 Guys, I am so excited to announce that WoW Classic is finally here. The game that we've all been waiting years for is finally coming and tomorrow we're going to get our first real taste with the release of the WoW Classic Beta. Now this is going to be a closed beta but anyone with a battle net account can apply to join the beta which I'll explain in this video. My name is S-Fan and we're going to be going over everything related to the release of the official legacy servers from the Classic Beta to the actual release date along with the world's first never-before-seen Classic WoW Beta footage. So here's exactly what you guys want to know. The Classic closed beta is announced for tomorrow May 15th. During the beta you're going to have full access to all the content in the game from level 1 to level 30. This includes full access to questing, world PvP, professions, dungeons, and much much more. WoW Classic is confirmed to release on August 27th, 2019 of this year. There will be phased content release which means that the content will be rolled out in six different patches instead of the entire game being accessible at once and here's the best part. There is no extra cost to play WoW Classic. It's 100% included with any existing WoW subscription. So here's what we know so far. There's going to be some differences between original vanilla WoW and the new WoW Classic. Some of the absolute most important things that you should know about include the fact that the game is based off the final version of vanilla WoW. Throughout the progression of the game there were 11 content patches and throughout these content patches classes had different skills, they had talents that changed, and items even had different stats throughout the course of vanilla WoW's lifespan. Blizzard decided to base WoW Classic off of the final version of vanilla WoW which honestly most people believe to be the most complete version of the game while releasing the raid and the PvP content across six patches as I stated earlier. Molten Core and Enixia are also going to be available on launch but no battlegrounds or honor system is going to be put into place until later patches. The six phases is something that myself and others have fought very very strongly for especially after Blizzard initially announced they wanted just four phases of content but they've been very very active working with the community and considering feedback and the decision-making so far which to be completely honest is pretty surprising for a lot of us in the Classic community who spent a lot of time removed from Blizzard in recent years so that's that's been very very reassuring to see. Also the game is based off the 735 excuse me WoW Legion client and it's been reverse engineered to be as accurate of a representation of vanilla WoW as possible which actually seems to have turned out pretty well as well. You can see some features artifacted in such as you know modern game menus the add-on engine but this is mostly cosmetic. Blizzard's goal was to not leave anything in the game that was going to make a significant impact on the integrity of the game so that's been good to see overall so far it's been pretty successful. Also and this is something else that has been stated before server population caps are likely going to be much much higher than that of the original game however the average player isn't even going to notice this. Blizzard is developing a new server stability technology called layering and that's going to replace the shorting technology from the modern version of the game. One layering is is essentially a system where you have like digital copies of a server placed into one server and each one of these servers work like a glass of water so you take that glass of water you fill up that glass with water and you stop adding players or water in this analogy when that glass is full. When that glass is full you grab a new glass and you start adding more water or players into that new glass. So what this is going to do it's going to prevent players from phasing in and out of friendly and opposing players vision once they've logged into the game and this also allows more players to play on the same realm at any given time. So while there may be some old school vanilla wow queue times this is going to help vastly vastly reduce those queue times and you can get into the action way faster. So rumors have been going around about Blizzard hosting an event in Irvine last week where they invited some content creators and media members out to playtest classics so far and it was entirely true. So last week I went out to Irvine along with the rest of the classic cast crew. You guys should check out classic cast our wow classic podcast and I got a chance to be one of the first people outside of the walls of Blizzard to get to play the wow classic beta. We spent like seven hours doing all kinds of stuff leveling dungeons world pvp and just having the ability to give direct feedback to the developers of the game. You can see here like we were doing a we're doing the Gorobashi arena event we had everybody who was there went and hopped in and we just did free for all world pvp everybody was having a blast and it was a really really really good time. Now I was pretty happy. I was pretty happy with what I saw so far but you can see some little things here and there that don't seem quite right and I think it's because of how they're trying to simulate spellbatching. I am not sure on this yet. I haven't really gotten a chance to play it enough to test. However you're gonna see me this is gonna be one of the many things that I'm constantly gonna be streaming or testing whenever I'm streaming on Twitch but you can see there's a minor delay on some of these instant cast spells. Watch whenever I cast a judgment on somebody the judgment damage doesn't apply immediately it applies maybe like a quarter of a second afterwards and I think again I think this is something with them trying to simulate spellbatching. It's pretty that's pretty nitty gritty and that's the kind of stuff we get into on my streams and whenever it comes to classic wow right there you actually saw the same kind of thing happen with repentance like I clearly repentance the guy before his heel finished going off and his heel still went off so that's that's not something you normally see even with spellbatching. But yeah this is just like I said the the classic wow beta is going to be so incredibly important and that's why Blizzard really held this event is in order to get some direct feedback from people but if you get a chance if you get an opportunity to get into the beta then you need to be giving feedback especially if you're familiar with the game you understand hey this is supposed to do this is supposed to do that. They do have a working reference client a patch 1.12 original vanilla wow reference client that everything is 100% no changes works perfectly so what they're doing is they are going and if they get a report about something they go back and they check to see hey is this writer is it wrong and that's that's the kind of feedback that's going to be most useful to them. There's still some things we're not so sure about you know one of those things is like right-click reporting chat functionality battle net adding friends cross-faction this is stuff that's come up a ton in my streams but it's it's stuff that we brought up in the past for sure. Right-click reporting right now in the retail version of the game it gives you too much power you can right-click somebody you can mass report somebody you can get them muted you can you can you can basically get them in trouble and in a game which is one you're working with much larger numbers of people but also it's so competitive out in the world this is going to open the door for like exploitation basically. So when we were actually there in person we got a chance to talk to Ian Hazekosis we got a chance to talk to Brian Birmingham we've got a chance to talk to Omar Gonzalez and so many other people and we brought this stuff up to them I like we I basically explained like this is one of those things where if at the very least the threshold is an increase there could be a negative impact on the gameplay and you know obviously they don't they don't say one way or another if that's something that they're going to be fixing exactly but they seem to have a positive response to a lot of this stuff. Another one is the chat functionality. If you play well look at jumping under strong wind so yeah if you play retail wow right now you'll notice if you type messages too fast in chat it mutes you for a certain amount of time and that's something that's really really annoying and it's something that honestly I think it deters people from from chatting it's just one of those things that can negatively impact the social and the community aspect of vanilla wow that people love so much this is something that still hasn't been addressed yet and I'm really really hoping that they remove it it's it's very very annoying whenever it hits you and it's like you're just trying to type because you know you're a gamer you move around type of sentence move around type another sentence move around type another sentence boom you're muted and it's something that I don't think is good for the game so hopefully that's something that's going to be getting fixed. Battle.net being able to add friends of cross-faction one thing in vanilla wow that's a pretty big deal is the potential for cross-faction collusion and basically enabling it right it's 2019 everybody's got discord or or some sort of app we're not using vent or team speak or anything like that anymore you're not trying to add people on AOL instant messenger you don't have Winamp playing your music you know maybe you should but it's it's different now I understand that people are able to communicate with people much more easily than they used to in the past but one of the concerns is the fact that Blizzard basically enables this behavior by being able to go up to a player the opposing faction right click their portrait and click add to add the battle tag friends or whatever this isn't it's bad and hopefully this is something else to the address in classic or maybe even in the entire game I don't know but at least in classic I do think this is something that should be addressed so getting a chance to go to this event and talk to guys like Brian Birmingham the lead dev Omar Gonzalez who's the number two Ian Hazakosis who if you're familiar with wow of course you're familiar with Ian Hazakosis getting a chance to talk to these guys and interface with these guys directly and give them direct feedback in person has been something that's really really good and players who get a chance to get into the beta are going to get the same opportunity but the way they're gonna have to do this is through bug reports and stuff like that so if you go to www.wowclassic.com and you opt into the beta that's how you do it www.wowclassic.com it's very important that if you get in that you give good feedback so you can see here one of the other things we did we talked about the pvp that we did in the Gurbash Arena we also got to do an SM library run so what you're watching right here is the first footage of wow classic protection Paladin which is actually dude it's hilarious I rolled a Paladin I'm known for playing rep Paladin they didn't even give Paladins a two-handed weapon I was like what the crap am I supposed to do with this so I ended up going in and I tanked the Scarlet Monastery SM library as a prop Paladin in the demo station so this is what you're seeing right here this full video is gonna be posted on my YouTube channel eventually alongside a 1 to 10 level 1 through 10 first run world's first look at the wow classic beta for a Paladin I my time actually wasn't that great and that's again one of those things I'm gonna be working on in the beta is working on my leveling time and getting that down so you're gonna see a lot of that kind of stuff on my streams as well so overall guys I'm I'm very very very excited about finally getting the wow classic beta we finally have the release date tomorrow May 15th we're getting the beta and August 27th 2019 we are finally getting the chance to go home we're finally getting the chance to play wow classic again it's gonna be an incredible time guys please please please if you enjoyed this video hit it with a like you're gonna see more videos coming non-stop you're gonna see streams coming non-stop follow me on Twitter follow me on Twitch follow me on YouTube Sfan TV Discord.gg Sfan TV join the community the biggest wow classic community discord as far as content creators go and also if you want to grab yourself say make Azeroth great again hat shop.sfan.tv do that all the proceeds to that go to my parents just one way to kind of help continue to support them so again thank you guys so much I'll see you guys next time