I know there is close to no chance this happens, but I’d like to try anyway.
I think Grobbulus is the ideal server to attempt a F R E S H of our own making. I’ll explain.
Expected official F R E S H
Many people say, and I agree, that Blizzard won't be launching a new vanilla Classic product until early 2024, and we'll get announcements about this at Blizzcon in November. That's quite some time away, and I think those of us who crave fresh, and weren't captured by hardcore, might enjoy Grob in the mean time.Server types and current populations
All other realms except for two others are connected to each other. Grobbulus is not. The server is mostly dead. I was leveling this character there and never got a full list of 50 people in my /who on Alliance. I do know there is one guild there who raids Naxx weekly, and they would definitely derail this plan a small bit, but that's just how things go.Whitemane and Mankrik connected realm groups are very developed as of this moment. There are a lot of full BIS players and the economy is very saturated through the natural course of play and botting. The inflated economy sees items in GDKP going for tens of thousands of gold in some cases. Not that I support GDKP, but it’s a way to see how inflation is behaving.
Not Fresh but not Rotten
The server is fully developed as all era servers are. There are many things that almost entirely invalidate Molten Core as a progression step (ZG, AQ20, PVP, etc)This is entirely under the control of Blizzard. The only thing we can do about this is play private servers or attempt to make a fresh of our own until Blizzard makes moves of their own.
Bots, transfers, griefers, GDKP
*If we succeed in refreshing Grob, will...*Bots show up? Of course, as they do in every Blizzard product since Blizzard has been making games.
People transfer their fully geared chars to Grob? Almost certainly. You and I know the behavior of WoW players. They’ll show up to grief, there’s nothing we can do about that.
GDKP become a thing? Yes, as long as behavior in WoW continues unabated, GDKP will always happen.
How can we succeed with this?
I certainly don’t have the power nor the social finesse to relaunch Grob on my own. It would require guild leaders who have social influence, popular players throughout Classic, and probably some amount of virality.
But, I have to try.
https://discord.gg/ZtDN3NQyf
I’ve made an extremely simple discord that literally has General text and General voice. This is nothing more than a rallying point to see if there’s interest in starting fresh on Grobbulus.
If you have ANY social power in this game; a guild leader, a community leader, a popular player on servers, a streamer and you share the same desire to attempt some form of F R E S H until we get official fresh from Blizzard, please join the discord.
To the Naysayers
C'mon man. Let me dream. Maybe even help me make this a reality?Thanks y’all.
PS: The server is so dead, there’s a lot of great names available!
Here’s the Reddit post I made, but I think they instantly removed it.
Having trouble getting a post made without it being instantly removed. I’ll edit this if I succeed.
Mirroring reddit link
https://old.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/16i0az9/freshish_one_mans_attempt_to_reignite_grobbulus/?