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Reply #35 on: November 13, 2017, 12:49:31 AM

Long, chaotic vanila AV battles were my favorite part of the game.  If that's an option, I'd play.  2 hour battles in which Lok and Ivus are summoned?  I'm in.
2 hours wasn't long.  Long was joining an AV on Friday, before work, playing for an hour, going to work, coming back from work and joining the exact same AV instance you were in 8 hours ago because the game still hadn't finished, playing for another 2 or 3 hours, going to bed, waking up for Saturday gaming and having a guildie tell you that that same AV game you joined like, 18 hours ago was still fucking going.  Old school AV was just something else entirely.  Goddamned awesome barely does it justice.

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Reply #36 on: November 13, 2017, 03:54:17 AM

The weird thing is gonna be everyone going back to Vanilla even with its shitty systems and finding out how simple the old raids are compared to even stuff from Wrath.

People are gonna clear all of Molten Core in like 15 minutes.

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Reply #37 on: November 13, 2017, 04:18:31 AM

The weird thing is gonna be everyone going back to Vanilla even with its shitty systems and finding out how simple the old raids are compared to even stuff from Wrath.

People are gonna clear all of Molten Core in like 15 minutes.
Only after they spend a month farming fire resistance gear.  Also, I am not sure it will be as easy as you think.  The transition back to 40 man raiding, will be jarring for pretty much anyone who started after they were phazed out.  Despite what people think, adding 15 more people to raid environment based around spatial awareness and not standing too close to other people does add an element of difficulty most people wont handle well.  Also, unless there are a lot of kind souls out there willing to re-tool mods to make sure they are game ready, shit like decursing 40 man raids on Lucifron will make most people used to modern raid mechanics cry tears of blood.

What will be more amusing will be watching the 1% repeat itself, as Naxx 40 as level 60 current content will still be brutally fucking hard.  I remember running / participating in Naxx 40 pugs after TBC released, and even with the huge jump in hp and DPS, the mechanics of some of those fights could still crush pugs who thought they were just going to go in and stomp the place.
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Reply #38 on: November 13, 2017, 04:28:39 AM

I think what they will do is release it as the Naxx version but time gate the raids like they do on live so not everything will be there at launch, maybe just Onyxia/MC and go from there.
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Reply #39 on: November 13, 2017, 05:25:47 AM

I think what they will do is release it as the Naxx version but time gate the raids like they do on live so not everything will be there at launch, maybe just Onyxia/MC and go from there.
That's certainly the path of least resistance.

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Reply #40 on: November 14, 2017, 01:08:29 AM

problem with releasing a 1.12 server as the base model is that there were SOOOO many balance and related changes made between that and launch that it would be like playing a completely different game right from day one.  Raids like Molten core would be significantly easier than they were when first attempted purely based on class balance tweaks alone, never mind the addition of things like spellpower to gear that originally didn't have it.  Sure, you could lock a lot of stuff behind time gates, but there would be a huge host of things that you really couldn't that would still dramatically change the feel of the experience.

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Reply #41 on: November 14, 2017, 02:44:44 AM

That's a very good point. I remember them adding some blues and PvP gear that were better than even Tier 2 so would make those raids very trivial. The more I think about what they will do, the less clear of what I think the solution would be. Has a game developer ever done this with an MMO ? It seems like you won't be able to please everyone by a long shot. The game changed so much during those first 2 years, what would be an authentic recreation of that experience ?

edit: also what about addons ? I mean you used to be able to play Peggle INSIDE the game, how is that going to work ? Also some addons could almost play the game for you back then.
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Reply #42 on: November 14, 2017, 09:52:31 AM

EQ1 and 2 both have classic/progression servers.

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Reply #43 on: November 16, 2017, 11:02:17 AM

Sometimes the past is best kept in the past.  Vanilla WoW was great when it released (and eventually fixed by a series of 'miracle patches').  I can't imagine going through that again... especially when I already know what to expect.

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Reply #44 on: November 16, 2017, 11:49:19 PM

In a fantasy world where my opinion somehow influenced Blizzard decisions, I'd suggest focusing less on the "vanilla" aspect and just making it as weird and janky as you can.  Contrast it to the live game, don't just build the game to please people who think the game peaked at 1.0

Like, bring back the weird class mechanics: warlock soulstones, rogues with their million different thief skills which all had to be leveled separately, hunters with... everything.  Get rid of Horde paladins and Alliance shamans.  Bring back the slow combat and wonky loot, all that.  Maybe boost XP rates to compensate for it.  But go all out with it, you know?  Give Tauren plainsrunning, let Undead speak common and be vulnerable to "Shackle Undead," throw in all that weird stuff that never made it out of beta.  Because I don't particularly give a shit if the game accurately simulates the experience I already played thirteen years ago, I care if it's interesting today, and I do think there are some interesting mechanics that have been sheared off as the game has gotten more and more streamlined over the years that I wouldn't mind messing around with.  I just don't care about the specifics of how accurate a historical recreation it is or anything.  Because it's never going to be the same, this is a social game and my social circle is not going to leap back in to this no matter what they do.

I dunno, maybe I don't represent the majority here.  But I suspect that Blizzard doesn't really know what the majority wants, they just hear "vanilla servers plz" a million times and the boss says they have to make it happen even though they don't really get the appeal themselves.  The cynical part of me says that the few peeps of information I've heard have left me feeling like there are people involved in this who WANT it to fail, like they kind of take the demand for older versions as a criticism of the newer one, so they are intentionally tossing out a crap version of the game so that when people whine about getting stuck in their mining animation the devs can fold their arms smugly and say "nonono, this is what you said you wanted, this is what you ALL SAID was SO MUCH BETTER THAN OUR VERSION" as it all collapses just like they predicted it would.
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Reply #45 on: November 17, 2017, 12:32:46 PM

I think most people just miss a smaller world with a controllable amount of content. They do stat squishes. This is just a content squish.
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Reply #46 on: November 17, 2017, 12:36:53 PM

I think most people just miss a smaller world with a controllable amount of content. They do stat squishes. This is just a content squish.

I can see that.  I have to confess that my favorite part of any MMO is the arms race at the beginning as the economy starts to develop.  Perhaps people just want a fresh world to make their mark in.

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Reply #47 on: November 17, 2017, 01:12:52 PM

I'm sure there will be calls for a Classic PvP server as well, considering the changes they're making in the next expansion. So that'll at least filter out the douches that just prey on the weak/leveling crowd.

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Reply #48 on: November 17, 2017, 05:10:10 PM

Now, of course it's not as simple as that, but I would imagine "Vanilla" could be interpreted as the last big patch before the event leading to The Burning Crusade. We're talking about Patch 1.12.0 (and 1.12.1):

http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Patch_1.12.0

Then you could add the LFG tool (added in 2.0.1, I think) as a more contemporary "QoL" improvement, along with the Draenei and Blood Elves. There you have it, Vanilla server.
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Reply #49 on: November 17, 2017, 08:02:53 PM

I doubt they'll add an LFG tool or new races. I think they should start on 1.12 with certain things (Dire Maul, Silithus quests, AD armaments) disabled and a progressive release schedule. There were a lot of class reworks throughout the expansion that I think most people would prefer to be in the game at launch. Same with battlegrounds.

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Reply #50 on: November 17, 2017, 08:12:41 PM

I'd actually like to play through the class changes, not start with them all patched in. I'd probably start with WSG and AV in too, and add AB later.

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Reply #51 on: November 18, 2017, 12:14:16 AM

It won't be an authentic vanilla experience unless you get to bomb your local AH with Barron Geddon'd pets, train Kazzak to Stormwind (and then 1 shot him with a reckoning bomb) and start a plague outbreak in orgrimmar by hearthing out of the Hakkar fight.  Every patch in the progression should be properly represented, complete with all the bugs too.  If they did that, I would be all over it, purely for the ability to abuse the shit out of plenty of hilarious bugs that were broken as fuck.

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Reply #52 on: November 18, 2017, 06:24:52 AM

It won't be an authentic vanilla experience unless you get to bomb your local AH with Barron Geddon'd pets, train Kazzak to Stormwind (and then 1 shot him with a reckoning bomb) and start a plague outbreak in orgrimmar by hearthing out of the Hakkar fight.  Every patch in the progression should be properly represented, complete with all the bugs too.  If they did that, I would be all over it, purely for the ability to abuse the shit out of plenty of hilarious bugs that were broken as fuck.
I agree completely. Silly shit like that is at least half of what made Vanilla fun, and if they just do 1.12 with time-gated content it's a half-assed cop out and I won't bother.

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Reply #53 on: November 18, 2017, 08:03:35 AM

Dark Age of Camelot launched a few servers that were pre-Trials of Atlantis.

More words.  From memory.

They initially released two servers.  The initial demand was high enough that they put up a third server.  Unfortunately, that server died something like a year later.

The two servers were then consolidated down to one at a later date, when they were consolidating all of their servers.

As I recall, the total population of the classic servers hovered somewhere around 25-40% the entire population.
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Reply #54 on: November 18, 2017, 10:03:21 AM

That's mostly proof positive that Trials of Atlantis sucked more monkey balls than vanilla DAoC.

Goddamnit, now you've made me nostalgic for solo stealth archer level 20 battlegrounds play.

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Reply #55 on: November 18, 2017, 12:57:14 PM

That's mostly proof positive that Trials of Atlantis sucked more monkey balls than vanilla DAoC.

Goddamnit, now you've made me nostalgic for solo stealth archer level 20 battlegrounds play.

Uthgard is a free to play DAoC server.  Try that.

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Reply #56 on: November 18, 2017, 04:26:26 PM

Ain't nobody got time for that.

Also, don't be telling a man about something like that when he clearly is too weak to resist temptation.  why so serious?

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Reply #57 on: November 18, 2017, 04:37:32 PM

Ain't nobody got time for that.

Also, don't be telling a man about something like that when he clearly is too weak to resist temptation.  why so serious?

It's the old version of DAoC too... old frontiers, the grind, 1 min cc... everything!  The server is set to 1.63 (when the left axe nerf hit).  So very old school.

(it's a massive time suck.  Don't do it!)

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Reply #58 on: November 19, 2017, 04:26:03 AM

I agree completely. Silly shit like that is at least half of what made Vanilla fun, and if they just do 1.12 with time-gated content it's a half-assed cop out and I won't bother.

I don't know how they're supposed to recreate anything you're talking about. The Hakkar thing was fixed extremely quickly. So they should leave it in as is, then when someone spreads the plague we uh.. patch it back out again? There'd be no magic there because everybody would know exactly what is happening. I'm not against starting it on 1.0 or whatever patch you want to start on and moving forward, but pretending those weird unintended events will happen the same way again is just silly.

Having played vanilla on a private server within the last couple years, I know for a fact I'll enjoy the game however they decide to release it, but I'd be playing because I actually like the game it was back then, not because of weird unintended events that only made up 0.001% of the vanilla experience rather than "half the fun" it apparently is for other people.

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Reply #59 on: November 19, 2017, 08:56:29 AM

Ain't nobody got time for that.

Also, don't be telling a man about something like that when he clearly is too weak to resist temptation.  why so serious?

It's the old version of DAoC too... old frontiers, the grind, 1 min cc... everything!  The server is set to 1.63 (when the left axe nerf hit).  So very old school.

(it's a massive time suck.  Don't do it!)

Midgard-like typing detected!   why so serious?  That was a fix, not a nerf.
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Reply #60 on: November 19, 2017, 09:38:42 AM

God that argument takes me back...no matter how much the player base cried for LA to get nerfed, no matter how much they tried to make Mercs and BMs competitive, they just couldn't do it until 60+ patches later.

Also, lol @ "it's hardcoded, we can't do it unless one of our competitors do it then we can magically find a way"  why so serious?

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Reply #61 on: November 19, 2017, 10:48:20 AM

I had a friend who tooled up a Merc to the point where he could use all of his cooldowns, and kill one person in an 8 man.  And then promptly die.

He'd then idle for half an hour while his cooldowns reset.
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Reply #62 on: November 19, 2017, 10:52:22 AM

I had a friend who tooled up a Merc to the point where he could use all of his cooldowns, and kill one person in an 8 man.  And then promptly die.

He'd then idle for half an hour while his cooldowns reset.

That was par for the course back in the day. Why the fuckers want to bring that back in their new Camelot game is beyond me.

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Reply #63 on: November 19, 2017, 11:23:58 AM

That was par for the course back in the day. Why the fuckers want to bring that back in their new Camelot vanilla WoW game is beyond me.

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Reply #64 on: November 21, 2017, 12:17:32 AM

aren't there people who will, like, step on your balls in heels? isn't that a thing? why would you need this instead?
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Reply #65 on: November 21, 2017, 05:32:26 AM

aren't there people who will, like, step on your balls in heels? isn't that a thing? why would you need this instead?
This is probably (hopefully) cheaper ?

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Reply #66 on: November 21, 2017, 11:34:07 PM

I wonder if they will bring back the vanilla experience of not being able to see a fucking thing at night?

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Reply #67 on: November 22, 2017, 03:45:19 AM

That was Everquest. WoW always did the twilight = night thing,  along with the true 24h clock.

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Reply #68 on: November 23, 2017, 10:21:08 AM

Long, chaotic vanila AV battles were my favorite part of the game.  If that's an option, I'd play.  2 hour battles in which Lok and Ivus are summoned?  I'm in.


I would subscribe for this.
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Reply #69 on: November 23, 2017, 06:01:27 PM

Long, chaotic vanila AV battles were my favorite part of the game.  If that's an option, I'd play.  2 hour battles in which Lok and Ivus are summoned?  I'm in.


I would subscribe for this.
Ditto.  Original AV was probably one of my most favorite things ever.

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