Hey all,
I truly am on the fence about switching to fresh. I personally did not want it but appreciate many did.
When they first announced it, it seemed that those who wanted it would go and those who didn’t would stay on current era. But now with the changes, e.g. Dual Spec. The fate of current era has been sealed.
Which leads me to the uncertainty of what happens when TBC is launched? I have no interest in it, so what would that mean for any character I have there? Will there be a clone service like we saw in classic era or are my characters forced to progress to tbc?
I first thought that they would just open up transfers to the current era servers, but I don’t see that happening now as they are too different.
Please, Blizzard, could we get a heads up as to what our options will be? It seems you have decided that you are happy for current era servers to fizzle out so I (and I assume some others) would really benefit from knowing the future plans.
Thanks
1 Like
Whart do you mean by that?
Regardless of what actually happens in Anniversary set of servers, I really regret not cloning my 2019 characters to Era. Be that in case I start disliking Fresh, or for any reason want to actually play Era. Had some decent gear on my characters of old…
1 Like
I mean that I don’t see many people wanting to stay on current era. The reaction the new features that will be on fresh have (atleast on forums/discords) been very positive.
Click the Undelete character every time you log in, sometimes they still show up.
Could be the opposite to be honest. The few Era enthusiasts that were on the fence about dabbling in the new Ani Servers will most likely back off now and stay in Era with the changes already mentioned.
3 Likes
I’m one of those. I also suspect most of the era players who hop on fresh now will be back on era within a couple months, when they reallize there’s mostly the same game just with less content available.
I was hyped about fresh, but now I’m ambivalent due to the changes and all. Call me old and bitter and you’d probably be right, but era feels more vanilla to me, and that’s what I want to play.
3 Likes
I am going on the Fresh to get “my” names in the unlikely case Blizz make up their mind to give us HC TBC servers,. then back t the old HC servers and Era I go 
1 Like
Now you have started me on a long, hopeful project to keep relogging and trying to restore characters Blizzard wiped long ago because I didn’t pay money to clone them…Hey I’m just curious if it’ll work!
1 Like
I hope for you. One of my old guildies did get his this way. I only sent one on to TBC-C; I never saw him pop up, but then I often forgot to look, and he was not max level.
I don’t see how you can seal the faith, as this could really go both ways tbh.
Many guilds have already stated they will stay active on Era. But who knows how the world looks in just a few days?
I will continue play Era, but turn into a raid logger and level alts on Fresh, so I am ready for TBC in the unlikely event it turns into TBC Era. The new QOL improvements are more in line with SOD players, and SOD could lose more people to Fresh than Era.
One thing I am sure about is the first month or two on Fresh will be filled with people all over, and login queues will - again - be a killer. But once the hype is over people will go back to Era and SOD.
I agree with your analysis, and I will do the same. Particularly SoD losing more players than era - I think most of those who requested changes are either SoD players or returning players, not current era players.
I know for a fact my guild is still scheduling the normal raids on era, as are the other groups I’m raiding with. No cutbacks on the amount of raid rosters has been seen as of yet.
1 Like
Era always was and always will be. The population will fluctuate based if other WoW versions have fresh content or not. Current Fresh will pull huge launch pop but as with any Fresh - a lot of people will try it, see how slow/whatever it is and go back to their max level toons on Era or Cata. Then before TBC, the waiting room will join in.
I would say Blizzard is doing one mega realm of each type per region knowing how the population will crash post launch. There will be healthy population but not expect it will be groundbreaking. Cata/MoP/Retail are more attractive than re-re-re-release for most.
SoD is quite happy getting ready to raid AQ. On my PvE Horde Era cluser there are like 3 raiding guilds and less than 50 leveling toons in Barrens tonight. During Era rebirth when I did my hunter there were over 100 levelers in Barrens
SoD will end and people will go look for something new. Some will go MoP Classic, Era or Anniversary TBC-by-then.