You will not bring your classic characters to TBC

[Tornos-spirestone]

@Êmit-gnomeregan

Blizzard will do a fresh start.

No they will not.

@Êmit-gnomeregan

I do not see why people would want players starting off in TBC with gear that can basically bring them straight into raiding and giving them the ability to ignore the pre raid gearing part of the game.

Probably becuase that would be authentic to what happened back in 2007.

@Êmit-gnomeregan

Your average player will probably have around at least 5k gold in prep for epic flying, most ppl will have have epic flying the day they hit 70 if we allow character progression.

I had 6,000 gold going into TBC with my holy paladin back in 2007.

What exactly is your point here?

@Êmit-gnomeregan

‘‘but back in the day i got to go to TBC with my classic character!’’ This is wow classic. not just ‘‘World of Warcraft’’ so that argument is completely invalid especially since they will still have Classic realms up anyway.

Actually authenticity is the the only valid argument. Anything that diverts from that is unacceptable.

@Êmit-gnomeregan

Fresh start with lv 58 characters is the best way to handle TBC. Still gives that good fresh feeling without making us do the 1-58 azeroth grind again.

And the nimrod of the day award goes to Emit of Gnomeregan!

[anon17628641]

we have no idea what they are going to do, but since we’re just BS’ing about it. I wouldnt mind a character transfer with 500g and our pre-raid dungeon BiS set, a stack of 20 mats skills are the only thing that can come with us.

In all honesty, they are probably just going to progress the servers and MAYBE offer a copy of your character onto a new classic server.

[Korlandril-smolderweb]

Be careful posting your opinion about TBC Classic on these forums, there’s about a dozen or so posters that will completely swarm you if your opinion differs from theirs. These specific individuals constantly refresh the forums, waiting for someone to post about TBC, and god forbid you suggest fresh servers or starting at level 58.

[Niia-whitemane]

did you have to start fresh the first time around with tbc?

No.

You will be able to continue on to tbc as normal with your existing characters. This is barely even worth debating. Next.

[Tuskamus-area-52 (Tuskamus)]

@Êmit-gnomeregan

with gear that can basically bring them straight into raiding

By “basically bring them straight into raiding” do you mean replacing their epic gear with greens by 65?

[Septicflesh-arugal]

I’m taking this character through the dark portal whether you like it or not

[Hurraku-zuljin]

I could see at most a gold “reset” limiting the amount of gold characters will be able to continue with to a TBC server, but even that is controversial and likely pointless.

[Dadoblade-fairbanks]

@Êmit-gnomeregan

I do not see why people would want players starting off in TBC with gear that can basically bring them straight into raiding and giving them the ability to ignore the pre raid gearing part of the game.

1. That hardly applies to most people
2. I can just as easily say I do not see why people would want to regrind 200 hours of gameplay they already did in leveling. But I understand that doesn’t qualify me to say “You will not…”

[Trawler-deviate-delight]

oh shut the heck up already. Yes, we will.

[Akumetsu-bigglesworth]

If they fail to provide the most basic part of TBC (Progressing your existing characters) i’ll be dropping it entirely, it’d be such a failure on blizzard’s part that there would be no point in even playing at that point.

[Shootingone-malorne]

You will not bring your classic characters to TBC

the problem i have is that all the ppl that want to bring there classic characters to TBC want this because there feelings want it, they dont look at things from a realistic view, they want to feel like special snowflakes with there gear because it makes them feel better about themselves. Ppl that want fresh starts are the realists of the game that alrdy know how things are gonna roll out. Ppl will get mad about it but they will get over it, its better for the game overall

“…better for the game overall” is how we ended up with retail. Mind your own business and stop telling other people how to enjoy the game.

[Jfat-faerlina]

Well you might reroll and not take your Classic characters to TBC, but I will. Sorry if that rustles your jimmies

[Zyxt-windseeker]

@Korlandril-smolderweb

Be careful posting your opinion

“You will not bring your classic characters to TBC” is a declarative statement, not an opinion.

If you want my prediction, I think that blizz is going to do a mix of fresh servers and rollovers. That way everyone will be happy, save for people like the OP who want to everyone to be forced to play the game on their terms.

[Delmok-mankrik]

Everything you said, plus all classic characters should be deleted, and do not patch in XP nerf that happened mid TBC. Should be full vanilla XP plus full TBC XP for 70. That’ll increase the sub count for sure.

[Korlandril-smolderweb]

I agree with that, but it doesn’t change the fact that what he said is an opinion, no matter how he wrote it

[Steiner-pagle]

@Iscariah-kirtonos

TBC classic would be dead on arrival if we all had to restart.

I’d agree if the premise were a fresh lvl 1 character, but if we’re talking about lvl 58 template characters that can jump right into Hellfire Peninsula, I’m not so sure.

[Azorahaí-thrall]

@Êmit-gnomeregan

why people would want players starting off in TBC with gear that can basically bring them straight into raiding and giving them the ability to ignore the pre raid gearing part of the game.

Because people have put / will put an ABSURD amount of time into wow classic gearing their char up as much as possible. Why would they want all that progress to be for nothing with fresh characters in BC.

tBC is one of the reason I quit classic after getting my lock full bis from MC. I cant wait for classic-b.c but im not spending the next year and a half on classic wow to lose my progress with b.c.
Character copies better be the way they go. Character copies with a gold limit of like 100g per char and the removal of all items outside of the armor youre wearing/quest rewards.

If you want a fresh character when tBC drops so you have to spam dungeons at 70 to get ready for raid, then have at er! but why make everyone do that

[Silvestrá-atiesh]

@Êmit-gnomeregan

Blizzard will do a fresh start.

I don’t see that in a blue post anywhere.

@Beautia-azuresong

AND the massive head start on BC.

I didn’t start playing until BC and of course the people who had been playing longer had a head start on me. So what? I was still able to level and raid along with them when I got there.

@Êmit-gnomeregan

ppl that want to bring there classic characters to TBC want this because there feelings want it

I want it because it’s always been that way when expansions come out. People would have quit long before now if they had to start fresh every time the story advances with each one.

@Korlandril-smolderweb

posters that will completely swarm you if your opinion differs from theirs

He didn’t present it as an opinion. He presented it as if it were fact. Rebuttals are to be expected.

[Seally-anathema]

I don’t care if someone starts TBC with 100k gold and alts loaded down with black lotus. It won’t affect my ability to level, get attuned, and start collecting motes/the new herbs.

Going into TBC with lots of money will be helpful, sure. But I can’t think of any old world stuff that’s going to be insanely useful in TBC. Maybe I’m wrong.

[Mirrina-ashkandi]

Believe that there should be a version of each expansion as wow isn’t one game it is like 5 games before I quit. Allowing people to have a classic, tbc, wrath, cata, and retail character would actually be kind of cool. But while I want mirr to stay in classic and make a tbc char if tbc is released and a character transfer or automatic character copying is allowed I believe it would be best to keep people in classic in classic and if they are automatically upgraded gear will lose its value.

The reason I quit was because gear would lose its value over time. But as per your gold argument inflation would likely mean that players would probably be better off earning gold in tbc classic than in classic imported to tbc.