This is something I’ve been thinking about recently, regardless of what side of the change isle you’re with, this would be a interesting addition to the Anniversary servers that wouldn’t be found in any other Classic server we have currently.
What gets added
everything in the tbc prepatch, Blood Elves and pallies for horde, Draenei and shams for alliance, JC, level 70 talent trees, summoning stones, etc.
What is unique about this
apart from both factions having all classes the big item would be the 70 talent trees in level 60 content, so your “meme” specs bring a ton of utility to the raid “boomkins and improved ff for example” and have many of their limitations fixed.
Reasons for doing this
unique experience never done before that would truly shake up the meta and give a unique Classic experience to players
all changes would be organic that happened in TBC, no “good ideas” from the community/devs would be added that weren’t apart of the Classic tbc pre patch.
Reasons not to do this
TBC is coming out in less than a year
There are those who want to play 1-60 as close as possible to what we got in 2019.
Def are more reasons for and against this, and honestly prob won’t happen, just something I’ve thought about.
For whatever it’s worth, I had an amazingly great time playing on Skyfury - one of the fresh realms that launched at Wrath pre-patch. It was a month-long, extended prepatch, which was great. I think an extended prepatch would probably be fun.
An actual pre-patch would be amazing. Planning to level a Dranei and it’d be really cool if I were able to do so before the expansion actually launched in order to experience it with everyone else from the jump rather than miss the boat and level through a series of dead zones while everyone else is already capped.
It’s what they should have done from Minute One. Release TBC, lock XP to 60 and close the Dark Portal. The roadmap for phases is still fine – we play through Level 60 content and then progress to TBC content.
Honestly, while with regards to Classic (Era at least), I lean heavily towards #NoChanges, and even something like Dual Spec, which some people claim to like is something that has turned me off from anniversary realms, but I do think it (dual spec at least) fits reasonable well within the design decisions for TBC Class talent trees.
I would potentially play an extended TBC prepatch, but none of the current offerings are more compelling (imo) than what we already have with Era, or if I want QoL, Retail.
I mean yes, I would put the tbc prepatch release either after the opening of aq or the invasion event. Because all games which fall under the subset of fresh which does include anniversary do drop off around aq40 as many will get well annoyed at barriers to progress. And I believe giving the players a power spike in terms of making gear at the time when people might start holding back for tbc prepatch would be a good idea.
Agreed, definitely after BWL has had its time in the limelight before dropping the prepatch. Have noticed in past that the fresh hype dies around BWL/shortly after BWL. Imagine this would breath fresh life into the servers.
Since it’s ‘too late’ to launch the Anniversary Fresh servers with a TBC Core, switching to TBC Prepatch at AQ40 is a solid idea for the reasons Mirrina noted. There’s still time to level Belfadins and goatshams for Naxx40.
Personally, with the prepatch, I would like everything released up to the level 60 cap and the the Dark Portal being closed and it stay this way for about 1.5 months. This way, folks have a good chance to level up their Draenei and Blood Elf alts, their skills, unlocks, etc.
The leveling is easy, getting the desired stuff and alts is what takes so long, I suggest therefore that the prepatch should be a month to 1.5 months long.
I’m not against blizzard doing this, but not on existing servers it wouldn’t be fair to make that kind of major change for folks who didn’t sign up for it
i’m really disappointed that we don’t have directly access to TBC
we are force-fed/gorged of Vanilla for too long now… Nostalgia was for 2004+ players, not for 2019 players again… it’s too much of Vanilla for too long (Era/SoM/SoD/Anniversary/Hardcore)
being stuck in “Nostalgia” this way is not nostalgia anymore, this is neurosis
Seriously i’m tired of doing AV for 50hours/week, everybody is doing this in repeat for 1more year before TBC? → this is not good game design
TBC would be better than Vanilla for the PvP players
1+year to wait is too much, they announced TBC server at blizzcon and then opened an Era 2.0, this is not respecting their customers
people are doing AV all day, just exactly as they did during the past year in Era → anniversary didn’t changed anything, this ranking system force you to do this to rank
people don’t respect themselves by accepting this 418k"milestone thresholds" → and Blizzard don’t respect their customers by keeping them doing this in loop and keep WSG/AB left behind
something got to change even if it’s a TBC waiting room
