Screw it, I'm going to necro this one.
Patches, content being a decade old and everyone being a MUCH better and knowledgable player happened, guys.
Blizzlike / Vanillalike experience aint gonna happen without some form of minimalistic (at least) adjustments. If you think longer than 10 seconds about it, you would realize this. If you guys want your Vanilla-fix, as we all are nothing short of nostalgia junkies
- I'd suggest rethinking this topic. To me, if the struggle aint real, it aint close to how it felt back then.
You cannot change that this stuff is a decade old. You cannot change the increase in overall playerskill and knowledge about Vanilla, consumables etc.
At the very least a small hotfix on HP would be desireable due to the increased damage thanks to the better available gear to us. I for one would like to experience the game / raids as they were intended when designed, as that is not exactly possible precisely because of the better gear, increased player knowledge etc. the next logical step would be to at least fix the damage issue if you cannot roll back the gear until it is appropriate progression wise.
You release raid tiers that way, hand in hand with the gear available in those, naturally. Might as well be thorough with it and do the same for other available equipment. If not, simply adjust accordingly. Beyond me how this could hurt the server or its philosophy.
This might be a long shot, and I might be completely wrong, but I believe in the end, if we really think about it, we would love nothing more than to come as close to the way we FELT back then. This means factoring more things in besides just bringing vanilla into 2014/15. With leaving everything as is while taking pride in delivering a 1.12.1 clone that actually (according to you) works as intended, will not deliver the closest vanilla experience as it could be, due to the mentioned things that changed.
In the end, how it feels, the experience you have playing, completely outweighs a slight tweak to raid values. By a far margin. Having a boss use its mechanics a tad more frequent is considered by some as BLIZZLIKE!111 blasphemy. Without them knowing it would most certainly enhance their playing experience and making them come a bit closer to the vanillafix they (we) seek. But as it apparently is that big of a whoopdifucking deal to some, at least slightly tweak the base values.
My opinion.