World of WarCraft Classic Servers Will Bring Vanilla Flavor to Players

Blizzard is hard at work on a classic server option for WOW.

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Near the end of the BlizzCon 2017 opening ceremony, Blizzard shocked the world with the announcement of development starting for the vanilla World of Warcraft server option.

The upcoming option will get as close to the original code as possible for the vanilla World of Warcraft experience but, without any of the pitfalls.

Details for the classic server option will be made available in the near future.

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    November 3, 2017 12:06 PM

    Charles Singletary posted a new article, Blizzard Announces Vanilla World of Warcraft

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      November 3, 2017 12:08 PM

      This has peaked my interest.

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      November 3, 2017 12:10 PM

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      November 3, 2017 12:12 PM

      I can already hear the whining about balance, grind, and how they totally got X and Y wrong.

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      November 3, 2017 12:13 PM

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      November 3, 2017 12:14 PM

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      November 3, 2017 12:15 PM

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        November 3, 2017 12:19 PM

        Yep. Its also really easy to set up a personal server for a few friends and play with bots as well. Works really well.

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        November 3, 2017 12:22 PM

        As they should.

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        November 3, 2017 2:38 PM

        This is blizzard answering fan demand. Of course they should make the money on their own property.

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          November 3, 2017 4:58 PM

          If they delete Druids it’s fine

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        November 3, 2017 9:22 PM

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      November 3, 2017 12:16 PM

      Pretty excited for this. BC might be cool though.

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        November 3, 2017 12:38 PM

        Agreed. BC fixed a lot of problems with vanilla and offered more reasonably sized (read: not 40-man) content.

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      November 3, 2017 12:19 PM

      Whoa. I have interest but not sure I would pay a monthly subscription for it.

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        November 3, 2017 12:27 PM

        Same. I wonder if they would do free to play. Would probably ruin the game with microtranactions everywhere though.

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          November 3, 2017 11:29 PM

          The game has been free to play up to like level 20 for a long time now.

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      November 3, 2017 12:20 PM

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      November 3, 2017 12:21 PM

      What a world we live in where this is the "big announcement from Blizzard" that gets everyone excited.

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      November 3, 2017 12:32 PM

      I'll finally be able to get back into playing warlocks as they were originally designed?

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      November 3, 2017 12:43 PM

      The nostalgia is so strong, yet so hilariously misplaced. So many people are going to start this up and realize how shit it is to actually play.

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        November 3, 2017 12:51 PM

        I do wonder how much quality of life stuff they’ll add. I’m sure they’re aware of that careful balance. Or maybe they’ll just throw in paid lvl 60 boosts and mounts.

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        November 3, 2017 12:54 PM

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        November 3, 2017 1:05 PM

        if they don't keep the dungeons nerfed they will

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        November 3, 2017 2:37 PM

        Fucking INF

        I can't wait for it.

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        November 3, 2017 4:10 PM

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        November 3, 2017 5:00 PM

        Vanilla barrens chat... does this content also come with a stream of unending chuck norris jokes?

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          November 3, 2017 7:07 PM

          ANYONE SEEN MANRIKS WIFE?

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            November 3, 2017 7:11 PM

            Lord that takes me back.

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        November 3, 2017 5:52 PM

        Many have had fun with broken "blizzlike" vanilla servers - there is a market.

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        November 3, 2017 7:44 PM

        Depends on how much they revert, like qol and class balance

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        November 4, 2017 12:45 AM

        TORCHES!

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      November 3, 2017 12:51 PM

      The idea behind this is sweet but then you start playing and realize you are too casual and not ready for that shiz again.

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      November 3, 2017 12:55 PM

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        November 3, 2017 1:04 PM

        Ugh. Never again. Those last few levels suuuucked too, I ran out of quests and did mob grinding. ><

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          November 3, 2017 1:24 PM

          Yeah grinding those cemeteries as a paladin in the PLands for like 2 whole levels was something else.

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        November 3, 2017 1:06 PM

        I made it as far as 46, I think.

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        November 3, 2017 1:27 PM

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      November 3, 2017 12:58 PM

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      November 3, 2017 1:09 PM

      they just announced on the panel that leveling in WoW now scales to your level, you can quest through the expansions in any order. this is coming in a future patch, not the expansion

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        November 3, 2017 1:19 PM

        Interesting. So no more elite quests.

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        November 3, 2017 1:36 PM

        That's neat. Do they have something similar for dungeons? Scaling enemies and loot?

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          November 3, 2017 2:40 PM

          Prior to Heroic/Mythic mode, those exist now, for the levelling experience. If you queue for a normal dungeon, you will end up with 101s, 107s and 110s, and the damage is normalized.

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        November 3, 2017 1:38 PM

        This is awesome, I always hated having to bail on a zone halfway through since you out leveled it so fast.

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        November 3, 2017 2:06 PM

        Yeah and there are scaling caps so you can still go back to old zones and feel powerful.

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        November 3, 2017 2:53 PM

        Oh wow, really? That's kinda amazing. That should make the whole leveling so much more fun.

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        November 3, 2017 3:59 PM

        vanilla zones still have a 10 level scaling tech so you cna't go right to silithus or plaguelands

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          November 3, 2017 4:06 PM

          But I could do what South Park did and kill board til level 60 in elwynn forest.

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            November 3, 2017 4:06 PM

            Board**

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              November 3, 2017 4:06 PM

              Fuck off. BOARS

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        November 3, 2017 4:19 PM

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      November 3, 2017 1:21 PM

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        November 3, 2017 4:16 PM

        Good. Dungeon browser totally ruined the sense of community .

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      November 3, 2017 1:22 PM

      RIP non healing druids shamans and paladins

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      November 3, 2017 1:24 PM

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        November 3, 2017 1:34 PM

        Ashkandi is a hunter weapon.

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      November 3, 2017 2:09 PM

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      November 3, 2017 2:21 PM

      Thank god its not BC or else Id be draining my life into this again. BC was one of my favorite times in gaming.

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        November 3, 2017 2:27 PM

        I liked Wrath a lot too

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        November 3, 2017 2:59 PM

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        November 4, 2017 4:03 AM

        Me too. I still kinda want to do Sunwell properly. :(

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      November 3, 2017 2:37 PM

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      November 3, 2017 2:52 PM

      I'm gonna sub for a month for nostalgia before I remember how much of a grind old WoW could be.

      Back to Hunter ammo and lvl 40 mounts.

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      November 3, 2017 3:01 PM

      This seems like it will just cause population problems on existing servers. My realm is already fucking dead compared to what it used to be, and now it'll loose even more to a bunch of nostalgic neckbeards.

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      November 3, 2017 3:59 PM

      90% of people excited for this clearly don't remember what vanilla wow was like.

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        November 3, 2017 4:17 PM

        I do. It was hard and fucking tedious but the sense of community and progression was fucking awesome

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          November 3, 2017 4:49 PM

          Wow and Vanilla Wow has always been easy mode. Wow now days is easy mode with cheats.

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            November 3, 2017 4:53 PM

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              November 3, 2017 5:29 PM

              Meh. Came from EQ. Shit was easy.

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                November 3, 2017 5:40 PM

                Meh, so did most guilds that were top ranked and they struggled with the same shit

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              November 3, 2017 5:57 PM

              LFM MC....MUST BE ATTUNED!

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              November 3, 2017 9:57 PM

              Got your NR gear for Princess?

              Fuck.

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          November 3, 2017 5:29 PM

          How has WoW become easier over the years? I only played for the first 3 months of release.

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            November 3, 2017 5:49 PM

            Well I mean, you can get to level 10 in 30 minutes, no joke. Leveling up in vanilla was a HUGE accomplishment and now it means jack shit.

            It's really hard to die as well, and you can wipe out entire mobs just spamming the same button over and over again.

            QoL improvements like dungeon finder may seem nice at first, but there is no sense of community and people just shit talk since they know they'll likely never see you again. Certainly it was harder to find a group in chat, but you had to play nice and cooperate otherwise you'd get booted. Dungeons were harder too and involved strategy (even Deadmines!), now it's basically spamming the same button over and over while rushing through the content since it's so easy.

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            November 3, 2017 5:55 PM

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          November 4, 2017 1:34 AM

          Exactly, I played on one of the Vanilla WoW servers a couple of months ago and damn was it hard. Also, the grind to 60 was enormous. I think I made it to lvl40 or something before I lost interest.

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        November 3, 2017 4:56 PM

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        November 3, 2017 5:58 PM

        I loved vanilla / BC , I remember drooling over players with all the raid gear standing in iron forge, seeing people in raid gear showed they were good players, now you get end game gear by just logging into the game, its gone so casual its not even fun to play

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          November 3, 2017 6:52 PM

          I had the 2nd Perdition's Blade on my server.

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            November 3, 2017 7:00 PM

            I really hope you were a hunter.

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            November 3, 2017 9:16 PM

            I remember when I got benediction on my priest (prob 5-6th on server) Id stand out side the AH and show it off with pride, and I could see other badly gear priests stopping to check me out and asking how did i get that

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      November 3, 2017 4:56 PM

      Has Clay been alerted?

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        November 3, 2017 5:10 PM

        we should remake GCR and see if they repeat their mistakes!

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      November 3, 2017 5:05 PM

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      November 3, 2017 5:05 PM

      Can’t wait to farm that Crusader enchant recipe again!

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        November 3, 2017 5:08 PM

        Or getting raknar his tank sword to put the enchant on

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      November 3, 2017 5:16 PM

      I just want to play it single player somehow. With pause, because I have more kids than I did the last time I played WoW. And a party system like Mass Effect or KOTOR so that I don’t have to deal with other people.

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        November 3, 2017 6:05 PM

        I agree with this 100%. Just want to roam.

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        November 3, 2017 6:46 PM

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        November 3, 2017 7:03 PM

        Look up "World of Warcraft single player project".

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        November 3, 2017 11:34 PM

        You kinda can if you set up your own server but since there's no one else it feels really empty and sad. Something about that game hinges on there just being people around even if you never interact with them.

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      November 3, 2017 7:06 PM

      i dont know about vanilla but if it brings back a bunch of old wow players it might be cool to login and reminisce

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      November 3, 2017 7:27 PM

      Great video on why people still want to play WoW vanilla

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxR3zK-unFU

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      November 3, 2017 7:45 PM

      Whoa what

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          November 4, 2017 1:57 AM

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            November 4, 2017 5:36 AM

            Personally, I hated the new zones. It turned questing into a theme park where you just rushed from hub to hub, completely getting rid of the exploring aspect and the need to spontaneously group up/socialize with strangers to knock out a challenging quest.

            I also hated the forced pop references that ruined the feel of the game.

            Wrath pre-LFD is in my mind the peak of WoW, before a lot of these "quality of life" improvements sucked the soul out of the game and turned it in to "World of Interactive Menus".

            I really hope they also bring back servers hosting BC and WotLK as those seemed to strike the perfect balance and some of those zones were fucking amazing.

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      November 3, 2017 9:25 PM

      anyone remember this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0mY7GWKkTM

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