Just wondering, they just added a new fresh realm (which is awesome) don’t get me wrong. But now we have 1. Retail 2. MoP 3. SoD 4. Fresh Classic 5. Vanilla Classic.
I enjoyed SoD while it lasted but they announce fresh when people are starting to farm Scarab Lord Questline. It’s kinda insane to me the timing they choose to. Being a classic Andy I will for sure try the new fresh realm, raid log on sod but I feel like sod will become a trial and error realm. Finally, next year after TBC is over they will announce Classic + with all the data they have from SoD and Classic fresh with ‘minor changes’
What are your thoughts on SoD? I am really confused
Sadly SoD has under-delivered so far. But, I wouldn’t play fresh vanilla not even if I got paid to do it. My reasons are :
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Done it three times by now if you take into account original Vanilla.
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The way people play classic is an abomination that ruins the whole charm of that era.
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Playing SoD and I don’t feel like committing to another set of schedules and people.
SoD is also the last seasonal server I am ever going to try anymore. The devs are clearly using the classic servers as a way to put in minimum effort for maximum return.
I get that some of these devs are new in their jobs but they have so far shown very little ambition and imagination to impress us, build trust and make a name for themselves rather than riding on the coat tails of people that are long gone.
There are unofficial realms that have done a more ambitious take on classic+ than the “pros” at the helm of the franchise, shame.
As for anyone that wants to re-clear MC-Naxx as 40(20 warriors) again… be my guest. When the population becomes 1/10 after the first MC clear, good luck!
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I won’t be going back to regular era that’s for sure, I like how stuff plays in SoD.
So no fresh for me.
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It’s just too hard to go back to ERA after SoD. Tried my HC mage lvl 50 yesterday and realized… no Ice Lance, No Deep Freeze, only frostbolt.
I guess the only way to play ERA nowis to try a class I haven’t tried in SoD.
One thing though is that the fresh servers are on progression. There isn’t much to do now on SoD - unless you’re into the scarab lord madness. And once people reach 60 on the fresh server they won’t have much to do since the end game content is phased.
I guess they want to let us go back and forth between SoD and Era.
I wish all the Fresh masochists all the fun !
If I had to bet ? Id say there will be a 2-3 weeks hype. Then it will die now, and everyone half sane will go back to playing something else.
A true shame that they start another fresh run instad of classic+ or more SoD content.
SoD P1 was genuinely great, they overshot with an insane amount of Runes by now.
Let SoD run its course and do a proper Classic+ afterwards - if it’s only about money it’d keep people interested just as well, there’s no point to let the minmax crowd loose on yet another iteration of the original game when they raidlog after a week anyways…
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I just wish they would also merge the realms a bit cause [Crusader Strike] is absolutely dead. I logged in on my pally and there were like 15 items on the whole AH, no one in SW. Heck a lot of runes require cooperation so it’s not even possible to get them…
Who stops you from playing SoD?
You have 12-15 month until TBC is released, why the stress?
Didnt the original “fresh” die out rather quickly?
I dont see how this time it will be any different.
It’s hard to say if the original died quick, it was phased but lots of people returned each phase.
Plus there was covid that spiked the amount of people in the game drastically.
After playing SOD i don’t think i can play vanila wow anymore, i was thinking hard to play or not and thatbi remmbered ho crap there is no dual spec in vanila, that made it final for me.
You do realize they killed Crusader Strike to make a mega server? everyone transferred to living flame.
I don’t believe for a second that this team is capable to make a classic+ which is in the spirit of classic wow.
I truly feel SoD has been the best version of this game that they have released in many, many years. That being said, I will be playing fresh, but only to get to 60, and then park and wait until TBC.
The timing is truly awful though in my humble opinion. Having just cleared the MC phase in SoD, it doesnt make any sense in my mind to release a fresh server with a MC phase.
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Exactly that ^. As if we want to go MC again right now when we barely left it, lool.
SoD is nice. Leggo.