Why would you want to play TBC with a fresh start? cause everything in classic is made pointless? Because people have too much gold? Well, i made my gold through the AH, I’ve never AoE farmed, i find the practise mind numbingly boring and sure I’m in the minority when it comes to how I’ve obtained my gold since everyone has a mage farmer now but you know what a fresh start will do to TBC?
Herbalism, skinning, mining.
These 3 professions will make the economy extremely bad, why? Because there’s always a need for them and you can bet that with no leather, herbs, gems and ore in the system people who sell and buy gold will make the prices of them extremely high. It wouldn’t take long to get either, you might say “but AoE is nerfed in TBC” yes nerfed but not killed, we need herbs for the new alchemy recipes, mining for the new blacksmithing patterns, Skinning for leatherworking especially for those drums.
And let’s not forget though the other massive thing that is needed… Gems, gems for Jewel crafting, the profession that releases with TBC. With nothing at all in the AH and if we’re at level 58 as some people suggest, it will be the worst thing i can think of. The only work around to it would be for you to start off at level 1, but people wouldn’t like that would they? Because before they can even enter Outland they’d need to level in Azeroth, but, they’ve already done that, they’ve done that since the start of classic…
The rush to pick, mine and skin everything is going to be insane. it would be like day 1 of classic, do you remember? Fighting for a tag as a level 1 all the way to level 15? Cause i sure do, it will be hell, you competing for a single node/mob with 20+ people, everything is dead/gone and your entire time that you’re meant to be in Outland is spent waiting for a mob to spawn or wandering around for a mining/herb node that has been picked on respawn for hours.
Or, you ignore that and go on with your day levelling to 60 and going to outland in green gear instead of the hard earned epics, go through the dark portal as a new adventurer instead of that character that cleared 4 raid tiers, enter with literally nothing memorable.
If you want to start fresh join one of the servers that’s bound to open come TBC, let the people that don’t want that dumpster fire play with the characters they’ve had for all of classic.