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Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception
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Good questions.
I noticed on green that ducking doesn't immediately interrupt spellcasts, which is going to be a big enough shock for a lot of folks already. I can only imagine if we DON'T end up with the overpowered classic features but do end up with the extra-challenging parts that there will be tears over it.
I suppose leaving the "this is silly and was broken and that's why verant fixed it, so we should leave it fixed too" stuff OUT of green while reintroducing the timeline-accurate difficulties like no ducks to interrupt and removing our favorite low-level exp quests and whatever else would be a decent compromise between classic mechanics and classic experience though. And I'm usually the guy who errs on the side of classic mechanics.
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I noticed the ducking thing, too. My personal opinion is that it's rather one-sided to say that we shouldn't have things that aren't classic, but then label other classic mechanics as "broken." All of the things that "aren't classic" like pet windows, ducking interrupts, multiple hotbars, etc. were "fixed" later in the EQ timeline. I don't mind playing a truly classic game... but it needs to be truly classic. The game was never balanced; the shifting dynamic, to me, is kind of the point.
Just my 2 cents.
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Originally Posted by loramin
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As for the rest, I don't think the staff has explicitly answered any of them, but generally it seems like they will make it classic when convenient ... and there's going to be a lot of stuff (eg. pets not eating XP is likely a perfect example) where they won't find it convenient to truly "do classic".
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After playing the green beta a bit, this is kind of what it feels like to me. I must say it's a little underwhelming. To me it feels like playing someone's idea of what classic "should" have been, instead of what classic WAS.