Cataclysm Classic Beta Updated on CDN - Cataclysm Classic

Posted 2024/02/27 at 12:39 PM by Rokman

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Comment by NotNorthstrider

So it's finally happening. I guess this is a setup for the following days

Comment by Angrymama

LET"S GOOOOOOO

CATA HYPE CATA HYPE CATA HYPE

Comment by cheinii

eh maybe, but... i am not sure if people hate cata as much, aside DS... or maybe feeling lore's culmination should be LK
classic rolls out faster, and many of the expansions that "sucked" can be cooler this way... and now that it isn't cool to be hated
like pandaria, or a single year for wod
let's hope neither is destroyed by bait-y streamers as sl :(

well, hf i guess... see you in a year :d(##RESPBREAK##)258##DELIM##Sas148##DELIM##

Comment by arxemoros

Lets hope they keep the Wotlk servers and not migrate them as they did on TBC

Comment by Rhyney

I hope Cata Prepatch will not be live before early summer in June.

I still got a lot of dungeon gearing in Wrath (to solo ZA, a.o.) and soloing endgame in Classic to do, as well as a few lost quests that were added in BC/Wrath and are gone in Cata (which I spent a month selecting, by comparing wowhead zone-quest databases).

I did not have the chance last year to play a lot of classic. In 2004 to 2006 i had not often access to the internet and before Cata in 2010 i did not have the mental fortitude to deal with a lot of stuff in my life, let alone long term plans like MMO content.
This is why it is important to me now!

For now, I completed all Dungeons on my Horde char and almost finished Silithus and Plaguelands grinds (It is tough to get mats and crafted items in the AH on an "empty" server).
My ToDo-List includes:
- BC/LK dungeon quests (some are gone in Cata)
- Battle for Undercity and pre-quests
- Mag'har and pre-quests
- Alliance dungeon quests with Dungeon set upgrade quest-line
- the mentioned lost quests (mostly by BloodElf and Draenai NPCs in the main world)
- a few late/endgame zones (because some elite-quest may not be soloable on max level in classic)
- Timbermaw on both sides (due to final quest)
- and finally all the raids including rep grinds that are required for quests, like the Scepter questline (if BWL is soloable). I may also be able to play Paladin quests, but may never be able to see all class quests (maybe in SoD).

Of course I take a lot of screenshots and maybe use them to write a few WoW stories (with a neutral perspective, no self inserts).
Sorry for this spontaneous blog-post, it just right came flown out of my mind, since I don't want Wrath to end anytime soon. I think I will also post it in the WoW Wrath Classic forums.

BtW: I hope something like ilevel 230-240 will suffice for soloing quests in ZulAman or even kill Zul'jin (I am playing Horde DK and consider gearing my Alliance Paladin).

Comment by Kiauze

Curious to see what will happen If they do to WotLK servers what they did to TBC servers.

I'm on the camp that disliked Cata as an expansion, as such I don't consider it a "classic expansion". Curious to see what the community reaction will be to it. I know for sure that I won't be playing it.

At least we still got Vanilla servers.

Comment by MikeMJG

Man, I miss the days before all this Classic nonsense.

Only vanilla content that didnt get updated with cata is missing from retail. So it makes sense to have a vanilla classic so players can see what they might not have when it was live.

BUT THAT IS IT.

Burning Crusade.
Wrath of the Lich King
Cataclysm

All that content has been part of retail WOW since they were live. And you can still enjoy it all.

So now, the only reason for cata classic is to play while patches release every few months. That is it. There is no other reason for this to exist.

That is now 3 classic versions that should have never been made available. All it does is separate the real players from the museum players.

Are we going to just repeat everything 10 years later? Will there be classic 2.0s coming out in 10 years. And then 3.0s and so on? When will this end? Are they really going to make a classic version for every expansion?

Classic WOW was Vanilla, BC and Wrath. (or, it can be the xpacs before the character model changes, which include those 3 versions, plus Cata and Mists of Pandaria) When will it be enough?

People who want to play WOW play retail WOW. That is the only WOW that needs to exist. Every month there is more nonsense. I wish they would send a poll to all account holders so we can tell them and they can see how the majority want nothing to do with these versions, except for classic vanilla, which should be part of retail anyways.

Ughhh, the decline of WOW is not going to be fun :/ But at least I can say I told them so. Just like race and gender changes, character boosts and other nonsense.

Comment by mewhywhy

Great, looking forward to see what changes they'll bring.

Comment by thrashnebula

Lets hope they keep the Wotlk servers and not migrate them as they did on TBC

It's been stated there won't be WotLK Era servers. Everything will move to Cataclysm.

Comment by ForceMajeure

Cata is not popular

Wrath forever!

Cata never!

Comment by Nohope

Cata is not popular

Wrath forever!

Cata never!

Wotlk was just awfull and booring, realms should progress,u can get bis gear in less then 2 month on last phase wotlk even for 2-3 toons,then what ? Park ur toons in dala?
Classic era realms was dead, only hardcore hype did rise em up abit.

Comment by Cincaid

I joined WotLK Classic late, so I only have one level 80 character (Paladin) with so-so GS (4800). Instead of grinding Gammas endlessly to do ICC HM, I shifted my focus to finish stuff that won't be available when Cata arrives (especially since transmog will come with it).

Tier 0.5 set for Paladin and potentially my Hunter alt (leveling up now).
Rhok'delar / Lok'delar for Hunter alt.
ZG mounts (was lucky and already got the Raptor).

Depending on when Cata arrives I may also level up my Priest alt, to try and get Anathema / Benediction. Either way I'm super excited for Cata, as I never played it "proper" back in the day. I stepped away from the game originally after we killed Lich King HM, and didn't return until WoD, so playing Cata for real this time will be great.

Comment by Underfear

Cata is not popular

Wrath forever!

Cata never!

Yes because we OG wow players all we care about is what is popular with people that didn't even play the game. Wrath is only popular on private servers cause it's the most scripted expansion in the game. It's easy to emulate wrath servers and even easy to script it. You play on warmane and most players are scripters. As for WOTLK classic it just proved how overrated the expansion was. The expansion as been dead since the 2nd month it came out.

Comment by Underfear

Tier 0.5 set for Paladin and potentially my Hunter alt (leveling up now).
Rhok'delar / Lok'delar for Hunter alt.
ZG mounts (was lucky and already got the Raptor).

Yea dude don't mind these Cata haters. Cata was a great expansion. HCs were actually challenging unlike hcs in WOTLK. Raids were pretty awesome until DS and you got rated BGs. You can also play arena without having to worry about PvE gear. Enjoy your time!

Comment by Solarscar

Important notes to take note of in Wrath going into Cata :

>hailstorm becomes white color, swordbreakers bulwark (sunwell drop) graphic is destroyed and glow removed.naxx one-hand swords glow is removed. this is in favor of future artifact weapon transmog. PLEASE DONT DESTROY THEIR ORIGINAL GRAPHIC THIS TIME
> Go and get south sea bucket helmet. it is forever gone.
>Please make to be able to Tmog vile fumigator mask cata people. x ray goggle has a unique graphic , should be made into item .
>cant hear most of other people's spells anymore , EG hammer of righteous . ? :(
>THe TRAditional Hunter gun firing sound effect is GONE ! or minimized.. :(
>PLease dont change the sound for Talent tab ! (n) it is very unique and old skool Sega sound effect
>Frozo NPC in dalaran has BLUE variant of mage T7 shoulders. it has a GLOW and is BLUE in color, not available to players

> Arugual (final boss SFK) shoulder unique item that no available. please give :)
> CAN WE SEE THE LOOK OF Alpha /beta wow human female? something very special VHS looking about them. maybe put them in SoD as elves?
> make alpha trolls / goblins available for players? they are very unique THNK YOU
> warrior shield wall graphic is simple and gets the message across unlike retail many object clutter
> warrior charge sprint and leap is much clearer and smoother in classic than retail too many animation frames , bad
> we LOST the old blood elf female mining action ? please make it come back for those of us who like the fairy mining action ! <3
> gnome death sound is very stupid and well side-chained in classic, that is why they are not allowed to be hunter, . PLEASE LET GNOME BE HUNTER

Comment by Solarscar

CATA sweet spot , MoP ERA .. thats what i think they should do. but model update ? na that screws everyhintg up. and should be made seperate . thank you

Comment by Xingbg

WoW retail has been in a decline since Legion and Dragonflight has been absolutely garbage. I'd say the majority of people that play the classics, wouldn't probably play WoW at all if those didn't exist.
I have hope for the next retail expansion, but if it's even 30% similar to Dragonflight it will flop.
Most people nowadays want an MMORPG and not ADHD simulator. MMORPGs weren't meant to be done in minutes and right now in WoW retail you literally jump from crap to crap in couple of minutes, because the content is made to be done really fast, so that it can keep the attention of all the ADHD kids.

Also Cata had major changes, so the people that like TBC and Wrath should love Cataclysm and it makes sense to have it.
Also in my opinion SOD is paving the future for Classic. I just hope the developers are paying attention and are learning from their mistakes and who knows? We might actually at some point get a new WoW(WoW 2.0) that after vanilla doesn't go the TBC route, but continues the vanilla experience and it might have better graphics and whatnot. I'm sure a lot of people are hoping for something like that.

Bottom line is that classic isn't splitting the community in any meaningful way. Rather the different versions of classic is splitting the classic community, but Blizzard seems to be getting that, considering that they appear to be trying to fill gaps with different classic content and if done properly classic players will have more content to do than retail, which just shows the flaws or retail and hopefully those are lessons that they take into consideration for The War Within expansion, because if the next expansion is the same as Dragonflight, retail just might be having it's last few years and I think that Blizzard realizes that and that's why they are putting so much effort into the classic versions.

Comment by Solarscar

I hope Cata Prepatch will not be live before early summer in June.

BtW: I hope something like ilevel 230-240 will suffice for soloing quests in ZulAman or even kill Zul'jin (I am playing Horde DK and consider gearing my Alliance Paladin).

^^ this post exactly, i am also rushing to quest Feralas / Desolace befores its gone , and get some wailing caverns set / cadaverous barb set . you will need 1 or 2 more for ZA . 3 or 4 for BWL . so please get friends to do them with..

also what BC /wrath quests are removed? i always thought they stayed.. but please share with me if u have a web link thank you <3

Comment by Kiauze

And you consider WOTLK a classic expansion? An expansion where people just raid log and don't even leave Dalaran? lmao GTFO with bs. You Cata haters make absolutely no sense and I highly doubt you guys even played back in the day. I can't wait for Cata cause I can finally just focus on PvP without having to buy gold so I can get PvE gear to be competitive. WOTLK is the most overrated expansion of all time. In sum wotlk is made of easy raids, no content and PvP scripters.

Disliking an expansion is not the same as hating the expansion. Hating an entertainment form is the definition of insanity.

Cata had good things going for it, but for me, PERSONALLY, it wasn't interesting, and it is doubly not-interesting in the context of the "classic renaissance" that we're going through. You liked Cata? Great for you! Doesn't invalidate that someone else might dislike it.

The definition of "classic" varies from person to person, but usually it denotes either pure Vanilla, or everything before the world's reshape by Deathwing. So yeah, under those definitions, Cata isn't "classic". For me:
1) Vanilla is the base game from 2005, not the same as Classic
2) Classic is the period from Vanilla until WotLK
3) First Era, or "WoW 1.0", is from Vanilla all the way to MoP (echoing Ion's own comments on different WoW Eras)

One final thing:

lmao GTFO with bs. You Cata haters make absolutely no sense

I am aware that this is the internet in 2024, but if a stranger stating something, that you disagree with, causes this sort of reaction... my dear boy, perhaps get a bit off the internet and breathe some fresh air?