I always felt the best design for mounts in general would have been to have them be killable (excluding Paladins and Locks). Excellent, gold sink, as well.
in order I would rather play burning crusade, classic, but not both. it isn’t about being left behind either, I think with crafting dungeons and raids were easier than ever to get into in BC.
its about not wanting to invalidate my current choices, in faction and in classes and giving it my all to gearing up to the best of my ability to have that gear “given by gods be replaced by greens from space goats”
If flying were the only issue the expansion had, I wouldn’t be complaining about it having Classic TBC.
It’s far from being the only issue. If anything, I think flying is a lot less detrimental than some other aspects of the expansion.
I agree, I have seen no real issue with flying in BC .
I think many equate flying to killing world PVP. What killed world PVP was arenas. as they forced you to grind rating in arenas to now get the best PVP gear, rather than just farming honor. So more people spent their time PVP in arenas.
Only if they made flying 150% for normal mounts. 60% flying was painful
This, big time.
Flying is a big issue of TBC, in my opinion. They could’ve handled it in a much better way. The rewards structure of arenas in TBC is an even worse one.
It removed all reason to play not only world PvP but also BGs, in favor of small group duels where balance is an impossibility.
They were one of the factors which shifted the focus of WoW from a cohesive, RPG world with distinct class roles toward the direction of class homogenization…and eSports. In a fantasy RPG.
The outlands made the old content worthless, flying is garbage and they ruined pvp with arenas, welfare epics, and resilience. It also started the whole alliance and horde sharing the same city (shattrath) and making both sides all buddy buddy, rather then being at war like the title of the game suggests.
I don’t really want any of that.
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Which they are entitled to their own opinion. I personally agree, the game would be just as good if not better without flying.
Because It’s not necessary and was one of the few things that made the game worse.
Started in vanilla.
I agree with that, but honestly I think even 60% was too fast. I think flying should be like 10% or 20% speed at best. Strictly used to get up somewhere higher, not flying across the game with the speed of a hacker.
It didn’t take long, honestly.
LOL For 2 seconds at best.
Rarely.
I played from day 1 and flying did all of the same detrimental things then that it does now. Just because it was slower (debatable) and more expensive doesn’t mean that flying isn’t flying.
TBC was responsible for adding reinforcements to AV, which killed what little was left of “proper” AV.
We do not know this to be true, that they ever intended the game to become a museum piece, fixed in time and immutable.
In fact, if this was what they intended, they would have been keeping better records of the original release and subsequent changes.
In all likelihood they did not expect the game to become as successful as it did, and didn’t have long-term plans for its future.
The devs who are now saying that they wish they hadn’t put in flight or LFR or whatever are actually not the ones who did. The original devs who developed these features thought customers would find flight fun (which they did!) and more would subscribe and stay subscribed longer.
There have certainly been personnel changes over the past 15 years. The original planners are gone, replaced by Ion and his cadre.
Because classic is where all the flying haters went to play, probs. Thing is if TBC Classic is released, it may draw in TBC fans who aren’t even playing Classic right now.
So.
See, I actually liked resilience. PvP gear was earned through and good for PvP. Dragonkiller sets need not apply (because they can’t kill you, gotta PvP to earn some PvP gear champ.)
This is all personal opinion on both sides, though.
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yep 100% agree
Tbc will come! but Blizzard already stated that they gonna wait the next 3 years until all phases of classic are done and look if the community still wants it (the majority)
Whats with this weird gate keeping that I always see associated with the Horde and blood elves? Because they aren’t monster men we have to hate players that like the race? That’s just silly.
Yeah, I liked Belves in WarCraft 3: TFT and early TBC. (Demon sucking elves? Neat.) It’s when they got the light back and such that they got weird to me.
Shoot, shamanistic orcs are weird to me. The religion used to be a death cult ran by necrolytes. In fact they were so intent on making as much death as possible, they were running the clans into extinction with their genocidal wars. Gul’dan had to step in with Medivh to prevent that.
They’ve retconned the hell out of that though.