Stains on the carpet and stains on the memory
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
When we both of us knew how the end always is...
Those who are worried about Blizzard maybe trying to balance classes and other things - you can stop worrying about it.
From what Blizzard said about their new plan to do classic servers, it looks like they are going to try doing them by using the unmodified old server in a virtualized environment that makes the server think it is talking to the old back-end / old clients. Everything they said points to that - them for a long time not knowing how to deliver classic and then suddenly knowing (someone got the idea to do it the way above), them hiring a new team (that is only possible when the new team doesn't have to dig into the old code and can only interact with it to the spec, a dead giveaway), etc. With things done that way they just won't be able to change much, even if they wanted to.
Whether this will make classic a failure or a success is a different matter, but they almost certainly won't balance anything.
A couple of blue posts cited in the beginning of the thread mulling about maybe balancing something are from CMs. CMs know nothing, they are completely ignorable.
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
He's not involved with Classic, but be sure that he's involved with more important people than the random CM. Be sure that he knows better.
And who doubted that vanilla is vanilla? All the fucking paranoid idiots on these forum and Blizzard forum and the whole universe in general.
Yeah, keep dreaming of paladin tanks and other wet dreams
They will probably fix some retarded bugs and MAYBE they will try to do something about having many people at once in the same place at the start. Anyone hoping for major changes is delusional.
You will not have that experience no matter how you try, things were different in many ways back then. There were less sources of information, no wowheads or the like, not really the kind of buss guides you have now. Simply knowing some of the things alters the landscape enough to make it vastly different experience to how it was when people like myself did the content years ago.
Trying to capture it is just a dream that will not really come to pass. People have tried it, there are just too many tools outside of the game itself that alter things. I do not know a single genuine vanilla player who enjoyed the state of class balance over how things progressed over time. The class balance wasn't exactly the main appeal of vanilla. It was having less convenience, making it so that if you wanted to do things you couldn't just be utterly lazy. You also needed to make friends and contacts, you had to be social to accomplish things. Also leveling offering a form of challenge and tutorial when playing new classes was enjoyable for many.
Things that people I played with and know, missed the social aspects, the feeling of the world without flying mounts and quick access to places. If you wanted to get somewhere fast, you'd think on the route you wanted to take etc.
Balancing the classes and making the really weak and undesired classes more at par and more enjoyable to play wouldn't change anything but the PVP heroes dreams of just running about smashing things simply cause they happened to level the right class to 60. Those kind of people aren't exactly looking for an authentic experience, they are simply looking to exploit things that they've learned from people that played before, to have fun at expense of others. Most of them who played at the time, would've been the ones getting their asses handed to them.
Thank god they will balance specs. We might lose a dozen trolls that only want vanilla for mage 1 shot crap and other full retard vanilla balance.
Sitting on 3 broken specs because the rest are garbage = highlight of vanilla for some severely stupid people.