The numerous talents from World of Warcraft Classic are credited to one man. He shares more anecdotes about lost mounts …
The original development of World of Warcraft was quite chaotic. After all, there were only a few developers compared to today who had to take care of the content and the basic game. Blizzard occasionally gives small insights and even revealed recently: For all the talents at the launch of WoW, only one person was responsible: Tom Chilton. Additionally, we finally learn why Night Elves do not have orange sabers.
How did it go back then? Tom Chilton, who was the Senior Game Designer at the time, played a class for “a few hours”. So he played as a Warrior, Mage, or Rogue for a few hours. After that, he reportedly withdrew for “almost a week” to come up with the talents for each class.
The talents have actually been modified multiple times during Vanilla. Many “nonsensical” talents are no longer present in the “Classic” version, which plays at the state of Patch 1.12.
You can see how much fun the original developers had with Classic here.
What else did Chilton reveal? Another detail during development concerns Night Elves and their mounts. Chris Metzen, who was in charge of the story at the time, had seen a Night Elf sitting on an orange saber in a promotional image. He then “flipped out” and stated that Night Elves should only ride on sabers of certain colors – primarily dark colors like black, gray, or purple. But never on an orange saber.
This is likely the reason why some riding sabers have existed in the game files since Classic:
- Reins of the Bengal Tiger
- Reins of the Golden Saber Cat
- Reins of the Yellow-Brown Saber Cat
These three mounts exist in the game data, although players cannot obtain them. However, fans have always hoped that these mounts would one day become available in the game.
Would Chris Metzen have imagined that today players would be hopping around in Wendigo pajamas? Probably not.
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