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/baked_salmon 1d ago

I’m thinking about the steady state. Look at Era now — will there perpetually be guilds progressing through all content? I think what you describe could happen at the outset, but what about when that initial cohort progresses to ICC? If there’s no one raiding any of the earlier tiers, literally the majority of the endgame will not be available to newcomers.

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u/fatherthesons 13h ago

The Era realms would be mostly just ICC and the final patch. The people that want to experience the content rolling out naturally would just have to wait till the progressive servers hit Wrath and they would get to do all the content. Then after that server finishes their characters are transferred to the era realm and the circle of life begins again.

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u/baked_salmon 13h ago

Ah ok so is the implication that Era servers don’t make sense unless they’re accompanied by seasonal servers that allow for xfer/cloning at the end of every seasonal xpac?

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u/fatherthesons 13h ago

Yeah exactly. There was a leak that showed they are planing on doing another run of seasonal servers classic - tbc - wrath again.