World of Warcraft Classic - Patch 1.13.0: Build 28211

World of Warcraft Classic - Patch 1.13.0: Build 28211
World of Warcraft Classic data for the BlizzCon demo was pushed tonight!

  • Everyone with a Virtual Ticket should be able to try the demo after the opening ceremony.
  • There are no new character models.
  • No DX12 support yet.
  • There is a time limit to how long you can play the demo before you have to take a break.
  • You'll start the demo at Level 15 and are capped at Level 19.
  • The game client is 64-bit only, has Battle.Net integration, better widescreen support, right click to report, and other tools to keep gameplay fair.
  • There is a 'Classic' button in the Video Settings that sets all of the sliders to the levels that were equivalent to the options available in the 2004 version of the game.
  • You can read more in the first and second Dev Watercoolers.




New Strings
There are lots of new strings relating to classic, but here are a few of the interesting ones.
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
  • WOW_ERROR_331 - You recently reached the time limit for your World of Warcraft Classic session! Please try again in approximately %d |4hour:hours;, %d |4minute:minutes;.
  • WOW_ERROR_332 - You must purchase a Blizzcon Virtual Ticket in order to access World of Warcraft: Classic
  • CLASSIC_DEFAULTS - Classic
  • WOW_ERROR_333 - Thanks for playing World of Warcraft Classic! You've reached the time limit for your current session, but you can play again in approximately %d |4hour:hours;, %d |4minute:minutes;.
  • RUSSIAN_DECLENSION_PET_EXAMPLE_1 - I always travel with %s.
  • RUSSIAN_DECLENSION_PET_EXAMPLE_2 - First thing yesterday I bonked %s on the head.
  • RUSSIAN_DECLENSION_PET_EXAMPLE_3 - Today I met %s again.
  • RUSSIAN_DECLENSION_PET_EXAMPLE_4 - Now I am friends with %s.
  • RUSSIAN_DECLENSION_PET_EXAMPLE_5 - Although I know nothing about %s.



Old Game Tips
The old game tips are back and a fun reminder of how the game used to work.
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
  • Your spell casting can be cancelled by moving, jumping or hitting the escape key.
  • Clicking on a player name in the chat window lets you send a private message to them.
  • You can Control>Click on an item to see how you would look wearing that item.
  • An item with its name in gray is a poor quality item and in most cases it can be sold to a vendor.
  • An item with its name in white is useful to players in some way and can be used or sold in the auction house.
  • You can send mail to other players or even to your other characters from any mailbox in game.
  • You can Shift>Click on an item to place an item link into a chat message.
  • All of your action bars can have their hotkeys remapped in the key bindings interface.
  • If a profession trainer cannot teach you any more, they will generally tell you where to go to get further training.
  • On your character sheet is a reputation tab that tells you your status with different groups.
  • You can perform many fun actions with the emote system, for instance you can type /dance to dance.
  • The interface options menu ESC> has lots of ways to customize your game play.
  • You can turn off the slow scrolling of quest text in the interface options menu.
  • Spend your talent points carefully as once your talents are chosen, you must spend gold to unlearn them.
  • A mail icon next to the minimap means you have new mail. Visit a mailbox to retrieve it.
  • You can add additional action bars to your game interface from the interface options menu.
  • If you hold down Shift> while right-clicking on a target to loot, you will automatically loot all items on the target.
  • If you enjoyed playing with someone, put them on your friends list!
  • There are a number of different loot options when in a group. The group leader can right-click their own portrait to change the options.
  • You can choose not to display your helm and/or cloak with an option from the interface options menu.
  • You can target members of your party with the function keys. F1 targets you; F2 targets the second party member.
  • Being polite while in a group with others will get you invited back!
  • When in a queue for a battleground you don't need to wait by the battleground to stay in the queue.
  • A monster with a silver dragon around its portrait is a rare monster with better than average treasure.
  • If you mouse over a chat pane it will become visible and you can right-click on the chat pane tab for options.
  • You can display the duration of beneficial spells on you from the interface options menu.
  • You can lock your action bar so you don't accidentally move spells. This is done using the interface options menu.
  • You can cast a spell on yourself without deselecting your current target by holding down Alt> while pressing your hotkey.
  • Killing Civilians will give you a dishonorable kill and an honor rating penalty.
  • Killing guards gives no honor.
  • Typing /macro will bring up the interface to create macros.
  • Enemy players whose names appear in gray are much lower level than you are and will not give honor when killed.
  • When you are in a raid you can drag a group or class type from the raid window to your game field so you can always see their health and mana.
  • You can hide your interface with Alt>Z and take screenshots with Print Screen>.
  • You can assign a Hotkey to toggle locking/unlocking your action bar. Just look in the Key Bindings options to set it.
  • If you Shift>Click on a player name in the chat window it tells you additional information about them.
  • A blue question mark above a quest giver means the quest is repeatable.
  • Use the assist button (F key) while targeting another player, and it will target the same target as that player.
  • You can use the Tab key to select nearby enemies in front of you.
  • Shift>Clicking on an item being sold by a vendor will let you select how many of that item you wish to purchase.
  • When you learn a profession or secondary skill the button that allows you to perform that skill is found in the general tab of your spellbook.
  • You can right-click on a beneficial spell that has been cast on you to dismiss it.
  • If you are having trouble finding something in a capital city, try asking a guard for directions.
  • Remember to take all things in moderation (even World of Warcraft!)
  • You can view messages you previously sent in chat by pressing Alt> and the up arrow key.
  • You can Shift-Click on an item stack to split it into smaller stacks.
  • Pressing both mouse buttons simultaneously will make your character run.
  • When replying to a tell from a player (Default 'R'), the TAB> key cycles through people you have recently replied to.
  • You can remove a friendly spell enhancement on yourself by right-clicking on the spell effect icon.
  • A Blizzard employee will NEVER ask for your password.
  • Clicking an item name that appears bracketed in chat will tell you more about the item.
  • You can only know two professions at a time, but you can learn all of the secondary skills (fishing, cooking and first-aid).
  • It's considered polite to talk to someone before inviting them into a group, or opening a trade window.
  • Pressing 'v' will toggle the display of a health bar over nearby enemies.
  • Your items do not suffer durability damage when you are killed by an enemy player.
  • Shift>click on a quest in your quest log to toggle quest tracking for that quest.
  • Nearby questgivers that are awaiting your return are shown as a yellow dot on your mini-map.
  • If you are lost trying to complete a quest, the quest log will often tell you what to do next.
  • Nearby questgivers that are awaiting your return are shown as a yellow dot on your mini-map.
  • The auction houses in each of your faction's major cities are linked together.
  • Ensure that all party members are on the same stage of an escort quest before beginning it.
  • Quests completed at maximum level award money instead of experience.
  • If you are having trouble fishing in an area, try attaching a lure to your fishing pole.
  • Your character can eat and drink at the same time.
  • Playing in a battleground on its holiday weekend increases your reputation and honor gained.
  • Shift>-B will open all your bags at once.
  • When interacting with other players a little kindness goes a long way!
  • You're much less likely to encounter wandering monsters while following a road.
  • It is better to quest and die, than never to have quested at all.
  • Bring your friends to Azeroth, but don't forget to go outside Azeroth with them as well.
  • If you keep an empty mailbox, the mail icon will let you know when you have new mail waiting!
  • Never give another player your account information.
  • Sharing an account with someone else can compromise its security.
  • You can turn these tips off in the Interface menu.
This article was originally published in forum thread: World of Warcraft Classic - Patch 1.13.0: Build 28211 started by chaud View original post
Published on 2018-10-23 05:12 AM
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  1. Zensunni's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Triginhil View Post
    But that's what made the game so much more difficult! Having to wait for re-spawns or be forced to socialize and group up in leveling quests/zones or go solo and fight for each individual mob and collection item.
    Classic is so hilarious. So many people are talking about 'how great it was' and they are just lying (i.e. they didn't play vanilla) or they've completely forgotten how things worked in vanilla. Like this guy that thinks quest item drops were shared. Lolololol....
  1. Gadzooks's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by socialmaker View Post
    If they plan to boot out people why not offer the classic beta/demo for free? Paying for the virtual ticket to level from 15-19 and get kicked seems incredibly lame. Fk dis
    Because, it seems pretty obvious they have limited server space for the game, and don't want to have it fry it's silicon brain dealing with a huge flood of people. This is a DEMO, not a fully completed game running off dedicated servers. That's in the future. It's two zones, and what, 4 levels of play? It's not a big deal, you're not missing out on any bragging rights here. This isn't something that people need to play more than a couple hours max.

    And, it's on the floor at their convention. Priority will 100% be for them, because they paid way more than you did, to get access, and they don't want people getting "server is full" on the floor of Blizzcon, with the press there. And, they're not going to allow people to sit there for the length of Blizzcon, grinding boars in Westfall for hours every day.

    I hate to use the word, but the entitlement over this is hilarious. You don't get a toy, unless you pay for it. Sorry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by edw View Post
    I was expecting a complete overhaul of the graphics, i mean keep them the same but crank up the quality to a bfa level, with some new models etc
    Classic was a good time, it was new and fun back then but ... it will just backfire now if it's left like this, it's a good chance for the developers to start fresh.
    A lot of people cheering for this leave me the impression that they never played it, or played on a private server where they could do some strange things, man a lot of them will be hit hard when starting this game )
    This isn't a reboot of Warcraft, was never intended to be, or stated to be. A fresh start? No. It was never about that.
  1. Bootyraider's Avatar
    "There is a 'Classic' button in the Video Settings that sets all of the sliders to the levels that were equivalent to the options available in the 2004 version of the game".

    ROFL We are so going backwards as a civilization
  1. DTJames's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Simca View Post
    I mean they were generally pretty lenient on it in the past unless it was impactful in a PvP environment (like turning enemy flags into glowing beacons or w/e).
    Nah, don't forget about the last year banwave for those who used injector to change ingame model on client side. It had no effect on the gameplay or anything. it went on for many years until they finally made move to shut it down.
  1. Selah's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by The Stormbringer View Post
    I don't think it's available yet, pretty sure most of this is from datamining. You can check WoWHead though.
    I did and you're right. Thank you.

    Wonder when we'll be able to pre-load the game.
  1. keyboardshinobi's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zensunni View Post
    Classic is so hilarious. So many people are talking about 'how great it was' and they are just lying (i.e. they didn't play vanilla) or they've completely forgotten how things worked in vanilla. Like this guy that thinks quest item drops were shared. Lolololol....
    People think Classic was the pinnacle of wow, but in reality BC and Wrath were. More people raiding, more people in comp pvp, more 5 mans, more interesting fights, as well as all classes having some form of viability in a raid setting. Progression felt meaningful and gearing was a bit more straight forward, that didn't require level 30-35 sets for one boss at 60. Classic was a great gate way into Azeroth, it was a casual approach to EQ and Ultima, its community aspects were fantastic, but as a game it was trash, BC gave players more choice and opportunity and was just hands down better.
  1. Gadzooks's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kawlisse View Post
    1.13 ? So we are actually playing the burning crusade patch ... And whats with the timer ? You actually need to take a 4 hour break
    TBC was patch 2.0.1 They never released a 1.13, the last patch of vanilla was 1.12.2, which was a minor bugfix.

    http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Patch_1.12.0

    The first patch of TBC, 2.0.1 reset talent points. 2.0.3 was TBC in full, when Dark Portal opened.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RobertMugabe View Post
    Yeah fuck no.... also you have no idea how exploitable the 1.12 Client is. All These chinese Gold sellers are abusing the Client to send faulty server requests so they can spam create new characters
    The new client is part of battle.net. They rebuilt the client so the same protections will be there, that exist for the game now.

    I have no doubt that crowd is licking their chops and getting ready to figure out how to slime their way in, but it's not going to be like 2004, security-wise.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tetrisGOAT View Post
    Things go forward. It is very clear that everyone envision and want something else when they think of the vanilla experience, and everyone has something different they think was the downside of vanilla.

    Personally, I don't consider call the current iteration of World of Warcraft "Wow", I call it "BFA". It is a new game for me and it is not wow, in the same vein you consider wow classic "classic"

    They already, a fair time ago, expressed their desire to go along with "basing the game off of 1.12" and this is what they are doing. Some things will have to adapt themselves. This is inevitable.
    Why do they put themselves at this patch? Because from a developer's point of view, they feel less constrained by this. Imagine if they were forced to patch into the balance changes if they started at 1.1. Imagine the constraint and the iterativeness feeling of that. From 1.13, they are less locked in.
    Will Vanilla evolve from there or be frozen in time? Who knows. I would not mind seeing it evolve, because that is not the aspect of vanilla wow that would be ruined for me. I am aware not everyone shares this. Yes, I would welcome new content but not new expansions per say. I want to play an MMORPG again. I want that MMORPG to be wow. I want that self contained system to carry on, maybe through new content, but not evolve the system which I think they hit the nail on from the get go. Even though I did naxxramas in Vanilla proper (up until and including entire plague wing, spider and construct wings at least) I do not consider it part of the vanilla wow I remember and therefore I would accept more similar raids beyond naxxramas in wow classic.
    I have never cared about the content. As long as they don't mess with the core functionality and punishing/reward system they had. That is vanilla to me. And also not something I expect, since I more expect it to be a frozen in time project.
    Just wanted to say that I understood that people want/are open to different things and show that everyone thinks of vanilla completely differently.
    The most relevant reason to go with the final content patch is the game had everything implemented that defines 'classic" - all the raids, all the dungeons, all the pvp systems. (Even though AV was changed dramatically at that point) Once they get this up, running, and somewhat polished, they can maintain it was a small crew, over time. They won't need to run the opening of the AQ gates, or the Naxx pre-events, or any of that.

    They've made no indications they're going to go past that, at all. It's not impossible, but I wouldn't hold your breath - they'd need to hire and train a whole new team to develop a branch of WoW with new content, unless it's existing content like TBC - and Classic needs to be an enormous hit, over time to justify it. Not impossible, but considering they're only offering two zones right now? You're putting the cart way before the horse here.

    And, new content? Two different versions of the lore? LOL. Yeah, that's happening.
  1. Alcsaar's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Triginhil View Post
    In a past interview they said that they'd need to build the game from the ground up but....what if they used the original cds out there to simply pull the files off them instead of having to rebuild the game OR gut down the current game down. I'm not a game developer so idk which would be the easier route. I just feel using the original retail discs would give the best "Vanilla means Vanilla" experience
    Because the base code even if they do have it is entirely unoptimized for today's hardware (both client and server). It would cause a number of issues that they would have to go back and fix anyway.
  1. Roar-Powah's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by tetrisGOAT View Post
    Bull shit.
    Even in the best case scenarios for private servers, the clients were emulated and not running natively.
    100% correct, i noticed a lot of the old command lines for the config file simply didn't work. I remember from vanilla that you had to use "SET TimingMethod 2" to stop the character stutter and this didn't work on private servers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daevied View Post
    1.5 years for 5 levels of content, this is the real WoW lol
    It's very safe to stay Blizzard are a lot further along than this. They even have a very valid reason for showing the demo @level 15 as a lot of classes are very bare before this and it's when you get your first talent point if memory serves me well. If anything I'm the kind of person that would call out Blizzard for lying, and i really don't think they are.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spotnick View Post
    a world without blood elves.
    I cannot wait, so sick of the horde being 50% BEs...
  1. princeofthawest's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by THEORACLE64 View Post
    Oh, I know exactly what was meant by it. What's sadder and the most obvious is when people don't have anything valid to say, so all they do is pick on grammar and spelling as it makes them feel important, smart and educated. Realistically, it's the easiest thing to pick upon...
    I didn't take him seriously at all, nor I think he meant it that way. I managed to feel a lot of sarcasm in his post, hence my reaction. From my point of view he actually made fun of stereotype we faced back in the day when people were making petitions for Classic to happen, and it's kind of reaction the mob would have from that time that he expressed in his post. Hence my laughter and sense of humor in it all.

    That's why I thought you'll see through that with my explanation, in my opinion his sarcasm is highly visible.
  1. Orisai's Avatar
    I wonder if there'll be a Classic WoW API, and how close will it be in features to the 1.12.1 API.
  1. topitopi's Avatar
    alright unpopular opinion time. WoW classic came out when I was in middle school. I had a good friend who was super into it and got me into it. I started out with a Tauren Warrior but ultimately mained an Orc Warlock. ZG became my favorite raid of all time. Had great memories playing with more friends as they joined too...overall, WoW was so new, so fresh, this was one of best gaming chapters of my life.

    But, here's the thing, while I understand the appeal, and I hope WoW classic does well, there is too much in Vanilla WoW that today is a dealbreaker for me. For example, Im happy to not spend hours standing around a city forming a dungeon group. Im glad that I dont lose hours walking back and forth between quest hubs, or having insanely long walks back from spirit healers. Honestly, the only classic feature I do miss is the talents feature. I hated the day they got rid of talents. It made leveling lose all of its excitement.

    I will dip my toes into this just for talents and nostalgia, but Im not expecting this to be enjoyable at all. Gaming, like life, has evolved so much in the now nearly 14 years since WoW launched. Being so true to the original will,
    In the long run, probabaly be a mistake because you can't ignore change. If Blizz thinks tons of old school players will jump all over this, Id bet against them any day
  1. mmocb54112e783's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Trihan View Post
    You're free to think of it any way you want, but whether they start at patch 1.12 or 1.1 it's still vanilla WoW, before any expansions came out. Tell me, which of the interim patch changes ruin that vanilla experience for you? The one where they added party-wide buffs? The removal of resource costs for taunts? AoE targeting circles no longer disappearing when you move? Not having to manually resume attacking as a Warrior using Slam? Other than the new content like dungeons and raids, there wasn't THAT massive a difference in the pre-BC patches.
    It's not vanilla WoW if Classic is starting at patch 1.13 instead of patch 1.1, it's post-vanilla if anything. I will freely think of Classic as vanilla-like instead of vanilla and thank you for that privilege.
  1. mmocfa105a6ace's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Triginhil View Post
    if they stick to their Vanilla means vanilla quote then colorblind mode along with plenty of quality of life improvements to the game shouldn't be in the game
    Really, colorblind mode? How can anyone be seriously against.
  1. Scarnage86's Avatar
    i just enjoy very much read all the post, people going mad for 1.13 number, for color blind mode and battle.net integration
    just for you "old" player let's make a real life exemple:
    think at wow vanilla as an old vintage car, you got the old car years ago and now you can have it again,
    the car work and looks the same as before,
    only difference on the old vintage car are:
    they install a modern gps allarm (battle.net integration)
    they install revisioned seatbelt for safety and change the oil and liquid (64bit support)
    they add an assistant help button for "old" people safety (color blind mode)
    so you are not happy about that old vintage car anymore and act like crazy for that?
    so fun!!!!!!
  1. mmocd22c015b36's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zensunni View Post
    Classic is so hilarious. So many people are talking about 'how great it was' and they are just lying (i.e. they didn't play vanilla) or they've completely forgotten how things worked in vanilla. Like this guy that thinks quest item drops were shared. Lolololol....
    It's funny how some people act like they have played vanilla but didn't and act jealous on people who actually played it. Even if you did play vanilla you must be 30+ by now, ending your sentences as a 30+ with "Lolololol...." is just sad. I feel sorry for you either way, your life must be miserable.
  1. Glurak's Avatar
    Is it possible we get the Group Builder tools from the past back where we had an overview which buffs and debuffs we have in the group available?
  1. sixsixtysix's Avatar
    Any dev house this large should certainly have a code depository going back to the first alpha.
  1. bloodykiller86's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by braxkedren View Post
    People play PServers for a multitude of various reason beyond the fact they were free.

    Most people I talked to when I got on one for the 1st time recently, said they played on them because that version of WoW had the feel of an MMORPG back then.


    As for the Nostalgia part, you and others get this so wrong. It's only Nostalgia when that is true. I have Nostalgia about Everquest. I've gone back to try to play that game and that nostalgia hits you in the face and it's true, it was better to think about those times than to play them.

    I've recently also gone onto a PServer to verify this. There was no Nostalgia there because the gameplay and feel of Vanilla was and is so much better than the retail version of Warcraft, my opinion and others as well.

    So that whole "Nostalgia" comment can start dying off because it's been repeatedly been beaten down as a false narrative.
    yeah definitely not, terrible quests, broken classes and specs, grindy as hell in nature, etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jazzhands View Post
    I play private servers, and I'm not subbed to retail currently. The moment classic drops, I'm dropping 15/month again if needed. And plenty of others are with me, mostly because private servers (and all your stuff) can always go away, at any moment, be it due to Blizzard or the servers own staff. Official Blizzard servers will be around for a long time. EQ1 is still going and getting expansions, WoW can last a long, long time. And seriously, 15/month is not an amount anyone with a PC and internet should be worrying about. I might even go 6 month just to make it cheaper.

    People love to play old games. There are Tetris tournaments where people from all over the world gather to compete. Why is it so hard for you people to believe that people genuinely want to play Vanilla?
    Because an MMO should never go back to the past. It should keep evolving and you need to adapt. The old game is shit by todays standards and you people need to change your way of thinking and adapt already instead of constantly shitting on retail every chance you get. Plus its like everyone who's played it forgets all the bad about classic, terrible quests, terrible itemization, terrible rotations, terrible raid tuning, grindy as hell, etc and specs were pointless, cookie cutter or you were trash
  1. Zentail's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by sixsixtysix View Post
    Any dev house this large should certainly have a code depository going back to the first alpha.
    Blizzard didn't use to be as large as they are now. There also wasn't nearly as much version control used pre-2010 as there is used post-2010. Even major companies weren't all using version control before then. Back in '04 when this game came out, I wouldn't be shocked at all to hear that a, at the time, relatively small but growing company didn't have the resources necessary to actually back things up every build.
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