Hello everyone. anyone that played when this was removed know why it got removed? i really enjoyed this ability when i unlocked it and i don’t get why they removed it because eye of killrog is still in the game. thank you for your time.
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“No fun allowed”
Blizzard hates fun.
it won’t return bcause it is too “complicated”
This ability was removed in patch 4.0.1(pre-patch to the Cataclysm expansion). With this patch, classes in wow overall saw quite an extensive amount of changes. Many abilities were removed from the game completely.
Too my knowledge there has never been an official statement as to why this specific ability was removed. A fair amount of comments/statements made by players over the years say that it was removed due to a lack of interest to use it in-game. But again, this as far as I know, is just speculation.
In response to topics created on bringing this ability back into the game in the past, developers have stated that since it’s removal, they no longer have the code for the ability. And the work/time required to create the code needed for the ability to work in-game just couldn’t be justified.
I will say this though, this ability, DID exist in the original version of WoW(Vanilla). And considering World of Warcraft: Classic is supposed to be released in 2019, I would be VERY surprised if this ability is not in there once it goes live.
And since they have “updated/reworked” the game files from original wow in order for them to run properly on modern computers. Let’s just say that I see no reason as to why we can’t get Eyes of the Beast both on live(BfA) at the same time as it gets implemented into WoW: Classic.
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I’m gonna be honest, half of my excitement for vanilla is just to havi this back haha and yes i know i’m an idiot but i liked it so much XD
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I really want it back too, and quivers <3
God if they would bring back quivers i would be actually so happy ahah i wouldn’t even care that the actual gameplay is not too enjoyable for me now if i had quivers and eyes of the beast XD
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This comment is so genuine
Update! (Time to get our hopes up yet?)
Info below is taken from:
xDlate WoW Classic Interview with Ion Hazzikostas and Calie Schie
Wowhead link(interview translated from russian): https://www.wowhead.com/news=291757/xdlate-wow-classic-interview-with-ion-hazzikostas-and-calie-schie
xDlate Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKPbywm634
In this interview, xDlate asks Ion and Calie:
xDlate: Do you plan to take some ideas from Classic development and apply them to live servers?
The answer:
Ion Hazzikostas: One example that I can think of–let’s take a look at how our code evolved. We removed the ability called “Eye of the Beast” from hunters and, as a result of several code changes, it was actually impossible to us to reinstate it in modern WoW-- it would be a tremendous amount of work. Well, to make Classic happen, we had to do most of that work. There are still some bugs to fix, but we actually think in the modern game, thanks to the work we’ve done to make “Eyes of the Beast” work again, there’s no reason we can’t give hunters that ability back in Battle for Azeroth, and that’s like a small example of something.
While this was not a clear statement that we ARE getting Eyes of the Beast in current WoW. I would say it’s about as close as it gets to be just that.
I at least, am now much more hopeful that we will be seeing the ability make it’s return back into the game. Perhaps even, as mentioned in the answer by Ion, as early as BfA!
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