I think this is a great time to talk about MoP Classic. Many players have different expectations and personally I think a couple changes could make it better.
-1. The patch release schedule
The first patch of MoP is a bit more complicated release than the usual. Raids in it were made so you’d want to beat them in order and the gear scaled higher. I think it would make sense to have around the same schedule or at least to delay Heart of Fear and Terrace of endless spring in a future patch around a month after Mogushan Vault.
There is also the issue of item upgrades which weren’t present at the start of MoP but would act as a big nerf if we can get them early. I think it would make sense to delay this later after the release of all raids of the first patch.
-2. The legendary cloaks, gems, sockets and reputation
Doing all chapters of the Wrathion questline on all your alts can be a lot of work for people that like to play many alts. One of the worse part in my opinion is farming the reputation by killing mobs in the world. It would be great if that reputation could be earned some other way (could be dungeons like the other reputations) as I expect zones to be very competed.
Talking about alts I think one of the best solution to make the Wrathion questline more alt friendly would be to make it work the same way as some enchantments have been made in Wotlk and now Cataclysm. The sons of Hodir shoulder enchants, the Therazane shoulder enchants and all the other reputations head enchant were made bind on account which reduced the need to grind even more reputation. It would be great to only have to do the Wrathion questline once and be able to send the cloaks, gems or sockets to our alt.
-3. Taking some time to talk about LFR
LFR has been one of the most asked feature repeatedly and I think it’s core for MoP to make it work. If I remember well determination stacks were only added later so those should be added from the start if we want a better LFR experience. There’s also the question of queue times which could be problematic for people that want to do LFR and I think LFR should be more aggressive with satchels with maybe even better gold rewards to keep queues not too long.
-4. Heroic+ or inferno/twilight dungeons and others.
I think this is one of the more divisive subject but I think those have worked well with helping people to gear up either to main or alt. Personally I’ve liked the twilight dungeons affix a lot more than simply what inferno dungeons did by scaling the dungeons way higher.
With the addition of LFR gear at the end of Cataclysm I think we’ve seen something that could be even better. As this means players can have dungeons be a bit more difficult while being able to not need to do LFR to complete their tier sets or etc. I think it would be great to continue with this concept while keeping it easy enough for random pug groups. I also think it would be a mistake to want to use challenge mode dungeons for that purpose as a timer is something a lot of people seems to be averse to.
-5. Min/maxing issues in MoP
An issue that a lot of people keep talking about are the amount of prepull shenanigans that players can do to give them an edge by the end of Cataclysm. I think it would be good to completely remove any non-raid buffs from being able to be kept when pulling a raid boss like it was added later on and/or to add dynamic scaling which would make prepull buffs way less powerful. This would make pull timers less of hassle and wouldn’t result with a couple people in your raid wearing old expansion armor because some pulled before the timer ended. I think this kind of stuff has made people wary of playing certain classes or specs and would be a net benefit for many.
Another issue which we’ve seen happen during MoP is the troll racial beast slaying being way powerful on many raid bosses because they were beast. With them also having one of the better dps racial being berserking I think it would be fair for beast slaying to either only work on non-elites beast or to be reduced to 1% to keep it less powerful.
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There’s also some concerns about warlocks being a bit too oppressive either with their pet tankiness or damage.
-6. Leveling Battle pets
One thing I know some people will want to do in MoP is to use the battle pet system but many forget how rough it was to level your first pets. I think it would make sense to make battle pet leveling way faster as to not take weeks simply to get your first roster of 3 pets up to level 25.
-7. Realms and more specifically pvp realms
Pvp realms are by now mostly either Horde or Alliance which means that world pvp is dead. Recently there was also a change to the LFG system which was turned off which meant people had a harder time to find other people to pvp cross realm. I think options should be considered and maybe voted on so people can world pvp in MoP if they want to moreover considering MoP has content dedicated to it in Krasarang wilds, Isle of Thunder and Timeless isle. This could be done with free transfers or merges possibly on a realm that would try to balance Horde and Alliance characters. Realms in general should be cleaned a bit as there is a decent amount of dead realms.
-8. Mop rare mounts
Not really the biggest issue but Mist of Pandaria has a lot of rare mounts which drops at an absurd drop rate and was buffed later on. I think it would make sense to keep them rare but to make them more reasonable. I think a 1% minimum drop rate could accomplish this.
-9. Lack of flying for alts while leveling in mop (newly added)
Unlike previous expansions you need to be max level in mop to learn flying, unless you acquire a Grimoire of the Four Winds from the Black market. I think there could be a small change made so you can buy the book directly from a vendor. I think it could be an interesting change to make leveling faster for alts when you’ve done it once while not really adding bonus exp.
Those were my ideas and concerns so far about MoP classic and I hope they can connect with other people as I know a lot of people have different opinions about classic. Thank you for taking the time to read this long post and feel free to share what are your ideas even if you’re a #nochanges player.
There’s also a thread I made in the cataclysm forum section about this while more of a draft. Link here: Making some changes to MoP