Because it can take a long time just to get the bindings. It’s useful to be able to make progress before you can finish.
Sad about skeletons 
Can’t just randomly generate them in a nearby but different position after the first one?
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Actually the skeleton debate was highly praised because it was one of the things EVERYONE in the thread agreed needed to be returned, and it wasn’t just a few people. That thread went on forever.
Skeletons, blood gush on crits / certain abilities, and one other that escapes me, were top list of things universally agreed upon to be returned.
It’s obviously something that reminds people of Vanilla. I especially relate to the “what happened here?” sinking stomach feeling when you come up to the inn in Southshore, or the entrance to Tarren Mill and its a basic graveyard.
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This was reported a lot of times in Closed Beta. Yikes they didn’t get time to look at it.
So what is the current skeleton system? CAn you leave 3 corpses? 5? Can a system be put into place to delete some skeletons if they are more than say 10 in one area from multiple players?
Doesn’t answer why the gameplay has changed. A lot of other mechanics aren’t working as they were even though they were quirky, like double charges, double sheep, bunny hopping roots/snares/stuns, as well as leeway feeling off. I wonder if someone at Blizzard will continue to try to make the game play like it actually played in Vanilla.
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From my understanding there will only be one skeleton allowed per player.
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Also, the vagueness on town guard spawns give me pause. I never got to be part of a city raid and I don’t want an impenetrable wave of guards to make such things impossible. Please keep it like vanilla.
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YES PLEASE!! Give us more PVE realms… I do NOT want to be forced to PVP because Blizzard won’t address PVE realms being full!
Not staggering the MC loot tables seems like a mistake to me. I feel like it’s unnecessary and will mean that guilds are significantly more geared for bwl.
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That is absolutely not true and a huge exaggeration. Many people agree with Blizzard’s decision on skeletons.
No one needs a thunderfury. It’s not a requirement for anything! Naxxramas can be cleared with no player in the raid using one. Bindings available from the start is not right.
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Very disappointing they ignored the questions most important to many of us:
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Why are we getting PvP gear of equivalent gear quality to AQ40(P5) which is obtainable after ~14 weeks of PvP grinding in phase 2. This means roughly when BWL drops, and you are getting your first piece, still in mostly blues, people will be in full sets of gear 2 phases ahead of you. This gear was updated in patch 1.11 to still be worth the effort in a game that had Naxx gear available.
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What steps are being taken to address the post-vanilla behavior of devilsaur/black lotus mafias. The player mindset has changed a lot over the years and if you stand by #nochanges in the face of this it will create many issues. Something as simple as respawn randomizing and extra spawn points are all that’s needed, and I don’t see how these would be a detriment to the game.
I was pretty disgusted to see layering questions and coding questions repeatedly getting answered while these were ignored.
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It actually isn’t. If anything, your retort is a massive exaggeration. I’ve not seen one thread prior to this announcement that would defend retail use of skeletons in the game.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/skeletons-are-not-piling-up/180883
Its been a well known thing on these boards for months now that people want the old way back.
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Ergo XX = 1
Any version of Classic with layering is a version I won’t be subscribing for. I know there are promises for Phase 2 and all, but we were supposed to get heritage armor for Goblins and Worgens in 8.2.5 and now that’s not happening, so I don’t believe Blizzard anymore.
If you keep your promises for Phase 2 and completely eliminate sharding permanently for Classic, I’ll consider giving it a try. Until then, though, it’s just worthless game developer promises. And without a static community, gameplay alone is not enough to make Classic a compelling purchase.
Because this is what high-level Classic gameplay is, and let’s be real, it’s super boring:
Thank you for all of this information. In addition, I was hoping there would be at least one question about World PvP. So we could get a gauge on Blizzard’s stance concerning World PvP. I really wanted to see how blizzard is going to deal with people complaining about being killed on PvP servers. When phase 2 rolls out, I really think it’s is going to be absolute carnage on PvP servers, and I hope that the players who select a PvP server are ready for this. And more importantly I am hoping that Blizzard’s stance is to let players play… I hope there is not a bunch of right click reporting for “harassment”, that is not harassment but just PvP. I hope that there will be some freedom for people on PvP servers to just PvP, and not have too much of a ‘care bear’ atmosphere. I agree that it really sucks to be killed several times by the same person, or camped. But that is part of life on a PvP server. And I just hope this behavior is allowed even if some people find it frustrating at times.
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I’m sure with less than a week to go the devs are crazy busy, so thank you for not only making this a reality, but also to take the time to answer the community’s questions!
I’m a bit disappointed by the skeletons, that would be awesome. We can’t give in to the gold sellers and haters! Please reconsider 
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Thanks so much for all your hard work on this. We are almost there!!
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No piles of skeletons? This is outrageous, BOYCOTTING classic.
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Really appreciate the AMA, but it seems you lost a big opportunity.
You can see the population #'s and should have known that Mankrik was going to hit ‘full’; why didn’t you use the AMA to announce a new PVE server? It would have gone a long way towards showing the community you’re doing something about the queues you mentioned at least a dozen times during the AMA.
If you’re going to keep brow-beating us about switching servers we need to have that option. What’s going on guys?
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was there any answers about murky being unlockable
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As do many many other players.