Together with the first expansion of WoW Classic, the Deluxe Edition of Burning Crusade Classic was also released. This includes some cosmetics as well as useful items. A handful of players seem to find these items a significant thorn in their side.
What are people spitting about? Since the pre-patch launched on May 19, you can buy a Deluxe Edition of BC Classic in the Blizzard Shop for €64.99. This edition includes some goodies:
- a mount for all characters in BC Classic
- a mount for all characters in Retail-WoW
- “Illidan’s Path”, a toy
- the Dark Portal as a hearthstone
- 30 days of playtime
- a character boost to level 58 (one-time use and separately available for €39.99)
Most of the content is purely cosmetic. However, the boost and the mount do offer actual advantages. Some players apparently find these advantages so annoying that they spit on players and even use addons for it (via WoW Forums).
Does this happen often? When I played, it only happened twice on the way to level 60 that a player from the group was spat on because of their mount. Unfortunately, I realized too late and thus have no screenshot ready.
The biggest WoW streamer, Asmongold, even explicitly called on his community to spit on players with a shop mount (via Twitter.com). There are even weak auras (a kind of setting for a popular addon) that automatically spit on players when a player with a deluxe mount walks by (via wago.io).
My group and I, on the other hand, were generally spat on more often, for example, when we could attack a quest opponent before someone else. So nothing too unusual in Classic, which has even occurred in the past (via reddit.com).
If you want to fight back: There is another weak aura that automatically laughs at people who spit on you (via wago.io).
Level Boost and Mount for Real Money – A Problem?
How “bad” are the contents really: To be precise, buyers of the Deluxe Pack actually have a gameplay advantage. The phase hunter serves as both a normal and an epic mount. Normally you would pay for these mounts at the vendor:
- 10 gold for a normal mount
- 100 gold for an epic mount
- somewhat less at revered reputation
In total, you can save up to 110 gold pieces per character if you opt for the shop mount. While this is a considerable amount in Classic, the actual difficulty of riding comes from the skill, which is significantly more expensive (35 gold for normal and 600 gold for epic riding).
These skills still need to be learned, which somewhat relativizes the savings for the mounts. The character boost, on the other hand, comes with a compromise: Those who want to skip the leveling phase can get to their friends faster but forgo the leveling experience of Classic. Leveling is considered by some players to be the best time in the game, and whether to skip the phase is a personal decision for everyone.
When will BC Classic be released? In the night from Tuesday, June 1, to Wednesday, June 2, at exactly 0:00 German time, the Dark Portal will open for the second time. From then on, you can experience the shattered realm and The Burning Crusade for the second time.
However, BC Classic will not be exactly as it was released for the first time 14 years ago. There will be some changes, but that doesn’t have to be bad:
3 changes that make WoW BC Classic better than before and 3 that it still needs
