Joining TBC Servers without players losing progress made on Vanilla servers

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At the very moment Blizzard releases Classic TBC, Blizzard themselves can create a one time copy of all existing Classic Vanilla characters and “paste” them to the TBC servers. …But wait there’s more!

Why is this good? People who never want Classic Vanilla to change will always have their characters, in an unchanged 1.12 state, to come back to. People who want to progress their characters through Classic TBC can continue seamlessly into 2.0, with everything they collected and achieved on the Classic Vanilla servers.

The catch: After this point, if new people create new characters on the Classic Vanilla servers, they cannot transfer or copy these characters to the Classic TBC servers. Players who wish to play Classic TBC after its launch, and didn’t already have a character on Classic Vanilla, will have to create a character and level from scratch. However, TBC did make the 1 through 60 leveling experience MUCH QUICKER!

This little compromise is done for two reasons:

1.) So the economies of future classic expansion servers don’t get diluted with “would be” unobtainable items, excess gold from multiple character copies or oversaturation of old materials from the last classic expansion servers.

2.) So people don’t feel “forced” to meet some sort of Status Quo by having special items from Vanilla servers before they transfer, to feel like their TBC experience is meaningful, long after the fact.

Don’t get me wrong: If you didn’t get to play the 2nd release of Vanilla (Classic), while it was “current”, the door to Classic Vanilla is always open to allow you to experience it! However, having rare or hard to obtain items from Classic Vanilla, as a player in Classic TBC, should remain as a symbol of said player’s hard work and dedication in Classic Vanilla, NOT a consolation prize that people can get years later and bring to new classic expansions and pretend to be an OG Classic Vanilla player from August 27th, 2019.

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I could see them making it like a realm transfer.

Lightbringer requires the WoW Classic client, and caps at 60.

Uther requires the BC Classic client, and caps at 70.

You can pay for a realm transfer from Lightbringer to Uther, but not the other way around.

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Your current progress is zero.

I’m sure they’ll address the question in two years.

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Anyone whom says TBC won’t happen is illogical. It’s where the money is next in a few years.

I’d hope they allow you to transfer your 60 to a “fresh Classic server” and make a copy to the new TBC servers. That would be ideal to me. We are tied to our characters. I played this druid from Vanilla to Legion. So I’d rather progress on the same character than start over every time there’s another Classic server for TBC or Wrath.

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This is a one time copy by Blizzards at one point in time, players wouldn’t touch anything… to avoid exploitation!

Correct, that’s kind of what I suggested! Just stay up to date… I think you misunderstand, I’m saying if you play TBC, but haven’t played Vanilla, I’m sorry to say they “might” only be connected if you had a Vanilla character BEFORE TBC was released! Think about it, if you started playing in 2007, did Blizzard allow you to play the 2005 version then slowly progress back to the 2007 version? No, so you may want to play Classic while it’s fresh because the population will go down if/when Classic TBC comes out! The mage towers are gone in BFA, think about it…

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I don’t think the exploitation is as bad as you think it’ll be unless and until we hit Cata Classic. Plus the idea of just straight transfering to BC Classic is literally just like Blizz flipping the switch and turning on BC back in the day. We didn’t have our characters wiped then, why should we have to have them wiped now?

Disclaimer: I’d be rerolling in BC anyway, but you give the game a better chance to not die early if you let people transfer.

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this here is the problem with making a classic server TBC server then WOTLK server.

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Except my idea is that Blizzard only “flips the switch” and does the character copies only once an expansion… Player controlled copies would be a nightmare!

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Love the idea

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It may be the most realistically fair way though, to not screw things up, sadly…

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I somewhat agree, but I don’t actually care.

If blizzard let people pay to transfer characters with limited items/titles… I don’t care…

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to not screw what up? what if someone wants to experience all three expansions? they have to make a new character for TBC after classic then another new char for WOTLK. That’s just brutal and I bet you will disinterest lots of people since people get connected to their chars.

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What nightmare!? You keep talking about exploitation and give no examples of actual exploiting.

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I don’t agree with a one time transfer. If I want to play a new class in Vanilla after the transfer happens and eventually want to take that class to TBC, you’d force me to re-level on TBC and abandon my Vanilla toon.

I prefer allowing the player to choose when they want to create a copy.

In terms of exploitation, I think the way it should work is that whatever you move to the TBC realm (gold, unbounded items) should get removed from the Vanilla realm. You can even limit the gold/stacks that you are allowed to bring over.

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1.) Play from the beginning as much you can, the population would eventually dwindle with a split community anyway.

2.) Experience each separately, each expansions level 1-60 leveling content was unique in its own right, newly added quests to old zones and altered class abilities/mechanics to freshen the experience. Plus each expansion had its way of reducing experience required to ding. Besides, you visit zones you haven’t leveled in before!

Read the OP, I did. :wink:

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TBC servers have to be completely separate and always fresh leveling 1-70 when released.

The last thing we need is millions of character copies every time blizzard announce brand new fresh TBC realms start.

People will want to transfer their vanilla season 1 characters to TBC season 3 realms. Lets keep it plain and simple.

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This is the problem classic would become a one time experience again. I get the impression that is not what they are trying to recreate.

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Agreed, BUT I think Vanilla characters that exist before the release day of TBC can be the exception?

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Nah. Casuals don’t need to feel rushed by an artificial deadline of when they need to be finished with Vanilla.

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This is what you guys don’t understand… it will be just like that again no matter what, for people moving on to classic TBC, once they have achieved everything in classic Vanilla. That shouldn’t mean no TBC!