Exactly this, classic feels much better and far superior. With minor QoL improvements the retail game could be truly fun again. They’re slowly taking steps to make the game more like classic with bringing back weapon oils and sharpening stones along with armor patches.
I want the game to be fun and challenging at all levels instead of a boring turn your brain off and face roll gameplay that Diablo 3 and retail has given us. The world should feel dangerous because it is and not because you get a debuff and too many stacks of that debuff and you get one shot, it’s not fun and doesn’t feel threatening.
Being a god in a mmo is really dumb and like I said before a super boring trope. I made a post forever ago predicting that classic would do far better than retail and that we’d start seeing mechanics from the vanilla game be reintroduced to the live version.
Looks like I was right all along and the people trying to argue with me are just in denial.