Classic is not Vanilla. Classic is not Pservers. It’s a new version of an old game. I’d argue that we don’t truly have a 1.12 version, it is more like a 1.13.
I can see both sides of the argument. On one hand:
The players are better, the items are better, the talents are better but the raids are still the same…
There is something wrong with that. Bosses are skipping entire phases and mechanics which is not fun.
On the other side:
The current difficulty of the content has allowed for players more freedom to do what they choose. We are seeing lot’s of what used to be considered “meme specs” succeeding in dungeons and raids. Tuning would force these classes back into their one viable spec.
Progressive itemization, and not doing it was blizzards biggest mistake, was part of why pservers had more of a challenge, all the gear we get is fully optimized take for instance omnicast boots BiS for mages, at this state in pserver progression would be green and not fully optimized stats. Because of this there won’t be challenging raids til AQ 40 and Naxx
Oh for sure. It cannot be the same because all Blizzard has is the info on how their old client/server infrastructure used to work. As per them, they no longer has the source code for either the original client or server components, so they couldn’t build over that. They had to rewrite these using the current infrastructure as the framework, and make it work as closely as it used to. Not an easy task if you ask me.
Alright, I don’t mean to on your BfA hate parade but I’m going to give you a little info that may shock you if you can sift through your bias.
Sep 28, 2019 8.2.5 747,772
That’s the download number off of curse for DBM. Not everyone downloads it off curse, not everyone updates it every time there’s an update and not everyone uses DBM. I also don’t know where China gets their addons.
Every single addon that I can find with a Classic version and a BfA version has roughly the same number of recent downloads, or is slightly in favor of BfA.
There’s probably roughly the same number of people playing BfA and Classic. Although the amount of time people spend in Classic is likely a lot higher.
Want a challenge? bring 56’s and up to your full run and dont use consumables. Challenge is there if you seek it but not necessarily the funnest way to play the game.
on your BfA hate parade but I’m going to give you a little info that may shock you if you can sift through your bias.