WoW Classic Season of Mastery Coming Soon

[Argorwal]

What classes were not viable in Classic? Some were worse/better than others, yes, but viable? Surely all of them. I am talking about classes of course, not specs.

I always liked that your role was based on your class rather than your specialisation in Vanilla (and I also realise that some dislike that).

Unless you’re a warrior and you get to be the best tank and the best dps.

[Farora]

I don't get why they added summoning stones and reduced leveling times. That is so god damn retail.

Classic is good BECAUSE people have to travel. Classic is good BECAUSE leveling takes long.

[Zaqwert]

It's a great idea but they need to do even more changes. All the changes they are doing are improvements but they don't change teh experience enough.

They need to:

1. Do a class balance adjustment, nothing too crazy, just slightly smooth out the peaks and valleys. Buff the bad specs is probably good enough.

2. Improve the dungeons/raids in a more meaningful way that just adjust boss HP and remove world buffs. To experienced players that doesn't increase the challenge, all it does it make the fights take longer.

3. Remix the gear somewhat, that would really be cool and collecting new or improved items would be a huge draw.

4. This is the hardest one and least likely since it's the most involved, but new content. Add new dungeons and raids and maybe even zones (Classic+). New content with the vanilla play style.

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its good that they will release it

it will prove once and forever that nobody is interested in seasonal servers .

Hundreds of thousands of people have been playing Vanilla "seasonally" on private servers for over a decade.

People played original Diablo 2 seasonally for 20 years.

Good games are timeless.

[Azerate]

Might be a cool idea for those who care about Classic. And yeah, I agree they should go even wilder with the changes. Maybe add heroic modes? M+? Built-in leveling speedruns?

I was under impression that the whole reason classic was so successful is because raiding was easy and accessible, you could just raid with your friends even if they were bad or played bad class and it didn't matter. Everyone could raid and raids were chill and a fun social experience. I feel like making raids harder will be bad for majority that enjoyed classic.

It was mostly successful at release and mostly due to nostalgia and hype on social media. Probably like 95% of people who played it never stepped inside a raid and only a handful of guilds remained at the end. Blizzard is now trying to cater to these few who still somewhat cared about Classic for a longer time than 2 months.

[TheWorkingTitle]

First thought was, "Who the **** wants to play all this again?" And then I started listening to reactions and reading comments... This is on the brink of insanity...

Right? Holy shit. None of those changes make it any more appealing after having done it back in Vanilla and then again in Classic.

[Jastall]

Unless you’re a warrior and you get to be the best tank and the best dps.

Indeed. The "hybrid tax" has always been a bullshit concept because of this. It's just an excuse to have healing capable classes forced to heal.

[relaxok]

I don't get why they added summoning stones and reduced leveling times. That is so god damn retail.

Classic is good BECAUSE people have to travel. Classic is good BECAUSE leveling takes long.

Even at TBC speeds, 1-60 takes a long time.

[anveena]

Seems nice. Should be fun to play through on horde since I've never done that before. I won't be touching a warrior since no world buffs. Guess it's time to play a rogue. They should get rid of spell batching and reduce the respec costs.

[Th3Scourge]

Was really looking forward to this, but couldn't give a fuck anymore now that they've decided to sanitize a fantasy world because the employees of Blizzard are far-left ideologues and want to impose their world view on the playerbase

[Echo of Soul]

I don't get why they added summoning stones and reduced leveling times. That is so god damn retail.

Classic is good BECAUSE people have to travel. Classic is good BECAUSE leveling takes long.

Agreed. They should cut all movement speeds in half and buff xp requirements by 10000%.Then the game would finally be perfect.

[luciano]

Was really looking forward to this, but couldn't give a fuck anymore now that they've decided to sanitize a fantasy world because the employees of Blizzard are far-left ideologues and want to impose their world view on the playerbase

Trust me when I say this: literally no one will miss you. Trade chat will be quieter. One fewer dude screaming nonsense in random groups. All in all, a huge win for the rest of us when you and yours stay away.

[Th3Scourge]

Trust me when I say this: literally no one will miss you. Trade chat will be quieter. One fewer dude screaming nonsense in random groups. All in all, a huge win for the rest of us when you and yours stay away.

Yeah have fun with that. It'll be dead in a month like every other TBCC and Classic server

They get what they deserve. Enjoy your piece of shit sanitised world

[TheRevenantHero]

This comment right here makes me never want to touch forums again. How is it after all these years of private servers, finally getting Classic WoW which was massive hype in 2019, seeing what small community retail WoW has does someone say "Who the fuck wants to play this again". It just blows my mind when a WoW player can't understand peoples enjoyment in the legacy version of a that game YOU play. I get it's cool to hate WoW right now but holy fuck

LMFAO RETAIL HAS A SMALL COMMUNITY?! I think you got it turned around. Classic has a much smaller population.

[luciano]

Yeah have fun with that. It'll be dead in a month like every other TBCC and Classic server

They get what they deserve. Enjoy your piece of shit sanitised world

My TBCC server is packed and growing larger each week.

Maybe yours just feels dead because everyone blocks toxic players nowadays?

Anyway, have a good time not playing! It'll be great to continue not knowing you!

[swisscheese]

Would be nice if they also made druid Hots stack

[Flaks]

I really wish they would create shorter phases and cap the starting ones out at level 20 or 30 then 40 or 50 then finally level 60 without any raids then eventually work on releasing raids once people enjoyed their way to grinding and "mini-bis" on the way there. Would be super fun and I feel like it's the best aspect of classic working on doing a "pseudo twink" at low levels.

[Tic Tacs]

going to be dead on arrival, don't see how this can attract sizable player base unless the game goes free to play.

[Dejiko]

How about an option for updated player and creature models?

[crusadernero]

Neat, I like the changes.

Though, 12 months feels a tad short. doesnt it? I mean, sure the leveling is on BC scale, but it still takes a while. Would feel better if it was on a 14-16 months cycle.

To the salty people that hates on classic: Why be mad? This is a great service Blizzard provides for a segment of the playerbase. Its easy enough to provide for those that want it.

[Akka]

The raid boss changes are good, but two years too late.
The other changes are horrible and go against the whole reason Classic exists.
Once again, Blizzard shows its utter stupidity and incompetence.