I think that description is a bit off
“Long has it slept, in a place lost in time, but the time to awaken it with your credit card is nigh”
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and thats the problem. part of the original game was the leveling experience. it was fun doing deadmines a few times from 18-25.
this was lost probably with WotLK with people trying to get “realm firsts” now that achievements were a thing.
I understand the mindset of newer players will be to get to max lvl first and they dont want to lvl.
i understand that most content is at max lvl, and legacy farm is easier at max lvl.
i understand lvling is boring now.
but this was not entirely the case with vanilla, classic and TBC.
leveling was actually interesting back then for multiple reasons.
its blizz’s direction that has made WoW max lvl centric.
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Very certain ‘Capitalism’ is still in the dictionaries.
Obviously it’s awkward, if you don’t want to pay extra and don’t, while able to play Classic TBC, with Classic Vanilla, and Retail, for your standard sub… yet still want to complain.
If the mount was 100% speed all the time, even at level 40, I’d buy this, you save 900 gold pr. character, but its not. I think some blue post confirmed you need to buy riding skill in TBC and then you get mount for cheap (just like retail). That is not how it was in TBC, clearly the mount determined the speed, no your riding skill, thats why you had 2 kinds of gryphons. I think it was changed in Wrath Of the Lich king to be riding skill and then you could use any mount you wanted and ride just as fast on every mount.
I mean considering you have to pay 35 bucks to keep your char on classic vanilla while also having it to start TBC without having it removed from vanilla he has a reason to complain in this regard at least.
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The fact the mount works in both classic and modern WOW is to entice us all to shell out more money for it. I cant wait to read the classic threads on this as we know how much many of those players are purists.
Absolutely… it’s a total outrage to replicate the original experience.
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Trust me, you will not have to slum it on the Classic forum to read their opinions…many, many times.
The word certainly begins with a ‘p’, however I’m not entirely sure ‘purist’ is expansive or nuanced enough, to entirely capture the experience.
This has nothing to do with the original experience? You taking your char into TBC was the original experience ye. However TBC classic and Vanilla Classic are two entirely different games so if one wants to continue to replicate the original vanilla experience he would have to relevel his character once more despite the servers themself not changing.
Also if we want to discuss “original experience” then 99% of this advertised stuff would have to be removed.
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TBC launched…peeps went through the Portal…then raced to get to lvl 70, flying and end game content.
This is entirely about peeps being salty about a charge for new stuff, that was not in the original experience.
You want the ‘original experience’ then either level on from Classic Vanilla or roll a new character and level it, as I did when I first started playing.
Fact, there is not a single variation of anything, that any game developer does, that will not make a percentile of the Gamer demographic utterly apoplectic with rage.
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Then dont talk about replicating the original experience.
That wasnt the point?
Fact is that a company is not safe from criticism or lack of content with their decision.
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Doesn’t make the criticism valid.
Believe what you want.
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I will, with justification…the key word in the title is ‘Enhance’.
Nice way of saying “cheap money grab that should be included without any cost”. At least in regards of the replicate.
Mount i couldnt give a flying F about (retail mount should be separately purchasable). Boost i either couldnt give a flying F about although someone that wants to relive TBC doesnt necessarily wants to relive vanilla leveling outside of belfs and draenei but whatever. A pet was part of the original deluxe too so /shrug. Rest of that crap i also dont give a F about.
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An entirely subjective opinion, since I paid full retail for TBC back in the day, and none of that was included… Blizz also didn’t reset every other EU player on my realm, to give me a level playing field, because I didn’t have a Vanilla account and purchased TBC some time after the Xpac launched. leaving me at a disadvantage…what an outrage.
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For someone who doesn’t give a ‘F about’ stuff you do not have to purchase, you certainly appear very salty…suggesting you do indeed give a ‘F’.
regardless of this there is one thing id like to see
tbc belf paladins with that replica set from area 52(legionnaire/warlord) ranks
Really, I cannot remember it being all that interesting even back then. Other than the fact that up until SL there were more levels to get through I haven’t found that the actualy levelling/quest process has changed all that much over the years.
About the only difference now is the inbuilt quest helper addon/glowy thing around quest objectives but by TBC I had learned all about addons and Questhelper was one of the first I added. I tink the fact that it got to the point where almost every person and their dog was running QH that Blizzard had to bake it into the game itself.
Just blame capitalism instead of a company being greedy bro.
Are you kidding?
Of course leveling was interesting before. The big (really big) world, tons of variety in zones and creatures, tons (by the measure of that time) of quests which tell you what to do without showing it on the map (no, I am not saying let’s go back to those times, but this was interesting), many different professions helping you all throughout the levels (I cooked stuff and brewed alchemy potions all the time), hard mobs, etc, etc, etc.
It’s the world and leveling that made WoW. Not the stupid raids. Certainly not the stupid systems. It’s the world, instances and PVP. Plus lore that carried over from Warcraft strategies pretty fine initially.
If they issued SL in place of vanilla (with vanilla graphics, etc, to make it comparable) with its stupid systems in place of the world, it would have failed spectacularly.
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