Someone did mention the guild system would be changed to help smaller guilds and not promote big massive guilds that exist just to thrive off the perks.
It wasnât, by the end of Cata most guilds had switched to 10 man. By the end of MoP virtually everyone was running 10 mans.
You only need 1 loot to drop once or get the achievement once(thereâs also of course more people wanting loot so thatâs a non bonus), increased raid hassle from 25 mans vs 10 mans is every raid all the time.
It also bears mentioning that Wrath Classic WASNâT as popular as those same people would have you believe. Thereâs a reason why they introduced the token into Classic so early in the expansion cycle, and that was to justify the costs of running the servers.
Because it sucks and everybody who was playing the Classic servers quit in Naxx25 lmao. Itâs a snoozefest expansion for sure. Canât wait til all these people go back to privates so they can huff their own farts about how much fun it is to raid log 6 hours a week.
Not all that unexpected. Antagonism has been hardwired into the entire game from the start, and that inevitably spilled over onto the forums. The idea that opposing views could both walk away winners is an alien concept. Even to Blizzard it seems.
And yet vanilla classic turned into a wasteland as soon as TBC came out. The only thing that brought life back to it was HC.
But thatâs because of the novelty of the game mode not because people loved vanilla content itself. Itâs not like vanilla wasnât a raid log game at max level so thatâs a weird complaint.
That it was a big departure from vanilla - wrath design is a fact, the number of people who didnât like that is also a fact.
Trying to brush that off as it was just circumstances outside the game is fairly naive, but weâll see what changes blizzard is actually planning to make.
Yet Vanilla Era blew up the second WOTLKC came out. Nobody cares about your hyperbole or made up head canon that HC brought it back when the servers were booming in prepatch with little to no HC addon users(they were all still on turtle)
Vanilla had better leveling, better PvP, and a more vibrant virtual world environment that hasnât really been beaten for what itâs good at by any expansion since. Wrath is just overall a mid retail-lite that doesnât do what Classic does good or what retail does good, but is a weird hybrid of mediocrity. A transitional expansion at best.