I mean lets be real here, who’s to say Blizzard can’t add new items into Classic?
Why not? Adding cool new items with different effects would be dope and add a little spice to an already popular title. It doesn’t have to be an expansion to create new things or add new things into the game.
Classic is a great game and I think it would be even cooler with more items and things to do.
Give each class a new quest for a new item, or add new world drops in to farm for. Who cares, just do it. Spice things up.
Vanilla is great but Vanilla + would be even cooler.
The thing is, there would have to be a legitimate need for a new item aside from “it would be cool” before they add one. To my knowledge that has not happened once in classic. The closest would be changing certain quest items from common the epic so they can be masterlooted properly.
At that point, Blizz would then need to dedicate resources to developing brand new content. As of now, Blizz is giving us Classic along with retail for one price- if they would give us classic + or adding new content to classic, I wouldn’t be surprised if Blizz began charging us for classic alone. I’m sure many would be okay with that, but it is something to consider.
Modern Blizzard is trash I wouldn’t even trust them to change a light bulb properly.
The fact that they completely screwed a perfectly good game like WC3 up for no reason and then completely disbanded the development team and abandoned the game altogether in a terrible state is proof enough of how incompetent and out of touch they are with their own intellectual property.
Imagine phase 7 where a number of new weapons/armors come out that help “meme” specs, like feral druids, boomkin, ret paladins, and enhancement perform more competitively. The items would drop in various instances, even some raids.
I don’t think it’s items or itemization that can help these classes—I think that the spec/talents just aren’t that strong and also they have mana issues.
You would have to to do more than just give them better items I would imagine.
Or…they could take a page from a certain server to help with our Ascension to Classic+.
Seriously, Classless play is pretty awesome. Especially since it would mean Paladins could easily become main tanks and Warriors could become masterful AoE tanks. And yes, before you say anything they do balance abilities; ex. Ice Block cannot be used immediately after another similar ability (ie Divine Shield). And there is a limit to how many talents and abilities you can pick up.
I never made the argument that adding 9 items would usher in a new MMO. You’re conflating two separate arguments.
The point of Classic is to faithfully recreate the original World of Warcraft. ANY change goes against that purpose, no matter how significant. Classic is not meant to be a new MMO where we can change things as we wish; it is meant to be World of Warcraft as it was.
I was also pointing out how an item for each class hardly seems to meet the OP’s expectations. Vanilla+ is 9 more items, one for each class? Really?
Classic plus sounds really good in theory but given what we know about blizzard nowadays, its a big risk to allow them to add/change stuff in the spirit of vanilla wow. I would love to have a new dungeon or new niche items like nature reflectors or even a loot table added to world leaders but it would cause so many headaches and balance issues to let actiblizz mess with a good thing.
WoW Classic is NOT a new MMO; it is a recreation of WoW as it used to be, therefore we should not add new items. I am not saying that adding new items makes it a new MMO.
Me: A, not B, therefore C.
You: Not C, therefore B.
