"Finally, I'll get that Corrupted Ashbringer as a Ret paladin."
Nope. Now re-bless the raid while we wipe on Naxx trash.
"Finally, I'll get that Corrupted Ashbringer as a Ret paladin."
Nope. Now re-bless the raid while we wipe on Naxx trash.
There is the old epic mounts. They were removed for no good reason other than consistency so epic mounts had armor, and rare didnt.
This will never happen.
First of all, 90% of the gear that is gone comes from Naxx 40. Fresh 60's have no business being in that raid. So if someone just wanted a single piece of xmob gear from Naxx, they are going to have to Guild their way through MC, BWL and perhaps AQ40 in order to even get too that point.
But either way, that imaginary player earned it regardless.
It's a bad idea even if they ONLY add the found item from "classic" to retail. This would take away from those that collected them in the REAL VANILLA game. This new Classic will NOT really be like Vanilla WoW, because they are not going to fix most of the 1st two years of broken game, they will probably go with a mix of things including things that did not happen until BC.
Same thing happens when someone gets ALL the gear they need and lose motivation to keep raiding. Nothing new here. If you get complete 8/8 naxx gear, you have pretty much WON vanilla.
Actually it doesn't take anything away. The players who earned it 10 years ago will still have their items (assuming they didn't sell them like I did).
And if Vanilla is exactly like it was, then they "earned" it just as much as the older players did.
personally they should keep Vanilla at whatever the last patch it was and leave it that way.
let everyone start from scratch at 1
if people want to play 1.10 or whatever patch it was let them "enjoy" their time how they want.
while my friends played at 1.x I didnt start until 2.1 so the only reason I would play classic is if they let me get the things for transmog to my main account,
eg armor sets, and mounts that are not attainable otherwise anymore.
i already remember the changes from 2.1 to where we are now, the game is very much more convenient now than it was in 2.1 when I started, the grind from 1-70 took me at least 1 month and I remember using joannha's leveling guild, which I just deleted on my old PC somewhere.
no dual spec, keep gold where it was. if people want their nostalgia then let them have it but dont modify it much. was it 600g for 60% mount speed and 1500g for 100%? I cant remember anymore.
No, aside from your sub being shard classic and current wow need to be entirely separate.
if we are talking purely classic mounts, you have the old epic class mounts that got removed, the black battle tank being unique, and the old BG mounts.
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bolded the important part because it is obvious you didn't play back then, naxx set was 9 pieces, not 8, and there were VERY few people that had full T3 with full BiS weapons/trinkets, you could probably count on one hand the number of people on each server that were in this position, i personally only got 1 T3 item on my main, and i never saw anyone with full T3.
Because its 2017, Blizzard has spent millions of dollars on the Battle net app and using it to promote cross-gaming social interactions, and every other game they make always ends up with some sort of promotion involving the other games.
It WILL happen, but it may not be in this way.
I hope it will be though. It will be a nice way to reward people for playing a version of the game that is no longer accessible and show them truly what they missed.
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Right but this will occur on a server that will exist for a time significantly longer than the original product was meant to and the raid is already being cleared in the first reset on servers that claim their scripting is near flawless.
As an aside, 8/8 is the set bonus. There are 9 pieces, but would you use them all just because? I'd assume no, but it obviously heavily depends on the class.
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I would expect Classic to not have any connection to the collection system since it was not implemented. Would also counteract to the original gameplay and feel of the game.
But if they would have this connection enabled, then I would probably try to get the ZG mounts. :O
It's better they do not open that gate.
If they do, the crying will be deafening.
By the way, I'm even considering going Classic just to see the opening of the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj.
It shouldn't affect current-xpac servers in any way. You shouldn't be able to get scarab lord, ZG raptor/tiger or ZA bear on that account. Only legacy.
Watching the recent developments regarding 'What kind of Vanilla people want?' further makes me believe that connecting Vanilla and retail in any way will result in a disaster. People who would not touch Vanilla otherwise other than to get rewards on retail obviously prefer retail, otherwise they would play Vanilla for what it is without demanding any kind of rewards and would appreciate the fact that they can even play on a legitimate Vanilla server. This creates further problems that it is incredibly likely that the same people will find original Vanilla very intimidating compared to retail and would press for QoL or whatever changes they think are necessary to make the game 'playable' for them (e.g. they will want higher droprates and will most likely buy gold to get mounts etc). If Blizzard caters for them, the original Vanilla crowd who play the game because they genuinely like it would be alienated (and would further fracture the community of WoW) and the point of keeping a server that resembles Vanilla only marginally and attracts people who are just there to get rewards for something else would become redundant. Look at what happened in HoTS every time they did a cross-game promotion (hint: it was a fucking disaster hated by both sides, but obviously it boosted the number of players momentarily which in your eyes should be the only goal for Blizzard whereas I'm inclined to think that they may not have completely fallen into that pithole as of yet).
Edit: your statement regarding collecting all T3 sets further proves how delusional you are regarding what Vanilla is/should be in your mind.