So if i’m understanding the correctly i’ll soon be presented with a choice, Stay Vanilla or Progress to BC and at around the same time my character will be snapshotted forever at its current state in game.
So this means myself and any new player currently not level 60 wants to complete vanilla first before moving onto BC will never be-able to fully progress over because once i decide i’m finished with vanilla my character will be copied to BC using the snapshot taken at its sub 60 level state, which would be absolutely pointless, all the hard work put in would have been for nothing! Simply because i didn’t max out on vanilla release.
This has to be the worst system ever, are blizzard brain dead or something? for anyone not level 60 yet the snap shot should only be taken once they decided to pay the fee to move over to BC. If not vanilla is literally dead wasted time, there’s zero point in continuing levelling since all i’ll be doing if i ‘portal pass’ my character over is getting a level 24+ boost for £35 which would be bonkers to even contemplate….
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Pretty much, They are stand alone games snapshotted from different patches there is no way to progress without paying to copy your character over to both games or get the boost in TBC . You always have the option to start fresh on one of the games it doesn’t take a long time to level to 24.
You also can’t progress your character to retail.
Maybe you shouldn’t have delayed your starting of Classic so long?
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Clearly you miss the point. If in 5 years someone that’s never played vanilla wants to start from Vanilla and level through the expansions up until the latest Classic release it’s not hard to believe that they would expect to be-able to take their character though every expansion. But they can’t.
You’re comments very narrow minded.
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You do realize that you can level from 1-60 in TBC right? And again when WOTLK comes out? All expansions include the previous content + new content.
That is what people will do. Move a level 27 (rando low level) to TBC and level there and then play TBC.
You can pay to have that character unlocked in Classic, at the level it was during the snapshot, should you want to stay in classic and not have TBC content after level 60.
Oh also, if someone wants to level “through an expansion” theres retail for that.
It’s litteraly the reason why there’s “chromie time”.
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Not sure what you expect really?
If you’re coming 2 years late into the content, of course you’re not going to “Complete” vanilla(raids), unless you stay on it.
This thing here?
Will just cause massive duplicate gold.
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No, I see your point completely. You hate the snapshot. If it wasn’t there, their would be widescale cloning of gold and items.
Hence my point, you should have started Classic before now.
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maybe you could stop talking trash and either help him or be quiet, i at least would appreciate it.
re OPs point, yes thats the case and its very unfortunate, i regret it as well 
you gotta either decide TBC vs. Classic or you build 2 chars and first complete classic and then start from zero or maybe use a boost to start into TBC (could do it the other way round as well ofc, TBC first then Classic).
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I think he means that he wants also to complete Vanilla Raids, not just level up.
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This is so hypocritical though, so it’s totally fine for players that are already level 60 to take massive amounts of gold and items into Tbc and also have the opportunity to clone it into a new classic server but because i started late i can’t do that?
If tons of players are already doing it then who cares let everyone do it like it even matters to you rich people.
Instead iv got to level two of the same character if i want to play both bc and vanilla and earn enough gold to buy riding, mounts etc. twice, how’s that fair?
I want to do vanilla raids that’s the whole point, then in a years time move onto BC. Taking the character i progressed with me, why’s that so unreasonable when it’s literally what every other 60 that’s played since release is doing including the gold cloning.
It’s just plain logical to allow players to continue progressing through expansions no matter what time point they started playing.
I actually want to play the expansions though… I planned to get to 60 and complete my hunter quests, get epic riding, make gold, complete molten core etc. then progress onwards in a years time, with the same character i played on.
Because this flawed system snapshots in a few days and not when you decided to move on i can NEVER do that now.
The only way possible is if they plan to make ‘Classic-Classic Servers’ and then i’d still have to start over anyway…
I thought the whole idea of classic was to let players ‘re live’ or experience the old game for the first time, but all this is turning into is a ‘delayed (7expansions behind)’ version of retail. there’s no reason to have these rules when it’s not even part of the real game.
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Dude, really?… Did you read anything.
I want to play vanilla first, so i’ll have to transfer to classic era server to finish levelling and raiding. Once iv done so i then have to pay £35 to move to TBC, but when i move, SUPRISE! i no longer have a level 60 that’s completed raids, earned mounts, brought riding etc i instead have a lovely level 24…
(Which ofc there’s zero point in doing, therefore my ONLY option would be to ‘re level’ doing everything again for a second time, minus all the endgame content completed in vanilla a fresh character)
WOW Logical Blizzard.
Whats even the point of doing old raids when you can do new raids?
What’s the point of Classic if you can have SL?
See what I mean?
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…/facepalm 
I give up might as well lock this thread, i legit thought i miss understood the system but apparently not.
Clearly if you’re already level 60 and support the ‘not my problem’ mentality you wouldn’t see a problem.
Probably just give up on vanilla now and completely skip over BC, cba if i can’t progress. May come back for Wrath. Until then back to retail i guess…
Welcome to WoW which has been like this since its very beginning …
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So according to you Blizzard should be running multiple servers for each expansion so players can freely choose which expansion to play and then, when they feel ready, be able to just proceed to next expansion?
Well, good luck with that sir.
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They are literally doing that with Vanilla Classic into BC the difference is you have to actually played it during the short window to reap the benefits that can’t be reproduced. This isn’t Retail so technically nothing really matters so there’s no real reason why it has to be this way.
Considering how long vanilla classic took to release it’s not un imaginable to think BC would have been another 5-10 years away from release.
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