Blizzard’s leaked survey hints at what’s next for WoW Classic
Blizzard’s leaked WoW Classic survey reveals potential features for a new version, including player housing, Alliance Shamans, Horde Paladins, 1v1 duel arenas, playable High Elves for both factions, and more.
Key takeaways
- Leaked survey reveals potential features like player housing, brand-new class race combination, a new class that’s never seen in WoW before, account-wide collections, pet battles, achievements, updated models, cross-realm guilds, and more.
- Blizzard’s survey asks players what they plan to play and decide the fate of their characters after MoP Classic. Options include Classic Era, Retail WoW, earlier expansions, or even quitting.
- Nothing is confirmed or under development yet. This survey is just Blizzard using community input to shape what’s next for WoW Classic.
Blizzard is asking WoW players what they want next for a hypothetical new version of WoW Classic. A fresh survey has been sent out to select players, asking what kind of content they’d like to see or not to see in a future Classic expansion or rework.
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The survey covers a wide range of ideas, from brand-new features to returning systems, including content seen in WoW retail, Classic, and even upcoming features in Midnight. While not everything mentioned is in development, Blizzard says the team is exploring different directions based on community feedback. If you’ve been wondering, “What’s next for WoW Classic?” this might be the first clue.
What new features may come to WoW Classic
Even though Blizzard asked players not to share the survey’s content, a World of Warcraft player named Chrslp posted screenshots of the most interesting section. The leaked survey reveals that Blizzard is exploring possible new features for WoW Classic. Each concept is briefly described, followed by a question asking if players would like to see it in the game or not.
Here’s what’s in the leaked WoW Classic survey screenshots:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Playable Shamans on the Alliance side | The introduction of Shaman class to the Alliance |
| Collections | A UI-based storage system for pets, mounts, and toys to free up inventory space |
| Account-wide collections | Making all pets, mounts, and toys available to all characters on your account |
| 1v1 duel arenas | The ability to go into a special dueling arena for 1v1 contests that are viewable by spectators |
| New player character models | Character models similar to those used for player characters in modern World of Warcraft |
| In-game events | New events that offer different small quests and casual gameplay around the world. These would release between large updates |
| Pet battles | Collect pets from the game world and have them compete head to head with other pets in turn-based battles |
| Leveling professions improvements | Ability to make more usable gear for yourself as you level and be able to craft it at level appropriate tradeskill levels |
| New class abilities and spells | Brand new class abilities and/or spells unique to this version of Classic |
| Honor rewards redesign | Move honor rewards away from the original WoW model and towards a more seasonal model where new honor rewards are added to coincide with new PvE raid tier updates |
| WoW Token | Asecure and convenient way for players to exchange gold for game time or Battle.net Balance |
| Class Talent adjustments | Streamlining and improving class talent trees to make weaker specializations and classes more viable while still maintaining the overall feel and flow of classic combat |
| Account-wide pers and progression system | A system to allow you to gather points and spend them on account-wide bonuses such as quality of life and convenience, encouraging playing alts or specializing in specific activities |
| Playable High Elves | Playable High-Elf-like race for the Horde and the Alliance |
| Revisiting “Known” but unexplored zones | Visiting zones that were a part of Warcraft history but were never playable in Original World of Warcraft (i.r. Mount Hyjal, Uldum, Gilneas, etc.) |
| Player housing | Instanced personalized housing for players and guilds |
| Achievements | A system to track game milestones and accomplishments |
| Cross-realm play | Ability to group with friends from other realms for dungeons, battlegrounds, and other instanced activities |
| Honor system redesign | A ground-up redesign of the honor system removing the hard honor cap, making the system more evergreen and continually engaging |
| War mode | As an alternative to PvP servers, this mode would allow you to opt-in to PvP in the open world via a toggle in main faction cities |
| Brand new zones | Completely new playable areas with unique lore added to Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor |
| 20 player raids | New 20-player focused raid dungeons |
| 40 player raids | New 40-player focused raid dungeons |
| Graphical improvements to lighting, shadows, and surface reflections | Using modern technology to improve the lighting engine in the game for more realistic lights, shadows, and reflections on surfaces like water and glass |
| New tradeskills | New primary and secondary professions |
| Graphical texture improvements and resolution upgrade | Using modern technology to improve the fidelity of textures used on classic art assets |
| New Battleground | New objective-based PvP instance |
| New race and class combinations | New class race combinations, including those never before seen in Warcraft |
| New class | Character classes that are completely new to any version of World of Warcarft (i.e. not Death Knights, Monks, Demon Hunters, Evokers) |
| 10 player raids | New 10-player focused raid dungeons |
| Cross-realm guilds | Ability to invite your friends from other realms to join your player guild |
| Transmogrification | The ability to change the appearance of your equipped items. Transmofs will only be visible in rested areas, dungeons, or raids (i.e., no open world PvP, no Battlegrounds) |
| Playable Paladins on the Horde side | The introduction of Paladin class to the Horde |
And an additional question:
Regardless of which version of WoW is your current main version, what version of WoW do you think will become your main version in the future once Classic Mists of Pandaria ends?
Answers:
- A Classic Era (e.g., Vanilla-style servers) realm (with my Mists of Pandaria characters)
- A different version of Classic (without my Mists of Pandaria characters)
- Retail/modern WoW (with my Mists of Pandaria characters)
- Wrath of the Lich King CLassic or another earlier Classic expansion (with my Mists of Pandaria characters)
- Classic Warlords of Draenor, if it becomes available
- A permanently frozen Mists of Pandaria Classic realm with no further updates
- I do not plan to continue playing WoW after the end of Classic Mists of Pandaria
Did you receive this survey? What do you think will be Blizzard’s next move for WoW Classic? Let us know all about it in the comments!
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