Ruby Sanctum PTR Testing - December 15-21

[Unholyheals-faerlina]

@Arcanoses-ashkandi

This could be a decent solution, albeit not the one most people would prefer or like. But it would have serious ramifications overall. If people can transfer stuff to retail like this, what’s going to be the deal with stuff that’s permanently gone from retail like the TOGC tribute mounts, the black proto-drake or the black quiraji wartank? Are they going to let people a chance at retail to earn those items again?

I was thinking about them prob letting people transfer to retail too but then this comes to mind. The retail crew more or less made it clear that stuff like the aforementioned mounts are gone for good, so they’d need to go back at their word if they want this to work. There’s also the deal that Retail plays different from classic too, but its true they can’t have classic progression go on forever because of the mostly awful quality of post-MoP expansions.

While its true that the Microsoft purchase means the new expansions have to deliver in quality or people will leave in masse like it happened with Shadowlands(and Dragonflight, despite being at least decent and sometimes good, ended up paying for the sins of Shadowlands with atrocious sales), there’s no denying that retail is almost a completely different game from classic in many ways. Here’s a example: Classic tanks cannot survive for long without a healer in dungeon and raid content, while retail tanks are hard to kill and can easily live for a long time with zero healing whatsoever. There’s also the fact many specs are much slower in terms of pacing in classic compared to how fast-paced they play in retail.

Yeah. I see your point and it is def’ a slippery slope in terms of mixing the two player bases, esp with unobtainable mounts, pets, and achievements.

i’ve been paying attention to retail levels in conjunction with classic levels. with cata, the max level is only 85. while the current max in DF is 70. War Within will see an increase to 80 during the same time classic cata is happening. Pandaria sees an increase to 90, and under assumption, WoW Midnight will increase to 90 as well, making them the same level. If they end up doing what I originally speculated, the characters will be the same level wise going into the last of the 3 world saga expansions, having people transfer over to retail and then starting over classic after the last titan, and or during the second part of that expansion. I also believe they will do a level squish again in wow during this time. Again, this is just my own personal opinion.

I just really don’t think they’re gonna go to WOD. The only reason I could see it happening is because of Legion and how well it did for Blizzard and how good it was of an expansion. MOP was really the last expansion that had a lot of players and an influx of players that came in at the time (funny enough I actually hate MOP).

@Mandoin-whitemane

Retail would lose their minds with an influx of stuff coming in that is no longer obtainable - it would be awesome of it happened.

it would be pretty funny seeing the rage