This is a story all about how we can keep Vanilla fresh and always have WoW. With serious discussion and new ideas, let me tell you how I think we can play Classic for years.
Aight so. Rhyme over. I have seen a few threads asking how they intend to keep this going after the current proposed release schedule and I have two ideas borrowed heavily from other games, I think either of which could work, but would require new code down the line.
I hope to actually have a serious thread come from this and not just immediately have people kick every idea to the curb based on current thinking.
waaay back I messed around on a MuD called Eternal Darkness. This game allowed you to âremortâ your character, effectively trashing everything you had, every key, item, whatever, but it allowed you to select a single spell youâd keep. Obviously as this went on with each remort, you would become progressively more powerful at the start and have a little more at the end.
So⌠my first suggestion was the same. Purge all characters on the user account of gear, gold, whatever⌠( I understand there are ways to circumvent some of this)⌠and allow the player to keep a single additional skillpoint for the talent tree. Maybe cap the idea of a remort at 10 or something.
Players are still gated behind resistance gear that can be BoP, along with other in-game gating. Maybe have this only available after beating all raid bosses or somethingâŚonly then can you do it.
In the end, it would probably still take years to level a character to max, complete every raid and start over 10 or so times⌠and in the end you have something meaningful⌠10 extra skill points toward a build hardly anyone else will have, but everyone will want. Its not game breaking, but it certainly gives advantages in the long run.
basically the Torchlight version of the above concept, but instead of skillpoints, you add some effect to your weapon or some item of clothing. Again, over time, you basically create your own legendary that would literally take years to max out⌠but in the end you have something meaningful to show for it⌠hell, it could even be like the legion weapons⌠something that slightly changes your playstyle, but only ever 1 ability at a time. Still gated behind progression and gear etc.
Anyways⌠its not an idea for release, its an idea on how to refresh WoW in 3 or 4 years time when everyone is screaming for BC.
I also played on MUDs with the remort concept and liked it. I donât think most MMO players would care for it though. At any rate it isnât classic at all.
Pantheon seems to be picking up the concept which isnât surprising, since it is made by the same creator of Everquest Brad McQuaidâŚwhich drew heavily from MUDs. They do it via their âprogenyâ system which is a version of remorting/tiering.
Itâs not fish, it doesnât need to remain âfreshâ
Itâs a museum piece. Me personally, iâm playing it no matter what, all the arguements throughout all the Forum threads just made me realize i donât care what the state of the Realms are a few years down the road, if iâm bored iâll stop, if iâm occupied iâll keep playing
It doesnât matter what toon you post this on. Youâre not going to get much support for this. Historically our forum community has had a lot of opposition to any ideas that are anything but a static run forever server or you get the standard:âletâs get Classic released and see what happens firstâ. Which makes sense.
Personally I donât see the need for it. As long as the servers I roll stay active I have a plethora of alts planned. Even if they donât. Iâll reroll a popular server if thatâs what it takes. Thereâs a few years of content before this discussion even needs to take place and Iâd rather we got TBC and Wrath than try to âextendâ classic
These people wonât even hit 60 for 3-6 months, it will be years before the majority of them step foot in naxxrammas, yet theyre already worried about not having enough to do in the game.
Also itâs not like you cant play the entire game through again on a different class for an entirely new experience or anything.
When you have 10 alts of every class and have tanked, healed and dps kelthuzad letâs talk about what we can do to keep the game fresh.
Till then this conversation is unnecessary.
By the time anyone has âbeatenâ vanilla, I think everyone will be quite well and truly done with the game and happy just to log on for the love of the game and/or we will be also busy on tbc/wrath servers.
OMG I played on a MuD that had re-remorting. I totally forgot about that. Except the one I played on was called Kallisti MUD. This was like over 20 years ago lol.
Exactly! I realize blizzard is a business and had to sell an xpac but they really, really should have saved Naxx for an xpac. It did not fit with TBC but since we know WOTLK was already on the drawing board they could have waited. Though I would have preferred another year or two of vanilla WITH Naxx. I think my guild would have finished it by then.
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