You will have the option to transfer to a Classic Era realm before the SoM servers are permanently closed. Hope to see you there!
we can hope for a SoM TBC but so far it’s a no from blizzard
Just being able to continue on the existing tbc server after SoM is over would be cool. I mean blizzard offer boost so why not let people who played SoM keep the character and continue
I wouldn’t worry about it too much because more than likely you will not continue playing your character once it’s transferred to Classic Era. This is because SoM 2.0 will probably be launching shortly after and that’s where the player base is going to be.
They don’t, they go to an era realm
You think SoM is successful enough to warrant another season? Does Blizzard put more resources into figuring out how to get more players to play SoM while they are launching an expansion and Wrath Classic in the next year or so?
I hope SoM isn’t one and done, just because of the sheer potential of making something really fun and unique. SoM 1.0 was heavily rushed and with very little forethought. If SoM is further developed along with some major changes that are completely new to Classic/Vanilla WoW, I think that could be a lot of fun for a new season.
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You will have an opportunity to transfer your character, for free, to an as of yet unannounced Classic Era server.
SoM will likely pad releases and allow for people to have a long enough arena season as pve is sort of raid log meta. There will be alot more to do in wrath with achievements and the like, both in pve and pvp but i believe they are just responding to requests people have made like when they made paladin seals the same across factions as everyone was requesting it and it was good. This might and I mean might allow for classic plus with 2-3 more raids and somewhat harder content because after som testing to see if fresh, and hardcore classic is the answer a version of classic with new retro raids might be the next bet to keep people until wrath. The problem is that they have also made changes no one really wants but a very small minority of players asked for repeatedly like same faction bgs and the removal of women to fruit.
After that I do not know cata and maybe legion classic servers, though I do not know of legion as I quit after the pandas and loss of talent trees. The only thing I didn’t like about cata was the pokemon battles as I just liked to collect pets not fight with them.
Idk, man, it would be completely bonkers to have Era servers from multiple expansions (Classic, TBC and potentially Wrath), SoM realms of all these expansions on top of that and also Retail. At this point they should just embrace the Classic+ idea, TCC SoM is kinda strange, ngl, I for one wouldn’t play it.
No one asked for that. It was performative window dressing from a company under fire for real, egregious sexual assault and sexual harassment in the workplace.
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Nothing.
SOM is a failure. There won’t be a second SOM. Your characters will just rot away on servers nobody plays anymore.
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Nah, I am having a blast and the server (JG) is thriving. I just care about the leveling and pre-BIS part of the game, though, specially on a seasonal realm, so I don’t know how are things on BGs and Raids.
But again, for the ones like me who enjoy more little things that make Classic such a great MMORPG, SoM is super nice.
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Didn’t they say before release u will have the option of moving chars to a classic server or they just get deleted when they shut the som servers down.
My best bet is they will be dumped into the era servers.
Can’t imagine a tbc SoM or allowing you to merge with live servers in tbc. So many issues and exploits with that.
Blizzard has already answered this; SoM characters will be migrated to Classic Era (not TBC).
That may not be the answer you wanted, but this has been known for some time now.
No. They go to Classic after SOM is over. And then you can clone them from there.
Ok Blizzard get clue on how to do this. Only run one classic at a time. After WOTLK stop and re run classic then TBC then WOTLK have it be SOM make good fixes even add classic plus content. This way the next gen of gamers and us old timers will replay because there is a break in between and some changes for the next time.
I realize the original question was answered but since the thread was dug up for a yelling at clouds sesh, I noticed some incorrect information provided.
Not entirely true. What we know is this:
Clones were for characters that were on an Era server at the time of the TBCC pre-patch.
From the Character Clone article page https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/000285681
“A clone is a snapshot copy of your WoW Classic character taken right before the Burning Crusade Classic pre-patch.” So at this time there’s been no update so no cloning from SoM → Era → TBCC.
No need and no thankyou. I prefer that they continue work on maintaining the current Classic Era servers that already exist. I agree that addition of content to Azeroth’s Classic Era is enticing. If they were ever to take up such an ambitious task I would hope they consider the content that was cut from Vanilla’s release (timbermaw hold/kharazan crypts/emerald dream/etc.)
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