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So, WotLK is coming to an end, and Cataclysm Classic will be dropping early summer 2024. Its a bit step to go beyond the original trilogy, but today I wanted to take a step back and ask the question - just how far is this classic journey realistically going to go?
At the end of the day we are getting Cataclysm Classic because enough people wanted to carry on, but where will enough people finally draw the line?
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dont worry wiiee will cover 50 facts and things that arent bad in wooorlooooooooords of dreanor when the cash is flowing in and warlooooords is closer. its actually fun easy stepstone guyyyz . same thing with cataclysm.
God u sold out badly lmfao, still suck at the game too.
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Go the runescape route : Update Classic and make it a permanent Classic+
This is the way. Any new piece of content must be synergistic with what is already there. No more "the game is only as big as it's latest expansion".
I think after the reception of Sod, they will make a classic+ server designed to be a hone for all the seasonal content and characters moving forward
That's what most people wanted for Classic+ but we never got it.
I’ve been saying this since before WOTLK was announced.
Blizzard needs to make a WoW 2.0 A game that looks like retail, more modern textures but plays mechanically like classic wow. They need to redo the ENTIRE storyline from a different point of view rather than the arthas and thrall storylines we know
This is what we all want man.
I absolutely love Season of Discovery! As many believe this is a precursor for a true Classic+ which is really exciting to think about and I'm here for it!
To bad they letting bots/farmers take over. Again.
Love SoD, but... I kinda want new WoW. I don't want to play with 20yo graphic and effects. Instead of Classic+, why don't make WoW2 - retail graphics, vanilla gameplay.
Or maybe a complete reboot with old Warcraft 3 missions as dungeons, remade old raids like Hyjal etc, new class balance... The list goes on and on...
@TheUhmmmmmmmm bots are better than the WoW token, at least something is actually playing the game and moving the economy, instead of just buying gold from blizzard directly.
@@Evirthewarrior Bots are about as bottom of the barrel filth as the people buying the gold.
There is no such a thing as "good" bots. They all are trash and do nothing but ruin economies and control markets.
And can't wait for them to introduce the token to "battle bots". They said it wouldn't come in Classic. Yet here we are.
@@Evirthewarrior Agree and really the only people that complain are the ones who artificially inflate the auction house prices.
People wanted WoW Classic not for the content, but because the World is the main character of the game, something that was lost along the way.
You are thinking in content, but the truth is that content is secondary to simply being a small hero in a big world.
Par for the course for WillE, it's the same in many of his other videos. He does not seem to have any idea or feeling about why people wanted classic to begin with. Here's hoping the classic devs have the good sense to largely ignore this man.
Ok, so why does the classic community essentially play the game like they’re playing retail then? What you said only really rings true now for Classic era, but even as early as 2019 Classic, people were treating the game as if they were playing retail (i.e rushing to max level, clearing everything then dipping out until new content came out). MMOs today live and die by their content, Classic wow is no different.
That just isn’t true. Once I got to level 60 I never had a reason to visit any of the low level zones. Those zones might as well not exist at higher levels. Just because leveling took such a long time doesn’t mean the zones were a main character. They are just as much a character in classic as it is in retail. You quest in the zone and once there are no more quests there is little reason to visit it anymore.
@@Fabriciod_Crvpeople rush to the end game because if you fall behind catching up is difficult. While a character is a similar level as most players finding other players to do group content is much easier.
@@robertp457 that’s was the problem during 2019 Classic: Everyone was mage boosting and barely anyone was doing dungeons legitimately while leveling, making it almost impossible for new players or players with no gold on the server to do 1-60 dungeons.
would have loved a Era TBC server
Yea I missed TBC classic due to irl
WoD classic could actually be very good if they treat it as a fresh start and work from the ground up to fix what went wrong in the expansion. WoD has a really great expansion hiding underneath all the shit. Draenor is absolutely beautiful, and the dungeons and raids are really well done. There's such a great foundation, it just needs _more._ I'm not confident Blizzard would be willing to take that on, and if that's true, they should just skip it. Releasing WoD as it was would be a waste of time.
yeah IF they make the garrisson more usefull and interacting , more group content in them as well , I loved the assaults you could repel
WoD was basically 1/3 of the expansion they teased at Blizzcon. If they had delivered on the expansion they promised, WoD would've been a top 5 expac. The raids were great, the story was good, questing was good, zones were good, it was just missing a majority of the content expected from a WoW expansion. Some of the cut content was stuff we'd wanted for years: fully fleshed out player housing, a Shattrath raid, Karabor/Bladespire being main cities, three brand new zones (the Ogre Kingdom, Farahlon and the underwater Zangar Sea), and more. WoD would've been amazing if they'd just delivered what they promised.
WoD was one of the best raiding expensions too! With a TON of stuff to do each day if you want besides PvP and Pve! The only thing that went bad with WoD honestly was its rushed state, its bad story line, too many missed raid (the ones we got were fantastic).
The world with the trreasures, exploring etc was the best WoW i played across all expensions hands down. Time issues in the Dev time were the Nr.1 Killer.
Obv the Garrision was too good therefore alot of people just sat there and did nothing + complained.. but hell the World was so filled with shit to do it was so nice.. i spent i lot of time in WoD and obviously i had times were i Mission logged in/out.. but if i had time i almost never were there except for a few minutes to do the missions..
Also don´t forget, it was THE best Expension as a solo Raider (LFG-Tool was an absolut beast with the last few patches) and even introduced cross realm play over diffrent language servers.
WoD was INSANE with the Qol and Stuff an individual could do. It is still one of my most beloved Expension if you are are a solo Raider.
Wod Classic had been a meme since 2019. You people will really chug down whatever shit blizzard spurts out huh.
I just want shattrath
WoD was basically 1/3 of the expansion they teased at Blizzcon. If they had delivered on the expansion they promised, WoD would've been a top 5 expac. The raids were great, the story was good, questing was good, zones were good, it was just missing a majority of the content expected from a WoW expansion. Some of the cut content was stuff we'd wanted for years: fully fleshed out player housing, a Shattrath raid, Karabor/Bladespire being main cities, three brand new zones (the Ogre Kingdom, Farahlon and the underwater Zangar Sea), and more. WoD would've been amazing if they'd just delivered what they promised.
This has always been my take on it. WoD was without a doubt the worst expansion WoW ever had but in no fault due to the content or anything. What we have (ouside of the botched tanaan jungle used to just walk us into the next expansion) is great, but the expansion is only disregarded as a whole because it's like Blizzard just stopped working entirely after the launch. No follow up patching to fix things. No new content (until they decided to end the expansion). Nothing. WoD was a very strange time. It had a LOT of potential. The Garrison system could have had a LOT of potential for future guild activities or something. But no it was all dropped.
Yeah, WoD wasn't bad, just half assed. SL is the genuinely bad expansion.
@@kou7191 at least SL had more than 1 major content patch. Blackrock Foundry was fully scripted and ready to launch at release, therefore what we truly got in 6.1 was selfie camera and twitter integration. In 6.2 we got Tanaan Jungle and Hellfire Citadel which lasted for 14 months! WoD is a disaster when it comes to patches.
@@lukas8708 Hence why I said it wasn't bad, just half assed. To put it in other words, WoD was bad because aside from raiding or garrison stuff, there was nothing to do, whereas SL was bad because there were lots of things to do, but none of it was fun (subjective, I know, but it's the general consensus)
Nah man WoD gutted my ability bar..MoP was great gameplaywise. I had 3 big movement skills, 5 cc's, the best ability of all time...mistweaver bubbles you had to place on the ground where people were running..it was fast, it was powerful, it was insane what you could do. And one day to the next all these wonderful flowstates you get when handling 1mio things at once went away. WoD felt like playing WoW in a wheelchair.
I think season of discovery is great. I have not had so much fun in WoW since the "original classic" launch.
I was hating on it before it came out but I've been proven wrong
sadly nothing gives me as much joy as Legion... i don't like sod at all i prefer to stay at era and dragonflight.
This game could be 3x bigger if we actually had balanced English servers. EU the biggest region still doesn't have a single balanced pvp english server. Hardcore itself has way too much time investment to be considered a popular thing imo. also wotlk has tokens...p2w. open world pvp is non existent. no world interaction. bg pvp sux because heirlooms
Agreed! Every expansion has been less fun than Vanilla for me, but SoD has captured some of that original Vanilla magic :)
legion had very unbalanced pvp tbh@@jointser1008
Like a lot of people, I hard quit retail in WoD and would only be on the Classic pipeline up to and including MoP. I'm also really not that interested in Cata - I'll dabble in it for the fun at launch, but I'll basically go back to SoD/HC after that.
From what ive heard cata had really good dungeons and raids though + transmog so personally i love to give it a try, but its hard to beat classic and wrath so i hope they keep era servers for wotlk as well
I am really glad they decided to continue to Cata, mainly because that means we will get Mists of Pandaria Classic. That will be amazing. Mists was a fantastic expac, and I remember burning out in Cataclysm in 2011, only for my love for WoW to be re-invigorated in Mists.
@@kat-rau. I had lots of fun and memories in MoP as a fire mage! Loved the zones and music too!
@@kat-rau. Cata flamed out quickly for me also but I enjoyed MOP and spent entirely too much time behind a keyboard on it. I would be open to a Mop+
@@bernard3303 World of Warcraft was great all the way through Warlords of Draenor even with all the cut content. It became the ugly thing we call modern wow with Legion and it hasn't gotten better since.
6:00 i literally cannot express just how keen i am for MoP to return with classic, so many of the classes were just FUN, Windwalker especially for me peaked in 5.4 and thats the one i will get to play for the entire expansion.
I am also hoping that with the release of Cata/MoP blizzard will be able to look back on some of the more fun and class fantasy aspects of the classes and help them shape the retail classes more.
After trying Cata, I can say they should have stopped with Wrath, which was the end of the classic world. After that, they locked you into talents, made everything linear, and removed everything I had grown to love in the game. Cata was the birth of current retail, with its revamped quests still in place today--if anyone bothers to level through the old world. Classic reminded us of how much fun it was back then. Now they're reminding us of when it jumped the shark. I'm for sure not going any further.
I think after MoP classic Blizzard will slow down on re-releases. However, I would love to see a Burning Crusade SoD, Wrath SoD, Cata SoD, etc. I also think that as those later expansions hit their 10+ year mark that fans would want to go back and experience them again (or for the first time) "Just for the hell of it"
Maybe whenever blizzard finishes a full round of expansions through classic, they can release wow classic-classic. I would give it all another go if blizzard makes an effort to circle around wow content every 10 years. Maybe on the second round they can remove the bots.
not to mention the awkward moment when they ask us about WoD Classic xD
The answer is as far as the classic community wants it to go. I think there's a chance people will ask for mop, but I don't see anyone playing past that point. There are already a number of classic server types available with more likely coming at some point, so I highly doubt the demand for later expansions will be enough for blizz to commit further. Just what I think anyway.
I'm not a big classic dude (after revisiting classic I've actually started to hate it if I'm being honest) but I always figured for the people who do enjoy that version of the game that wrath would of been the end of it. The world itself changes quite a lot, and a lot of those things other people like so much go with it. I'm sure others have said it already but if anything they should do a seasonal Wrath server along with the seasonal vanilla one. With that said I'm sure a ton of people are going to play cata classic but I gotta feeling that's where people are going to start falling off, similar to what happened back then.
Other than Classic Era, I've had 0 interest in TBC, Wrath, etc. However Legion? I'll ABSOLUTELY come back for Legion
As someone who never got to do the Wrathion MoP questlines, I'd LOVE a MoP classic.
Personally I hope we don’t see MoP, definitely not under the scope of “classic wow”. Although I have great memories of it, it isn’t “classic wow” anymore. If they want to continue going through expansions it would be better to rename the progression as a separate series, different to classic, but still coexisting alongside Retail & Classic. Great vid as always! 👍🏻
I Hope we don’t see MoP ? That sentence is a crime . MoP was the best expansion . It should’ve replaced TBC
Vanilla > MoP > DF . Those 3 are golden
@@Thrall966 mop went full blown "you are the hero!" Disney nonsense. You might as well just play Retail at that point. Cata and Wrath also have that to a degree but MoP really takes the handholding story to an extreme.
Legion is one of my favorite expansions of all time, I am currently playing SoD and I love vanilla and the classic trilogy in general but as someone that came to classic from retail. Legion feels like an expansion that would attract a lot of players. I know I am in the minority here but I would definitely love to see Legion again.
As someone who played classic since beta, Legion was far and away the best expansion after the trilogy.
Legion was absolute ass. Titanforging, RNG legendaries, timegated content everywhere, stupid mission tables, AP grinding, etc.
@@someguy9970facts, MOP was way better than legion
actually i think a lot liked legion. personally i can't decide between pandaria and legion.
Yes!! Exactly!
I'd love to replay Legion. I hope they will get to that point some day
MoP was truly a special expansion that not enough people appreciated because of stubborn mindsets and cataclysm poisoning the well. It deserves having the spotlight on it; with eyes unclouded by hate.
Yea heh. Cata was when WoW was getting toxic af. Ngl I stopped at MoP for years till 2021.
The best joke I heard of MoP was “oh a Kung Fu Panda Xpac?!” lul.
I've been a monk main since before day 1 of MoP. Knew I was making one back in cata. So yes. I'll be playing the heck out of Classic MoP when it comes around. I've still got those CM paths burned into my brain
Maybe I am crazy, but I would be more than happy to play on a classic server that progresses from Vanilla to TBC to Wrath over 3-5 years, then restarts, and I would be more than happy bringing in the SoD changes to this kind of server. I'll be happy playing through the original trilogy forever.
Amen!!!
@@TOXINZ2glad to hear I am not alone!
@@Persepolis-o2bI feel like a lot of people would love it too! That and Classic+
Mists of pandaria is probably the limit for me. Wrath is the last of the original feeling of Warcraft 3, and cata and panda both are great in their own ways.
A legion rerelease would be so awesome. I recently played through the demon hunter starting event again and was reminded how damn cool legion writing was. Legion as an expansion felt so epic. The tone, the atmosphere, the writing, how all the little details connect into this big epic narrative about destroying the burning legion. It was so awesome. After they fix up the systems early on in the expansion people will fall in love with it again. Definitely one of the best expacs ever.
The pvp was stellar
Yes!
Excited/Stoked to be getting back into WoW & Classics after not playing the game at all since 2010 or so I’m pretty sure. Waiting on new laptop 💻 to arrive from UPS📦🚚👍🏼👍🏼😎💯
Mists was honestly one of the greatest expansions…. It was SO good and SO FUN. The leveling pace was great, I felt
More in tune with the story as I leveled, and when I entered Pandaria I actually paid attention to the story more. The raids were great. There was a ton of side of content. It was great.
WoD just didn’t have much to do… but the raids were…. Amazing…
and druids had SYMBIOTE!!
WoD is also when itemization became standardized and boring AF. You just dont find many unique weapon and armor pieces with interesting effects anymore
I actually really loved WoD. Before Classic I was just a solo player that didn't really do LFR or Mythic+. I loved the Zones, Garrison and running the raids in later expansions for transmogs. If it were to be brought back in classic changing the pacing of the phases/patches would fix it for a lot of people. I would love to see them bring in scrapped content but as you said it isn't very likely.
Adding content that had to be scrapped during the original launch of the addons would be a great start.
Also fresh servers for every Classic there is once the content cycle is completed. This would give players the option to jump onto any expansion they currently feel like playing. I'd imagine a time where a "new" raid tier releases every month of the year would be a good sub retention method and would give players value for their subscription money.
I would love to play Pandaria Fresh again, was so much fun
I would actually LOVE WoD classic with changes added to it. The zones all looked and felt amazing, and are still some of my favorite zones of all time.
I started playing in BFA unfortunately so I hope they have one version of classic that just keeps going on and one like SoD where they actually do extra content with classic.
i've had a blast going back and revisiting each expansion. i hope they keep going. it's fun going back and playing the classes with the different design philosophies. i hope they'll go up through legion cause i'm here for it
So does that mean we'll get a Battle of Azeroth classic? Shadowlands classic?
@@ryuno2097 totaly ok with that, tho i doubt classic hype will live that long.
Now that we hit cata I seriously no longer give a shit about standard classic gameplay experience onwards. Hope they won't get lazy with seasons and we won't have a god damn year of downtime per season.
Im HOPING for legion, it was my FAVORITE
It can go on forever, honestly. Resets, being able to move between expansions, whatever makes people happy. They just need to realise changes will always be needed - rebalancing, bug fixes, quality of life improvements.
Cata and than Mop but with a lot of changes implemented (M+ Challenge Mods etc) . It could be a blast
A wod classic with pharalon and the shattrath would litetally be a dream come true
We speak of Blizzard.
Do not setup yourself to being heartbroken.
A little bit off topic: I started to play WoW a week or two before launch of Cataclysm. I think the launch happened at midnight. I was waiting for it at Stormwind with lots of other players even though I wasn't at max level yet.
At midnight everyone just flew away and I was left alone (almost). One of those who flew away was my cousin. By the morning he had leveled his character from 80 to 85 and got some kind of burn out. As far as I know he hasn't touched WoW since.
Good memories.
I think they should just keep going through the expansions. Kind of wish they'd leave a few servers up for each expansion, though, but I get where that could be difficult to manage.
Classic ends after WotLK for me.
I enjoyed Cataclysm, but lets be honest, its not classic. The world and game system change too much for it be considered classic. Personally I think classic can go two different ways: one is to reset everything and go back to 2019 and do it all over again AND the second option is to take everything they learn from SoD and create a proper Classic+ going forward.
Legion last patch was actually so fun cuz u could get legos on your atls pretty easily b4 that was pretty meh. i liked legion a lot tho for the most part
WoD had some great questing. And the best cinematic. CBF playing past WotLK though.
I think Mop is pretty much guaranteed at this point.
Wod and Legion? Maybe.
I think after Legion they should dump our classic characters into a Permanent Legion Server since being stuck in Legion forever really wouldn't be that bad.
Then they can launch classic a second time with all the good changes they made over the years. Changes that aren't drastic to the game but fine tune out modern problems.
Like the black lotus problem in 2019 classic where you could literally never find one.
man i would love if they rereleased wod finished with all the cut content they wanted to add in, thats the only reason i could see them doing a wod classic. dont know how likely it is but i can hope
Imagine if BFA classic would release but they would add in all the stuff they didn't have time to make back in the days, like the missing raid tier and the capital city that was scrapped.
Should stop @ wotlk
Should have stopped at tbc
After 10yrs of not playing wow, SoD got me hooked lol
Man i want to play Mists of Pandaria now. You need a disclaimer 🤣
Classic should had stopped at Wrath
Imo changing talent trees, continue to raise level caps and almost exponentially raising the numbers from last lvl cap to the new lvl cap just makes anything but the new expansion not only irrelevant but feels bad. Like why do elks in the new zones have triple the hp of elites and bosses from long enough ago....
The only way I want to see WoD Classic is if they treat it as "Classic Plus" and add in some of the content they clearly cut (like the Shattrath raid).
If they release WoD classic and add all the scrapped content it would be soooo good and I'd be hyped tbh
ngl I honestly wouldn't mind Legion Classic if it mean going through the original DH expansion experience one more time, but that won't be til what, like 2027? Because they're never gonna backport DH into older stuff, he's too OP for that. Hell he was too OP even in Legion, Eye Beam destroyed everything.
I might be a total spycho but I think a WoD without the content droughts actually might be one of the best classics. Not vanilla launch good but like I think people ground from actually sticking around to appreciate the fire lands and thunder king raid tiers enough to want to appreciate blackhand
if they're going past Wrath, which they are, they gotta get to Legion, that is the best retail expansion and worth it.
I can only see current retail players liking Legion classic.
I didn’t watch the vid but I will hop in classic when it gets to Battle For Azeroth. Had to play it briefly to get to current level when I started WOW and it was a blast and I would love to experience the whole story and whole expansion at the right pace, so I’m holding out for Classic BFA.
Related to this is the question; how do you fix the aweful new player experience? What if there was a mode of playing wow for leveling and story telling across ALL expansions? Without strange scaling issues and with a complete end-to-end story. The classic approach combined with the new NPC follower dungeon system which would also work in raids.
Imagine the following a scenario.
- As a new player you are provided with the option of starting a new character in Ultimate Mode or Story Mode. You would then be able to do each expanansion in turn and do all the main dungeons and raids with that system enabled.
mop is only expansion i didnt had the chance to play at all. Since i main monk i would love to play it where monks were the best melee class :)
Can't wait for Shadowlands Classic!
Kek
Fun part about sephuz early , I was playing survival and I could procc it on any fight, at any moment by throwing a net at a boss , best on the opener was you ran in, for some reason the survival hunter net was the only CC that could proc on immume targets lol I loved it
If I am to guess, Legion seems like it'll be the last possible expansion to get the classic treatment. And that would depend on them actually making it through WoD, or just skipping it. Because while I love the idea of taking something that sucked but had potential and fully realize that potential, I don't think that people in general would be excited for WoD classic. And frankly, I don't think they would even try to put in the effort to capitalize on any promise WoD had. What's more likely is that once the classic cow is starting to get milked dry (if we're not there already), they'd skip expansions straight to the ones that people liked. Possibly hopping over WoD and possibly even mists for Legion Classic.
For me, wotlk was my favourite expansion. The only other classic I wouldn’t mind playing would be mop, I won’t be playing wod or anything after mop if they go that far.
When classic first came out I was really excited but after playing the first 3, wotlk is the only one I’ve stuck with from start to finish.
I would agree though, legion will be released but I doubt anymore afterwards.
Personally I say End at MoP, it was the last expansion Not to have any Squishes (Level or Stat) and also like the Four States of the game before it, did Not have Level Scaling, MoP also had some classic systems and stats still intact, which WoD had removed, yes MoP is the Start of a more, "Modern" Experience, but I want to see it come, but No Further than MoP.
I think WoD will be great this time around. Maybe they could find some changes to make it a little better with feedback? But I do agree that even seeing Legion again eventually would be great for the MMO scene.
I will probably continue with Cataclysm cause I didn't thought it was too bad back in the day but MOP is a no go for me, simply because the Asian theme just didn't appeal to me back then and it still doesn't. I hope they would keep a WOTLK era server, and for the people saying "there is Classic era", classic era and WOTLK are too different to compare and I prefer WOTLK.
this man is like a loyal cold friendly teacher in times of need. I know him for more than 4 years - 5, the same content
I definitely want to see Pandaria Classic; but I am not keen on Cata Classic.
It seems pretty clear to me they will just keep going until it catches up with current... making some fixes to biggest criticisms and making the release cadence more regular. Once it catches up they'll probably do something to restart the whole cycle
Currently doing classic HC and I would love a Burning Crusade HC that starts you at level 60 and makes you travel to 70. TBC had such interesting content, and it would make those tough heroics far more interesting if you had ten levels of progress on the line.
Just take a look at Everquest progression servers. Holly Longdale ran those for a long time. In EQ what they do though is they release content at an accelerated rate and then a new fresh every year for the people who only like the first xpacs while letting the older servers run on specific rulesets and release schedules until they catch up to live and get merged. I expect we may see something similar once they've done "classic" of every xpac and see what the players end up wanting and playing long term. I expect the major classic realms will see a pretty big resurgence for MoP and then Legion once they push that far along.
The main difference between classic/wotlk and dragonflight isn't the mechanics or the content. It's the way the game is played. One version emphasizes chat communication, cooperative leveling and progression and the other basically plays like any modern MOBA, hop in, get to know the game, start grinding shit while sitting in discord with 50 other dudes playing 25 other games. Original WoW had that 2000s Dungeons and Dragons / MUD Tabletop feel with random people you just met while in a chatroom. I won't hate on live-WoW, but it clearly for Gen Z and the voicechat-generation.
I would like pandaria just for my old murder of crows with my hunter again
I felt so badass summoning an actual murdwe of crow adds
I would die on the hill that MoP was story-wise best expansion xD
I always thought after WotLK classic, they had an opportunity to keep classic players by not doing Cata classic but instead do a new expansion on an alternate timeline where the Cataclysm doesn't happen and Azeroth doesn't get all screwed up by it. I think they screewed up by not doing this, but they can always make a new expansion that reverses the cataclysm and diverges the timeline so that "classic" keeps a classic-like feel but new.
MOP was crazy,do you remember the affly lock snapshoting?
as someone that never experienced first hand WoW Addons before Battle for Azeroth - Im happy being able to play some old addons in their classic version!
I played from the end of Vanilla up until Firelands came out. I took 2 1/2 years off to play SWTOR and I don't regret a second of it. I came back to WoW at the end of Mists and did some LFR to catch up on things. For WoD and Legion, I hit level cap with a few characters, did some of the first raid tier, then quit again. It wasn't out of spite, it was just out of boredom. I didn't play BFA, SL, or DF.
I'm looking forward to Cata. I enjoyed it back when it launched, but as stated I quit at Firelands, so didn't get to experience the rest as it rolled out. My favorite WoW memories will always include tanking Cata Heroics on my Pally. Cata Heroics were actually hard after coming off Wrath, and I couldn't have been happier. When you got a decent group and could get past say, the first boss of Stonecore, you knew you were in for a good time.
I may stop if they do MoP Classic. It depends on what my guild is doing. As is, we're likely splitting into 10 man teams for Cata, so that's going to drop some of the connection we have. I'll have to play it by ear, I suppose.
Im mostly interested in seeing up to Mist of Pandaria on Wow Classic. It was the last expansion I truly enjoyed.
If they release a warlords of draenor classic, they will need to add all the cut content at the very minimum. My main complaint to the expansion is while the content we had (except for garrison) was good, the main issue is the lack of content.
im not a fan of legion, but I can see plenty of people wanting a legion classic with open arms. However BFA would require some severe changes, and I basically quit retail after that. While I did buy shadow lands, and leveled through the first 2 leveling zones, I just never got into it. It was so mind numbingly boring that I would actually think of real life and get depressed.
im going to try and play all the expansions i missed, and thats a lot of them
Would love to play through legion again but unless I win the lottery, time will be the problem. I barely have time for SOD as it is. Hopefully I’ll reach level cap before the next phase.
I LOVE MOP!!! Warlocks can cast Incinerate while moving!! OP AF!
Personally think a server that just cycled through classic, BC and Wrath then back around to classic would be cool.
It died with the LK. Now I'm on SoD and just enjoying the change of pace.
heres what i think happens: They merge into retail, but Chromie gets a buff and can literally send you back into the "world that was".
WOD was way more enjoyable than BFA and Shadowlands (DF as well to me) and had huge potential if Blizz didnt cut half of the planned content. Also funny how retail just moved away from MOP talents and Soon™ classic will be dealing with them again :D To me Cata and everything after that feels like im playing a bit of a different version of Retail WoW which im also playing with Classic.
Personally MoP would be the last Classic expansion I would play. After that I'd prefer Classic+ or more SoDs.
Think they should do a world revamp and start all over with Vanilla. I mean the game is literaly 20 years old thers nothing else they can do except maybe combine content from different expansion into one! Having Silvermoon and Boralus at the same time would be cool of course this should be adjusted properly to work together somehow!!
I think MoP is pretty much a given since so many people want it and Blizz themselves mentioned it when they were asked how long classic will go. WoD might have been bad back in the day but I do believe it was mostly due to the lack of content. With a good phase cadence of a rerelease it would be fine and then like 10 months later we can do Legion which can honestly be the best expansion ever with the right changes.
They just need to make artifact power alt/respec friendly and a way to target and get a specific legendary from the start and the expansion will have no downsides imo.
If WoD is too big of an obstacle Id be totally down to just skip it in order to get to Legion. Maybe have the Legion pre-launch event last a bit longer and be a leveling tool to get players from lvl 90 to 100 to be ready for Legion launch.
i would want to replay legion with alt friendly changes but i dont want to replay WOD. that said i think MOP is great except for the talent changes if BLizz could keep the talents system going inot Mop or Beyond i may play. but i think "CLassic" ends with Cata
I think their best bet would be to go the EQ route, with a variety of seasonal, progression, and player-voted unlock servers alongside retail.
I actually look forward to MoP classic; it's the expansion I have the most nostalgia for and the one I'd most like to revisit.
I never played WoD and Legion when they were current, and of the two I would love to play Legion fresh as of any past expansion, I think it's the one you lose out the most replaying it as it is now instead of how it was then.
BFA/SL eh... I don't think they were all bad but boy did they feel the worst mechanics-wise and systems-wise. I think those would be the hardest sell.
DF let's just say the jury's still out on that one lol. Hard to say how nostalgic I'll be in the future for something that in the present is still current content. I like it now for the most part, but who knows how I'd feel about it in 5-10 years.
I'd rather see Blizzard follow EverQuest's model with time-locked progression servers. Their TLPs have servers that end at a specific expansion and servers that progress to the very last expansion. Then, every few months or so, they spin up a new TLP for those who want a fresh experience. I'd love to see this along with new class tuning in each expansion to make it more interesting.
I sincerely doubt Blizzard will put any major effort or time into creating brand new classic-era content because a) their primary development focus is in retail, b) they don't want to do anything to drastically split the retail playerbase and c) they don't necessarily need to.
This is being a debate, but we knew what we wanted and didn't know we didn't want it.
That one aged like fine or horrid wine depending how you wanna look at it.
Bottom line, how wrong can you be?
YES!!
'How Far Will Classic Go?'
The only answer to this is: exactly as long as people are willing to pay for it.
i'm never subbing again when Wrath is done personally
It'll go to Dragonflight and the next expansions after that. Then they'll reset and have a "ClassicPure" which starts it all over again in Valley of Trials etc.
Im lvl a Paladin in SoD and Vanilla Wow because i want that legendary Judgment set and Grand Marshal set.
In WOTLK/Cataclysm if people start playing i can just pay the boost
Blizzard struck gold with WoW. They created a game that was great 19ish years ago, attracted a rabid fanbase with low standards/expectations, and they can keep milking this for the foreseeable future. Content hitting a lull? Throw in a few changes and regurgitate 99% of the same content we were doing four years ago and watch people swoon over it. Minimum effort, maximum reward; it's a great business strategy when you've lost quality and the ability to really innovate. Why worry about Classic+ or something significantly new when the fans are all talk and no action?
New player here: Does that mean there will be more expansions added to the current classic offering? Right now it’s TBC and WotLK right?