Let me preface this by saying that I am pretty uninformed about the current state of Classic WoW. All thar I have heard is that they intend to let Classic stay as it was and a subscription will be required to play.
With that being said, there are two features that weren’t part of classic that I personally think should be implemented. Dual-spec(or a reduction in price for spec reset) and summoning stones.
I 100% support that pure Vanilla and can’t wait to be a part of it again, but I feel these changes could be implemented into the game and not feel invasive.
Not having dual-spec is a sting a lot of older players felt, which really won’t feel good at all in Classic. I intend to PvP and Raid, having it not cost 60 gold to swap from tank to dps would just feel good. Summoning stones for obvious reasons. Meeting stones were in a shaky place and universally hated anyway and making them summoning stones was the long needed fix players were waiting for.
Dual spec cost 1000g per character when it was launched. Even in wrath, it was a luxury you had to save for. Put that into vanilla and it will become the privilege of those who can afford to buy the gold.
I agree with summoning stones… and… aren’t flight paths connected anyway?
Most people probably have a few “non invasive changes that would only make things better” in their eyes, but once Blizzard makes any of them it opens the door to “Well why can’t you add MY change too?”.
On top of that a big part of Classic is that the world wasn’t very convenient. This means things like a barrier to respeccing, making your spec matter more, and needing to actually travel to dungeons.
Connected flight paths were already in Vanilla, so expect it in Classic.
They weren’t always. I see now that we will be starting in 1.12 which is after the patch that connected flight paths, so that is good.
That’s the whole point of a dialogue and community feedback? Talking about it gives Blizz a chance to probe what players want, what they don’t, etc until they can finally make a judgement call. Sure, not everybody’s change can make it in the game. That’s the nature of it, some people want Dungeon Finder in Vanilla which personally disgusts me, while some people may be disgusted by me wanting dual spec.
Talking about the inconvenient world, it is important to point out the difference of things that were challenging which made the game fun and more rewarding vs things that just could have been done better. There is a difference between challenging content and hemorrhaging gold for next to no reward.
And you’re basically saying ‘Things you want can’t be allowed into the game because other people want things’? Is that supposed to be logic or something?
That is a massive and blatant overinflation of what I am saying and you know it.
I respect that opinion. If you read the whole post you will see that I am a Vanilla enthusiast. You are speaking for a lot of people other than yourself though, that’s a little silly. Maybe dual spec is too far. How about reducing the ludacris cost of talent resetting? Perhaps bringing the gold cap for it down to 1 gold?
You are also speaking for more people than yourself as if you had the authority to. You know well that BFA level changes are severely radical compared to what I am putting forward. Not to mention the changes I stated were done in TBC/Wrath, so not too far out from how classic actually was.
I’m glad to hear that, and hope they don’t go overboard. Thank you. :]
Would feel bad for a pure DPS class though. The moment switching specks became non-punishing was the moment when blizzard has decided to show a huge middle finger to every pure DPS class in the game as they were thrown into a massive disadvantage again, after Blizz has decided to remove the hybrid tax on damage.
PS, I am against summon from meeting stones, as it takes away usefulness of warlock, especially in PvP raids. Alliance / horde can get free summons by just inviting people to a group and summoning them whereever and instance is. I.e. horde can get free summons to people from the stockades or gnomer meeting stones, alliance from WC or the RFC stone (assuming either side can lock down an area to do so) which is a totally unintentional mechanic that can be abused.
Dual spec I’m not even going to go into depth as to why its a bad idea. If you feel the need to respec every, week – learn to farm gold, stick with one spec, or pick a hybric spec that caters to what you are currently doing. You do not deserve to min-max for everything you are going at all times. The talent trees are designed where you can build out a spec where you can perform well like a jack of all trades and be fine. Deal with it.
The point is that change begets more change until we’re left with something that’s not even Classic WoW anymore.
Blizzard has already said what they’re doing with Classic: It’s supposed to be so close to how the game was in 2006 somebody could have been in a coma for 12 years, woke up and played WoW, and think that nothing has changed.
If you want to talk about faulty logic, then let’s talk about the people who continue to ask for changes when Blizzard has insisted time and time again that Classic will not have them.
and it wasn’t one of their “we have no current plans…” PR speak things they’ve done in the past. They have explicitly stated that Classic WoW is going back to what the game was in 2006 because we don’t have that anymore and that if you want WoW with changes, then BfA are the changes they would make to the game.
I don’t think duel spec or summoning stones help the game. Duel spec is game breaking in Vanilla your spec is your spec. Pay for another one. I can write all day how it would effect everything about classic.
All I say is add the macros system they have today so pick just don’t write scripts. Reason ppl then will say all have to do is hit two buttons.
The new system that keeps bots and cheaters at bay.
Yes (they were within the scope of vanilla, some just sucked), Hell no (make a choice and stick with it, this is a MMO) and hard nope (Why devalue warlocks and mages?)