Almost NOBODY wants vanilla lol. Theres only one guildy i know that said he’d actually go back and play on fresh vanilla server. Everyone else basically said “absolutely not”. Its just bad. 2nd time around it’ll literally be nothing but warriors and mages.
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I would love to play Vanilla without the world buff meta.
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It would have to basically be wotlk without blood elves or dk’s for me to play it tbh. I talk in terms of quality of life changes and features in that expansion, like dungeon finder, dual spec, honor PvP gear/system, etc. Just leave out boa gear and its perfect.
blizzard disagrees
What do you mean? The fact that the servers are still all up? Blizzard probably wants to shut them down to save money. Most of them have like 30 people online at a given time, blizz is losing money on electricity alone hosting them.
Ok that all actually looks pretty darned nice. Might actually give it a try while I wait for Wotlk classic. But I won’t be touching PvP unless i’m twinking, because they look to be keeping the sweatlord ranking system, and that’s WAY too hardcore for me. But the leveling changes, increased herb/ore spawns, etc look nice, and they should have done ALOT of that including the world buff meta disabling while vanilla classic actually existed, not now. But I suppose the no changes crowds to blame for that.
Everyone has always been saying some changes was best, and a classic+ was a better idea. I look forward to seeing if that’s true, which i’m pretty sure it is.
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Does classic era aka vanilla classic still have servers? Yes, but for your meaning then no. I’ve been visiting the clusters since TBC launched aka The Split. FYI west coast has 1 pve cluster and 1 pvp cluster, while east coast has 2 pvp clusters and 1 pve cluster. For those unaware clusters are where players enter the world on their server for example Azuresong and join a unified world where multiple servers exist in a permanent world without phasing or the like. We can trade, enchant, use the same AH, be in the same zones and cities without phasing or separate loadings. The west coast pve cluster includes Myzrael, Azuresong, Atiesh, and Old-Blanchy. We all exist on the same world, same server essentially.
Yes I play classic era server. Do we ever see more than 400 people online during peak times? No, but we get close during peak times with raids. Do we regularly have dungeons from deadmines to Stratholme? Yes. There is even more activity in dungeons than the months leading up to TBC launch. Do we have boosters? No. Do we have bots? Not really. Do we have raids? Yes. The PvE clusters average 200 people online during day time hours and more during peak hours and raid times. Those are alliance numbers. Horde numbers are significantly lower. But you have to look at cluster numbers, not simply server numbers. Honestly, the 38 people Rozgul saw on horde were probably for the entire cluster, not for Mankrik alone. The AH on horde is mostly dead on any cluster. The AH on alliance is a lot more lively, with 3-4 pages of blue rare items weapons and armor. Green uncommons take up at least 20 pages.
Most of the player base enjoys leveling and doing dungeons, while not being in a guild. Most of the people I know hit 60 and then start a new alt to enjoy the experience again with a new class. You can look most of the time and more than half the players are guildless. We have a handful of guilds and they usually have 40+ ppl online to do content with. A common occurrence is being in westfall and needing to group for killing the scarecrow mechanical watchers, you know the ones, due to quite a few people leveling there.
Should all the clusters be grouped into the same permanent server? Probably a good idea, especially since pvp clusters generally don’t have more than 70 ppl online during peak hours. They recently had a 8 hour maintenance window this week for wow classic era. I thought maybe they might do just that, but there were no mergers. The only change visible was the appearance of Free Character Transfers to Mankrik. Which would boost the East Coast PvE server cluster for sure if a lot of people took advantage of it. However, I am not going to move all 17 of my characters to the Windseeker/Mankrik/Pagle/Ashbringer etc server cluster though. The West Coast PvE cluster is just as populous, at least alliance wise.
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And their judgemental is impeccable.
Blizzard sabotaged anyone who wanted to RP in vanilla by only making one non pvp rp server then encouraging all the trolls, hc players and farmbots to go there. Now it’s the ‘official hc’ server and anyone who’s not hc gets ignored or harrassed.
blizz has always tried to get rid of their rp community because they are high maintenance and actually complain about the game being sold out. Let’s face it, this game’s story doesn’t deserve to be rp’d nor do the dev’s or executives deserve money or respect. I’m glad the game is dying and good riddance, there are better games out there compared to what’s left to do in wow. Once they make this stupid change I’ll either go play on a private server and give them my money or go play FF14 with everybody else.
Bloodsail Buccaneers was hopping at first, good for a quick buck for blizz, then it just rapidly spiralled down into **** per blizz’s design and encouragement.
There is only one era that I’m truly interested in remaining in. This is Wrath. Classic is amazing though, I enjoyed it so much more then how I’m feeling in TBC. I feel very lonely in TBC. No friends. Everyone raid logs. I can’t seem to connect with anything here.
I don’t know about that. What are you going to do there? Raid sunwell for eternity and have no rated arena season for pvpers?
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dude same… i dont understand it
That’s what people said about Vanilla classic and I believed them. I was wrong. It doesn’t appear as though there’s enough vanilla players to make one viable server. I’m guessing the same will happen with BC classic. When wrath comes out BC will be gone.
This is true, but from what I’ve been reading there are actually some normal pve and pvp servers that have a smaller pop than BB
MMORPG’s are games where you do repetitive things over and over again, until the next repetitive thing gets released and you go complete that and do that over and over again for a while, and so on…
If that cycle stops, and the next thing never gets released, the game dies. Most people don’t want to do the same thing over and over again forever, no matter how good it is.
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Lol it’s not my problem you don’t believe me. If TBC is gone I will be gone as well. I don’t play games that suck. I’d rather play nothing than play WotLK again.
Since I’m not the only one who feels this way, I’m guessing that you are wrong.
Either way, I don’t really care. I won’t be playing WotLK no matter what happens.
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I didn’t say I don’t believe you won’t stay on a BC forever server and not play wrath. I said I don’t think there will be enough players that stay behind in BC to make a working MMO
Can’t wait for Classic fresh to be released so people can see what a waste of time, money and resources it is to commit to the 50 people who still give a damn about vanilla WoW.
blizz should have listened to us no boosting or cloning that hurt the game. its so far gone that they need to start over/ no boosts wen wrath comes out no boa,s no big exp buffs then go by new content after wrath lore maybe
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