World of WarCraft Classic Servers Will Bring Vanilla Flavor to Players
Blizzard is hard at work on a classic server option for WOW.
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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replyCharles Singletary posted a new article, Blizzard Announces Vanilla World of Warcraft
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holy ... shit...
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As they should.
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The game has been free to play up to like level 20 for a long time now.
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What a world we live in where this is the "big announcement from Blizzard" that gets everyone excited.
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Soulstone bags here we come
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Maybe I can finish my priest staff quest now (benediction/anathema). :/
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I deleted the priest I got mine on. Still pissed at myself for that
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Lol have fun farming shards before a dungeon or raid
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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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if they don't keep the dungeons nerfed they will
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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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People will quit when they realize it took 10+ days (240 hours) to level to 60 back then.
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Yeah grinding those cemeteries as a paladin in the PLands for like 2 whole levels was something else.
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vanilla zones still have a 10 level scaling tech so you cna't go right to silithus or plaguelands
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That's really great news. I wish they would focus more resources on older content, I care more about that than I care about new continents and increased level cap. Cataclysm was the most exciting expansion they ever did for me. If I had my way they'd take a page from GW2's book and radically redesign the leveling system. WoW has such a ludicrous amount of content that goes unused.
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RIP non healing druids shamans and paladins
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Ashkandi is a hunter weapon.
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Sounds like this actually isn't too far off: https://www.polygon.com/2017/11/3/16604460/world-of-warcraft-pvp-player-versus-player-servers
PvP servers will be gone, instead you opt-in to PvP and then you start encountering other PvP players in the world.
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Wow and Vanilla Wow has always been easy mode. Wow now days is easy mode with cheats.
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Meh. Came from EQ. Shit was easy.
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Got your NR gear for Princess?
Fuck.
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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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I want to play vanilla WoW the way I remember it, not the way it actually was. At the minimum they should bring over all the gameplay/animation polish improvements, UI features, LFG, etc. I'd even go so far as to say keep most of the modern class design, I don't really need to play with old talent trees etc.
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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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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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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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Great video on why people still want to play WoW vanilla
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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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anyone remember this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0mY7GWKkTM
