The World of Warcraft Community Council has discussed with Blizzard the upcoming Phase 3 of WoW: Burning Crusade Classic (with boss nerfs!) and the level of detail in the latest released patch notes.
Even more than in WoW Classic, the focus in WoW: Burning Crusade Classic is on what form the various raid bosses will take on the live servers. It’s obvious: During the original TBC era, the developers made noticeable adjustments to pretty much every adversary, whether in dungeons or raid instances, so that a second Naxxramas wouldn’t happen (which, at the time, could only be mastered by a fraction of active players). In vanilla WoW, on the other hand, there was only a sporadic simplification of the content, and then often through bug fixes or the removal of time restrictions.
Post- or Pre-Nerf – what can we expect?
When announcing TBC Classic, the developers promised to present us with the original, unattenuated bosses of Outland (plus Karazhan and Caverns of Time) first, if possible. However, there should be exceptions here and there. For example, Magtheridon had significantly less life points than its “predecessor” in the TBC remake.
Blizzard also announced early on that they would eventually implement the numerous nerfs in the Classic variant, just as they did in the original TBC. At first, it was said that the nerfs would be brought into the game when the next phase goes live and the parallel weakened content is no longer the focus of the guilds.
WoW TBC Classic: Kael’thas, Vashj and Co. were significantly weakened even before the start of Phase 3.
Source: Blizzard
In practice, however, the picture so far is much less clear than the developer announcements mentioned above. Firstly, this is due to the fact that PTR tests of upcoming phases often featured a crude mix of pre- and post-nerf content, and you could never be sure how the battles would ultimately play in the live version. Secondly, the mitigations for the Phase 2 bosses now came well before the start of Phase 3..
There’s also a “for the third”: The developers make very vague comments in the official patch notes for TBC Classic, such as when they write: “Raid XY now has the post-nerf state.” And to the fourth: Battle for Hyjal and Black Temple are now supposed to go live with stand patch 2.4.3 surprisingly and without exceptions (that is, with the nerfs).
Appearance: Community Council
All of these points combined are annoying. Not surprisingly, Sixxfury and Basîl from the Community Council raised the issue in the forum. Specifically, they wanted to know:
- Why is phase 3 coming with all the nerfs?
- And looking at the Sunwell Plateau, will we find out there in detail which nerfs will be implemented? And when can we expect the nerfs
The answers of the developers Pazorax and Aggrend:
- For Battle for Hyjal and Black Temple, there were very few real nerfs at the time (but quite a few bug fixes). Not enough, from the developers’ point of view, to make a difference here between pre- and post-nerf status.
- For the Sunwell Plateau it looks different: There will definitely be a pre- and post-nerf variant here.
- Yes, the last patch notes were very vaguely worded. From the developers’ point of view, it was just a “we’re pushing the button to roll back all the changes implemented up to patch 2.4.3”, and the exact details can be found in the old patch notes. Nevertheless, they would like to apologize for that.
- In the future, they want to go into more detail again in the patch notes for the Classic content. At least as far as the time of the developers allows.
- The reason why the nerfs for phase 2 were implemented quite early was that the developers wanted to give all players the chance to easily earn the attunements for the upcoming phase over the Christmas vacation.
- When exactly the nerfs for Sunwell will go live is still unclear. However, the developers want to inform us about it early.
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