It’s the block attached to your litso my interessovated grazzy chelloveck! 
haha ur a crazy guy. ur even crazier if u really deep down believe tbc and wotlk era shouldnt be a thing
I am not about govoreeting chepooka even when it comes to TBC but the nochy skies has you believe that is what’s produced from my rot. 
I know EXACTLY what you mean. I was very fortunate in that I raided with a guild in vanilla that made it to and mostly through Naxxramas. I joined them when they were part way through BWL (I didn’t have any luck getting into a raiding guild as an UD Warlock on another server so ended up on the Silvermoon server as a NE Druid). Lucked out because they were willing to wait until I leveled to 60 and I think it was because they weren’t having any luck finding someone that would commit to a 4 hour a night, 5 night a week raid schedule.
Anywho, all through the rest of BWL, ZG, AQ 20/40 it never really felt like I was doing anything more than running a 5 man dungeon. We still did MC and Onyxia each week as well but it was no different to me than dungeons I guess. When we got far enough into the Military quarter of Naxxramas that you begin hearing the 4 Horseman talk is when it happened. The first quote of theirs I heard was Highlord Mograine’s, “Life is meaningless. It is in death that we are truly tested.” I immediately thought, “Now THIS is raiding.” I remember exclaiming in Ventrilo? Teamspeak maybe? - it’s been a minute - that that fight was going to be a doozy and I was definitely not disappointed.
Fast forward to WotLK Naxxramas and although still fun, it pales in comparison. Add to that the difference in having to formulate boss strategies on your own (because information wasn’t nearly as prevalent then so no boss strategies on YT or elsewhere) as opposed to just mowing everything down because it was solved content in WotLK. Still fun but just not the same.
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He’s always been a little off. But apparently that GDKP ban really made him snap. I’ve seen some posters lose their minds, but not to this degree.
i think GDKP would be a great loot system if botting and gold buying was policed to all hell. gdkp never was the problem imo. i like SR runs tho
If they could completely eliminate RMT (a cosmic sized if) I don’t think GDKP would be such a bad thing. I’m a big EPGP snob myself so even if GDKPs were available with no RMT involved I’d still lean more towards EPGP. Killing internet dragons and getting new purples can be fun. Quite a bit more fun when it’s with the same people from week to week. Especially if you got a good group of folks.
Edit: Sitting here imagining what it’d look like if Blizzard had a killswitch for everyone that engaged in RMT. You’re standing there in Stormwind or Orgrimmar and then POOF! 90% or so of the population immediately vanished. Like the Azeroth version of the rapture.
The future of era is the topic if you dont want to stay on topic then you shouldnt post its against TOS to be off topic I am sorry if you dont like it I didnt make the rules around here
We already are.
Whitemane Cluster / Mankirk Cluster
They really don’t need to do anything because as is, it’s already a mega server structure with just more names a player can utilize.
Seriously. Leave Era alone.
It’s much more welcoming to new players than other versions of Classic. Especially on the smaller clusters. Because…it has to be. Each player matters and has value. There is incentive to foster an actual community.
None of that exists on Megaservers. You’re a nameless stranger. Disposed at the drop of hat to be replaced by an infinite amount of clones.
So naturally it wouldn’t surprise me for Blizz to blow that up and turn Era into another Anniversary-like experience appealing to the ultra tryhard, min/max toxic crowd. Where community has no meaning. For now it’s so nice that those types of players have mostly left for Anniversary. They can stay there.
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For what it’s worth, I’ve given this some consideration. I mean, I do see the upside of GDKP, I just think the downsides outweigh it.
I think that it would still be something I wouldn’t really want to be a part of the game, even in the absence of RMT. It really just facilitates, and drives, WoW as a commodity game and not as a community game. I know there have been some legitimate communities that have formed using GDKP as their central pillar, but I also know that in the absence of GDKP those same communities form and thrive around other loot systems.
It’s not GDKP that makes the community possible, it’s a group of people with similar ideals working together to achieve a common goal.
With that said, I have wondered if GDKP can sustain itself in the absence of RMT. Right now, the carriers get money they use to buy consumables. The money from those consumables goes to the gold sellers who in turn sell that gold to the carries, who then give it back to the carriers in GDKP runs. If you remove the RMT then the carriers can’t join the runs, so the only possible influx of gold is what you get from leveling/questing. We all know that’s not a lot.
Beyond that initial period (say 6-12 months into a server’s lifecycle), would it just be all the seasoned players trading gold amongst themselves? If so, is it even possible for a new player to join that system? Tough to say… especially when you consider the fact that if you cut out RMT then there’s no bots and professional farmers in the world, which means that those new players can farm materials and sell them for gold they can use to join GDKP.
I don’t know what the answer is, but I do think things would look very different. I don’t like the foundation of monetization for community, but definitely very different.
With all that said, I don’t think Blizzard will put a stop to RMT. If they were going to, they’d have done so by now. They either don’t care or feel they get something from it, and so it persists. I mean, I look at Valve trying all sorts of things to try to combat cheating. Some successful, some not, but there’s clear evidence of them trying. Then I look at WoW and… nada? I’m not terribly inspired.
THIS.
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tbc and wotlk era are the future of era
Let’s keep this to the original topic of the thread: concerns about Blizz changing (and ruining) Classic Era.
I only mentioned that other topic as an explanation why that one poster is so unhinged. Obviously he’ll keep discussing it now, because that’s what trolls do. But people need to not indulge him.
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One thing I’m never quite sure about in Era is whether there are clusters other than Whitemane and Mankrik. And how many solo RP realms are there besides Grobbulus and Bloodsail? Like, where is Faerlina now, for example?
This was part of the blue post from Kaivax concerning clusters. I assume that those are still mostly intact though some of the servers may have been merged into others? I just logged into classic era and I counted 43 different servers and there are only 35 listed in that post so somewhere, somehow another 8 cropped up. I haven’t found anything stating that any of those servers have been “de-clustered.” Presumably then, Faerlina is still clustered with Benediction, Heartseeker, Incendius and Netherwind.
Edit: It appears as though the other 8 servers are comprised of RP/RPPVP/HC servers which I have found nothing to state that they were ever clustered with anything so standalone servers.
Edit: Ended up contradicting myself. Wouldn’t make sense to consider a possibility of servers being merged when there are more servers listed in the launcher/client than there are in that post.
That’s interesting. You never hear about clusters other than Whitemane and Mankrik. I wonder if anyone is playing on the other clusters?
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I think the Atiesh cluster is even better than the Mankrik one. I don’t do pvp realms anymore, so can’t speak to those.
The rp realms are…really low pop. I like lower pop realms, but they might be too low for even me. I think it’s great you guys are trying to grow Grobbulus, but it won’t be easy. If players could transfer there, it would be a big help.
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Also, the comments to this blue post are a very interesting read.
yeah I tried leveling on grob but couldn’t do it 
they need transfers
i will check out Atiesh and see if I like it