Classic PvP Content Plan

[Qnubi]

So its content that is purposely staggered tho already fully in the game for a better enjoyment, clearly something different.

The phases are there to SIMULATE the order of which the patches arrived. Classic didn't launch with 1.12, my god.

[Gratlim]

Now THAT is good communication. Watch and learn Bli$$ard

It's hard to believe these guys are from the same company.

[Volitar]

Summer begins in about 10 weeks, wish they'd provide a release date.

Summer means September for gaming releases, sadly.

[Dakhath]

Now THAT is good communication. Watch and learn Bli$$ard

It's hard to believe these guys are from the same company.

Watch and learn themselves?

[Unholyground]

Eh, I wish they would just dump all the world content in the game at the start. Makes me wonder if we'll have original Silithus with 0 quests when classic first drops and we won't get the Cenarion people until the AQ event begins.

They can easily disable the PvP aspect of silithus and leave the questing.

To solve the problem of people not being able to experience it as it is rolled out they can reset it every 2 years or so.

[crimsonhead]

so they are just not going to mention phase 5 and we are supposed to be OK with that....?

[Mrkew]

There's nothing right about bringing AV 1.12v. The reason people remember it so fondly are the epic, in the true sense of the word, battles. Not a damn leader zergfest. We will never have the chance to experience the best of PvP.

[Sinyc]

I'd almost forgotten what it was like to see developers care about their game, it's beautiful.

How do you know DEVs on Retail don't care about the game? You don't, and you are making it up because Retail is no longer to YOUR liking.

Stop spewing nonsense please.

[tru]

If you like what they are doing with Classic, that doesn't mean they do not care about BFA. Just saying.

The current state of the game suggests otherwise to people who've played a decade or more. Do you not have a phone?

[Nnyco]

The phases are there to SIMULATE the order of which the patches arrived. Classic didn't launch with 1.12, my god.

And story is time gated to simulate a flow of story that not everythin happens at once, its fuckin time gated no matter what you say, but its classic so its a-o-kay, obviously.

[Qnubi]

And story is time gated to simulate a flow of story that not everythin happens at once, its fuckin time gated no matter what you say, but its classic so its a-o-kay, obviously.

What is your solution to a real problem then? Launch with Phase 6?

[Raelyn]

so they are just not going to mention phase 5 and we are supposed to be OK with that....?

I wondered that at first, but I think it's just a typo. It is mentioned in the main post -

"For example, the Spell Penetration trinkets available from the Warsong Gulch vendor weren’t introduced until Patch 1.9, so we’re currently thinking that we’ll add these in phase 5."

[Novaice]

There's nothing right about bringing AV 1.12v. The reason people remember it so fondly are the epic, in the true sense of the word, battles. Not a damn leader zergfest. We will never have the chance to experience the best of PvP.

agreed. 1.12 basically killed AV.

its also not like they can bring both versions up.

[feellucky]

Hmm, interesting. I'm glad they are bringing out the PVP gear rewards early on so that off-specs actually have something to work with... although it is a bit odd to include the epic gear here. Effectively this means some people will be T2.5 equivalent geared (Marshal/Warlord) before T2.0 even releases.

This is my issue with the project. This isn't the original experience at all, they are copying the private server experience, which having been through both up to naxx is quite different on a private server and not in a good way. Having this pvp gear available will further trivialize the early raids, throw on the 1.12 talents and its hardly even the same game.

I'm not saying it will be terrible, it will still be fun but even if they released a perfect copying of classic patch by patch today it would be much easier than it was then because players are better and information is everywhere. Making things even easier will only make the problem worse.

If it was up to me, I would follow the patch schedule for talents, items, and content and just keep the bug fixes from 1.12. Private servers couldn't do this for obvious financial reasons but it wouldn't cost that much and if we're paying a subscription to play it would be a minuscule fraction of that to make a near perfect copy of the original experience. I might even consider upping the difficulty to compensate for today's playerbase. I think this would make a far superior product that more people would enjoy for longer.

[Sariengrey]

brutal pvp system in Classic , got to Rank 13 FM couldn't reach 14, couldn't out play the kids playtime due to other commitments. Never again is all I can say about it.

[Nnyco]

What is your solution to a real problem then? Launch with Phase 6?

Of course not, but i find it extremly silly how people praise in this thread how blizzard time gates classic, but if its on live they go batshit insane.

[Qnubi]

Of course not, but i find it extremly silly how people praise in this thread how blizzard time gates classic, but if its on live they go batshit insane.

Well there was real delay between patches back then, and that wasn't time-gated because the content had to be developed and wasn't ready. Retail content is ready and then artificially time-gated. Phase 1 (patch x) existed because Phase 2 (patch y) wasn't developed etc. that's the difference between Classic WoW and current WoW. It is NOW available but it makes no sense to release all phases at once simply because that's not truthful to the experience that used to be.

[stigz]

At some point you run out of things to do, you kind of need to have content patches. They can't let it stay there forever, eventually people will just quit. I don't think it'll work out for them to never end Vanilla.

okay most normal people with healthy lives outside of WoW won't be doing that (IE most of the server you'd be playing on) so gl with that

[furydeath]

Woohoo time-gated content!!!

...wait I thought everyone hated time-gated content!

Fail troll post fails 0/10

[Doomchicken]

Game will be dead before phase 6, so not sure why they need to bother with a rollout plan.