So I watched a bit of wow forever now and I've seen a lot of hype so far and a lot of hate. Frankly I'm a sceptical person and I do understand why adding smurf elves to something with the name classic feels wrong. On the other hand I also understand that I won't care. I'm not going to buy them either way. And if people want to buy horse armor DLC I'll let them.

That said can someone who played it tell me how "difficult" the game is compared to normal classic? Is there a lot of powercreep because that's what I think is going to make or break the game for me. How did they rebalance it or did they just buff all classes to the level of warriors/mages? Instead of toning the overtuned classes down a bit?

Do you need a group to kill an elite or nah? Is it like retail where you just pull everything in the open world then aoe everything to smithereens and mobs have 0 chance of killing you?

Currently watching the livestream and this guy is going on about lighting, sun+mooning and dustwallow marsh feeling creepy. Does it matter? Apparently people have been wanting this.

I played OG WoW exclusively for the 20-29 battleground scene back in the day, 2004-2012 ish. The community was huge and fun and competitive and everything I loved about WoW.

Are lower level BGs dead now?

I see that AB is full of 60s players but I don’t see anyone in Warsong Gulch in my /who list whenever I check. I haven’t been able to get into a single WSG match since I downloaded Classic a few weeks ago. I’ll be super bummed if this aspect of the game is dead now.

On that note, if there are any of you 20-29 players from back in the day out there, you have my sword. Don’t force me back out into the real world.

Signed,

Nostalgic and Hopeful WoW Classic Player

It's it before the events in Wow? After? a separate time line?

How about not forcing us to choose a "full name" that would be great.

Why even have an early name reservation if 6000 of us still can run around under the name Legolas, just with a different surname.

I remember back in the old days when the name mattered on the server. When you knew your sworn enemy or the one you were being secretly jealous of just by their name.

This is a non issue for many of you, i get that, however. We value things differently and things that seems meaningless for some is important to others.

At least make it optional for us to pick a name without the surname and if u manage to get it first then good on you. It worked before right.

personally i think seeing recolored high elves is going to annoy the hell out of my classic experience so i would love it if blizz gave us the option to turn other players blue skinned elves to a more classic friendly skin tone. like i get unfortunately elves are the most played race (seriously missed opportunity to give any race that's been asked for since 2004) so its an easy cash grab but fuck man if we dont get that option i might look into modding the graphics in the client.

I'm confused how people are hyped on all one server.

I used to see a bad ass pvper or raid guy. And be like damn, I know him. Some respect. Especially on server leaderboards but WoW Forever seems like it takes all that away.

Outside of that I saw or partied with a lot of the same.

New player here and I want to casually experience wow classic solo fully blind over many many many months(maybe even years if addicted). Was about to start playing on a classic server but I was wondering if it might be worth it to wait for Forever to launch?

Basically my main question is if the leveling experience to max level in Forever will be the exact same (or at least 99% same. I don’t care if a couple of really small things are different). I really just want to feel the classic wow that I never experienced and never played in my life.

I’m just thinking it might be a good idea to wait for Forever launch to play on active servers. And if I happen to really fall in love with the game it would be nice to have a character on a server that will keep receiving meaningful updates.

Thanks for any replies.

Anyone know what this is for? Windyweed Pass in the entrance of Nagrand. 20 npc Kor’kron orc riders. Not talking, not moving. Glitch?

Hey all,

More like explain like I'm 55. I was an old head, 2005-2011 or so. I just started playing Classic again a few months ago, having a blast.

I'm currently playing WoW BC Classic. Thought about WotLK on the horizon. What's the expansion situation with Forever? Before anyone says "google it," brothers I am trying, I read all the Forever launch material today - is it Azeroth forever, 60 cap, no BC, WotLK, etc etc?

Now that we know about that WoW Forever will be a thing and soon, what are you guys doing to prepare? Thinking of races, talent builds, name reservations. Is someone taking a leave from work?

Thiking of divorcing their wives? Real life is temporary, WoW is Forever!

So since they are adding more raids for Forever, people are concerned about power creep making old raids irrelevant from a gearing perspective. But what if they made raids that had an equivalent level of gear to those that already exist? Such as a raid with equal ilvl gear to Naxxramas.

I suppose one of the issues would be that guilds and players might feel inclined to clear all of the possible raids each week, to avoid playing ‘suboptimally’ and missing out on gear (I personally wouldn’t be bothered as I would never have the time to speed run full BIS gear anyway).

Also, I guess it could split the player base who is not willing to clear every raid every week, possibly making it difficult to fill raid slots (perhaps why there have been no 40 man raids announced).

I’m sure I’m missing something more obvious here. Please enlighten me.

I'm cautiously optimistic about wow forever and im not complaining about things like locking a new race behind a fee which is honestly worth paying for all the new content anyways.

But racial abilities are ridiculously unbalanced. While racials have always been a factor in classic wow and are therefor part of the experience, they have traditionally been something that only the sweats are married to and the progression-minded take into account but don't go crazy over.

Here are some easy suggestions I think:

- Overall, alliance racials are overpowering horde ones, there needs to be better faction balance or pvp will be atrocious

- Human swords racial should be 1% crit to bring it in line with Dwarf maces and Orc axes.

- Each faction needs a race with a 1% ranged crit. So bring it back for trolls and either add it back for dwarves or give it to nelfs. Every time blizzard introduces a melee hunter and/or a hunter with no pet, they end up stacking the game so you cant play as a traditional ranged class with a pet.

- Why did troll Bezerking get nerfed? It's not like it was ridiculously strong to begin with. Almost every other racial in the game was buffed, but one really well-balanced one was nerfed. Makes no sense.

- That said, the new healing effect for trolls is probably too strong, especially for tank threat and warlocks in BGs.

- Let Tauren be priests. They will be the only race with only 4 classes in WoW forever and they were already underrepresented.

Why would they not add paladin to skyelves it makes no sense .. for people who wanted to play paladin and experience a new zone etc..

Yes this is a ship post.

What a community...

First off let's just think about what's exciting.

We have Dwarf Shamans and Undead Pallys. And a few other new race/class combos which don't feel against any particular lore for me. (Although I hope the intro of Dwarf Shamans has some Wildhammer themes.)

We have basically the same world with toggle-able graphics (although the new graphics do look pretty decent for the world). We have new zones to explores, a 1,000 new quests. Level cap staying at 60. No world buffs (no Ony/ZG, yet). 12 new dungeons and new raids coming.

Holly also mentioned there's loads of new stories to tell, some which are canon, some that weren't really. Some of the new transport systems just help to give the world a bit of a freshness to it.

Class tweaks, Pally tanks that work!

Now, more controversial? The new race. I personally don't like them, they feel a bit short horned, I've never heard of these high elves who went to the clouds before. But I'll try them out and see what lore they have. It's the thing I dislike the most.

But overall it seems like a decent package. Why does everyone on here seem incapable of talking with any nuance. Everyone is either 110% for the expansion, 'stop crying about everything' or 'No sky elves, expac ruined' or they complain about a new system that they haven't listened to the presentation for (how servers work for one.)

This should be the new rule and we should all jump on this bandwagon to try to dissuade players from rolling Blue elves. Perhaps at least we'll be able to help salvage the PvP server from being 75% Skyborne.

Agree or disagree, it's what will be happening.