If Blizzard announced that they would release vanilla servers, what would your expectations be...

If Blizzard announced that they would release vanilla servers, what would your expectations be? Would you prefer it if they were completely identical to how they functioned in live vanilla, or would you prefer it if they added extra content such as QoL features and class patches?

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I've played WoW off and on since Vanilla.

I think it would be a fun, I wouldn't bother progressing seriously.

As for class balances and QoL changes, all I would really want is the ability to use the new character models in an option, and for them to correct game-breaking bugs found after prolonged play.

They would need to run at least a skeleton crew of devs and game masters.

But of course if they released a timed server, it would only take a couple of years before all the content could be explored, completed, and reran into the dirt. Then what?

I think they should make the entire world level scaled instead.

i wouldnt play it because i played it 12 years ago, and i sure as fuck wouldnt pay 15 a month for it either.

Vanilla server swill never fucking work. Never, fucking ever.

Guilds today can struggle to get 25 man together to raid mythic's and up.

How the fuck are you consistently going to get 40 people playing on, essentially, non-legitimate servers to raid somewhere where every other time you have tried you have wiped, to make things worse, you always wipe at say 1%. Remember, a quick run of MC (fully geard in say AQ gears) still took 3 hours. I could take under-geared guilds days, literal days of in game time raiding to clear a 40 man raid, if they didn't have tactics and the required resits gears/team play.

It was simply TOO hard core and unbalanced, it's now balanced and casual as shit.

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I won't get started on the 40 man pre-made AV groups which spammed servers.

It's
Never
Happening

I would like if they fixed bugs that affected gameplay such as spells/buffs working improperly and battleground bugs involving objectives other than that I'd prefer they keep everything the same

Even a shitty /vg/ general manages to get 40 people every saturday and sunday to do MC, Ony, and BWL on a slavshit server

Have all ranks of spells cost a % of base mana or have no spell ranks, and have underperforming specs function as mana batteries for healers and spellcasting dps

>people think theyre epic for clearing MC that released with wow on private server that runs patch 1.12

baka..

>Would you prefer it if they were completely identical to how they functioned in live vanilla
If you think Vanilla WoW would actually work in this day and age just remember what happened to Wildstar. It tried to do everything Vanilla WoW did and it died in a fucking heartbeat.

and?

So why would an official server with a larger player pool struggle to get consistent 40 players if a shitty private server filled with underage /vg/ posters can do it

Why the fuck are you comparing /vg/ literal autists to casual wow players?

casual wow players wouldn't play on vanilla servers, only people actually interested in 1.12.1 would, so there wouldn't be a problem getting guilds, raids, pvp, bgs etc.

A casual guild wouldn't even bother to do the attunement or even stack up on fire resistant gear so taking them into accountability is useless.

They would probably only import the map and get rid of gear and drops that didn't exist at the time and keep specs the same as they are now. Of course questing would be the same as it was and more than likely would be where most of their time would be spent. In short if you were playing a rogue you'd be 7.1 rogue playing in a version of wow that at least looks like 1.0

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remember, there is no LFR. in order to get 40 men online /vg/ have to make a thread, and those players know it's coming. there is preparation. And is probably usually the same people, or at least a very similar roster.

Why is there going to be hardcore vanilla prep raiding, when everyone is fucking casual as shit and only playing the server to see what it was like? As soon as they have to attune for MC they will fucking quit.

They wouldn't be able to import the same map since cataclysm fucked up half of the old world and removed a bunch of places where quests used to be

>when everyone is fucking casual as shit and only playing the server to see what it was like

Except that doesn't happen, you have a solid number of people who are vanilla addicts and play on every single vanilla server and knows the game in and out. People have been raiding MC and BWL for over a year now on /vg/ every single week and will continue doing that again when nost opens back up

What? Majority of the hardcore players played vanilla wow, there is no reason for them to go back except for nostalgia, which will wear off when they remember just how much effort was required and there are noobs in the guild who have never done it and need to be taught.

You do not think people back in the day raided 'for fun' like they do today, right? Everyone raided to be the best plain and fucking simple, it was essentially not fun. It was required to get the best gear of the time to be the best on the server. When that is pointless, there is no reason to spend thousands of hours in MC trying to get the legendary drops.

It's pretty easy to tell when someone didn't play vanilla end-game. Because they actually want to go back and experience the hell first-hand.

Just be glad you will never spend hours wiping in MC because some fucking 12 year old can't get it through his head and we can't kick him because there is no one else available to take his place.

I just want the current in game threat meter. It was simple and worked.


Fuck everyone who disagrees you all download one anyway.

If you didn't have some form of addon raid UI then you didn't play vanilla wow.

>nost had 13k people playing everyday for 14 months
>le rosetinted goggles will wear off argument

hmmm

>nost had 11k bots playing everyday for 14 months
fixed that for you

Why the fuck would you want to do the same content for a year or more when its fucking content that came out 12 fucking years ago?

you nostalgia fags are fucking insane

>molten core
>tactics

Because people have fun with it? Why do you browse the same board that's still garbage for 12 years now?

Don't need blizzard to announce shit, I'm happy enough playing nostalrius already

>blizzard is going to set up and maintain servers for a handful of literal autists
never going to happen

Because we've actually been talking about different shit during that time, not only games that came out 12 years ago you fucking moron

>He thinks Chinamen are people

>getting this mad that someone enjoys a game and you don't

How is middle school going

>13k People is a lot
I have played private servers with more of a population than that. Now remember, majority of them won't even hit 60 as they run out of quests and have to grind.

Then you need to cull the number again for the number of people who actually have it in them to consistently raid. If you think making 1 hour to do mythic + one boss is something, try clearing your whole fucking day because your in a pleb guild that cannot get past Magmadar, and if you were to leave because you were getting angry/bored, it would fuck it up for 39 other people and you would most likely lose some DKP and even get yourself a g/kick.

If you compare the average raider from vanilla to the average raider of today, most people would crush the shit out of vanilla mechanics.

Till late AQ40 and Naxx most bosses had one to two mechanics at best.

That shit is on the level of normal/heroic bosses today.

Can't even compare to Mythic raid bosses.

I enjoy plenty of games, you're living in the past, and its illegal btw what you're doing

xmog is more autistic than anything in vanilla

Join a good guild then, it shouldn't take more than 2 hours to clear MC if you raid with people who aren't braindead. It's the easiest raid in WoW history next to EN.

>he thinks not standing in the red is hard
t. Never played Vanilla

>all these problems which effected vanilla wow don't exist because you didn't git gud
Really?

It would be great for about a year and a half and then heavily stagnate until dead.

>Arguing with literal autists
What the fuck do you expect?

Honestly you suffering to stay with a dogshit guild when you had the choice to leave for a better one really is your fault. I'm not telling you to git gud but git better with making decisions.

If you're in a guild where it takes the entire day to clear and easy raid then just find a better guild.

>start character on a private WoW server
>fucking loved playing a fire mage back in the days, roll undead for the sweet racial
>best feeling was suicide bombing in AV with Blast Wave, seeing all those numbers pop up
>level up so I can finally do old AV again
>wait until level 60 so I'm not a useless dickhole
>queue up, AV starts
>finally return there after a decade
>whoa, I'm even at the start of a fresh game of AV
>join my Horde brethren in the initial charge
>feelings of AoE'ing in slow moving stalemates coming back
>can't wait to do this all weekend
>Alliance sighted, prepare to clash
>dismount, sheep an unlucky dwarf and start casting
>it's a warrior, so I pretty much already won at this point
>another mage helps me pick off the dwarf
>has his ice barrier up
>hear familiar trumpets
>my Horde friends have managed to capture a bunker
>our towers are under attack
>look around me
>there are maybe 3 or 4 people in total
>oh god no
>Blood Guard Vrutne rides along with his Goblin Rocket Helmet

We lost maybe 15 minutes later. I pretty much gave up on vanilla WoW after that.

Yeah, but it was also 2004. People still used fucking AOL. The world has advanced incredibly since then, and getting 40 players into a raid today is the equivalent of getting 20 players back in 2004. Also, a minor numbers tune would keep the raids tough but dialing back the LOL HEALER OOM WIPE IT WHOOPS ROGUE DIED WIPE IT FUCKING MAGE ONLY HAS 80 FR WIPE IT

>what would your expectations be?

I'd expect that they'd find a way to fuck them up somehow because NeoBlizz is horrible.

>Would you prefer it if they were completely identical to how they functioned in live vanilla

As close as possible to Vanilla would be best. If they made very minor changes like AoE looting or whatever I wouldn't mind too much.

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I want to see the average guild from vanilla do bosses like Kormrok, Gorefiend, Imperator Mor'Gok, Garrosh, Tyrant, Archimonde, Cenarius, Helya mythic.

They would get crushed so bad they'd quit raiding forever.

Farming resistance gear and grinding consumables was the "hardest" part of vanilla.

Get off your retard horse with the "hurr you must have not played vanilla". I still remember how fucking interactive it was to play a paladin in MC before greater blessings, spam blessing people for 80% of my raid time blessing people over and over and over.

And if I want to do it faster? Spend gold, yey.

can't wait for nost

Blizzard and it's faggot muscledaddy Activision can go jerk gay dicks together

>average guild

Good thing I wasnt in an average guild back in the day.

>getting 40 players into a raid today is the equivalent of getting 20 players back in 2004
You're out of your fucking gourd if you think getting 40 competent people together today wouldn't be just as difficult today as it was back then. Hell, if anything it'd be even more difficult because the younger generation is too used to the no work all rewards style of current games, and the older generation has too many responsibilities to deal with. The only people that would even have the time to devote entire nights to raiding these days would be the literal autists living off government checks that already spend all their time playing other trash or shitposting around the internet.

Good thing you are making shit up.

Every has been that was kicked out from MC/BWL guilds claims how great vanilla was but when confronted as to why he isn't raiding now starts bitching about how shit the game is.

Raiding in vanilla was retardedly easy and you must be mentally handicapped to claim anything outside temple of AQ and Naxx was remotely challenging unless your guild management was shit and you're carrying 30 retards.