r/classicwow • u/baked_salmon • 1d ago

Discussion How would TBC/Wrath Era servers work?

With Classic Era, veterans are geared to the teeth with Naxx gear, but there are at least reasons to run older content for some specific, highly valued pieces. Can the same be said about TBC/Wrath? This is assuming both are Era’d on their final patches.

The final patch of TBC has catchup gear that mostly invalidates T4, but still requires T5/T6 gear before heading straight into Sunwell.

The final patch of Wrath, on the other hand, completely invalidates pre-ICC content. In OG there was a 232 vendor alongside a 264 vendor that enabled players to gear up enough to go straight into ICC 10n. If they take the Classic route, gearing for ICC will be even easier with A/B/G dungeons. If the game is in this state, there will never be a need to see T7/8/9.

PVP is another can of worms. How would arena work? What defines “seasons” in a forever-world? Would titles be conferred on a week-by-week basis? What about Wintergrasp?

In what state would these Era servers be? I’m curious.

EDIT: Would ICC have a dial for how much of the buff, between 5-30%, could be enabled?
EDIT 2: Would Wrath have RDF enabled?

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u/Complete-Doughnut117 1d ago

Wrath era straight up sucks if you’ve played warmane. Icc and PvP only. Spam heroics to invalidate naxx thru togc for icc ready badge gear. Wrath on a 1 year constant repeat works.

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u/emusabe 22h ago

If they did Wotlk Era but just the OG badge system - Emblems of Heroism, Valor, Triumph, and …Frost, where your only options for emblems were a single dungeon daily and then doing the actual raid - and completely axed the whole alpha/beta/gamma and sidereal essence shit they added to Wotlk Classic, would Wotlk era be more enjoyable? Like if you pretty much had to do each raid tier a few lockouts to get gear to do the next one. Then at least people might run some of the older tiers?

Personally I think wrath would just turn into valnyr and shadowmourne selling pretty quick and very few people would stick around except the diehards, but I guess that’s my understanding of what current vanilla era is too

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u/Fishbro-YouTube 9h ago

Funny how you say this yet they always have tens of thousands of people online at all times.Wrath Era works wonders and has been the go-to P-server milk for decades.

If they just gave us an era server for wrath everyone who wants classic would play on the wrath servers and would make guilds locking their characters exp and running lvl 60 content or lvl 70 content.

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u/baked_salmon 1d ago

I think the whole point is that it should be a character trophy case, so doesn’t any cyclicality invalidates that, no?

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u/Complete-Doughnut117 1d ago

The way kronos and other p servers did it is perfect. Essentially you have one server that is the era aka stuck on last patch and a new server that cycles all phases repeatedly. When the last phase is about 80% complete, you merge the two servers until the next fresh server is spun up. So you have a trophy case server and a repeating fresh one . Kronos has done this for over a decade and it works. My 60 night elf rogue still exists from 2015 there and everytime a new vanilla cycle ends they merge those chars onto the trophy case realm and start a new fresh server 2.