Wow Classic Leveling Progression option

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This may have already been discussed internally at the Blizzard HQ, but here is the sales pitch.

Make 1 PVP server and 1 PVE server of each WoW version that has ever existed with the option to progress leap from one to the next after you hit level cap.

For example, you start a new character on Vanilla Era, then you hit 60, maybe you do some stuff, then you can stay on Era OR you can toggle an option to transfer or copy that character to Classic TBC, then you level there to cap maybe do some stuff there and then you move to Wrath, and so on.

I would personally enjoy this because then you can level though the content as it was originally intended.

This would be potentially its own special kind of Iron Man Challenge; If there were some way to track that in game to prove you did it without any death’s; that would be amazing.

What say you all?

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I think it’s a fun idea. I’m not savvy with programming or anything, but would this be difficult to execute is the question.

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Incomming complaints about their favored server type being in the “wrong” timezone/data center.

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The tech already exists, so why is that?

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Or you could just play era because “era is BIS” in your own words.

You made your bed bro. Now go lie down and take a nappy in it for years to come. Enjoy those era servers!

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It would def take work but probably not that difficult, as Harland mentioned above, a good chunk of the required infrastructure is already built.

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I have no intention to quitting Era. You’re just a lil gnome; too wimpy to troll me.

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You’re not getting Classic TBC or Classic Wrath.

Sorry.

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This is how I imagined it would all go down when Classic was first announced.

TbC set the stage for it when they kept era servers. Then Wrath burned it all down when they didn’t keep TBC servers.

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I remember when people said this about Vanilla.

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Literally no one said that about Vanilla.

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Do you remember the wall of “no”

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Vanilla WoW didn’t have any pushback in 2004.

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Was talking about classic 2019 “vanilla” sorry I should have been more clear.

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Classic TBC and Classic Wrath have versions that protect their IP from becoming abandonware.

You’re not getting stand alone versions any time soon.

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If that’s the goal they failed because “Classic” versions are not really the same, they’re not even on the same engine, or using the same technology; and I think outside the united states it has to be the same software, but different nations are different and have different laws. That is some muddy water tho.

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They succeeded far beyond their expectations.

They also ran the numbers and said no to standalone TBC and Wrath.

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the cost of keeping servers up is basically zero, so not sure why there is any worry about that. Servers these days basically only have costs associated with loads, and lower loads is better; this is why sharding and layers are thing so they don’t need beefcakes hardware. Because of that they could keep non-updated versions of TBC / Wrath online indefinitely.

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loooooooooooool

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If individual servers were expensive we would not have layers or sharding. each is effectively its own server.

The “servers” are not physical anymore, they’re basically VM’s