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Springbok

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The "continuation" will be whatever happens after Last Titan. It will continue the world as we know it today. The "radical departure" will come from Classic+ where the Dark Portal never opens. THAT would invalidate every single expansion WoW ever put out and would be the very definition of a radical departure of the current story.
I’d be 100% in for that from classic+. Anxious to see what they show as they seem confident
 
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Caeden

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The radical departure would be placing Jaina first and foremost and quietly retcon in a female “thrall” to take his place. Ain’t no way Blizz is backing away from their “the future is female” bullshit with who is there now. The rule of Gondor, indeed.
 
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jayrebb

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Classic+ could have good class design, if the devs don't have their heads up their ass completely they'll look at Turtle and Ascension and see things that worked and do them instead of listen to the howling faggots.

Camelot leaks said it's just vanilla talents with some reworks for "weak" talents. I don't know if that qualifies as "class design".

If the reworks are extensive, sure-- but it sounded underwhelming.
 
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rolien

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Camelot leaks said it's just vanilla talents with some reworks for "weak" talents. I don't know if that qualifies as "class design".

If the reworks are extensive, sure-- but it sounded underwhelming.
I'd hope to god the leaks are bullshit because that would mean stack Warriors and just win again.

But there are so many leaks it's not even funny
 

TJT

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Camelot leaks said it's just vanilla talents with some reworks for "weak" talents. I don't know if that qualifies as "class design".

If the reworks are extensive, sure-- but it sounded underwhelming.

At the same time Turtle WoW succeeded without nerfing warrior into the ground. They did raise other classes up and did elegantly rework a lot of talents. That server did not suffer as much from metagaming and warrior stacking. Possibly as a side effect of them aggressively removing bots, RTM, boosting, and other stuff. Maybe there were a few guilds doing that but it did not come across to me that you had to be meta or get ignored. Turtle even banned the Chinese language addon so they couldn't talk natively in the game. Because Chinese farmers still existed in Turtle and you'd see them out there farming elementals and stuff.

Based on Blizz's history we have very little hope that they will ever aggressively police bots and RTM. I remain very cautiously optimistic that their big Classic Plus announcement is more than a lazy rework and slapping on some new zones, dungeons, and factions to base vanilla.