IDC if Blizzard said it at Blizzcon 2023
Season of Mastery didn’t do anything to Master WoW by making it harder and when Blizzard hides Runes all over WoW, every player will just check WoW Head to find them and then congratulations You Discovered more of WoW!
Minimally, there should be a .API that’s specifically tied to the WoW player that’s procedurally generated, and changes Rune Location daily, hourly, if the Runes haven’t been Discovered, SoD will flop just like SoM and lose support and interest
It should just be Classic+ as a Drop Down Menu in the Battle.net Launcher with untapped locations for WoW Classic locations, with Chromie Time for Ancient and Modern WoW Classic Zones, chock full of easter egg spoofs, such as kill the Prince Pig and Hoggra Gnoll Queen in Elwynn Forest and the History behind a Dusty Old Tome and Morladim and Morbent Fel in Ravenhill Cemetary as backlog secret history
New Wings for Gnomeregan and Deadmines, Upside Down Sinners Crypt, Wetlands and Stormwind second Stockades dungeons
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It will take a while for wowhead to categorize the runes, especially considering they are not doing any open testing. New raids and new zones sound like what was being asked for as well. Even when all the runes are found, there will still be the new content to try, as well as how the runes may interact with each other.
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Its literally new content added to classic. How could that not be classic plus.
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You’re right, SoD isn’t Classic+, defintely not what we asked for… not exactly. But the elements are there and, quite frankly, that’s interesting. It’s effectively an early access beta for ideas/concepts/content that could eventually comprise what Classic+ could be.
I find that interesting and am looking forward to being a part of it. After all, Vanilla WoW is all about the journey.
To be clear, this is not what I wanted but I appreciate that Blizzard is doing it. To be completely honest, I did not expect that they would do anything here. They’ve earned a respecful nod of acknowledgement from me, sitting in my rocking chair in a darkened corner of the room.
Let’s see where things go from here.
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Is the room a cheap hotel room?
It’s the same thing with Dragon Flight Glyph coins, go peak on WoW Head to find them all
The new spells added to Season of Discovery are just ones straight out of Retail
Every Classic Town should have its own Reputation Vendor for furthering Easter Egg spoofs, such as a Murloc Mount in Redridge that equally sells a Yowler Tusk and Fish Daggers
Past and Future versions with Classic+ and Classic- in Chromie Time
SoD is fresh as heck yo, if it goes well then they’ll likely dedicate more resources to doing a full blown classic plus. They literally said this during the presentation? Cut content and raids, literally how is that not classic plus?
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Just consider this as like classic + beta. Actually looks pretty cool!. Just think we could have new raids and lvl 60 along with everything else! Seems pretty cool
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This is Microsoft buying out the biggest game developer which cost them pennies, what are resources to them?
SoD is their version of Classic +.
I’ve been saying it since before we even knew what SoM 2 would be.
It’s their testing grounds.
It’s a prototype for classic plus. Stop crying. Let them cook.
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It is classic + by definition. Whether it will be good or not is an entirely different question lol. Look, it has one thing going for it; the vast majority of the game is just classic WoW. So even if the + is horrible, I doubt they can completely destroy it. But it is blizzard so I’ll withhold my judgment.
I’m not really understanding what your complaint is. That discoveries will be easily found after looking at a guide? So what? Nobody wants to hunt for these things anyway. It’s just an annoying chore they put in to get in the way of finishing your build. The sooner you get through it the better. The discoveries are not the exciting part of the game. It’s testing new builds and new metas in raid/pvp.
You’re not going to have a game of discovery while websites like wowhead and things like data mining exist. Either accept that and move on, or ignore those websites and find the runes yourself. I plan to do the latter on my first character/s
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I’d argue there’s a difference between “additions” and “radical and systemic transformations”.
While sure, those radical and systemic changes are “additions”, but they’re additions in the same sense that replacing your car with a totally different car is an “addition”.
Ship of Theseus.
Yeah I wont be wasting my time blindly looking for things. They need to respect my time.
I mean it could be worse, they could have let Classic rot with nothing on the horizon. At least they are trying to figure something out to do with it that might give it some longevity while also testing new ideas.
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