CLASSIC WOW RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCED! Awesome DEATHWING Mount | WoW News

Never bought a collector's edition of a game before . . . Probably still won't now, but I'd be lying if i said I wasn't a little interested.

That mounttttt

Instead of being obsessed with getting into a beta people could just wait and play the game when it's released? I guess the 0.001% of those people who will actually help to improve the game are still useful though.

Excited about Classic? Meh. Of all the dumb statements made by Blizzard "You think you do but you don't" is probably the only one i agree with. I'm firmly in camp No Changes because i want people to actually get what they're asking for, both those who ACTUALLY want Classic as Classic AND those that are looking through meter-thick rose tinted glasses. BFA being a shit show doesn't make Classic better than it was.
Personally i'm mildly looking forward to see the old world again. Levellingwise it was super-needed but i'm not a fan of being stuck in Cataclysm of all addons for the first 60 levels. Everything's either Faction War or disaster area. Not a fan.

You have to be subscribed for a chance to an invite .... shows how bad numbers are in retail.

tbh I will play both classic and retail which is good for me
for you guys only classic??? OMEGALUL
weaktards
Bring on live WoW

Fuck me, Kael'thas in LFR? Oh, the humanity! This should just be a "Feat of Feats of Strength" achievement...

They could release a TBC server two years after, and have the option to copy your characters - only once mind you - to the TBC realms, and at the same time preserving your vanilla level 60s. There's only so far where it makes sense to go anyway. I mean even going to the end of LK is pushing it because you had many of the modern designs such as mindless dungeons, LFG and the like.


To me it only makes sense to to LK but never put in hideous LFG.

Classic will last about a month when all of the WoW babies who never played Vanilla realize the quality of life in vanilla was terrible.

Ugh... turn on auto-loot already. You manual looters drive me crazy.

Think it's silly to have to click wow classic manually; just did it, thank God for this video, but now prob won't get an invite to Beta until a week before it releases, lol.

Wow way to flash the pic of the mount for 2 seconds

OK so anybody know how the mount systembis going to work for classic, are they gonna take up a bag slot or we gonna keep the system now? Sry haven't seen any thing that mentioned it.

"records retail" , speaks to himself

Expansion progression is really simple. Keep the 'Classic' servers intact and create BC servers that you can either create a new character on or 'copy' your Classic account onto it. The Classic account would stay separate and then you can progress a copy of your classic characters on the BC account.

Is this the first beta where they required an active sub to get in?

Technically no one has to wait. There are an assload of private servers around.

hope there will be something special for 15 years nonstop subscribed like the wolf rider statue 5 years ago

A game that is created unbalanced on purpose is worse than pay to win and offline games combined.

as how with any other timewalking/downscaling of a level, legendaries will work there

Prepare for a classic summer they said. I didn't think they were talking about beta-testing, summer is basically over in September.

I for one am back to work that late in the season :(

I need to get back to the grind on this game, I've been hopping on here and there adn started playign other games like ESO and Conan Exiles. All on PS4. Oh and Neverwinter.

Ugh.. This layering bogus sounds bad. I realy hope this will be removed fast. Having alot of players around is part of the immersion making the world alive.

August 27th? So it aint gonna be a classic summer then, thats end of august end of summer

Not to be overly cynical, but let's face it, the raid finder 15th anniversary bosses will be super simple. They're going to want to get everyone the mount.

wait, you're still progging on jaina? back in legion you were killing bosses left and right

So do I have to repay for wow vanilla? Or just a subscription for $15 again?

Thumbs up!

So in that sense , wow classic and wow will need 2 different game time ? Also could you confirm if the wow token system will be brought to wow classic as well ?

Love the vids Kelani, but one point....


IF WoW classic takes off, then going to TBC or WOTLK servers will be easy and wouldn't have to impact classic at all. What they'd do is basically just have an option to highlight a classic wow character(s) for a copy/paste option over to TBC servers. Your characters would then exist as you left them in Classic, but also copy/pasted over to TBC servers where they'd progress as intended

No harm to classic, and no one has to start over for TBC unless they wanted to. Win/win for all, and not that much work on Blizzard's end tbh.

EXAMPLE: When ESO launched on consoles, they offered an option to copy/paste your current PC character over to consoles. Your character isn't erased on PC when it happened; rather just cloned and put on consoles.. and at that point they each exist separately in an "alternate reality" type scenario.

Will classical wow get new updates as in new content from what classical wow had before? Basically adding new stuff to suit the lore of that time?

I don't think it will be a good idea to make tbc or wrath servers

If they wanted to continue with expansions, would it not be possible to duplicate Classic, sort of make a second copy of it so that you could stay in the first copy (Classic only), or continue to level up in the Burning Crusade-enabled copy. So then they'd be running three versions, Current, Classic, and Classic plus expansions.

Wow sux sweaty ballz

the problem there is the sub requirement. I'm not subbed to the game and I won't be until October

Kelani what class/race are u planning to main in Classic?

layers = sharting = ruins the idea of realms

sharting definitely existed in vanilla, trust me.

There are some very very bad misconceptions out there. Sharding has nothing to do with server queues, we had server queues in Legion all the time during new content release on big servers. Sharding came about for server stability due to the horrible release of WoD when servers were offline for hours or you would crash out of a server and get stuck in a loop for hours. Sharding works in two ways. First if a server has too many people on it to ensure stability, then a shard is created and populated to relieve the server stress. So if a server is stable at say 1000 players (just an example I have no idea of the actual number) and you have 1500 people sign into that server, then a shard is created to balance that server load and splits relatively evenly so 750/750 ish. The other thing is that when servers that are in the same cross realm zone are at a very low population, say 100 people each, then those servers are merged into one shard so you will then see people from other servers so that the world seems full. RP realms have no sharding unless it is an extreme issue and even at that it only shards the same realm so that you can have large scale events to role play and not worry about losing have of your event to the shard monster.
Layering is a completely different concept. Lets say we have that same 1000 player number, again this is just an example, and at that number another layer is formed, that layer is permanent so you always see people on your layer. This is a static system instead of the flexible system that sharding presents.


TLDR sharding has nothing to do with server queues and everything to do with server stability.

Run animation.... just not the same, sry to say. They cannot make it right, it seams to.... so sad.... lost all connection to my toons when they changed animations (think it was in WOD) especially run animation.... so seams to be no-classic for me. All other things are fine by me, btw, they did a rly good job actually. This sucks. :(

Love your daily content but I had to skip past the classic stuff because I am not the least bit interested in the past and am looking forward to 8.2 and beyond !! 15 year anniversary stuff looks cool though and totally worth it for that sick Deathwing mount for sure :)

Hey folks, this is Salamiiii

I give classic servers 3 months before they flop completely

This question is a little off topic but I cant seem to find an answer anywhere. I know you have to level from 20 to 110 to get the zandalari  heritage armor but do you have to level to get the druid forms?

They should make it like the PTR so if you want to play TBC you can copy over your level 60 toon and start from 60, then if people don't want to play TBC they can just stick at 60 and run vanilla wow bit cap it at one copy per toon :) problem solved

Wondering how people will react to the spell casting will be slower?

so they lied about classic being released in the summer the fuckers! august is autumn here.

Wait, they made Jaina a boss?! Yeah, I'm not subscribed right now. Just waiting for Classic. But... Wow, maybe I should find out what happened after the start of BfA...?

hopefully classic will lead to an solution so that we can turn off ugly new models again.

did they downgrade the graphics as well?