Keeping Wrath servers alive/NO CATA

WoW Classic Mists of Pandaria Classic Discussion
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I have a few ideas that will help you keep classic alive.

  1. This is paramount. DO NOT move to cata, or past lvl 80. You will lose a major chunk of your loyal OG members.
  2. Make some achievements for creative 5 man dynamics. Probably the most amazing piece of Classic, was spell-cleave; 4 mages and a priest could learn to down what was otherwise thought only capable of the traditional Tank/Healer/Dpsx3 group. Introduce a new set of awards and heirloom trinkets/mounts that challenges AND rewards players for figuring out how to roll with only one class in the group or no tank two healers and three DPS. Or ALL healers. /shrug Who knows? Challenge people to learn to shift the dynamic of the 5-man and be CREATIVE. and do it with every dungeon.
  3. Force us to have to analyze our pulls and utilize marking skull/x/moon for kill order again…and do it in a randomized fashion. Maybe have maps randomize and move the NPC’s around. Even put a different surprise boss in every dungeon. Maybe defeating them leads you to the cow level, even though we all know it doesn’t exist.
  4. Use the map we already know and love, and build content off it. When I had to run by menethil harbor to get from Arathi to Kargath I was annoyed. But on my epic mount at level 42 I had never enjoyed and appreciated the huge statues and little windows carved into the mountains by the dwarves. MAKE NEW DUNGEONS. Re-write the story…but keep it classic. Especially Azeroth. I left when you destroyed my favorite world with Cata. Don’t do it again.
  5. Lastly, dish out the money to move to Unreal engine. Don’t change the feel. Only the clarity. WoW would prove to be the greatest game ever made. Ever. F the money. Take the gold.

Lok-tar, Ogar!

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I would try cata tbh

The only WoW i played before Classic was TBC.

Everyone on classic hyped up wrath so much, especially the arena, and they didn’t seem to be right in my book. maybe i’m a hipster snowflake or something. Anyway I checked out a vid of Cata underwater zone and it looked cool. Also goblins look cool.

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you gonna love cata rsham, its the wrath hpal

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cata is better than wotlk

you want to lose the majority of players? stop at wotlk. every sane person quits

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lol they’re not gonna put time and money into classic. And they’re definitely not gonna “build content” since that defeats the purpose. This isn’t retail. Sure, they made some changes, but that’s because people complained about some things. But they’re not gonna make huge environmental/zone changes like you’re asking. (Cata environmental/zone changes don’t count since that’s apart of the expansion)

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how do ppl think modern blizz could create better content than cata? insanity

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Ummm… speak for yourself. That sounds horrible.

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I liked cata, just needs to have LFR pulled out and I’m sweet.

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Agreed. Lets just make cata better!

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Not really just need to keep wrath era servers and just poll people on if they want cata, vanilla +, or tbc+.

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I’m so stoked for cata. Firelands, better PvP, challenging dungeons and most important to me. 10m sharing lockouts and dropping the same loot as 25.

Only thing that would be better is the introduction of flex raiding but I don’t see that happening

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awesome list.

i think rated bgs too instead of pillar humping arena

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Cata isn’t classic, it’s just retail with less content and a different level cap.

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wotlk and cata are much much more similar than vanilla. classic was terrible, but you can keep playing that if you want

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  1. I think people would be more than willing to try out Cataclysm Classic when it eventually comes and it is coming 100%, it simply makes sense for them to do it.
  1. No people that would make people exclude others from groups
  1. Sounds interesting but might be too hard to change, would require making tilesets which might be easy just cut up boss rooms I guess.
  1. Would be nice but I doubt they’ll make any actual new content for Classic.
  1. Graphics don’t make the game…
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i love how all of you keep trying to make “Classic +” happen, but every one of the suggestions made just makes the game worse in some way and would cause people to quit en-masse more than just releasing Cata would.

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they all have different visions of classic+. the one thing they share is they’re all bad

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But I assure you that anything you come up with will be just as terrible as any of the ideas you are rebuking.

The demographics have been polarized. When wrath ends, the sub count is going to undergo a shift in balance that will determine the future of classic for good.

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Cata was when the heart of the soul was ripped out. It was Ionized into a game that hemorrhaged players at an arming rate. Pre cata. the game felt made for players by players, post cata felt like game made by casuals that had no true interest and little love for the game.

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this isn’t true

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