Server is one week old. Thoughts, hot takes?
My story... Started playing back in 2005 and stuck around through the end of Wrath. Didn't touch the following expansions. Tanked for one of the premier guilds on US-Illidan (H). Once or twice a year I would check-up on friends/the game via wowprogress and mmochamp.
Always aware of private servers though never compelled to invest the time knowing that everything can (and inevitably will) disappear overnight.
The announcement of Blizzard Classic servers was all it took to pull me back. Circumstances being what they are, experienced curators launching a fresh classic server to coincide with the Classic announcement brought me and I suspect many others to Nighthaven.
Decided to switch up the roles I had formerly known and roll an Alliance Priest. Playing solo ~1-2 hours a day, reached the late teen levels a week in. Going to grind dungeons and do minimal questing where necessary to get to 60 at a leisurely pace.
So far I have had a great experience on Nighthaven, the world feels alive and stable. Classic presents the player with satisfying challenges without the hand-holding elements that corrupted retail servers. Nighthaven will likely serve as a suitably convenient sandbox for many of us who will jump to official servers when Classic goes live. Though I am concerned that 1x rates will prove prohibitive for the purposes of many here.
Anyone else relate to this? Are you playing on Nighthaven with a "sandbox" state of mind, tacitly acknowledging that this server will be populated by a largely transient community bolstered by the announcement of official classic? Anticipate that Nighthaven will transition to TBC roughly in line with official Classic servers going live both to fill the void and to alleviate the impending exodus.
