Hi everyone,
I’m feeling a bit lost right now and don’t know what to play on WoW. Recently, I was playing WoW Classic Era and really enjoying the slow pace while leveling my character to 45. However, with the arrival of the “Fresh” servers, it seems like everyone has abandoned the regular Era servers. Now I’m stuck on what feels like a ghost town, and it’s really discouraging.
I really don’t want to start all over again on a Fresh server. Plus, we have no idea what the final direction of these servers will be. Are they going to stop at Burning Crusade? Will they eventually merge back into Era servers? This uncertainty makes it hard to commit.
As for Season of Discovery (SoD), I feel the same way. It’s hard to invest in something with such an unclear roadmap. To me, it feels more like a new Retail than the Classic Era+ many of us were hoping for. Ironically, the Fresh servers seem closer to the original idea of Classic Era+—with small tweaks like dual specialization—than SoD does.
I’m completely lost and feeling unmotivated. Is anyone else in the same boat? Any advice would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance for your feedback!
era will steadily increase over the next few weeks. and it’ll still be there in the years to come.
Just keep playing on Era. There are still more people on Firemaw than there were on any server back in the original 2004 vanilla. People will get tired of fresh and TBC and return to Era as they always do. I stayed Era when TBC came out last time, didn’t even clone any toons, just stayed Era. Zero regrets. I’ve lost count of the amount of times people have said Era is dead, people literally say it every time anything is released. Era won’t ever die as it is the only version of WoW that is untainted by retail changes. Fresh hype will die and people will return. They will have wasted their time with characters that will rot on some dead server. Characters on Era will get to live on forever and keep all their progress. Era players always have the last laugh, it’s where winners live.
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Also make sure you take up mining and herbing. The price of mats just went through the roof on era, so you will make literally thousands of gold on your way to 60 now.
Folk like a fresh start - and I disagree with the sparse comments you have that people will come back - they won’t - most folk will create a new toon on the Normal, PvP and Hardcore server and set sail from the toons they have elsewhere - human nature - but also the smart move to enjoy levelling fresh
I wouldn’t play on fresh until we have information on what will happen to our characters after the TBC transition.
Will we be able to switch our characters to Era 60?
Will the TBC server continue on Wotlk after?
Will we be able to stay on an Era 70?
Others?
In short, I don’t want to get involved without knowing what’s going to happen, so I’m waiting and I continue to play on Firemaw in the meantime.
It’s a shame because I have friends who play on fresh, and I would like to join them, but communication is not enough.
When TBC and wotlk classic were released, I was convinced that they were going to release era 70 and era 80 servers, but no. So until they clearly say it, it will remain just a guess for me. And I don’t want to invest in a character with a long /played character without knowing what he will become…