Which patch defines "Vanilla" or "Classic" for you?

[Mushkins]

I just hope they bring a lot of QoL changes to the game. Thinking about classic's history there's no way I'll enjoy it as much as I did when I was a teen. If not, have fun wasting your time again.

Wasting your time? You're saying that as if you invest your time into something useful.

[Kynario]

1.12 the final patch of Vanilla, When it was as complete as it was ever going to be.

That was essentially the pre-The Burning Crusade patch, not considered “Vanilla” anymore by many. It brought about many changes in preparation for TBC.

I’d say patch 1.7.

[schwarzkopf]

That latest one before Naax for me.

[Orby]

All of vanilla is vanilla. from 1.0.0 - 1.12.0 specifically. Would be nice if WoW Classic starts at 1.0.0 on release and end at 1.12.0

[Bythedar]

That was essentially the pre-The Burning Crusade patch, not considered “Vanilla” anymore by many. It brought about many changes in preparation for TBC.

I’d say patch 1.7.

No, that was 2.0.

1.12 introduced xrealm bgs, so I would like 1.11 I think.

But, I don't care which one they use, tbh. But I hope it isn'1 1.1 or something because the game was really incomplete then, with many class trees just not thought out well. I know that is 'part of it' for people, but eh.

I'll roll with it though, no matter how they do it.

[Lolsteak]

That was essentially the pre-The Burning Crusade patch, not considered “Vanilla” anymore by many. It brought about many changes in preparation for TBC.

I’d say patch 1.7.

The prepatch was 2.0.1

[Projectmars]

All of them. Being stuck on a single patch seems like it would be a poor way to represent what Vanilla truly was.

[Molis]

Yeah if they do not do the start at the begining thing and then release patches over time it has to be 1.12

[Lollis]

1.7 - 1.9. Possibly 1.10 at the latest.

Catch up mechanics of later patches destroy earlier content.

[Hottage]

March 2004 - File Planet Founders Club alpha stress test build. That's the original World of Warcraft I experienced and anything else is changes which I won't accept!

[elaina]

It should all be in there but right around / before AQ. Raid progression up through BWL was the heart of the game.

[Iflash]

I started in BC, but from what I've read: The game balancing/fixes of the latest vainilla patch but only with the launch raids, and then they can start releasing them, so people keep busy.

[Jazzhands]

Why pick when when Blizzard is completely capable of an actual progression server that starts at 1.0 and has a mostly classic timeline up to 1.12? I think Blizzard can and will want to do better than private servers.

[Oftenwrongsoong]

That was essentially the pre-The Burning Crusade patch, not considered “Vanilla” anymore by many. It brought about many changes in preparation for TBC.

I’d say patch 1.7.

You are so wrong that I can't actually figure out if you're trolling.

1.12 is the patch that nearly every single Vanilla Private server is based upon.

The Burning Crusade pre-patch is 2.0.1.

1.11 is probably where the game should start.

[Zequill]

That was essentially the pre-The Burning Crusade patch, not considered “Vanilla” anymore by many. It brought about many changes in preparation for TBC.

I’d say patch 1.7.

Fake news. I don't understand why I see this so much. It's not true, 1.12.x was the cross-server pvp and silithus/EPL world pvp patch and tiny fix/balance, nothing more.

[Linri]

when BWL was at the height of power, and the end game content

[Trunksee]

Fake news. I don't understand why I see this so much. It's not true, 1.12.x was the cross-server pvp and silithus/EPL world pvp patch and tiny fix/balance, nothing more.

It also added the .5 set which changed a lot as well as pvp gear for honorif i rember right completly changing the gear grind.

[Xecks]

they should start at 1.1 and go from there. i would like the do the aq opening event again.

[Zequill]

It also added the .5 set which changed a lot as well as pvp gear for honorif i rember right completly changing the gear grind.

Seriously, search before you type. .5 set was added during 1.10, before Naxx. PVP for honor was a TBC think, not 1.12 that was still using TBC. 1.12.x almost changed nothing gear wise.

[Demithio]

Patch 2.1. Forget vanilla, lets do TBC instead!