Originally Posted by
Niwes
In my opinion, one of the biggest reasons why older xpacs were loved, is class overhauls. most ppl i know from the good ol times in TBC or WotLK had heavy fun with looking at new talents and spells of their class. Testing, discussing, philosophies, internet searches and theorycrafting, all that was big part of the fun, when the class changes were released and the cant-await-to-play-feeling for the xpac started to grow.
i hear some ppl saying things in the last few years like „ok, next xpac. yeah. its like the next big patch.“ or „no new class. yeah.“ imo the reason why many ppl are bored or pissed about that stuff, is simply the absence of that „adventure-like feeling“, the „feeling of something new“. and especially class changes transported that feeling well, because the class is the players window to wow.
ofc, for a lot of ppl that are just fixed to a single main/class such changes sucks, when they do not like it. i understand, that committing on something and then changing that things, sucks. but overall, including even this ppl, the something-new-feeling was an incredible important part of the feeling of „a new xpac“. imo this is heavily underrated.
but, as i said, thats just my oppinion. even with 15 years of uninterupted play time i can just speak for the small world around myself and what my experience say and how i „feel“ the game and the community.
so, i for myself, voted for class reworks every xpac, because i am convinced that a lot of the „new xpac“ fun, feeling and hype is based on the „feeling of something new“. and imo nothing transports this as good as classes do.