Speaking as someone who resented even BG's existing (because they killed world pvp), if we're gonna have AV then people have to run to Alterac.
In city BG masters were a negative development. People sat in town all day farming honour.
AV/WSG being open at the start will mean no Tarren Mill / Southshore pvp. You know that right? Cos all that declined when they opened Alterac and really died when BG npc's popped up in Ironforge and Org.
Maybe is just me but I like if they apply archivements system, anyway this doesn't affect vanilla experience
Majority says yes to periodic class balancing.
The only legit "what if" question concerning that: What if it were limited to just the classic server and (in the event there are multiple classic servers) not cross server?
I don't have a dog in this race, so to speak, but I will say that to include a cross server LFG/D system in what's supposed to be a recreation of vanilla WoW wouldn't be historically accurate.
I made my point for you saying that the results haven't changed since it was small-scale until now? Yeah okay that makes sense.
I'm saying that BEFORE it was "tainted" with the non-classic crowd, it was still NEARLY 50/50 ON ALL of these choices where it is still 50/50.
Legion is the worst expansion
BFA=Blizzard Failed Again
https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comment..._google_trend/
I mean, why wouldn't you want that? Trust me right now, that 45.7% will be singing a very different tune if class X has some ridiculously overpowered ability that nobody can deal with, and a few months in 60% of wow classic players are playing that class. If that were to happen, run this poll again and you'll see very different numbers.
I don't think anyones advocating for new spells/abilities or removal of spells/abilities, but they can and will adjust damage numbers, cooldowns, etc to ensure a level playing field. I think anyone that thinks otherwise is naive.
It was made to give those who wanted a real server not a private server that was always in danger of being shut down or in danger of sheer stupidity of those who ran it. I don't buy the whole nostalgia thing. Those are going to be the people who play for two months, the normies more or less who play retail with a smile on their face. The remaining people will be the purists.
It wouldn't be vanilla with 40 sec saps or polymorphs. Classes had stark differences and some were more viable than others that should stay. The fact that you don't give real examples as I did points to your lack of play on private servers for real experience of the vanilla game. To say that I'm naïve will make you look stupid so don't. It all should remain as is. It's easier for Blizz because they don't need to pay the hours for a programmer to make the changes and it's the only way to keep it as original as possible which is what they have stated numerous times to be their intention.
I played since day 1, raided, was in a guild, had 5+ friends that played with me and finding tanks and healers could take hours. I can remember waiting 45+ min for a tank, getting one, running to the instance only to find out his gear sucked and couldn't tank at all. Man, fun times.
Most of my memory of vanilla was running circles in IF.
I think some balancing is necessary, but what people are afraid of is balancing similar to live. Basically the goals and philosophy for balancing vanilla were different, and they should probably be kept in mind when trying to balance classic now. For example, vanilla had far less closely defined roles than live does. Live treats ret paladins like a pure dps, whereas vanilla had something else in mind entirely. I think maintaining those shades of roles and niches in between the holy trinity roles is important. Small nudges here and there while maintaining that vanilla mindset are fine, meta shifts on the other hand would not be.
The results of this poll confuse the hell out of me.
Clearly there are far less purists than I thought there were.