My Launch Plans for Fresh Classic WoW

Any first timers here like me?😊

PVP server. Most fun i had in a long time levelling PVP on Deviate fresh.

I am torn between playing a mage or a warrior. I feel there there will be a lot of rogues around during levelling

I played a human combat rogue during the 2019 re-launch and found a great guild of cool people and we progressed thru to NAXX (but didn't really get very far in that raid). My raid leader suggested that I change to shaman since its really useful in TBC raids and enhance shaman is a lot of fun. So I rolled a Draneai and leveled up as enhance, but later switched to elemental we got thru Kara, Gruuls, and Mag. I had a great time. But I burned out and ended up quitting the game.

This time, I'm going to just go ahead and go shaman thru both. A few reasons: I've pretty much always played alliance and I want to experience new content. I also have (mostly) only rolled on PVE servers and this time I want to try out PVP. Planning to go with the 30/0/21 build which sounds like a ton of fun. I also want to try my hand at healing eventually. Still can't decide on race as it looks like all three excel in different ways, but I'm leaning towards Tauren for the warstomp. I might roll some alts for fun, but Shaman main for sure.

Can't wait…though I probably will wait until the weekend, because I think at launch it will be absolute chaos and mob tagging is going to be challenging, so thinking if I miss a couple of days I won't be too far behind. I'm also a semi-casual since I have a job/life and can only play for 3-4 hours per evening and weekends. Hoping to find another great bunch of people to play with again.

Is there a good video that explains what server progression looks like or the dangers it might bring to HC servers? Thanks!

Since its going to progress to TBC they should add those 2 extra races at start, it would be cool to play classic like that but it would probably break the game with Horde Paladins and Allaince Shamans.

Servers launch for me at 9am Friday for me, So the starter zones may be a little quieter by the time I get on.

is party finder coming to fresh anniversary realms?

This is the cycle that ruins the game and then everyone cries for a fresh release. Just login, take your time. Read some dialogue. And enjoy the game.

Here's a potential problem: you start a new character on the Hardcore realm and then transfer to the PVE realm. But what if another character has the same name as yours on the PVE realm? Will you be forced to change your name?

could you in theory play hardcore to avoid the zerg of players and just die to transfer over later?

anyone know if they'll remove the mage aoe ZF grind?