What's Next for WoW Classic at Blizzcon? Community Predictions

Posted 2023/10/24 at 2:35 PM by Rokman

Tickets are still available!Community Videos on Future of WoW ClassicWhat is Classic Plus?Old School Runescapeportal in Darkwhisper Gorgeportal in Stormwind CityRuins of UldumTimbermaw HoldEmerald Dream from Datamined Maps in 2003Old Ironforgescrapped "Azshara Crater" 40v40 BattlegroundKarazhan Cryptsa Dark Portal in Azshara"Leak" which was posted to 4chan image boardWhat Do We Know About the Future of WoW Classic?1. Patch 1.15 has been in development for 6 monthsApril 20, 2023likely 2. Blizzard has confirmed a new season is comingBlizzard announced on a Community Event stream3. Blizzard said they are examining "legacy events" for future seasonsafter they were seemingly irrelevantlengthy Blue Post

We’ve had similar problems with other legacy events in past WoW Classic content releases such as the AQ40 War Effort events and it’s pretty obvious at this point that these types of older events just don’t quite function right in modern environments. As much as we’d like to make them play out exactly as they were, we’ll be examining many such events for improvements for future content releases or potential seasons of the various different flavors of WoW Classic to hopefully avoid some of these headaches in the future.

4. Blizzard has experimented with new raid encounters, new mechanics, new systems, new items, and even class changesBlackwing Lair were particularly interestingFailsafe Phylactery$100,000 OTK Tournament3 million deathsTrap Launcher: Explosive TrapGlyph of Omen of ClarityGlyph of Reckoningoverhauled all the gear in UlduarmostlyWhat Do You Think is Being Announced at Blizzcon for WoW Classic?permanent new contentthrough a seasonal realm

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Comment by Itacolomi"You think you do, but you don't" i find funny that line, since it was proven right for most of people include me and my friends.

But if a Classic+ is actually possible... i think i would play, but Classic don't have many players, imagine with a pay wall for it.Comment by WaltherLeopold"You think you do, but you don't" i find funny that line, since it was proven right for most of people include me and my friends.

But if a Classic+ is actually possible... i think i would play, but Classic don't have many players, imagine with a pay wall for it.Comment by KabookiejoeCata obviouslyComment by byneI would rather Blizz do literally anything else other than classic+.Comment by AzureShadow42Most of my friends I play with are ready for cataclysm. There's some excitement for classic+ but having to level to 60 again to do new content would kinda suck.

If they give us back classic Era characters that we didn't pay to copy when tbc launched that would be a totally different story though!Comment by AsgrimI fully expected Classic+ to be a thing after Wrath atleast, because surely they wouldn't just keep on going through the dogwater expansions? But at this point I've pretty much given up hope. It seems like they are dead set on doing the easy thing which is just a rerun of the old expansions with minor adjustments which I suppose is cool for those who didn't play back then but as someone who really enjoys the foundation, class and world design and general gameplay of old WoW but don't have much of an interest in grinding old content that I've already played when it was current I feel kinda SOL. I find it very difficult to dedicate any serious amount of time to Classic when I know that it is essentially an MMO without a future, a nostalgia ride that has already peaked.

The dream would be if they did what Jagex did with Old School Runescape, roll it back and go in a different direction that tries harder to stay true to the original game but I suppose that requires a bit too much imagination which seems to be in very short supply at Blizzard these days.Comment by saiadar"You think you do, but you don't" i find funny that line, since it was proven right for most of people include me and my friends.

But if a Classic+ is actually possible... i think i would play, but Classic don't have many players, imagine with a pay wall for it.There's some excitement for classic+ but having to level to 60 again to do new content would kinda suck.
Comment by BigBadDadincreasing the level cap to 70 on classic + would make it doa. One of the primary selling points of classic vs all the other expansions is the size of the world. If you increase the level cap, you nullify the entire old world. Expansions are supposed to EXPAND THE GAME. Yet wow expansions shrink the world into 3-5 new zones and you never see the rest of the old world again. An extremely easy win would just be to make a scarlet crusade micro patch with a new raid and dungeon, balance changes and light quality of life. Keep it simple and it'll be a free win.Comment by SOSAv1increasing the level cap to 70 on classic + would make it doa. One of the primary selling points of classic vs all the other expansions is the size of the world. If you increase the level cap, you nullify the entire old world. Expansions are supposed to EXPAND THE GAME. Yet wow expansions shrink the world into 3-5 new zones and you never see the rest of the old world again. An extremely easy win would just be to make a scarlet crusade micro patch with a new raid and dungeon, balance changes and light quality of life. Keep it simple and it'll be a free win.Comment by XingbgPersonally I hope that they release Cata classic(would be great if they release it December/January) and then 4-5 months after that they release classic +, that way people will have settled in Cata and won't need much play time to keep up and will be able to play both(if they wish to).

Also I do prefer fresh servers, but I agree that leveling can be changed a bit and by that I don't mean to make it faster by lowering the XP needed per level or the amount of XP quests gives, but by putting extra quests in each zone, so that people don't have to jump around all over the world. That will be enough to speed up the leveling quite a bit without making it obsolete, because personally(and I'm sure a lot of other people) I love the leveling in classic.
They can make elite quests give more xp and better rewards, but have enough quests, so that people can skip them if they don't want to solo them or find groups and not struggle with xp. Literally by putting just an extra 1-2-3 quests per zone(few more for emptier zones) will be enough. Heck they don't even need to do it for all the zones, since some zones have plenty of quests like Hinterlands, STV, Un'goro etc...Comment by iloverexxarthe only way classic+ could work is with horizontal progression, they could just add new zones,dungeons,raids,items,proffesions,races,classes while keeping everything lvl60.

It would be dumb if WoW awakening leak is real and max lvl is 70 and that is basically TBC which makes the entire azeroth obsolete.Comment by ixnorpI always hear people go on about how the game world shrinks when a new expansion happens but unless you're leveling yet another alt you just don't go hang out in places like Desolace, Duskwood, or Hinterlands for no reason. Your game world already shrunk because you out leveled it. You can go back and hang out in Redridge or The Barrens at 60 in Classic already if you want to and see how fun it is.Comment by anistamNot mentioning cataclysm classic which is arguably the safest option for revenue, less change to screw it upComment by RokmanNot mentioning cataclysm classic which is arguably the safest option for revenue, less change to screw it upComment by CashmereWizardIt's all hopium, classic + would be nice but it's just going to be SoM 2 and a perma Wrath Era server for when they annkuce Cata. I wouldn't get excited for any new vanilla content really.Comment by wast3gat3Nothing will happen with Classic. I’m setting low expectations now for any meaningful changes to happen. We will see Cata Classic, and my finger in the air guess will be SOM with BC.Comment by KoveeGeddeRegardles of what happens (and I hope for classic +) its going to be interesting when blizz stop doing classic releases after wrath like cata to mop etc. At that point its pretty much them admitting when the messed up which is a funny posistion to be in. So if they dont do cata we know thats when they consider things started going downhill.Comment by RomanthonyI think it will just be another SOM release, with some Tweaks and changes Kinda like Affixs for Mythics.

I think Classic+ is just wishful thinking for people, as well as a terrible idea, because it means that Blizzard will be Stretching the Devlopment to thin
We would have a team for
Running Classic/Hard core
Running And devloping of Wrath Classic, And most likely, Cata classic
Running and devloping of Retail wow.
Running and Devloping Classic+

It be to much and likely, one team will suffer because of it, be it through content, or a content DroughtComment by SoeroahI don't want them to do Classic+ but that's more because I don't want the new tired unoriginal comment to be 'classic is the real canon'. It was bad enough seeing every interview for years get spammed with "CLASSIC?"Comment by DrakknfyreThe WoW teams bled talent like crazy after the RTO mandate. This has resulted in content cuts across DF and recycled "filler of filler" content for multiple patches in a row now. It's laughable to think people expect some brand new content being developed for Classic, of all things.

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