Will be a combination of Classic WoW and retail.
Why do I think this? Two reasons:
1:Shadowlands has elements of Classic brought into it
2: Blizzard has seen what works and what doesn’t in both games
I’m playing both simultaneously right now & both are good/bad in their own way. But a combination of the two will see a superior WoW expansion.
IMHO!
I’m curious what aspects of Classic you think they’ll bring into the next expansion.
It will combine very clear elements of this and that while also bringing back stuff that once was. Of course, with a twist.
Talent trees. Please for all that is RPG give us talent trees back. And useful end game mats. To this day I’m farming plaguebloom and dreamfoil for major Mana pots. And please stop balancing classes like a checkbook.
And what about keeping raids useful? We still farm for bindings and shaman t2 pants from Molten Core.
Gear. Gear. Gear. For the love of all that is WoW make gear fun and crazy again. Not this same predictable stat crap on everything. It’s like, I could not make a bad character if I wanted to.
Shaman t1 pants; I think the t2 is from ony but to hell with that attunement.
Honestly bro a start would be to remove that linear storyline we are experiencing.
Half the time I’m standing around listening to a bunch of make believe characters tell a story which is at best a 4/10 (I get that part is subjective). However being able to roam around in an open world and freely choosing the story I want to embark on would be a start. I like how in Classic I can level in numerous zones (for my level
bracket) rather than the one I’m being forced to do.
Also gear, I feel the tier set system Classic had gave a goal to aspire to for end game gear.
Keep all of classic in classic.
I don’t want classic in retail. If I wanted classic I’d play classic.
Yeah, no.
Its legit impossible for this current dev team to make a Classic-like expansion. People like Classic because it was unformulated and designed to let players shape the meta. The current dev team doesn’t allow the players any such freedom and wants to dictate every single facet of the game.
You can add all the elements of Classic you want to retail but it will just end up being tedious because it misses the spirit of the original game.
this, if you enjoy both fine but i want no part of classic here. tired of people asking for old stuff back constantly. honestly at this point i’m so bored of my toons a real total rework of classes, brand new no old stuff would suit me fine.
Just make the game an MMORPG again and people will gladly take whatever garbage systems there is. Part of classic’s “fun” is the playerbase, for better or worse. Now you can do basically anything without having to talk to anybody.
I feel that. I keep up with the lore but I’m not invested in it like I used to be years ago. The main characters’ stories were never the strong point for me, it was the world building. Losing anonymity and being the most important person of the last six years has really taken me out of the world.
It will Cata again. They make Lich King, Mop, and BC elements already. Now time for Cata. Dragons. Cultists.
It will be a paid subscription to the online shop, and access to the phone app.
OH WAIT! >.>
This is your first expansion, huh?
TBC to MoP had decent stories, professions, and presence.
Everything after that was like headbutting a belt sander.
I think Less linear campaign/storytelling, bring the Player-base interaction back again, less “sloggy” and grindy mechanics and chores ( renown/anima) and make the game simpler.
Also making the geography more pleasent to explore. Right now there is too much barriers, walls, cliffs and stuff that makes your movement around the terrain annoying.
I mean, The “Less is more” philosofy.
Very true.
I think their judgment of “what works” is based on nothing more than nostalgic memories of being elite players during vanilla and confirmational bias. The return of “raid or die” is having the opposite effect. And loot scarcity means raiders are leaving the game. Meanwhile, the many guilds trying to fill their empty places are all looking for exceptional players who are fully geared and ready to step into mythic raiding. Who are, of course, a rare exception.
If they were capable of truly making the game better and had that intention, they would do it right now, not next expansion.
The worst of both, but as seen through the lens of those who still imagine vanilla was perfect, while putting in more systems and time-gating than ever.
The only classic features I want for retail are two things:
I think they were far too into the development cycle of Shadowlands to go too crazy with changes, so they implemented a few from Classic to test the waters.
They would’ve started next expansion around the release of Classic, so this gives them some time to adjust any changes to the development if need be.
Also, does anyone else feel the zones aren’t that ‘magical’. Sure they look pretty, but they don’t have that feel like westfall, duskwood, stv or lakeshire have.
Another thing I’d potentially like to see returned (but doubt it ever will be) is the rolling system on gear. I do enjoy the thrill of /rolling on an item, and having to return the following week to try and win it again (if it drops). People nowadays probably wouldn’t want that as they’d like to get rewarded for the time they invested, and I understand that.