It won’t work now because blizzard already lost most of those rpg players.
If they go back, they’d lose all the players that joined later or enjoy the action casino gameplay.
Isn’t the more or less true for modern xpacs as well? After a certain point in a patch’s lifecycle, most of what you can do at your chosen level has been done and the only thing to do is go up (if you’re not already where you want to be). There’s fluff like pets and transmog, but a lot of us have tapped most of that out already.
It strikes me as a flaw with WoW generally that there’s not much to do after advancing your character in whatever content. It’s not great at non-progression activities.
I don’t know. Resiliance was knew from years to bring problems too. But is okay for tbc, i guess
About the badges, is okay. I don’t have a problem with it.
No timagating, but a lot of content behind long quest that took weeks, but maybe now will be even faster, and people will be craving for the next phases as retail players crave about new content
Borrowed power… hmhm. Tier sets, and trinkets. But At least those will be last more than a single raid tier afaik, so it’s okay.
TBC will be okay, and good for the player that will enjoy it. I have no doubt of it.
How many MMORPGs, MOBAs, and Battle Royales was TBC competing with back then?
We have no idea how it will hold up today until the Classic verison is out.
If you were geared out in PvE gear and wanted to get into PvP you didn’t have a big problem doing it because you were closer to a glass cannon so while you would fold if pressured you were also able to put out more damage. That was the tradeoff and a fair one at that.
And you know what? You act like Resilience on PvP gear was a one way street, but it ate into the budget of the stat allocation so PvP players who wanted to get into PvE weren’t able to just run in there with their gear. Tanks had it the easiest since resilience impacted your defense rating, but it was still suboptimal.
You might as well just claim gear is a gatekeeping mechanic since low gear makes it impossible to to do anything and you have to spend time gearing up to get into the newest content and that’s just nonsense. It’s not any sort of gatekeeping, it’s how an RPG game works.
That is what Classic was a flash in the pan.
Didn’t badges start in wrath?
what would you expect from a lawyer
There was definitely a badge vendor sometime around the Zul Aman / Sunwell era in TBC. Can’t remember the specifics.
you could play anything and you went with a hideous dwarf and nostalgia, enough said boomer.
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I would argue the attunement timegated mount hyjal tbh.
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Still, we think we’ve taken some great steps forward with PvP gear in Mists of Pandaria. PvP Power has given us an extremely useful ‘knob’ to turn so we can adjust PvP gear to make sure that it’s better than its PvE equivalent. Meanwhile Resilience, while well-intentioned, has actually made the gear gap worse over time. We think that most players would be okay with going into PvP with lower damage if they were a bit more durable. We believe that a broader population of PvPers will offer a better experience for everyone, and also provide a better pool of players as we introduce refinements to how Battleground queuing works in the future. One of the best ways for us to increase the number of players that participate in PvP is to reduce the barrier to entry for those who play World of Warcraft regularly but don’t participate in PvP. Specifically, we’re referring to PvE players that spend a lot of time gearing up in PvE but feel that PvE gear is a severe liability in PvP (because, well, it is ).
Much longer post if you care to read.
Remember at the start EVERYONE needed the key to get into Kara… the it became one person needed it to let everyone in… then the lock was removed eventually
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/the-fastest-decline-in-wow-history/871187
now that’s a flash in the pan!
We all know retail has been in decline for over a decade now that doesn’t change the fact that Classic was a flash in the pan and TBC will be an even smaller flash in the pan as well.
Keep telling yourself that buddy.
I love telling the truth!
I mean he is not wrong.
They wouldn’t have made TBC classic if that was the case now would they?
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