The Way Forward: How Era should operate into the future

[Leuce-moon-guard]

@Sawyer-eranikus

RP naming conventions have never once been enforced in WoW and no further comment is necessary.

This isn’t true! Naming infractions in wow are reactionary, so you can name yourself “noobkillerxx” on a RP server, but if someone reports you for character name you will end up getting flagged for a re-name.

I’m one of those RP nerds who feel strongly about names on RP servers. There’s only so many RP servers, and on classic the RP community had to be very vocal to get the RP servers we got. There’s so many regular servers where people can run around with “noobkillerxx” and the like, so I feel that if a person decides to roll on one of the few RP servers then respect the RP naming conventions.

Anyway… more back on topic; I mostly support this idea! However, I’d think it’d be better to run the cycle as 1.5 - 2 years. It’s not just gear acquisition, but lvling speed and just the general vibe of classic that makes it so 1 year for all the phases would feel rushed - we experienced that with SoM.

You can see what I put in a different thread here

@Leuce-moon-guard

I think having 1 pvp and 1 pve realm that starts up and cycles through the phases and then into TBC and WotLK would be awesome. They should also keep 1 pvp and 1 pve TBC era server and the same for WotLK. When vanilla is ready to roll off to TBC you should have the option of “stepping” through the dark portal by staying on the server or taking a free xfer to the vanilla era cluster. Similar when TBC is ready to roll into WotLK you should have the option to “hop” onto the boat to Northrend or taking a free xfer to TBC era. When WotLK gets to the end your characters will automatically be ported to WotLK era servers before the servers reset and vanilla launches anew.

This would not really take anything away from existing era enjoyers, as their era servers would still be there. It would give those in the community that yearn for forever TBC and WotLK what they wish for. It would also give those that long for FRESH!!! what they want.

If you missed out in 2019, well… then you get another chance at it. You played in 2019, but just would love to go through the phases again? Go at it!!!

I played in 2019, and when TBC rolled out I made 1 clone of my main a holy paladin that I kept on era and took the rest through the dark portal. I missed out on most of p1 of TBC due to some irl health issues, so I would really enjoy getting to do TBC again. I also really love the vanilla world, I had a blast playing it in 2019 and I still enjoy dabbling on era. But playing on era at the final phase isn’t quite the same as playing through the phases. Like yeah, if you’re on the major clusters there’s still people leveling, but it’s a whole different feeling when the entire server is at the same stage. So please Give us rotating fresh starts!!!