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Fjobben
Well, this idea popped in my head and now I am basically thinking out loud. I was watching some old vanilla WoW PvP videos and I was amazed how fun it looked, It was simpler and not as fast phased as now, but also more exciting and kinda varied.
So then it struck me, does the game remember the gear, talents and just simply how your characters were in their late sixties? I am talking about maybe a month or so before TBC was launched, when most of the people had purples/blues and were at the peak of WoW PvP (alright, maybe not the peak, but you know what I mean).
So, what if Blizzard made special Battleground masters that were designed for level 60 BG? Only the BGs from Warsong Gulch to Alterac Valley would be allowed, and players would get their old characters, their old gear, and their old specialisation back, just in the BG of course. I remember Alterac Valley BGs then, and it was just plain awesome.
Of course there are so many problems this idea makes, people who started playing at or after the Burning Crusade rushed from Azeroth to Outland with no level 60 gear whatsoever and other people just simply weren't as good at the game then as now, so they also have lousy gear. There will also be a problem because of players who get their characters maybe too 'young', that is characters who maybe didn't have their full level 60 gear. Of course there are far-fetched solutions for this far-fetched idea, but I just thought it would be funny to share this.
Oh, and also, does someone know if WoW has saved your level 60 character? I am kinda curious.
Feel free to post a comment about this, I am looking forward to read them!
P.S. I did not really know where this topic belonged, but I thought that this is more of a general question than just some remininscing (I don't know if that is spelled correctly) about old PvP, so I decided to put it here :P
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Post by
Kalisha
As much fun as it may look in the videos, PvP was just as unbalanced then as it ever was. It might have been a little bit slower, but it was just as "unfair" then. I'd venture to guess that there were a heck of a lot more poorly geared people in those days than there are now, and there was lots of crying about the "epic crutch."
If you told people they could have their old characters back, but they couldn't improve their gear, what would be the point? And of course some classes were still totally dominating almost everyone.
Post by
INvShika
That certainly is a rather absurd idea.
Post by
Nipah
Pfft... real MEN PvP'd with a Twig of the World Tree and Black Dragonscale Armor!
... and by "real men" I mean "my Shaman".
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Post by
MegaVolt
Make it so that everyone is included:
Make it a "historic" Battleground, everyone has his level, talents and gear automatically scaled down to what it was back then. So the fury Warrior will automatically get the "cookie cutter" fury talent tree from that time, be equipped with the BiS fury items from that time and have all lvl 60 stuff.
Everyone can take part and re-live the glorious days. Just for fun of course, grinding items would obviously have nothing to do with this.
The system works really great with the
Costume Brawl in Guild Wars
. There (as part of the Halloween festival) every player automatically gets transformed into a special character from the Guild Wars story with his/her own skills and with default weapons. Those fights are really fun and I'd love to see something like that in WoW.
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