Sadly, with the majority of the player base hyper-fixated on speed and buying progress, yes… that is what Classic really is.
While I can’t help you with TBC (I wish I could), I can help you with your Era experience. Look into the Grobbulus Era server. It is extremely low pop but there is a thriving Alliance community and a growing Horde one. It turns out that the game just works really well when there’s no one around… probably because when they can’t buy progress, all the people who aren’t really interested in playing the game move on.
You’ll have to level mostly on your own but your guildies (especially on Alliance) will help you where they can, and we’ve got enough crafters in the guild that you should be able to get what you need made. Once you hit 60 and start raiding you’ll have to coordinate trades with your guildies to get what you need, but everybody is generally pretty open to that. In return you can expect to get gear thrown at you because nobody really needs it, most of us are there just because we enjoy the game.
It’s a different experience to be sure, but I’ve been there over a year now and I’m being sincere when I say it saved the game for me. If it wasn’t for Grob I would certainly have unsubbed by now. Search for posts by Jarl-Grobbulus for details on how to join
One of the easiest boosting fixes Blizzard could have done was just releasing classic with a 1 year time window on patch 2.4.3 then smack arena rating on the pvp gear. This would add an AOE cap and give us a fun little new meta to play WoW with. With arenas and 2.4.3 skills and talents but in classic. The raids are already easy so we don’t lose much there. Plus there would be way less RMT since the mount is reasonable priced and mage boosting is more or less killed, because leveling and questing is much easier.
Btw I called they should have done anniversary on patch 2.4.3 with a 1 year window into TBC. Time to eat crow people.
Its really strange to me that they didnt release anniversary with at least TBC pre-patch changes so that we could prepare are mains for TBC specifically. but, oh well.
This would make a ton of sense if they were doing TBC Era, but I don’t think they are. I mean, that’s what people asked for so obviously that’s not what they’re going to do
I was gonna say, I feel like Dreamscythe is really tame lol…you only find boosting stuff if you search for it, but I never really see it outside of the services channel…
They fixed mage boosting, removed world buffs, and reduced dungeon gold farms in SOM. That version of the game died faster then any other version. Pretty easy to then say, those things make people want to play the game, and you’re in the minority.
I think you’re drawing a false connection there. People didnt hate SoD because they removed mage boosting and world buffs. That was the only thing that was good about it. People hate SoD because it was a lazy, uncreative, copy & paste dumpster fire of an idea that was poorly executed. Everything was just lazily copied from future expansions and arbitrarily hidden around the world as “runes”, not a single unique or creative idea, just crap from other expansions.
SOM was loved and played by many. It was just the first time MOST people played HC.
if you’re going on raid numbers, then you’re just falling for the same propaganda all these youtube channels push. Most people didn’t get to raiding because we were all doing hcssf .
SOM was amazing and people loved it. I played for months on hc but never got over like lvl 30 because i was still bad at hc and i like to make alts in hc.
it’s actually insanely unfortunate because that lead to sod and many other things based on bad info.
I was in the run that got KT world first in SOM. I don’t need you to rewrite history, I was there the whole time. Population decline is relevant to success, regardless of your personal feelings.
I’m not calling out dreamscythe, i’m just saying i was playing on it. I assume people can connect that if dreamsythe is like this than the other non hc servers are as well.
and coming from playing hc for years, dreamscythe is like going from being Amish to going to Sodom and Gamora…
