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Of course, I might be the only person with a net positive view of Cataclysm. At the same time, though…I believe Mists Classic would actually be popular and it would be weird to barrel past Cata to get there, so who even knows? If I had to bet, I would expect that after Wrath classic, they could do fresh progression servers or event servers of some sort, just to keep that passion going and prior to rolling into more contentious content grounds. I thought about this a bit in the run up to Burning Crusade Classic.

Except… they still have Classic servers. I would love to see a Cata Classic server announcement just for the popcorn fun. I also suspect Kaylriene is right about Mists of Pandaria.

I think that might well have enough nostalgia pent up to make it work. Then again, we are talking about three to five years from now. What if Retail WoW is in real trouble and the Classic operation is ahead of it? Then you might see all kinds of moves we might not expect.

I suppose whatever happens Blizzard is in it for the long haul now. Like Liked by 2 people. I was a little uncomfortable playing, to be honest. Probably myself can justify two subscriptions to play that, all year. I do think Cataclysm, love it or hate is, was the Rubicon.

So I think that is the most clear boundary between what we think of as a Classic experience from something more akin to the modern era. Still, I thought Wrath did a better job of creating a cohesive mostly world centric experience.

Northrend is very much a place in my mind as much as Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms are. Outland maybe not so much, so Wrath felt more like what I hoped TBC would have been in terms of continuing the worldly experience. That all changed literally and figuratively with Cataclysm, so it makes for a clean place to draw the line. I could see myself re-rolling on a vanilla classic, then moving to a TBC classic server at and then again moving to a Wrath classic server and wanting to do that whenever I and my friends feel like it.

Of course, a big part of that classic experience and excitement is having a fresh server with a launch day population running through the lowbie zones, etc. Like Like. There is the radical option of trying to ride the nostalgia train off the tracks by making new content branching off from where Cataclysm would have been.

Unlikely in the extreme, given it would be a risk compared to just spinning off more of the old stuff, but still. Kaylriene — There is no WoW expansion that I cannot find some good things in. And, as I brought up in a past post , I think that sometimes a decent expansion suffers somewhat from having to follow a better one.

Add in promising features that fall flat, and an expansion gets a reputation. And I bet that leads to some risk aversion from Blizz going forward, to the point that I think they might just feel satisfied leaving us with the Shadowlands content compromise and keeping classic to the first three eras. Because, even with Metzen, who was arguably the story muse of the company, we ended up with time travel up to the point of pretty much re-running TBC over again with WoD and Legion.

I fear that the joy of hitting the first zone of a new expansion with tons of people and hype that we are experiencing now will only happen one more time, in Wrath Classic. I have a feeling that Wrath will be the stopping point for the existing Classic servers. Especially since you can just lock exp gains and replay this expansions right now.

I also think there would be too much resistance from the Retail Wow team about post-Wrath Classic servers. What I suspect will happen is that Blizzard offers the option to move or clone your existing Classic Era and BC Classic characters to the Retail world. This would be a big deal since some of those titles and transmog are not currently available.

This would get the nostalgia train started back up on the tracks. That would give everyone a chance to play their favorite, though I could see them retiring an expansion so that a bit of nostalgia could build up. It seems like it should be possible to get a rough approximation of demand by looking at the private server scene. I have no idea how to pull actual data on this, but anecdotally it has always seemed the large majority of private servers were Vanilla Wow at least those were the ones that grew large enough for Blizz to shut down with maybe equal representation for TBC and WotLK and not much after that.

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Since launch, World of Warcraft Classic has more than doubled the subscription numbers of World of Warcraft. I guess a lot of people really like Classic. In addition to all of that, we recently spoke with game director Ion Hazzikostas about Classic's launch and future.

The interview is worth reading in its entirety , but one of the more interesting tidbits is that WoW Classic's post-release updates won't follow a regimented deadline. Instead, Blizzard will release new updates when it feels the community is ready based on data collected on how many players have completed whatever the latest endgame activity is. We want to avoid that. We gave WoW Classic a score of 80 in our new review , because it's a remarkably faithful recreation of old school WoW that does a great job of evoking that feeling of exploring Azeroth for the first time.

While it's clunky and punishing as hell, the community is what makes Classic a joy to play. Players are constantly working together to complete quests, craft gear, and run dungeons, and that social atmosphere alone is worth experiencing. One of the first decisions you'll make when you start playing is choosing which realm you want to play on, and there are quite a few PvP and PvE options to choose from. Take a look at our WoW Classic servers list to see what's available in your region and decide which realm to commit to.

Keep in mind that queues right now are extremely long for most servers during their local evening hours—often extending to two hours or more.

So if you want to play when you get home from work, either prepare for a long wait or find a way to log in before the evening rush. Despite Classic being so old, you can still update the user interface with some modern bells and whistles thanks to addons. These mods range from meters that track your aggro against enemies to inventory reworks that make managing bags much easier. And unless you're a purist, we absolutely recommend using at least a few addons to make playing a bit easier.

Check out our recommendations for the best WoW Classic addons. That's a complicated question and one that largely relies on your preferred playstyle.

Take a look at our class guide which breaks down each individual class and their relative strengths and weaknesses. Our race and class combo guide will also help you determine the best race for each given class—though we strongly recommend you to go with whatever combination you think is cool. Min-maxing isn't everything. No additional purchase required—you don't need to go out hunting for an original boxed copy of World of Warcraft.

Those who already subscribe to WoW will have WoW Classic included in the price of their subscription. Getting to level 60 is an enormous marathon—something that will take the average player a hundred or more hours.

Fortunately, we have a leveling guide that'll help you get to 60 fast. Using this guide, you'll pick up some nice tips especially tailored for this opening week of WoW Classic, when the servers are swamped and quests are hard to complete with so many players competing to kill every monster. There's a ton of ways to farm gold in WoW Classic, but one of the best methods requires learning crafting professions and selling items on the auction house for other players to use.

Have no fear, though, we have a guide to the best professions for those looking to amass an ungodly amount of wealth. World of Warcraft is practically a different game than when it first launched back in Through a continuous cycle of updates and expansions, systems have been changed, entire continents added, and character classes overhauled countless times.

Many people like these changes modern WoW is more accessible than ever , but a lot of people are nostalgic for Warcraft's days of yore and the way it used to play.