The Future of World Buffs in Classic Era

[Purgewho-earthfury]

Boo hoo world buffs

[Brochettar-area-52]

I mean they quite literally ruined the entire game

[Foodstorage-azuresong]

A joke of a fix that’s intended to replace banning griefers who aren’t playing the game as intended, who aren’t actually PvPing, just intentionally trying to ruin the game play experience of other players. They have no intention of engaging in PvP, they are sitting in ghost form, targeting someone who is alive with buffs, so they can res and hit dispel a few times and die. Another failed attempt to keep the Trolls and their subs coming in, and put the onus on the other players so they can “save” their buffs.

[Rìse-kirtonos]

IM SO HAPPY WOrld Buffs aren’t leaving YES THIS IS S
O AWESOME and less than a month ago people were saying wb would not be in TBC. Look who has egg on their faces now Eat your heart out.

[Beautia-azuresong]

PLEASE make this an expensive one time use item. It can get rid of lots of gold and help the Classic economy.

[Barbearian-heartseeker]

@Beautia-azuresong

It can get rid of lots of gold and help the Classic economy.

If you’re concerned about too much gold in the economy, you can always give all yours to a level one alt and then delete the alt.

You know, be the change you want to see.

[Foodstorage-azuresong]

actually I think this is only for classic … not TBC classic

[Lunboks-fairbanks]

Amazing. Absolutely amazing. You cant even use “no changes” as an excuse either for waiting this long. Hunter buff anyone (good change btw)?
The single biggest thing ruining the classic experience for people was world buffs (outside of the botting issue, which most of us have given up on), and it took you until after naxx to do a fix? You knew this was an issue for so long, but you waited till now to address it. Why? Why not six months ago? why not a year ago when people were blowing through BWL in less than a day? You had to know that giving players 1.12 balance would create longevity issues. Then you stack world buffs on top and do nothing? why?

I love the change, but holy hell is this the worst timing i have ever seen.

[Alonsus-arthas]

So will this Happen Before we chose to go forward into a Burning Crusade Realm or After? And when you say Classic Era Server does that mean if you are on a Realm moving forward to Burning Crusade Classic is the Chronoboon Displacer going to be available ?

[Qdragon-herod]

classic is over, make the world buffs permanent and persist through death, nobody cares anymore. or dont. nobody cares

[Rìse-kirtonos]

Ive bought it on the beta already its in TBC

[Grayner-draka]

Just leave the game alone please. You think you need this change but you don’t.

[Grayner-draka]

If you fix every problem, there won’t be a game to play.

[Aydenn-silver-hand]

I wish this could be released on live servers now. WB griefing is really obnoxious on PvP servers.

Are you also addressing the manual head reset issues? If you’re going to go full on with storing WBs, might as well also remove the need to collude across factions.

[Zealous-arcanite-reaper]

@Xploit-arugal

Can you please also make Dire Maul Tribute buffs and Felwood Songflower buffs Physical categories like all the other world buffs? a.k.a non-dispellable.

This whole ‘buffs in a box’ and now this?

Some real carebear stuff going on around here.

Purge those buffs. Play on PvE if people dont like it.

[Beautia-azuresong]

The new item will take away purging. They want to eliminate PvP on PvP servers…and Blizzard is caving in to their crying.

[Zealous-arcanite-reaper]

Yeah, just gross.

[Brokenwind-malganis (Brokenwind)]

@Pazorax-1880

Hey everybody!

We know that there’s a lot of excitement for Burning Crusade Classic, but we haven’t forgotten about the Classic Era servers. One of the defining features of raiding in Classic has certainly been the prevalence of world buff stacking, and while there are some interesting social effects – coordinating turn-ins, leveling alts, world PvP at buff locations, there’s also an obvious negative element – once you’re buffed, you’re incentivized to log off and stop playing to preserve your buffs. If you want to log off to go make dinner or put your kids to bed, that’s completely fine and the timing works in your favor. But if you still want to repair your gear, shop for consumables, or run a dungeon with your friends, then it’s not great to be losing precious minutes on your buffs, or worse, risk dying and losing them entirely. We’ve been wanting to do something about that side-effect, without completely abandoning our philosophy for WoW Classic, so we’re going to try something new in Patch 1.13.7: The Chronoboon Displacer.

What is it?

The Chronoboon Displacer is an item you buy which takes a snapshot of your world buffs, such as Rallying Cry of Dragonslayer, Songflower, etc. and saves them for use at a later time. Of course we don’t want to change things too radically, so it comes with some significant restrictions: While you are under the effects of the Chronoboon Displacer, you can’t benefit from any of the world buffs that it’s holding for you. That keeps you from getting a second set of buffs, and then still feeling like you need to log off. Also, when you release the buffs from the Chronoboon Displacer, it puts the item on a 1 hour cooldown so that you can’t toggle your buffs on for bosses and off for the rest of the raid.

How does it work?

First, you collect all your world buffs the way you normally would – getting your summon to Dire Maul, a portal back to Stormwind or Orgrimmar for your Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer, a quick trip to Yojamba Isle to turn in the Heart of Hakkar, or whatever subset of world buffs your raid expects or that you feel comfortable with. Then you activate your Chronoboon Displacer, which creates a Supercharged Cronoboon Displacer in your inventory and an aura which holds the captured state of your world buffs. You can mouse over that aura at any time to see which buffs are stored, and how much time is stored on them. You can then go about your business, secure in the knowledge that your world buffs are saved and ready for use when you need them most. When you’re ready to restore them, simply activate the Supercharged Chronoboon Displacer and it will break apart, releasing the stored auras back onto your character.

Where do I get one?

Well, given the complex temporal mechanics involved, you obviously need to make a deal with a Bronze Dragon, and you can find a friendly one named Chromie located in Andorhal in the Western Plaguelands. Of course she’ll likely want your help repairing the time stream first, but once you’ve helped her out with that, she’ll be happy to sell you as many Chronoboon Displacers as your heart desires.

Why now?

We launched Classic with an intent to keep the game data the same as it was originally, and we wanted to make sure we delivered on that promise, but now that we’ve been through all the content phases we planned before launch, we took a step back to consider what it really means to have the world buff system stay this way in Classic Era. A persistent world where everybody is traveling around for magical items and spells to maximize their power is fine, but one where they then stop playing to avoid wasting them seems wrong. Having an additional stop that lets you “bottle your buffs” seems like a thematically appropriate change to alleviate that problem.

We know this is a change, and any change to Classic is something we want to be careful with, but in this case, the fact that playing optimally literally requires you to stop playing was just too much for us to sit idly by. If you have any concerns about ways this might be abused, please post them here so we can address them. We hope you’ll all find this change as exciting as we do!

No offense, but this convoluted silliness does nothing to combat this simple truth:
WBs took a steaming crap on raid content, and if you chose to resort to a blatant game change for classic, you should simply have made raid zones wipe WBs. Instead, you chose to double down on what makes them bad and all but reinforce the requirement for WBs.

I really cannot understand just how you lot can be so disconnected from what is engaging gameplay, leading to horrible decisions like this. After the monumental decisions like very few original servers, gifting Classic with bundled sub, almost not having a single rppvp server, worst AV version, layering, unorganized free transfers, not to mention paid boosts, it cannot be anything but intentional malfeasance.

The worst thing is that you have seen successful revenue, thinking you were the cause, when in reality Classic was successful in spite of repeated bumbling, due to pure popularity of the original iteration.

I think I am done completely with this train wreck of a company. Good freaking riddance

[Erazealthria-grobbulus]

I def woudlnt mind fresh classic servers with no world buffs, and also no crossrealm BGs.

[Piper-shadowsong]

@Beautia-azuresong

The new item will take away purging

No, it won’t. The Buff has to be applied onto the Player, before the Player can save said Buffs. You can probably purge within that time.