World of Warcraft Classic Discussion Megathread

[Kojiiko]

Best one was we would go over to the starting point at the alliance graveyard up at the top and we would actually mind control ppl out of the portal meaning that they had left the BGs we laughed so much over that!!

[Apatheist]

Back to planning. Nothing to do in bfa. Bored to death all day. This happens :

My first group is going to be something like this for farming dungeons and getting started in general.

1.Paladin tank (11/32/8)
https://classicdb.ch/?talent#sE0zZVhtIxzVoV0h

- Runs retribution aura (or other)
- Buffs sanctuary on himself
- Buffs kings to rest

2.Paladin heal (33/11/7)
https://classicdb.ch/?talent#sVxubgstxMuZVb

- Runs improved devotion aura
- Buffs kings to tank
- Buffs improved wisdom to rest
- Judges light/wisdom on boss/elite

I would like to run improved retribution aura for more
aoe damage but sacrificing kings for it seems not worth it.
Guess you cant have everything

3. Mage
4. Mage
5. Mage

3x CC, int buff, food and portals. /nice

Yeah no idea with the mages talents. Spamming arcane explosion or blizzard.
Any suggestions? What does more damage? How would the talent tree look like?
On the paper i really like going 31 arcane but i never played a mage in classic before
so i cant say what would be more effective =)

One problem with this setup is the lack of an offensive dispel. Remember, mages didn't have spellsteal in vanilla. There are several PvE encounters where not having the ability to purge will be annoying.

You could solve this problem by swapping one of your paladins for a priest which are arguably better healers in classic anyway. A priest can do everything a paladin can do and more -- with the exception of wearing plate and a shield. You can also spec your paladin to be a viable 5man tank while still having the key talents to swap into holy gear for PvP without needing to pay for a respec (20/31/0.)

You might also consider swapping one of the mages for a warlock for curse of the elements (+10% magic damage, -75fire/frost resist.)

This will give you more hp (fortitude, imp HP aura), fire shield for your tank, AoE fear, purge and CC for demons and undead (banish/shackles.)

I was interested when I heard Blizzard start talking about official classic servers. The more information they released, the less interested I became. They're making too many changes from the API to the ruleset to provide an authentic vanilla experience. Perhaps I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure PvP boxing on classic servers will be as castrated as it has been for years on modern retail. Not worth re-subscribing to a service that offers me less than something I can play for free elsewhere.

[davva]

Interact with target, baby!!!!!



Auto Loot!!!

[ebony]

the demo cool down is shared at batte.net level!


but the sub inc in the main wow sub

and... its released in the summer this year!

[Dreadone]

One problem with this setup is the lack of an offensive dispel. Remember, mages didn't have spellsteal in vanilla. There are several PvE encounters where not having the ability to purge will be annoying.

You could solve this problem by swapping one of your paladins for a priest which are arguably better healers in classic anyway. A priest can do everything a paladin can do and more -- with the exception of wearing plate and a shield. You can also spec your paladin to be a viable 5man tank while still having the key talents to swap into holy gear for PvP without needing to pay for a respec (20/31/0.)

You might also consider swapping one of the mages for a warlock for curse of the elements (+10% magic damage, -75fire/frost resist.)

This will give you more hp (fortitude, imp HP aura), fire shield for your tank, AoE fear, purge and CC for demons and undead (banish/shackles.)

I was interested when I heard Blizzard start talking about official classic servers. The more information they released, the less interested I became. They're making too many changes from the API to the ruleset to provide an authentic vanilla experience. Perhaps I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure PvP boxing on classic servers will be as castrated as it has been for years on modern retail. Not worth re-subscribing to a service that offers me less than something I can play for free elsewhere.

I want this team to be build around the paladin tank for farming low level dungeons and aoe farming in general just to get started.Im going to build a second group with a warrior later. So i need those 2 paladins for auras and buffs like in my description. Sure priest is a better healer but this group is not meant to run raids or endcontent dungeons.There is no need for any offensive dispel or something. Also no PvP.

I could in deed switch a mage for a warlock but the big elefant question is still in the room : "can i quickly kill stuff like 55-57 trash packs with 3 mages spamming arcane explosions?"

Two mages and one warlock could 1x rainoffire +2xblizzard. Would that be more damage? Need to have a look how to make this possible when driving with the paladin tank. I remember a mirai video about it i think...

So like i said its all about aoe damage on trash.

[Silence]

I was interested when I heard Blizzard start talking about official classic servers. The more information they released, the less interested I became. They're making too many changes from the API to the ruleset to provide an authentic vanilla experience. Perhaps I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure PvP boxing on classic servers will be as castrated as it has been for years on modern retail. Not worth re-subscribing to a service that offers me less than something I can play for free elsewhere.

What changes are you talking about in particular?

They went out of their way to keep everything as it was as far as I understand so far. Remember they have to strip the current client to be as close to 1.12 as possible. So some things might not be technically possible.

Yea, we won't get all the fancy ADDON possibilities we used to have, but to be fair that was never really in the spirit of the game... decursive anyone?

[JohnGabriel]

This just in

(11:05 AM PDT): @WarcraftDevs has just tweeted that the time limits on the Classic Demo are removed! You can play for as long as you want until November 8!

[Dreadone]

This just in

Any idea how to setup isboxer to test classic? I dont know what to fill in server wise when creating a character set =)
Something like game server name BlizzCon Classic 20 doesnt work.

[sethlan]

I tested isboxer with classic, It seems to work, just had to create macro for follow made a quick video on YouTube with 5 warlocks.

[Kojiiko]

I tested isboxer with classic, It seems to work, just had to create macro for follow made a quick video on YouTube with 5 warlocks.

Show us the video?

so to get classic beta do I need to buy something ?