Blizzard announced today that World of Warcraft Classic are going to be set in patch 1.12: Drums of War. In a developer update, Blizzard stated it chose patch 1.12 “because it represents probably the most complete version in the classic experience.”

Players are actually debating for months — since reveal of World of Warcraft Classic last BlizzCon — in what “Classic” truly means. Is it 1.1? Is it a final patch of “vanilla WoW?” What is the true World of Warcraft experience for old-school players? With the announcement today, Blizzard has answered that question.

But Blizzard would like to do not just recreate WoW 1.12, they need to give a good, modern experience for players alongside the warts and glory of vanilla.

So we asked ourselves, would it not still be possible to offer an authentic classic experience whenever we took our modern code, wonderful its back-end improvements and changes, and worn the extender to process the Patch 1.12 game data?

While which may seem counterintuitive, this could inherently include classic systems like skill ranks, old quests and terrain, talents, and many others, while later features like Transmog and Achievements would effectively not exist simply because were entirely absent from your data. After weeks of R&D, experimentation, and prototyping, we had arrived confident we might deliver the classic WoW content and gameplay with out sacrificing the literally an incredible number of hours devote to back-end development in the last 13 years.

Almost there's nothing known about World of Warcraft Classic away from this recent announcement. For example, we aren’t certain if Classic are ever going to grow beyond patch 1.12 and move into the Burning Crusade.

It’s also unclear if a number of WoW’s less player-friendly systems will always be. For example, Shaman and Paladin classes were Horde and Alliance-specific in vanilla World of Warcraft. Blizzard could change this to appease Paladin Horde players or let it sit be and keep the https://www.mmoah.com/warmane