Yo, whats the most current classic version? Which one are people playing atm?
most current would be the anniversary realms. Sod otherwise, but that is more similar to retail/cata than classic
If you want the most classic experience it’s era. It’s a smaller community, but very tight knit and without layering megaservers with QoL changes from retail such as dual spec and LFG tools etc.
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Is the dungeon finder that existed in 2004 not present on Era realms?
Most Classic experience yes, except full of addons that play for you and trivialize the game completely, a min-maxing, sweaty mentality that has nothing to do with Vanilla, guides on everything, nothing more to discover, gold buyers everywhere, disproportionate prices, in short, like any version of Classic (Era, anniversary) none comes close to Vanilla.
So argued that Era is the most Classic experience because there are not a few QOLs… 
It’s not the QOL that distorts Classic, but the players.
Anniversary.
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Anniversary is the most current. It is basically Vanilla WoW with a few minor quality of life changes (like LFG interface and dual spec) and is still “fresh”, in first raiding phase. It will progress to TBC Classic in about a year. Both PvP and PvE servers are arguably overcrowded with tens of thousands of players on many layers.
Fresh is the most current. Retail has consistently the largest playerbase.
List of things Lethan “forgets” to mention about era:
- Progressed to phase 6.
- Barely any levelers.
- All focus is on endgame raids.
- Barely any bg other than AV.
- Economy more inflated than Weimar republic on the pvp cluster.
- GDKP seems to be the default raiding setup on the pvp cluster.
- Azeroth pretty much dead.
- Pvp one shot mess due to abundance of t3-geared players.
PS Chronoboon is not a QoL change? Or are QoL changes fine as long as they have no base in retail? Revamp of the ranking system?
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This is only true for the Firemaw cluster. There are no GDKP or boosting on the Pyrewood cluster. For some reason swipers prefer PvP servers.
I edited my post.
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I don’t disagree with your points - apart from the gold selling/botting stuff, those guys seem to have moved to the anniversary servers. I literally never see gold selling ads on era anymore at all.
Yeah, the chronoboon stuff is a shame, luckily they stopped at that!
Oh, and I see a lot of players leveling, doing random checks of /who five-level tiers I consistently see 20-30 players. It’s nothing even remotely close to what’s going on on anniversary, for better or for worse. It’s a more tight knit community though! Being able to actually see the same people around and following their progression is part of the charm to me - gives classic vibes for sure!
There was no dungeon finder present in 2004. There was the LFG chat, and that’s it 
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No, there was a dungeon finder. If you spoke to innkeepers / used the meeting stones the game would automatically form a group for you.
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There was, you could access it from meeting stones(that’s why they were there long before the summoning function) and inkeepers. It’s just nobody used it, because it did not discriminate roles, so you’d just get a group without a healer and/or tank most of the time.
I seem to recall a developer interview where they said they basically put it in as a “screw you” to the people who wanted a group finder. It was disabled in one of the later vanilla patches.
Aaaah right!! No, it’s based on the last patch of vanilla, so that’s not there
1.12 is the least classic-like version with crossrealm added 
they might aswell have added dungeon & raid finder since they decided to keep that.
I guess anniversary is more classic in that regard since there is only Spineshatter. But layers almost nullify it completely
True, although I would say era has a more classic feel to it in regard to the social aspect. Yes there are merged realms, but the only difference from being on one realm really is just a -Servername behind names. There’s only one layer and you’re meeting the same people again and again, in opposite to anniversary where there’s 100s of layers on one mega-server.
LFR/LFD would make me stop playing instantly, just as I did with WotLK when it was added there
Overcrowded but when you wanna do a Dire Maul run, you only have 3 or 4 WTS guys in LFG tool. Maybe ppl are doing end game dungeons in guild only groups ? Or it’s already too late and ppl are only raid logging MC ? Or maybe i play too late at night (22/23ish) ?..
Btw, world wide servers would be so fun, activity 24/24 like on Nostalrius !
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