To Blizzard, the devs and all the people working on the Wotlk Classic release,
Please don’t let the rushers and the boosters set the pace of this upcoming expansion. Wotlk originaly lasted for two years, but the classic version doesn’t have to share a similar fate to what happened to TBC Classic, which ended up with barely more than a single year lifespan.
Saying the world has changed and we have access to a lot more informations than before is no mystery. Some say gold is power in Wow, but I rather think that it is actually knowledge. Now most of us know what to farm, where, when and how often. And yes, all this knowledge provided by Internet dramaticaly changed the way we experienced Wow Classic and TBC Classic, again this isn’t a scoop.
But still, for a lot of players (and I am one of them), there is a feeling every phases have been released way to soon because of that. It doesn’t only concern the casual players but even serious ones who just want to enjoy the current phase for what it is, even once their main has been fully geared, with an alt and, more importantly, with some friends.
I won’t make a big topic about it, since it might be an echo of several others (and english isn’t my mother tongue btw) and I am pretty sure you guys are already aware about this issue.
I’m just making a call back, hoping that Wotlk Classic won’t be a relic of the past in December 2023, that is it.
I heavily agree, WoTLK has so much potential and I truly hope Blizzard finds your post and it gets recognized. Even with them making some minor changes that can improve the experience as these days all the knowledge is already out there (where people can know anything about what to do or when to do it before even hopping in to the game), I’d say go for it. As long as they don’t change anything to the core as we know it.
Personally I’ve never been a big fan of Vanilla, never even reached 60 during the time. With TBC I played together with my brother and actually managed to get my first dip into raiding. But WoTLK really opened my eyes on what PvP can be and how immersive the game was. I hope this will be the case for many new players and old.
They rush and then whine that there is no content but it’s really only 5-10% of the population who do that and Blizzard shouldn’t accommodate them, but the average player.
there is little control over that, that is the wow mentality in 2022… people will rush and people will boost. and they will call the shots at the end because a lot of them are aggressive and controlling by nature, that’s why they find enjoyment in that style of play.
Wotlk needs to increase its longevity its one of the best expansions. But to do that we also have to postpone cata classic, and by this we might need Transmog in wotlkC:
I agree. TBC was butchered by player base. And I’m afraid the same will be for wotlk. But the problem here is something else: re-releasing another expansion every year Blizzard gets new cash flow on annual basis. Alas, Andorhal! Money talks!
Another issue: back in the day players complained about content drought in wotlk. So if Blizzard plans releasing new tier every 3 months there will be another one year cycle.
TBC Classic was paced pretty well tho. If anything phase 1 was too long and T5 was nerfed too soon, and that’s about it.
Most of the time off TBC was shaved from post BT content draught. To make it even more ironic, the original release had a fairly terrible schedule, first patch which had both T4 and T5 was shorter than Phase 2 in classic. On the other hand, originally there was almost a year gap between Black Temple release and the next 25 man raid (which most players couldn’t even clear)
If they base each classic launch on endgame patch, its gonna get rushed. If you let people level dks already in pre patch, content will be smoked. If you releasd dire maul 1 month after classic releases when it was supposed to be released after 6 months, people are gonna burn through the content.
Luckily doing stuff besides raiding in classic means something.