I wish it was $5 MORE and that retail people had to pay that $5.Not the end of the world, but I think giving retail accounts free access is a mistake that will do more harm than good in the short and long term cycle of Classic.

This is one way to "fix" your percieved problem.I'd probably prefer the other option, which is to add a handful of "offspec" specific gear to the game to help those undercompetitive in raid talent trees. This still requires the individual to go out and aquire their "buff". Is probably how vanilla should have shipped.The likely and easiest and maybe or maybe not overall best solution is to realize this an already released and content cleared game. That we already know what to expect. Then to prepare accordingly, and not complaining if you choose a non-minmax playstyle and also desire to play wi…

To the person who had their friend play on a recent fresh server and not enjoy,Have them try again now. Make your character to play with them.The start of those servers is not true experience. Changes level strategy and creates lines. More ganking and bug abuse.Challenge them to get their mount, then get to 60

I mained Horde for the most part up until TBC.Blood elf's were a major turn off to staying Horde for me.

This is a whole lot one one post!Positive stuff though, thanks.I don't entirely agree that "most" people on the persistent server will have T2, but whatever.I think ladder/season brackets could work fine. It has helped keep D2 and now D3 alive for ages.It is somewhat in-line with original vanilla and the semi-common release of new servers.I don't foresee "classic+" as being a thing, unless classic really does draw extremely high user count.Good luck!

7/10!I like your skipping the obvious loosing argument of should we have LFR and straight to the presumption it is in and how many it should be!Did you know night elves are related to trolls?

The game parted ways with "classic" gamestyle ages ago, during and especially after WotLK.Casual focus with neverending rewards and dailies.Lack of character uniqueness, lack of server community and player side reputation...Lack of the journey. All about the destination.People crying about the retail grind are the same people who have been crying to make retail what it is today.Many of us have quit ages ago and would love to have Classic to come back to. Many are excited to try it, some of those will not enjoy it.All the QQ about it's creation really just goes to show the unsatisfied masses cu…

A lot of people seem to be confused as to the basis of the WoW classes.Warcraft lore =/= DnDhttp://classic.battle.net/war3/human/units/paladin.shtmlThey were always more defensive healer types with some melee ability.Plate and healing let them use a 2 hander instead of shield for a little more oomph to their hits, but were at the back of the pack in melee DPS.

Only excited for Classic!If they were going to keep going THEN they should start changing things to reflext Chromie modifying the timeline.Illidan joins forces with Azeroth.Arthas manages to overcome the Lich king and is redeemed.After Wotlk re-releaae with with such changes, retail Azeroth is detroyed and WC4 comes out to fully defeat the Burning Legion.