World of Warcraft Classic Discussion Megathread

[Escanor]

I was planing of dual boxing a warrior-priest combo. Warrior for raiding and priest for pvp later on. I was thinking of adding a mage to my Team for portals, food, aoe farm and mby soloing 5-mans later. Will that slow me down in the leveling-phase?

[Apatheist]

Thinking of playing 5 mages when Classic is released. Does anyone know if AoE abilities like Blizzard could be synchronized across all of them? I'm guessing it could if targeted on one location\mob. Anyone know if that's possible as it would be pretty amazing?

If Blizzard don't change their mind about using the modern API there will be all sorts of addons and conditionals that will be available that weren't in vanilla proper. Weakauras, player debuffs, /focus, [nochanneling], /castsequence -- as well as the ability to target GTAE skills using @player and @cursor.

I was planing of dual boxing a warrior-priest combo. Warrior for raiding and priest for pvp later on. I was thinking of adding a mage to my Team for portals, food, aoe farm and mby soloing 5-mans later. Will that slow me down in the leveling-phase?

It will slow you down in terms of splitting your XP per kill kill further and increasing the time it takes to complete some quests. However, it'll also speed up your leveling a fair bit having access to free food and water and being able to teleport between cities. A lot of classic quest chains have ridiculous travel times between zones and even across continents.

Unless you just want to play a priest, shaman or paladin will provide far more useful buffs for your warrior.

[Fat Tire]

Dont think I will play classic until Burning Crusade is released, if its released. Then I will play 5 ele shamans again for pve and rated pvp.

[Apatheist]

Never realized how awesome curse of recklessness is. Not only does it increase all of your physical DPS considerably, it stops mobs from running away on low HP and agroing other packs. All those tight areas in dungeons where you have to be really careful are so much easier.

Never played a warlock main before I had no idea how powerful this was until I started messing around with it recently. It's better than CC in some cases.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Nevermind. Video I was gonna post didn't have blizzard footage. (Re: someone's question about synchronizing ground-target AoE in classic, yes, it was possible.

[Lyonheart]

I loved it when you could macro a ping spot and have your AEs cast at a predefined distance. the way it is now is better for accuracy, but i remember using it on some flying/bombing dailies and it was great for that.

[TheShox]

Has anyone been invited to the Classic Beta? I was invited last night and was able to log on a little before work. It looks like addons are enabled and can be tested. Haven't done much other than log in and look around a bit.

[MiRai]

Has anyone been invited to the Classic Beta? I was invited last night and was able to log on a little before work. It looks like addons are enabled and can be tested. Haven't done much other than log in and look around a bit.

I got invited a few hours ago, but only knew it because I have been refreshing my account page every few hours each day. I still haven't gotten an e-mail letting me know I was invited, so I wouldn't rely on that, but it'll show up as a Legion PTR account if you're selected.

So, while I know people will continue to ask this over the next 90 days, I figured that I'd just throw these out there:

• Yes, IWT+CTM are in the game client and work just like they did back in Wrath (as shown in my Classic BlizzCon demo video).
• Yes, add-ons are enabled and the ISBoxer add-on works with no noticeable issues.
• The game client requires much less resources than retail, and runs in DX11 x64 (as expected)
• It is still expected that /follow is disabled while in PvP combat, but I obviously cannot test this out on my own.

[stubbadub3000]

Against my better judgement I just signed up for the Classic Beta. I typically never play wow betas, but I'd really like to test some team and profession comps out before August rolls around

[Apatheist]

• Yes, IWT+CTM are in the game client and work just like they did back in Wrath.

Have you tested this using characters with wands equipped? Remember some time during Cataclysm (I think) IWT with wands started only moving your characters into wand range.