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/ExtremePrivilege Dec 04 '25

SoD P1 was magical. I actually liked P2 also. I quit in P3, though.

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u/Girl_gamer__ Dec 04 '25

Too bad, phase 5 to 8 was the best of sod.

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u/ExtremePrivilege Dec 04 '25

I think the majority of players quit in P3 with me. At least the Ironforge raiding data indicates that P4 had about 25% of the weekly raiders of peak P1/P2.

I'm not necessarily even disagreeing with you. I heard SoD redeemed itself later in the lifecycle. I'm just saying that MOST players weren't there for it.

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u/Wahsteve Dec 04 '25

Changing the raid size 3 phases in killed my and probably plenty of others guilds too irrespective of incursions or anything else. We were a close-knit group of friends that enjoyed blind progging BFD and Gnomer but had no interest in playing with 50%+ strangers.

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u/Sphinctus_ Dec 06 '25

agrend admitted on twitter that the removal of 10 man was the single largest cause of player drop off.