So, if Blizzard adds a classic server for every expansion at its final patch, up to DF, and you can choose one to lock your character into, what expansion server would you pick? The server will never flip to the next expansion so it has to be an expansion you would be comfortable playing on and revisiting?
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Idk…that sounds pretty bleak. If I had to choose, probably SL (or DF) just because of the rotating fated/awakened raid thing. I left a bunch of covenant stuff unfinished in SL, so I guess I’d lean towards that.
I already did this with actual WoW, since I played launch thru early Cata before taking a long break and coming back for S3 of DF.
Back in the day (waves cane around) we were trapped in an unchanging expansion for an entire year while they wound up the next one. Full year in Sunwell. A year and some change in ICC. A year clipping Deathwing’s toenails. A year with Lei Shen and the Timeless Isle.
No thanks. It was agonizing enough back then, I’d never volunteer to do again, no
matter which xpac it was.
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Final patch? Probably BFA. Awakened was a really good M+ affix and corruptions were fun.
hmmm… WotLK and TBC These are expansions that shouldn’t be touched at all and should be maintained, to the point of being a F2P game with NO MICROTRANSACTIONS, NO GDPKs, AND NO WTS BOOSTING GROUPS.
Let’s hope it’s like they did like Starcraft Anthology.y.
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None.
None of them would have the content to hold my attention.
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None.
Ill stick to retail and not replaying the same old content for 20 years.
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I’d start a toon in each, but like classic era after the initial race to the finish line…they would be dead.
Maybe if this game were growing exponentially and with newer generations having the fond memories of whatever time period was the best (Legion forever would be my favorite) then those communities would stand
But the sad thing is that no one wants to lose progress even if it goes to zero people. And that means either yet more fresh to dead servers or some kind of ladder/season of mastery thing
That’s a lot to do for 10 expansions of a game. Of course I have no idea of returning or new player numbers, but the feeling I’m getting isn’t one of massive growth but rather any means to slow the bleeding
always the burning crusade.
Unsurprisingly, none of them.
The “live in one expansion” bubble isn’t sustainable unless all you do is PvP or if you really enjoy carrying a revolving door of players just visiting through the content.
Wrath and MOP would be ones I’d jump in and play the most.
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Unless the current is a repeat of the abomination called DF or becomes raid or die in any way, always the current one as main, with occasional side adventures if I am really that bored of the current one (but only Legion onwards).
Being stagnant is a surefire way to death/obsolesce. This is every bit true in nature and here.
As much as I enjoyed each expansion holistically, if the game was “locked” in that state, anything positive about it would eventually (and certainly quite quickly), get boring and no longer worth the time investment.
Corruptions in BfA were probably the best and most fun end of expansion power trip/flex we’ve ever had and, imo, the best way to let players flex on the game after their months of work/effort…but playing very much felt like you had cheat codes enabled and as fun as it is being an immortal god of destruction (daddy Nzoth beam goes brrrrrrrrrrr) and as fun as it was going into keys and absolutely demolishing them in literal minutes doing crazy big pulls and watching them get deleted by a beam, the fun would wear off because there was literally nothing else left to do. I wasn’t waiting for a new piece of gear or even had anything to look forward to in the vault or chase down.
Even dabbling in past expansions isn’t worth the time. Losing the perks of retail hits much harder as is starting “fresh” and the nostalgia tick is barely a fraction in compensation and wears off insanely quick. Like hours to days at most kind of quick.
Legion. It had the best class fantasy because of order halls.
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Easy, Wrath.
Classic servers that go beyond that technically aren’t really “classic”.
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Same.
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Tie between Wrath and Legion honestly. I miss not having these LFG finder. It made people have social interaction. The last thing your average wow player needs is less socialization.
Legion was peak fantasy and the classes I loved were consistently good. Also the raids were absolute banger and M+ was fun and new.
Mainly TBC, but I’d probably do a little WotLK too.
My ideal server would be in Wrath, but with transmog (and access to my full retail selection of mogs) and updated models. And allied race.
Pandaria or Burning Crusade would be good too under the same conditions.
If I had to choose one, TBC for peak WoW, or SL for endless grind.