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World of Warcraft Classic launches August 28, 2019, Closed Beta May 15th
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I don't know if there's any version of WoW that can reconquer me but I will probably give this a shot for a month at least.
WoW ranks right next to Ocarina of Time for me in terms of mindblowing videogame experiences but every time I've jumped back in in recent years it has just felt flat. So, we'll see. Hopefully some of the magic will still be there.
WoW ranks right next to Ocarina of Time for me in terms of mindblowing videogame experiences but every time I've jumped back in in recent years it has just felt flat. So, we'll see. Hopefully some of the magic will still be there.
I'd be interested in playing this if they had a new modern graphics engine while everything else remained classic, but I'm not interested in playing a completely 2004 experience. Obviously there is an audience for it, so it's good for those that want it.
This might have been during Burning Crusade (but since it didn't really change stuff for sub-60 content, this may be irrelevant) but i loved leveling a Prot Paladin. Had this weird-ass idea of reflecting damage as much as possible (shield-spike, retribution aura, etc.). Really tough, could tank and kill multiple mobs at once. Maybe not the most efficient method but sure as hell was fun.
In order to recreate the true Vanilla experience we need
1. Awful Barrens chat
2. Whining about Will of the Forsaken
3. Retribution Paladins complaining about not being viable.
1. Awful Barrens chat
2. Whining about Will of the Forsaken
3. Retribution Paladins complaining about not being viable.
4. 1/1000 triple windfury crits being used as evidence of shaman being overpowered
To get an invite to the beta, yes. and even then you still might not get one. Im not sure how the stress test invites are going to work, but you also still need to be subbed for that it seems.
"best" specs is a bit misleading, in most cases healing was the only viable spec. Hybrid damage was garbage, straight up. By 1.12 they tried making some improvements, but feral druids in particular were straight up broken. None of the druid skills scaled with stats, weapon damage didn't increase feral damage, and the stat distribution on feral gear made each of the previous problems even bigger.
Druid healing was.... okay, but they basically had to rob other cloth users of their gear if they wanted to get anywhere near decent. Their primary purpose was to innervate the priests and try to mitigate wipes by battle resing the tank.
Anyways, the biggest reason for hybrids being pidgeon holed into healing is simply that everyone played healing, and most fights you were good with 2-3 tanks, which meant if you could heal, you were expected to in guilds because no one liked leveling pure healers.
Straight up in Vanilla, hunters were easily the most fun/chill to play. By 1.12 pets were a lot less annoying though pretty sure you still had to feed them. I only stopped playing Hunter because of a really bad real life experience that put me off them (relationship that went real bad). Druid got me to 60 just because when I got bored I could just foot the respec build and at least pretend to be a different class.
One small but important item at the bottom of the news release:
If you already have BFA but lost interest quickly, as I did, early August might not be a bad time to get back in, just to take advantage of this privilege, reserve your Classic names, and poke around with some of the new content in 8.2 (which should be well out the door by then) since it's there anyway.
Interesting to note that we've heard a date for this but not for WC3 Reforged, which is the more important Blizzard release for me this summer. Of course, that's a game without a beta period or (to our knowledge) a physical collector's box, so it doesn't require the same lead time, but at this point I'm wondering if we will get it in July or if it will be bumped out of the summer entirely.
Blizzard said:
If you already have BFA but lost interest quickly, as I did, early August might not be a bad time to get back in, just to take advantage of this privilege, reserve your Classic names, and poke around with some of the new content in 8.2 (which should be well out the door by then) since it's there anyway.
Interesting to note that we've heard a date for this but not for WC3 Reforged, which is the more important Blizzard release for me this summer. Of course, that's a game without a beta period or (to our knowledge) a physical collector's box, so it doesn't require the same lead time, but at this point I'm wondering if we will get it in July or if it will be bumped out of the summer entirely.
Blizzard hasn't released a game without a beta period since before the original Starcraft, so I'm not sure why you'd think there wouldn't be one for reforged. Unless they've released a statement saying as such?
(fake edit) https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/191924
While not necessarily confirmation that there will be a beta, I certainly haven't found anything that says there won't be.
(real edit) https://www.pcgamer.com/warcraft-3-reforged-beta-due-early-next-year/
That article is back from November, but it's pretty clear there is a beta planned. I'd imagine that summer is pretty unlikely for it's release at this point.
SC:R didn't have publicly available beta, IIRC.
As for Reforged, it might not "need" a beta due to it being compatible with the original. That is, all changes and additions will be tested live with the original (latest WC3 patch made big changes).
lol, its possible
but man is it hard to maintain the dps you need constantly changing shapes like that for a raid setup
Not necessarily... If legacy bombs or if they don't think BC or WotLK will draw in enough people, I could see them sticking to just rebooting legacy servers.
I have no nostalgia for Classic WoW, I started playing at the end of Burning Crusade during the Wrath build up event.
I played 2 characters to 60 on Nostralius and it was super fun, it's a very different game WoW Classic. I'd love to have the newer models though, I don't see that being egregious
IIRC, druid shapeshift was originally (pre-launch) supposed to be cheap. But someone made them more expensive... and they were never made cheaper.
In the previous beta during Blizzcon you could switch between old graphics and new very easily in the options so I doubt they removed that feature.
I feel like if you're like me and are interested in this because of nostalgia, you should definitely watch some videos to get a wake up call on some of the more annoying aspects.
Like I heard a guy talk about mages stopping to drink alot and man did I get some flashbacks.
Edit: And lockpicking. Dear lord leveling lockpicking was annoying.
Like I heard a guy talk about mages stopping to drink alot and man did I get some flashbacks.
Edit: And lockpicking. Dear lord leveling lockpicking was annoying.
Wasn't that just somewhat increased draw distance and more foliage rather than "new graphics"?
i always doubt the veracity of private servers because they constantly feel way easier than i remember wow ever being but then i think it could just be that everyone including me was so incredibly bad in 2005
guess we will see
guess we will see
having played a druid all through vanilla it's crazy to think about how fucked everything was. The standards of class balancing (in games overall) have changed so much.
I still remember getting my raid set bonus which gave the amazing benefit of +60 seconds to Thorns duration, bringing it to a whopping 11 minutes.
argubly the best part of wow was tbc/wrath. atleast for raiders. uldar is still widely considered one of the best raids in mmo history.
Makes me wonder if Blizzard devs had any idea they were really doing.
Like, thinking about that for a moment should reveal how utterly stupid the bonus is. It is not exciting, it is not interesting, it is not useful!
Then again, many older games have utterly idiotic stuff that isn't really due to technical limitations, but evidently stuff that simply isn't thought through for whatever reason. Gaming as a medium has certainly matured in many ways.
This guy sounds way too whiney. "If you get in better give good feedback". Say it a few more times so I can ignore it more
Going to have too decide if I want to sign up again to play some good old vanilla rogue shenanigans
WoTLK was the peak for me as someone who wasn't a hardcore raider but still had access to a ton of content. TBC had the worst opening zone ever and the dungeons were more annoying than fun.
Healing hybrid builds were the go to for those classes.
That is what they're were great at. PVP mostly.
It was not, no. Woorlog had it right. It's mostly just presets for draw distance and things like that.
I tried to make cat dps work but even powershifting with the +energy gain on shift set bonus it was always kinda shit. Moonkin was theoretically fine with gear, but I only knew one or two birds who got enough cloth spell damage gear to be really competitive, and they probably made some enemies in the process. I could hit really hard in my AQ40 hybrid shit but it wasn't ideal for raids, just fun to one shot fools in pvp.
Bear was viable in fights that didn't involve fear mechanics, or if you were alliance and had a dwarf priest. There was no leather tank gear competitive with Naxx warrior tier set though, hell aside from the End of Dreams they stopped making fun druid gear after AQ40. And you couldn't do anything but go max armor/hp, raising defense high enough to avoid crits wasn't really something druids could do. Just had to get more armor than god so you didn't die to them. I tanked Patchwerk as a bear so it was doable.
you sure must love autoattacking
and then you can act all high and mighty about fotm paladins in wrath reborn
and then you can act all high and mighty about fotm paladins in wrath reborn
Oh god... had a PTSD moment there... I managed to do the honor grind up to Knight Captain back in the day... I'm both excited and terrified at the prospect of honor grinding again.