Correct, and my assumption is that it’s because they believe the default is to just progress to TBC naturally. There’s no way they’re going to make us abandon our Classic characters.
Sure, I’m sure all Pvt. servers started TBC fresh. I’ve said this before but if people think that resetting gold, starting at level 58 or starting at level 1 is good then you’re only thinking in the short term and by short term I’m talking a week.
Node farming would be what you’ll need to do for professions only this time its everyone at once. You thought herbing in EPL was bad, wait till that number is multiplied by 100.
The people that sell gold will continue to sell gold, the people that buy gold will continue to buy gold. Resetting gold does nothing but hurt actual players that have farmed their gold however that may be.
The botters are already preparing for TBC too, I’ve seen multiple paladin botters levelling because paladins replace mages as the better booster in TBC.
I’ve also seen them levelling druids for herb which is another thing herb is gonna be harder unless you are a druid yourself. With flight form herbing you wont stand a chance against a druid, their rate of herbing will be twice if not greater than yours.
TBC should be done like this… you either copy your characters over to TBC servers and keep classic as it is on P6, this is the most unlikely imo.
OR
Transition classic into TBC and then start a fresh classic server with it back to P1, this i can see being the more likely way that they do it.
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okay, I’ll correct my statement. MOST people don’t want to stay in phase 6 of vanilla forever. I’m sure some people want to achieve absolute BIS and then PVP or do speedruns to beat world records. Most people though don’t care enough.
Well it would certainly take longer than the time to TBC servers. I think most would agree it’s all least worth a few servers to give the diehards their endless vanilla paradise.
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Abandon? You aren’t abandoning or losing anything with TBC fresh. You will always have access to your pixels on a Classic realm.
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Sorry but if you choose to take your characters to BC the should NOT be allowed to remain in Classic with the rest of us. One of the basic pillars of early WoW is that player choice matters and that choice should be added to the list. Besides, you can’t play your current character as a level 19, 29, 39, twink and at level 60. Why should you be allowed to level to 70 but also twink at 60? I’m out if they do that.
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I don’t intend to play Classic again once TBC launches. Not being able to take my character - that I’ve spent a year playing - into the content I want to do is losing them. Having access to them on dead Classic realms is useless. This is why Blizzard won’t do fresh only.
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I put in a lot of time and I wouldn’t mind doing it again. I got 3 r14s and will do it again on classic fresh anyways which is also basically confirmed
Good lord. There’s dedicated and sweaty, and then there’s literally no life.
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You sound pretty envious there or does everyone have to live their life like you?
Do you even realize how long it takes to get r14 on one character, and how much time you have to invest in it? It’s 16-20 hour days, for months. For one. And that’s missing no weeks, constantly farming, and having no one screw the bracket.
They said they did this three times.
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Citation on this?
…ask anyone who does it? Have you never tried to rank before? You hit a wall around r7-r8 where you realize you need to farm a lot of honour every day for weeks and weeks and even months.
On dead servers it’s almost certainly easier, but any medium and higher population would require more. Guildies of mine had to farm 500k~ honour weekly to get to r12~. R14 would require 1m+ honour a week.
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You and I both know op isn’t.
Maybe you should take the time to scroll up a few posts where OP talks about wanting to grind his chars to Rank 14 again on classic fresh.
Yeah you can’t do that in TBC.
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Comparing Private Servers to Blizzard Servers is like trying to compare open source Linux destros to Windows OS…
Blizzard is on a corporate level while Private Servers had more freedom and was customizable
Why not? It’s not negatively impacting you in any way. If anything it keeps the vanilla side more alive because people who wanted primarily to play TBC can still come back occasionally to mess around on their old vanilla character. I fail to understand how this is bad for anyone.
Pretty silly thing to say you’re out on seeing as it would have no negative impact on anyone whatsoever. If I’m wrong, please explain how this harms anyone’s experience.
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I’m not pushing for “fresh” BC Servers, either. I just don’t oppose the idea, whenever it’s brought up. I’m open to the idea.
From my perspective, upon the release of BC Servers, Blizz copies and pastes everyone’s progress (gold, items, characters, etc.) onto said Servers. Whether BC Servers are another Server option (and Classic remains as is) or progresses from said Classic Servers (and Classic gets moved somewhere else, and our progress that way), doesn’t really matter. The end result of a “copy and paste” is still the same.
I’m not nor ever will be in agreement with Character Copies. At least, how I view it means it’s in the player’s hands to select. It should be a one time deal, only, from the company. Players can decide whether to keep those characters or not, through the means of the “delete character” option, only.
Otherwise, to keep it simple, the whole “fresh” concept isn’t a bad idea either.
It harms my experience the same way it would harm my experience if Alliance were allowed to twink their character at 19, 29, 39, 49, and 59. It’s not hard to understand you are being obtuse.
Just release both fresh and progression servers for TBC. It’s not that hard.
You would not be able to transfer from Classic or a progression server to a fresh server.
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