These patch notes are incomplete. I see many unexplained UI changes in Classic Era which have no obvious function. If they’re there for a reason, I’d love to know what that is.
For example, selected talents in the talent trees are invisible, and there is a role icon reminiscent of WotLK/Retail which can be clicked but does nothing. It is currently set to “damage” for my paladin, despite the fact that DPS is the one role I cannot do with any level of respectability.
Are we being locked into one role at a time? As a prot paladin I could get through a five-man as healer if I switched into my healing gear. Is this no longer “allowed?” Furthermore, the icon cannot be changed from “damage.” What gives?
I would love to see some complete patch notes for today’s patch but I cannot find them anywhere.
Technically they are called sex symbols (had to look it up) when I documented yet another change to Era. It’s unlikely to revert as Blizz has consistently shown they would rather “update” the game to suit their modern values rather than take the TCM/Disney approach to preserve media as it was in order to not distort history and to learn from it.
This is not about addons, this is about the game itself going from a working game into a game that does not work properly. When I cant add talent points and I have no addons running there is a serious problem.
When I NEED to tic a box just to use my wand or low ranks of spells that are mission critical to how this game is played; there is a serious problem.
Blizzard did ZERO TESTING, and its evident that they didn’t even care because look at the patch notes… The 2 things they told us about are in game, these two things were were happy about when they communicated that too us… YAY.
They even “Fixed” a couple bugs, COOL.
What they should not have done was all these un-documented changes the borked the game.
Just throwing this out there that this should be blockable. I can see people running around spamming this on other people and just being annoying with it.
Canceled subscription. I don’t want to play this stupid Retail lite version of WoW. Keep messing up your classic games Blizzard. Instead of fixing bugs and botting better ninja update the UI and remove genders to character creation lmao
Hardcore Era PTR has been up for WEEKS without any of the changes that came with today’s patch that broke addons with no notice less than 2 days before launch. Seriously, what were you thinking here?
Why change classic? there is a reason classic is popular and that is because it is not retail. why make classic retail when we left retail to play classic because we wanted the simplicity and challenge of classic. we did not want the politics of retail brought on to classic.
i have played WOW for 16 years. I love classic and i cannot stand what retail has become. playing classic allows me to keep playing the game i fell in love with my husband over, to play a game that got me through the hardest parts of my life and the best parts of my life.
Please do not bring the woke politics that have infested every game into classic. leave classic alone. please put it back the way it was.
Adding to say that I also canceled my subscription.
I just resubbed earlier this month for Classic Era after a break from WoW since 2020. I had been having a great time leveling & getting back into the game these past few weeks. I was also really looking forward to this patch because I’m mainly a PvPer, and the PvP ranking changes seemed great to me.
Boy was that a mistake.
I log in today to find 3 key game systems completely broken & unusable (Yes, I tested all of these with ALL addons disabled):
Talent trees – All trees empty & it says I have 0 talent points to spend even though I’m over level 10.
Auction house – Unusable, laggy, error-filled mess. Took ages to buy/post/cancel auctions. Sometimes it would take awhile & then give me an error, other times it would just stop working altogether.
Mailbox – Same issues as those with the AH.
That’s not to mention the change to the options/settings UI from the classic version to the retail version. While I personally don’t like this change, this is more of a subjective opinion. It isn’t a game-breaking change, and I can get over it. But why wasn’t this mentioned anywhere in the patch notes?? Come on…
Oh, and now most of my addons are broken. And while I get that this is normal for a patch & not directly Blizzard’s problem to deal with, I certainly wasn’t expecting my AH, mailbox, UI, etc. addons to break when the only changes mentioned for Era in this patch were the PvP Ranking Update and a few minor bug fixes (none of which involve the systems I mentioned above).
I really hope these issues are fixed soon (according to the Battle.net launcher, it looks like talents should be fixed tomorrow morning), but I’m not holding my breath…
judging by the fact the majority of people agree with my sentiment wholeheartedly to the point of unsubbing, id say i speak for a lot of people here. If you want changes, go play TurtleWoW or some other private server swill.