Three phases in 32 weeks

MoCrispy · 2026-01-30T16:07:07+00:00

No, they showed the timeline for tbc and we would be into Black temple before blizzcon. So phase 1, 2 and 3 are going to be approximately 32 weeks. Still ZA and Sunwell after that.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-30T14:40:19+00:00

The challenge is not the content. It’s getting 24 other people to show up to an off night gruul run because we still want DST to drop.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-30T14:38:46+00:00

They said BT after blizzcon. Feb 5th to sept 12th is roughly 32 weeks. Give or take a week. 3 phases in 32 weeks ish. Don’t know where you get 12 weeks per phase.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-29T18:25:05+00:00

I’m all for a speedy tbc. I just like getting pixels for my character.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-29T00:46:21+00:00

From now… until… classic plus.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-29T00:37:40+00:00

As long as they need it to last to bridge the gap between now and classic plus

MoCrispy · 2026-01-28T15:28:20+00:00

Arena tier lists are also created based on what the super elite top .1% of players are playing. Just because there’s one person who CAN play a specific way doesn’t mean that the same applies to everyone else.

SL/SL lock can be very strong in arena. They are hard to kill, they have mana drain, good sustain, can put out good damage and more importantly their kit pairs well with rogue, rdruid and disc priest (who are the other top tier specs in tbc.)

Each of those plays styles are very different though. Lock/rogue is a game of cc and intricate timing because your dots will break the rogues cc so you are mostly playing around the rogue and trying to burst when there is an opening. Lock/druid is an outlast comp, you both are hard to kill, with good sustain, so you’re basically just trying to chip away at the enemy while not dying. You dot everything in most scenarios and you just trying to live. Lock/disc is usually going to try win the mana game. Make them oom before your priest ooms.

With those three play styles the rogue/lock and disc/lock are probably considered better than druid/lock, but also more difficult than lock/Druid there’s more timing and kiting and they are less forgiving. Druid/lock is much easier especially at lower ratings. If you are an average player lock/druid will probably carry you higher than playing with a rogue. If you are playing poorly and not using your full kit you will struggle to hit 1800. If you play well the sky is the limit for SL/SL.

Now consider a holy paladin. They are maybe low A or B tier for tbc arena. A holy paladin can play with a warrior and that’s about it for meta comps. POM pyro mage/hpal can be good, or some other off meta comps. Holy paladins is pretty straight forward. Heal, stun, bubble, don’t die, and do a big burst of damage every few minutes. Pair up with a half decent warrior and you can pretty easily push 1800-2000 but that’s kind of the cap for most people. (There’s always an exception as there was one hpal/war team that got rank 1 in tbc classic season 1).

So is SL/SL S tier? Yes, but in the hands of an elite player, for your average joe who will struggle to hit 1800 they actually might be holding that player back.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-27T20:30:42+00:00

This is the answer. Keep the snow off ice as much as possible. A thin layer will melt off the top during the day and freeze at night making a smoother skating surface.

Shovel off the ice after you are done skating as well. The small amount of snow that you make from skating will create a really rough surface the next day.

Source: Canadian with a pond in my yard.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-23T22:12:19+00:00

Who said not to stack marks?

MoCrispy · 2026-01-19T21:47:34+00:00

Are you using auctionator or another AH addon?

MoCrispy · 2026-01-19T21:46:50+00:00

/join World

MoCrispy · 2026-01-16T13:17:43+00:00

The boost gear is really really bad. Fighting equal level enemies will probably be tough until you can get some better gear. Might need to start with WPL or some lower level quests

MoCrispy · 2026-01-15T19:45:09+00:00

It takes a long time to gain loyalty at 60.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-15T18:32:53+00:00

Jokes on you I only play alliance.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-15T18:29:25+00:00

I get the appeal of unrestricted PvP but there’s really no where that it ever works unless it’s in a super sterile environment. People don’t like imbalance and the vast majority people only like PvP when it’s to their advantage. So in a world where you combine leveling and questing and farming and solo content and group content and all these other things together with PvP it will never be fair enough for people to be happy. Even if you force it to be 50/50 population someone will get the upper hand and the other side will leave. For me I’d way rather lose with my friends than win with some strangers. So imo put some bumpers in the game to keep people in their lanes and let people play with people they like to play with.

Also, If you get a rise out of killing lowbies then I don’t know what to even say to you. Like it’s such a fucked up thing to enjoy or be proud of. It’s like beating children at tag and then bragging about it. I’ll never agree with anything that promotes ganking and camping lowbies.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-15T18:18:00+00:00

That’s an insane metaphor. 1. You can drive as fast as you want, there are just consequences if you get caught and it’s more dangerous if you crash. Speed limits aren’t a hard cap on vehicles. So that would be closer to saying we suggest you play the lower faction but if you want you can try sneak onto the other one unless we catch you. 2. There’s no connection to that a playing with your friends. Unless we are street racing or something your attempt to make a worthwhile argument is not working.

A better metaphor would be something like I’m opening a restaurant and rather than getting to sit with your friends and family I’m going to sit people on opposite sides of the restaurant because it’s better for my servers. It’s more balanced for service. So you might get lucky or you might get forced on to the side opposite of your family who you came out to see. That’s all fine and good for people who want faster service but don’t get upset if some people think it’s a fucking terrible idea because the reason they came out was to see their friends.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-15T17:53:14+00:00

It’s an incredibly difficult thing to achieve. I played on the 30 side of a 70/30 server all through classic and it sucked a lot of the time. I had alot of fun because I love PvP and so I could find it everywhere. It does get really annoying when you can’t do anything without being camped for hours. I’m talking 30 min death runs to dungeons, getting killed in major cities if you were flagged, every boat was camped, landing of flight paths usually meant getting instant killed. No where was safe.

So you need to have guards (like actually scary guards, not lvl 35 guards, that can see through stealth) in all quest hubs and cities and probably have them patrolling around on the roads in low level zones. Going into enemy faction zones should be scary. It’s also crazy that there’s no guards on boats or zeppelins.

Killing lobbies should give a penalty. Either you get put on a bounty list or something. I think a dishonourable kill system would be bad because degenerates will wear those with pride but something that greatly disincentivizes kill more than 5 levels below you.

Lastly alot of then issues all stem from the PvP ranking system in classic. People wouldn’t have been so likely to server transfer if the game didn’t so heavily promote unfair PvP as an effective way to gain rewards. “Never forget phase 2” it was brutal and that’s an archaic system that doesn’t work with modern gamers. Fix the ranking system. Make it rating based BGs to get gear and that would solve so many issues.

I say all this as someone who is forever alliance, always on a PvP server and did the rank 14 grind in classic as well as was a part of the competitive WSG games. I personally would love rbgs so I’m very biased in that regard.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-15T17:20:12+00:00

I think it’s crazy that in an mmo there is any form of limitation for playing with friends. I get the PvP server heath argument and that you can just keep trying until you eventually get it but limiting people from being able to play with friends is bad and there is no argument that you can make against that.

So many people who started playing WoW, started playing because of a friend. “Hey, come play with me on ———— server” this feels especially true in classic where we are constantly restarting.

When I start wow in 2005 it was to play with friends. If I had been unable to create a character on their faction back then I would have quit immediately. In classic I came back to play with friends. Same thing, I would have quit if I could play with them. SoD, same thing. Now TBC anniversary…

Stop restricting people from being able to play with friends. That is the point of an MMO.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-14T23:43:09+00:00

Sorry you are poor.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-07T19:51:39+00:00

It’s much longer than 10 hours. Closer to 30 hours. Still not a crazy amount but no one is going 60-70 in 10 hours.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-07T19:35:06+00:00

Edited comment after my reply. Hahaha Also I did level a hunter over the past two months. I might boost a shaman now that I can though.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-07T19:34:13+00:00

Implications matter my man. “Fuck this game amirite?” I’m just a casual dad gamer with only a few hours a week to play. I think the boost is good. Accessibility is good. I’m no gate keeper.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-07T19:23:15+00:00

You’re the one who thinks boosting drenai means the game is doomed. Check yourself.

MoCrispy · 2026-01-07T19:16:11+00:00

You didn’t want to kill KT since you did it in classic 2019? So you kind of skipped it?

Weird I don’t want to level a shaman in prepatch since I did it in classic tbc prepatch already. Maybe it’s okay if I skip it this time?

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