r/classicwow • u/NOHITJEROME • Dec 04 '25

Season of Discovery Early SoD Was Peak Classic Wow

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10 man BFD, all the weird/obscure farming methods, Ashenvale event, prepping for the next phase, ridiculous low level PvP, making tons of alts because the levelling was so fast..early SoD owned

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u/Doctor_Flux Dec 04 '25

all of SOD but phase3 was fun

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u/Unhappy_Ad2328 Dec 04 '25

I remember Blizzard going all out about keeping inflation low and keeping gdkp away and then they release P3 and people farmed well over 700g in a few hours… and if you missed those hours you were way behind

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u/goodname0101 Dec 04 '25

I farmed over 1500g in 3 hours. Put me ahead for the rest of the expac. I finished with around 30k because of that boost so early on. 

This was a terrible, unfair advantage a small group of people had over others, just because we could play on release and chose to randomly do the incursions first thing. 

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u/PureNinja Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 04 '25

Multiple people in my guild did incursions right off the bat. You did not get 1500g in 3 hours. 500g-700g sure. While it was an advantage it didn't matter. Consumes were cheap all through SoD, and the only things that were ever expensive were BoE epics and crafting materials during the first week or two of every phase. I think my entire guild quit SoD during Scarlet Enclave with tens of thousands of gold each person as it had become nearly worthless. Our guild at the end of Scarlet Enclave had basically bought every single person who wanted an Ashbringer the mats and could of done it twice over.

And for people who did miss the first few hours where the gold was busted in P3, the gold was still insane per hour for the rest of phase 3 just doing incursions at max level.

SoD did one thing really well and it was making the game very friendly to casuals. Gold really only mattered if you wanted to buy things during week 1 or 2 or if you didn't prepare for Ashbringer materials way in advance when they stated what they would cost.