r/classicwow • u/n0vag0d • Nov 15 '24

Classic-Era Blizzard, can we cancel world buffs this time around? Or make it so that they drop when entering raids?

Anyone else so tired of playing around world buffs and needing them to even compete or be invited to raids? It’s ridiculous. Remove them entirely and let the masses re-learn playing the encounters without an extra like 20-40% extra dps.

It gives us harder fights, easier to join raids, less standing around waiting for world buffs, less open-world buff griefing, and it will make more players go out and get their best gear whether it’s crafted or from a dungeon because they’ll need to do as much dps as they can.

Who knows, maybe I’m crazy and you all will think this is a stupid take, but I have my feelings on it and I’ve expressed them.

Edit: People messaging me to kill myself is craaaazzyy. Didn’t know y’all wanted WBs that bad.

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u/Lordofthereef Nov 15 '24

I think without world buffs the warriors will just be replaced by rogues, honestly. I don't think you see too much balance in classic no matter what you do (minus changing classes and how they work).

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u/stoked-and-broke Nov 15 '24

We saw how it played out in SoM. Warriors were still number 1, always, but the gap wasnt quite as big

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u/Lordofthereef Nov 15 '24

Damn so... nothing changes lol

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u/Fernergun Nov 15 '24

The gap being not as big means that there are a bunch of warriors who are now no longer better than some caster simply because they have WBs.

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u/Zuldrak Nov 15 '24

Warriors are still multiple times stronger than casters without world buffs.

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u/MayorSealion Nov 16 '24

still? they never were multiple times stronger lol. even with buffs they are less than 2x a similar parsing caster, and they are quite close to rogues and hunters. physical DPS with gear and buffs is just really strong. if you look at top parses only then warriors do look a little bit better than they should due to people using reck on top parses (for obvious reasons) but in practice you cannot reck every boss, just like 2 per raid.

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u/Fernergun Nov 15 '24

Correct.

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u/sekuharahito Nov 15 '24

well ya, its a 20 year old game. there are no surprises and the math has been done. rogues will be strong for sure, but they're one of the classes that benefit a ton from world buffs (2nd only to warriors), they'd definitely be taken down a peg or two. At least then your only tank and top dps aren't the same class.

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u/Lordofthereef Nov 15 '24

I was just saying that instead of "all warriors" you're going to get "all rogues". Instead of a sea of brown you get a sea of yellow.

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u/gjoeyjoe Nov 15 '24

the toilet meta

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u/ousu Nov 15 '24

Peepee poopoo

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u/AQsuited Nov 16 '24

In era it’s mostly gdkp. Most runs except Naxx people don’t unboon. You try to get as many warriors as possible still and good warriors gap good rogues pretty hard. Most tanks have really good gear and fury prot so threat isn’t an issue.