Why would anyone complain about this? Anniversary realms were always indicated to be progression realms.
It seems inappropriate for transfers to go from Anniv to Era considering what Era is, and what Anniv realms are. They’re completely separate, unrelated game modes.
You will need to level on anniversary realms if you plan to play TBC, yes.
Just level on the realm that you’d like to play without expecting transfers.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Blizz did enable cloning from Era to TBC just for the easy cash grab, but there’s not currently any indication that this is the plan. And we’re going to have to wait for the TBC pre-patch before we can start leveling Bloodelves or Draenai anyway so… cloning from Era seems totally unnecessary. There is time right now to just level up whatever you’d like to play.
Why would anyone complain about this? Anniversary realms were always indicated to be progression realms.
It does not seem appropriate for transfers to go from Anniversary to Era considering what Era is, and what Anniversary realms are. They’re completely separate, unrelated game modes.
You will need to level on anniversary realms if you plan to play TBC, yes.
Just level on the realm that you’d like to play without expecting transfers.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Blizzard did set up cloning from Era to TBC just for the easy cash grab, but there’s not currently any indication that this is the plan. We’re going to have to wait for the TBC pre-patch before we can start leveling Bloodelves or Draenai anyway so… cloning from Era seems totally unnecessary. There is time right now to just level up whatever you’d like to play.
Personally, I’m not touching Anniversary Realms until there is definitive confirmation on where they will be ending up. (TBC-Era or progressing to WOTLK?)
weve been able to keep any vanilla character weve made since 2019 in era so this is why we need clarification. i mean anniversary is on the classic era client… would tbc get a new client of its own??? are they just gonna delete our characters off the classic era client if tbc has its own client??
Definitely not. Era lasts forever. It’s the one place where you can just keep a level 60’s progress preserved without getting forced into later expansions or seasonal content.
This is a good question. I tend to doubt that they will try to run TBC on classic-era’s client, but it’s not impossible. Perhaps TBC will be reached simply by selecting any anniversary realm within the classic client as it is now. I imagine this will introduce many more bugs into Era, but that’s never stopped them before.
if tbc gets its own client then i could see them replicating the 2019 classic and selling clones again, because otherwise they will be deleting our anniversary characters off of classic era. i mean sod is on classic era and personally i think they should port over tbc kharazhan and caverns of time into sod anyways. id like to see classic era tbc era and wotlk aswell as sod all on the same client
I doubt they’ll add another client for TBC, they already have enough issues trying to maintain 3 clients as is. If anything I’m thinking they’ll consolidate the progression client back in.
Anniversary characters aren’t being deleted, the realm that they’re on will just become TBC. Anniversary characters already are not part of classic-era, they just share a client.
If TBC gets its own client, all anniversary realm characters will just show up there, as there is no other place for them to go- that is what anniversary realms are phasing into.
Anniversary realms are not separate from the upcoming TBC realms. The TBC realms are anniversary realms (when it releases)
Why would anyone view anniversary realms as a way to get into Era?
Era is not gatekept at all. It’s been open for anyone to play there since long before anniversary realms existed, and still is.
Likewise after TBC-Era and WOTLK-Era are launched, there will not really be any need for progression servers as players can simply start in whichever version they enjoy most. Perhaps with cloning available only between the different versions of Era (vanilla to TBC, TBC to wotlk, and that’s it)
They’re not “transferring” to TBC- anniversary realms become TBC realms. They aren’t separate things.
Anniversary realms are not slated to facilitate transfers. They have always been clearly defined as progression realms which turn into TBC, so there really isn’t any reasonable expectation that anniversary realm characters could be cloned to Era. They are effectively TBC realms in waiting.
If someone wants to keep a character at 60 permanently then they should be leveling/playing in Era, not Anniv realms.
I do believe they will shove any anniversary characters into Panda land, after Cata, after WOTLk, after TBC.
That is the current most likely outcome, given what their definition of “progression realm” is. It’s exactly like the first classic timeline. Non-permanent, no Eras.
This is why I advocate anyone to just play in Era if the level 60 version of the game is where you want your character to end up. Anniversary realms are a completely different, temporary mode.
last time we had fresh vanilla was SoM and at the end of SoM we could choose to transfer to wrath of the lich king or stay in era, why should we as a playerbase expect any different this time around any vanilla character weve made has been able to stay in era
If they did allow transfers I would not be shocked, yet still it doesn’t seem like that’s the direction they’re looking to go right now because anniversary realms are “progression” realms.
Also Era is not supposed to just be a graveyard for seasonal content. Era is actually thriving in its own rite as a stand-alone mode, despite that Blizz has seemingly attempted to intentionally undermine it at every turn.
i really just want vanilla tbc and wrath on a repeating 3-5 year cycle with permanent era realms for all 3 where we can choose with each character which expansion era it stays in as the expansion ends. they should also allow us to buy clones again if we want to stay and progress
What is the point of cycling ‘phases’ in a progression format after there is an “Era” for all three versions? (classic/tbc/wotlk)
Wouldn’t you just be able to go directly to whichever version that you wanted to play at that point? After all three Eras are out, the whole seasons/progression thing seems pointless to me, but people play for lots of different reasons so maybe I’m missing something.
Personally I don’t understand the desire for constant resets. I like when progress and playtime accumulate long-term.