Here is a link to another video I have done which has a list of which servers are included in which clusters. Again all the content I show is on the NA Whitemane cluster which included about 11 servers. Thanks for watching y'all and have a great day! ruclips.net/video/htPlolL3iLs/видео.html
I play vanilla just to relax. I love exploring the zones, and leveling. A lot of nostalgia. I dont try to be the best, or grind for any goal... just enjoying playing :)
Got caught up in a hardcore guild in vanilla, by accident lol. Ended up getting servers first and my ZG mount, but got burned out with job and everything. Gonna come back and just chill :)
Year and a half left is the big win. You actually posted a vid about classic era still being active. Glad you did as I’ve been enjoying my time on whitemaine again. HUGE accomplishment here too for sure. You deserve it with time spent. Especially considering field of study. Happy new year and look forward to more content. 🤙
Love to see it! Recently started a new char on Firemaw (been playing on the PVE cluster on Pyrewood so far) and i'm really getting that fresh realm feeling. Leveling zones are packed! Go Era!
Watching Classic die to TBC was one of the saddest things, as someone who absolutely lived inside of Vanilla and Classic. It's amazing that those who still love the game, have brought it back from the brink of being irrelevant and switched off. The hardcore community especially in getting streamers who are getting fresh blood back into Classic era. This is a game that deserves to be played and remembered of what it did so well. A real RPG made with passion.
Great video man, glad to see you keeping the momentum going with Classic Era! Almost made me think of moving to Whitemane for bit there but things are pretty much identical over here in the PVE cluster, just a bit more casual.
The overwhelming majority of players I've seen are totally new or very young players. IDK what streamer/internet personality triggered this surge but it's nice to see people having fun and exploring the world like I did when I was much younger in 2005.
@@bloodnva6745 you did what other people hyped you about when you were kid too, your friends probably played wow, you read about it, you heard about it on school, so kids nowadays do the same old man
No I was discovering thing by myself, internet didn't exist and my friends were all nabs Now my youtube home is being spammed by vanilla contents as if they want me to play it, but no ty I stay on wrath, vanilla is super boring, just look at the talent trees 😅
Raidleader of the The Leveling Guild (Firemaw Alliance), the biggest guild on Era, which you mentioned at the start here. Not only are we leveling but also starting a fresh raiding experience from MC on. If youre looking to join us wisper Rowan ingame or ask for any officer!
Bloodsail Buccaneers has all the named quest mobs, and I do mean ALL, in low level zones camped. Not even two months ago when I first started HC I rarely saw another player on the same quest, much less had any trouble with spawns like Nightlash, Kree in the Barrens, etc... but it's a zoo. Adds a new dimension and challenge in itself, I guess... can also make certain quests easier too.
Yep now that it's high pop, we might need another HC realm tbh. Camping those low level quest mobs with long spawn timers has been the worst part of the experience
awesome to see a hardcore server hit high pop but yeah I can imagine that would be super frustrating waiting around for mods, that is how it felt the first week or so of a new expansion launch, wild to see it happening in vanilla again. Just goes to show how much the WoW community loves vanilla
@@morphiousTV Yeah, it's a trip -- that's what I was thinking the other night as I was making absolutely certain no other rogue of dubious game knowledge or skill was going to attempt the poison tower quest in the Barrens. Some of the mob killing quests have as much traffic as the first week of BC in the Blood Elf starting zone. Now that was wild, and hilarious. Prettying up the horde with our own evil elves attracted a lot of new players and previously alliance exclusive folks, which added a new dynamic. I love HC. I quit the game cold turkey a few days after ICC in December 2009 and came back February this year. great being back, love that Blizzard finally cracked and gave us this. Believe it or not there was a very vocal and not so minor subset of players begging for just a vanilla official server even on the final Naxx patch of 1.0.
ive talked to a few of these new players and the one reason they started up again is the new voice over addon for quest leveling. something new to try out and really feel the immersion.
Im on Whitemane Horde (pvp) and I started leveling back when JJ started and have been going ever since. I still do my Raids etc but im on my third toon from level one and I am really enjoying it right now bc I don’t feel the urgency that I did before and I’m even doing quests I never did in the past so yea lots of cool stuff. I do wish that we had RDF bc it is difficult to find groups for the dungeons and that would be so amazing for leveling (I can only hope for the future that we get it). It also has been great seeing all the others that are leveling as well actually!!! So some people have bad mouthed Cata and that’s fine bc I will be there no matter what and I have a feeling that wont stop many from playing Cata either when it gets here🎉 Good times ❤
Can you do a /who redridge during prime time and tell me how many people are in that zone? I was thinking about re-subbing as I still have my classic character and Redridge population count has always been a reliable way to check new player growth on a server.
@@morphiousTV check video from youtuber Frostadamus about the addon, this one is too good to be true, I downloaded it just in case already blizzard bans it again
Nice to see, I played on Whitemane about a yr ago and couldnt get into a raid even tho the entire guild had bis already. Hopefully people are more friendly now as well
Lots of new guilds raiding, I see a lot of undergeared 60s logging back in and gearing up super quick. Even in this video you can see some players with a mix of blue gear and Naxx gear, lol pretty wild
I'm playing Classic ERA too, leveling a fresh Tauren Warrior on the Firemaw EU cluster. I'm currently at Level 44 and it's AMAZING. So many players leveling right now. This is by far the best version of WoW and it's not even close.
The leveling guilde you are talking about is actually "The Leveling Guild", the biggest communitiy in wow classic era. 1000 guilde members and always 70 to 120 connected
I joined Whitemane on a whim back around late Jan/Early Feb because i was just missing this game, had no idea there was a pop boom or anything like that happening. While leveling I got invited to some guild horde side called "Fresh" and ended up being the first level 60 in there as it took about a week to get to 60, it was a great time and there were tons of new players coming every day and other HUGE leveling guilds.
In June 2021 when Classic Era launched alongside TBC, it was an absolute ghost town. Between around November 2022 and especially now in April 2023 with SoM having closed and people getting bored of Wrath content, the servers have gotten up to medium pop and Wrath went down so the populations across the two game versions are similar between Era's higher pop and Wrath's lower pop with a few thousand on a given server. Add to this the fact that Era servers are clustered together where you can basically play on the PvP cluster, the normal PvE cluster, or Bloodsail Buccaneers/Hydraxian Waterlords which is the RP server where Hardcore is really popular and you have quite the amazing tale of how Era went from nothing to a pretty substantial player base and is even finally competing with Wrath now that its initial hype has died down significantly. You get just enough players in leveling zones to quest with without overwhelming you and cleaning out all the items and mobs and a bunch of level 60s raiding, playing BGs, or just chilling. It's the greatest time for Classic Era since the Classic launch in 2019. I got on the hype train myself and started a dwarf hunter last week. I just got to level 20 last night and am in a leveling guild called that regularly recruits new people and purges inactives since the member cap for guilds is 1000 and it regularly sits close to it. You can even get dungeon groups no problem which is more than I can say for the tail end of SoM when I had to finish my leveling there. It's funny how SoM was hugely popular at the start and Era was a ghost town but as time went on they swapped and now SoM is over so there's an even bigger boom on Era.
So whitemane is where I should join if I wanted to do classic ? Never played back in the day but my friend who has finally got me to at the end of shadowlands but wanna see what it was like back in the day
This is the Blizzards version of vanilla, World of Warcraft Classic, which was launched about 3 years ago now. If you have an active WoW sub you have access to this game through battle net
Oh wow I think I know Hegred from when I ranked my priest Flashy on Earthfury at the end of Classic before TBCC. That is crazy that he is playing still/again! I've been just going along doing the Wrath thing following the progression. Since I did everything in Classic "Vanilla" it seemed I moved on but everything about Wrath from the direction Blizzard has taken it, to the soulless and boring servers, to the overall attitude and wants of the player base it's the exact opposite of what I care about and signed up for in 2019. On top of that a bunch of my friends recently quit saying "the game is not the same anymore and not fun, when SoM2/fresh comes out get in touch" which I agree with! Wrath Classic felt like it was killing a piece of my soul when playing it but I was loyal to my guild. So yeah that plus a schedule change was the end. I quit Wrath Classic 3 weeks ago and have had no desire to log back in at all, but my heart has always been with Vanilla from the time I played it at release. I planned to take a break from WoW but maybe I'll come back to this sooner rather than later, I've got my 4 clones there on Whitemane already. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you got your clones, thats awesome :) a lot of people lost theirs unfortunately. Hergred is a beast! He has another BiS priest from SoM as well, pretty wild
The SoM servers have finished, it was a 1 year thing and all those characters have been moved over to these servers. Click over to "Classic Era", the server I am showing here is Whitemane
Blizzard will say still not enough evidence that classic is what players want and that they should move forward with new ideas that players strongly dislike. Lol
It felt like they did something for us with World of Warcraft Classic and then TBC and maybe even WOTLK. But if they push for Classic Cata it's not about the players anymore, just my opinion
You both have the right thought process. I love the idea that they phased in several servers. This would or could have saved alot of bullshit in classic tbc and wrath servers from coming dead and over populated. I'll be disappointed if they bump this classic Era to tbc...
Did they update the game though? As in, for example: in WotLK they fix'd the bug where melee abilities would lack a trail that follows your weapon, whilst Classic always had it.
They fix little bugs here and there with the weekly server resets but in terms if larger updates such as content, class changes etc no, nothing like that
@@morphiousTV Well, I didn't predict any content additions anyway, so that's fine. What about the bug I've mentioned though-- are there still no colorful (typically red or purple) trails following your weapon while hitting opponents with melee abilities?
3 month old video, however I started fresh last week (mid July), first time since the 2019 re release. My server is slammed with new players, vet players, PvPers, etc and I joined a guild who'll be doing raids with fresh 60s eventually. The community really is thriving.
I've been seeing a lot of people talking about classic era servers, between whitemane and BSB hardcore and I'm thinking of doing it again. Only thing is that I'm smack in the middle of a Wrath video that's taking up my time lol, but once that's done I do believe I'm taking a little break from Wrath and gonna continue leveling my Whitemane toon, it's currently lvl 11
nice! Welcome back! and yes I understand that, I was also playing WOTLK for a bit as well. 1 one expansion is enough of a time commitment, hard to play two
@@morphiousTV yeah fr, especially when you make the videos I do, they're exceptionally time consuming lol. I make pvp montages so you already know it's a super insane time sink, between farming out the clips and then doing all the editing and shit, whew boy. Like my current one, I'm legit 4 months deep into LOL, once it's done though I fully intend on trying to lvl my Whitemane toon. Problem is I really hate lvling LMAO, so idk if I can see it through 😂😂 doing it the first time around in vanilla classic was hard enough, idk if I can do it again 😂
@@ReverenceWarlock I also do PvP montages and yes it can be super time consuming for sure! I totally understand, the nice thing is knowing that Classic Era is here if you are ever feeling nostalgic :)
@@morphiousTV are yours on this channel? If not where can I watch? Mine are on this one and some of them are on WCM. I'm currently working on #5 and it's a big step up from all my prior videos and I'm beyond excited to finish it and share it with everyone! 🤫🤫 Shhhh though 😆
For North American servers Whitemane (shown here) is the main PvP server, it also has lots of raiding and leveling guilds. There is also Mankrik there are most PvE, possibly more raiding guilds there. I don't play on Mankrik but that is what I have been told. But plenty of raiding guilds here on whitemane for sure
you can play just that on era as well. keep in mind that era will always be the server that all season of mastery characters will be moved to when the season ends. 100% safe bet to play on era.
yes this is correct, SoM players were all moved to Era servers after SoM was over and if they were to do another SoM it would most likely be the same. So Era is a safe bet
@@vladimir4526 some players like fresh because they feel like everything is on a level playing field. The SoM character end up getting merged into Classic Era servers after the 1 year season is up, atlesst that is what they did for the first SoM.
@@morphiousTV yeah in retail, you can be in the same zone, on the same spot as your friend but you would not see each other until you make group a port you to the same shard, its like the every part of the zone has more shards in which people are, but you dont see people in different shard, if you make group you all are suddenly in the same shard, so you can see like 20 people in your shard, but there are maybe 10 other shards of the same place... this was not a thing in classic
@@Rock3tt oh man, that would be super frustrating. I assume they do it so resources are not so competitive and also so there isn't as much lag in big cities. But personally I always like to see a lot of players around and also I like world pvp so yeah that would be a bummer for me
@@morphiousTV yeah youre right, these are the main reasons of sharding, im happy for you even thou i dont play classic anymore, have fun and good luck with the channel :P
Blizzard is a professional content rehasher. I've raided with a ton of players in Classic that don't play retail and haven't played back in the day. It's interesting that new players go directly to classic.
Just hit 60 on a fresh shaman. Playing on fairbanks. All servers are merged so it's like one mega server which is nice. A few things I noticed... - Pros- 1. The world feels alive which is great. Tons of world pvp, tons of new people, lots to do. 2. AH has a ton of items, mats, etc so very nice to make gold. 3. All levels of dungeons are forming, mostly low level and mid level since people are leveling. 4. BG Weekends are popping. I've noticed AV will have quick ques in the morning until late night like midnight, then no more ques until the next morning during AV weekend. - Cons- 1. BGs are ONLY at 60 and ONLY WSG during the week. No AB and no AV unless there's premades, which will be geared people so if your trying to rank as a freshie.. then Goodluck.. 2. Shortage of tanks at all levels.. people being lazy not wanting to tank as a "dps" war or "dps" druid/paladin/shaman... you don't need to be speced as tank or healer to perform the role. I can heal all dungeons on my shaman without any talents in resto just fine, and even tanked a few successfully. 3. People talking big like they're gods gift to wow and yet they still have "S" keybinded to back pedaling, when they claim they're great at pvp. (I'll never understand this tbh) and keyboard turning.. 4. Raids are going on but not ALL the time. Hard to fill if you don't catch it during a good time. It's tough to even fill for a 10m UBRS. 5. Might be a biased opinion.. but I feel like the community has been super toxic or at least not fun in my opinion. Lots of ninja looters, fake leaders, bad players, tons of trolls.. TONS! (This can be true due to how the gaming world has changed throughout the years, but we'll never get that old school feeling again). Again.. these are my thoughts. I have a 60 pally and a 60 shaman. There's a bit more alliance than horde and ally dominate in the AV lol. If your trying to pvp.. then better get a squad cuz there's a ton of "okay" players with r14 gear. The level of skill is decent to low from what I've seen, only met a few good players but.. it's still a good time. If you're trying to rank then it's best to find people with a higher skill cap. On my pally I have a list of people that are pretty decent and we group up and do really well in wsg. Maybe I'll do a video explaining my thoughts in a more detailed format but these are just my opinions and the way I play the game can be different from how you play the game. I intended to play Era again and ONLY pvp but noticed the skill level of most people were low or not enough players to form a competitive premade. Dungeons are always a blast and tons of fun. From a social aspect, sure it can be great fun and relaxing. The leveling is chill and enjoyable. Would I do it again.. probably not lol. Only cuz I also play wotlk and retail (a bit) so the timing is tough, but I've spent the last month going hard in Era to see what it's all about. Great game, fair amount of people, and nostalgic. Enjoy Azeroth for what it is (: Cheers - Fadedsleepy
I agree. I just cba making a new character on a server where the entire content literally has been cleared for 3+ years now and people have full t3 etc.
I do believe that as it continues to grow some of the cons you have listed will work themselves out, in the mean time I am very happy to have access to the original vanilla game and as someone who doesn't have a lot of time it is nice to be able to log in with BiS and do PvP and end game content. It is very nostalgic for me as well. Cheers friend!
Hello guys ,i never even played a wow game 😮 today i subscribed and started , any advice of the server chooise for me if i want to play with ppl and make guild and other stuff? I don't want to play on a dead server , and what is the difference in server pve or pvp? I started on Pyrwood Village , is that good? 😮
Pyrewood may be good, Firemaw would probably be best but I heard they hit full today. Pyrewood is a PvE server so you can’t kill other players from the enemy faction, which you may prefer. On a Player vs player server you can kill players on the enemy faction if you see them out in the world while questing. Type out “/join lookingforgroup” that will put you in a group chat of players looking for other players to quest and do dungeons with. In the chat you should also be able to find a leveling guild, they could be able to help you out. I hope that helps!
I get groups for dungeons significantly quicker in vanilla compared to wrath. The servers are popping recently, people leveling everywhere 😊 and loads of world pvp Bloodsail bucaneers in NA and hydraxian waterlords im EU are the hardcore realms btw
ah yes Hydraxian is the other hardcore server thank you. And I thought Bloodnail was NA? I could be wrong I don't play hardcore, let me know so I can make corrections. Thank you!
Yeah I decided to try classic out a few days ago, and the game is packed, but everyone I see playing refuses to group up or cooperate for anything and says they are playing "hc". What's the point if no one wants to play together?
I have never played on the HC servers so I am not sure about the culture. I can tell you on the non-hardcore servers like whitemane shown here that players do group a lot
For North American servers, the main PvP server is Whitemane (shown here), the main PvE server is Mankrik. For EU servers the main PvP server is Firewmaw (high population) and main PvE is Pyrewood
Are there classic servers that are pure classic, like, not going to TBC or TotLK? I stopped before TBC but if I come back would like to be in a pure classic server.
@@morphiousTV so I had the volume off and just watched the video. Had someone talking to me. I’ll have to check it out. Did you say what the server name was? Or is it obvious when choosing? and thank you. Didn’t know this was a thing until I saw it.
Many playes devoted to vanilla have kept the community alive for awhile now and I think that as WOTLK and Dragonflight hype die down and players log back in to Classic Era they are happy to see a thriving active community keeping the game alive
I honestly am not sure, I have not heard much but if you have an active subscription you can always check it out or ask a friend to check it out. If you do, let me know what you find
@@jarlfisk I personally don’t have an exact number but if you go to the description of this video there is a link to the main Classic Era discord. In that discord there is a tab called server census that has the numbers
Really bummed I can't still copy my characters from classic era still. really stings since I grinded rank 14 on one of those characters too. If blizzard reopens character copy's I would for sure return but if they don't, I'm not touching a blizzard game again in protest.
I just made a Tauren druid to lvl and engage in as much wpvp as I can, hope to see you all out there, you better not be caught disrespecting the Earth Mother!
Ummm when a Cluster of servers has a total population combined of a Single big Wotlk server thats not exactly exploding from the analysis I've heard that is pretty much the situation....
I have been told that EU Pyrewood was the main EU PvE server. Is that not true? I know Firemaw is the main server over all but is PvP and some players prefer PVE
@@morphiousTV nah we are fine with pop, I raid 5 days a week in a perfect guild. But pop in stormwind it's i think 60 to 100 people in the peak hour. Nothing compared to your video
@@matteoceccherini7810 ohh I see, well it’s probably a lot of new players going to Firemaw instead of Pyrewood then. I’m glad y’all are still holding it down though!
Here is a link to another video I have done which has a list of which servers are included in which clusters. Again all the content I show is on the NA Whitemane cluster which included about 11 servers. Thanks for watching y'all and have a great day! ruclips.net/video/htPlolL3iLs/видео.html
Man I love early game wow
@@joelwarren7457 glad to hear :)
I play vanilla just to relax. I love exploring the zones, and leveling. A lot of nostalgia. I dont try to be the best, or grind for any goal... just enjoying playing :)
Absolutely man! Thats what it's all about, just enjoying the game :)
its nice to logon after work and just do my own thing. not rushing the next rep or mount to farm.
@@brianlawl1 i totally agree man
@@NagasInParis hard to come by these days
Got caught up in a hardcore guild in vanilla, by accident lol. Ended up getting servers first and my ZG mount, but got burned out with job and everything. Gonna come back and just chill :)
The future of World of Warcraft is the past, the original developers got it right the first time.
I totally agree, when the original version of the game it was a passion project. It was focused on creating a new world. Now the focus is money
i dont yall are beyond mental to expect a game to catch you for 20 years 8hrs a day. its not about the game game is great
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Eh, i prefer cata and mop versions personally
@@vaels5682 For me MoP was the worst expansion. In Cata we got raid finder etc, not big fan of those either. Wotlk is the best expansion imo :)
A horde guild a few weeks back had the first ever sub hour clear of Naxx in Era.
Classic is back baby!
That is honestly amazing man!! Some serious gamers to accomplish that
Year and a half left is the big win. You actually posted a vid about classic era still being active. Glad you did as I’ve been enjoying my time on whitemaine again. HUGE accomplishment here too for sure. You deserve it with time spent. Especially considering field of study. Happy new year and look forward to more content. 🤙
Thanks man!! I appreciate it :)
Love to see it! Recently started a new char on Firemaw (been playing on the PVE cluster on Pyrewood so far) and i'm really getting that fresh realm feeling. Leveling zones are packed! Go Era!
That is awesome to hear man :) I am glad y'all are holding it down in the EU as well
Any good balanced server for pvp ?
@@stasking6196 whitemane
Is encha shaman more fun than warrior as new class ? Fresh start
@@stasking6196 Warrior is pretty BiS in vanilla, but orc elemental shaman is also super OP
Watching Classic die to TBC was one of the saddest things, as someone who absolutely lived inside of Vanilla and Classic. It's amazing that those who still love the game, have brought it back from the brink of being irrelevant and switched off. The hardcore community especially in getting streamers who are getting fresh blood back into Classic era. This is a game that deserves to be played and remembered of what it did so well. A real RPG made with passion.
I absolutely agree!
Great video man, glad to see you keeping the momentum going with Classic Era! Almost made me think of moving to Whitemane for bit there but things are pretty much identical over here in the PVE cluster, just a bit more casual.
Hey man! yeah Mankrik seems to be doing very good as well :)
I just started playing this server last night. I love how the hord/alliance population is almost 50/50.
yeah it's nice to have a good balance!
Started leveling few days ago and I'm loving it!
That is great to hear!
Oh, hi. Fancy seeing you all here.
Glad I dressed up
hey morphius, happy to see you back with an era video!
Thanks man!
I just started playing last week out of boredom and just cant stop now. People are so nice, i really love the classic community.
That is awesome to hear :) welcome back!
The overwhelming majority of players I've seen are totally new or very young players. IDK what streamer/internet personality triggered this surge but it's nice to see people having fun and exploring the world like I did when I was much younger in 2005.
I totally agree :)
Probably the mass layoffs in the economy lol Neckbeards are back in the house!
It's mainly people doing what streamers do, which is kinda sad tbh
@@bloodnva6745 you did what other people hyped you about when you were kid too, your friends probably played wow, you read about it, you heard about it on school, so kids nowadays do the same old man
No I was discovering thing by myself, internet didn't exist and my friends were all nabs
Now my youtube home is being spammed by vanilla contents as if they want me to play it, but no ty I stay on wrath, vanilla is super boring, just look at the talent trees 😅
6 days, 70k views - Nice to see big numbers on your channel Morphious. A true Era OG legend, we made it!
Thanks man! I appreciate the support since day one :)
I've been playing HC for the past few months. I'm so glad to see PvE and PvP servers popping off as well.
I hope you have been having a good experience in HC :)
this video made me and like half of my leveling guild come back to the game!
thats awesome to hear man! Welcome back!
Great video, tons of people gettin it! Let’s go Morphious!
Hell yeah man!
Amazing content man! Really helping me level up 🤠
Thanks Nico :)
Raidleader of the The Leveling Guild (Firemaw Alliance), the biggest guild on Era, which you mentioned at the start here. Not only are we leveling but also starting a fresh raiding experience from MC on. If youre looking to join us wisper Rowan ingame or ask for any officer!
That's awesome man! That's for helping to keep the community alive!
@@morphiousTV thank you for doing the same with your videos 🙂
@@maxroesch7138 absolutely man!
Bloodsail Buccaneers has all the named quest mobs, and I do mean ALL, in low level zones camped. Not even two months ago when I first started HC I rarely saw another player on the same quest, much less had any trouble with spawns like Nightlash, Kree in the Barrens, etc... but it's a zoo. Adds a new dimension and challenge in itself, I guess... can also make certain quests easier too.
Yep now that it's high pop, we might need another HC realm tbh. Camping those low level quest mobs with long spawn timers has been the worst part of the experience
Yeah bloodsnail and the hardcore community are very active which is great
awesome to see a hardcore server hit high pop but yeah I can imagine that would be super frustrating waiting around for mods, that is how it felt the first week or so of a new expansion launch, wild to see it happening in vanilla again. Just goes to show how much the WoW community loves vanilla
@@morphiousTV Yeah, it's a trip -- that's what I was thinking the other night as I was making absolutely certain no other rogue of dubious game knowledge or skill was going to attempt the poison tower quest in the Barrens. Some of the mob killing quests have as much traffic as the first week of BC in the Blood Elf starting zone. Now that was wild, and hilarious. Prettying up the horde with our own evil elves attracted a lot of new players and previously alliance exclusive folks, which added a new dynamic.
I love HC. I quit the game cold turkey a few days after ICC in December 2009 and came back February this year. great being back, love that Blizzard finally cracked and gave us this. Believe it or not there was a very vocal and not so minor subset of players begging for just a vanilla official server even on the final Naxx patch of 1.0.
Love to see it!!
Me too!
ive talked to a few of these new players and the one reason they started up again is the new voice over addon for quest leveling. something new to try out and really feel the immersion.
I have been hearing a lot of people excited to try out that new voice over addon
Can't wait to get there. I just started warcraft the road to world of warcraft
Nice!
My heart is full now! :D Vanilla is something the best happened in the history Of WarcrafT universe. Azeroth is where we need to be. ♥
I totally agree man :) thanks for helping keep it alive
@@morphiousTV Np, brother! \m/ FOR AZEROTH! \m/
@@Niar_Production_Official hell yeah!
No ur all wrong u should be playing ff14!! Because it's the best and the ff14 will save the world and stop the war in Ukraine !!! And Yoshi is my dad
i remember we used to have to 13 man zg its been very special playing classic era since day one
You were one of the players that got me to play again, thank you for thet :)
Im on Whitemane Horde (pvp) and I started leveling back when JJ started and have been going ever since. I still do my Raids etc but im on my third toon from level one and I am really enjoying it right now bc I don’t feel the urgency that I did before and I’m even doing quests I never did in the past so yea lots of cool stuff. I do wish that we had RDF bc it is difficult to find groups for the dungeons and that would be so amazing for leveling (I can only hope for the future that we get it). It also has been great seeing all the others that are leveling as well actually!!! So some people have bad mouthed Cata and that’s fine bc I will be there no matter what and I have a feeling that wont stop many from playing Cata either when it gets here🎉 Good times ❤
I am glad you have been having a good experience :)
just came back and been loving it
Glad to hear it!
Whitemane lesgooooo! Classic era just feels right.
Whitemane is where its at :)
Veeeeery tempting... Lol gald to see it!
Me too :)
I’m having a blast on Era. Just hit high warlord!
grat on high warlord! See you out there in those BGs :)
The Bloodsnails of Stranglethorn Vale are particularly deadly, in fact they named a classic server after the vicious Bloodsnail.
This is the kind of lore that I could get into
Can you do a /who redridge during prime time and tell me how many people are in that zone? I was thinking about re-subbing as I still have my classic character and Redridge population count has always been a reliable way to check new player growth on a server.
Yeah I can try that sometime for sure
this is so hype
I transfered my.mains to whitemane ! Missed vanilla heaps! Glad to be back
Welcome back!
More people need to see this
I agree!
I might come back.. only if i can find dungeon and raid groups.
lot's of people in LFG creating dungeoning and raid groups :)
@@morphiousTV Thanks for the reply. I actually quit Wotlk for this reason. No one was doin lvl 60 content anymore.
@@propsurferminge4469 well this will be perfect for you :)
I plan to do another playthrough with the new classic ai voice addon for quests and npc
nice! that will be cool, what is the add-on called?
@@morphiousTV check video from youtuber
Frostadamus about the addon, this one is too good to be true, I downloaded it just in case already blizzard bans it again
@@Novasx2216 nice man, I will thanks
Nice to see, I played on Whitemane about a yr ago and couldnt get into a raid even tho the entire guild had bis already. Hopefully people are more friendly now as well
Lots of new guilds raiding, I see a lot of undergeared 60s logging back in and gearing up super quick. Even in this video you can see some players with a mix of blue gear and Naxx gear, lol pretty wild
I'm playing Classic ERA too, leveling a fresh Tauren Warrior on the Firemaw EU cluster. I'm currently at Level 44 and it's AMAZING. So many players leveling right now. This is by far the best version of WoW and it's not even close.
That is awesome to hear!
The leveling guilde you are talking about is actually "The Leveling Guild", the biggest communitiy in wow classic era. 1000 guilde members and always 70 to 120 connected
Thats awesome man :) seem like there are a handful of leveling guilds with 999 players which is awesome
I joined Whitemane on a whim back around late Jan/Early Feb because i was just missing this game, had no idea there was a pop boom or anything like that happening. While leveling I got invited to some guild horde side called "Fresh" and ended up being the first level 60 in there as it took about a week to get to 60, it was a great time and there were tons of new players coming every day and other HUGE leveling guilds.
Gratz on 60! Getting 60 in a week is wild! I am glad you are having a good experience
Startet 3 weeks ago new charr, absolut fresh feeling😍 so much people every where❤️😍
in 4 weeks is over.. when season 2 df is starting... sadge, that classic servers are only period hyped
@@Marcel-ls8yz df= dragonflight?
@@Marcel-ls8yz no one cares about retail
@@impromptu573 eh alot of people actually do, thats why classic explodes rn because of waiting for new content to drop
glad to hear it!
In June 2021 when Classic Era launched alongside TBC, it was an absolute ghost town. Between around November 2022 and especially now in April 2023 with SoM having closed and people getting bored of Wrath content, the servers have gotten up to medium pop and Wrath went down so the populations across the two game versions are similar between Era's higher pop and Wrath's lower pop with a few thousand on a given server. Add to this the fact that Era servers are clustered together where you can basically play on the PvP cluster, the normal PvE cluster, or Bloodsail Buccaneers/Hydraxian Waterlords which is the RP server where Hardcore is really popular and you have quite the amazing tale of how Era went from nothing to a pretty substantial player base and is even finally competing with Wrath now that its initial hype has died down significantly. You get just enough players in leveling zones to quest with without overwhelming you and cleaning out all the items and mobs and a bunch of level 60s raiding, playing BGs, or just chilling. It's the greatest time for Classic Era since the Classic launch in 2019. I got on the hype train myself and started a dwarf hunter last week. I just got to level 20 last night and am in a leveling guild called that regularly recruits new people and purges inactives since the member cap for guilds is 1000 and it regularly sits close to it. You can even get dungeon groups no problem which is more than I can say for the tail end of SoM when I had to finish my leveling there. It's funny how SoM was hugely popular at the start and Era was a ghost town but as time went on they swapped and now SoM is over so there's an even bigger boom on Era.
It is pretty amazing to see such growth :) I am glad you are having a good experience
HYPE!!!!!!!!!!
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So whitemane is where I should join if I wanted to do classic ? Never played back in the day but my friend who has finally got me to at the end of shadowlands but wanna see what it was like back in the day
Yeah man if you are into PvP then Whitemane is the main North American PvP server. Whitemane is what I am showing here
what server/client is this
This is the Blizzards version of vanilla, World of Warcraft Classic, which was launched about 3 years ago now. If you have an active WoW sub you have access to this game through battle net
Oh wow I think I know Hegred from when I ranked my priest Flashy on Earthfury at the end of Classic before TBCC. That is crazy that he is playing still/again! I've been just going along doing the Wrath thing following the progression. Since I did everything in Classic "Vanilla" it seemed I moved on but everything about Wrath from the direction Blizzard has taken it, to the soulless and boring servers, to the overall attitude and wants of the player base it's the exact opposite of what I care about and signed up for in 2019. On top of that a bunch of my friends recently quit saying "the game is not the same anymore and not fun, when SoM2/fresh comes out get in touch" which I agree with! Wrath Classic felt like it was killing a piece of my soul when playing it but I was loyal to my guild. So yeah that plus a schedule change was the end. I quit Wrath Classic 3 weeks ago and have had no desire to log back in at all, but my heart has always been with Vanilla from the time I played it at release. I planned to take a break from WoW but maybe I'll come back to this sooner rather than later, I've got my 4 clones there on Whitemane already. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you got your clones, thats awesome :) a lot of people lost theirs unfortunately. Hergred is a beast! He has another BiS priest from SoM as well, pretty wild
I tried to make a new toon on som, and all of the servers are locked
The SoM servers have finished, it was a 1 year thing and all those characters have been moved over to these servers. Click over to "Classic Era", the server I am showing here is Whitemane
Great to see! Do they have any burning crusades servers still going or did they all change to wrath?
All the TBC servers progressed into Wrath. Probably for the best, it would of split up the classic community even more so
@@morphiousTV I appreciate you and I agree.
Blizzard will say still not enough evidence that classic is what players want and that they should move forward with new ideas that players strongly dislike. Lol
If only they would look at the successes of the original game and learn from those. Retail is just in-game purchases and mount collecting these days
It felt like they did something for us with World of Warcraft Classic and then TBC and maybe even WOTLK. But if they push for Classic Cata it's not about the players anymore, just my opinion
You both have the right thought process. I love the idea that they phased in several servers. This would or could have saved alot of bullshit in classic tbc and wrath servers from coming dead and over populated. I'll be disappointed if they bump this classic Era to tbc...
Did they update the game though?
As in, for example: in WotLK they fix'd the bug where melee abilities would lack a trail that follows your weapon, whilst Classic always had it.
They fix little bugs here and there with the weekly server resets but in terms if larger updates such as content, class changes etc no, nothing like that
@@morphiousTV Well, I didn't predict any content additions anyway, so that's fine.
What about the bug I've mentioned though-- are there still no colorful (typically red or purple) trails following your weapon while hitting opponents with melee abilities?
@@turbotrup96 hmmmm im not sure, I don't tend to do melee. I think with some special abilities but not with auto attacks
3 month old video, however
I started fresh last week (mid July), first time since the 2019 re release. My server is slammed with new players, vet players, PvPers, etc and I joined a guild who'll be doing raids with fresh 60s eventually. The community really is thriving.
that is great to hear :)
Where you Play? And Horde?
@@whaaghz7725 Yes - Fairbanks
Anyone recommend a good alliance server?? I was thinking of rolling on Whitemane
Whitemane is where it's at
Can you still get the tabard of the protector on classic era?
hmmm I'm not sure honestly, that would be a question for some of the more dedicated players, I'll bump and hopefully someone can answer you
Have they fixed the dungeon finder in classic? That’s what put me off it originally
I think it is the same, you have to ask around in LFG generally or guild chat to put together dungeon groups
is there a good horde classic era server like this?
Yes to my understanding Whitemane is about 50/50 ally horde, maybe 40/60 so the horde community on alliance is comparable
I've been seeing a lot of people talking about classic era servers, between whitemane and BSB hardcore and I'm thinking of doing it again. Only thing is that I'm smack in the middle of a Wrath video that's taking up my time lol, but once that's done I do believe I'm taking a little break from Wrath and gonna continue leveling my Whitemane toon, it's currently lvl 11
nice! Welcome back! and yes I understand that, I was also playing WOTLK for a bit as well. 1 one expansion is enough of a time commitment, hard to play two
@@morphiousTV yeah fr, especially when you make the videos I do, they're exceptionally time consuming lol. I make pvp montages so you already know it's a super insane time sink, between farming out the clips and then doing all the editing and shit, whew boy. Like my current one, I'm legit 4 months deep into LOL, once it's done though I fully intend on trying to lvl my Whitemane toon. Problem is I really hate lvling LMAO, so idk if I can see it through 😂😂 doing it the first time around in vanilla classic was hard enough, idk if I can do it again 😂
@@ReverenceWarlock I also do PvP montages and yes it can be super time consuming for sure! I totally understand, the nice thing is knowing that Classic Era is here if you are ever feeling nostalgic :)
@@morphiousTV are yours on this channel? If not where can I watch? Mine are on this one and some of them are on WCM. I'm currently working on #5 and it's a big step up from all my prior videos and I'm beyond excited to finish it and share it with everyone! 🤫🤫 Shhhh though 😆
which server is best to join for raiding?
For North American servers Whitemane (shown here) is the main PvP server, it also has lots of raiding and leveling guilds. There is also Mankrik there are most PvE, possibly more raiding guilds there. I don't play on Mankrik but that is what I have been told. But plenty of raiding guilds here on whitemane for sure
@@morphiousTV awesome tyvm!!
@@StyleFights Happy to help :)
Should I do this or wait until SoM 2? Hardcore is fun but I'm really itching to play plain old vanilla again.
you can play just that on era as well. keep in mind that era will always be the server that all season of mastery characters will be moved to when the season ends. 100% safe bet to play on era.
yes this is correct, SoM players were all moved to Era servers after SoM was over and if they were to do another SoM it would most likely be the same. So Era is a safe bet
If you want to play now I say go for it, the start zones feel like fresh with all the new players
No point in releasing Som if people already playing classic era. It can be a long wait
@@vladimir4526 some players like fresh because they feel like everything is on a level playing field. The SoM character end up getting merged into Classic Era servers after the 1 year season is up, atlesst that is what they did for the first SoM.
but there is no sharding, i bet in retail without shards it would be even more instane
sharding?
@@morphiousTV yeah in retail, you can be in the same zone, on the same spot as your friend but you would not see each other until you make group a port you to the same shard, its like the every part of the zone has more shards in which people are, but you dont see people in different shard, if you make group you all are suddenly in the same shard, so you can see like 20 people in your shard, but there are maybe 10 other shards of the same place... this was not a thing in classic
@@Rock3tt oh man, that would be super frustrating. I assume they do it so resources are not so competitive and also so there isn't as much lag in big cities. But personally I always like to see a lot of players around and also I like world pvp so yeah that would be a bummer for me
@@morphiousTV yeah youre right, these are the main reasons of sharding, im happy for you even thou i dont play classic anymore, have fun and good luck with the channel :P
@@Rock3tt thanks! I appreciate the support :)
Blizzard is a professional content rehasher.
I've raided with a ton of players in Classic that don't play retail and haven't played back in the day. It's interesting that new players go directly to classic.
You do sell a lot of repeat raids and bosses throughout the expansions
Whitemane has so many new players this is a great time to start new toon
I totally agree
We need FRESH Classic server!
I believe SoM 2 is coming out soon
Just hit 60 on a fresh shaman. Playing on fairbanks. All servers are merged so it's like one mega server which is nice.
A few things I noticed...
- Pros-
1. The world feels alive which is great. Tons of world pvp, tons of new people, lots to do.
2. AH has a ton of items, mats, etc so very nice to make gold.
3. All levels of dungeons are forming, mostly low level and mid level since people are leveling.
4. BG Weekends are popping. I've noticed AV will have quick ques in the morning until late night like midnight, then no more ques until the next morning during AV weekend.
- Cons-
1. BGs are ONLY at 60 and ONLY WSG during the week. No AB and no AV unless there's premades, which will be geared people so if your trying to rank as a freshie.. then Goodluck..
2. Shortage of tanks at all levels.. people being lazy not wanting to tank as a "dps" war or "dps" druid/paladin/shaman... you don't need to be speced as tank or healer to perform the role. I can heal all dungeons on my shaman without any talents in resto just fine, and even tanked a few successfully.
3. People talking big like they're gods gift to wow and yet they still have "S" keybinded to back pedaling, when they claim they're great at pvp. (I'll never understand this tbh) and keyboard turning..
4. Raids are going on but not ALL the time. Hard to fill if you don't catch it during a good time. It's tough to even fill for a 10m UBRS.
5. Might be a biased opinion.. but I feel like the community has been super toxic or at least not fun in my opinion. Lots of ninja looters, fake leaders, bad players, tons of trolls.. TONS! (This can be true due to how the gaming world has changed throughout the years, but we'll never get that old school feeling again).
Again.. these are my thoughts. I have a 60 pally and a 60 shaman. There's a bit more alliance than horde and ally dominate in the AV lol.
If your trying to pvp.. then better get a squad cuz there's a ton of "okay" players with r14 gear. The level of skill is decent to low from what I've seen, only met a few good players but.. it's still a good time. If you're trying to rank then it's best to find people with a higher skill cap. On my pally I have a list of people that are pretty decent and we group up and do really well in wsg.
Maybe I'll do a video explaining my thoughts in a more detailed format but these are just my opinions and the way I play the game can be different from how you play the game. I intended to play Era again and ONLY pvp but noticed the skill level of most people were low or not enough players to form a competitive premade. Dungeons are always a blast and tons of fun. From a social aspect, sure it can be great fun and relaxing. The leveling is chill and enjoyable. Would I do it again.. probably not lol. Only cuz I also play wotlk and retail (a bit) so the timing is tough, but I've spent the last month going hard in Era to see what it's all about.
Great game, fair amount of people, and nostalgic.
Enjoy Azeroth for what it is (:
Cheers
- Fadedsleepy
I agree. I just cba making a new character on a server where the entire content literally has been cleared for 3+ years now and people have full t3 etc.
I do believe that as it continues to grow some of the cons you have listed will work themselves out, in the mean time I am very happy to have access to the original vanilla game and as someone who doesn't have a lot of time it is nice to be able to log in with BiS and do PvP and end game content. It is very nostalgic for me as well. Cheers friend!
Hello guys ,i never even played a wow game 😮 today i subscribed and started , any advice of the server chooise for me if i want to play with ppl and make guild and other stuff? I don't want to play on a dead server , and what is the difference in server pve or pvp? I started on Pyrwood Village , is that good? 😮
Pyrewood may be good, Firemaw would probably be best but I heard they hit full today. Pyrewood is a PvE server so you can’t kill other players from the enemy faction, which you may prefer. On a Player vs player server you can kill players on the enemy faction if you see them out in the world while questing. Type out “/join lookingforgroup” that will put you in a group chat of players looking for other players to quest and do dungeons with. In the chat you should also be able to find a leveling guild, they could be able to help you out. I hope that helps!
@@morphiousTV wow :) that is amazing , thanks a loot , helps for sure
@@rad0r764 best of luck! Also in the description of this video is a link to the main Classic era discord. There is lots of good information there
is it worth playing on whitemane if im US?
Yeah for sure, whitemane is a west coast server
I get groups for dungeons significantly quicker in vanilla compared to wrath. The servers are popping recently, people leveling everywhere 😊 and loads of world pvp
Bloodsail bucaneers in NA and hydraxian waterlords im EU are the hardcore realms btw
ah yes Hydraxian is the other hardcore server thank you. And I thought Bloodnail was NA? I could be wrong I don't play hardcore, let me know so I can make corrections. Thank you!
@@morphiousTV Yes Bloodsail NA, and Hydraxian EU HC Server
Cool Thx!
np!
Yeah I decided to try classic out a few days ago, and the game is packed, but everyone I see playing refuses to group up or cooperate for anything and says they are playing "hc". What's the point if no one wants to play together?
I have never played on the HC servers so I am not sure about the culture. I can tell you on the non-hardcore servers like whitemane shown here that players do group a lot
@@morphiousTV I started playing on bloodsail buccaneers because I'm a degenerate RPer.
What’s up w/ all the level one toons you have
bank alts and saved a few names when they reset all the names
Exactly, it's an explosion.
Explosions last few seconds;)
Time will tell
I said it a long time ago, what blizz needed to do was come out with new content for vanilla its obvious we all love it so much more then retail
I totally agree man!
What servers are full like this one?
For North American servers, the main PvP server is Whitemane (shown here), the main PvE server is Mankrik. For EU servers the main PvP server is Firewmaw (high population) and main PvE is Pyrewood
Are there classic servers that are pure classic, like, not going to TBC or TotLK? I stopped before TBC but if I come back would like to be in a pure classic server.
Yeah these are exactly that, it caps at lvl 60 and will not process beyond vanilla phase 6
@@morphiousTV so I had the volume off and just watched the video. Had someone talking to me. I’ll have to check it out. Did you say what the server name was? Or is it obvious when choosing? and thank you. Didn’t know this was a thing until I saw it.
@@Michijere77 no worries, it’s Whitemane :)
whats going on why suddenly so many people?
Many playes devoted to vanilla have kept the community alive for awhile now and I think that as WOTLK and Dragonflight hype die down and players log back in to Classic Era they are happy to see a thriving active community keeping the game alive
If i play on whitemane should i go horde or alli? whats the ratio?
I think its around 60/40 possibly, slightly more ally players
I'd kill for another progressive vanilla server to be released, with all the things the classic devs have learned along the way
Fingers crossed for SoM 2, lot of rumors going around about it
Kinda sad that my initial char was deleted. Didnt think classic would be alive again and i wont start from scratch again
I understand and I am sorry about your character :( A lot of players are in the same boat as you, I really hope Blizz re-opens the cloning service
【Light Heads Finland】There are actually lot of finnish people playing too, even the english speakers are in wondering
hey that's awesome, glad y'all are enjoying the game
Why am I getting Nostalrius vibes from looking at it?
just a bunch passionate players reliving the nostalgia of vanilla :)
I wonder if Oceania is popping too 🤔
I honestly am not sure, I have not heard much but if you have an active subscription you can always check it out or ask a friend to check it out. If you do, let me know what you find
Take me home, to the place, I beeelongg
Classic Errrraaaaaaaa, Vanilla Wooooow
cba starting on a server where everybody already have full t3 on 5 different characters etc.
the good thing is lvl 60s can gear up super fast, even in this video you see a few players with a mix of blue gear and Naxx gear which is pretty wild
@@morphiousTV Still not worth it in my eyes tbh.
@@nataliep6385 that’s ok, to each their own. It’s your time you should spend it how you like
@@morphiousTV Didn't ask for permission or advice lmao. You are talking to me as if you are my priest, counsellor or mentor haha. But thanks anyway!
Can you just buy rank 14 gear with honor or no?
No you have to get rank 14 to get the weapons. Although it isn't that hard to get rank 12 which gets you some of the higher pvp gear from the set
its the voiceover addon that uses chatgpt to voice all the quests. Its a game changer
Yeah I have heard a lot of players talking about the add-on
"LFM ZG GDKP 50g min bid" ooookaaay
yeah idk what was going on with that XD
Is eu firemaw more populated or less or same ?
I believe Firemaw is more populated
@@morphiousTV any idea more or less how many are playing ?
@@jarlfisk I personally don’t have an exact number but if you go to the description of this video there is a link to the main Classic Era discord. In that discord there is a tab called server census that has the numbers
I'm just hoping they continue to develop classic, with the approval from the player base
Yeah a SoM 2 with some changes and new content would be really cool
Really bummed I can't still copy my characters from classic era still. really stings since I grinded rank 14 on one of those characters too. If blizzard reopens character copy's I would for sure return but if they don't, I'm not touching a blizzard game again in protest.
Yeah it is a huge bummer, I really hope they re-open the cloning service
Log in with your level 60 characters, RAYA ONLINE IS GROWING
Hell yeah
I just made a Tauren druid to lvl and engage in as much wpvp as I can, hope to see you all out there, you better not be caught disrespecting the Earth Mother!
hahah go get em man!
Ummm when a Cluster of servers has a total population combined of a Single big Wotlk server thats not exactly exploding from the analysis I've heard that is pretty much the situation....
From where we started its a big improvement and growing everyday. Where as with WOTLK servers, their numbers are decreasing everyday.
I like to play classic wow because it brings me back to my babyhood. I feel like a baby. The toons are babyish.
very nostalgic, I think that is why most of us play
I’m sorry what server is this? And is this seasonal? I’m looking to get back into wow specifically classic. And is this 60? Gotta be 60
This is on Whitemane, it is not season these are permanent servers and yes it is 1-60 content only, Vanilla Classic :)
@@morphiousTV ok cool! Thank you
@@sosoda719 no problem!
Growing everyday
Exponentially! 📈
whitemanes has a taurens only guild
haha thats awesome
Long live vanilla wow!!!
May it live on :)
Why in pyrewood village we are 5 people XD
I have been told that EU Pyrewood was the main EU PvE server. Is that not true? I know Firemaw is the main server over all but is PvP and some players prefer PVE
@@morphiousTV nah we are fine with pop, I raid 5 days a week in a perfect guild. But pop in stormwind it's i think 60 to 100 people in the peak hour. Nothing compared to your video
@@matteoceccherini7810 ohh I see, well it’s probably a lot of new players going to Firemaw instead of Pyrewood then. I’m glad y’all are still holding it down though!
What server is this
Whitemane on the NA servers