What can Shadowlands learn from Classic?

It needs to learn from the final tier of Legion or MoP.

What works in Classic isn’t going to work in Retail due to size and # of expansions.

I have yet to try that so I guess I can’t speak to the essence system. I am curious about it but I’m already too far behind on the treadmill and I’ve moved past bfa lol

To be fair I think the main complaints are about alts for the essence system.

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How many people just focus on 1 character? I like playing a tank, dps, and a healer each expansion.

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I focus on one, I guess that’s why I love the essence system. Can understand why people with many alts would not feel the same way. Maybe that essence system should be act bound as way to alleviate that issue ?

The WQ system is bad, is what they should learn from classic.(they wont)

I think the WQ system sees more action and use than the old daily quest system did. I know I use it more for an ends. Both was nothing more than repeating the same quest over and over every day to grind out something. Just seems to me that WQ grant more in the line of things that I actually have a use for over time.

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Except the people flooding back to retail.

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Fixed it for you.

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A lot of things. There really isn’t much class flavor anymore. Homogenization took its tole and blurred all the class lines together. I would repeal all of that. Class iconic spells like Bloodlust / Heroism should’nt belong to three other classes.

Class quests. More flavorful and well executed quest lines. Rhok’delar is an amazing quest chain that has you seek help from guildmates to take down Ony, to playing solo to complete your goals.

Professions: Not only do they need to do stuff, bring the flavor back. Want flasks? Go into scholo to use that alchemy lab. There were tons of small flavorful choices that constantly got pruned.

I could go on, Classes need to be un pruned etc. Mages can’t crost frost spells if they’re fire? Why?

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Excuse me sir. You’re wrong.

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Yo.

HUH? Learning from the past is bad? You like sleeping through 90% of everything you do?

To the TOPIC: 1.The world needs to be more deadly in Retail. You need to worry about where you are positioned.

  1. Remove most of the cleaves. Every class can AOE damage. That leads to a very boring gameplay.

  2. Make gear hard to get and rare.

  3. Remove alot of the visual clutter. Everytime I go to SW, it feels like a clown convention.

I learned how much I like retail after trying to level in classic

They were right I thought I did but I didn’t

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But they want classic to stay in classic.

Make everyone communicate more, make dungeons bigger and cooler and tOUGHER. I love BRD’s layout the most out of classic they should stick with they schematic.

They have two versions of the game. You can play either one, I know this is a shocking statement. Op it seems classic is the game you are looking for.

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Like I said junk needs to STAY in Classic.

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Classic player do seem real happy as of late.

Pull the plug on retail and rebuild.