Wrath Classic Developer Interview with Community Council - Item Level Squish, PvP, Faction Balance

Wrath Posted 2022/08/26 at 1:53 PM by Rokman

Image from the World of Warcraft Patch 3.2 Trailer "Call of the Crusader"Item level Squish for Trial of the Crusader and Icecrown CitadelDisclaimer10-man Raids and 25-man Raids will not share a lockoutPatch 3.2 Call of the CrusaderPvP, Engineering, and WintergraspNitro BoostsFaction Balance and Realm Populationsand it's doubledtwo new Fresh Start realmslaunches on September 26th, 2022Pre-Patch and Fresh Start Realms will begin on August 30th

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Comment by legoman60People will still be doing Ulduar for the mount and the hammer if nothing else. So their point is moot since their prediction is wrong.Comment by GooseadinThe ilvl creep is such a bad take, ToGC is a super short raid and everyone will be running Ulduar for their remaining raid time especially for Val'anyr.Comment by GeneralfriskThis dev sounds so ridiculously out of touch with the playerbase. NOBODY liked going back to SSC/TK, it was a chore and we hated it. BT is a chore for glaives now. ToGC was a weak raid tier, but left and right they're making it weaker and weaker.

Also, keeping ICC relevant for longer? What? He does realize it's the last raid tier right?

I'm fine with hard content, I enjoy it, but this is not what classic is about. T5 cost the game a lot of subs because of the difficulty. It's going to happen again in T9 and T10 which were already difficult in their own respects.Comment by PeacemoonI remember missing Ulduar in WotLK. I came back just as ToC was released and made it redundant. A HUGE raid made redundant by a tiny arena raid with a few bosses. Such bad design. Glad they have recognised that this time around.Comment by WyrmshieldSo the only 1 fresh realm is legit then. Question is why they decided it would be PvP instead of pve? That is really going to kill a ton of interest in itComment by msadfan ilvl squish would make the raid content even more difficult, especially in ICC, when will blizzard learn that the majority of the classic player base doesn't want ultra hard raid contentComment by SinsknightBack when Ulduar was retail, after doing all the hardmodes it was just a farm, after a couple of months it becomes a boring job.
I'm hoping this item squish, will not be an actual motivation to keep farming Ulduar when new content comes out, but what i'm reading here that is exactly what they want.
Some changes are obvious like dual spec from start, but others like LFG tool and this is just demotivating, i'm still not sure if i should play.Comment by CrievePlease someone smack these Devs and tell them to stop trying to reinvent the wheel. We want Wrath Classic with all its little things, we don't want whatever the hell these idiots are making.Comment by msadfThis dev sounds so ridiculously out of touch with the playerbase. NOBODY liked going back to SSC/TK, it was a chore and we hated it. BT is a chore for glaives now. ToGC was a weak raid tier, but left and right they're making it weaker and weaker.

Also, keeping ICC relevant for longer? What? He does realize it's the last raid tier right?

I'm fine with hard content, I enjoy it, but this is not what classic is about. T5 cost the game a lot of subs because of the difficulty. It's going to happen again in T9 and T10 which were already difficult in their own respects.Comment by ThiccThis council seems out of touch with the wow community.
I dont know a single player in my guild that reacted positive to anything mentioned here.Comment by FrancoportoDude wtf this team
What don't up lvlup Item of Ulduar ?Comment by MinnoPvPPeople will still be doing Ulduar for the mount and the hammer if nothing else. So their point is moot since their prediction is wrong.Trial of the Crusader was never even planned, neither were Heroic Modes, so the power creep on gear went way higher than what was initially expected. Class balancing kind of broke a bit because the combat rating on gear got so high. Comment by MinnoPvPPlease someone smack these Devs and tell them to stop trying to reinvent the wheel. We want Wrath Classic with all its little things, we don't want whatever the hell these idiots are making.Comment by FrancoportoIn regards to Class Balance, Blizzard stated that Patch 3.3.5's balance was heavily influenced by Arena.Comment by CrievePeople will still be doing Ulduar for the mount and the hammer if nothing else. So their point is moot since their prediction is wrong.Trial of the Crusader was never even planned, neither were Heroic Modes, so the power creep on gear went way higher than what was initially expected. Class balancing kind of broke a bit because the combat rating on gear got so high. Comment by itskevinlolHow bout just add cross realm play and stop being stingy about it. Then you won't have to waste time with fresh realms and other nonsense. Killing your own servers because you don't want add in cross realm play is beyond idiotic.

Also the ilvl squish is beyond terrible of an idea. Once again, terrible takes from people who don't play the game in any format outside of -very casual-

Just add cross realm play for pvp/dungeons/arena, random dungeon finder to level alts in and RBGs for pvp. Those 3 things would be what the majority wants.Comment by RokmanI remember missing Ulduar in WotLK. I came back just as ToC was released and made it redundant. A HUGE raid made redundant by a tiny arena raid with a few bosses. Such bad design. Glad they have recognised that this time around.Comment by GiggleDO NOT... DO THIS BLIZZ... So few people want to run old stuff. And we will be running Uld anyway for the mace. Please just leave it be!Comment by AzureShadow42Terrible, awful, garbage idea. Ulduar will stay relevant forever because of valanyr, because it's a great place to gear alts, because ToC is so short, and because it's a fun raid.

The community council sucks at their job, they represent nobody but themselves.Comment by GlobthirstPeople will still be doing Ulduar for the mount and the hammer if nothing else. So their point is moot since their prediction is wrong.Trial of the Crusader was never even planned, neither were Heroic Modes, so the power creep on gear went way higher than what was initially expected. Class balancing kind of broke a bit because the combat rating on gear got so high.

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