With classic out, I'm sure many others have been driven back into the arms of WotLK (and subsequently, Warmane) for personal reasons. Whether its not wanting the slow grind, not wanting to play vanilla content, or not wanting to pay for retail, I feel like now is the time that many old players will come back to Warmane as a result of classic hype and nostalgia.
Myself being one of those returning players, there is one thing I've noticed that sours my experience; nearly every level 80 i run into has shadowmourne / 284 weapon and full wrathful or heroic T10 etc. Heroic DBW, the whole lot.
What is my incentive to play on this server when I'm just playing catchup with hundreds of people with BIS gear that have been raidlogging (or pay-day logging) for 2 years? How can I hope to compete with them? PvP will not be fun when i'm getting hit with an 11k crit by a SMourne and surprisingly every raid i've seen advertised has ludicrous GS requirements. 5.5k gs for VoA? Really?
I would love to see a new set of servers (1x and 7x) to match the classic launch that would give the population a fresh experience. I would say just wipe the server and start fresh but that's not really fair to the people who have worked hard to earn their gear (or paid for it). Put everyone on a level playing field and I feel like the new server would flourish. I would play that all day.
Thoughts on the topic? Do you support a new server? if you had to pick one server, would it be high rate or blizzlike?