Vanilla wow is a mostly very boring game.
The only fun thing in wow is warsong gulch. World pvp can be fun sometimes when it’s not 10v2, but that’s rare. In this iteration of fresh, there will only be one pvp server, with lots of layers. Everyone will end up doing what they did in SoD and just hop to different layers to avoid wpvp when they want to.
Really the only reason to play fresh is if you enjoy progression raiding 20 year old pve stuff. If you have never played vanilla before, I can understand why you might want to try that out. If you’ve already raided molten core 200 times, I can’t understand why you would waste more of your life doing that.
The new honor system they put in era is going to ruin progression raiding for the people that enjoy that. Everyone who has the time to AFK in alterac valley for several weeks will have rank 14 gear which will trivialize most raid content. The honor system is now a pure honor per hour grind, and both factions know that the fastest hph for both sides is when alliance kill a few horde NPCs and let horde kill Vann as fast as possible. There is no real PvP in a 40v40 battleground where the objective is to kill NPCs. It’s not fun, it never was fun, and it never will be fun. So there’s zero skill or effort involved in getting rank 14 now, it’s simply a test of whether you have enough hours in a week to log in and pretend to play AV.
It’s really sad that blizzard’s complete lack of imagination prevented them from updating the ranking system to something better than the current era one. On one hand I’m surprised more than ten people are planning on playing fresh, on the other hand vanilla fans have proven they will do whatever blizzard tells them to do.
I’ll refrain from making any predictions about whether WSG will be fun in fresh. It has potential thanks to the new rank system evening out a lot of gear disparities, but whether people actually play it or rank their 4th alt in AV is TBD, and if they do play it at all it will only be for several months and then TBC is released.
I hope the fresh fans enjoy killing thousands of autoattacking 2004 scripts on their way to 60, jk they won’t, most people are going to pay 3rd world boosters to log in to their accounts and level for them (no one likes leveling).