things…

Now couple that 1 or maybe 2 things with the fact that you’re also executing abilities at a slower pace due to how resource mechanics work in Classic; this I hope explains why Modern WoW has a lot of problems regarding large scale PVP.

Large scale PVP should actually work better on the Modern server structure than it did in actual Vanilla.

My ONLY area of concern is with how responsive the servers will be regarding execution of abilities. This is something where the modern WoW experience while higher in resolution feels rubbery and less crisp. This is kinda strange problem given that Vanilla had a 400ms batch cycle and Modern WoW has a much tighter multi cycle rate.

So far this seems to be the consensus, and I hope it’s right.

Get a better computer.

It wasn’t too bad at the time and I was still on dialup to boot. The game will be running the modern client but it’ll be rendering the same stuff it was rendering in 2005.

Things might get crazy and you’ll lag sometimes, but it shouldn’t be anything you can’t handle.

So long as it’s not artificially making it look like 2005 and still processing retail things, I’m optimistic.