Blizzard Dev Responds To Player Concerns About Wrath Of The Lich King Classic
With beta testing of Wrath of the Lich King Classic well underway and its launch looming on the horizon, a Blizzard developer has taken time to address various issues and concerns raised by the community regarding raid lockouts, account-wide achievements, and the dungeon finder, among others.
For raid lockouts, it will be shared between Normal and Heroic versions of the raid but not between the 10-player and 25-player versions. Account-wide achievements and mounts will not be available in the classic server although achievements and titles for 2v2 PvP arenas will be given out.
As for the highly-requested dungeon finder, Blizzard is still adamant that they won’t be including the feature in Wrath of the Lich King and nothing the community says will change their mind. “We continue to iterate on the bulletin-board style looking for group tool, and we do not have plans to add the random dungeon finder,” wrote the dev. “For players, this has probably been the hottest topic of discussion since our announcement, and we welcome all the continuing feedback on how to improve the tool and make it better. I know this will be disappointing news for some, but we want to settle this topic before launch so everyone knows what to expect and can plan accordingly.”
The developers, however, have had a change of heart with regard to selling race and faction change vouchers. They’ve decided that it would be in the best interests of the long-running MMORPG’s community if they had access to the feature and will be implementing it in a post-launch update.
“Originally, we planned not to offer Race and Faction change at all, because it felt like it removed some of that fantasy feeling of having dramatically different physical attributes that affect your gameplay. We were also a little worried about players chasing the ‘flavor of the month’ in terms of racial abilities,” the developer explained.
“However, we’re convinced by the argument that being able to play with your friends is more important, and that you should be able to bring your accomplishments with you when you do. This turns out to be the same tradeoff provided by transferring between realms, which is already available as a paid service, so it makes sense to make the same decision with respect to Race and Faction change,” he added.
Wrath of the Lich King will be launching on the World of Warcraft Classic server on September 26th.
