Having the time of my life,forming a dungeon group at any hour without any problem,hope this last forever,don’t need any fresh
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Same here. I started a couple of days ago on my priest and have casually been playing here on Pyrewood.
People are doing dungeons, AH is active, I see 60:s in WSG all the time. No need for fresh! 
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So to the people ITT that are unsure about Era and still want Fresh: I’m not sure there’s room for it. I feel like the community is split already. You got people playing retail, wrath, classic era, hardcore, and you wanna add a fresh vanilla to that list? It doesn’t make sense. Fresh would be hype for a few weeks like usual, then it dies off. Like SoM and countless private servers did in recent times. You should Just give Era a shot if you wanna play Vanilla. But of course Nothing we tell you can convince you if you’re dead set on Era being “dead”. You have to try it for yourself. I’ve been having a blast just levelling with people, and getting really good vibes from the community. It’s a different feel from 2019 Classic because this time no one’s rushing. Everything’s been done. The scarab lords have been dealt out, naxx has been cleared, full BiS has been acquired over and over. It’s all been done before. Now we just play for fun and do what we want with no pressure to keep up with others. This is about as good as Classic Vanilla gets IMO.
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Preach mate!
The rat race is over - Its an old world and a new world all together. No need for moar please.
Classic Era is becoming a hub for Classic enthusiasts as it should be. Community is BiS.
You take the best game of all time w/o stress and what you have is still the best game of all time… w/o stress!
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Era currently feels a lot like original Vanilla to me, and that’s more than what I can demand these days.
Best game everrrrr.
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Now if only we could somehow “revive” Low pvp battlegrounds.
I just have a question, would blizzard try to kill afk boosts for era, because with population growth also boosters woke up and started spamming their services, and I found, that lots of people protecting them because of: “nobody wants to pass again this boring leveling”, for sure I hope, that this people are just a minority
In all honesty, we cannot depend on Blizzard to do anything here, but ourselves. The more we do and achieve, the better long term.
Population explosion means certain practices and behaviors are reappearing which are detrimental in nature to a healthy community. This is sadly, how the state of playing all these games is, so Era, with pop growth, will also host these players.
I am all for being vocal against their practices and at least not giving them a full pass on chat whenever they post their stuff. Of course one exposes himself to be the target of trolls, and I have had my fair share of that. But it has also been cool to see people rallying around, who share common ideas and battling it out.
The long term goal and hope is for people to understand that if they give to the community, the amount they will get back in return is much greater than if they do nothing for it. Unfortunately there are people that cannot see past themselves. But that is why it is important to make ourselves heard.
Also and btw, all trolls parrot the same 4-5 keywords → “noob”, “let everyone play how they want”, “you must be a kid”, “learn to play”… lol no surprises here, so that maybe softens the impact as to what they would say xD
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True, and in general trolls are shy to keep their stupid mantra up any more when they have to deal with players who stand up against them.
As Bananoid said, they are the immature ones of the situation.
I wouldn’t mind boosters being wiped from this planet.
I don’t understand why people want to be boosted to 60, since endgame is nothing compared to the authentic journey to 60.
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Hello there. I’ve quit retail last month since I hit my goals and was looking to experience Classic once again.
The 2019 Classic was my first ever experience with WoW and it was a blast! All those memories while leveling my character to 60 are priceless!
I was wondering what’s the state of the EU classic community right now. I want to experience the world again, leveling from scratch on Alliance, taking my time, reading quests and having fun. Is the world still friendly for people that level up? Do you still have players to run lower level dungeons, can you see people leveling throughout Azeroth or are only the end game zones populated by lv 60s that farm stuff and raid?
Last time I checked, there were 2 clusters of servers merged together. Is it still the same or have they merged all of them into 1 huge cluster?
Thank you for your time!
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That’s the cancer of both era and wotlk classic, people don’t want to play, seems like they just wanna get results asap and after that crying some kinda of: “Owwwwwh, there are no more content, here’s nothing to do, blizz, start new phase/addon/etc”
Also just few topics above I have found, that some guy wanted to ban all gdkp/bots/boosts, and got tons of critic that gdkp is the best thing happen to this bad game, everyone plays the game like he wants abd other “gen Z” stuff
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Era is all nice and good, but we still need fresh! It has nothing to do with a rat race, its just more fun when people arent decked in aq/naxx gear farming low levels. If you like era its all good but majority wants fresh
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Regarding people farming lower levels in Naxx/T3, are you referring to the PVP cluster?
On both the PVE & PVP Cluster, the levelling community is still very active and people can group for any and all dungeons (it just requires people to actually communicate and be willing to form the group instead of relying on others). So, you can most definitely level 1-60 in a world that’s busy, active and full of others.
If the farming lower levels causes you issue, why not level up on the PVE cluster for the time being? Then when/if they release a SOM 2 or seasonal classic servers, you could then join them on the PVP side where they’ll be on the same phase as you?
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Hi mate! I have lost count of the number of leveling guilds we have right now present in Era. There are hundreds if not thousands of levelers playing right now so I would say it is a perfect time to join and find all sorts of groups and dungeons and, as you say, go again through the full experience.
There are 2 PvP clusters, yes, but the active one is the Firemaw cluster. On the PvE side all realms are connected.
In terms of the state of the community, its gotten pretty big, but there is a very strong core of the initial Era players. We are in general quite friendly, you will probably notice the laid-back style as soon as you start leaving the starting zones. Hope this helps!
I argue that the majority does not know what they want mate, and go to the place where there seems to be “hype”. The majority of Classic servers decline rapidly by the time BWL is on farm. Why? Because the gap between a lot of players is wide.
Fresh does not even out the playing field for longer than a week, since a majority of people hit level 35 by the time that a small minority of tryhards are already collecting hundreds of black lotuses and preparing for the metas during P4 lol
Era however does even out the playing field in the sense you also have the whole time in the world to get your AQ/Naxx gear. You just have to put in the hours and the work.
Now I would also argue that the majority just wants instant gratification, and will not work regardless of if its Era or Fresh. That is why I respect Era 60s a lot, because they have invested their time in something they know is long lasting.
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As a fellow Classic enthusiast, I agree with everything you’ve said and usually do.
Im not one for fresh as such, I think the only thing that could interest myself personally is phased, but also phased regarding levels / material releases etc.
Level Phase 1 - Capped at 19 for 2-4 weeks, same for 29, 39 etc etc… then the same at 60 but with specific dungeons, materials etc… which would hopefully avoid this huge gap in players gear, content cleared etc etc.
All that being said however, it’s impossible to please everyone and I’ll quite happily be staying with Classic era.
There’s a small demand for it from what I can tell. I don’t mind it personally, and I’m a huge fan of levelling and I think Vanilla is all about the journey as well. It’s just kind of like how you would have a friend run you through a dungeon, but instead you pay a stranger to do it. It’s not too anti-Vanilla IMO. The idea that a high level character is powerful enough to clear a dungeon quickly is just how the game was designed and I don’t think boosting overall is too detrimental to the health of the game. Do I think it’s annoying, yeah, boost spam in LFG was an ugly sight in 2019 Classic but I can deal with it. The only thing I think has no place in Era is GDKP since that is just an ugly RMT fiesta where the leaders (not everyone, but a lot) sell back their gold to buyers who then buy items to get quick dopamine hits, most people know this. And then obviously bots come into the picture providing the supply for the demand for gold that GDKP creates and so you get this ugly situation where the zones are filled with bots which happened in Classic, TBC and also Wrath and it’s something that we don’t want to see happen on Era.
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Is great like this,I don’t want any fresh,even if they opened som 2 I will just stay era and I am not the only one,met lots of ppl happy to stay here,I don’t care about fully decked ones,they are starting to be a minority anyway for what I ve seen
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A friendly boost here and there is fine. But when it becomes a soulless business that kills the open world charm that only Vanilla has, then it’s a problem, I think.
And yes, no fan of GDKP either, for reasons I doubt I need to regurgitate. 
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Hey guys, is there any Mograine classic cluster dedicated discord channel? If there is could someone share it please, I`d really appreciate that. Thanks in advance!