The Classic WoW We've All Been Asking For? (Season of Discovery)

Classic WoW has been the backbone of World of Warcraft, it seems, since its release back in 2019. With massive successes, from original Classic, to TBC, Wrath of the Lich King, and even Hardcore - it would appear to many that most of the enthusiasm for World of Warcraft lies on the Classic side of the equation. But one thing people have been asking for for years is Classic PLUS: A sort of updated version of Classic WoW, with new content to enjoy and a new way to enjoy the 2004 version of the game.

And Blizzard has answered with Season of Discovery - a Classic WoW experience unlike anything anyone has seen before. Complete with rune collecting, a new open world PvP zone (sorta), a new raid, and more, Season of Discovery is sure to be a welcome addition to the World of Warcraft family. Or will it...?

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[cramit]

I think the biggest thing I do like is the level cutoffs. It's like a patch every time. I think it's going to give time for blizzard to figure out where something is working or not. I absolutely love that there is no beta testing even though we have people data mining stuff. My main is a warlock but I will say I have no intention of being a tank. Great concept though. I did tank for mimiron in original wotlk. I'm actually hoping that they do more with crafting, and make drops or patterns much more rare. I remember in original tbc and see a Rouge with the off hand glaive and thought he was a god.

[SpectreGaming]

Them being able to summon the Big bosses like old AV is an awesome idea I love that.

[Moth-]

Very hyped to be a shaman tank in Season of Discovery. I had always wished that the idea of a shaman tank had gotten more love. The talents and abilities were always kinda there, but now they’re really going for it and I’m here for it!

[SkysXFile]

New sets: TOTALLY agree! Reinforce some of those runes with new levelling sets. Plus: in classic, it's always disappointing when you out-level a low-level set before you even get the whole thing

[jgn]

I'm not sure about all the new abilities. The great thing about classic is the speciality that your class has. If we go the route of 10 healers, 10 tanks, and 20 DPS, then that dilutes your choice greatly.

[obxolicious]

I kind of wish they had gone the Turtle WoW approach with Classic +, expanding on Warcraft 3 lore, but this is a good start.

[vXCozmoz]

Making a 2nd post here since I wanna help out Nixxiom, such a great guy. We did get some things we've asked for. Shaman/Pala tanks. We did NOT ask for rogue/lock tanks, mage healers.
There are many reasons many (myself incl) left Retail for Classic. We did not leave that to play some Retail light game (Season of Disaster). All they had to do was to make under the hood changes and maybe some class tweaks. Give Shadow Priest and Boomkins some kind of mana regen etc things like that, not overtune ofc.
The entire point of Classic+ was to *expand* on Vanilla content, not just reuse it. Retailers replying "don't play it then". Classic+ was not about to make a "Retail Classic" or such.

[igorveloso]

By the love of god, why is noone asking for updated graphics? Imagine 2023 graphics in Classic, I would be so fucking happy 😔

[volicarebear]

There are no healing rogues or tanking mages. Go through the runes again, it’s rogue and warlock tanks. Mage healers. There’s no “everyone can do every role”

[iamlegion]

I’m so excited for this. I’ve always Classic + and this is a huge step! So happy to have content!

[clancythealligator]

I am so hyped up for SoD, this is such a cool move from Blizzard

[Dadbod]

I think they did say something about the level caps. Correct me if I am wrong it was 25, 40, 50, 60

[Insanebeast]

This does feel like blizzard is experimenting with the idea of a classic+ and depending on how it’s received by the players they might be able to add more resources to it

[Beetlebug]

I really feel like you should have done some simple research on this one. Many things you said were incorrect. For example, they ARE adding gear for the new raid. You said they weren't. There were several other things that you said that were incorrect. If you had simply watched any of the content they've released since and during Blizzcon, you would have been able to give accurate information. I love your content, but bro, this video was lazy and rushed.

[marcioa]

I want classic with the retail character models.

[JungKooksTwin]

one thing i feel bad for blizzard about is that they will NEVER please everyone ever lol, they have the worst fanbase that is always gonna be split and hate anything they do.

[vwlssnvwls]

The rune thing sounds interesting, and I recall Tabula Rasa had the same thing as the way your character would learn new abilities, and I used to love being out in the world and finding one of them. I am always here for anything Classic, because it just has a charm that always brings me back over and over.

[admirallotus]

Yeah... they literally lifted the rune concept from the Ascension's 1000+ Mystic Enchants with varied degrees of affect on on your character, ranging all the way up to new class archetypes such as dark ranger and shadowy vampiric healer. They even copied the idea of placing them on gear, which Ascension had until recently when they figured out that people hated that, and now offer a glyph UI for you to slot them into instead. This whole idea just screams Ascension (runes) + Chromiecraft (level locking). Despite what you may think, I desperately wish Blizzard would explore making content like this, and make it even better than private servers do. However, unless they take these ideas and run wild with them, and I mean REALLY give people new exciting ways to play rather than simply importing newer expansion skills, adding healing effects to basic skills to make them a "healer", and tweaking threat values to make a class a "tank", this is nothing more than a half-baked copy and paste with the intention of baiting people into subscribing for a little while. This clearly isn't Classic+, it's them testing the waters for "Seasonal League" game modes like OSRS does.

[Pihtorich]

That level cap and BFD as the endgame raid is weird and unexpected but I think this is the best way they could've done it.
Especially since BFD is my favourite WoW dungeon.

[RhebelGaming]

Have not played since TBC and i will come back for this. Hyped.