I just want to start with something that’s been bothering me a lot…
The Burning Crusade has been on my mind ever since Classic WoW was announced at Blizzcon 2017. Don’t get me wrong, I was extremely excited to play Classic and I still play today! I love it! but in the back of my mind, everything I was doing in Classic was mainly to prepare for TBC… and Classic gave me hope that one day I might be able to experience The Burning Crusade again.
And it happened, TBC is on its way. I should be happy, but I can’t help but already worry about the future of Classic TBC.
This new forum says it all. The moment this forum was open to us, all I read is hate posts and hate comments. It’s truly horrifying how the game isn’t even out yet and it already feels like it has let majority of the community down. But I know deep down, there’s love in all these hate posts and comments because we all want to see Classic succeed. It’s just unfortunate that one thing is causing all this chaos, and that’s a 58 boost.
What I loved about Classic WoW is that it felt like the community had a voice in the decisions that were made. Without our voices, Classic WoW would have stayed a memory from the past, we would have had 4 phases instead of 6, we also got spell batching… but we don’t speak of that.
I know Blizzard is listening, because they’re giving us Blood elves and Draeneis in pre-patch, Seal of Blood will be given to both factions and they’re aware Leatherworking Drums is going to be an issue. These are great changes that will definitely not impact the game dramatically.
Considering they sent out at least one survey (I think two?) where the idea of starting TBC Classic at level 58 was one of the questions? I’d say a fair number of people
I would have chosen that option as well if I had never reached 60 in classic, or if my plans were to make a Blood elf paladin or a Draenei shaman without informing me that they won’t be able to get a boost and will be introduced in Pre-patch.
But yeah, I know what you mean.
It just absolutely blows my mind how, after fighting back against the community for years, and finally coming to their senses, talking about working to preserve the experience and leaving out all the garbage that was added to retail over the years, they’re going to bastardize this amazing project that they brought back. I can’t even conceive of the mental gymnastics Blizzard must be performing internally to switch so hard from “preserving the experience” to “accessibility”.
It’s pretty sickening to have to watch the horrors of Activision’s influence play out a second time.
I want the boost and was hoping we would get one. Reason being, I am not a fan of classic but loved TBC and Wrath. Did I lvl a few characters in classic, yes I did. I got a mage to 54 and a rogue to 48. I quit because I just hate the lvling experience in classic.
Now people will say, “if you hate the lvling experience in classic then you will hate it in TBC”. No I will not as when I have lvled many, many alts over the years I always lvled them in TBC and Wrath areas. I also can’t wait to fly.
Others will point out how 1 boost per account will ruin the game, which I find silly. I have been playing since 2006 and feel this is just scapegoat for those of the ,“well I had to do it so should you” mentality crowd. Some will say “This is going to ruin the economy with all the bots.” Well the economy is pretty much ruined already from the bots and if blizzard actually really tried to get rid of bots then this argument would be pointless.
I have 3 real life friends that have been playing many, many years with me and they tried to lvl in classic and hated it but are so excited for the boost as they all love, you guessed it, TBC and Wrath. They like me lvl their alts in those areas also. Because of this boost I will now be able to play with a party of 4 for the majority of the time I play TBC.
All this whining by the anti-boosters are mainly either mages or players that have played classic and have lvl 60’s. When TBC launched back in the day I started at lvl 60 not lvl 58 as many of these nay sayers will be in the same boat. They will all be lvl 60 for the most part.
I also see so many whining about this 1 boost per account of saying, “TBC is an expansion of classic not a separate game”, “It will cause the open world to be empty”, but hardly see any complaining about belfs and drenai being released pre-patch which tbh to me should wait until TBC classic actually begins as it did in the original TBC.
Great post OP, and I agree with everything you said. All we can do now is keep posting and hope blizzard removes the boost. We got classic, we got a lot of good changes for TBC that you spoke of under the idea of some changes, and retail players also got shadowlands delayed, so I think there’s hope. Hopefully blizzard will listen to the community again and remove the boosts.
I never got this surgery that I’ve seen a lot of people talk about, and I surely would have said it’s a terrible idea to add boosts, so the survey isn’t perfectly accurate. Based off the forums and madseasons video’s like to dislike ratio, I’m willin to bet the majority of the classic community wants the boosts to be removed from classic tbc.
So, the answer is we got a boost added to Burning Crusade Classic because a Retail player wanted it. I probably could have figured that one out myself.
Just because you didn’t get the survey doesn’t mean no one did. And there was another survey created by someone on this forum, where the results were 56% in favor of boosts
Stop trying to use Madseason as proof that more people are against boosts than for them. Obviously people who watch his content are going to agree with him, yet you call out an official survey from Blizzard as inaccurate
If I go into an ice cream party and yell “ice cream is awesome!” then of course most of the people around me are going to agree with me
Uhhh, what? You have to be level 58 to start questing in Outland – Leveling to 58 is still most of the leveling experience you’d have to do in Vanilla. If you hate Vanilla leveling, it doesn’t make any sense that
I seriously doubt you love TBC if you hate leveling. TBC is one of the most time consuming expansions of WOW, just the attunements to the raids made it so 90% of players never experienced anything beyond gruuls lair and Karazhan. The massive time sink that are all the reputation and heroic grinds. I am sorry but I think you are just talking nonsense.
