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Wrath of the Lich King Classic Round Table Interview | MMORPG.com

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited April 2022 in News & Features Discussion

imageWrath of the Lich King Classic Round Table Interview | MMORPG.com

Earlier this week, the future of both retail and Classic WoW was revealed. We had the chance to sit down with the World of Warcraft team to chat Wrath of the Lich King Classic.

Read the full story here


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  • wandericawanderica Member UncommonPosts: 371
    I'm actually looking forward to this. I mean we all knew it was coming, and I have no illusions that it'll be 100% nostalgia (for me, at least), but Wrath felt like the end of the "classic era" even back then. It's nice to hear Blizzard acknowledging player wants and desires, and I'm happy to see this carry over to the newly announced live expansion as well, by the way. No LFG is a great decision, and should help conserve that community feel that we all had at Wrath's launch. I do think that there will be those that will be sad to see the TBC servers all converted, but if I'm honest, they'd have been deserted anyway. Still, I'd like to see at least a couple of servers preserved (with options to copy a character) for those that might want to raid at 70 with their guilds. Wrath changed raiding, after all, and I know for me personally, I preferred TBC's raid system. At any rate, I'm sure I'll be leveling a shadow priest to relive those glory days.


  • GroqstrongGroqstrong Member RarePosts: 826
    I wont be playing but have some buddies that are pumped for this. I wonder if their opinion of the greatest xpac will stand the test of time.
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  • TheDalaiBombaTheDalaiBomba Member EpicPosts: 1,493
    They appear to be absolutely PISSED over at Massively that WotLK Classic won't launch with LFD.

    However, the expansion was without LFD for the majority of its lifetime as the current expac.  It wouldn't make sense to launch with LFD.  I can understand some criticism if they release progression patches beyond 3.3 and fail to include LFD, though.


    *shrug* I don't know if this is enough to get me back or not.  My brother recently quit, so that motivator is gone too.
  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    edited April 2022
    They appear to be absolutely PISSED over at Massively that WotLK Classic won't launch with LFD.

    However, the expansion was without LFD for the majority of its lifetime as the current expac.  It wouldn't make sense to launch with LFD.  I can understand some criticism if they release progression patches beyond 3.3 and fail to include LFD, though.


    *shrug* I don't know if this is enough to get me back or not.  My brother recently quit, so that motivator is gone too.
    I'm not going to whine about it but it's definitely disappointing.

    I understand the rationale but LFD caters to my inconsistent play times in games that have it. Guid groups do't do much for me if I play when most of them are asleep as I often do :)

    I view ir as a handy QOL thing and not the end of community doom and gloom many view it as.
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  • DattelisDattelis Member EpicPosts: 1,675
    edited April 2022
    Not having dedicated TBCC servers sounds like corporate cost-cutting to me.....There are those people that liked TBC over WotLK, so just let them have their own thing like the Classic people and stop being cheap....As for no LFG, I played WotLK without it so I personally do not mind, but it does sound like they are trying to get people interested in Cata classic in two years by saying there wont be LFR in it (which is still a deeply debated thing on whether LFR should exist or not). Though, if they do announce Cata Classic, I dont think they'll be dumb enough to say that WotLK Classic servers will integrated into it. Its my secret hope that by announcing TBC's server integration into WotLK that Microsoft increases the WoW team's budget to add new content to that side and treat it as a different game entirely or at least rework following expansions from Cata onword to fit into WotLK's design philosophy (no gather catch up like was introduced in MoP, no crafting catch-up which started in WoD, etc).
  • ShaighShaigh Member EpicPosts: 2,150
    Random dungeon finder happened because people were struggling with finding groups after the three months content rush was over, particularly dungeons not played at cap. This problem already exist for tbc classic and its likely to make people stop playing wotlk classic. if they don't add it after a few months.

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  • JudgeUKJudgeUK Member RarePosts: 1,700
    edited April 2022
    Is there a published date yet  for WotLK classic?
  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    JudgeUK said:
    Is there a published date yet  for WotLK classic?
    Sometime this year is all they have said so far.
    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots”

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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,427

    Iselin said:


    JudgeUK said:

    Is there a published date yet  for WotLK classic?


    Sometime this year is all they have said so far.



    I am guessing November, timed for the Xmas rush.
  • SignexSignex Member UncommonPosts: 319
    Best expansion of WoW, i can't wait to return to Northrend as a DK! Glad you can start right away without a high lvl character.
    AMD Ryzen 5800X3D - Gigabyte Aorus RTX 3080 10G Master - 16GB RAM
  • nyxiumnyxium Member UncommonPosts: 1,345
    It's amusing that WoW's biggest rival is WoW Classic, with WoTLK even more so a rival. Ironic if players are paying the sub to access Classic Wrath and not Shadowlands / Dragonflight.
  • Greymantle_12Greymantle_12 Member UncommonPosts: 12
    edited April 2022
    No fresh start TBC server and now no fresh start WOTLK server. Insta level up is a no go for me. Looks like Classic Vanilla is the only one I got to enjoy. As to the LFG it was a huge mess and glad its not part of it. If you lose accountability on a server it's all down hill from there. Another thing they need to remove is Heirloom gear no word on that as far as I know.
  • flippingeckflippingeck Newbie CommonPosts: 7
    edited April 2022

    TheDalaiBomba said:

    They appear to be absolutely PISSED over at Massively that WotLK Classic won't launch with LFD.

    However, the expansion was without LFD for the majority of its lifetime as the current expac.  It wouldn't make sense to launch with LFD.  I can understand some criticism if they release progression patches beyond 3.3 and fail to include LFD, though.


    *shrug* I don't know if this is enough to get me back or not.  My brother recently quit, so that motivator is gone too.



    I read the article you are talking about . To be honest I am surprised they published it because it was the very definition of nerdrage . The guy who wrote just rambled on about how he thought it was hilarious and how he wasn't angry ( when he clearly was ) . Most of the comments seemed to support Blizzards decision not to include the dungeon finder only for him to tell them they were wrong in the comments section . He got quite aggressive and sarcastic at times.

    I don't play classic WoW but if they are going with what the community wants then I can't fault the decision . I kind of like LFD tools myself but to each there own .
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