Blizzard servers are different now than the sort they used in 2006, so that could be the issue. Maybe they did the setup by the numbers, but because the systems are different the numbers don’t actually relate.
Private servers tend to care more about the experience and less about the actual numbers, this is why many have tuned raid bosses so that the experience is more inline with “Vanilla”.
Spell batching has nothing to do with “emulating 2006 internet.” Spell batching functioned exactly as it did in Vanilla, period.
That’s just not true. You have instant spells if you are playing a Mage.
Other mages will blink faster than you, frost nova, fire blast, counterspell, etc.
If your MS is over 10 you will now see more of a delay than anyone below 10 ms(which won’t happen lol).
Previously as long as you were below 400ms you were pretty much unaffected.
You keep saying it, and yet its not true based on pservers that use the original client and the original 400 ms batching values just like original vanilla did. Said pservers managed to use batching while having zero complaints about it from the playerbase, while offering exactly the same things batching allowed in original vanilla without feeling sluggish.
You linking videos from 2006 in 4:3 format when the internet was trash for literally everyone; does not mean batching works like this. They recreated the 2006 experience from batching and not batching itself. Also we have been over this, they stated themselves they use multiple loops instead of one continous one. So the 1.13 batching is just a recreation.
But keep insisting they did it right, when their “competitors” also managed to deliver batching without the playerbase hating it.
Ahh yes, the archaic action processing system from 2006 was just flawless, obviously. There’s a reason they put so much effort into improving it around WoD. Spell batching is awful, it was always awful and they recreated it perfectly for Classic, and that’s why it’s awful.
Sorry you aren’t getting it going forward, the majority are happy to see it gone.
Wow this is an amazing change. Thank you!!!
Again you keep ignoring the main argument. 1.12 and batching exists outside of blizzard and was working just fine for everybody. Its only in 1.13 and blizzards recreation that people disliked it.
Keep spinning a yarn.
IMO, this change basically confirms that they plan to progress current servers to TBC.
You seem to be confusing better or worse with authentic.
Same authenticity that mega servers were as well as layering? Eh? lol
Except for how it didn’t because it literally wasn’t the same spell batching used in vanilla. They just took the modern engine and slapped 400 ms timing onto it instead of 1 MS and shockingly it didn’t work well.
And? All spell batching sucks regardless even if some pservers made it suck less.
Blizzard said one of the advantages of going to the modern server engine was the technology improvements it offered. They should have stuck to that when it came to batching instead of trying to cludge batching back in just to appease a handful of people trying to pretend it was skill based.
No it does not. Batching is necessary for an authentic feel of vanilla. Its just people who have no idea that think whatever they delivered us here had to be “batching”. Its not.
Batching is one of the “authentic” feels from vanilla I can do with out. Same way I can do without playing on a CRT with a dsl connection.
Because the dev team took #nochanges way too seriously for the first half of Classic and refused to implement changes to the game even when they were widely asked for. Only recently have they changed their stance on this and been willing to make common sense changes to improve the player experience, such as the recent fix to hunter AP buffs.
Im an ele shaman. I agree with this change; it is necessary. It was fun while it lasted. … Now fix melee leway.
You don’t know what the primary goal of #NOCHANGES means to make such a silly comment. I wish you folks would stop trying to speak on what #NOCHANGES means when you have no real clue and just like to make stuff up.
Oh no fewer people may get to be participate in the single worst aspect of this version of vanilla. The horror.
Kaivax, can we just clear world buffs when zoning into a raid already? Let’s test that, let us enjoy the game already. Please.
The only people that think this had nothing to do with the upcoming release of TBC probably need to be told to breath while walking and chewing gum.
This is 100% because the majority of players absolutely hate the spell batching we have. It’s just not logical in 2021.
The only other logical change that needs to be done is taking leeway out of classic.
It’s 2021 and we’re not playing on potato computers anymore. Internet is even fast enough in rural areas for wow.
Please take leeway mechanic out of wow as it is one of the most awful mechanics most of us have ever experienced.