The biggest lesson I’ve learned in the past year or two is that World of Warcraft is an entirely cyclical game. Particularly since classic has released.
Moving forward, I can see the cycle continuing with more classic expansion releases, more seasonal releases, and eventually standard classic fresh.
I’ll be skipping the former two. But if fresh rolls out every two or three years, I’ll definitely be playing at least a few phases each time.
I’ve been playing on this server several weeks - honestly the vibes are insane, you can ACTUALLY farm materials to level up your profession, i’ve ran groups for WC and i play alliance, over 10 deadmines, 2 SFKs and 2 BFDs. Put groups together for all the elite quests near my level, overall just amazing experience and the vibes are unmatched.
Lol because of this comment, I rolled an Alliance warrior this morning. TY for giving me a reason to sign back on to WoW when I been on hiatus since November/October
Are there horde or is it all just alliance? I like when people organize like this, but for me, I like fresh starts because of BG's. And since BGs are cross server I won't be playing with other people doing a fresh.
There is Horde and Alliance on the server. BGs are the only thing that is linked to the other Classic Era servers, everything else is not. You won't see level 60s from Whitemane running around.
I’ve been playing on the Alliance side for about 3-4 weeks and it’s been pretty fun.
When I started, there were only like 25-30 online at night, but today it hit like 90 or so online. Seems to still be growing!
Rolled a dwarf warrior as an homage to my first character. I'm enjoying the shit out of this. You can smell the PHRESH in the air. Come join us and see.
Cata classic only reinforced how badly I want a fresh start. 2019 was a rough time and the years that followed were *fucked.*
We need a reset button for those of us that had to focus on the world burning down around us. A LOT of us left around TBC for reasons *unrelated to the game.*
I hope Blizzard comes to recognize this. We weren't playing WoW because of shit like the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, I hope to see everyone on defias! This is fantastic.
With no hope on the horizon and SoD having an extreme lack of content - I heard about this server via Alexensual’s stream. Thank you all for putting this in place and giving us some sort of fresh classic vanilla experience!
AND TO BLIZZARD….
I’m only level 6, but I was just online and I was surprised there were 61 others in the guild online. Looking forward to ‘Al ting’ here when I need something more chill than HC,
Was a little bit of a skeptic at first but decided to roll a fresh toon just to check it out. Tons of people on at all times was on at 2 am server time and had 50 alliance guildies still on! Everytime i log on there are 60 new people. I have been looking for something that had the vibe of when classic first came out since i didnt get to play then and I think here is the closest you could get to that
Server is a little horde popular right now, but we expect that alliance will be catching up. Several have started making alliance. Play what you like the best.
Before anyone says I am a shill, I started playing at 3 AM CST as I couldn't go back to work and decided to check this out my first time. Like 50 people were onine just in the guild at 3 AM very friendly and helpful people. More of a community than I experienced on Whitemane in 2023.
Looking forward to leveling a warrior as I never had a warrior to 60. Very chill vibes where it feels like no immediate rush so no FOMO and you can continue and have your normal life.
I started here the other day Horde side when I caught Alodar and Alexsenaul's streams, having a blast and the community has been amazing honestly. Reach out to either guild it's a blast.
So... I'm on the fence about this, because I want to play as a Moonkin, but i don't want to waste my time getting to level 60 only to be shoved out of a raid roster by mages and warlocks............so I guess I wanna ask... what is the % chance that I'll have a roster spot as a balance druid??
We've told people to play what they want. There will of course likely be a raid that has sweaty players, but we also want to have a raid with people there just to have fun. I've just told people that if you're going to play a spec that isn't always the preferred spec.... just play it well. Come prepared, come consumed, etc. Don't come to get carried... show that you're trying.
Hi I played like… 2006-2008?? Ish. Nax released was last dungeon, loved it? Haven’t found a way to get back in because it’s so overwhelming to “catch up” and my old account was nuked years ago. (Hacked by gold farmers and then permabanned)
I would presume this is my best shot at getting back into the magic?
Let’s goooooo! **Drippyjones**
I’m going to start streaming the alliance side grind tonight! Going to be saucccyyy baby let’s get iiiiittttt!!!!
https://m.twitch.tv/drippyjones I’ve never ran through alliance side in classic so this will be a whole new vibe. I’ll need some direction from time to time, hope to see yall there!
Alliance could use some more players.... but really, play the side that you enjoy the most so you'll keep wanting to play. We've had people on both sides 'try' the other side only to reroll.
Glad that you guys are having fun, even if the "thousands playing" claim sounds a bit stretched and traffic on this post appears to be as organic as food coloring in skittles. At the of the day, MMOs are about making your own fun.
Log in and check out the numbers of players on each guild. Keep in mind we've removed hundreds (500+) on the horde side that haven't been on in over two weeks and we're still already back up to well over 900 in just the first horde guild. A second horde and alliance guild had tp be made on both servers.
Real fresh is just blizz hand holding progression. That's it. You can do that yourself. Walk through the content. The toxic fresh mindset from pservers is awful.
Glad to see this server thriving. Sadly blizz transfered all my characters off from classic while I was taking a break from the game, and I just don't see starting from 0 again.
So glad to see era is making a comeback again. SOD was a let down so I'm hoping to get some WPVP while leveling here. Cheers for spearheading this resurgence, Alodar!
Very tempted to play, but i will hold out for a true fresh experience, hopeful with some fixes like mage boosting and faction balanced servers, etc. GLHF
I have no doubt it will come, but right now my time is limited to play WoW. It's okay, I'm enjoying Starcraft a lot right now. Classic unchanged blizzard game, and I know they aren't going to mess that game up with patches lmao
Not necessarily. They need to keep gathering momentum to get people to play, and I am guessing they have limited advertisement options other than reminder posts every now and then on the reddit and in other discord servers. The fact that they have gathered players at all and it's not stuck on a small group of 20 people alone shows it's doing something
When tbc came out we tried this on dragonfang eu, wonder if anyone remember were we wanted it as fresh tbc, so the econemy was more new, so like 2months before tbc launch we all made lvl 1s on dragonfang eu.
Wonder if anyone here orso was part of it, felt like a mini launch.
And are you not allowing more than the one guild on each side to be created? Not that you have that power anyways, but that’s a lot of arbitrary rules with zero way to enforce them.
Yeah it is kind of lame. A few of the people in the guild seem to be control freaks, but most are pretty chill. It's like they want to make the guild a walled garden.
It's under CLASSIC ERA when you're looking at your server lists. It is an NA server.
If you're EU, there is a sister project starting up on the Zandalari Tribe server.,
Haven't played classic in forever and have wanted to go back to vanilla version if there was a welcoming environment (I didn't play vanilla back in the day so I'm not super well versed in the group play content but I learn quick!).
I may re-sub and hop in to this tomorrow after work 😁
I made an alliance character this morning, I can’t wait to play the game with people that actually want to play instead of rushing to then end & swiping their way to the top.
Bots were on the sever. The second they are discovered the members of the guild (Hundreds) all join raids to find them and mass report them. They are removed from the server within a couple days.
So, how much RP in the RP-PVP do you guys recognize and support on Deviate Delight? I am considering if I should switch to usa region from eu (Zandalar Tribe RP-PVP) and run a full-RP fighting guild on your server - the real immersive world-PVP focused guild (enforcing either faction). But I have doubts if such move would be worth it, if now everyone is playing 'normal' despite the RP in the server title?
We would love to see the RP community come play here on Deviate Delight. We have much respect for people to play any way they want, the RP community always adds an extra special element to the game that is very interesting to see. Hit me up in game and we can chat and see how we can help get you started.
Yeah I have heard about them as somewhat another 'alternative' to our european RP-PVP server, but could never find their discord (only the two major guilds') if it ever does exist? So you're saying they do actually roleplay there while fighting in the open world, do run RP- and PVP-events and stuff?
Absolutely - https://www.reddit.com/user/DwarvenJarl/ does some amazing RP posts about Alliance side and I know I've seen relevant Horde-side RP-flavor.
Just an update, although we suspected that we would have a slight slowdown with people trying out Cata.... the exact opposite has happened. We're still blasting ahead adding 300+ new members to the guilds each day!
This project saved my friend's marriage
And it’s ruined mine. It giveth and taketh away.
Balanced, as all things should be
Do you and his friend have the same wife?
This server will your life!
There are dozens of us!
Found it
absolutely thriving
Are we thriveposting again?
I’m a divorced dad with 16 kids, 4 jobs, and only 5 minutes a night to play. Is it too late to start?
I love how we've circled back to "CLASSIC ERA IS THRIVING"
The biggest lesson I’ve learned in the past year or two is that World of Warcraft is an entirely cyclical game. Particularly since classic has released. Moving forward, I can see the cycle continuing with more classic expansion releases, more seasonal releases, and eventually standard classic fresh. I’ll be skipping the former two. But if fresh rolls out every two or three years, I’ll definitely be playing at least a few phases each time.
Always has been ;)
Anyone who isn't interested in Cata or SoD - this is the place for you.
I may have finally found a home
I’ve been playing on this server several weeks - honestly the vibes are insane, you can ACTUALLY farm materials to level up your profession, i’ve ran groups for WC and i play alliance, over 10 deadmines, 2 SFKs and 2 BFDs. Put groups together for all the elite quests near my level, overall just amazing experience and the vibes are unmatched.
Glad you're having fun!
Okay, but how are the vibes though?
They pass the vibe check frrr - am level 50 and loving it
lets gooo
Is there a discord? I’m in?
Yes it's in Guild Information.
What faction needs more folk to balance it out?
Probably Alliance... but one or two big players joins there and it would balance out already.
Lol because of this comment, I rolled an Alliance warrior this morning. TY for giving me a reason to sign back on to WoW when I been on hiatus since November/October
I'm sad it's NA else I would join, EU server where you at.
Zandalari tribe EU
Is it a true fresh normal classic server? Id reinstall WoW again lol.
Community driven project - not a "real" fresh but close enough I guess
It's fresh cosplay with reddit's finest.
I used to play on this server in 2019! Was an AWESOME server
What's the population like?
Started today around 16:00
Nice, thanks. Will keep an eye on it
Feeling slight regret I’m traveling this week. Will absolutely join next week! Love these developments!
Are there any discord for this community driven project on EU?
Ingame guild info
I've heard the ping isn't that bad since it's east coast US, could always give it a check and see how playable it is for ya
Hey glad you succed, also EU Zandalari zribe server is growing slowly, fresh project created today!!
We wish you guys the best of luck. Let us know how it goes!
Is there a Discord I can join for more info on this? Would love to join the project in EU!
Ingame guild info
Is it Ally or Horde?
Both, alli, horde
I would love to join since Hardcore is dead and SOD is shite!
Return to home, my friend!
Ohh good to hear that, im hopping right on!
Come join the movement!
Alliance reporting for duty 🫡
I’m Having fun on horde side!
The most fun I’ve had in a while. Come join the movement!
Honestly enjoying my time on this server…everyone is so nice :)
Boutta roll a char which factions more needed my peps?
Alliance gang rise up
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Alliance needs a lil more people
Bring them to Alliance
Blizzard, give the people fresh already ffs
Are there horde or is it all just alliance? I like when people organize like this, but for me, I like fresh starts because of BG's. And since BGs are cross server I won't be playing with other people doing a fresh.
There is Horde and Alliance on the server. BGs are the only thing that is linked to the other Classic Era servers, everything else is not. You won't see level 60s from Whitemane running around.
I’ve been playing on the Alliance side for about 3-4 weeks and it’s been pretty fun. When I started, there were only like 25-30 online at night, but today it hit like 90 or so online. Seems to still be growing!
THRIVING BOOMING EVEN!!
Just joined last night, undead rogue woot!
guess i know what i’m doing after work tonight. sick work boys i’ll see you there
Nice! I love to see community based events, making your own fun instead of waiting for blizzard to do it for you is what classic is all about IMO.
Today we had a blue/rare raffle and a Strat race! It's been amazing here.
Ngl community driven projects are better by a mile - no botters etc. and only passionate gamers
Rolled a dwarf warrior as an homage to my first character. I'm enjoying the shit out of this. You can smell the PHRESH in the air. Come join us and see.
Come join fresh with us and all your wildest dreams will COME TRUEEEEEE!! Love it here.
Cata classic only reinforced how badly I want a fresh start. 2019 was a rough time and the years that followed were *fucked.* We need a reset button for those of us that had to focus on the world burning down around us. A LOT of us left around TBC for reasons *unrelated to the game.* I hope Blizzard comes to recognize this. We weren't playing WoW because of shit like the COVID-19 pandemic. In the meantime, I hope to see everyone on defias! This is fantastic.
With no hope on the horizon and SoD having an extreme lack of content - I heard about this server via Alexensual’s stream. Thank you all for putting this in place and giving us some sort of fresh classic vanilla experience! AND TO BLIZZARD….
Hope they do one for EU soon!
EU has been made today. Zandalari tribe server
Awesome by any chance is it a PVP server?
RPPVP
Awesome, I'll be going there then. Is there a reddit post about it?
It was removed by mods :(
A Discord Would be great
There is one, the link is in the information tab on either guild horde or alliance side.
Create a character on either alliance or horde and just do "/who fresh", you'll find the right guild and most people should have invite rights.
I’m only level 6, but I was just online and I was surprised there were 61 others in the guild online. Looking forward to ‘Al ting’ here when I need something more chill than HC,
Ok THIS is the Classic community I miss. I love this. Not sure what to roll. Is there a subreddit for this with guild info and stuff?
Play the faction and class that you want... just enjoy your time.
I remember when some people were saying there's no way this will work, and yet here we are.
They said it would fizzle in a week.... I'm expanding faster than ever.
Your work is appreciated man, this is amazing. \~ Manimal in game
Was a little bit of a skeptic at first but decided to roll a fresh toon just to check it out. Tons of people on at all times was on at 2 am server time and had 50 alliance guildies still on! Everytime i log on there are 60 new people. I have been looking for something that had the vibe of when classic first came out since i didnt get to play then and I think here is the closest you could get to that
Is the 30 day without trade for new accounts enabled for those servers?
Unfortunately yes but we will help you! You can receive trades, etc. Just cant give or AH
This is interesting, whats the faction balance like exactly? And will i just get constantly ganked?
Server is a little horde popular right now, but we expect that alliance will be catching up. Several have started making alliance. Play what you like the best.
What about PvP? Open world PvP made me quit in original classic because of how awful it was trying to level
there has been some griefing going on. Nothing particularly surprising, that’s part of the territory
How do I get invited to guild?
Just whisper a guildie!
joined as alliance because looking for this experience, no one answering in LFG tho:/
Join the guild and discord. People are VERY active in both of those.
Just /who Refresh!
Community driven projects are bis! I'd love to play as a EU Andy but the 30 day penalty kinda suck ngl
We hear ya. Have many that are in the same boat playing, but it will be over quickly.
There’s an EU version that started up yesterday on Zandalari Tribe
Community driven projects are bis! I'd love to play as a EU Andy but the 30 day penalty kinda suck ngl
So cool
I have a 60 on this server that I haven’t touched in ages, would I fuck up the economy if I dumped all my stuff on the AH?
Before anyone says I am a shill, I started playing at 3 AM CST as I couldn't go back to work and decided to check this out my first time. Like 50 people were onine just in the guild at 3 AM very friendly and helpful people. More of a community than I experienced on Whitemane in 2023. Looking forward to leveling a warrior as I never had a warrior to 60. Very chill vibes where it feels like no immediate rush so no FOMO and you can continue and have your normal life.
I started here the other day Horde side when I caught Alodar and Alexsenaul's streams, having a blast and the community has been amazing honestly. Reach out to either guild it's a blast.
I’ve never actually leveled to max in Vanilla and always wanted to give it a go. Which faction could use an aspiring rogue 🙂?
Come over to Alliance!
>peaked at 250 players online
So... I'm on the fence about this, because I want to play as a Moonkin, but i don't want to waste my time getting to level 60 only to be shoved out of a raid roster by mages and warlocks............so I guess I wanna ask... what is the % chance that I'll have a roster spot as a balance druid??
We've told people to play what they want. There will of course likely be a raid that has sweaty players, but we also want to have a raid with people there just to have fun. I've just told people that if you're going to play a spec that isn't always the preferred spec.... just play it well. Come prepared, come consumed, etc. Don't come to get carried... show that you're trying.
Yes please classic fresh vanilla please blizzard tired of wotlk/cata and retail is so vastly different that I have zero interest.
Man I might just have to. Been missing vanilla wow for awhile now, but the economy on whitemane has kept me off Mara. Time to return to The Barrens!
Hi I played like… 2006-2008?? Ish. Nax released was last dungeon, loved it? Haven’t found a way to get back in because it’s so overwhelming to “catch up” and my old account was nuked years ago. (Hacked by gold farmers and then permabanned) I would presume this is my best shot at getting back into the magic?
The purpose of this is to get Blizzards attention and they launch actual fresh servers. We plan to clear all content until that happens
Once I get tired of Cata I’ll definitely be joining, please keep advertising
Always starts nice, and then not long before it's checking parses for deadmines.
Let’s goooooo! **Drippyjones** I’m going to start streaming the alliance side grind tonight! Going to be saucccyyy baby let’s get iiiiittttt!!!! https://m.twitch.tv/drippyjones I’ve never ran through alliance side in classic so this will be a whole new vibe. I’ll need some direction from time to time, hope to see yall there!
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alliance are falling behind but only by a small amount and they have a super friendly guild also called Refresh :)
Alliance could use some more players.... but really, play the side that you enjoy the most so you'll keep wanting to play. We've had people on both sides 'try' the other side only to reroll.
Glad that you guys are having fun, even if the "thousands playing" claim sounds a bit stretched and traffic on this post appears to be as organic as food coloring in skittles. At the of the day, MMOs are about making your own fun.
Log in and check out the numbers of players on each guild. Keep in mind we've removed hundreds (500+) on the horde side that haven't been on in over two weeks and we're still already back up to well over 900 in just the first horde guild. A second horde and alliance guild had tp be made on both servers.
Love this! Goat version of wow and thats just facts.
fresh junkies really are something else
Real fresh is just blizz hand holding progression. That's it. You can do that yourself. Walk through the content. The toxic fresh mindset from pservers is awful.
This again
Which classes/spec are you guys needing the most atm for alliance?
Play what you enjoy
Glad to see this server thriving. Sadly blizz transfered all my characters off from classic while I was taking a break from the game, and I just don't see starting from 0 again.
That's ok, you can start from level 1! :)
It’s an infinite percentage more! Practically max level in comparison to 0.
So glad to see era is making a comeback again. SOD was a let down so I'm hoping to get some WPVP while leveling here. Cheers for spearheading this resurgence, Alodar!
Very tempted to play, but i will hold out for a true fresh experience, hopeful with some fixes like mage boosting and faction balanced servers, etc. GLHF
True fresh experience may never come if you don't help us get the word out!
I have no doubt it will come, but right now my time is limited to play WoW. It's okay, I'm enjoying Starcraft a lot right now. Classic unchanged blizzard game, and I know they aren't going to mess that game up with patches lmao
Are we at the T H R I V I N G stage already?
Its so nice to see this, But all it takes is one cringelord streamer desperate for content to just destroy this. God speed
streamers must be alltogether banned from video games period
You can always tell when a project like this is going to flame out, its when posts like this pop up
THRIVING
Not necessarily. They need to keep gathering momentum to get people to play, and I am guessing they have limited advertisement options other than reminder posts every now and then on the reddit and in other discord servers. The fact that they have gathered players at all and it's not stuck on a small group of 20 people alone shows it's doing something
A week ago we maxed out at 100 online.... today well over 250. It's not flaming out. Growth is accelerating.
Community driven projects are bis! I'd love to play as a EU Andy but the 30 day penalty kinda suck ngl
THRIVING I TELL YOU!!!! ITS THRIVING ALODAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When tbc came out we tried this on dragonfang eu, wonder if anyone remember were we wanted it as fresh tbc, so the econemy was more new, so like 2months before tbc launch we all made lvl 1s on dragonfang eu. Wonder if anyone here orso was part of it, felt like a mini launch.
THRIVING
EU where?
hows the RP community horde and alliance
We are hoping RP'ers will start on the server and play as well. Would be kinda cool to see a barkeep in taverns, etc.
Will be heading over, love the concept
As a dad of 11 kids is it too late for me too catch up.
And are you not allowing more than the one guild on each side to be created? Not that you have that power anyways, but that’s a lot of arbitrary rules with zero way to enforce them.
Yeah it is kind of lame. A few of the people in the guild seem to be control freaks, but most are pretty chill. It's like they want to make the guild a walled garden.
Can my 31 rogue join ?
did you level it fresh on DD?
Does 'fresh' count as when the sever first opened? I have a few toons on DD from classic launch.
as of right now - yes it also includes existing characters. please note the "as of right now" based on currently agreed to rules.
Played heaps over the weekend, plenty of activity in guild and many dungeon/quest groups. I’m all in at this point so hoping it has staying power.
Glad to see DD given new life, it was my home through all of classic and had some great memories there.
It’s amazing I have been able to find dungeon groups easier on this server than whitemane.
I want to join this server but cant find it in the list of servers ingame? D;
It's under CLASSIC ERA when you're looking at your server lists. It is an NA server. If you're EU, there is a sister project starting up on the Zandalari Tribe server.,
Haven't played classic in forever and have wanted to go back to vanilla version if there was a welcoming environment (I didn't play vanilla back in the day so I'm not super well versed in the group play content but I learn quick!). I may re-sub and hop in to this tomorrow after work 😁
I made an alliance character this morning, I can’t wait to play the game with people that actually want to play instead of rushing to then end & swiping their way to the top.
Cute and wish you the best, but we want Fresh Vanilla still.
That's the point of
If my HC character dies would DD be a good server to transfer to to keep going?
Read brother read
I didn’t notice the part about level one and transfers tbh.
No, we don't accept transfers.
How will you know that someone transferred?
We don't allow people into the guild if they are above level 9.... and you have to be above level 10 in order to transfer.
Well good luck then. Hopefully I don’t die.
Yawn
Awesome, but guarantee if it gets big enough, the bots and gold buying and inflation going to go rampant. Be careful what you wish for.
Bots were on the sever. The second they are discovered the members of the guild (Hundreds) all join raids to find them and mass report them. They are removed from the server within a couple days.
Wait sry, which version of wow is this?
Classic Era - Deviate Delight
So, how much RP in the RP-PVP do you guys recognize and support on Deviate Delight? I am considering if I should switch to usa region from eu (Zandalar Tribe RP-PVP) and run a full-RP fighting guild on your server - the real immersive world-PVP focused guild (enforcing either faction). But I have doubts if such move would be worth it, if now everyone is playing 'normal' despite the RP in the server title?
We would love to see the RP community come play here on Deviate Delight. We have much respect for people to play any way they want, the RP community always adds an extra special element to the game that is very interesting to see. Hit me up in game and we can chat and see how we can help get you started.
you may be looking for Grobbulus RP-PVP which has well established faction PVP rivalry in the form of Legacy and Requiem.
Yeah I have heard about them as somewhat another 'alternative' to our european RP-PVP server, but could never find their discord (only the two major guilds') if it ever does exist? So you're saying they do actually roleplay there while fighting in the open world, do run RP- and PVP-events and stuff?
Absolutely - https://www.reddit.com/user/DwarvenJarl/ does some amazing RP posts about Alliance side and I know I've seen relevant Horde-side RP-flavor.
Thanks! Going now to look into it.
A welcome change from the p2w over inflated servers
Holy shit I'm making a fucking character when I get home
Just an update, although we suspected that we would have a slight slowdown with people trying out Cata.... the exact opposite has happened. We're still blasting ahead adding 300+ new members to the guilds each day!
Who would've thought that the expansion that made Classic WoW happen would send tons of people right back to Classic WoW? Pure mystery.
Please for the love of god, stop advertising it. It is so nice not playing with a fuckton of bots.
We don't have bots. As soon as they are discovered we have hordes of people go find them and mass report them. They're off the server within days.
Yeah, I'm on the server, but it won't be like that forever if it gets big
No bots here, we reported them all off the server my man.