TBC vs. Vanilla

[Kelorek]

I am really hopeful that this summer will bring progress and good news on the future of legacy servers.
However, I sort of personally don't want to replay Vanilla ( did that for half a year and had fun on Nostalrius ) and am ready for TBC in my legacy server career. I hope if legacy servers do become official I don't have to wait for an entire Vanilla timeline to see an official TBC server especially since most my friends are all holding out for arena. Anyone else in the same boat?

[melak]

I am really hopeful that this summer will bring progress and good news on the future of legacy servers.
However, I sort of personally don't want to replay Vanilla ( did that for half a year and had fun on Nostalrius ) and am ready for TBC in my legacy server career. I hope if legacy servers do become official I don't have to wait for an entire Vanilla timeline to see an official TBC server especially since most my friends are all holding out for arena. Anyone else in the same boat?

My guess is that Blizzard would make an estimate of the demand for it, and if they see that there is, it could happen. At this point we are just hoping we get any legacy to begin with

[dst]

i will give my right kidney and a testicle for a TBC Legacy server starting with lvl 1....

[Keldan]

Tho I believe TBC was better in a lot of aspects, especially class balance and more relevant specs, it also introduced some plain bad game design features, such as flying mounts and TP meeting stones.
In the end (2.3 ? 2.4 ?), access requrements for raids were also deleted, elites zones were removed all around the world, and a lot of the old content was useless, only to focus on last patches. Leveling rates were also increased. Vanilla was IMO much better balanced in these aspects.
Also, Paladins for the Horde and Shamans for the Alliance... And blood elves.. damn it never again.

[firevoodoo]

Tho I believe TBC was better in a lot of aspects, especially class balance and more relevant specs, it also introduced some plain bad game design features, such as flying mounts and TP meeting stones.
In the end (2.3 ? 2.4 ?), access requrements for raids were also deleted, elites zones were removed all around the world, and a lot of the old content was useless, only to focus on last patches. Leveling rates were also increased. Vanilla was IMO much better balanced in these aspects.
Also, Paladins for the Horde and Shamans for the Alliance... And blood elves.. damn it never again.

Pretty much this. I also hate Draenei. I would play TBC patched prior to 2.4. w\o Sunwell and nerfs, I doubt such server will ever appear however, so Vanilla is our choice

[Xaverius]

a TBC Legacy server starting with lvl 1....

That's quite a rare thing. And I thought I was alone. Most of people don't want to level the whole way though and just want a quick shortcut to the current expansion... wait, didn't I hear this said about people on retail ?

I also hate Draenei.

*highfive*

[Jeniwyn]

I strongly prefer Vanilla.

Some TBC instances were ok, but I much prefer the game mechanics in the original game. I still hold that the move towards AoE threat in TBC is what started the no-cc gogogo mentality that has plagued the game ever since.

[drabus]

I'm hoping the final result with the Legacy Server debate is that Vanilla, TBC, and WoTLK are all available in some form. Everyone has an opinion of one-vs-another, so I think having them all available would be nice.

In a perfect world, I would like to see both:

1) Pure Servers - Have a pure server with the last patch for each of Vanilla, TBC, and WoTLK. Allow for characters to be transferred up from one server to the next at their own discretion. While not progression, this gives the player the opportunity to experience as much (or as little) of the Legacy servers they want.

2) Progression Servers - Start a progression server at the baseline Vanilla and have it progress all the way up to the final WoTLK patch over a 3 year schedule (1 year per expansion). Once a progression server jumps to the new expansion, a new progression server would be started at baseline Vanilla. So at the end, there would be 3 servers - each at a different point in the progression timeline.


If the final solution would support both modes and all three expansions, then it would offer the most in terms of play style and flexibility. I prefer the difficulty of Vanilla, but I like many of the features (e.g. - battlegrounds) and class balances of TBC and WoTLC.

Is anyone interested in Cataclysm or later? I'm not, but everyone has an opinion.

[gumby540]

Vanilla with arenas.
I think it would be pretty cool, but some will say otherwise.

[Snouk]

TBC... this expansion was so good. Alright some people don't like the "sci-fi" feeling that came with the Outland but this ambiance was just awesome finally and daaamn it still far more credible than pandas. (actually if the moron who had the idea of adding pandas in WoW was in front of me, I would put some bamboos right in his ass)

In a technical PoV TBC was just a great improvement to Vanilla.

i will give my right kidney and a testicle for a TBC Legacy server starting with lvl 1....

If it's prenerf, I think I could separate myself from a testicle too.