Returning to WoW after 4-5 years

Despitebeing-incendius · May 11, 2022, 9:28pm

The Classic project has been divided into two launchers: Progression (Currently in TBC soon to become WotLK) and Classic Era (pre-TBC; will NOT progress into TBC/WotLK). Classic Era has then been divided into Realm Types of Seasonal vs. Non-Seasonal.

A poster has already given you the reference realms for the Progression servers.

For Classic Era Seasonal (Season of Mastery, which is currently in phase 5/6 and slated to conclude late fall-early winter of 2022) the PvP realm of choice is Jom Gabbar and PvE is Shadowstrike.

For Classic Era Non-Seasonal (fully phase 6 progressed, all raid encounters unlocked) there are Connected Realms arranged into clusters by time-zone (Note: This is NOT Cross-Realm. The connected realms are effectively merged). Here is a snip of the Bluepost detailing all Classic Era Clusters:

WoW Classic Era Realm Connections Coming May 18

This means that in each region/locale, we will create connected realms among groups of Classic Era PvP realms, or groups of Classic Era Normal realms, or Classic Era RP realms.

In this region, we will connect:

Anathema, Arcanite Reaper, Bigglesworth, Blaumeux, Fairbanks, Kurinnaxx, Rattlegore, Smolderweb, Thunderfury, and Whitemane

Arugal, Felstriker, and Yojamba

Ashkandi, Mankrik, Pagle, Westfall, and Windseeker

Atiesh, Azuresong, Myzrael, and Old Blanchy

Benediction, Faerlina, Heartseeker, Incendius, and Netherwind

Earthfury, Herod, Kirtonos, Kromcrush, Skeram, Stalagg, Sulfuras, and Thalnos

Our goal is to maximize the opportunities for Classic Era players to establish strong communities and carry on enjoying their way of play. We hope to see healthy populations of connected realms for Classic Era players, and we’ll continue to monitor and consider further connections in the future.

Furthermore, the NA West Coast Clusters have been assigned a destination realm to receive free transfers from all other other applicable Classic Era Realms: PvP is Whitemane and PvE is Mankrik hence, these two realms will be the most populated. I play on the NA East PvP Cluster holding together the realms Benediction, Faerlina, Heartseeker, Incendius, and Netherwind. If you have any questions, ask away.