Almost every spec in Wrath performs well. It’s probably the best expansion next to MoP in terms of balanced gameplay and spec access.
MMORPGs especially a Traditional one is intended to value social interaction and group creation. Placing a part of the game inside of a lobby where you only need to click a button to have a group, be teleported, and not even type a word isn’t good gameplay for an open world RPG.
It’s being “millennial fixed.” This is how the retail game was ruined. Adding stuff and removing other stuff and/or making it a PITA to get. It comes of being bored and lacking imagination.
They’re consolidating servers, improving the LFG tool, no cross-realm/teleporting thus keeping server communities in tact, and not adding a bad retail-esque feature to the game. Classic fans should be jumping for joy, what is wrong with you? Will you be crying when LFR isn’t added later on too? What is this weird 180 so many people have taken?
What Blizzard’s probably done here is identified a gameplay style that they don’t want to be associated with classic, and removed one of the primary mechanics that supports it. The vast majority of the world they crafted is dedicated to pre-endgame content; this game doesn’t have to end up like retail where leveling is but a means to an end.
That’s going to annoy some people, it’s going to disrupt a gameplay style that some people enjoy, but it will also breathe some life back into the world itself.
There was a “Yet” following the part of my post you quoted. Nothing has happened at this time however there is a date for an action that many did not expect or request. For those that have not seen the announcement it is here:
In my opinion this proposed action is more destructive to communities than anything Blizz has done or announced to this point. So let’s dispense with the cover story of community when speaking of RDF. Failing to include that feature is a monetary decision to sell their boosts or to avoid hiring someone competent to program it to work as it did in Wrath when introduced.
Wrong. It’s going to make more people sit around and get boosted because its a hassle to actually play the game.
People don’t go out of their way to do less efficient things. That’s the whole reason we have rampant boosting now. It’s literally more efficient to go farm ore for an hour or go buy gold for anyone with a job and then pay for a few levels than it is to mindlessly wait around in orgrimmar for the entire night waiting for a low level tank to show up only to have the healer need to leave and restart the process.
I am so tired of this “go play retail” stuff. I don’t like retail. I like WoTLK. I shouldn’t (and can’t) go play retail to get the experience that Wrath delivered.