Outland-TBC was the best TBC server I have ever played on. And quite honestly my best WoW experience, I made friends there that I play with to this date and we are even playing together on Onyxia. And given that the server reached and maintained 15k population for quite a while - It is safe to say that a lot of people really loved and enjoyed the server.
My appeal is this - You guys already have the recipe for success. You already know how to make an amazing TBC experience. And while I understand that Onyxia is running on a WotLK client and probably a completely different core, so it's impossible to take the exact same approach as with your previous TBC server. Please try to make it at least a somewhat similar experience to Outland-TBC.
Challenging boss fights and well scripted class mechanics... Unlike the fiasco of TBC-Classic, where bosses would die in less then 20 seconds...
In any case, thank you for the experience that was Outland-TBC and I only wish the same or even better success for Onyxia's TBC period!
It's something that I fully expect myself they will be doing, as all their previous seasonal realms has had Lordaeron difficulty except for one small thing, the 30% buff in ICC.
It's just pure speculation atm since we didn't really know what downscaled 40man content would look like. However, once TBC hits it will be fairly easy to compare it to blizzlike realms for the differences.
I agree that Outland was over all a great server. Was really sad that it died in the end.
For some reason TBC server's always have a expiry date while Wotlk server last forever.
Challenging boss fights and well scripted class mechanics... Unlike the fiasco of TBC-Classic, where bosses would die in less then 20 seconds...
It was not a fiasco, you are talking about a game more than 10 years ago where not much information. They expect the first expansions to be difficult when in the old days they were not more difficult, but we lacked information and add-ons to facilitate the process. Classic was what it was in its time only that they changed and limited the content by phases, since Hyjal came out with Karazhan, but it was impossible because it could not be done without the SSC-TK items.