Remove Monks! They took all annoying aspects of different classes and combined them into something that should not be.
Remove the achievement system.
Remove competetive PvP (arenas, rated battlegrounds) once and for all. It's a PvE game and I would love to see everything balanced in PvE perspective. We could get tons of new abilities and all classes could be OP some way, the PvP balance is messing everything up.
I would re-write the fact that Seige will be the last patch and all things with it. Annoyed me so much how they told us the ending before the story even started.
I'd remove flying mounts, or i'd return to 40man single raid size. Maybe revert windfury totem to it's original state.
Hell no, above all those i'd remove competitive PvP from the game (arenas) and all the evil changes they forced on their path to the 'illusion of balance'.... You really can't have balance on a massive PvE RPG, that just causes bland classes, with nothing unique... whatever they had that was unique, was removed, butchered or spread through every other class.
I don't understand what you PvE players get so annoyed about. You say you want new abilities, but PvE does not even demand half of the once you already got. If PvP was to be removed everything that was not dealing damage could be removed as well becuase you don't really use them. Just my perspective on how things currently are.
all rogues should stealth walk like goblins
Make all racials cosmetic; ridiculous how much influence in terms of PvE/PvP performance one's race can have.
Everyone is going to say something gameplay related well y'know, I like the game at the moment so..I would make Ironforge back to its alpha version or at least make it more gran/epic like Grim Batol/Shadow Forge city.
Remove caps, if a guy wants 50000 valour in a week he can go for it.
All that would do is incentivise Blizzard to start pushing out hotfixes as individual patches. Suddenly that overnight bug killing everyone gets pushed back a week while they bundle it up with a few other fixes to they can have an excuse to call it a minor patch and charge you money for it.
No thanks.
http://www.wowhead.com/npc=49249#comments Black bears aren't even supposed to be that big!
I would likely make it so you can use any mount you have learned on your account on any character. I want to ride a wolf on my worgen!
That has nothing to do with the engine. Do you not understand what a server is? It's a database, and there aren't many types of scalable database types, it's completely unrelated in any way from the game engine. It's is a massive library of cells containing game data information. The game client queries the database and draws info.
WoW's engine (and infact, any game's engine) has NOTHING to do with the database that serves it. Server maintenance is to maintain the SERVER, and no changes to WoW's game engine are going to eliminate the need for log storage, backups, restarts, hardware fixes, debugging, ect.
Just because another game does a different server structure and doesn't need maintenance doesn't mean that WoW will run and work the same.
Make Gilneas fully Filled with Alliance Control, and Make Gilneas City a capital
Though on second thought I would just revert back most of the changes half of you have suggested.
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Moonkin form and tree form are deleted, outside of that talent which gives you a cooldown
because they're stupid
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