So over time, all of the frustration have accumulated over time, by what I regard lack of touch with the community, changes we never asked for, and problemsolving problems the classic team have created for themself instead of just sticking to what was. No the game was not perfect all those years ago, but the changes suggested recently is retail team level destroying the game, and its true nature.
Personally ive stuck with classic as my game of choice, and ever since I played 24 hours straight on classic release, to the thousands of hours ive played, what all of my anticipation built up to, had been wotlk classic. This has also been the case for many of my non classic/retail andys, as they looked forward to classic wotlk, whenever that was 3-4 years in the future. By that time yes, we have built a community and voiced our opinions, but also, the changes like removal of random dungeon finder, especially for levling fresh characters, and the new attempts of making dungeons yet again more rewarding, just feels like we are looking at where wow and its soul went wrong. This is a part of the increment change that in my opinion ruined the game.
So what is in the talks right now? I would assume it would be a updated item level on gear in heroics, as content patches releases. Instead of leaving it to trial, pit, forge and halls, as catchup dungeons. Its a reason it became such a succsess back then, as with trial of the champion, the big expansion feature random dungeon finder was released. Thats where I met about 30% of my friends, that were from my servers back then, and still playing with today. But why is such a feature hard removed, denying a amazing levling platform? Why is there a exist or doesnt, instead of a nuanced version, like only for normals, or just for the server only? I know private servers have well functioning random dungeon finders with smaller servers, due to the fact that players level up their alts, with the conveniance of beeing able to dungeon there. I know the vocal majority wants a regulated or removed feature alltogether, but why cant we have a transparent vote on it? Let everyone with a paying subscription chip in, let us vpte ingame, hell make such big decissions a popup ingame, have it easily accessible, and once and for all, get a clear view of what the community avtually want?
Cause what the community wants is what I feel is a shoot and miss rn. Yes there is the classic community alltogether, but also you have a huge wrath community comming, and I feel they should have a say. And the lack of touch was really proven recently, by the 50% exp buff coming. Dont get me wrong, im not complaining about the 50% experience buff, im furious why you just dont implement it when you announce it, instead of making people feel like they get screwed over for levling now, instead of waiting 2-3 weeks and do the same effort for less time! We all stopped levling due to the news, cause it gave us no motivation at all to level now, before the buff comes out. In a discord call of 10 people, everyone were celebrating the exp buff/event, and asked the question, why the hell cant they just enable that now, so we can sub, and start playing and preparing for wotlk?
And please do not touch the loot system of the game. Its what destroyed retail over years of changes, and is the system atleast me and most of mine love with classic. Even have waay longer phases for wotlk, longer arena seasons, and do not touch the naxx difficulty!!! The hp buffs doesnt change the difficulty of the fights at all, it only makes us spend more time inside the raid, and disrespects the time we spend playing. Im planning on maintaining 4 characters, and slowing naxx with 15% feels nothing but disrespectful to my time. If you are buffing raids, do it properly by retuning mechanics, and dont give us a half*ss solution.
I feel like the discussion of making dungeons relevant troughout the phases, just shows that you are trying to fix a problem that the random dungeonfinder fixed, trough spoil bags, experience boosts, and random blues for levling.
Please. Just, suggest the changes trough polls, dont disrespect us, and for the love of Arthas do NOT touch or even sneeze at the loot system.