No. SoD exists.
Blizzard is certainly not going to do that.
Please just play SoD. Iâm a brand new SoD player at level 42 right now. Itâs not dead like people keep saying. I see people leveling in the world all the time, and have had plenty of friendly interactions. The alliance/horde population is even and enforced to be 50/50 by blizzard on Crusader Strike PvP realm. Wild Growth is the PvE realm but you should go Alliance there since that is the higher pop faction on WG.
Park your anniversary character at level 60 for TBC if you need to. But SoD is still at a perfectly good population. People are just doomsaying it like crazy because it had a huge unfortunate population falloff after phase 1. Which was mostly just due to long âcontent droughtâ where some phases went on too long. Tons of people do this Blood Moon PvP event in Stranglethorn Vale and spam for groups in the world chat. (You can opt out of the event with an NPC that gives a protection buff, so you can quest there normally while leveling).
The only issue I have with the SoD so far is there seems to be kind of admittedly a lot of Chinese hunter bots running around farming mobs in the world (you can tell theyâre Chinese bots because of the Chinese named pet- usually a boar- and a nonsense character name of a bunch of letters).
It doesnât actually really affect the auction house too badly, even though the bots are in your face when questing. A lot of the auction house is around a few gold per item up to around 20 depending on what you are looking for. I just report the bots and keep questing. Also, you earn more EXP and gold from the buff you get from level 1 to cap.
The anniversary realms say otherwise.
No.
Are you seriously trying to get us to do more work or something? 
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having only a battle rez is a privilege 
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Clock is right twice a day.
always bring a ret paladin or dps shaman on horde
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Coming back to the replies, I get the whole argument of SoD adding in the new abilities and adding in an ability is already going against the grain of âActual Classicâ, but itâs literally just a Ress? Itâs not like itâs changing the meta or the playstyle or anything of the class. Itâs just interesting to me that a class that can be a designated Healer, canât even ress their allies from deaths. I donât see where the disagreement comes from. I also donât mind bringing Priests or Paladins because of the fact, but itâs just silly to me that there is only a 30 Minute Cooldown ress for Druids, and if a Player dies (including the Paladin or Priest), theyâre being punished by grouping with a Druid Healer that canât ress.
These are the kind of changes I donât want.
This changes class balance and identity.
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Not really⌠putting any and all things that cross peopleâs minds without due cosideration is what generated SoD. Thinking critically about changes and evaluating them on their merits and failings is probaby a better approach.
Druids getting an out of combat revive wouldnât really change anything. Giving them a full party out of combat rez on a 30 min CD, while cool, might trend in the SoD direction
Not that I trust Blizzard to be able to adhere to Vanilla design constraints these days, but we can still use our own good judgement.
*EDIT: Honestly though, Iâd like to see a more Vanilla-esque approach to this type of thing. Like, it was intended for druids to not have a normal rez because paladins and priests cover that fairly well. However, time has shown us that not having one can be kind of a liability for 5-mans. Accidents happen and its disruptive to not have a rez.
With that in mind it might be cool to see a druid rez that works like a warlock summons. Ritual of Regrowth or some RP nonsense, with a quest attached. 
Partly yes, but remember who was in charge of that; Blizzard and they certainly havenât demonstrated much in the way of Good will or rational design, or even quality control or attention to detail.
if blizzard actually wants this they can phone up Kevin Jordan any time. He is the original class designer
they havenât yet since hubris prevents it.
We can still do our best to remind them of why Vanillaâs design is appealing to us and encourage them to adhere to it. They may not listen but we can try
So my biggest concern is they make something filled with promise on yet another conjoined DB disaster (I told them so) and it ends up SoD2 with even more bleed over.
They might⌠but if they do it will be in opposition to those of us who are trying to advocate for a Classic+ that adheres to Vanilla design principles
Tho this is what very early on SoD was supposed to be.
Somewhere in the middle it caught a real bad case of retail.
No you canât. Play SoD.
I dunno, Iâd be inclined to disagree. SoD was supposed to be Classic+, but thatâs what the community wanted. From the very start SoD was not going to be that. I played in Phase 1 and knew immediately it wasnât going to land in the space anybody advocating for Classic+ wanted.
Correct, weâre both on the same page.
I was talking about during its development stage before launch,
The idea was to slight improvement on low performance specs and new content, but quickly turned into SoDâŚ
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Very quickly, apparently, and without any engagement with the community.
I keep saying this, but I would be more than happy to take the lead on maintaining Era and designing and implementing Classic+. Somehow I donât think Blizzard will go for it though