Title. One of the main reasons I wanted to play Classic WoW was to be able to do content that was deleted from Retail. If we ever get Classic WotLK, it would be horrible to just delete that content again, even if there is Seasonal Classic servers out. So, if Classic WotLK ever drops, we should still be able to enter the original 40 man Naxxramas through a bronze dragonflight NPC that transports us back in time, like retail WoW has at Theramore Isle and the Undercity now. This will save a lot of people a lot of headaches potentially, mainly anyone who just can’t get Corrupted Ashbringer to drop, lol.
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Nah. Let tier 3 and those weapons be special to those who actually raised max in vanilla. Or those willing to form a group to go back during tbc at least.
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I’ve made the same suggestion in a few other topics along with preserving original Onyxia as well though as another option to go along with the 10/25 man versions of each raid. Level 60 Naxxramas/Onyxia either via a separate option or an NPC as you suggest would be fine and I assume wouldn’t take much if any effort as every version (10/25/original) would still exist rather than the new versions overwriting the level 60 versions as they seemingly did the first time around. I doubt Blizzard will do it but it’s nice to think about at least.
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But I want Corrupted Ashbringer on my DK that I can’t make yet.
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After reading through my post again my head began to hurt. Usually my posts are much more coherent but I suppose that was the best I could manage after having just woken up. Simply wanted to better explain or otherwise elaborate.
My suggestion would be to simply add original Naxxramas/Onyxia as a third option so that you would have Naxxramas/Onyxia 10/25/40 man versions. All three versions of Naxxramas would be accessible from its new home in Dragonblight (I believe it is) and Onyxia is of course still located in Dustwallow Marsh. The aforementioned versions would be selectable as they were in WotLK the first go around in the same manner as they were, very similar to how you select between normal and heroic versions of dungeons in TBC.
While I also don’t mind the idea of an NPC that would transport you to the original versions of the dungeon, I am inclined to believe that if Blizzard were to do this, they are more likely to go with something akin to my suggestion as there would be no need to create another NPC or otherwise add new dialogue.
I’m still not holding my breath that it will happen but with the pending acquisition of by MS, it seems logical to believe that MS will allocate more resources to WoW and they may be much more open to making some of these changes some of us are clamoring for.
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Would this 40 man version be a level 60? or a level 70? would players be level 60? or level 70? I don’t think they will redesign everything just to allow a few 70s go farm a level 60 raid for the 1 item they took out. If anything they should downscale players to 60, so you would need 40 people to make it actual content.
From what I remember they originally took out Naxx because the gear was to good. Looking at the sets Bonescythe is comparable to Deathmantle. That means my memory of gaming website articles from IGN, etc saying that it was removed due to the gear is probably true.
Level 60. It would be the level 60 version of Naxxramas that currently exists either in classic or TBC classic. It would drop the same exact loot. What the seemingly few of us that are asking for this are after is the ability to go back through original Naxxramas/Onyxia much in the same way we and others do MC/BWL/AQ etc. when we are level 80 decked out in WotLK gear. At least that it what I am after. Absolutely no changes. We simply want access to those versions of the raids that are otherwise overwritten when WotLK is launched and later in WotLK when they revamped Onyxia without having to “go play retail/SoM/blahlahblah.”
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That’s a huge change just for access to old content.
Honestly if they wanted to do it right. They would make scaling Raids from Vanilla to Retail. Wanna do AQ at 85, it’s a 40 man level 80 Raid that drops level 80 gear it would be amazing. You could have lvl60 /70 / 80 versions of T3 or something.
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There’s probably not enough interest for Blizzard to pour resources into creating this option. And when it comes to Classic, Blizzard typically errs on the side of cheap.
Sorry but nope.
Rather them work on QoL stuff or bugs, not keeping something up so you can goof around on your dk for. If you wasn’t there in Naxx I’m sorry but the time has passed.
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It literally has no impact on WotLK content whatsoever to allow this. Let people have their fun in the old raid.
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You make it sound as though they would have to allocate vast amounts of resources to build original Naxxramas/Onyxia from the ground up. They would merely have to preserve those versions in the game’s code and create access to it via one of the two methods that have been detailed as opposed to overwriting it once WotLK is launched. We’re not reinventing the wheel here folks.
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That’s not a huge change at all. The two raids, Naxxramas and Onyxia, will exist in both forms: level 80 Naxxramas/Onyxia that will exist in WotLKC and the level 60 versions that will still exist on TBCC and SoM servers. All they have to do is create access to all versions in WotLKC in whichever manner makes the most sense and requires the least amount of effort/resources. What you are suggesting in regards to scaled up versions of other classic raids and having multiple versions of tier gear is apparently what so many others have convinced themselves that we are asking for. We’re not. We simply want the level 60 versions of the aforementioned raids preserved and to create access to them. Again, not looking to reinvent the wheel here.
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The simple solution is to just find a guild that still raids on Classic era servers and make a character there to play with them.
We have bugs and broken stuff in game as is. They’re not going to put in the time to keep this old Naxx that doesn’t fit in with the new Lore.
Lore wise 40 man Naxx shouldn’t be in Wrath, Time wise 40 man Naxx shouldn’t be in game. There’s no transmog in Wrath so maybe in Cata you can get it.
I mean, Naxx is here until WOTLK. So get to work and run some hard-rezzed Naxx runs OP. may RNG be on your side.
People still do gdkps or rez runs for Naxx due to how bonkers the stats are for lv.60 gear is compared to normal lv.60 - 69 greens and blues.
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So having another mode somehow conflicts with lore? How does that even make sense? No one is suggesting that Naxxramas PHYSICALLY exist in two places, EPL and Dragonblight. Again, it would be a simple matter of switching the raid between 10-25-40 man versions. With your logic, how does it make sense lore-wise to have different versions of the same raid?
“Excuse me Mr. Kel’thuzad? Next time I come here, could you perhaps hit a little harder? Maybe have a little more health? And perhaps drop a sword that looks exactly like the one you dropped yesterday but is perhaps a little stronger? Yeah, thanks.”
Yeah. Makes a TON of sense lore-wise.
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CE servers are dead.
SoM is a thing too though.