Was karazhan crypt meant for classic?

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And just never built? Saw a youtube on it, pretty neat, but empty.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p_eEVO6Mgw

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From a breakdown AMA in early development:

The Karazhan Crypts wasnā€™t finished because when the leveling curve was sped up, Blizzard realized they didnā€™t need as many micro-dungeons and leveling content. A lot of places he started to build then didnā€™t get fleshed-out like Badlands and Deadwind Pass. A lot of temporary names in the Crypts, like Upside-Down Sinners, were pushed to the live game without approval.

https://classic.wowhead.com/news/wow-diary-kickstarter-ama-on-r-classicwow-realm-maintenance-287291

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thanks, that is pretty neat to know. i was always wondering about some areas like deadwind pass, azshara, etcā€¦ thereā€™s so much unfinished out there.

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Yeah.
I love checking out these places :hugs:

Took another trip to the Crypts yesterday to refresh my memory on how to access.

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These places could be perfect for Classic+

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Classic+ might have some potential, but only if it was made by a company other than Blizzard.

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you mean Cataclysm?

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I agree with this notion.
A Classic+ could very well include various quality of life aspects with improved / additional / finished quests and zones.

With how the past expansions (and their patches) have been handled, I have no faith in how a Classic+ would be brought forward with any development team under the supervision of Blizzard.

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I mean, now that this is in addition to TBC, I have no qualms with a classic plus. I still think itā€™s going to be impossible to please most of the playerbase, but Iā€™ve technically played all the vanilla classic I want to, and until TBC was announced every one of these topics was ā€œdo this instead of TBCā€

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You canā€™t have my RP hideout!!!

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Fun Fact: in original TBC pre-patch, the crypt mobs dropped netherweave etc; early.

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This was my favorite thing from any WoW exploration video. Itā€™s a shame they ended up having to remove it from the game (if Iā€™m not mistaken?) but it was neat to see the name used in Diablo 3 as the shoulders of a monk set (which has things floating up over the shoulders kinda like the floating bodies underwater, totally cool).

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Itā€™s still there. Just not for the Chinese client.

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Is it in the retail client? Thatā€™s what I was referring to. I am pretty sure they fixed the fear/sheep glitch used to get in there before because I tried to get in last year and was unable. Maybe we just screwed up.

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Hrm, that I am not sure and canā€™t remember. I think Cata may have done some stuff to it. But, not sure. But now I have a task!!! :slight_smile:

Welp, looks like the put up a solid fence inside now. To be honest I have not been in there in a while. Didnā€™t they use it for one of the legion class quests? Man, I canā€™t remember.

So it looks like it is gone in retail now.

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Can you still die and res on the other side of the gate? Never checked it out back in the day but I would definitely like to see it.

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Ooh, havenā€™t tried this. But if you can, I wonder if you can still see the sinners, since certain things arenā€™t visible when dead.

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Which is why classic + would be great and relatively cheapā€¦

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The problem with this is that the people who were the geniuses behind the original WoW are no longer there. The ensuing game would be written by those doing Retailā€¦

Iā€™m not usually ā€˜that guyā€™ but, do we really trust the game theyā€™d make Classic into?

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muh classic+

We already have ā€œclassic+ā€, itā€™s called TBC.