Similar to Vanilla Era, I would really really like this, and TBC Era also, I would very much play all 3 if there were such an “ERA” for them.
I do not really care for the progression realms as they are because the duration is limited not allowing me the time to do ALL the quests and play every single class and build to max in the timeline of the Progression server.
This is the really fun and amazing part of the “Era” servers is that it allows you the time to level organically and play the content as designed and do so for every single class also MoP has a lot of world quests and dailies that I feel are really good and there is tons to do.
An “ERA” server for MoP because of its dailies, because of its IMO BiS raids and some of the best Arena / RBG meta of all time (MoP 5.2 / 5.3 Classes) with 5.4 being kinda meh by comparrision… but ill suck it up if 5.4 is all we get…
But Era for MoP would be amazing, please and thank you.
I have friends that say they won’t play this when it comes out without an era server. I would love to relive going through the content again with them but as it stands I won’t be able to…
Honestly there needs to be an era server for each expansion.
I, personally, would love permanent Pandaria servers
I, looking at the grander scope, realize they would be terrible for the health of the game as a whole, for the exact same reason as other era servers. We’ve been through this song and dance already. Just let it go
It spreads the community and the developers to thin. They’re already too thin between progressive servers, classic era, anniversary servers, and sod, and you want to divide all of that even further? People have been arguing for era servers for different expansions for literal years now and the reasoning against it is the same. Do some research
I am hoping for a future where we get to do this again. Anniversary will progress to TBC. If it carries on we could be seeing a system where every 5 years some new vanilla servers launch and give us the opportunity to regularly revisit the expansions.
I find this more exciting because I prefer to start fresh each time rather than roll on a server that’s perpetually in the final phase with a playerbase that’s through it all already.
This is why you don’t see people playing Wrath content in retail for example.
It doesn’t spread anything too thin. If anything it bolsters the population of progression servers because people feel more like the progress they make while a progression server is current will be saved.
The people like me who want era probably won’t play much on progression realms because of the lack of era.
SoD has a ton of players, Anniversary has a ton of players and so does Era Vanilla.
I don’t know how Cata is doing because its not a good expansion (my opinion) and so I don’t play that one, but the other “Classic” versions are all very healthy.
having them gives people more reason to stay subscribed, it gives communities and guilds and groups of friends opportunities to reroll to play through their favorite content.
It also gives people more motivation to play on progression realms because they know their progress won’t just be erased when the progression moves on.
Tell me you don’t understand how content cycles work without telling me you don’t understand how content cycles work
SoD is active because they just had their final big content patch. Anniversary is active because they’re new and progressing. Era’s only “activity” is a small dedicated fanbase that will not sustain servers for every single expansion. Cata is quiet because the expansion is over. We’ve been in the final tier for over 3 months now, and people are waiting for the next expansion
As soon as Pandaria launches, it will pop off, SoD will become a ghost town, and anniversary servers will peak and valley with each patch until Naxxramas and then die off completely until TBC prepatch. And let’s not forget the same classic team is working on all of these different versions, and you can clearly see the state they’re in due to that divide, and you want to spread them further? Lol
Why are we excited to play MoP again? Why did we play Cata?
I’d argue a lot of it is because we weren’t able to for a while.
Another thing is that a lot of being able to progress through the raid tiers of an expansion relies on many other players doing so at the same time. Progression servers give you Phase dates, so everyone is for the most part playing to the same cadence. We don’t have this in Era servers. Yes it’s possible to have player initiatives, that’s how we got hardcore, and possibly what convinced Blizzard that anniversary would work (given the Fresh movement that was occuring on an Era server just prior)., but it’s very difficult to convince the population at large that NOW is the time for us to start again. This is one big advantage progressive has over Era.
But, I am all for player choice, as long as the player base is large enough to handle the number of choices. Blizzard have those numbers and I like to believe they act accordingly most of the time.
You don’t get it. I’m talking about people who simply wont play on the progression realms at all or potentially any realm because of a lack of era.
Nearly my entire friend group that played MoP back in the day reconnected when Mop classic was announced. But we all decided not to come back if there wasn’t an era server for it.
We have no interest in having our favorite expansion ripped away again.