Would a level 70 in classic beat a bis level 60 in retail?

[Unholyground]

Resilience only reduced crit damage taken and chance to be critically struck. Even with 0% crit, I'd be willing to bet most BiS Retail Level 60 could burst down a fully PvP geared TBC 70 within a few seconds.

Maybe, it just depends on the class. BM Hunter in full resil would still likely destroy anyone.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Maybe, it just depends on the class. BM Hunter in full resil would still likely destroy anyone.

Compare a bm hunter in both, one has a stealth for opening, one has a slow removal, one has no deadzone, one can trap from a distance, one has a full immunity, one has a 50% heal.

There’s no contest a tbc hunter wouldn’t stand a chance.

[Hey There Guys its Metro]

Beat them in what?

[MrLachyG]

I would not be surprised if this has already been discussed but would a level 70 in Burning Crusade Classic beat a bis geared level 60 in retail right now?. Would be kind of funny to see the ugly gear on a level 70 in Classic beating a 17 year old transmogged character in retail like a red headed step child.

No, definitely not. If you’re doing a straight match up - no changing stats for either - then a current lvl 60 has about 40-50k more HP, has more abilities, better stats, also has a Heart of Azeroth and a Soulbind to assist them as well as one, which might be increased to two next patch, legendaries.

Zero chance for a lvl 70 to win

[Shelly]

Resilience doesn't exist in modern WoW, so BiS PvP a TBC character would likely win.

Highest DPS for the latest APES kill for Gruul was a hunter that did 1.7k dps.

Highest DPS on Shriekwing mythic is 8.5k dps.

General stats as well are far higher for retail than for classic or TBC.

Almost every player also has typically 20% in at least two major stats and doesn't need to worry about hit or expertise rating. Not to mention mastery - even for classes mastery sucks for - is a pretty huge boost over classic characters simply because it expands toolkits and damage profiles.

Anyway, your question is silly, it's one of those weird "could Batman beat Wolverine" kinda deals that doesn't really take into account that the games are literally two different games at this point.

Once Cataclysm happened and they revamped the talent trees World of Warcraft stopped being the true Diablo 3 and became World of Warcraft.

[Mysterymask]

.. probably doesn't help they aren't balanced around 3 of the retail classes existing...nothing in BC can compare to DH mobility

[Raugnaut]

Resilience doesn't exist in modern WoW, so BiS PvP a TBC character would likely win.

Likely not. Resilience reduces the effect of Mana Burn (Redundant in Retail), the damage from Critical Strikes, as well as the chance to be crit. And as it stands, Crit is generally considered a weaker PvP stat in favor of Versa and Haste.

What's more, the rate at which Resilience reduces damage per rating is significantly less then what Versatility provides - it's roughly 1% less critical strike damage and chance for every 100 resilience rating, compared to 1% less damage taken for every 80 versatility, which ALSO grants 2% damage - So a character with 400 resilience will only have 4% reduced critability, whereas a character with 400 versatility will have 5% reduced damage taken, along with 10% increased damage AND healing.

[brandon larson]

I would not be surprised if this has already been discussed but would a level 70 in Burning Crusade Classic beat a bis geared level 60 in retail right now?. Would be kind of funny to see the ugly gear on a level 70 in Classic beating a 17 year old transmogged character in retail like a red headed step child.

I need more details to answer that tbh pls specify more.

[khazmodan]

I need more details to answer that tbh pls specify more.

At this point in the conversation I guess I would say; is there a matchup where a Classic Burning Crusade character would win against a Shadowlands character, meaning class vs class, gear vs gear(bis pvp or bis pve) and capability of the players being equal.

[heheszek]

I wouldnt be surprised if sl 226ilvl char destroyed whole tbc party of 5 within seconds
Sl s1 char would probably beat top wotlk char (s8)

[Drusin]

Not sure what the point in this comparison is, anyway.

Ohhh you must not be familiar with the comic book community

Who would win in a fight, Darkseid or Apocalypse?
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/forum...alypse-643906/

Who would win in a fight, Omega Spawn or World Breaker Hulk?
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/forum...r-hulk-737144/

This kind of question is commonplace in comicbook world, it has no real point just conversation

[Saltysquidoon]

Once Cataclysm happened and they revamped the talent trees World of Warcraft stopped being the true Diablo 3 and became World of Warcraft.

What a weirdly arbitrary place to draw the line on talent trees. A wrath level 60 would dunk on a vanilla level 60 based on tree improvements alone.

[Mysterymask]

I imagine a SL moonkin would hit Convergence and call it a day

[Shelly]

What a weirdly arbitrary place to draw the line on talent trees. A wrath level 60 would dunk on a vanilla level 60 based on tree improvements alone.

Not really a dunk, just that's when the game became actual World of Warcraft.

Until then it was just an expanded Diablo 2 - hence D3.

Same naming conventions for items "of the whale" and such; same stat types with things like strength = attack power, agility = crit, etc; same resources with mana and rage; same types of talent trees, etc.

Once they added mastery, removed secondary stat gains from primary stats and revamped the talent trees - all of which happened in Cataclysm - that's when the game changed from D3 to WoW.

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At this point in the conversation I guess I would say; is there a matchup where a Classic Burning Crusade character would win against a Shadowlands character, meaning class vs class, gear vs gear(bis pvp or bis pve) and capability of the players being equal.

Almost every character class now has some sort of mobility, some sort of self heal, some sort of stun or hard CC, some form of burst CD that they can use and most have multiple forms of damage reduction they can pop as well.

The toolkit between the two expansions is way too vast.

[Malania]

In direct damage translation no. Health now is more than you could get in TBC even as BiS. A lot more. 13-15K on average then. Resilience is now a thing reducing damage while increasing yours. Damage is higher now. BIS Hunter could do about 2.5-3.5K DPS sustain. I can double this with a far from BIS.

The only thing in the 70's favour is the level difference which would make it a lot harder to hit them.

But in the end it's a silly comparison.

[Azerate]

Considering that SL's level 60 is a downscaled level 130, it would completely stomp over TBCC's level 70. These are completely different level dimensions that are nowhere close to each other despite the number being "seemingly" close. It just shows that some people completely lack the ability of critical and logical thinking. Truly horrifying

[Vakna]

I would literally one shot a TBC 70 just using my trinket, and I'm not even BiS. Not sure how you even thought it was be a reasonable discussion to have, it's as obvious as the sun rising tomorrow.

[Dracullus]

Considering that SL's level 60 is a downscaled level 130, it would completely stomp over TBCC's level 70. These are completely different level dimensions that are nowhere close to each other despite the number being "seemingly" close. It just shows that some people completely lack the ability of critical and logical thinking. Truly horrifying

Not to mention 2 item level squishes that would make current item level around... 1500 I think + 3 health/dps squish (WoD, BfA, SL) - don't want to even imagine numbers there.