I am not sure how SOD will workout and I hope that it is successful.
However from what I’ve heard so far it seems to be fundamentally unaligned with the things many people have come to enjoy about classic. At the forefront is class changes.
When SOM ended we were able to xfer characters into era, and some of the SOM changes also followed into era. Please do not do this with SOD given how dramatic some of these changes seem to be.
Era is supposed to be a static place in which we can enjoy our toons as they are even after long breaks. Having new professions and class changes forced into Era would be really disappointing.
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They wont. Likely just shut the servers down when the season is over. There is no need to keep your characters for life. That as a concept is really dumb to me IMO
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Some people want to pvp at a high level a few hours a week. In era you can do that, there isn’t hours and hours of progression that need to be done every few months to keep gear competitive.
Even after a year+ break you can simply login and pvp - and your character is as strong as it was when you last played.
This is very good for people who don’t have infinite time (nor desire) to grind out the same things with slightly different abilities, models, etc.
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Yeah thats all great, why ERA should never ever be touched. Ever.
That doesnt mean Season characters need to go anywhere. They dont.
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That’s exactly what my post is stating…
I am saying please do not push the SOD toons and changes into era.
I bring it up because it happened after SOM.
Agreed.
Era has had enough changes. It does not need this.
Maybe something about this will be answered in the next few weeks? Blizzard does take backs though. 
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I’m sure classic era will remain as it is.
What happens to the new seasonal characters is a good question, many will work completely different from their original counterparts and won’t fit in, would people enjoy having their characters deleted and do it all over again or would the server eventually become a permanent feature on its own.
they we wanna move to era with their 500g black lotus 
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When season characters in Diablo move to the non season “eternal realm” they typically leave behind seasonal content/systems with them.
the same should be expected here, but also who knows what will happen at the end of SOD we will learn tomorrow at noon.
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They are wiping era classic servers fresh as stated.
Its a second season I would assume it would be similar to the first having a separate tab that tells you it is a seasonal list. Kinda in the same way that hardcore servers are seperate but still in the launcher.
Do you have a link? We paid to xfer our toons there with them stating it would be ‘a museum’.
If they do this it is a huge mistake on their part and I will never ever give blizzard a single dollar again.
This person used to post on ‘Cromagnon’ saying the same thing until he got largely ignored. Just ignore this toon as well.
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According to a recent interview with WoWhead “If there is a place where the greatest aspects of this Season can live, that’s where we want our Season of Discovery players to go. There will 100% be a place where characters can migrate once the season ends. Maybe we have to take some Runes away, but maybe some Runes are so beloved that we can incorporate it into the realm they go to, we aren’t really sure yet and we are listening to the community on feedback.”
I really, really hope Blizz does not add any Runes or items or whathave you into Era. All Era players want is for the game to be left alone. They’ve done enough damage with the PvP change already.
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Thanks for sharing that Rowaine.
Era should really stay as it is.
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Era (though not all gear should migrate and runes shouldn’t go at all)
Cataclysm (since many of them are abilities from expansions and by the time the season is over that should be the current Classic progression content - heck throw in a Joyous Journey to help SoD characters catch up in Cata Classic)
I know that some get attached to their characters.
But Era needs to stay as “untouched” as possible yet the choices of where to continue play could include both Era and progression Classic. The abilities from the runes however don’t fit in Classic Era.
YMMV
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“Look how they massacred my [era]!”
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They should not allow toons to xfer into era that come from different games.
Even SOM toons coming with the bonus exp was not healthy for era long term - I am happy that I kept my SOM toons but honestly they should never have given bonus exp in som, or should never have let them xfer.
Toons leveling with bonus abilities xfering into era would be very disappointing, and even a slap in the face to players who only played on era. If people are attached to those toons - make them their own personal era server ‘SOD era’ or whatever.
The only thing that will destroy era long term is if blizz slowly erodes it away on the margins, or directly, by letting non-era stuff seep in.
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They absolutely should allow SoD characters to transfer to era.
They can make that happen without needing to change era. Just remove everything non era during the transfer.
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