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and listened to what people are asking for. 🧵9/END

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could make it happen with less effort than they claim. It sounds like my want is what the community calls "Classic+"? I don't know, but Season of Discovery (SoD) is stupid AF. Absolutely hate the sound of it. There's room for WoW's player-base to grow if Blizzard just committed 🧵8

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guarantee that it's a hit. I get the WoW Classic sweats may not like the idea from a lore perspective, and the WoW Retail folks won't like it because it's just slower, but it just sounds like so much fun. WoW is in a unique place where it has access to both current and legacy codebases. They 🧵7

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Cataclysm makes it feel like you're some superhero, nothing is a threat. There's no risk, so leveling isn't a reward. In just 2 days, I've leveled further than I have on Classic. I'll reiterate what I've said before. Give me the races and graphics from Cataclysm and beyond in Classic, and I 🧵6

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13. I'm actually okay with the skill compression with some being collapsed onto themselves. It may have gone too far with the other classes I haven't played. To summarize everything here, I simply have no desire to continue on Cataclysm. Despite Classic's failings, the experience is just better. 🧵5

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9. You removed the Hunter pet minigames! You massacred my boy! 10. More Hunter pets, so that's nice. 11. I'm not a fan of locking the trait trees down. My options feel restrictive. 12. Attack my target for pets is nice, but it should also behave as defensive at the same time. It's annoying. 🧵4

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6. The improved graphics are an incremental, but very nice upgrade over classic. 7. Performance upgrades are nice. 8. I'm conflicted on the region changes. Don't feel like I've finished exploring the untouched regions, but they've been changed. They look OK, but miss the old. 🧵3

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3. Mobs die too quickly, not enough time to learn my skills! 4. Pacing is too quick, leveling isn't fun anymore. By level 10, mobs in your area are 2-5 levels under you and die in 1 hit. 5. Being able to play the newer races, like Worgen, is fun! 🧵2

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I've played World of Warcraft (WoW) Classic Cataclysm for a few days after my Classic Hardcore rant- here's my thoughts... 1. Logging into an XP buff is not ideal. At least ask me if I've experienced the game and want to rush through or something. 2. Mobs die too quickly, there's no danger! 🧵1/9

Given, I am not one of those people who has deep dived white papers or anything, I just read a lot in circles of people that do.

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Just throwing this out there... 1. Reliance on GPUs for AI isn't going anywhere. 2. "DeepSeek" on things like Raspberry Pis are not truly DeepSeek, they're other models (Llama and Qwen) that are trained on output from DeepSeek. 3. US companies are already charging $20 for US-hosted DeepSeek.

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3- Fix the threat mechanic. In no world should threat jump to a new player when a leash is broken. ESPECIALLY outside of your party. 4- Since you're keeping addons, merge the API base. The same addon should work for both versions (mechanics allowing). For instance, nameplate distance! 🧵12/FINAL

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1- First, keep the Classic leveling experience/pacing. Do NOT touch this. Probably the biggest rift between the community. Leave it alone. 2- Add the Retail graphical improvements and put a toggle in options for players to choose between Classic and Retail graphics. Take an idea from DAoC. 🧵11

stupid. It seems like loot tables are shared across mob type (i.e., humanoid, beast, etc) instead of the mob itself (i.e., Winter Wolf, Grelling, etc). It feels lazy and unrewarding. Now, not that anyone asked, but what could Blizzard do to improve (in my opinion only)... 🧵10

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for the entire party if they're close - don't make subsequent players wait for an NPC animation to complete a quest (I know this is fixed with NPC instancing in Retail, but that's a stupid solution only adding to it feeling like a single player game). All uncommon and lower loot being ROG is 🧵9

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(most of the time) that they're not. Looted quest items should be shared - if it drops for 1, it should drop for all. Not doing this is artificial difficulty adding no value to the game. I wouldn't mind the inconsistent drop rates so much if that happened. Let the party leader turn in quests 🧵8

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threat jumps to me for just being in the area is the dumbest thing I've ever witnessed in an MMO - and apparently that's something trolls do for fun in Hardcore? Fuck off. Party mechanics are inconsistent and poorly designed. Sometimes, quest objective outcomes are shared, then there's times 🧵7

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Requiring third-party addons to play the game effectively is asinine - but I also couldn't see myself playing without them, and that's a failing on the part of Blizzard. Oh, speaking of threat, having a character die because some random runs out past me and I'm just standing there when suddenly 🧵6

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With those things said, that's kinda where my praise ends. An MMO having a server tick rate so prevalent in all aspects of play is fucking stupid. Your primary tank class having no resource by default (at rest) is stupid - you just can't generate threat early. Threat generation is inconsistent. 🧵5

level 20. 1-2 hours is the sweet spot for levels I feel, so like around level 12-14, but the leveling pacing isn't too out-of-touch with DAoC so it didn't bother me a ton. You don't feel invincible - the opposite, in fact - and that's good! You can't just run through a camp and kill everything. 🧵4

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I'm at the point in life where if a game isn't challenging while at the same time being overwhelming, I am just not interested. With all that out of the way- Classic! First off, while the leveling pacing in Classic is a TON BETTER than Retail for learning your class, there's a drop-off around 🧵3

since Retail (the bit I've seen of it) is so disjointed and disconnected from the Classic experience. In Retail, the leveling experience is just too fast for me. It puts too much in front of you too quickly. There's no time to learn your class, experience the zone, or experience any real danger. 🧵2

So I've played World of Warcraft (WoW) Classic (specifically, Hardcore) for about a month now, and here's my take as a long-term Dark Age of Camelot (DAoC) player who's just dipping their toe into WoW for the first time. This thread will mostly be about Classic 🧵1/12

I don't know what comes next, I don't care to know your beliefs or thoughts. All I hope is that she's in a better place without pain and will wait for her family - be it in some heaven, or as energy returning to the universe - I don't know.

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We'd always like to ask her to bark for us... I'm not good with grief, but in my own way this shook me. I think the final moments shook Megan just as much, if not more in some senses.

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We tried to get the vet to come back, but before he was able to make it, Aurora began to roll onto her side. In the end, she gave us one final bark as a goodbye before passing on.

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After the call, Megan was hugging Aurora and I was staring Aurora in the eyes while petting her, trying to comfort her. We noticed her hackles shoot up.

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He suggested that we put her down, but also that we could try to prolong her life a few more days, but it would be hard on her. We had to make the choice and he left the room for a minute. Megan comforted Aurora while I called my mother to inform her of what was happening.

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It was as though she both knew, and was a pure expression of love. Looking back now, it was as if she was more worried about me than herself. We'd get her inside, and the vet almost immediately recognized that Aurora was going into heart failure.

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After she ate it, we noticed an odd expression on her face, one that worried me to the point we rushed her to the vet. When we got to the vet, I was hold Aurora in the back of Megan's crossover, and I remember Aurora looking back at me with an expression I can't really put into words.

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While Megan and I were eating lunch, I began to notice Aurora stumble, but she was still sitting on the ground next to me begging for a chicken nugget, which I'd give her - something I haven't done in a very long time.

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She would sleep until around 1 PM US/CT. I'd warm up some ham and give it to her to see if it would help her clear her throat. Megan would get home around 1:20 PM US/CT and she'd give Aurora her "I'm home!" bacon snack.

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It was around 11:30 AM US/CT when I realized the coughing had changed. It was difficult for her to lay down without a wheezy cough attack. I'd give her some coughing medicine in peanut butter and turned on the humidifier which seemed to help.

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Her final day was a mix of good and bad. The past few years she'd gotten a cough around this time of year from the cold. Her body was already in pain from those causing muscle spasms.

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Every Christmas and birthday from this point on was a gift. Her body slowly started to give further to age, despite her desire for snacks. **If you're easily distraught, don't continue reading from this point as it will describe Aurora's last day.**

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As old dogs do, she just couldn't move the same any more, she needed help getting up on the couch, but she still wanted very much to be around everyone. I remember being thankful she could be there for this day. One of the many reasons this day was memorable for me.

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Aurora would be there once more for a major life event, the day Megan and I got married in late 2022. Around this time I was fairly constantly worried about Aurora.

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To top it off, she got to see her grandmother again for her wedding, and to run around a new area - experiencing all of it with her sister Holly.

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