New Classic or Classic +

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Hello,

Been a classic fan since I started back in 06, and was super excited to see classic re-released when it was announced after the Nostalrius days. Played it several times, many classes, and had fun every time. I even bought the wow diary book (which I have yet to finish, altho its a really good read)

Now after both Burning crusade and lich king is released, and soon to be over, some are talking about the possibility of classic +. For fun I’ve been imagining different ways to make classic feel fresh again, and also heard plenty of ideas from others.

What I want to do, is make a post, and ask; what do you want to see in classic+ ? What would you add to the game, or what do you feel like is missing or have been missing from classic wow?

Some obvious and talked about changes would be
-Rebalancing class trees, abilities and spells.
-New raids, bgs, dungeons and general content.
-Finishing and implementing old ideas from the wow diary book and alpha (and pre-alpha) servers

Some things I’ve thought about is actual player controlled raid bosses, where a player plays the boss with a set of unique abilities and phases, making raid bosses not so much a step by step dance, but more of a reaction based fight. The replayability would be amazing, each encounter would be slightly or very different.

World treasure where u find clues on mobs and puzzles that you solve, leading you to a treasure w competative loot (or great leveling loot) treasure chests do not have a single set location.

Reworked professions

More immersive and combo oriented rotations. Playing frost mage and spamming frostbolt all day is pretty bad.

All in all, everything feels very step by step tutorial like (because most know so much about the game), when it could be more dynamic and immersive.

So please, post your thoughts, and have fun with it. Who knows, maybe theres a gamechanging idea out there somewhere.

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Insert “Another one” meme here.

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I don’t think Classic+ will ever happen.

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I don’t see classic+ happening any time soon. The community is already fragmented with vanilla, wotlk AND people doing the hardcore challenge.

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this to be honest!

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although who knows

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No rebalancing please! They are just gonna ruin my ret with stupid wings or make it a meta slave class!

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These are not the posts I was hoping for. Don’t know if + will happen or not, but the point of this thread is to share ideas. More excitement and enthusiasm pls :smiley:

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Secret patch 1.15 exists……who knows what it is :thinking:

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But it should. Look at ORS ( Oldschool Runescape ), how its doing A LOT better than the … “Retail” version. They opened OSRS because of the players and then they started doing updates to it based on player’s feedback and polls .

They 100% should do the same to Classic. Look how good Classic its doing this days. Yes yes, it just for a (short) period of time, but it shows how big of a playerbase Classic have.

I’m up for C+ !

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Yea coz its almost out of reality xd

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I’ve never played runescape so I can’t say whether a Runescape Classic+ is better or worse than the original. I do know that if they did add some of the stuff they are asking for the Classic Era it would no longer be Classic Era.

I don’t think changing a few minor things would upset most people but the major changes the OP suggests would change the very essence of the game.

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I dont trust the modern company to make a good classic plus. Even the passionate team back then murdered the game with TBC.

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Just add new content such as gear, dungeons, raids, BGs etc. Dont change anything else.

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I dont know guys, either you want classic or you want retail. There is not basicaly other choice no matter how you guys paiting it out.
SOM was already plagued by some retail improvements. Now imagine your classic+.
Dont understant why you think classic+ would not be anything else than retail ‘‘classic’’.

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2004 player who came back in 2019.

No reason to return to doing the same thing over a over.

SoM = not a good idea.

++ turtle wow / epoch ideas
++ new areas / instances+raids
++ catch up mechanics every patch (respect people´s time)
++ hardcore system for those interested
++ phases similar to 2019, slight tweaks
remove - GDKP, Boosting, Bots

Call it Classic Era Plus or something, and you can update this as long as there is interest and keep the community engaged.

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Thing is that classic as it stands was played on pservers for 20 years. Why you would want to have another turtle or epoch in era when you can play Turtle or epoch.
I mean we know why we play Era. And lot of us are not seasional players but people who played ERA all this time not because its something new or we have new raids. We just simple like ERA as it is.
Anything classic+ will be turned into retail. And anything what is liek Turtle or Epoc has no reason to exist if it already exist itself on pservers.
It just doesnt make sense to make classic+ that is not tested over time just like classic and currently ERA is.

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Vanilla can’t handle gear above Naxx in power level so those raids would have to be lower and released like before AQ…

So your typical retail patch? What about vanilla and old expansion not obsoleting your gear every patch?

So you want free catchup gear instead of paid boosts?

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Your name speaks miles about your responses @Sharknado.

I´ve been here since 2004, preordered wow man.

  1. Yes I like some of the retail ideas, not all are bad.

  2. You obviously have not looked at some of the gear available in Turtle Wow, who said anything about Naxx power gear ?.. spend some time seeing what Turtle wow does right and you might understand my post

  3. Yes catch-up gear is good, and allows more people to join the raids instead of forcing everyone to run MC and BWL 24x7 to gear a new player needed to progress in AQ40/Naxx… Friends join later etc etc…

Grow up mate.

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ZG and AQ20 are for that. Especially when MC and partially BWL have quite a bit of badly itemized gear - what’s the catchup gear then? Also badly optimized at a similar power level or properly itemized and thus just superior?

But this isn’t retail. People wanted distinct original version, they got it, they play it and not retail.

They do have below-naxx content but it’s integrated into the content release of vanilla, not after it really. A lot of people thinking about new raids or instances will assume/expect it’s after naxx.

I doubt it. Either way, it means nothing, and your posts aren’t anything different from others.