I see alot of crying about things on forums and just wanted to show some appreciation and say SoD is the greatest thing to happen to wow. Many many years ago we talked with friends how wow needs a restart a wow 2.0 so to speak and SoD is it. Sure its the old game, but we got the game we love with new twists, like making classes more versatile and not locked into one spec to play the endgame, wich to me was the biggest issue with playing classic. Other was obviously that playing the same content for 19 years can be bit dull.
Now we got new raids made out of dungeons, same community feeling with closed realms, people being nice (mostly) and interacting with eachother, more specs viable, endgame on multiple levels, new things coming with every phase making the old game more exciting and something to look forward to and explore.
Only thing i could cry about would be having bit longer phases to play alts and get everything ready for the next one, but with 3 day raid reset and raid being very very easy it would probably get people playing only one character bored and quit while waiting for next phase. Could we have 2 raids in one phase? Like release the other one later? Also i can see issue with stamina / defenses not matching up to our new dmg in pvp especially in later phases wich probably needs to be adressed.
Blizzard can make great things with this in the future and take it far beyond what we could expect when we think of classic lvl 60 gameplay. Completely new raids? SoD tbc? SoD new expansion? If they keep the fundamental things in the game it could evolve to anything (yeah i know this probably wont happen).
Thanks for making SoD for us and happy holidays everyone!