Wow Classic - beta stress test report - follow in pvp / iwt work!

[ebony]

The thing is to run even 5 clinets in classic you needed to run monster network i can run 2 wow beta great on my 8gb Amd bad laptop that does not run live and looking at how my system runs two 10 or 15 would be so easy on classic. And a lot of boxers now play with numbers then gear but it take them a lot of time to level i guess so i guess it might be ok!

[Moorea]

I wouldn't use the presence/absence of strings in the client as an indication of anything either way, actual mechanic/behavior is what matters and for now it works... (there are other strings leftover for 8.x that are irrelevant to classic)

But yes I hope it'll work everywhere for a long time _and_ we don't get a griefer bad rep

I also agree it's easy to wipe a mboxer for any group of player, probably N-2 players can kill an N boxer easy

Getting an official statement from Blizzard about their intention would be nice though
(like a blue post "yes follow works in classic even in pvp, like it did in 2004, and it will work in BG too because we found better ways to identify botters" or some such... but I am maybe dreaming)

[Kruschpakx4]

If anything I'd say the lack of resilience-type stats helps us more than hurts us. Particularly if you're already playing a tanky composition of warriors, shamans, paladins or warlocks.

also depends on your group size, with 10+toons it doesnt matter anyway what your opponent is wearing, but if you have cloths in your group then you might lose a toon before you can react so no resilience is definetly a nerf to larg scale boxers. Elemental shamans probably also suffer from it since lb/cl/shock combo kills anything in vanilla regardless of 25% more or less dmg, ret and warriors are probably the biggest winners from that.

[MiRai]

They opened up Warsong Gulch for testing today.

[Moorea]

:-( Thanks for having tested that for all of us hopeful!

I hope they fix that bug and it's a leftover from 8.x client

[Moorea]

Update from 2nd stress test (when it's up for 2 minutes between crashes):

- castsequence works, rank is optional and defaults to best one if not specified
- IWT doesn't move or turn hunters (!)

[MiRai]

- IWT doesn't move or turn hunters (!)

Just checked this, and Hunters work the exact same as retail. Perhaps it's how they've always worked, since I honestly don't have perfect knowledge from Wrath.

[Apatheist]

Just checked this, and Hunters work the exact same as retail. Perhaps it's how they've always worked, since I honestly don't have perfect knowledge from Wrath.

IWT with hunters used to turn you and run you towards a target if it was out of bow range. If you were already in bow range it wouldn't turn you to face your target. However, you could bypass this weird behavior by spamming wing clip or some other melee skill with IWT to get it to turn properly.

Not sure if that's how it works currently on retail.

Shame about /follow in WSG. Spam them with bug reports saying /follow should be available in 1.12.

[Nightworker]

I created a low level mage in the beta stress test. Unfortunately it only moved towards a mob (via CTM+IWT) as far as wand range . It did not re-orientate itself to face the target unless it was out of wand range.
Hopefully this is just a bug, so I reported it anyway.

...just in case you are wondering who I am (since I have never posted here before).
I played vanilla single player, and boxed through parts of cata and legion/BFA. Been around these forums for some time, but never posted up until now. The nostalgia for getting back into playing vanilla is huge for me
So disappointed about the no /follow in battlegrounds on the test server though. Hopefully this is just an oversight and we get a blue post regarding this since it will be a CHANGE from Vanilla.
Anyway, Hi all!

[Moorea]

Something I'd love someone who does have beta access to test is to /follow in WSG someone that they partied/queued with I have the hope that maybe that would work (vs what mirai above tested as not working when you /follow a random bg member)

Either way a blue post about follow and classic would be awesome