i heard that blizzard is going to unleash a game called classic? i got to wow from Legion expansion and still don’t get what classic is? Is that game going to be absolutely like vanilla WOW or is it a modern version of WOW vanilla game?
It’s basically as true-to-the-original a Vanilla release as they can manage, while retaining the back-end structural and system improvements (e.g. cheat detection, reporting, etc).
IIRC, it’ll start on patch 1.2 – whether or not it will ever advance from there remains to be seen.
after cataclysm expansion, blizzard redid the azeroth world. they redid the quests, the landscapes, etc.
the classic will have the quests and land as it was before that. it is quite different
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It’s going to be a modern recreation. I doubt they want people stuffering in ‘Lagforge’ again or calling their server ‘Lag’thuzad’ or waiting in login queues because the server is full. This means that there are major compromises made to the original experience to support this. So it won’t be truly vanilla in many regards.
So what will it be:
- A game that looks like, smells like, and uses many of the same mechanics as the original game
- A game without most of the QoL improvements (or not as your personal opinion may dictate) that were added to the game over time. But I highly doubt Barren’s chat will be the same as it was because of the report feature.
- A game where there is very little ‘class balance’ or ‘faction balance’ in many regards (this is complex in a lot of ways).
Things to note:
- Unlike original vanilla it’s much more likely horde will dominate classic. In Vanilla Alliance was massively dominant until BC came out.
- They’ve already announced differences from original vanilla, if you’re going to play you should familiarize yourself with those.
All of your answers are here:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/c/community/classic-discussion
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It will be patch 1.12 which was the last patch of Vanilla. So all the systems, tallents, quests and the open world, etc will be 1.12 and never change from that. They will however roll out content like raids and big events like the opening of AQ at a pace similar to a patch cycle. So at the start there will only be Molten Core, Ony and Mara and they will start adding more raids as time goes on.
its as close as it can get to vanilla WOW.its way more hard core then retail…lol.
Are we all just going to race to crossroads and kill each other? Or do we have some other plan?
On my Vanilla server, while Xroads saw its share, the real hubs for open-world PvP were Southshore/Tarren Mill, or else Arathi Highlands.
Alliance didn’t like visiting Kalimdor. I got a lot of side-eye, basing my Night Elf RP guild in Darnassus.