WoW: The “season of championship” shows that #NoChanges was a stupid idea

The season of the championship is the WoW Classic, as it should have been from the beginning – at least thinks the MeinMMO demon Cortyn.

For a few days now, Blizzard has started the season of the championship in World of Warcraft. This is a modification of the original “Classic” idea, with a few special rules. So there are new content phases faster and certain design adjustments have been made.

Some examples:

• Black Lotus is no longer just a handful of spawn points per area, but can rarely be found on all Endgame herbs.
• The DoT limit has been lifted so that warlocks and shadow priests have a place in raid groups.
• Bosses have new or improved skills and more health, which makes them more challenging.

I know that there are definitely some puristic players out there who only recognize the World of Warcraft as the “right” WoW right after the original release and grind their teeth about every little change in this state.

At that time, every change was fought with hands and feet, especially by a rather noisy group who wanted to keep their “pure” World of Warcraft. But reality quickly showed that even if the game doesn’t change, the players themselves have long since changed.

• There were no more battles in Alterac Valley where a few players were fishing peacefully, someone was doing quests, and somehow some other little mini-battle was going on everywhere.
• Raid bosses fell on the first attempt.
• World Buffs did not become a special bonus but became a permanent standard that had to be maintained.

World of Warcraft Classic was played “more efficiently” without being really fun at this level.

At least it was the case with me. Even if I’m holding back a little with exuberant joy about World of Warcraft – due to many, many things – the season of the championship is a lot more fun for me than I thought.

The championship season just suits my style of play and my living conditions a lot better. The mere fact that I no longer have to wait 30 minutes for the dodgy dwarf from iron forge to arrive when I am forming a group to visit the Dead Mine increases my motivation. Summoning a group of players missing at the meeting stones is a feature from the more modern WoW versions – but it makes the game a lot better for me.

It ensures that the game cherishes my time in Azeroth. Yes, it used to be kind of okay to wait an hour for the last snoring nose, who “just had to get one more quest” from the other end of the world and died 3 times in the process. In the past, the only thing that somehow suffered from it was the first two hours of lessons, which I had to endure easily overtired. There was still almost unlimited free time.

Today I just don’t have the time anymore. If I have to wait half an hour for someone today, I find that impolite and I can literally see the remaining time of my weekend slip through my fingers.

And no, I don’t mean that things should never be slower and more relaxed. They are allowed to. Games like Minecraft are slow and relaxing, and so is World of Warcraft for a long time. But there is a difference between leisurely gaming and waiting where nothing happens.

The championship season feels like time well invested. The changes make the game attractive to me, but are essentially still WoW Classic and thus a nice contrast to Shadowlands.

It’s good that the idea of ​​#NoChanges didn’t last long. Because that ultimately created the better game for me.

Can the championship season captivate me as it did World of Warcraft 17 years ago? No, not guaranteed. But it eliminates almost all points of criticism that I had at the launch of “WoW Classic” and that made sure that shortly after level 60 and with the purchase of my epic night saber as a person, I no longer logged in.

The championship season is not the “WoW from back then” – that is clear to me. But it plays like the WoW from back then in my memories. And a few changes were enough for that.

Do you play the season of the championship? Or are you in the normal Classic or BC Classic? Or could none of the “old” WoW versions inspire you?