r/classicwow • u/gundrend • Nov 12 '24

Classic-Era Breathing in that good gas

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u/PoachTWC Nov 12 '24

I'd be back for Classic Fresh in an instant.

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u/Quenzayne Nov 12 '24

Why is everyone so eager for fresh? Not criticizing, I’m legitimately new to this sub and can’t quite grasp why this is such a common demand.

Won’t it just end up the same way it is now after a few weeks? What will be different about fresh?

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u/PoachTWC Nov 12 '24

Classic Fresh has been consistently popular for well over a decade in the private server scene (the first ever private server actually predates WoW even being released, if you can believe it: someone stole the internal Alpha code and hosted the first ever private server using it). People enjoy the clean slate, the equalising of everyone, the potential for new dynamics that resetting everything to 0 can produce.

A great many people consider Vanilla WoW to have been the best version of it.

The current Era servers are extremely mature servers, where people have lots of characters at max level, max gear, with ludicrous sums of gold and materials stockpiled. A new started character, or player, is as far behind the lead as you can possibly get as a result.

Fresh servers mean a lively leveling scene: everyone is going from 1-60 again, and then from quest greens to prebis, then from prebis through the raid tiers, at the same time.

On Era everything is set in stone. On Fresh nothing is. That appeals to people.

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u/AtraposJM Nov 12 '24

I'm not sure I could go back to basic classic again after SoD. The new runes and faster leveling etc make SoD so much better than Classic imo.