You know it.
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Reality begs to differ.
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No changes was a meme. Some people actually wanted known bugs etc
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I wanted to start with 1.1.0. Otherwise, no changes wasn’t just a meme, it was a myth.
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Truth.
I’ve always been against the “purist”, “no change” crowd for that reason… Things like the chronobon where a good change, imo.
That being said, for as much as “slippery slope” is considered a logical fallacy, it has also kind of proved itself out to be a reality with what we’re dealing with now. The “purists” perhaps went too far, but there should have been an extremely disciplined effort to keep things accurate within the “spirit of the game”. It’s clear that the design of SoD is not unlike a ravenous beast of changes, that has since slipped it’s shackles and started to run wild.
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Correct.
It was a pipe dream for people who didn’t understand why Blizz created Classic Vanilla servers.
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That’s because SoD isn’t Classic.
It’s Classic+.
It is just SoD, just like tbc and wotlk the ‘classic’ is only there for branding purposes.
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Which the Blizzard devs have announced is a testbed for Classic+.
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I guess sometimes you gotta figure out what not to do 
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I guess sometimes you just have to accept reality.
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Chronoboons were understandable, and explicitly requested by the community prior to their implementation.
But no one asked for retail abilities in classic. SoD is absolutely a ravenous beast that has slipped its shackles and started to run wild.
Wherever it ends up is not going to be pretty.
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Definitely a meme, boomer.
Relax, Era isn’t going anywhere.
I did.
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I imagine many classic era players would be fine with small reasonable changes such as better class balance. It was my impression that #NoChanges was more about not trusting blizzard to make reasonable changes and that opening the door to even small changes would quickly go off the rails. Looking at SoM and SoD it appears their fears were justified.
But this is also why I love the idea of seasons. It lets blizzard try changes knowing if it fails that’s fine it was temporary anyway.
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If we say that we want changes, or even posit the notion that changes are ‘okay’, then we get retail.
If we say #NoChanges, then we still steadily creep toward being homogenized into retail, but it just happens a little slower.
It’s just about slowing the disease at this point.
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I personally had drastically more fun with Classic before the #somechanges stuff started.
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I beg to differ. We’ve been asking for some of these specs since vanilla. Especially a tanking warlock.
It would have been more understandable to just clear world buffs upon entering raids. They noticed the toxic min max crowd rapidly corrupting the spirit of what classic should have been, hyper fixated on the fact that they were logging out as a consequence of that toxicity, and just enabled the whole mess.
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