Today we're going to discuss all the changes to the Old World of Azeroth in Rage Classic. There are some interesting additions, many quality-of-life changes that a lot of people have actually forgotten about dungeons, and some very popular quest and XP changes.
10 Changes to Old Azeroth from Wrath of the Lich King
1. Venomskin Raptor
The first thing most people forget is that there is actually a new Horde mount farm available, basically the equivalent of the Winterspring Frostsaber. The quest chain starts in the un'goro crater, where you have to essentially raise your own little package to take on the chicks. You'll have to do 20 daily dailies to grow your raptor, but you'll end up with a Venomskin wrapped amount. At the end of this questline, you'll also need 20 Runecloth, 20 Sturdy Leather, 20 Venom Tooth, and 80 Gold.
2. Tuning removal
Some longstanding achievements and boss summoning quests have largely been removed, just no longer needed. For example, the Oxia treatment has completely disappeared. It will be interesting to see if you actually keep the old Oxia for the River Finch King launch, or remove it later in the patch or at launch. But the return has been removed. You also no longer need the prospector in the lava to unlock Ragnaros when you kill the boss, it will be doused automatically. In this old Farak instance, the gavel is no longer required to summon the gazarilla. So you can easily pick up that carrot in the stick quest of the Thousand Needles and run to Zul'Farrak to complete the quest without having to mess around in the hinterland. You also no longer need the scepter of celebras as a gateway to the inner maradon, as it is available to everyone, as is the Ascension Seal for the Spies of Upper Black Rock. You don't have to go through that long quest chain, you can go straight from the top of the Lower Black Rock Spire to the Upper Barrel Expiration without any requirements.
3. Experience changes
Experience and quests have changed a lot in Classic Wrath. The amount of experience required to reach the max level has been reduced. The undocumented change says it's 30, but it could be different. Quest experience has also increased substantially, but not by a cookie-cutter percentage because if you look at the different quests from the World of Warcraft Classic database and the Wrath of the Lich King database, you'll find a lot of inconsistencies. For example, the Red Silk Turban quest that used to give 1250 XP now gives 1900, then Pamela's Doll 2800 rises to over 4000. So you get more XP from your missions. The old world will level up faster, especially heirlooms.
4. More traffic
Azeroth has also added more transportation options, so getting around is much easier now. Storm Harbor was added to the cluster map, which means you no longer have to take a boat from the dark shores to the Polymorphic Harbor, then go through the wetlands and get killed by crocodiles. You can take a boat directly from the Dark Shores to Stormwind. There's also a zeppelin that can take you from Thunder Bluff to Orgrimmar and back, including an added zeppelin that can take you to Trista Glades and Northrend outside Orgrimmar.
5. Increase Convenience
The capital has added tons of mailboxes, the open world area now has more cemetery spiritual healers, and some cheeky flight paths. Most areas have another spiritual healer, but just see how Classic Wild compares to Classic Fury. There are more spiritual healers now because initially there was only one in the entire area, which was painful. In most cities, there will always be a cheeky mailbox near the auction house. We also added some cheeky flight paths to really stop saying the word cheeky. So there's a new one in the fortress in the Western Plaguelands and in the Eastern Plaguelands, basically one in the west of the area near the river.
6. Remove the dismount area
In Classic WoW and TBC, annoying areas to dismount like Booty Bay and Black Rock Mountain. But these will no longer dismount you, you can run around your bay on your mounts and Blackrock Mountain, this also includes boats and airships and similar areas. For those who think you can easily get insane gold by doing a classic wired raid on your death knight or something.
7. Gold nerfs for classic bosses
Gold has been weakened by about 50% to 70%. Might still be a good gold mine, but you won't get 400 wotlk gold per boss kill.
8. New loading screen
Regions of Azeroth have added some new funky loading screens showing the leaders of each race from that particular region.
9. Tribes can do chicken quests
Every clan player will jump out of their seats because clan players can now finally complete the chick quest in westfall for the chicken pet.
10. Summoning stone restrictions removed
Summoning stones have had their restrictions totally changed now just need to be level 15 and that's essentially it. Anyone of any level can now summon anyone, they just have to be level 15.
Some Extra Changes To Old Azeroth In WotLK Classic
- We've got new man's landing, it used to be quite difficult to get to this area, it's in don monroe but actually on the coast of that zone. Now you can very easily get there from stormwind halibut, you can fish there now and there's also a vendor, so it's just a nice little chill place to basically level your fishing.
- Obviously nax has been removed and the entrance has just been replaced by a huge play cauldron. The big purple dome where dalaran once was is now a crater, obviously because now dalaran is in the crystal song forest. King varian has replaced bolvar, this also means you cannot get a vionixy achievement questline.
- Many troll settlements have also have their mobs changed, so the troll mobs have basically been updated to look a bit more like trolls do in Wrath of the Lich King.
- There's been some added roof stalkers in orgrimmar so the alliance can't jump on the roofs and go and gank people in orgrimmar in the level 1 to 5 zones for all of races, mostly the mobs now are neutral mob so they can't chain pull. Just to make it easier for people when they're starting out.
- The wolves in north shore abby have been changed to diseased wolves for some reason.
- Under city guardians have been replaced by core cron overseers which is basically just like a generic orc warrior-looking mob.
- The dreadlord varumathras has also been removed and replaced by another generic orc mob and sylvanas has obviously changed with her updated model.
- There are some quests that have been added like looting pillows and searing gorge.
