thanks to Bellular & Azmogold the wowhead comments are absolutely being spammed with people pooping their pampers over the deluxe edition. 40 for a boost, 15 dollars worth of game time & 15 for a mount & 2 toys is pretty reasonable
thanks to Bellular & Azmogold the wowhead comments are absolutely being spammed with people pooping their pampers over the deluxe edition. 40 for a boost, 15 dollars worth of game time & 15 for a mount & 2 toys is pretty reasonable
You are missing the point. The point isnt to delay the release, the point is that the prepatch should have been released a month ago. There is zero reason why phase 6 has lasted this long. It would have hurt nobody and only made the game more fun if the prepatch had lasted 1-2 months.
So all the prepatch and TBC leaks were true in the end. Getting that Shammy to 60 and in decent gear to not slow down my dungeon group will be a challenge.
It's sad for retail players, but 9.1 doesnt look like it will happen before July at the earliest. Pray that you don't have to wait until august.
People complaining about how short the prepatch is to level their paladins and shamans... you should be happy to get 2 weeks.
super stoked!
Pretty cool its coming out June 1.
Although I may not return to play, it is tempting to venture through the dark portal "new" for a 2nd time.
Not really. Every word of it was reasonable and logically founded. I think I was probably giving 2021 Blizzard a little too much credit, is all. Why carefully QA your product when you can just yeet it out onto the servers and charge people more for a mount and a couple toys in a 15 year old game than you did for your most recent retail expansion?
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Patch_2.3.0
"Leveling improvements
Many leveling improvements have been made for the old world.
The amount of experience needed to gain a level has been decreased between levels 20 and 60. In addition, the amount of experience granted by quests has been increased between levels 30 and 60.
Level 1-60 dungeon quests have had their experience and faction rewards increased.
Many elite creatures and quests in the level 1-60 experience have been changed to accommodate solo play."
I agree about all of your logic. I wish that was true. It stings me that how far they went to being forward and precise and confident into something which feels like "let's milk this as much as we can" and I think it's stupid to believe that it has nothing to do with AoC or ESO either.
Will be kinda obvious if 9.1 will come 1-1.5 month after TBC (imo 29/30th June for last minute Q2 sub boost from retail players). Otherwise what would be reason to not make it longer when so many people want it? It's not boost, cause boost doesn't apply to Belf/Draenei - rest you could level to 60 last 20 months.
First, we don't know if it would be ready before 18th, it still comes VERY fast, we don't know what must be prepared to launch pre-patch, especially without PTR.
All of tbc including the prepatch will run on patch 2.4. Staggered release of content and seasons(including items that these might bring from other sources like rep and stuff) is the only things that arent patch 2.4 from the getgo.
That means you will have 2.4 talents, balance and so on.
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we dont know - but i dont think its a shot in the dark to say that the prepatch isnt a big deal(compared to so many other things) for blizzard to push out. At this point rolling out a new patch is second nature to them. Its the content of the patches and server load that might be taking them longer - but we have known for a long time that we are playing on 2.4 and there hasnt been any issues with talents and stuff for a while. I doubt they would have had major issues rolling out this patch two weeks ago.
If anything its probably because they didnt know if the actual tbc release would be on june the first before a few days ago.
I had hoped 6 week like the original, given ample time to level a Blood Elf or Draenei.
Patch 2.0.1 (prepatch) Release (US) 5 December 2006
The Burning Crusude Release (US) 16 January 2007
By the time I now have leveled by Blood Elf the LFG channels will already be spammed with boosting services. Alas the experience of TBC can not be recreated.
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This is where the downfall began. Retail wow can be played as a solo game. There is neither MMO nor RPG to it. One reason why Vanilla (and early on Classic) was so much fun is because it forced you to meet up with people, play nice, form groups and guilds if you wanted to do stuff. Things were much slower and relaxed. It was perfectly fine to spend your whole evening in a place like Uldaman, group up with random people starting a new zone, and leaving the zone as friends.
The outdoor group quests became a roadblock for people leveling later. There were never enough players to do them, so either you got a high level friend to carry you or you skipped them completely.
With this the quests are available for you to do without needing a group. Dungeons are still there for group content.
Also: If you wanted the TBC experience then start leveling your BElf the day that the Expansion opens up. You didn't get them in the pre-patch originally.