Anyone going to play this? Looks great for me with lower level cap when I don't have time anymore. First phase caps at level 25 so not a huge time commitment. Runes wildly change a lot of the wow classic classes and there are crazy options like warlock/shaman/rogue tank and mage healer. Will be a new low level 10 man raid as well.

I'm in. Probably pretty casual. I was pretty sweaty on Classic. Hopefully a lot of 10 and 25 man content.

Looks interesting and I might bite. I'm still playing retail but only at the start of each season. I swap back and forth between FF and WoW as content drops.

Pretty sure my friends and I are doing a pve server on alliance. Will post server when we decide.

Would prefer horde but one wants to do ret pally.

Gonna try it out, but a bit skeptical on the longevity. Feels like they are adding retail abilities to Classic, which is kinda meh.

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Gonna try it out, but a bit skeptical on the longevity. Feels like they are adding retail abilities to Classic, which is kinda meh.

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Well they're up to Cata in Classic. Hardcore is fine but you can't really do anything end game. Just too much random stuff, relying on others where lots can go wrong. So yeah, I think if they're going to keep Classic moving this was necessary. The devs are being pretty responsive and have been making lots of changes. I've played Horde in Classic and OG so I think Alliance will be refreshing.

Will be interesting to see how much SoD "kills" Hardcore. Will definitely hurt Hardcore for at least a few months. After most people hit 25 in SoD, will be curious to see if people go back to HC. Depends on how quickly Blizz can update SoD with higher level caps and more content.

My guess is there will be a ton of 25 alts.

gonna try it

about to hit 60 in classic hard core haha

Anyone trying this yet? Only level 16, but not seeing much new content yet. A few retail abilities added to classes in form of runes, and a handful of new NPCs/items where you get said runes. Not sure what I was expecting, but aside from some classes being OP with the new runes, not seeing much new/different.

My shaman tanked RFC today with a mage healer. Pretty nuts.

Tell me more! That kind of stuff is what interests me haha.

Wonder how much of these sort of class experiments will matriculate into retail WoW, if any.

Haven't done any ashenvale PvP or BFD raid yet, lvl 20.

On alliance wild growth server.

I don't know much about the mage side, but for shamans, there are a few runes you can apply to certain gear slots to give you new abilities to help with tanking. One rune buffs shield block and gives mana back when you block, another turns Rockbiter Weapon into a tank stance (crit immunity, turns Earth Shock into a taunt, and extra health / threat / dmg reduction), and another one is a fire-based high threat cleave ability. Running all three of those is the standard for shaman tanking.

I love that they are experimenting and trying new things. One thing I hope they consider in a future season are things like new races/classes and new zones/quests/lore. Maybe flesh out some unfinished areas and stories that were dropped for time or they pivoted away from for future expacs. I started a NE Hunter on Lava Lash and it's way more powerful with the new runes. They did nerf a couple of things but an extra melee attack is nice to fill time waiting for raptor strike to reset. Explosive shot is cool too.