Just out of curiosity, who here actually wants TBC to be a thing; why/why not?
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Judging by similar posts in teh past, I would wager about 80% of people want TBC. As for why, it has the spirit of vanilla but on a bigger scale.
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I do; to me itâs the best version of WoW in which the pve and pvp are both fun and unique (donât need to do one to support the other) the raids were good the arenas were fun, flying was cool and appropriate for TBC, Draenei were an awesome addition to the game (crack elves were pretty popular also) many of the problems of Vanilla were fixed in TBC, (fel lotus vs black lotus ie) the classes were more balanced but still were quite different from each other, etc.
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A good majority of the classic player base wants TBC, this is kind of just the waiting room. Iâd say a good 20 percent are die hard vanilla fans that wouldnât move on, which begs the question, will blizzard realize this and simply open the dark portal on the current realms, and allow transfers off for those that want to stay vanilla? Or will they do something Blizz-like and make like ten TBC realms, and have 32000 player queues on each server with all the current realms sitting there at low-medium population while the forums crash week one due to complaints?
My money is on a completely out of touch, botched TBC release. In fact they might even do something REALLY absurd like have everyone re-roll at level 1 for TBC, that way on top of 32000 man queues, the starter zones are too full to do one quest, half the people quit not wanting to level their mains again, and the entire point of having the dark portal event is missed.
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I do because I prefer the way WoW used to be before WoD. Iâm not playing Classic because I prefer terrible class balance and itemization. Iâm here because despite its flaws, its closer to how the game was six years ago than it is today.
TBC brings so many improvements to the game and that is why I will play it over Vanilla Classic.
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I want TBC since itâs still got the spirit of the old design philosophy but it fixed up a number of the rough edges of the game.
It probably had the best class design the game has ever seen.
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Tbc is the best era of wow
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Iâd like TBCâŚafter I have plenty of time to enjoy the rest of classic. Right now Iâm in no rush.
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Tbc is the best version of wow, of course I want it.
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Yes because then we get Lich King, the best of WoW.
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TBC and the first half of WotLK were what I really wanted. I have my doubts that theyâll do WotLK properly, and even if they do, theyâll be stuck forever at 3.3.5 with LFD eventually, so Iâm considering just staying with BC.
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Iâm torn between which one I liked more, but I think if anything, both TBC lovers and WOTLK lovers agree, anything pre-cata beats Vanilla.
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Most people playing classic do want TBC, but Iâd wager that most also just want to replay other expansions when they were in there âprimeâ before they were changed for the next expansion. So in retro spec, people are just replaying the game like a memory, so to speak but playing it vastly different. Some people can say they love how it is, some can say the opposite.
Do I want TBC? Yes I do. But from a development stand point, as well as certain classes (aka seal of blood being a Horde paladin thing when ally had paladins and got shafted by it for seal twisting), I disagree with it.
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TBC exists as a stepping stone to WotLK.
Release it today.
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I do.
I started around the TBC pre-patch and never got too attached to Classicâs endgame, Iâm glad classic happened, but the nostalgia never hit me as hard as others.
I honestly donât understand people who hate on Wrath and TBC - At the end of the day, they were great expansions. You can make some crazy theories about how the things they implemented lead to how retail is now, but it really doesnât hold up.
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I personally started Mid TBC, didnât even get near max level until Wotlk was about to drop, and didnât actually do endgame content until WOTLK. So yeah, classics great but even starting classic I had to learn new things, like the horrible ranking system, and some things are missing as well imo. I was like ââWOAH a meadow ring of eluding this ring was bad af back in the day for twinksââ, then I was like ââlolwut, it only gives 1 dodgeââ. Same with all the dungeon items that are green that drop off low level bosses, they were blue when I started.
Oh and having to talent into sap and STILL have a chance to become unstealthed. What is this garbage lmao. Oh and shamans not being able to use 2h until after level 20, lolwut. I specifically remembered using smites mighty hammer on a 19 shaman at some point.
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No one wants tbc, they are just humoring you.
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I want it because of this.
TBC is a superior version of vanilla.
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Iâll go all the way to WoD with this Classic thing purely for the PvP. After WotLK I pretty much exclusively PvPâed casually in the game and while MoPâs was my favorite PvP out of any expansion, I still really enjoyed WoDâs.
I wouldnât even mind Cata too much since my guild didnât survive the drought between killing the LK and release I didnât raid at all through Cata. That said, it would still be a waiting room from WotLK to MoP for me.
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Theyâre great expansions though I think you can really start to see the shift in WotLK.
Classes really started going towards the âeverybody needs to be equally good at everythingâ design, dungeons became AoE spamfests, and the crossrealm LFD was added to the game. Leveling was also becoming more trivialized through the introduction of heirlooms.
Cata was when they blatantly just turned the entire ship around, but I think you can see them getting ready for it in WotLK.
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