So, a thousand posts in on the AV Blue Argument, Robofried mentioned something that I thought would be a really good way to highlight some of those elements of pre 1.12 without making them overwhelming.
His specific suggestion was to have a Weekend where AV 1.5 was available to play, so it would be the announced 1.12 normally, but you could queue for 1.5 on certain weekends. This would have the benefit of allowing people to play the alternate version without splitting the playerbase.
The concept is good, and could be applied to far more elements of the game:
DHKs disabled for a weekend.
C’thun on pre-nerf values i.e. Unkillable, but fun trying. And if you managed to kill him, then you’d prove Ion Hazzikostas wrong.
Flight points don’t allow connecting flights for a weekend, and you have to click on each one to go the next leg.
What other interesting things in Classic pre 1.12 do people think might make good “temporary changes” for a weekend?
This right here, I had always heard that original C’thun was MATHEMATICALLY impossible, I wonder how well that claim would hold up nowadays if we got another swing at it
None of this is required at launch and would provide the ability to use ongoing 20% time to add weekends as the game progressed.
And it would be 1.12 for the lion’s share of time. But like Timewalking Dungeons, Blizzard has shown the ability to tweak the running game in instances in some ways. AV 1.5 is a prime candidate for this as the major change is the NPCs.
Assuming extra development is on the table (it may not be, they want to do this cheaply) I would totally prefer it to be spent on Progressive itemization (The real thing, including PvP items) and then Implementing Old AV. But hell, I’d take either tbh. They aren’t deal breakers, but they would be somewhat nice to have.
I don’t see anything particularly bad with this. I think it’s a valid suggestion for the Classic Development team to consider. This will allow the players to try both versions of the BG if they want. This will probably require cross-realm BG’s though or else queues will be pretty long.
Since we have no idea what the emergent player behavior will be for 1.5 or 1.12 AV. This will let us see which BG has a more fun meta.
Oh man. I’m assuming that that will run fixed, but yeah, that’s a great one for “Remember that time when…” Kazzak unleashed might be another.
I get your point. My thing is the original was awesome and classic would never be able to match it since its a known thing now. So i don’t think it would take anything away from the original.