Originally Posted by
shrunken
The last thing I'll say on this is that I like there to be things in the game that I can no longer get. I've never had problems getting elite sets on the classes I played. I also never had problems getting 2200 weapons. All of my characters that I actively played from s9 through the end of MOP have their elite gear, so long as it was worth keeping (s14/s15 rogue? no thanks).
That said, I never played a DK back then but I've taken the class up this expansion as a fun alt to screw around on. I absolutely love the WoD S1 & S2 DK elite sets. Both of them. I wish I could have gotten them then, but I wasn't playing the game too much. I love seeing someone randomly run by wearing one of those transmog sets and occasionally shoot them a whisper and usually get something friendly in return. I've never wanted to cheapen that whole experience; an experience that constitutes half of what MMO's were meant to be about in the first place.
If this change goes through, sure my DK can get a couple armor sets that it didn't have and that I surely could have gotten if I'd been active... but so what? Now I'm back to only chatting with my 3's team, not bothering to notice when every single rating-purchasing douche runs by me looking more fly than they have a right to, and the game just becomes that much more insular to me.
Everything in WoW is becoming cheap, like the game is devolving back to a state where Naxx25 is the standard for everything. People are taking advantage of the game's decline to become incredibly entitled and leverage the desperation of the dev team against them, but in doing so you're only ushering in a complete loss to the spirit of the MMO. If people really want that feeling of fun and excitement from Vanilla back, this sure as hell isn't a step in that direction.