I really like the Collections addition – it’s fun to have pets and mounts available to [low-level] alts without the tedium to farm/grind faction reputations or dungeons for vanity items.
“oh noes a level 22 Troll Mage riding a Talbuk in Hillsbrad omg muh immersion this is literally retail”
There is a negative chance that Cata Classic will be a one-for-one replica of the original. All we can hope for is that H+ has affixes that are actually tested properly this time (stunned on top of Glaciate) and certain bosses don’t wind up mathematically impossible in certain situations (lack of interrupts + not geared enough healer = Confessor wipefest).
Tol Borad is likely to undergo same change as Wintergrasp → and it needs to happen, otherwise we will not have Tol Borad PvP at all.
Retail Auction house is a fantastic addition. Newer version of it is a straight up improvement over the OG version of AH.
Protocol Dungeons are great for the most part as well, as they keep dungeons relevant, spice them up, as well as function as a fantastic catch-up mechanic for alts.
Collections/Retail Transmog UI is also a huge W for Classic. It’s simply a much better version. If you don’t remember, in OG transmog you had to keep all pieces of gear, completely destroying your void storage and banks.
And I hope Caaclysm gets even more hands on approach for tuning.
Have you seen current Retail balancing? It’s like THE BEST IT HAS EVER BEEN. And I hope to see same happen to Cataclysm. https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/35#dataset=95
Game will suck without changes.
You must have not played it. Elitism in Classic 2019/2020 was even higher than it is now.
People got kicked from raid teams for being wrong class/race combos. RMT was also brutal, with some high end items going for over 100,000 gold.
Not all changes are perfect, but most of them are an objective W for the game.
Blizzard been making changes to classic since its’ release.