WoW’s Burning Crusade Pre Patch for Classic had a minor delay. It’s bad enough there are only 14 days of pre-patch to get ready, but now it’s even worse, at 13 days. Those people coming back who have to level to 60 to get ready for BC have significantly less time than they would like. In a minor change from the original Burning Crusade launch, the Blood Elves and Draenei are both available as of the pre-patch. Likely because we already know about them and their areas. It makes little sense to make players wait. Now they can start leveling new characters if that’s what they want.

What took so long for WoW’s Burning Crusade Pre Patch? People were so excited to get started, but alas, there was a minor, but a hilarious problem. The WoW Classic community manager spoke about it last night: 

“While performing data integrity checks on the Burning Crusade Classic and Classic Era realms, we discovered an unfortunate issue with all player mail. The nature of the issue necessitated that we restore the portion of the database that contains that information in order to ensure nothing is lost.”

So in-game mail stopped the client from working as intended.  Essentially, they’re turning one game into two games, which isn’t likely a thing that should be happening to begin with. There’s a lot of negative sentiment about the “WoW Classic” and “WoW Burning Crusade” separate servers. But what can we expect, regardless, after the WoW Burning Crusade Pre Patch?

All players will have their talent points reset since every class had adjustments/additions to their talent trees. This also gives both factions access to new classes for the first time. Horde now have access to Paladins through the Blood Elves, and the Draenei have access to the Shaman class. This also means awesome new powers come to the game (for Classic players), like Totem of Wrath, Shadowstep, and Seed of Corruption. 

Even if the Burning Crusade situation with WoW is upsetting to many, the pre patch is still fun because we can experience this classic era once again. If only the cloning feature didn’t cost money. At least Blizzard lowered the cost, but it’s too little, too late, for this writer.