But if those same 6 year olds were playing back when the game came out, they would be in their 20’s now, grown, maybe a little more mature and probably with more knowledge and skill to do things better
I do know for a fact the mace stun was over hauled fairly quickly into TBC. I leveled blacksmithing just for that 1 handed hammer at the start. Speced into combat for mace stun, the talent that made auto attacks daze also. God pvp was hilarious. I felt like a squisher version of a warrior with the TUF and mace stun spec. Was really fun for the entire week I got to murder AV with it.
This this this. As someone who loved BRD and ran it all the time in classic, and even later, for transmogs, Ironfoe is rare as fudge sticks where as you will get 5-10 hands of justice just trying to find Ironfoe. Ironfoe is also too rngy, it was never very good except on private servers. You will most likely be working on your raid tier 1 set bonuses before getting Ironfoe to drop.
If that is your only reason for being around - this is going to be a short trip for you. Classic is not new, what was there - is there. The data from years ago is still valid data for now. You aren’t going to have anything fresh to theorycraft about.
Exactly this. Not sure if you played when vanilla first rolled through, but rare drops were super-rare, like world drop purples or crusader enchant from spellbinders. You could grind 2000 mobs and never get it.
The Meta in Classic will be different than Vanilla. Why? It’s simple back then everyone was bad and also didn’t have the information to actually be good. The best builds and how to use items came after Vanilla was over. It came long down the road into TBC/WotLK and private servers. All the fun itemization’s and theorycrafting.
The experience in Classic will be fresh and different than Vanilla for the reason I listed above. We are smarter, have endless resources of information and can look at things that were never done in Vanilla but can now do them in Classic. It’s like going back in time and knowing everything. It’s going to be fun.
There are going to be variation of builds and new builds that were never seen in Vanilla. It’s going to be a different game because we get to go back in time.