“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
I am sure the next expansion will have serious design work done on classes and character progression and we already know there will be a level squish. But the only part that may be inspired by Classic may be niche abilities and utilities that weren't in a main rotation but were fun to have.
And I completely disagree with the notion that classes should retain the same design through different expansions - that is the guaranteed way for boredom. We already saw it with Legion-BfA.
I'd say it has more to do to the fact that classes feel less complete in BfA than in Legion, due to the removal of artifact weapons and legendaries (and the unability to swap items during a dungeon). I loved playing MM in Legion while the BfA version is quite lackluster in comparison, even if this class kept more or less the same design. Legion spoiled us with too powerful specs.
I think it's important for classes and specs to have distinct identities.
The only thing i want moved from classic to the modern game is the difficulty.I want harder hitting mobs which can kill me i open world.
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Sure, bit I'm talking more about differences between the specs. If mobs are supposed to be "hard hitting" to a point where tanks are actually threatened, other specs would be getting absolutely annihilated ... or tanks would require a massive nerf to their damage to compensate, so they don't just burn cooldowns and kill 20+ anyway. That, and general nerfing of various self healing mechanics, so the damage actually sticks to the character instead of getting it all back the moment an enemy dies.
It would be a balancing nightmare. Maybe they could do it if mobs got a ton of armor piercing/mortal strike effects. Maybe they could buff one another, Bolstering style. Either way, it would be a lot of work.
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I don't think that measuring the number of abilities it takes to kill something is a good metric.
The thing about combat in retail is that you have a lot of abilities that are "deals damage". Maybe you have a damage dealer that builds a "combo point", since that's how every class functions now. Maybe you have a damage dealer that has two charges with a longer cooldown than your other damage dealer than has one charge with a shorter cooldown. Maybe you also have a damage dealer than hits more than one enemy. Maybe you have a damage dealer that costs combo points that does a little more damage. Maybe you have a damage dealer that does damage at a little longer range. Maybe I have an ability that literally casts one of my existing abilities but as a separate ability and maybe some twist like it affects more than one target. In other words, they all basically do the same shit, it's just some slight variables between them that make you have to press them in some priority.
Whereas in classic, maybe I have an ability that deals damage that requires I have another ability active, but there's a few abilities that lets it be active that have different effects themselves, but also change the effect of the said damaging ability. So you might count that as a single damage ability, but that single ability is actually interesting and has a lot of dynamics to it.
Retail is a lot more about pressing things in an order that maximizes DPS based on variables like how many enemies are around you.
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Honestly I think the biggest thing they could do is change the way gear works and is gained. Part of what makes Classic feel better than retail is that each gear upgrade actually feels like an upgrade. Even grey items can be upgrades in the early levels and each new piece of gear really does make your character feel stronger. That's something I've missed from retail for a long time. Sure upgrades still make you stronger, but in such small increments and so often, you don't really notice.
This is something that has been suggested and discussed multiple times over the last few years. Gear in retail is far too common. Epics are no longer epic, they're as common as green items in Classic. Getting an epic doesn't feel good anymore, it's just another piece of loot. But as has been pointed out every time this is discussed, most players now are accustomed to that and removing it would upset a huge chunk of the player base. I'm hoping if enough people play Classic, they may be converted to preferring the rewarding gear system Classic has. I'm not saying gear should be hard to get, but it should be meaningful.
So that'd be what I hope they learn most from Classic. Gear should be meaningful again.
... What? Where are these supposedly complex abilities in Classic? Even back in Vanilla days, Guild Wars was the game known for its multi part abilities, which nearly always read "does X normally, Y to enemies affected by Z"... and ones that were far more complicated than that. It was the game with bizarre synergies and skills where "the whole was more than sum of its' parts".
It wasn't until TBC when Blizzard started making abilities with multiple effects, with Unstable Affliction being the prime example of two completely different effects on a single spell. Classic had nothing of the sorts.
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I really think they should look back at older expansions as well in order to improve.
“Why did MoP have a good class design? Can we do this again but improve some new stuff?”
For example. Obviously shouldn’t make a expansion that’s too close to vanilla play style.
What I want is to remove forged items and better class design.
No. Retail is gonna stay retail, and it's a very different game from classic. They tried to make current wow similar to classic in the past and it always sucked.
I am interested, however, in knowing the future of classic itself. If it will be a big hit in the future, like it is now, I wouldn't rule out an attempt on their part to expand on the project.
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I wasn't wrong, you were saying what you were replying to originally and I'm talking about what you said to the other guy. I don't care what you were originally talking about I'm replying to what exactly you saidJust admit it, you were wrong, move on. It's really not a big deal.
Yep this like I saidLet me help you out. "- Combat. Not only do you need to press about 18 spells just to kill a mob while leveling in BFA, but the damn things scale with you, so you never feel more powerful. In fact, you feel LESS powerful the higher level you go."
This statement was made by you. And that is the statement I am responding to but I see where the confusion is I only went back to the comment that made you reply to Rohoz, I didn't go all the way back to the beginning because I'm responding to the "while leveling" comment you made and your opinion on killing mobs easily in BFA
That's what you were discussing with him not what I was discussing with youThis was what was being discussed
Yeah and that's when it starts for me, if you want to continue to talk like I'm speaking about what you were originally speaking about that's on you, nothing confusing about it though, before you jumped in half way through the conversation
I have all the information though, what you said, I'm not talking about the other person.with half the information, and made a total mess of everything.
So like I said, if you want to make comments specifically about the leveling experience you have to say it every time otherwise people won't know
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Retail will remain trash, it's beyond saving. The only downside of classic is the shared sub with retail. Don't even have that crap installed, but still i'm forced to pay for it.