#Wow mage time warp worthless full

In Vanilla, the total range of player power wasn't all that wide. Allow me to explain this in very clear terms, using only official Blizzard content. By further reducing the total number of levels, you are making content even more horizontal in multiple different ways. Now, what if I told you that this dynamic goes the other way as well. Small power increases within the framework of the same levels are certainly fine (something like an additional ultra-hard raid beyond Naxx that is essentially a T3.5, for example, sounds acceptable), but huge jumps accompanied by additional levels – as seen in the official expansions – only serve to render older content obsolete, thus actually decreasing the overall amount of relevant content available to the players. Vertical means pushing power and/or levels up by a significant margin - 'serial content', where you linearly progress along tiers, gaining more power. Horizontal simply means more options within the same span of levels / power - or 'parallel content'. Blizzard themselves had to acknowledge this by eventually doing their level / stat squishes in certain expansions.Īnd again, we can clearly see that the Turtle devs recognize this issue, since they are adding more 'horizontal' content, not 'vertical' content. It simply ruins the game in many different ways, escalating power-levels and numbers to absolutely crazy extremes. if Blizzard could royally mess up even very straight-forward things like basic class design and gearing – which they undoubtedly did – is it possible that they could have also gotten it wrong with the number of levels and the distribution of content? We do know with absolutely certainty that adding more and more levels later on was a mistake. And I want to start by asking you a question. The experience could be something truly amazing that most cannot yet imagine, because they never really thought about it from this perspective. Yet at the same time, with it addressed, the game could be a great deal better. it's not a huge issue (in the sense of making the game bad) and thus it's not noticed. One very specific issue, which – I believe – most players aren't aware of. With all of this stated, I would like to talk about one topic in particular. So in this way we have established the foundations – that even the original WoW has many design flaws that certain Warcraft veterans and enthusiasts can easily spot and improve upon.

I've played both of these classes on 1.12.1 servers, so I can sort of compare it in my mind. And I can attest that indeed the paladin does play much, much nicer in this way and is already a lot more balanced (in terms of damage dealing) vis-a-vis its direct competition, the shaman. and clearly the devs here have reached the same conclusion. Ever since I've learned about that, I knew it was a mistake.

#Wow mage time warp worthless full

While I've never played the original beta version of WoW, I have read that paladins did originally have the ability Holy Strike – which, however, was later removed for the full release alongside other abilities. I like it even the way it is in true Vanilla, but consider it to very much be a flawed gem. My favourite class by far is the paladin. And in hindsight, we can clearly see it.īefore I go further, just one concrete example to make it perfectly clear. And I want to stress this part – the premise is not that Blizzard simply didn't have the time to implement everything (which, however, is obviously also true), but that some decisions they had made were just wrong. Not on the often touted idea that WoW used to be near perfect as a Warcraft MMO and was only ruined by the subsequent expansions – but on the assertion that it was extremely flawed right from the beginning and that indeed many mistakes were made. Turtle WoW – as a concept – stands on the premise that Blizzard had gone astray when designing WoW all the way back in Vanilla. So here's the idea and how I arrived at it. And if someone out-there takes liking to the vision and feels inspired by it, then perhaps my autistic rambling has served a purpose for once. If nobody finds it the least bit interesting or compelling, then nothing has changed. It's just rough thoughts, barely edited, but I thought I might as well share them here.

something that's been brewing in my head for ages came through in full and I had to stop and write for a few hours just to get it all out. While playing earlier today, I've had an idea.