Yearly realm with s8 at launch
Yearly realm with s8 at launch.
Rates as on Icecrown.
PvE:
ICC opened by wings. No content difficulty changes.
Donate after clear with 271+ items after x total clears.
FoS, PoS, HoR after LK hc clear.
PvP:
Blackrock s5 bis start gear and increased difficulty on getting 258+ jewelry and 271+ offparts and weps.
---- Or just no blackrock realm would be optimal for balance in pvp.
No Crossrealm arenas and bgs with progressed realms til the end of realm.
Why:
Progressive: I believe that people are tired/burned out of long progressive concept no matter the changes in difficulty and so on and it just doesnt last. Every realm except warmane ones and classic retail just dies out. People loose interest, guilds disband, it goes from thousands to hundreds in just the first season and we can watch it right now on another server again (yk which one). So then we are playing on s8 balanced realm with the most content being at s8 on s5 lock with low expectations towards healthy future for onward more difficult and better seasons then the s5 it starts on.
Progressed: I love warmane, I loved molten. I stil do, but I dont play as often as I would like since I have all characters I wanted maxed out. And so do most people which creates unhealthy spot for PvE for all players or those who just want to create an alt or new account to start this journey over where people require higher gearscore then the gear actualy drops and raids form very slowly with low motivation to clear them and many people just afk sitting dala.
Yearly realm with s8 at launch would fix the issues of both current versions available that I have mentioned. It keeps the hype since its the most engaging season with over 84 itemlevels to go through from start to bis and the most content ready and there is direct motivation since every piece will matter even after transfering instead of waiting for 3 seasons just for gear to matter on Icecrown transfering. And as we can see on Icecrown s8 keep population pretty much forever.
Also donating should increase rapidly since the gear in store matters forever and there would be fresh wave of hype to play and login for season 8 and Icecrown after. You get an advantage on yearly realm and icecrown for just one purchase instead of buying 213 ring that you can delete 2 months later.
PvP would benefits greatly aswell as the gap in both BGs and Arenas would be reduced and plenty of people gearing would keep lower mmr populated instead of fighting 284 on 1500mmr aka offparts+flush waiting room.
I believe that everyone would benefit from it including warmane and that there would be large playerbase interested in being slowly integrated to icecrown on s8 realm instead of being thrown into gear inflated realm straight away with no gold and no gear to compete in pve invites or arenas for possibly even months. I am sure Onyxia or Frostmourne have their place, but we can see from the population of this type of realms/servers that nowadays both target very specific audience in terms of longetivity. This type of realm would not suffer from the same issue as it would go hand in hand from day1 with the only lasting big realm available for wotlk and since it offers so much content that its not Bedge after week3 like s5 nowadays for most people. We can see from Icecrown clearly that s8 is king yet ppl keep making realms with s5 that dont keep population for longer then first month for kinda obv reasons.
