Just started a human priest

Lots of things people were worried about are confirmed by blizz now. Progressive raid releasing, no group finder, no cross realm etc etc.

sharding? oh c'mon, that is a big reason I personally missed vanilla.

If I get ganked by a higher lvl when I'm on my alt, I wanna be able to come back on my main and camp the perp as long as I feel like it.

This post was edited by cyberbluntz on Nov 4 2018 04:42am

"The first few weeks when everyone is packed into valley of trials, when everyone is packed in Elwynn, we think we can use sharding there in a time limited way to solve the initial launchday load problems"


Don't worry, you'll be able to camp Redridge and STV as much as you want

Unless they want to drastically increase server population compared to what Vanilla servers were capped at back in the day I see no reason to have sharding. I know the Blizzard team have been careful of the leveling process ever since the catastrophic Burning Crusade launch but there's no reason for sharding. There's 6 starting zones, it's enough. Again, unless the servers allow for way more population, which they should not do, it's not needed. Please no "megaservers" Blizzard. Economy goes whack and the world feels so much smaller when there's so much plebs running around in the world. Also ruins nice world pvp because it's hard to get some nice 1v1s and such because people just join in.

There's a nice video by Alexsensual that echoes some of my concerns and questions about what's in store for Vanilla. I like some of his proposed tweaks of the changes. The loot trading needs to be tinkered with and I like his suggestion, same with cross-realm BGs. He suggests that BGs should only search outside of your realm after 20 minutes in queue as to not damage server rilvary in BGs too much. With this tweak, cross realm BGs will only pop if the other faction in your server actively dodges a premade that's too strong. You get a nice sense of pride of accomplishment, I heard people like that.

This post was edited by Helloween7 on Nov 4 2018 10:31am

I always found STV way better than redridge ^^ Duskwood path of doom is fun too.

Dire Maul Stage 1 is a big mistake

thing is literally every priv realm has had major issues with the release of the realm. generally the queue to join realm is as big as the population the server can hold. that's no big deal in a server that's private, but if i'm paying 15$ a month i better fucking not sit in queue for 3 hours. they need to find a way to make the release work for the massive flood of players that will be on in the first month in early zones especially. while dynamic spawns are a way to make the zones themselves playable they need to do what priv servers dont and address how to get everyone on at once.

I play on private vanilla as well. Troll hunter and orc warrior


Will be interesting what way blizzard goes with this.

Imo run a timeline and reset it like ladder seasons every 2-3 years once nax is on farm

I'm super excited to play Classic. I know I can't really re-live my Vanilla experience, because tbh, I played WAY too much back then. I don't have that luxury anymore. But I introduced my wife to WoW in WoD on my account, and she's really likes it now. Going to set up a second account so we can play Classic together, so I'll have a whole different but awesome Vanilla experience.



Yeah, I'm very interested to see what they do with Classic and then other legacy content. I think having resetting BC, WotLK servers etc. in the future would be a big hit with a lot of players, but I'm always wary of anything that splits up the player base more, and I also don't have any sense of what the costs would be to do that on Blizzard's end.

This post was edited by chemoshots on Nov 10 2018 09:02am