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Some EU dev confirmed recently that layers will be per-continent and will each have roughly the same max pop as original vanilla servers (which was around 3k). Beta had greatly reduced layer populations specifically so Bliz could test various layer mechanics that wouldn’t have been possible...

I will probably do the same thing. I’ll be in a large guild and will try to coordinate some RFC and WC groups ahead of time because I hate leveling through Silverpine or the Barrens. Once I’m mid 20s I don’t mind questing as much because that’s when a lock really takes off and has more tools for...

Static groups on the beta server got much higher xp/hour grinding dungeons than Joana’s level-by-level breakdown. Fresh characters leveled to 12 and then did 12-16 in 2.5 hours in RFC grinding group while that level range took Joana over 3 hours. Similar results for WC, SM, etc. Dungeon elites...

Well once you’re max level you’ll only “need” to play a few hours a week for MC+Ony until phase 2. Getting there is the big thing, but playing a ton the first few days makes the rest of the process relatively smooth.

It’s tough to really commit to a certain path, at least for the first few levels. In Durotar for example, if you are positive you can be the first person to accept the Sarkoth quest and kill him, that is the best thing to do. But if enough other people on your layer do it too, odds are that you...

We got the ZG buff for a few attempts in Naxx but nobody in my guild bothered with tribute runs or that shit. We got stuck on 4H due to lack of tanks and not actually forming until after AQ released. We did have full flasks for most of Naxx though; I farmed the shit out of the Winterspring...

Dataminers confirmed that Rag has 3731 armor in classic, which is substantially lower than he has on private servers (typically ~5600) so with full debuffs he'll have 0 armor. It's going to be interesting to see how the DPS hierarchy shakes out with stuff like this for melee, but them also...

This is demonstrably false. See: world first rag kill video where rogue never uses SnD. I was in the top horde guild on my server and throughout most of vanilla I literally did double the damage of some of our other warlocks, even into Naxx. And I wasn’t a super tryhard minmaxer, I just knew...

Most bosses actually have higher armor on the big private servers than they will in Classic.

Most MC boss fights will only last 90 seconds, so that’s perfect!

People on the beta have absolutely demolished Joanna’s 1-30 and 1-40 times, we’re talking by like 6-8 hours. The first 60 will be right around 4 days /played IMO barring exploits, about 20 hours faster than the current official record. The quintessence quest isn’t that bad, and the mega tryhard...

The “get boss to 1% and have 35 people hearth” cascade strat should still work for Ony in Classic right? Unless the updated client can lock people who took part in the fight but weren’t in the zone when she died, or if Blizz specifically says it’s bannable or something.

Sadly yes.

Greater Blessings are a thing in 1.12, so it’s 15 minutes rather than 5.

See also: Me going for 8/8 Nemesis for the -20% threat. Sure, Bloodvine and offset pieces are better dps on paper, but if you’re threatcapped it doesn’t mean anything. And not dying every time I AOE or get a crit early in a fight or the tank misses three attacks midfight is so nice.

That’s good though. You want like 2 resto druids in a 40 person raid and that’s it. Feral tanks do have a niche but cats and boomkins are both worse than bringing a real dps even if they’re tryhards who powershift, farm pummelers or dark runes, etc

There is no AOE loot and nobody can do a full cath pull as a fresh 60 anyways.

I don’t think you get that much gold per clear unless you’re talking all four wings or something. You could make 25g in an hour maybe, but certainly not just a few minutes.

I would be surprised if leveling mages have the mana pool to support AOE grinding elites, and other than SM GY I cant really think of any instances with non elites and some room to maneuver.

Raid leading and/or being a class lead in a tryhard progression guild can be stressful, it depends entirely on the group of people you're playing with. It burned me out in TBC/WotLK but I've also done it more recently in various p server guilds and not really had a problem with it. Still, it is...

As an example, Golemagg has 400k health and typical raids will have ~27 DPS for him. For the fight to last 5 minutes, you would need to average 50 dps. Competent guilds will kill him in 60-90 seconds the first couple weeks and faster after that. Bad guilds with meme specs and no consumes will...

Good thing almost no Classic bosses will last 5 minutes then. They're still not great for raids though.

In 1.12 you absolutely can. Early in vanilla you could not but they did add additional hubs and tweaked some other values throughout vanilla. It’s not as extreme as the 2.3 revamp but it is a lot different than most vanilla players experienced since we leveled way earlier than 1.12.

Certain niche pet things like Lupos doing shadow damage and that raptor with the huge movespeed buff were normalized in 1.12/1.12.1 so Classic won’t have that. But you will be able to get 1.0 and 1.2 attack speed pets and stuff like that.

According to an interview Ion did, layering will be by continent rather than zone, so there will be multiple copies of high level zones on the same server if the overall population warrants it. It’ll be gone either when the initial population spike dies down a bit, or when phase two (which...

Numerous private servers have had more concurrent players with zero sharding/layering than Classic servers and have had large groups of players specifically griefing certain tryhard guilds so this is just wrong.

I was in the top horde guild on my server and was the only warlock that did top tier dps through most of vanilla, half of them would literally recast corruption over and over because it kept getting knocked off and do as much dps as the tank. Or players that wouldn’t start casting their next...

Some guilds will kill Rag in week 2 of the servers being up, there may even be a few that get him in week 1. There will also be many many more guilds that don’t even step foot in MC until weeks 3, 4, or 5 and take several weeks to actually clear it. Saying shit like “there won’t be progression...

You’ll be able to do BGs forever as a twink at whatever level you want, pvp itself doesn’t give any exp in Classic. You just won’t be able to exp-lock so you need to get all your twink gear without dinging 20 or 30 or whatever. Plus you won’t be able to turn in marks for rep because that does...

I am all in favor of removing the debuff limit, or making other changes, but Blizz has straight up said they are not considering doing that for Classic. I've played enough vanilla/tbc/wotlk servers already to be try something a little different but that's not the direction they are going with...

There will absolutely be a 16 debuff limit, even though the technical issues have long since been resolved. No debuff limit would totally shift class balance and also require rebalancing boss fights and mechanics.

It depends on what you’re looking to do in PvP. For 1v1, soul link is best in the game and seduce+nuke destro is above average overall but has a few hard counters. I had several AVs with over 1000 killing blows because I had nef loot when most people were wearing greens and blues and a...

It either was not in game at all, or it did not have the 3 second horror effect, I can't remember which.

Soul link warlock with engineering toys is easily the strongest vanilla 1v1 class, dueling or just random world/bg fights and it isn’t even arguable.

7 days /played will be faster than average. That’s how long it takes most experienced/serious players if they don’t afk in town, pvp, worry about tradeskills, or waste time doing most dungeons. Rest XP makes a big difference too though so somebody playing 4 hours a day will naturally have a...

Blizz has contradicted themselves on what they actually have and don’t have so who the fuck knows. Most boss fights on the better vanilla/tbc/wotlk emu servers are close enough to retail that it’s irrelevant. Hell, some have intentionally over tuned fights because raids with 1.12/2.4.3/etc...

8/10 of the first naxx40 clears were on PvP servers, I don’t think many people really care about MC/Ony/BWL/ZG since they’re trivial and the game population and servers evolved a lot throughout vanilla. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I was on a PvE server and my guild was a top 50 worldwide guild...

I don’t believe that’s true but I can’t be assed to compare the list of naxx40 clearing guilds to a PvP/pve server list. Having the honor system with buffed 1.12 itemized pvp gear but no battlegrounds (for several months potentially) is going to make PvP servers a fucking headache this time...

You may want to look into exploration routes, depending on just how crowded the starting areas are it can be worthwhile for some races if there’s no dynamic respawns and less frustrating than losing a bunch of mob tags in a row. Although honestly if you have your name reserved, create your guy...

The private server did have the entire character database from the retail servers. You could tell Leandro your character name and some other info and he’d restore it to your account on the private server. They’ve confirmed that will not be possible on the public server though since having any...